Posted by admin on March 8, 2010 – 1:11 pm
Last Thursday I got in another game of Warhammer 40,000 using my Tyranids. There’s a couple that come to Gamerz just about every Thursday to play Warhammer 40K. I believe their names are Nick and Amanda, but I’m not 100% sure (I apologize if either of you are reading this!). They mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that they were tired of playing each other, so I made sure to bring my 40K stuff in case they were still burned out.
When I arrived, they were going through some D&D stuff, but Nick was still all about throwing down versus the Nids. We decided on 1,500 points and lists were started!
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Posted by admin on February 19, 2010 – 5:47 pm
JR and I decided to play a game of Warhammer 40,000 over at the Game Preserve’s new facility in the Kohl’s shopping center near Keystone. The new place is really nice and they have dedicated gaming space!
His list:
- Leman Russ (Battle Cannon, Heavy Bolter ?)
- Leman Russ (Battle Cannon, Heavy Bolter ?)
- Veteran squad (3x Melta, sergeant w/Bolt Pistol, Chimera w/Multilaser and Heavy Bolter)
- Veteran squad (3x Melta, sergeant w/Bolt Pistol, Chimera w/Multilaser and Heavy Bolter)
- Veteran squad (3x Melta, sergeant w/Bolt Pistol, Chimera w/Multilaser and Heavy Bolter)
- Veteran squad (3x Plasmagun, sergeant w/Bolt Pistol, Chimera w/Multilaser and Heavy Bolter)
- Stormtroopers (Chimera w/Multilaser and Heavy Bolter)
- Valkyrie (Lascannon)
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This was first posted on Circle City Gamers.
Fred and I, after a week or two of delay, were finally able to play a decent-sized game of Warhammer 40,000. This would be my third game with the Tyranids for me and probably Fred’s third game with his Necrons.
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Brian wanted me to teach him Warhammer 40,000 last Thursday. Like an idiot, I lent Fred my rulebook, so I had to recall most things from memory. We muddled through and I think we got most things right. I gave Brian the choice of playing either the Tyranids or the Imperial Guard. He chose the Nids.
I’m not going to try to remember the lists we used or specific things that happened in the game since it was really a “demo” of sorts. I will, however, say that the Tyranids decimated the Imperial Guard via mostly shooting attacks.
It was a fun game, if a bit frustrating when trying to remember all the rules. I’m hoping he got a good feel for them and that we’ll play again soon!
Fred acquired a bunch of Necrons from a friend and has been wanting to learn the game. He asked me on Saturday to teach him. Well, having not played in a long time myself, we got a lot of help from folks in the store last night. Dave, Mike and Jeff were quite helpful with many of the rules I’d forgotten and didn’t want to take the time to look up, which kept the game going and hopefully, Fred learning.
Since I had no idea exactly how many models Fred had, I estimated he’d have 20 or so Warriors, 3 Destroyers, 3 or so Scarab Swarms and the Lord. Turns out he has 70+ Warriors and probably 10+ Scarab Swarms. It also turns out he has a Necron Destroyer Lord as well. In either case, I thought an 800 point game would work well for learning the game and for me to learn the new Tyranid codex, not to mention 800 points is just below what I have painted.
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Yesterday I picked up the new Tyranids codex, which I think is pretty damned cool. I know lots of people are upset about most of the changes, like the cost of Carnifexes and the way the biomorphs work, but I quite like it. I still need to pick up some of the new stuff, like Hive Guard and Trygon/Mawlocs and a few more of the old things like another Zoanthrope and maybe a Biovore. I tried to add up all the points I have last night and it looks like a little over 2,200.
On a side note, Fred was able to acquire some Necrons (for free!!), so we’ll probably be throwing own this Tuesday. It’ll give me a chance to remember the 40K rules, learn the new Tyranids and for him to learn the main rules and his army. The only sad thing about the Necrons is the amount of metal models that are pretty much essential, unless you want to buy more of the plastics and do some conversion work.
Posted by admin on January 7, 2010 – 5:40 pm
Filed under Fantasy, Miniatures, Painting, Sci-Fi, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy
Tagged as 40k, Gallery, ogre, tyranid, warhammer, whfb
Updated the Warhammer 40K and Warhammer Fantasy Battles galleries with the following:
- Tyranid Hive Tyrant
- Tyranid Tyrant Guard
- Tyranid Warriors (improved!)
- Tyranid Genestealers
- Tyranid Zoanthrope
- Tyranid Lictor
- Ogre Kingdoms Bulls
- Ogre Kingdoms Ironguts
Enjoy!
Here’s a pic of some Spinegaunts I finished the other day. I decided to go with a less “colorful” scheme to try and emulate insects on Earth. It didn’t really turn out how I envisioned, they actually turned out better!! when they are all grouped together, they look really cool, IMHO. I have 5 Termagants that are started as well. I anticipate them being finished by Thursday morning.
I’ve also been working on finishing some Ogre Ironguts as well. I hope for them to be done by next week.
So, I had a lot of time this weekend and yesterday to get some stuff assembled or painted. Well, I decided to work on Warhammer 40K stauff instead of the Pulp City stuff I should have been working on. I got a 10-man Assault Squad, a 10-man Tactical Squad, a few Heavy/Special weapon models, Shrike, a Rhino and a Drop Pod assembled and primed. Unfortunately, on some of the marines I have the fuzzy primer thing going on. I will try getting a brush or something to try and clean it up, but it is very upsetting to put that much work into assembling figures to have that happen. I wonder if the trick for cloudy clear coat will work for primer (re-coating usually fixes it for me).
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We have an ongoing Warhammer 40K campaign being run by Dave, one of the employees at Games To Die For. So far we’ve had three turns and I have only had to play one game so far. The one game I played was against a guy named Chris. Apparently, he is wanting to play a game against me again. He claims, “You’re a fun opponent.”. Based on the way he trash talked me the other day, I think he thinks I’ll be an easy win. He said things like, “So, are you going to be sure to put Shrike in a unit this time? That’s fine, I’ll just have to wipe out the whole unit then!”. It may be true that I’ll be an easy win for him, but I’m going to try my best to make him work for it.
This weekend I picked up a Space Marine Drop Pod and I worked on assembling a Plasma Cannon marine as well as a Plasmagun marine and a second unit of Assault Marines. Hopefully that will be enough anti-MEQ (Marine equivalent) to keep his army at bay.
