Resin... good

Back to blogging after a 9 month hiatus. Busy with work... Playing mostly Fantasy, Malifaux, L5R CCG during these period.

with the release of 40k 6th edition, the gaming group is back to playing 40k. Had my first game last week against jaeroler IG with my dark eldar. I think we played the night fight rule wrongly (night fight for whole game) and my army was hiding in the cover of darkness shooting the grunts easily with night version. won the game (crusade) 7-5, if we had played the night fight rule properly I could have lost, even tabled as the night fight cover save really help my army.

Anyway with the impending release of new chaos marine codex (my first 40k army) I can go back to playing my favourite army.

With some spare cash I decided to buy something from forge world that I always wanted for many years.

Chaos Warhound 2810

The loot!

chaos warhound, hell blade, decimator, and their weapons. Recent forge world order also came with a horus heresy  pin badge.

Painted Terrain Update

Back to updating the blog after a long hiatus. Besides actively seeking employment during these period and finding out the answer to number of basketballs that can fit in a room... I also did some painting. A piece of terrain I bought many years ago, Amera block ruin.

The terrain can be use for 40k and Malifaux which the gaming group had been playing alot recently.

One of the sides

I "stip" the surfaces of the ruin using some left over paint from house painting to create texture on the smooth plastic surface, making dry brushing easier later. After, I primed the whole building black with some cheap flat black paint. The base coat was painted with GW Adeptus Battle grey and later drybrush with Vallejo Model Color Light grey. Next was spraying the terrain with Gunze Sangyo Mr Super Clear flat and dusting the whole surface with Mig pigment concrete and sealed with Mig pigment fixer. 

How to "stip" the surface to create concrete like texture using house paint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6_aFyM5Q0&feature=channel_video_title

I textured the floors using Coat d'arms Brushscape dark earth which is a kind of texture paint. The beams were plastic frames cut out from sprues. The floors were kind of weak even when splash with a large amount of plastic glue, so I decided to strengthen the floors using the plastic frames. Metal miniatures won't have problems standing on it.     

The beams were painted with GW dwarf bronze and wash with diluted Vallejo Game Color Verdigris.
The ground were dark brown (Coat d'arms Brushscape dark earth) dry-brush with Vallejo Game Color Ghost grey, spray with Gunze Sangyo Mr Super Clear flat, lastly dust with Mig pigment concrete and sealed with Mig pigment fixer.

The other side

Free hand and decal

I tried free hand some heretical graffiti to make the terrain more interesting using Vallejo Model color flat red. Created the streaks to make it look like some heretic wrote it with his mutilated bloody hands. 

The chaos sign is from a CSM decal. Using Gunze Sangyo Mr Mark softer - a decal solution, the decal adhere well to the surface did not gave any problems and looks perfect. 

Next I would be painting the Dreadstone Blight or my Dark Eldar army or my Malifaux crew... so many stuffs to paint lol...

Game of Thrones LCG

Just a blog post on what the gaming group have bought to avoid duplicate buys.

Core set

Deluxe
Lords of Winter
Lions on the Rock
King of storm
Kings of the sea
Princes of the Sun

Chapter packs

A Clash of Arms
Ancient Enemies
Epic Battles

Brotherhood without Banners
Illyrio's Gift
Ritual of Rhillor
A song of Silence
Mountains of the Moon
Dreadfort Betrayal

A Time of Ravens
A change of Seasons
The winds of Winter
Refugees of War
Scattered Armies

Defenders of the north
A King in the North

A Tale of Champions
Tourney for the Hand
The Grand Melee
On Dangerous Grounds


To be updated...

TK vs OK 2.5k Pitched Battle

Had my first second game against 8th edition Ogre Kingdoms during the weekend. Playing against Beardy Ones's "Ogres rush" Ogre kingdoms.
First game was against Krom's "Fatties" OK. Mission was blood and glory and TK lost on OK turn 4, when  TK fortitude reduced to 3.  No battle report as I can't remember much of the game...

Mission: Pitched Battle (rolled)
TK magic: Light and Nek
OK magic: Death and Maw
OK went first

Deployment

*Note there is a sabretusk that I forgotten to create in Battle chronicler. Its deployed to the right the Iron Guts.

OK turn 1

Movement

• Everything move foward except scrap launcher.

Magic

• Soul blight cast on Skeleton warriors unit.
• Caress of Laniph cast on liche priest and inflict 1 wound. 

Shoot

• Scrap Laucher was on target and kill 17 skeleton warriors.

 TK turn 1

Movement

• Ushabtis, N.sphinx move to forest(normal). Chariot move forward on flank.

Magic

• Burning gaze and light of death went off and kill 1 man eater and wounding another. Man eaters pass panic...

Shoot

• Archers fluff and SSC scatter 10" off Gnoblars. 

 OK turn 2

Movement

• Mourn Fang charge chariots and suffer a dangerous terrain wound.
• Maneaters charge SSC.
• Sabretusk move in front of Ushabtis.
• Everything move forward except scrap launcher.

Magic

• Bjuna on Hierophant dispelled. 
• Soul blight scrolled by dispel scroll. 

Shoot

• Scarp Launcher was on target again... killing 14 skeleton warriors. 

Close combat

• Maneaters easily wiped the SSC and overran forward.
• Mournfang rolled 12 impact hits on 4D3... inflicting 11 wounds on chariot. Chariot crumple. Mournfang reform to face N.sphinx.

 TK turn 2

Movement

• Ushabtis charge sabretusk.
• Skeleton warriors with Tomb king charge Ogres horde and fail charge on rolls of 1,1...
• N.sphinx charge Ogres horde and fail charge on rolls of 1,1,3...
• Tomb guards and Necro knights charge Gnoblars.
• Archers swift reform to face Maneaters. 

Magic

• Light of death fail to cast on rolls of 1,2...
• Banishment dispelled. 
• Burning Gaze kill 1 man eater, Man eaters pass panic.
• Big smiting went off and buff ushabtis, archers, skeleton warriors. 

Shoot

• Archers kill 1 Man Eater. Man eaters pass panic...

Close combat

• Ushabtis make short work of sabretusks and reform to face Iron guts.
• Gnoblars manage to kill 2 tomb guards.
• Necro knights and Tomb guards kill a total of 12 gnoblars. Steadfast gnoblars pass break test. 

 OK turn 3

Movement

• Ogres horde charge skeleton warriors.
• Mourn fang charge N.sphinx.
• Iron guts charge ushabtis.
• Man eaters charge casket of souls. 
• Scrap launcher move forward.

Magic

• +1 T cast on Iron guts.

Shoot

• Scrap Launcher kill 5-6 archers.

Close combat

• Ushabtis inflict 7 wounds on Iron guts, Iron guts inflict 10 wounds. Ushabti crumple from CR. Iron guts reform to face the combat in centre.
• 2 surviving Man eaters thrash the casket and was caught in the explosion. Explosion kill 1 Man eater and wound another. Man eater overran into archers.(*shown in last picture)
• Ogre horde kill 30 skeleton warriors!!??! and bruiser wound Tomb king in challenge. TK side inflict 5 miserable unsaved wounds and lost combat by a whopping 28!!! All skeleton warriors crumple, leaving the Tomb king forever alone :( 
• Necro knights and Tomb guards kill enough gnoblars (bully gnoblars!) to break stead fast and make the little creatures flee. Necro knights reform to face mourn fang and TG reform to face ogre horde. 
• Mourn fang smash the N.sphinx before it could strike, overran forward towards archers.   

 TK turn 3

Movement

• Necro knights charge rear of mourn fang.
• TG charge flank of Ogre horde.

Magic

• Desiccation cast on Mournfang.
• Protection cast on archers. 

Close combat

• Necro knights won combat by 3 but inspiring presence and hold your ground prevent mournfang from breaking...
• Tomb guard and Tomb King won combat by 1 against Ogre horde, Ogre horde easily pass break test with general LD and BSB rerolls. Ogre horde combat reform to face Tomb guard. 
• Solo Man eater kill the Hierophant, inflicting 4 wounds.(*shown below) 

 OK turn 4

Movement

• Scrap launcher charge Necro knights. 
• Gnoblars rally.
• Iron guts move forward towards centre. 

Magic

• Soul blight cast on Necro knights.

Close combat

• Ogre horde easily wipe out the tomb guards and Tomb king.
• Scrap launcher impact hits kill 2 Necro knights... Last Necro knight was easily destroyed. 

We decided to call it here as I only have a unit of archers left and Hierophant dead.

Victory to Ogres! 


I BLAME THE DICE!!! they shall BURN!!! failing charge on double ones and swift stride?!?! wtfbbq? Wind of magic averaging 5 per TK turn, "Banner of sorcery" 1-2 PD all turns except once creating 3 PD and channeling 0 PD through out the game... Fail to cast Light of death (bound lvl 5) on 2 dice?!?!

I think my strategy was good, tar-pitting the Ogre horde with skeleton warriors and N.sphinx to assassinate  mage/bsb/gen. The SW and N.sphinx will be supported by flanking ushabtis. Ushabtis will kill the dog and overran to fight another free CC round.
Tomb guards + necro knights will get stuck in combat for at least a round due to steadfast gnoblars but will likely win combat on OK turn, allowing them to reform and charge the ogre horde on my turn.
Epic fluff rolling lost me the game... mostly. I did made some bad mistakes by moving the chariots forward too much  and feeding them to mournfang and not deploying to counter the scout man eaters which wreck havoc in my back lines. Destroying all my support units.

Time to rewrite the list. Tomb guards, Ushabtis (too bad I love the models) are going out.

TK vs DE 2.5k batrep Battle for the Pass

Wooot! Another weekend another Fantasy game. Played 2 games in 1 day. Once against 8th edition OK another against DE. The OK battle report will come later as I don't have the OK player - Krom's OK list (cant create the units in battle chronicler).  

Using my TK against Jaeroler DE. He wrote a "Funky" list and wanted to test it. I'm using the same list in the previous game.  

Mission: Battle for the Pass (rolled)

TK magic: Nek and Light

DE magic: Shadow

TK went 1st (roll off)

Deployment

TK camp in a corner with fast elements protecting the flanks. 

Shades scout bravely in front of chariots. 

The mysterious river is raging torrent - Dangerous terrain and +3 int for models moving over and inside it. 

Both mysterious forest turned out to be normal forest - in front of Necro knights and Repeater crossbow elves. 

TK turn 1

Movement

• Necro Knights, chariots and ushabtis move forward. Ushabti suffer a wound from dangerous terrain.

Magic

• Light of death went off killing 3 spears elves in SE1.

Shoot

• Chariots and archers all shot at shades, killing enough to panic them.
• Screaming skull scatter off the Spear elves unit 2. 

DE turn 1

Movement

• All DE units move forward.
• Shades needing insane courage (below 25%) to rally, continue to flee.

Magic

• DE sorcerer manage to cast boosted Miasma on skeleton warriors unit. 
• DE sorcerer fail to cast Withering by 1. 
• 5+ ward saves from cauldron given to SE1. 

Shoot

• DE Repeater bows kill 4 skeleton warriors and inflict a wound on chariot. 

TK turn 2

Movement

• N.sphinx charge DE chariot 1.
• Necro Knights move into the forest, suffering a wound from Dangerous terrain.

Magic

• Boosted protection was scrolled.
• Speed of light dispelled. 
• Smiting successfully cast on archers.  

Shoot

• Archers shot at Cold one knights and kill 1.
• Chariots shot at the fleeing shades, a single shade survive. 
• SSC scatter off again. 

Close Combat

• N.sphinx and Cold one chariot couldn't wound each other... Cold one chariot pass break test. 

DE turn 2

Movement

• Spear elves 1 charge skeleton warriors unit, suffering 8 wounds from dangerous terrain (raging torrent).
• Cold one knights charge skeleton warriors unit, suffering 2 wounds from dangerous terrain.
• Hydra charge skeleton warriors unit, suffering 1 wound from dangerous terrrain. 
• Spear Elves 2, Cauldron and RxB1*  move forward to the melee battle.  (*not shown in picture)
• Shades continue fleeing. 

Magic

• DE lvl 4 sorcerer IF miasma on 4D6 and rolled power drain for miscast. Losing 3 wizard levels and miasma, enfeebling and mindrazor and remaining power dice.
• 5+ ward saves from cauldron given to CoK unit. 

Shoot

• Repeater crossbows dealt 1 wound to TK chariot. 
• Cold one chariot 2 fluff shooting. 

Close Combat

• N.Sphinx fluff 4 normal attacks but heroic killing blow the chariot, reforming to face the Cold one knights. 
• The combine DE units kill 24 skeleton warriors, in return Skeletons and Tomb king kill 6 spears elves and wounded the hydra once. Losing combat by 17, 40 skeletons + Tomb king remain. 

TK turn 3

Movement

• Ushabtis charge the flank of Cold one knights, rolling just high enough. Suffering 3 wounds from dangerous terrain. 
• Tomb guards charge the front of cold one knights.
• N.sphinx charge the rear of Cold one knights.

Magic

• Rolling high for winds of magic and "TK's Banner of sorcery" getting max power dice.
• Total magic domination as DE sorcerer was weaken to lvl 1 in previous turn miscast.
• Boosted protection and smiting went off. Recoving 6 skeleton warriors,1 ushabti and 1 chariot wound. 

Shoot

• SSC was on target and panic off Spear elves unit 2. (poor LD rolling by Jaeroler, rolling 12 and 10 with inspiring presence and hold your ground) 
• Chariots with smiting shot the repeater crossbows (RxB1) and panic them off as well. 

Close Combat

• DE units kill a total of 8 skeleton warriors and 2 tomb guards. 
• N.sphinx, ushabtis and tomb guards wiped the CoK unit including the general. 
• Hydra took 2 wounds from skeleton warriors. 
• 5-6 spear elves die to tomb king and skeletons. 
• All 3 DE units needing insane courage to stay in combat broke and flee. 

DE turn 3

Jaeroler conceded the game at this point as the bulk of his army was dead.


Victory to Tomb Kings!

Click link below for end game conclusion.