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ok i managed to pain a few guys last night as well as assemble a complete custom zapp gun from a Tao gunship turret and some thin cardboard, ill post pics when i get it all painted up. just a heads up E showed me alot of customzation tricks but i am nowhere as good as him

Great thread. It is really nice seeing you guys enjoying yourselves over there. However, when you go back home, you cant use 40k stories in the VFW... 'we lost a dozen men to metal aliens that came out of nowhere'...

Keep it up, looking forward to seeing those Tyranids!

Hey guys. Sorry it took so long to post this, because my internet service went crazy last night up until this afternoon.

Well, I played the XO and can't exactly say I won, though that's what we thought for a good half hour after the game (and the XO wasn't a happy camper). What ended up being the point of confusion was that he had reduced me to exactly %25 Necrons on the board, and he thought I was supposed to have LESS than %25 to get phased-out. I didn't pay attention, didn't realize I had been reduced that low, and the game continued into turn 7 when I had finished as the only one with a uncontested point.

We did play on a new battlefield. The pictures I have didn't do justice to it, but E has a lot of pictures of his terrain work that he's likely to post later.

By the way, is there a way to upload pics on the forum and have comment inbetween them? My photobucket account is eating through it's bandwidth limit pretty fast.


Here we are at the start of the game. Something I probably should have done differently is keep my Nightbringer close to the troops for when the inevitable Terminator Deep Strike comes. And he had a troop squad in the land raider, and I had my Flayed Ones in reserve. We played Seize Ground with the objectives being the Necron Summoning Core, the Hellhound body, the bridge, the totem in the central jungle area, and the black spray paint cap (which will later become a necron power generator. )



Turn 1. XO Goes first. He launches heavy weapons from his dreadnaught and troops squad in the rear near his Hellhound objective. With the abilities of his Land Raider, one of his lascannons shot at my squad of destroyers and failed to wound, and a missle from his scout squad failed to hit.

My destroyers close on the scout squad on the hill on the other side of the river, and inflict 4 unsaved wounds, decimating his scout squad. My 'lith's Particle Whip and Nightbringer's Lightning Arc takes out half of his vanguard assault marines, and my heavy destroyer damages his land raider's left lascannon as it faces.



Turn 2. The XO sucsessfully deep strikes his termie squad, and close in the distance with his landraider, dismounting troops. He fires all of his high strength weapon attacks sporadically, not doing much good. The dismounted squad and terminators shoot at the squad to the left of my monolith.

Failed roll to bring in reserves. My heavy destroyer shoots the land raider with a penetrating his and rolls a 6 for the damage chart, but nothing is hurt in the ensuing explosion. My Nightbringer closes some distance and immobilizes the dreadnought with it's lightning arc. I dropped most of the dismounted marine squad with a volley from my warrior squad to the left of the monolith, and my destroyers fire at the termie squad, all saved. It's at this point I realize I am about to lose one of my troops squads. My nightbringer is still out of range of his terminators.



Turn 3. He drops a destroyer and a frag missle from his rear squad drops two of my warriors next to my summoning core. His vanguard assault marines take out all but one wraith in my wraith squad with power weapons, and his terminators with combination storm bolter and power fist take down all but one of the warriors in the left squad, leaving my necron lord to rez orb them (lucky..ish). One of his weapons immobilizes my 'lith.

I forgot to roll for reserves, and forgot that if I use my 'lith's summon ability, it automatically pulls from reserves before it draws another out. My bad, but we roll with it. After making WBB rolls on the left squad and then summoning them to the lith they're allready right next to, only 2 out of the squad of 14 don't come back. They fire a volley and put one wound on his chaplain. The scarabs assault the remainder of his foward troop squad, and drop all of them. The nightbringer fired another lightning arc at the dreadnought and misses. The tomb spyder assaults the terminator squad and dies futily trying to delay or at least hurt one. The remaining wraith inclicts no wounds, and dies.



Turn 4. The XO closes with his vanguard marines with the squad guarding the summoning core, and he closes his terminators on the squad right in front of the monolith. His krak missle from the rear squad inflicts 1 wound on the nightbringer. His terminators and chaplain assault and again all but 1 warrior goes down, and the squad with my N.Lord fails their morale check. I reminded him I can still make WBB rolls for models left behind while retreating (as explained by other posters here) but he was livid. He believed me, but thought it was pretty cheap. Maybe he's right.

On my turn I make miserable WBB rolls and only 2 of the squad that went down comes back. I'm not sure if I can use my 'lith's summoning ability to teleport guys who are retreating, so instead I use the 'lith's ability to bring out the Flayed Ones instead of risking failing the save. I close my scarabs and destroyers with the rear squad, trying to deny him at least the one point he has or perhaps go for a wipe-out win. I placed one of my destroyers in dangerous terrain and failed the roll. I didn't think about it at the time, but if/when it didn't make it's WBB roll, that would have been the game-ender. The retreating N.Lord and it's couple of warriors shoot at the termie squad with no inflicted wounds. The nightbringer closes with the vanguard assault marines attacking my rear troop squad and kills his leader (who is using the BA Sanguinor rule set). Flayed ones close in and take out two other vanguard assault marines, leaving one model left. It makes it's morale check.



Turn 5. Without much else to move or do, the XO closes his termie squad on the non-retreating warrior squad, shoots with storm bolters at what he can, and shoots at the scarabs (that I foolishly didn't turbo-boost for the cover save) with his rear troops squad. He assaults my flayed ones with his terminators and their retaliatory attack does little good. Only on the pile-in does my nightbringer get to go toe-to-toe.

Many of the flayed ones don't make their WBB rolls so I summon them to the lith. The scarabs move within assault range of the marines. My Destroyer didn't make his WBB roll for dangerous terrain loss. The remaining destroyer shoots at the troop squad and all wounds are saved. My Heavy Destroyer hits the dreadnaught again and destroys it's lascannon. The nightbringer assaults, takes a couple in the terminator squad. Scarabs assault the regular marines and only remove one of his models, but it's buying my destroyers time to close in and contest the only point he's got.



Turn 6. His terminators are forced to fight, but in the end, lose all but two models and fail their morale check, and get caught by a sweeping advance. The dreadnought can do nothing, and the other marines are locked in combat. Blows are exchanged, and my scarabs do no damage.

My retreating squad falls off the board. My heavy destroyer hits the dreadnought and makes it shaken. The assault between the scarabs and troops still leaves me at losses, but it ties them up, which is what I really need.



Turn 7. He wipes out my squad of scarabs, but can do nothing else.

I place my Destroyer on the other side of his Hellhound objective, and contest that point.

And that's the game. By all accounts, I should have phased out by turn 6, but we didn't really know about phase-out that well. For the longest time we thought I had truely won (even though it was definitely a moral victory for me), but I recalled the phase-out rules in an attempt to soothe his raging fury at his horrendous dice rolls, and then remembered that the codex may have specified phase-out at 25% or less, not just ONLY less than 25%.

We decided to call it a tactical draw, since we both were too slowed to know I had lost turns ago. He had me at exactly just enough models for phase-out for two turns, and I forgot that if I used my 'lith's summon ability, it has to first pull out squads in reserve. Oh well.

Mail convoy arrived today, and with it LT Krick's minis showed up today, as well as XO's predator, vindicator, assault termies, tactical squad, and another scout squad (though he claims that they are now worthless against my army). Kehrer got some forge-world power-suits today, too.

You guys can thank E for setting up that jungle map. He bought a green fleece blanket and put it over cardboard hills. In the central jungle area he made a totem-faced statue that looks pretty cool, and it was a fun map to play on. The only problem I had with it was the blanket caused a lot of wobbly-model syndrome, and a BUNCH of cocked dice. I was getting aggrivated that the most innocuous looking spot on the board still produced cocked dice on slight folds in the blanket, and was having to re-roll "leaners" almost every roll. I suggested rolling in a box but I guess the XO didn't go for it.

Anyway, there's your bat-report from yesterday. The Nightbringer definitely wrecked shop and ended the game with only two wounds. If you guys need me to start drawing arrows and symbols on the pictures to illustrate the movement and attacking, let me know. I don't do it for time's sake, but considering how this Durkistani internet connection is dead half the time, it's not like you guys don't expect delays from us every once in a while.

Also, please let me know what you think about how the battle was played, and what you might have done differently.

Diesel: You can upload your photos directly to Dakka's photo gallery and it has no bandwidth limit

Just a quick thing about the terminators getting caught in a sweeping advance. Marines have "And They Shall Know No Fear" which makes it so they can't be destroyed by sweeping advances.

does anybody know about "bodyguard" units for ork HQ such as Ghazhkhull thraka?

Those planes you all painted are beautiful. Excellent detail work. I'm truly amazed.

nobs/large mob of boys?

This thread is great. I have been reading it for the past few days, but could not coment because my acount was skrewed up. E your Imperial Guard are amazing and you are great at converting miniatures. Your battle reports are great so keep it up.

its great to hear that you guys out there are using your spare time wisely (or not, depending on which way you see it).
im hoping to join the forces in few years, RAF REG, and it would be pretty cool if my unit do a bit of 40k. and hey, in kandahar its fairly quiet anyway.
and in the raf reg (as all those in the army and Royal Marines know) they do feth all! but you have to admit 4 days of uneventful patrolling ending with 4 days of pizza hut and subway is pretty cool (as one ex marine said to one of my friends about the Raf reg: "stag on: shake the fence, stag off: drink some tea"
but seriously its great you guys are having fun out there. just don't let 40k consume you so much that when you are engaging the enemy with your .50 cal that you start rolling dice on the humvees floor going: "comon 4 to hit, 4 to hit" and deliberately miss just because one dice had a 3 and the other had a 1

I bet they'd go over the LOS rules more than dice rolls. LoL

sorry about blurry images my camera isnt the best on the fob

this is my completed warboss


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my kustom shoota-skorcha kombi weapon


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IG head impaled on warboss power claw


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Tao turret <zapp gun> as stated before

This thread is absolutly amazing, just finished going through it all! I must say... Well done to all of you in both the war effort and in your gaming! Do not give it up whatever ya all do! The Gaming that is!

I look forward to seeing more!

My 'lith should be done in a day or two. I'll post pics then.

But it's late and I don't have much time to chat. So I'll see you guys tomorrow. Hopefully the others will have enough to keep you satisfied until then.

What`s up everyone! Thanks for the compliments on the IG, I look forward to other opinions both good and bad.It helps me create...lol So thank you.I look forward to sharing more with you.Honestly about 75% of my army is customized in one way or another.The way I see if your gonna put this much effort in to Warhammer 40k,make your army your own.Customize as much as possible it makes a great scene on the battlefield.Plus making your own vehicles and other pieces can save you money.Anyways I just finished playing a game against Spc.Kehrer.IG vs. Tau.It was a great game,ended in turn 3 I believe.But I have pics and I have to disect the game.I will have a battle report posted within the next 24 hours.To hear the outcome you`ll just have to stay tuned.E from the bunker,signing out.
Imperious Dominatus....

Orky_Bitz
I like the warboss, but i dont like the zzap gun, it dosn't look orky enough, i would surggest adding some gubbinz. because at the momment it dosn't look orky atm.
apart from that keep up the good work.

diesel7270, nice batrep.

E_ninja13, thats some nice terrain

keep up the good work everybody

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sorry about blurry images my camera isnt the best on the fob

this is my completed warboss


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my kustom shoota-skorcha kombi weapon


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IG head impaled on warboss power claw


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Tao turret <zapp gun> as stated before

Great job on the ork. I like the zzapp gun and the caps for wheels. you might want to add some grotts or other things to make it more orky. keep up the good job and keep safe. Brothers in arms.

Hey guys. I'm having a problem with decals on my 'lith. I glossed over them while they were still a little moist, and it seemed there were no air bubbles in them. But when I went back in to check on it this morning, it looked like there were large patches on both the door crest and the one corner I glossed over, and really all of the decals I didn't gloss over, that there were sections where the decal was detatched from the model, giving them a patchy look. I guess I'm comitted with the ones I've already glossed over with... but how would I stop that from happening with all of the others?

lol I have that same problem with my Necron decals. So far, I've had no luck getting them to turn out any better.

thanks for the comments on the warboss, he was ,my first customized piece and also my first attempt at painting, and i do agree with you all on the zapp gun, i think on my next order i will have to add the orky bitz kit to further modify it along with the deff dread and killa kans.




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the battle between Tao and IG last night was memorable, but ill let "E" post the BDA


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A little about me,

I started wargaming back in the states because of "E" one day after work he needed a ride and I wasn't doing anything so we took a little trip out to the local Hobby shop where he started showing me these game pieces and telling me about the his army, so i decided to give it a try and purchased the Assault on Black Reach starter kit that came with orks and space marines. The it was off to the XO's place who, at the time, was still our PL. I sold the SM pieces to XO for 40 dollars(quite a bargain) and E helped me assemble and showed me a few customization and painting tricks in the week before deployment. my first game was played in Iraq against the IG. OMG it took forever because "E" and I were reading the rules as we went and trying to figure the whole thing out. The IG surrenderred after his entire army fired and did not kill a single ork and a grenade from one of his soldiers got drawn backwards by the scatter die and ended up killing the model that fired it. I wish I had taken pictures.

Nothing much happened today. I've got two pictures of my *finished*, for better or worse, Monolith.

There's a lot I like about it and a lot I wish I had done better. Foremost was the odd spots in the decals, and the brush-lines in the gloss varnish. But anyway, the pictures are below.

Today was a pretty sparse day. It was mostly me and LT Krick (the tank platoon commander) and he put together is khorne CSM battleforce pack. Everyone else was either watching a movie, at the gym, or taking a break from WH40K, since we've been doing it every day for a week now. I myself have spent over 5 hours a day for the past couple of days just finishing my monolith.

Let me know what you guys think, and what I could have done better. I need to know how I can make sure I don't make the same mistakes again!

EDIT: Uhh... why do these downsized pics below show up gray? Or is it just gray for me?

Its not you, they do show up grey here, but clicking on em shows em real nice! An excellent looking monolith!
Keep up the great job, and keep us posted!

Damn, that really is a nice looking monolith.

Man, this thread is really making me want to finish painting. Ugh.

that is an awesome monolith

Thats a great monolith, I don't get why you think it looks bad.

Great job on the Monolith

Beautiful monolith you have there. I have to agree with the General and wonder why you think it looks so bad...

Sweet 'lith. Well done!

Need a new BATREP. I want to see "E's" guard versus the XO! hehe.

burb1996 wrote:Beautiful monolith you have there. I have to agree with the General and wonder why you think it looks so bad...

QFT
I don't understand why you think it looks bad. I rekon it looks great!

great looking monolith. keep up the good work.