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NEED OPINIONS: Shadowsword/Stormlord

2012-10-07T06:11:00.000-07:00

Hello! Alexander here and I need some help badly and I need it fast because next week at my local GW there is an Apocalypse and I have an a super heavy Stormlord/Shadowsword. I haven't built finished yet but I need help on deciding how to build it, so you guys have the say of how I build it! I have until thursday to build it and I need to have it done by saturday morning, at best PAINTED (for once).

Post opinions/suggestions below.

THANKS TONS!!!

Alexander

Imperial Guard Tactica: Infantry Lists

2012-10-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

I played a doubles game yesterday and I fielded Guard. To try something different i played an infantry list of 40 guards men, I put them in a huge squad. MISTAKE! I really wish i hadn't, we still won the game and i only lost about twelve of them but i could have been more effective if they were in squads of twenty or less because they could have taken more targets and moving 40 guards men is hard a because of the squad size not everyone could shoot.

Blue guard are mine I borrowed the Green ones from my local GW

Deployment in My first 875 point Infantry game

So my advice on playing guard Infantry is to keep squad sizes down. No More than thirty. I have played two games against dark angels and both have been very successful both times i fielded 80 guards men and both time i played against terminators and bikes and all has gone well. (took less than 20 casualties in each game.

Another nice thing to add to squads is a heavy weapon. I personally like heavy bolters or auto cannons because of the amount oh shoots at high strength and medium AP, this can be used as a mower against nids and orks or simply a strong weapon. to really round of this mix is to pop them in a chimera with multi laser and heavy bolter

Guards men under the command of a dark angel librarian approach a tau escort.

Zone Mortalis Special Kill Team

2012-08-27T11:46:00.001-07:00

Recently I have played a lot of Kill Team. This is not on purpose but more because at my local GW (which is supa awesome http://www.facebook.com/GWOslo) there has been a lot of kill team challenges and recently I went down to paint but ended up playing Zone Mortalis Kill team. A special scenario was also played of were there was a chaos nexus and 5 chaos space marines, 20 or so guards men and two sentry guns on the board. The objective was to destroy the nexus with melta bombs(every model has an unlimited amount) and have as little points as possible. For every turn it takes to destroy the nexus and every csm and sentry gun left alive gives you a point. Lets get onto the Battle Report...

My forces consisted of 3 grey knight paladins with a master crafted warding staff and 2 mc halberds

While I faced..
Tons of guardsmen and Chaos Space Marines!

For the first few turns it looked good for me but suddenly i lost to and only had one left and then i had the most heroic stance ever as my last paladin made a faithful dash to the objective I was challenged by a chaos marine but he was squished and then i managed to fling a melta bomb and teleport out in the nick of time with a mighty 11 points.

Victory for the Emperor!

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Best Kill Team List For 6th Edition

2012-08-26T06:51:00.001-07:00

This weekend I played my most memorable Kill Team ever. It was a special scenario of which three kill teams were put together against 3 others and it led to a campaign. I played 3 paladins with mc halberds and psybolts, along with the rest of my team of 5 pre-heresy Dark Angel veterans and an ironclad dreadnought. On the other side of the board we faced 10 plague marines, 20 or so imperial guard and 50 grechin. No it didn't look good for us.

For many turns my grey knights stood and held the line against a hoard of grechin, firing holocaust pie plates and slicing grechins with halberds, while the ironclad smashed through hoards of xenos filth and the dark angels gloriously hid behind walls and killed 3 grechins and 2 guards men.

After the grechins bulked and fled, the guard followed leaving chaos marines only. The paladins made short work of 3 of them, leaving one only to spare. Assuming the Dark Angels could finish him off allowing the paladins to remove the last guardsman, the Dark Angels lined up to execute the last traitor marine, and missed every single shot but one and failed to wound it. However in the following turn the sarge managed to redeem his squad by bring the heretic down.

Victory to the Emperor! and not a single casualty.

But after the Game I thought that wouldn't it be great if i finished painting my grey knights especially this amazing kill teams list.

Faeit 212: Warhammer 40k News and Rumors: White Dwarf Leaks!!!! More Starter Set Model Pics

2012-08-17T13:29:00.001-07:00

Faeit 212: Warhammer 40k News and Rumors: White Dwarf Leaks!!!! More Starter Set Model Pics: Here they are, these are amazing..............

Here comes the Starter Box!

2012-08-17T11:30:00.001-07:00

Just went to GW website and vengeance is upon us just watch this Video

Chaos Rises!

6th Edition Tactica: Assaults

2012-08-16T11:28:00.001-07:00

Assults in 6th edition can be risky, with the snap-fire rule and flamers it is a nasty world but i am going to give you some tactics on this. For starters work out your odds of winning, if you charge because there is nothing better, don't do it. you could lose a man and end up losing the squad. What if you fail the charge? You just gave them free shooting, do you have assault grenades, are they close combat specialists? It could be devastating so think about this first. so you have evaluated your chance but what about war gear? Ask what they have, what do you have, could they have defence grenades, counter attack?

Now for the charge, on average you will get a seven inch charge but if it is twelve inches really think about it. After you have been shot at and have made your charge their will be challenges, got a power fist? Smack your foe's character in the face in the face, also if you don't challenge make a circle around your characters shield him from close combat.

(Space Marines Only) Finally if you lost the combat and have to make a LD try to pass it but in the ENEMY turn to FAIL it with your And They Shall Know No Fear which allows you to charge or shoot them again in your turn.

Just some tips with charging units:

All Tanks: Charge if you have a something to take it out with.
Dreadnoughts: NEVER CHARGE A DREADNOUGHT UNLESS YOU HAVE TUNDER HAMMER/STORM SHIELDS
Chaos Marines: DON'T Charge they may seem sweet marines but they can be very nasty
(Dark) Eldar: DON'T high initiative and witch craft (That I don't understand)
Tau: Not broadsides but most infantry will be creamed
Guard: Will go generally well but watch out for unique Characters
Wolves: Only if you are Marines or better
All Space Marines: goes generally well if you have big numbers of men if you aren't as good as them
Grey Knights: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND unless you have terminators
Nids/Orks: Depends on the number
Sisters: I don't know much about them
Chaos Daemons: I don't know much about them
Necrons: Check what the lord has but a general rule is to charge

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Thoughts about 6th Edition Rules: Fear

2012-08-14T02:35:00.000-07:00

Fear is a new universal special rule for 6th edition. Daemons have the rule and chaos are rumoured to have it to and I think monstrous Creatures have it too. To break it down fear is a special rule that happens in the assault sub-phase, the unit with fear forces the other unit to take a leadership test or be reduced to WS 1 for the remanded of the phase. That is one very painful rule. However units with fearless and and They Shall Know No Fear are immune. But charging anything without fear or and They Shall Know No Fear such as guardsmen are in a sticky situation. They are almost like death masks from BA but almost all daemons have the rule (WHY! GW WHY!). To avoid this have banners or leadership reroles with leadership boosting models near by or in squads. But most importantly KNOW YOUR ENEMY make sure you take out squads or models with the rule and hold your lines.
Good luck

Imperial Commander Conversion

2012-08-01T11:56:00.000-07:00

My custom Imperial Commissar/Commander conversion

I spent a couple of hours trying to sculpt the model's hair but I think she came out well. It took a couple of hours to sculpt the hair(I am a new user of green stuff). So in future games of IG she will be frequently used as a leader.

Update: Blood Angel Assault Marines

2012-07-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

My assault marines and tactical marines are on the way to completion and I have posted a few shots of the finished ones, the Assault marines on foot and one tactical marine. I used my previous death company and sanguinary guard to build them because i didn't like the way they worked in game with the way i built them and to give them a more BA feel and I think they look better running poses. However I wont be home for a week or so which means the marines will have to wait a little longer.

Battle Report?

2012-07-25T23:26:00.002-07:00

Today I plan on making a battle report for my blog so stay tuned and i will keep you updated.

Thoughts on Fleet (6th Edition)

2012-07-25T09:51:00.001-07:00

I think that fleet is not great in 6th Edition compared to 5th Edition. It no longer allows you to run and assault which is a major disadvantage, because in 5th Edition you had a better possibility to charge a unit in open ground at least 7 inches away. However 6th edition allows one re-roll of a dice so you could get anything between 2'' and 12'' but above 7'' will be an average for a charge so it could be okay. it is such a shame to fail a charge but after being shoot to bits by that annoying devastator squad with lascannons. So thats my view on fleet
What do you guys think? Comment below!
Cheers

6th Edition Thoughts...AMAZING

2012-07-25T01:22:00.000-07:00

6th edition has been a major improvement in the game. Fliers are awesome tanks are better i certain ways and allies make things more narrative and interesting. My first game of 6th ED was at the Genesis event at Warhammer world. I played my White Scars and it was up against Alex (http://fromthefang.blogspot.no/) space wolves and it seemed a close battle but as soon as my storm talon came in it wrecked havoc on the board and it went very well in my favour but all the new updated rules such as shrouded and cover is more realistic. but best of all wound allocation is from the nearest model.

Cheers

Assault marines?

2012-07-24T08:37:00.001-07:00

Thinking about mixing up some tactical marines, sanguinary guard and some death company for 15 assault marines and one squad of 5 regular bolter boys For my BA. Good idea? I will post pictures of them after i finished building them.

Cheers!

Games-Workshop Oxford (Plaza) London Pictures

2011-12-03T12:38:00.001-08:00

Pictures of Games-Workshop Oxford (Plaza) London
I didn't paint the models but the photos are mine.
I would really recommend this games-workshop as it is large and has a GREAT display of Citadel and Forge World miniatures.
Also Tomorrow I plan to post a Necron vs Blood Angels and Dark Angels Battle Report video/article.
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