Totengräber's Workpläce

Per the usual, I went over to Games To Die For to play some Star Wars Minis. with the league going on, several people have been coming in on Tuesday night to play our league games. I brought my 200 points of Ogres and crossed fingers. My first game was against Mike Morgan who is running Warriors of Chaos. (continue reading…)

On Sunday I went over to Games To Die For to play in our local Warhammer Fantasy league. We’re starting at 200 points and adding 100 points every week until we reach 2,000 points (I think). In preparation for this, I have painted up 8 Gnoblar Trappers and some Ironguts, neither of which I ended up using. (continue reading…)

Well, first of all, there are two Blood Bowl leagues being run in the stores I go to, so I have gotten a plastic Human team mostly painted. They’ll be finished this weekend, I think.

The main thing I’ve been working on is my ‘proxy’ army for Warhammer Fantasy Battles’. Here’s the post I made on Warseer: (continue reading…)

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.

Our local store, Games To Die For, is running a Warhammer 40,000 (40K) campaign called “Spoils of War”. We’re using a hex map to determine territories and there’s no real “end to the campaign. We have to play our games in a two week period and could have to play several games based on who attacks who.

Chris and I had scheduled our game for this Thursday due to the fact I had attacked one of his territories. I am familiar with Chris and I wanted to get in a game. I had no real visions of winning, I just wanted to expand my list of opponents. Chirs had canceled our game on Wednesday, but ended up calling me at about 5:30pm yesterday to say he was at the store and ready to play. Normally, I work on a list and read up on my special rules during the day before each game I play. In this case, I didn’t have that opportunity and as a result made some tactical errors. I’m not saying Chris wouldn’t have won anyway, I’m just saying the game might have been a little less one-sided and more fun.

Here’s the list I used:

• Captain Kayvaan Shrike
• Scouts x5 w/Telion upgrade (sniper rifles, cloaks, missile launcher)
• Tactical Marines x10 (missile launcher, meltagun, power weapon, rhino)
• Assault Marines x10 (flamer, power fist, power weapon)
• Terminators x5 (storm bolters, power fists, power weapon)

Chris’ list (from memory):

• Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor (daemon weapon)
• Khorne Berserkers x10 (rhino w/havoc launcher, power weapon)
• Chaos Space Marines x9 (power weapon, meltagun, mark of Nurgle)
• Chaos Space Marines x5 (power weapon)
• Land Raider (lascannon, heavy bolter, havoc launcher)

Mission: Annihilation

Deployment: Dawn of War

We set up terrain and deployed our first units, which according to Chris’ description of the deployment, led me to believe I had to deploy Shrike and two Troop choices. Of course, this was a silly assumption as he didn’t deploy his own HQ.

Basically, it came down to his units assaulting and killing my units. He ended up with 4 Kill Points to my 1. No big deal, he gets to keep his territory, I learn some mistakes I made, and we had a good game. I look forward to playing more 40K games against some new opponents.

John and I set up a game of Warhammer 40,000 for this past Thursday at 1,750 points. This is only my second time playing the 5th edition rules, which as I remembered it, is a good set of rules. Here’s the list I made:

• Chaos Lord w/Mark of Nurgle, Plaguebringer, Plasma Pistol
• Plague Marines (x7), Plasmagun x2, Champ, Rhino w/Daemonic Possession
• Plague Marines (x7), Plasmagun, Meltagun, Champ, Rhino w/Daemonic Possession
• Chaos Space Marines (x14), Flamer x2, Icon of Nurgle, Champion w/Powerfist
• Chaos Havocs (x7), Lascannon x2, Heavy Bolter x2, Icon of Nurgle, Champion
• Predator, Lascannon sponsons, Autocannon Turret, Daemonic Possession
• Chaos Terminators (x7), Chainfist x3, Lightning Claw, Combi-flamer, Combi-Melta, Reaper Autocannon, Icon of Nurgle

I’m not positive about everything he brought, but this is a generic listing of what I remember:

• Tech marine w/ Servitors x2
• Space Marines (x10), Flamer, Lascannon, Sergeant
• Space Marines (x10), Special Weapons x2, Sergeant
• Devastator squad, Lascannon x2, Heavy Bolter x2
• Land Raider x2
• Dreadnaught x2
• Landspeeder

We rolled for Mission and got a mission where we each have one objective in our deployment zone and the goal is to protect your own and go take the opponent’s. Deployment was normal Pitched Battle. We rolled for who goes first and I got to choose. I think this was my first and most devastating mistake. I told John to deploy and go first. After deployment, we realized that both of us put our Heavy Support near the objective, not any of our Troop choices. Ugh!

First turn, his Land Raiders and every other weapon he had to take out tanks worked on my two Rhinos and the Predator. One Rhino was utterly destroyed, the other was allowed to stay on the table, but was effectively destroyed, and the Predator also suffered the latter’s fate. Now, the Plague Marines would have to footslog their way to the enemy. Most of the rest of the game was a lot of my guys running toward his while his shot mine to whittle them down. Finally, once the CSMs made it to contact with the Devastator squad, things were looking up for my army. Unfortunately, the CSM squad never could take out the last guy.

In the end, one of his 10-man SM squads jumped into a Land Raider and assaulted from it to overrun my Havocs and take the objective in round 6. I rolled to see if the game ended and it did. I think another round and it might have ended in a tie.

Either way, it was a great game and John is a fun opponent. I’ll definitely continue working on painting my army and maybe one day it’ll be completely done.