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Sorry to hear that Gits.

If you're ever silent for too long though, we just go back to page 1 and restart your blog, that seems to fill the time.

Oof. Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well. Do what you need to do, when you can do it. We can wait.

Sorry to hear old son. Take care of yourself, dakka isn't going anywhere.

Take care of family, they've taken care of you more than you will know in your life. We will be here when you are back in the swing or just want to drop in and let loose of pent up emotions. Dakka really is a great place.

After having endured a very tough year myself I can wholeheartedly sympathise. But as others have said, look after yourself and your own and the community will patiently await your return.

Best wishes to you and your family.

Signs of life!

A good friend of mine invited me to join him at a 40k tournament down in Madison. My wife kindly agreed to take charge of my dad so I could go play. This is only the second time I played 40k in the last 4 months!

I have a great time. 3 games, 2k each. Used my AdMech of course as it's the only army I have a current codex for. (I guess I do have an ork dex, but I've never opened it.) Mainly, I enjoyed the ride back and fourth with my buddy and then hanging around with friends, old and new, during the tournament.

I have a few pictures and thought I'd give you a little synopsis of the action... just to prove I'm not making it all up.

My army (in a nutshell), is pretty much as far off the meta as you can get. It's fun and easy to run... and causes problems for both my opponent and myself. Describing it would be boring... but you can see a good bit of it from the photos. The army is totally designed to ignore the command radius/giving orders meta... yet it still works pretty well.


Game 1 vs. Steve's Ultra Marines:
My opponent (Steve) was a nice young guy with his sons hanging out with him. He was playing Ultramarines. Though he was fairly new to the game he had decent paint on all of them. It was his first tournament too. We only got through two turns, but we both had a great time. Amazingly we tied in our final score (which was thankfully low as neither of us wanted to end up playing the ubermench Tau players at the top of the list.

Steve's army (in game... some units were scattered but I think this is most of it.


We deployed in opposite quarters with 5 objectives arraged in a plus-sign pattern.


Several shots of my army at deployment. Keep in mind this doesn't include my deep-striking units which suck up nearly 900 points of the 2000.





We pounded on each other for those two turns. Steve took out two of my dune crawlers and I responded by removing his two dreadnoughts. My "beta strike" on turn 2 started to turn the tide though, however this didn't result in any significant point swing so we ended up in a draw, which made us both very happy!


Game 2 vs. Tyler's Grey Knights:
Tyler is the friend who brought me to the event in the first place. It is typical that we drove together to the tournament and ended up fighting each other (the TO tried to avoid this but apparently it just couldn't be helped). Last time Tyler and I played he handed me my keister. His Grey Knights consist of about 4 or 5 small units of regularish marines,, 4 dread knights, one of whom is a commander, and another squad or two that can also deep strike. If he deep strikes everything, he must have 3/4 of his points in reserve. I'm nervous enough having so much of my army in reserve... I can't imaging having that much off the table. Apparently it works well for him though, and I certainly wasn't looking forward to having to deal with those deep striking, teleporting mechanical horrors. Two are usually enough to totally ruin any battle plan I have so 4 would be a complete nightmare.

I won the roll to go first. I moved forward aggressively with the armiger warglaives, one dune crawler and a war chicken. I plinked away at the marine squads and managed to take one of them out, but didn't do any significant damage to the others. The GK shuffled around a bit but didn't have very good targets for there anti-personnel shots or psychics so just did their best to obtain positions in cover near the objectives.

It was at this point (beginning of T2) that it dawned on me that I might be able to use my T2 "beta strike" and the fast movement of most of my vehicles to deny large tracts of the table to deep striking... hopefully giving me at least some chance of limiting the initial damage the dread knights would cause. So, starting at my end of the table (this battle was played long-ways), I started moving and measuring. By the time I got to his end, had brought in my termites, deployed the troops from them and then brought down my two squads of pteraxii skystalkers... there was only enough uncovered space on the table to bring in a single dreadknight or 5-man squad! During my shooting and assault phases I managed to wipe out his remaining troops.

Thus the picture below... an empty table save for my units. The one spot was just past the half-way mark on the right table edge (about where the black tape measure is in the photo). Ty of course... had no desire to bring in a single DK, watch it get shot off the table by my entire army, and then watch me adjust my placement to seal off the one spot. He gracefully acknowledged defeat. It was a sucky way to lose (he barely lost... and again our point total was really low), but I've probably never played a more tactical game.



Game 3 vs, Josh's Necrons:
I'd seen Josh around but we hadn't ever talked. He had a new Necron army... built in a similar way to what my son Carl has been running lately. Lots of destroyers of varying types, flayed ones, silent king. He was also running a 20-strong unit of warriors. A lot of Josh's models were the original metal Necrons which was just too cool. Anyway... I went first again and moved forward cautiously. I plinked away at a few things... killing a variety of destroyers and wraiths but the units all remained in-tact. Josh then woogied the mass of warriors forward and just blew the crap out of me. I lost two dune crawlers and an armiger along with some infantry I had sitting on an objective.

Turn two my repost was pretty good. I brought on the two termites but left the flappy boyz in reserve (there really wasn't a lot of room for them as Josh had done a great job of blocking me out of his backfield even thought he had many units threatening my half of the board). This was a normal, long-ways deployment scenario. I plinked away a the huge unit of warriors before my rust stalkers hit it in assault... killing something like 13 models with only a few coming back. I wiped out the wraiths and depleted two of the destroyer squads to the point that they were reduced significantly in effectiveness.



Josh's turn two was brutal as he used a trick to deposit 20 flayed ones in the middle of my lines. They killed everything they touched (I just pulled units) and the remaining destroyers proved they were still a force to be reckoned with. Of course the Silent King just sat in the back buffing units while his menhirs just blew the heck out of my big stuff. Once again on turn 2 the game ended as we ran out of time. Josh was actually ahead of me by 5 points, but because my army was painted and his was not I got 10 extra bonus points giving me the win. (thanks Nerdfest!) I really wish this game could have gone on as my next turn would have seen the arrival of the flamers to eliminate the flayed ones and I still had enough big guns left over that Josh was worried about getting tabled (well, I probably would never have gotten to the Silent King... but everything else might have been toast).

So, I had three delightful games with three fantastic opponents. I tied one and won two... but my point totals were always low so I stayed comfortably at the bottom of the leaderboard (where I like to be). Clearly that was a good fit as all my games were very close (hard to say about the second game I guess as it really didn't happen). Funny that none of the games went beyond T2, but then we were all far more interested in having a good and relaxing time than we were maxxing out our scoring.

I have no idea where I finished. I'm assuming somewhere near the bottom. The army took second in the paining competition netting me a very nice terrain set for Necromunda. (thanks again Nerdy!)

Thanks for reading. I hope I haven't bored you too much.

Great to see you out and about and I enjoyed the write up. If more of my tournament experiences had been like that one I may have more interest in playing in them. Sound like you had a really good time.

Glad you had fun, buddy. Hope you and the family doing well.

Sounds like much fun was had. Excellent rep.

Sounds like some fun games. Inspired move in the second one

Always good to get out and get a game in. Glad you were able to push some minis around and have some fun.

Thanks guys, I did enjoy myself. My eldest and I plan a little 750 point fracas either tonight or tomorrow. Last time we played I tried an all Cult Mechanicus force and my God did it suck! No wonder I play strictly skitarii.

I don't mind GW nerfing the army if it has elements that are too powerful, but if they're going to do that, they should at least buff the elements that are terrible at the same time.

Glad to hear you were able to find some downtime and get some games in. Don't forget to take of yourself as well.

My eldest and I played a game the other day that was called on account of bad luck. (it's no fun for anyone if the dice destroy a game singlehandedly) I did manage to snag a few pics on a very scenic table he put together though. This isn't one of my mini battle reports... just a few pics from the last turn.

The Necrons advance across the forrests and bottom-lands...







Draconus Forge fortifies the ruins...










The Draconus kastellan robots move into the center, defying the Necrons to come closer.




A vanguard squad faces a giant mechanical insect across a relic of the Imperium. They must prevail!



The Necrons advance across the center of the tactical grid...



Skitarii Raiders charge ahead on the left flank, continually advancing and falling back from the Necron assaults, delaying the Necron advance.




Servitors hold a rear objective, awaiting the onslaught.




Locust Destroyers outflank the kastellans.



Why does everything large and scary have to look like a spider??




Thanks for looking!

Pics look ace. Shame the dice gods played sport with their private parts.

I'm large and scary, but no-one ever said I look like a spider!

Love all the pics and commentary. Nice seeing your models out nd àbout.

Thanks for sharing. I greatly enjoyed the breakdown and the pictures. It's good to see you getting some games in.

Very nice battle pictures Gitsplitta.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks guys!

Played a little Bushido tonight. 40k tournament on Saturday.

Nice reading the bat reps. Always a pleasure.

Thank you Cam.


Just a single pick from last night's foray. I'd forgotten how much dang fun this game is!




Really looking forward to Adepticon next week. I'm sure the Brits will bring along the latest Covid variant for us to try out!!

Looks excellent, those Oni are mahoosive!

Thanks graven. I need to work on their highlights... bring them up a couple of shades so they pop a little more.

Looking forward to some Adepticon reports. I've been stalled on my GCT stuff for a bit as they are always out of one or two items when I am ready to place an order.

Glad you got to get out for a bit to unwind, hope all is going well for your family.

;Theo, send me a PM of what you're having trouble finding in stock and I'll see if I can pick it up for you at Adepticon.

Hey all. I've done very little hobbying of any sort for many months. Just Adepticon and two local (small) tournaments... but every once in a while I do get something else in.

Did a kickstarter a while back for TinkerTurf terrain. The photos are of 2 "tanker and crate container" sets minus one tanker (there would be 2 if you built the whole thing). I love these and the crates are super-easy to put together. The crate containers lend themselves to making ad-hoc defensive fortifications or just more interesting industrial settings.

Ooh those are very nice indeed. Good for all sorts of games.

Indeed. There's nothing 40k specific about them at all.

Hello all,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm still alive. I haven't done any building or panting, but I have gotten a few games in here and there and with the help of a visiting Thing 1, have made a bit of progress cleaning up my studio which had gotten to the unusable stage (it's still there, but at least I can see the floor in places thanks mainly to Thing 1's efforts). I traded a bunch of stuff to Solar_Lion that I was never going to use for some models and painting that will support converting my 30k EC into a 40k army. I have half of a large bin full of models to get rid of and we re-organized and threw out a ton of empty boxes and garbage.

I'm happy to see that a new chaos demon codex is coming out at some point. I might be able to bring out the old Halloween army as a result.

I have been sorting models so I can build a functional knight list. I'm close... just need to build a couple of Moirax and maybe one more warglaive.

Going to be sending the last of my AdMech to Nerdfest09 for painting, which should close the book on that army unless they come out with something new and spectacular. It'll be good to have that one done.

Good to see you post. Life can be a mess sometimes, you just need to make what progress you can.

Hang in there and best wishes.