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There were several players who wanted to include forgeworld items / super heavies ect. Since this will be the last installment of the storyline I figure why not let them? I'll either up each players points a bit OR allow each side a certian number of points to be spent on such items. What do you think?

 

I'm currently working on terrain (attempting) and I'm not very optomistic about it with it being my first attempt (lol).

 

The terrain will be theme oriented for this battle with plenty of special rules etc.

Probably 2nd or 3rd week of september? What works best for you? Whatever we decide I'd like to see flyers for it up at the store....

Lazarus.

If theres any way that the points could go up to 1500, even if for just a few players on a team, that would be very cool. That would change my army from a terminator heavy imperial fists army into a full Lysander wing. He he he...

I got the stargate plans from a german paper model site. I should give credit to the site but I lost the link. Yes it is just a paper model but the base is nice and it looks good. so phooie. : -) Scenery on the cheap.

I didn't get to see the left flank with Me-person or CapK since I was on the right with a couple of new players.

I had shootie marines, there was a basic marine player holding the center. The new guys had a pretty stock wolf army and a black templar hth army.Our objective was to hold the starport on the far right.

The bad guys had 2, count them 2, nid armies, about half a guard army and a dark eldar on raiders.

The plan was to hold the starport so I had the hth guys get as close io it as possible. I set up with good fields of fire on top of buildingsect. I asked the basic marine player to hold the center(and he did go marines).

!st turn the right goes for the starport. I stick my Librarian fwd and FoA down the line. 1 raider and 3/4 of a raider sqad down, 1 basilisk stunned and a few gaunt and stealers. We get a few more gaunts and a few wariors in the shooting.

Bad guys shift right (our left) to got out of the fire zone. They take out a couple of dreadnaughts stun a pred and try to move forward fast. The withces don't get into hth due to the eldar player not having his lord leave the unit so no 12 inch assaul move.

2nd turn move forward . plink gaunts take out a few more gaunts and genestealers. FoA stuns a basilisk and some more genestealers. 3 large squads on starprt. Blood claws, wolfguard, templars.

Bad guys take out a squad holding the center. hit another dreadnaught(stunned) carnifex and hive tyrant take center and another hive tyrant jumps the squads on starport. HT shoots templars. DeathSpitters(sp) 2x so 3 shotstimes 2, he has 2, twin linked. 12 shots. ouch. Templars fallback in a forward direction.(don't you just love it). kills a few, templars down to 8. HT 1 wound. HE tries to get gaunts in hth bu they didn't make the terrain roll.Center Space marine army getting chewed.

3rd Center army ges chewed. Another dn goes down. 1 left. We take out last raider. FoA a few mor gaunts a couple of stealers. I plink(stun) a Leman russ thas been hiding behind the starprt when it comes out to play. the hive tyrant of the left and the witch tear up the center army but leave 2 troopies alive. Darn. the HT on the Starport gets charges by blood claws. Due to terrain ect. leaves room for wolfguard to also charge. HT only gets 1 templar. 2 hidden power fists wolf priest champion marshall and a heck of a lot af attacks later HT is just a smear on Starport. librarian and preds race around to right flank.

Bad guys a couple of units that won't get into the main melee go to the center table and get hit by a lot of regular eldar. I hear it wasn't pretty. the HT in the center jumps the reserve Templar squad. Not a lot of shooting but they occupy the asministratum, where by the way, the Inquisitor is hiding. We have no way to get there. On the starport a hole bunch of gaunts attack. Due to the way we consolidated they base all the templars and both squads of wolfs. Wolfs countercharge. a few 5-6 marines go down. lots of gaunts. There is a squad of warriors in there holding synapse.HT in center tears up some more templars and more gaunts get into it from center left. Last unit of eldar , witch lord 2+ inv. ect. unkillabel machine. Deseves Medal. kills a few templars.

4th the wolfguard and wolfpriest move forward and stun that Russ that is being annoying. templars and bloodclaws spread out and await barrage. My army has no shots so I move Lib to starprt. I try to get 2 squads off of buildings to set up for HT. I roll a 2 and a 3 for both units. Darn. HtH I try my difficult terrain a 5 and a 6. I get into hth. The HT destoys the templars and puts 1 wound on the Marshall. 1 I get rid of gaunts. Due to how pile in worked, witch only kills 1 marine. Last DN gets into HTH with witch. 1 marine squad breakes and falls back 9 inch. this squad plinks a few stealers in admin for victory points. wolfguard destroys last leman russ. A ls thats been jumping around and plinking gaunts turbo boosts to get behind enemy lines.

Another wound on marshall from tyrant. witch can't do anything to dn and 2+ dn can't do anything to dn for rest of game. Give the witch a citation. I hear that the other boards are doing well. Basilisk shot kills 2 wolfs.

5th Lib joins up on Starport. dn witch. HT kills Marchall. preds roll fwd no targets.

HT kills 1 marine. admin is occupied.

6th. I missed something . somewhere I missed a turn for the HT cause he should have killed one marine on last turn. Sorry. Last turn holding action.

bad guys holding action. We hold starport, they hold admin.

Problems were with so many models we didn't have enough time to do hth. There were a lot of gaunts, templars, and wolfs. It was hard to keep up.

Upshot was Ht held up its own. Witch held its own. Templars did well. Wolfs did well. I plinked a few but my job was to make em keep their head down. The center marine deserves a medal because he did his job. It was a good game. I guess I didn't have as much fun as possible because I was riding herd on the two new guys. James did a good job though.

The previous was from memory and may not show all events and may have continuity errors.

With only 7 minutes per phase it is difficult to get everything accomplished that you want to...especially hand to hand. I suppose I could up the phases to 10 minutes each but that would add another 1 hour and 48 minutes to the game overall. I might be able to shave some off of that on the few rounds where everyone is done early. Possibly starting the game an hour earlier may help offset this too.....I dunno though, I'm affraid people will lose intrest if the game lasts too long.

Every time I walked over to that end of the city it looked liked your marines were invincible (lol). Good job.

 

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on what would make this next event better or more fun I'd like to hear it.

 

Note to self: Only use liquid nails in a well ventilated area.....I don't want to do any more terrain tonight.

 

Lazarus.

Lazarus Wrote:There were several players who wanted to include forgeworld items / super heavies ect. Since this will be the last installment of the storyline I figure why not let them? I'll either up each players points a bit OR allow each side a certian number of points to be spent on such items. What do you think?

I think that one way of including super heavies is to allow someone to field a super heavy in place of their army. Super heavies are in their own FOC, so that would make sense. Or you could assign 2 superheavies slot per side for them to control. That way I could use my baneblade and my sisters...hehe. If you need flyers, I can make them, but I need the date, time, etc. I think running it as a club event is a great idea as that will show people that we are serious.

Capt K

Yeah Laz, I should have warned you about the liquid nails indoors. I, on the other hand, have been an artist all my life and have put up with inhailing worse toxins...hehe. Matte Varnish and Spraymount being the biggest cancer creators that I inhailed regulary for 4 years...hehe.
Capt K

Let me tell you all that some of the glues I have used over the years have made me dizzy. Used to use a wood glue for working with balsa back in the day that had something in it that would make you high if your worked with it too long.

Been using a non-toxic plastic glue lately that has a mint smell, not sure which is worse being dizzy or smelling mint all over the house.

Warrior 50

Go ahead and plan it as a club event. I purchased more terrain supplies tonight and am trying to get motivated to do something with them....not really wanting to open packages or anything tonight for some reason. (lol) I've already dropped over $350.00 on this crap so I guess I should get started on it huh?

 

More than likely I'll not only up the points slightly but add a couple thousand points to each side for their choice of super heaveis or regualr stuff. I have some pretty neat stuff if anyone wants to use it.

 

Lazarus.

Any idea when this event is going to take palce?

 

Warrior 50

Most likely a week or two into Septemeber. I'll have to talk with other club memebers and see what they have planned. I just hope that I can have everythnig done in time.

 

Lazarus.

I am going to be out of town on September 2nd, so my vote goes towards September 9th or August 26th (a week from Saturday)

September 9th sounds like a good date for the megabattle.

Capt K

Damn, the 9th, of all the days... I guess I'll just miss this one.

We can always do the 26th. Not really sure. It's up to Laz to make the final call.

Hmmm... I thought a square baser rtt was that day, but the Sci-fi-city site says it's not, but that still might be something thats worth checking on. Otherwise, I'm all for the 26th.

The last saturday of each month is reserved for RTT's. It may not be on the site yet due to personel issues at the store. I'm 95% sure the RTT will still be on that day. (26th)

Let's do it in september. I'd like to do it sooner but I need the time to get stuff ready as I have some pretty cool things planned for it. How about the 16th? Would that work ok for everyone? It would give us time to advertise for the biggest turnout possible and to make up flyers etc. Also Me_Person might be able to make that one and I'm sure you will want his lucky dice around eh?

 

Let me know what you think. I'm currently still trying to work with the terrain etc. and may need some help with it (at least on how to go about doing some of this stuff)

 

Lazarus.

 

 

The 16th would be the optimum day for it. Plus, by then I might have 1500 points painted.

That would be cool, I agree with your assement that we need to super advertise it.

Hi Guys, According to the GW page the following are scheduled at Sci Fi City

8/26/06 Warhammer RTT

9/30/06 Warhammer 40K RTT

I could have sworn that Mark said something about an RTT every month at the store through January 2007. They were going to alternate between 40K and the Warhammer.

Anyway that is what I remember.

Warrior 50

Got a question about the next mega Battle.  Are we required to use the same force we have been using in the other two mega battles?  I have just about got my space marines re tooled a bit and I may actually have 1000 points of Space Wolves now as well.

The reason I ask is that I see some of you want to try out some of your other armies as well.

My Wolves are still growing but I have close to 1000 points and my Imperial Eagles Space Marines have a full army.  I am still fixing a few things, but they are playable.

Let me know.

Warrior 50

I don't think there are any restrictions as far as what army you use.

Do it. I used tau in the first one, and played imperial fists in the second one.

There is no restriction on what you can use. I still plan on using my SOB since my Canoness benefits from the special rules she earned from the Character Contest, etc. My list comp might change though.

Capt K

I spoke w/ mark today and set it up for the 16th. I believe he put it on the website and I told him I'll give him more details on it later. I'd like to see some flyers made and put up around the store (at every table if possible as well as the board).

 

We might even see some GW support on this. Spoke to him a little bit today on the subject and they seemed eager to hear of the club in general.

 

Lazarus.

That is excellent news.

Are you on the Yahoo group yet. That is where we are posting all our club news. I will go ahead and post the date. Every Wednesday, I am going to do a club "update" on the Yahoo group to keep people informed.

I tried for 10 minutes to get a user name but it seems every damn combination of lazarus is used already (lol)....I'm contemplating on what to do.

 

Lazarus.

Looks like you guys had a great time, and a really good gaming community out in FL. keep posting pics of the progress, its great to see it develop.

Lazarus;

I had the same problem at one point with Yahoo as well, that is why my name on there is different. It may have been that I already was a member of another group when I had the problem and just forgot my password. But I kept getting the message that the name was already in use.

Maybe some that is unique to you or your forces is the answer.

See you on Satuday.

Warrior 50

Looks and sounds like fun. Hmmm.... wonder if I have enough time to put in for vacation days that weekend....

Kinda odd that i just found this thread... but alas, my Pointy Sticks won't be hitting the table for the next megabattle, my Steel Dogs are working out nicely... something about 3 vanquisher cannons rings true to me....