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HAHA The punch sound FX were priceless!

Back in the day right? At least they did not use the Three stooges sound fx

Whoop whoop whoop!

A a sand/earth base already on that Malc

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

Awww Wise guy eh?

Spread out!

Oh, I need a boost at my thread so I can put fresh pics in it.

And I'll have some limp lettuce, burnt toast and a rotten egg,,,,it's for my tapeworm, he don't deserve no better! nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

LOLz- @ Shas

Is already looking nice!

Thanks Shas! Blocked in black is drying now.

That's one sexy sexy tank my friend! ;-) what is it going to be used for? a force or just a sweet looking display piece? I vote for a force if you need swaying? lol, your other guard models are simply gorgeous!

Ack... cursed you all be... Fallout 3 you made me try...

Hooked, hooked I am now...

cursed be!

Oh, and great looking stuff here once more Dave...

Good find of that colour chart, will be useful.

Tank looks good so far.

whoa... again i had to call in a dakka leave of absence day/night due to man flu...

dave... i think your dad would be a good man to know...and since you have that good image of him to think about...he will in essence live forever...

the fresh work on the malc is looking very good... the sandy color i really like... i got to ask the same stuff like nerdy... does this in any way may cause you to start a new... praetorian army maybe? which i can only encourage you as i think that would be a cool thing...

your color range... that is awesome... looks like a candy store...

by the way... for my own tank... i think i will have to use the exhaust setup like you have on the malc... looks fitting...

I hope you're feeling better Vik, and thanks everyone!

Today, I am ACTUALLY going to participate in a 40k all-flyer game at my FLGS

It makes me wish I'd started on my other T-bolt or my Vulture instead of the Malcador

Should be an interesting match.

I had dreams of scratching a malcador at one point. Then my ambitions walked in the door......

All-flyer game? That sounds interesting.

I have armies and Navies packed up, getting ready to head out to the game, no one playhing has tried the new Flyer rules yet, so it should be fun. I'll take pictures, Dave out.

Cool! Good luck old man and win for the Emprah!

good luck mate! and don´t worry... even basecoated your that background valk looks stunning!

That Valk is painted!! I couldn't play with unpainted minis! Heresy!
I actually didn't get to play with it, just the Tbolt and Marauder Destroyer.

The first game was a FFA, and the greatest lesson learned was "Watch your speed in the Tbolt!" It's REALLY fast, and REALLY maneuverable

I roleld initiative 6, so I moved last and shot first, the problem with that is you have to declare your maneuver at the beginning of the turn, before everyone else moves, so I ended up zooming around just to get behind others, only to roll friggin ones!


I didn't kill anything because my rolls all sucked

For the second game, it was teams. I had the Marauder Destroyer. The greatest lesson learned was "the Marauder Destroyer can only make wide turn maneuvers", so my only choice was to lazily fly around the big square 4-table set-up! LOL

Until the other team finished off all my teammates and ganged up on me


That stupid friggin space elf ship has a shield and an invulnerable save, totally OP IMHO.
I shot one down with my donkey gun, until they hit my targeting, forcing me to need to roll a six to hit, but they never got in front of me, they were all deathly afraid of my 3 twin-linked autocannons (6 dice, all re-rollable) and 8 skystrike missiles. The Marauder Destroyer is one tough bastard, it took 12 hits, didn't get destroyed, but they forced me off the table

For clarity, the dice on the terrain features represent the height of the terrain. The little black hex ticker is your speed and altitude indicator. If you dive or fly into a terrain feature at the same height as you, you crash into it. This is a game where less terrain is better!
The funniest moment of the evening, was when the space marine bumblebee thing couldn't move because it's max elevation sucks so bad. Made me smile!.
It was good fun.

Hah, the smurfs just bumbling around near the floor whilst the real men soar high above their heads....

Yep! Of course, I didn't want to insult the guy, he had a huge drop-pod army and he was pretty cool. He had an extra blister of the three Imperial Advisors he sold me for $10.

So, the T-bolt suffered from over powered thusters, and the Marauder is a poor turner. That means the monster Ork mega bomma I have is likely to have crap for turning, good ting I have plenty of twinlinked big shootas on it.

Well it's not about turning with the Ork one, it's just flying the right way in the first place to hit them so you can just jump out and start using the chopper.

No, I just had the speed turned up too high, you move your speed x6", so you may end up over flying your target. You want to end the move behind them where the armor is weakest, and they usually don't have weapons. I should have just started slow and straight with the Marauder, you can fire one weapon per crew member per turn

Was this playing "Aeronautica" with 40K minis?

Yep, basically!

My game stores SUCK.

It was actually pretty fun, all upgrades were given free from the new FW Aeronautica book, points values were rounded, he had all the fliers' stats on one nicely printed, well-organized reference sheet. Once we got going, it went at a nice clip, each game took about 3 hours.