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@SBG - Long time no see! Thanks for the nice words. Hope real life is treating you well as I'm assuming that's why you have been quiet recently.

PS: Holy four armed god, I've hit ten pages! never thought I'd get this far, so here is to the next ten huh!

Things have been busy, for sure... But now I'm getting back on track and should be able to update my p&m blog soon as well. You've kept up a pretty steady pace - I will have to play catch up now!

Eager to see what you do with the Tyrannocyte!

Yeah been keeping it ticking along. I'd say I had some catch up to do to get to you in first place, so you just gave me time to get there

Tyrannocyte is coming along, I should have it done by next weekend, I'll get some progress pics up soon.

So been a good week hobbywise.

Firstly have been ticking along on the Tyrannocyte bringing the greens and blues up, here is where it is currently up to, with carapace to yellow up and then it is washing and final detailing time.



Secondly had an awesome 1500pt game against Knightley, he had a Sisters of Battle army that he put on the table to face a hungry Ngaro. I also had a different list as was trying out a bunch of units I hadn't used before, like a Neurothrope, Tyrannofex, gargoyles and a Warrior Prime HQ choice, so there was a few points where we both realised we completely forgot something our army could do. Still it was a great Maelstrom game and it came down to the wire with the difference being a roll of a D3 each on a maelstrom card... I rolled a one, and Sisters rolled a three, 10-8 win to Sisters.

In regards to the "new units" I had in this game the neurothrope was ok, it got taken out relatively early as Sisters bracketed it and mowed down the brood because it was a big threat where it was. Ten model Gargoyle brood did well in giving cover and launching forward to grab an objective and be an area denial unit which made the Sisters change their plan a bit, I can definitely see them being useful again in the future. The Warrior Prime became a tough objective holder with his squad of warriors and did more defensive work, although they did chip away at the giant Sister blob that was running around the place. The best of the new units was the Tfex, I dropped it in the pod in the back field where it promptly melted a tank then proceeded to absorb fire from the other tank as it reversed across the field of battle for the rest of the game, leaving the Tfex to walk along melting sisters and doing a good final clearance of an objective to claim a vital victory point along with line breaker, while finishing on 2 wounds.

Another notable mention has to go to the Tyrannocyte itself, not only did it deliver the Tfex safely into battle but it then proceeded to chip away hull points of multiple vehicles and also chip away at the sister blob and provided enough of a distraction that it and the Tfex kept the Sisters army on its toes.

Things that didn't go so well were... my dice, soooo many ones and twos which made things even more interesting, and the Trygon which arrived safely but really didn't do much else, got tarpitted and dragged down, I suppose it supplied more distraction, but at 190pts that is pretty expensive especially when a Mawloc at 140pts can hit on entry and do about the same in combat as the Trygon did in this game, so will probably staying on the sideline for a while longer :(

So another awesome fun game with Knightley, I'm looking forward to the next one and I'm learning more about my army and different opposition on the table every game, and enjoying the game more and more.

Cheers for stopping by.

Sounds like a cool game. SoB are a fun army to play and play against.

Tyrannocyte is looking great so far.

EDC

Good highlighting on the blue bits of the Cyte, and I have to agree with you on the Tfex and Trygon. My experiences with them have been consistent with yours - Trygons are often underwhelming, while Tfexes almost always over perform. Though sending in a Tfex in a Cyte... Not something I had considered, but now...

Thanks for the compliments on the cyte progress, I did some more work on it tonight, but it was only painting black onto all the carapace parts so looks no different at this point. Will be doing the yellow and washes next so will have a photo for that update

I saw the Tfex come down in a Cyte in a youtube battle report I was watching Nids Versus Tau... it did some good work and was a very tough distraction so thought I;d give it a go. I'll give it some more game time and see how I like it.

So, Knightley has done a cool narrative batrep of the battle we had on the weekend, you can check it out here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/4890/349329.page#8689470

And here is a couple of photos I took of the game.

Tyrant eye view:



And winged beasts closing the gap:



Looking forward to the next game for sure.

That looks like it was a fun game! Good batrep too. Did the Warriors all get taken out by the Exorcist?

IIRC he was was left with 2 warriors and a Prime in the area terrain, I tried a risky melta outflank and failed to snipe.

Yeah, Warriors need cover to survive...

Yeah, as an SoB player myself warriors outside side of cover are just Exorcist fodder.

Cool pics, looking forward to reading the bat rep when I head over to Knightley's plog!

EDC

Heh, the warriors were in cover the whole game and survived the exorcist... a lot of that had to do with the fact there was a tyrannofex and tyrannocyte dropped into the back lines which gave the Sisters something to really worry about, especially that t-fex which went on a mini rampage.

Finished the tyrannocyte, man this thing took some painting, glad to have it finished and happy with the overall look.



This photo doesn't quite do the finished model justice, I should have turned the magnets on the weapons away from camera and there is more depth to the colour in particular the greens which I'm really happy with how it came out, so maybe if I can get a better photo i'll share that, otherwise Knigthley can critique it in person in our next game

I'm going to a bit of a "stocktake" now on what I have left to do, as I have pretty much finished all the old stuff I had to catch up on and now have to model everything from here on in so am going to put together a little bit of a plan as I have some Chaos troops to do for my brother, a Genestealer cult to start painting and a few mores boxes to keep growing Hive Fleet Ngaro. So I'll make a decision and you'll see some pictures of what I chose next update

Thanks for reading.

Loving the carapace on the Tyrannocyte bud! Great work!

Thanks AOV, seems to be the thing that most people like about the scheme... which is good

I am totally looking forward to seeing this on the table, having seen it twice already I think a third time is fitting for a fully painted cyte

Third times a charm they say...

We will see if it can redirect some of your force in the next game like it did in the last.

Hi all,

So now that I have basically completed all the "old" tyranid stuff I had for hive fleet Ngaro, I have sat back and taken stock of what I have unpainted and come up with a plan... first up is a ten man chaos space marine squad for one of my brothers, then I'm going to get my cult models done with maybe a Ngaro beast thrown into the mix, then back to "Ngaro full time" as I still have the start collecting box and some other boxes I have purchased in more recent times...

Now that the plan is set, it's time to get on with it... here is the first photo of the new plan



They are a random mix of close quarters and ranged models, but they are more of a display than for actual game so my brother won't mind. I'll be doing them up in the pre-heresy Emperors Children colours that I have done in the past.

Oooh some Chaos Marines, this might be a nice small distraction from the swarm

If you want to use my airbrush to get the base colour done your welcome to use it.

- Knightley, thanks for the offer. Have already done a bunch of the base colour stuff as you will see below... however I may take you up on your offer when I come to base coat the skin of 40 odd tyranid troops choices in the future, because brushing on that much base coat doesn't seem like a lot of fun hehe.

Got some work done on the CSM squad this week, mostly just base coat stuff, got some bone colour and the gun colours to get on then I can get onto washes and start bringing out the details.



So a nice steady progress thus far

Had a 1500pt game vs Knightley over the weekend.

Given that I am still learning the army on the tabletop in 7th I keep bringing different things in my lists to try them out, and Knightley has a lot of armies to choose from, so I've been able to take on Sisters of Batlle, Grey Knights, and Chaos Demons thus far and this time around it was Tau.

Lists:

Ngaro
HQ - Walking hive tyrant - Lash whip/bone sword, heavy venom cannon and two bowling balls.... I mean Tyrant Guard.
Troops - 10 Hormagaunts, 2x 3 Rippers with D/S
FA - 10 Gargoyles
Elite - Lictor, Venomthrope, 2 Zoanthrope
HS - Tyrannofex in a pod, Mawloc
Form - Living artillery node, Exocrine, 3 warriors, 3 biovores.

Tau
Ethereal, cadre fire blade, fire warrior blob with markerlights, 40 kroot, 10 vespid, and transport.
3 crisis battesuits with drones, 2 broadsides with drones and missiles, hammerhead with railgun, 2 piranha

We rolled up Eternal war mission big guns never tire with five objectives evenly placed around the corners and middle of table, Knightley got to deploy first and I failed to seize.

Deployment looked like this:



Knightley had the crisis suits and kroot in reserve, I had the Mawloc, Tyrannofex, and rippers in reserve. Tau set up fire warriors in ruined building with vespids flying around the place, the broadsides started in the middle behind cover with the hammerhead, piranhas etc on the far side of deployment.

I set up my LAN in cover so the biovores could bomb the table and exocrine could come to grips with the broadsides. Hive tyrant and venomthrope was in the middle providing a tough middle table nut to crack providing synapse and shrouding, and the Zoanthropes on the close edge with the hormagaunts and gargoyles spreading out between all forces and the lictor infiltrated in front of the fire warrior building.

Due to some questionable deployment options from myself, along with not really prioritising what to kill effectively and struggling to catch the buggers as they stayed out of range of my shooting it was a bit of a slog, At the end of turn five we calculated that it would have been a draw, however the game went into turn six and this is what it looked like at end of the game:



The game was great fun to play with good highlights. The hammerhead failed to fire a single shot all game which I found surprising as I was expecting it to blow my hive tyrant to smithereens, the other heavy choices for both teams worked hard and all survived the whole game, with only 1 VP being scored from big guns never tire when I downed the hammerheads detached drones. Actually, in hindsight the Tau Hammerhead must of had rippers inside the wires, or the tank commander had been infested by a brain bug as it did it's best to keep me in the game, by not shooting and giving me it's drones to kill Here is an over the shoulder shot from the said hammerhead



Other notable highlights were the kroot blobs coming in from the far end and hitting the biovores and warriors, leaving just one biovore alive which started running towards it's mates while the Mawloc came up and ate a bunch of Kroot and made them turn around and start running towards the table edge... they managed to regain their morale when they fired some snapshots into a ripper swarm and took it down... big tough brave kroot running from mawlocs and bullying poor little rippers.

I also lost all my synapse from the outside of the army and was relying on the hive tyrant and instinctive behaviour tests which did alter some of my plans somewhat, one of my stars was again the t-fex being dropped in by pod next to this...



After absorbing a bunch of fire from many sources the t-fex then proceeded to cover the building in acid sprays and grubs before making a charge under instinctive behaviour to keep itself safe in combat... it chewed through the fire warriors pretty easily and did what it needed to do, ending the game like this:



Annoyingly the hiding in ruins fire warrior blob was about 49" away from the cover I had for the biovores so had to settle for shooting at suits and spawning the odd irritating spore mine when I missed my shots, and I also lost my lictor, gargoyles and zoanthropes way to fast on the close end of table edge due to dumb deployment spots...

Learned heaps from this game though and had a really good after game chat with Knightley about what went well, and what didn't so still learning and I find I learn more on these close games/losses than when I have a win so that is a nice bonus.

Thanks for the game again Knightley, really looking forward to the next one!

We also played a game of execution force which is a great little game as well, co-op vs random game mechanics is interesting and varied.

In hindsight having a foot slogging army vs a shooty army is always going to be tough, there were a ton of things learned from both side, *cough* don't take a hammerhead *cough*

Look forward to the next game

You should always take a hammerhead... that unit was stunning in it's ability to keep me in the game

I've been slowly plugging away at the Chaos squad and they are coming along nicely... no photos to show at this stage because the ones I took for latest update look terrible, so blurry you can't see much at all. So i'll get some photos for a proper update on the weekend

Sounds like you had a blast. Great pics.

EDC

Chaos Space Marine squad is coming along slowly but turning out nicely.



Got a bunch of highlighting to do on them along with picking out a few details and getting the weapons sorted. I'm going to go with a green power sword for the champion, and the plasma guns are getting a green glow treatment as well. The rest, well they will be a various assortment of dirty grey and metals because they are chaos

Lookin' good!

Hi all,

Winter sport has just finished for another season, so I'll have a bunch more free time again to put towards painting and modelling, so should get more updates in near future.

Have continued work on the CSM squad.

Still have the weapons and trims to do along with a few other highlights to finish up on the armour and then they are done... close to completion now!



Also played another game against Knightley today. First time since fourth my Tyranids had encountered the Necrons (robots aren't that tasty). It was a spoils of war maelstrom game which the Necrons won 12-6, was another really good enjoyable game and although the score blew out by the end it would have only taken a couple of different dice rolls and it would have been a very different score.

I learned that Necrons are very resilient, and get back up a lot. Also learned that when the Death Ctan rolls 11 Destroyer wounds nothing is going to stop that

MVP unit of this game was the Mawloc who did pretty much everything the hive mind needed it to do and was still standing unscathed at end of game after taking out a couple of Necron units. Venomthrope was a close second protecting the right flank and helping prevent a lot of wounds with it's shrouded bubble. Tervigon was solid again, only downfall to her today was she corked on first turn spawn which is unusual for her in my army

Had a great post game chat with Knightley who thought my tactics were pretty sound this game with only a few tweaks needed, although he recommended I melt down the dice I was using for this game Looking forward to the next rumble in a couple of weeks.

Till next time!

Agreed!, those dice need to be burned in sacrifice to the dice gods, when you roll 12 shots and hit with 1, something is wrong!

Haha, or need a 3+ run move for rippers and roll a 1.... and then do it again with another ripper brood and roll a two.

They were certainly testing the hive fleets resolve on Sunday.

CSM are looking great so far, really like that purple scheme .

Sounds like you've been using my dice recently...

EDC