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Absolutely fantastic!

Randy, I'm a huge fan of your guard force, and constantly refer to your PDF blog whenever I'm in need of ideas or inspiration (or a way to pass the time in the men's room...) I've lifted quite a few ideas from your guard and applied them to my own force!

My main/regular opponent (and best friend) also plays nids, and our armies have a long history of facing off against each other much like yours and Alex's. A Guard vs Nid matchup is some of the most fun you can have with 40k (Starship Troopers/Aliens anyone?!) and are definitely my favorite reports to read on dakka. I love the 'casual' lists you both use as well, as I think fun/fluffy games are lost on many players these days.

Thank you for an excellent read, and hopefully we'll see more in the future!

Yeah, the place for more in the future will probably be here....
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/537842.page in our campaign thread.
We're not sure on the format yet but we'll probably battrep in the battrep section here and post a few cinematic bits over there in the campaigns section. Links will go both ways so that'd be the one to subscribe to if you don't want to miss out.
I've been making terrain bits and working on some scenarios for it so there should be plenty of fluffy guard on funny nid action to be had when we next get a chance.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, cheers.

Wonderful armies, wonderful terrain, wonderful armies.

Wonderful really. Good show sirs.

Also good to hear rum was the winner on the day. (Night)

firebat wrote: Absolutely fantastic!

Thanks a lot! That's very high praise. It's humbling to think people are inspired by one's efforts, I'd love to see your stuff if it's online anywhere?
I know what you mean re: army comp, there's only so many TripTide Taudar vs QuadTurkey DaemonBomb reports I can read. 'Normal' armies always seem under represented. There is definitely something special about Nid v IG, very iconic.

Gordy2000 wrote:Wonderful armies, wonderful terrain, wonderful armies.

Wonderful really. Good show sirs.

Also good to hear rum was the winner on the day. (Night)

Thanks for your kind words, I think this pic shows we beat the rum!



No I know what you mean, Appleton's is always a winner.

Great batrep, thanks for sharing

+++++++++++++++++++Later, Aboard the Inquisitorial Strike Cruiser Obsidian Heart++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Inquisitor Bestor sat, his fingers gently rimming the glass of VSOP-X213 Zimbolian Sancerre, a fine vintage, he felt somewhat uneasy.
Had full protocol been followed? Who was to know or care? He had his prize, but something deep within his Psimind flickered as if in a dream.
As the Obsidian Heart melted into the inky blackness of deep space something wasn't quite right ...........

LOL, that's awesome!

Just my little way of letting you know that you never really win.

"One does not defeat the Hive Fleets, one merely prevails for another day".
Inquisitor Bestor, Meditations on Intergalatic Hegemonising Swarms Vol XXX

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
+++++++++++++++++++Later, Aboard the Inquisitorial Strike Cruiser Obsidian Heart++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Inquisitor Bestor sat, his fingers gently rimming...

Speaking of which...

Haven't read a battle report from your Slaanesh marines which I thought you'd have brought back to the table with the recent codex n all?

I know I expected to fight them when that book dropped...

Gread read, I hope to see more of them in the future!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Haven't read a battle report from your Slaanesh marines which I thought you'd have brought back to the table with the recent codex n all?

RandyMcStab wrote:I know I expected to fight them when that book dropped...

Yeah, I don't really know what happened there. I'd started to touch up and titivate them a bit as confirmation of the book came about. I think that I got about 15 guys looking significantly better and all five of the tanks had been re basecoated, It kind of felt like I was just painting a whole new army from scratch and I hit the wall.
The repainted models look waaay better than they did but they're not as good as they could be if i'd started from scratch for just as much painting effort (minus the build).
I had no desire to ruin any of the new models from DV box or the new jump packers with this scheme and I didn't want to play with the new Zoids.
I bought the book and it never grabbed me plus i'd have to mess about allying with daemons to make my list work again.
I was just a bit meh but I do think about sorting them out sometimes as it'd probably only take a few days.
Also I had 3k of DE to build and paint.
Nids to build and paint (as always)
IG weapons teams and tanks to paint
Warmachine Pirates to finish
Space Hulk to paint
A GK army commission.
and who knows what else...

Talore wrote:Gread read, I hope to see more of them in the future!

Yup, there there will be.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.