40k CSM vs Deathwing + ultra marines (1500)

Mission: annihilation
deployment: pitch battle
pt: csm 1.5k, deathwing 1k + ultra marines 500

The battlefield @ turn 2.

2 squads of deathwing terminators preparing to unlease hell on the berzerkers and chaos terminators.

Emperor finest KP: 5
CSM KP: 4
win for deathwing + ultra marines!


Highlights of battle:

Deep striking chaos termins , roll 3 "get hot" (doubles 1s x 3) when firing at the deathwing termins...

Daemon prince charge belial and his bodyguards and got cut down.

Chaos marines mass bolters rapid fire killed scouts and belial.

Death wing termins with cyclone launcher blowing up the vindicator and rhino 1 shot them each time. (6 pen 6 destroyed)

Conclusion:

This game was an intro game for our new 40k player using ultra marines. Anyway a fun game, enjoying myself with 40k after a long absence. Some funny moments and my khorne berzerkers had officially earn the title of "scouts killer". Wiping out eldar rangers 1st time I brought them and again here cutting marine scouts like butter.

Busy busy busy

Been a while since I updated this blog lol... busy with mainly school work... Managed to play 2 fantasy games and 2 40k games during this period of absence.

Fantasy
WE vs VC (2k) massacre lost for WE
WE vs OK-gnoblar army(2k) draw

Anyway for the above games, i accidentally short-change myself and brought a 1803 pt army as I forgotten that I have treekins inside my list... (sleepy and messy handwriting to blame LOL) Playing at handicap sucks!

40k
CSM vs orks (1750), lost for CSM
CSM (nurgle 1750 + undivided 1000) vs eldar + DA (2750) 2v2 match, win for team CSM

For the orks game, my CSM got beaten bad... playing against the runner-up (40k tourney category) of SPORE CON 2009. Quite an eye opener for my 3rd 5th ed 40k game hahaha.

The DA player had the worst dice rolling luck I ever seen, losing a whole termi squad in 1st turn due to mishap and failing 2+ sv like no tml. With the DA out of the picture early in the game, eldar stand no chance against the combine CSM.


Purchases
Bought mostly 40k terrains for my little gaming group 40k games, or fantasy games if they need some grim darkness cross-over love. (no pics... maybe in future updates)

Mr. Surfacer 1000 primer on 28mm miniatures

I always prime my models using Nippon flat white spray paint or 'Red fox' flat black acrylic spray paint. Problem encountered using these 2 budget spray paints are I had a hard time painting on my base coat. I solved the problem by using thicker and more coats for my base coat which result in the models looking quite thick with paint even before I start with other colours.

I never believe in using primer paints for 28mm miniatures since they are quite small, any model casting imperfections can be easily painted over or repair using green stuff. I always think primers are use for finding errors (holes/improper sanded mold lines etc...), covering the errors and undercoat, for bigger models. Also primer paints sold by miniature companies are very expensive...

Anyway I went reading about primers again and found it helps in paint adhesive. So I decided to try priming some of my GW miniatures with primer paint I have which are intended for gundam models.























Bottom:
Mr. surfacer 1000 (bottle version)
Centre:
Mr. Retarder mild, added into thinner+paint mixture to prevent it from drying too fast when the paint leave the airbrush.
Right:
Mr Color Thinner 400mL. Lacquer based thinner, for lacquer based paints like the Mr. color series.



Below are some of the minis I primed using Mr. Surfacer 1000, consist of metal and plastic minis.

Skaven Globerdier (metal)

Right: Primed Ork slugga (both plastic) Left: Un-prime Ork slugga

Chaos termi ( plastic)

Kaya's pet (metal)

Will update again with pictures of the skaven globerdier once I paint him up. Hope I can get some decent shots of the painted model...

Jumping into DE

Not much update this month...

Following my comp MB dying, my graphic card (8800GTS) decided to die as well. It died at the right time also... 1mth after the 2yrs warranty ended (nice timing)... without warranty it became a very expensive piece of paper weight (cost me S$425, 2yrs ago). Bought a cheapo ATI 4350 for $58 to tide me over until I got cash to get a decent graphic card.


Jumping into DE


I always like armies that can move very fast, have bits of everything -shooting/assault and I prefer very offensive armies. Single out Dark eldar/eldar/nids.
Wanted to go with eldar at 1st but after calculating the $$$ cost, it was even more expensive than expanding my current ork army. Nids was slighty less expensive as compared to eldar but been assault orientated I drop nids as well. DE fulfil all the requirements and I decided to jump into DE.


Bought 2 DE battleforce, a talos, 3 blisters of incubi, and traded 4 succubus/wyches.



Need 2 more boxes of ravagers , a raider and box of de corsairs for wyches conversion. I could field a 1.5k+ army.

Local 40k tournament

Attended a local 40k tournament held on 25th July 09 at the private house of the organizer. There were 14 players and prizes were awarded to the top 3. The players are allow 2 army lists, which they need to select 1 before the start of every game.
Using swiss system every player will play a total of 3 games, earning up to 25 VP per game (total: 75) . They will also be judged on their painting and WYSIWYG also 25 VP for a grand total of 100 VP - for determining top 3 places.


Below are the pics for the event.

I did not took part in the tournament as I did not have a 1750 40k army during that time. Anyway the event was a success, ending at around 7pm. The 1st place had 81 VP, while the 2nd & 3rd had 64, 63 respectively. The top 3 prizes are vouchers to a local miniatures webstore.