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Yeah I knew it's Mr. Malevolent's awesome job !

I meant "your" as in "Da Konvertaz' " Squig hound !

Ah... the "royal" you... should have sorted that out. The quotes threw me.

I'm happy to begin my favorite month of the year by announcing that our Adepticon team has been determined.

For the rebels:
Mantis Warriors (me)
Lamenters (Solar_lion)

For the loyalists:
chapter TBD (Briancj)
Carcharadons (Mr.Malevolent)

We are all gleefully discussing chapters and strategies and lists like a giggling bunch of school girls... but as the say; "The game is afoot!"

Hope to make progress on the GMS builds this weekend. I do have a 2500 point battle with Eiluj The Farseer and his eldar on Sunday afternoon. I must admit that at 2500 points my army consists of a really good 2000 pts and then a bunch of extra stuff to get me up to 500. But I haven't played eldar (seriously) in 5th edition, so it should be an interesting battle. (anyone have any tips?) I had a tough time getting to 2500 as I'd pretty much filled up my FOC except for the heavy slots... but then realized I'd only painted up one heavy unit (my little dev squad). Anyway, I sorted it out. Guess a should add a predator or something to my "to do" list.

Plan on documenting the battle and getting a battle report out soon thereafter. Will put up pics of the builds as they go.

Gits

Meltas are gonna have a hard time popping eldar vehicles from the fronts and sides...

I am so excited to begin my Carcharadons! Cannot wait to meet you guys and bash some heads in

OK, fixed the spelling of your chapter. (I still prefer "Space Sharks"... if we can have "Space Wolves", we can have "Space Sharks")

Tell me the apothecary has a las-gun mounted on his head

i demand new models. Paint me new models gitsplitta. Less type, more paint.

-skrall

OK, took some time this evening to work up one of the GMS marines I owe... this one is for Gathering Storm... his sternguard. I still have to get the chainsaw bits on him and the DE blade... but he's close!




Udate: OK, blades are on, build is done. About half way or so through the build on GS's other figure. Perhaps tomorrow I'll have a pic.

I still love the old beakies. Looks great so far!

"Look guys I found the carnixex" . Or, in more polite terms: I feel he's looking up a bit too high, is it possible to have him look at the auspex? or is he in the progress of being shot?

*sigh* I need some beaky goodness in my army...

Looks great Gits, but I second Khaine's idea that he should be looking down at the aupex a bit more.

Yeah, I can tilt the head down a bit more... no problem.



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OK, the head is fixed... when I say "fixed" what I really mean is in an attempt to get the head off, I ripped off one arm, ripped the other in half, and tore the body completely in two.

Head stayed put.

So, I did some major re-building and the GS is now curing. Looks better now. I'm considering placing the gun arm in a down/rest position rather than the up/rest position... we'll see when all the GS is dry and hard and I can do some fiddling. I think it's one of my best gun conversions so far. Never did one with the original combat blade on and I really like it. Going to have to do some of those for myself.

Also made more headway on the Vanguard (the other marine for GS). Got the swords built, still have some work to do on the joints though.

i like it git! though his bolter/rifle looks extreme on such an old model.... no bad thing though.

-skrall

AWESOME! Is all I can say!

I'm posting the battle report here rather than in a separate thread for reasons which will become all too soon apparent.

Well, had a chance to play a 2500 point game vs. Eiluj the Farseer Craft World Eldar today. Nice army, nicely painted. Gawd what a lot of tanks! Anyway, I was looking forward to the battle as I haven't really played eldar in 5th yet and I wanted to see how my army would fare. 2500 pts is a bit... unusual for me as I typically don't like to play that big a game (just too much to keep track of) and my army really optimizes out around 1850-2000... so the last 500 points were just what I had painted rather than some vital component of the force. Basically it's the force you guys are used to seeing with an extra dread, some scouts and a bit of wargear thrown in for good measure.

(Pic's are from my son's camera which isn't quite as nice as mine.)

My army:



Eiluj's army:


Told you he had lots of tanks... and a seer council, and Kharandras, lots of fire dragons, etc.

We roll up the mission where we each have one objective to control with a spearhead deployment. Eiluj wins the roll to go first.

Deployment:


Eiluj goes first, picks the best quarter leaving me with very little cover. He makes a parking lot over by his objective while I cower behind the one decent piece of sight blocking terrain in mine. I am trying to stay as far away from his considerable fire power as I can. We both outflank what we can. (blue arrows indicate objectives)

Turn 1


The seer council dashes forward to seek shelter in a ruin from which to cause mayhem while the prism cannons take out 1 devastator. In my half of the turn, I sell the farm to try and take out the Seer Council. Pods land flawlessly and my entire army unloads on the council. Libby tries to cast Null Zone but the 3 dice he had to throw to test fail him and he takes a wound. I roll out my shorts and hit and wound with nearly everything but Njal makes *every* saving throw... that is until the Tranquility Veterans took their turn. Between the Iron Clad and the sternguard the seer council is taken down to one warlock! Not perfect, but close enough for government work.

Here's a close-up of the boys, basking in the glory of a good day's shooting.



Turn 2


Eiluj rolls for his reserves and kharandras and a tank full of striking scorpions comes in behind my lines! The wave serpents move in for the kill. Shooting from Kharandras' ride wrecks one dread guarding my objective while withering fire from the rest of the Eldar kills 3 sternguard. Surviving warlock blows an arm off the Iron Clad and immobilizes it in assault. But... I survive in pretty good shape.

And then the store unexpectedly closes... *sigh* (we both messed up & assumed the store would stay open later) So, at the end of turn 1, he had control of his objective and I did not have any scoring units on mine (who'd a thunk it??). Victory Eilujl!!

It was fun. Going to be a long, tough battle but I had hopes of putting up a good fight. Planned on charging the sternguard into combat with the last warlock & unloading everything else on Kharandras and his boys.

Next time Eiluj.... next time.





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Also, re-posting this from the "Dakka Monthly" thread. This is an awesome idea for a monthly Dakka e-zine (or whatever you call them) that I've already voluneered to write some short articles for. If you have talent... and I know you do.... please consider helping TheMumm and his gang get it going!

TheMumm wrote:Good Evening, Gentlemen.


I'm going to make the official CALL FOR CONTENT right now.



Creative Fiction

content
5000 word limit per entry, if you're writing it for us. At first I was questioning what other limitations to set on this; and I think I've made a good decision: any science fiction or fantasy, or otherwise fantastical-setting stories will be accepted. Obviously, though, we do expect to have quite a few themed fiction entries. All good writing is welcome.

Good grammar and proper spelling is a huge must here. I doubt we really want to sift through stories that are unreadable through poor sentence structure and improper capitalization.

content editor
I'm also looking for someone to offer their services to actively peruse the fiction forum and find some gems. When you do, get in touch with the author of the fiction and ask them if they would allow their work in our hands. After that's together, throw them into .docs.

Artwork
PM Me links to your stuff as well as a statement of permission to use it in the Dakka Digest. Mind you, I might not use it, but I'll hold onto them all in case I wish to do so in the future. I'll post some Categories of what I'm looking for:
-Warhammer Universe
-Warhammer 40k Universe
-Warmahordes Universe

Other cool art is appreciated as well, of course! The higher the resolution the better. Ideally, 300 dpi. I will NOT stretch images beyond their original size (I refuse piexellation).

That said, more than anything, we need a cover image. And Ork would be best, but I'll accept any other pieces. Precedence will be given to images that are close to whatever size I end up making this thing.


For other editiorial Positions, I need to know who's going to handle Painting and Modelling, Battle Reports (WFB, W40k, WM/H). PM me and let me know.

Tomorrow after I go through my PMS I'm going to draft up project times lines, goals and the first progress report, and distribute them to the staff and here.

It was a fun but short game Gitsplitts. I was hoping to have a chance to avenge my farseer, but next time. Thanks for the game though.
p.s. I was not fielding Eldrad (that's the awesome Farseer - could not pick him up - went with the Phoenix Lord instead. Take care and cheers.

Aw man cut short :/
I liked what I was reading though.

Lol... I hadn't registered you were in a FLGS, so I was trying to imagine what could happen to the game... Kids bashing in / hurting themselves, Significant Other needing help, Mom on the phone for the "monthly-not-often-enough" call, etc...

Too bad you couldn't go further... It would have been an interesting fight.

Yeah, much as I was *very* uncertain about how I was going to approach the battle, it was shaping up to be interesting. A lot would have ridden on how much damage I did to the Kharandras/scorpion complex in my rear in my half of turn 2 with shooting as I really didn't have much in the way of assault capability back there. To be honest, I didn't really have a victory strategy going in... more of a survival strategy. Deal with the threats as they arrive and hope to hit his objective late with some outflanking units *if* they came in on the right side of the board. Not a great plan, but what the heck... gotta start somewhere.

Finished the re-build of the sternguard. Will clean up the GS on his wrist a bit before I start painting.

My problem with the chainblade, Gits, is that it looks like the 'teeth' of the saw move through the barrel of the weapon. It just looks kind of out of place. Sorry to be a downer. :|

--Brian

Technicalities... we are the Imperium!! We don't let facts or physics get in the way of a good blood letting!

Yeah, the Last Square (Gits's FLGS) closes down early at 5pm on Sunday .

Misty Mountain stays open later till 6pm on Sundays but opens later in the day (noon). On Saturdays, Misty stays open pretty late, 8pm, and Tuesdays through Fridays, they are open till 10pm!

BTW, Eiluj has a very nicely painted Eldar army.

Gitsplitta wrote:Technicalities... we are the Imperium!! We don't let facts or physics get in the way of a good blood letting!

Blood for the Blood God!

...

Wait...

Too bad about the battle, it was shaping up to be very interesting. As for the sternguard: a lot better, love the old beakie!

wyomingfox wrote:Yeah, the Last Square (Gits's FLGS) closes down early at 5pm on Sunday .

Misty Mountain stays open later till 6pm on Sundays but opens later in the day (noon). On Saturdays, Misty stays open pretty late, 8pm, and Tuesdays through Fridays, they are open till 10pm!...

There are Misty Mountains in Wisconsin too?

Yep, there is one in Madtown (Madison). I am guessing you live or use to live up in the Twin Cities?

wyomingfox wrote:Yep, there is one in Madtown (Madison). I am guessing you live or use to live up in the Twin Cities?

Up until the first of September I was living in the twin cities. The Burnsville Misty Mountain was my go to place for alot of stuff.

Briancj wrote:My problem with the chainblade, Gits, is that it looks like the 'teeth' of the saw move through the barrel of the weapon. It just looks kind of out of place. Sorry to be a downer. :|

AHA! That was what was bothering me as well.
I couldnt place it at first.
Still besides that he is looking sweet Gits!