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Then you get squats, the space dwarfs, and games workshop had to destroy them for fear of too much epicness.

greedy buggers...the lot of´em^^

^^

well I think I'll call it a night here, talk to you tomorrow, including (if I get round to it) a text-based battle report!

*raises eyebrow* indeed...i will be waiting^^

Okay, so the game was 2000 points, and here we (IIRC) the lists:

my raven guard:
shrike
terminator librarian with storm shield
kitted out vanguard veteran squad of 5 (3 sets of LC, 2 TH/SS)
TH/SS terminator squad of 5
land raider redeemer
tactical squad of 10 (bolters, meltagun, power fist)
drop pod (deathwind missile launcher)
tactical squad of 5 (bolters, power sword)
sternguard squad of 5 (bolters)
scout squad of 9 (close combat weapons)
devastator squad of 5 (plasma cannons)

enemy's chaos marines:
abaddon the despoiler
chaos lord (power fist, plasma pistol)
5 terminators
5 marines (plasma gun, plasma pistol)
5 marines (plasma gun)
5 marines (power fist)
6 possessed marines
20 bezerkers
3 bikers
predator (lascannons)

Deployment- I deploy my devastators in a central position on a hill, with my sternguard and 5 marines going down the left flank and land raider/terminators/librarian down the middle. Shrike/vanguards and drop pod/tactical squad are in reserve, with my scouts infiltrating into a piece of woodland terrain near his chaos lord/predator/5 marines down the right flank. His possessed and 5 marines are in the middle, towards the left flank, with bikers and beserkers/abaddon in the middle. His terminators are in reserve.
Turn 1- He wins priority, and moves forward towards my scouts with the lord/5 marine unit and beserker/abaddon and biker units moving towards the scout squad which has killed so much in previous games (obviously now a high-priority target). Possessed run towards my sternguard, along with 10 marines. His shooting is largely innaffectual, with 2 scouts being gunned down in total.
My terminators/librarian disembark and run towards the beserker/abaddon unit, the land raider gunning down 6 of them. My scouts move (and fleet with shrike's army-wide rule) into combat with the 5 marines and lord, killing 3 and losing 2 in the process. The sternguard/tactical squad move diagonally away from the approaching enemies. Plasma fire takes out 4 possessed, with the rest suriving thanks to cover provided by the nearby trees. The terminators lose 3 models in combat thanks to bad rolls on my part and abbaddon's beasting in combat. 10 beserkers are killed in the process.
The possessed fail morale after half of them being wiped out, but rally quickly after that.
current casualties- 3 scouts and 3 terminators for me, 4 possessed, 3 marines and 16 beserkers for him.

Turn 2- He moves his entire left flank, and near-surrounds my sternguard and 5 marines, with help from the freshly-arrived enemy terminators. His bikers join the fray between the terminators/librarian and abaddon/beserkers, tipping the balance in thier favour. The right flank maintains the locked combat, while the predator shoots and kills 2 devastators, who went to ground to prevent further losses. In combat, the scouts take out the other 2 marines, but lose 5 scouts due to fantastically bad rolls on my part. It's now a fight to the death between my scout sergeant "Caddius" and the enemy chaos lord. Down to the bikers, I take out the remaining beserkers, but the terminators/librarian unit is wiped out. The beserkers/abaddon and bikers consolidate towards the lonesome scout in an epic duel on the right flank. The possessed assault the sternguard, manage to bring down a veteran but die in the process, who consolidate into the middle of the three squads facing them.
In a heroic counter-attack at the loss of my main unit, shrike and his vanguard descend to aid the surrounded, outnumbered and outgunned sternguard and marine squads, while over on the right flank, my drop pod arrives, smashing onto a small hill and disgorging 10 marines, who gun down abaddon while the redeemer avenges the death of it's cargo by gunning down the bikers. I opt to move my sternguard and tactical squad away from the middle, instead moving behind the enemy squads, gunning down one.
Current casualties- 8 scouts, 1 marine, 5 terminators, 1 librarian and 2 devastators for me, 20 beserkers, abaddon, 3 bikers, 6 possessed, 10 marines for him.

Turn 3- he assaults my vanguard/shrike with the terminators, losing one man to fire and another in combat. Shrike then kills two before they can attack, while the vanguard take out another two. The last terminator then tried to run, but was mercilessly cut down. The tactical squad move towards the ongoing duel between Caddius and Lord, but are out of assault range. The last chaos squad on the left flank is cut down by the 5 man tactical squad, who lose another man in return. The Chaos Lord then smashed the scout sergeant away with a gauntleted hand, breaking the sergeant's ribs, driving one to puncture his lungs, but not before, with his last ounce of strength propped himself up with his left arm, raised his right, clenching a bolt pistol, and fired a round through the heretic's skull. The only surviving enemy unit was the predator, which was then destroyed by devastator fire.

End casualties- 8 scouts, 2 marines, 5 terminators, librarian, 2 devastators, 2 vanguard veterans for me, 20 beserkers, 3 bikers, 6 possessed, 15 marines, 1 predator, chaos lord. Victory points- 8 for 2.

Later, when the raven guard stalked the smoking battlfield, marking those dead and finishing off mortally wounded enemies, they found no evidence of the despoiler's body, and, lying by the corpse of a fallen lord, a severely crippled scout, unconscious from blood loss. His tags read "Caddius".

i think what would have helped me in the beginning would be some schematic/tactical drawings...like you get with a tactical planning for a soccer game...you know the ones with big arrows and such things^^

but i like how you hinted the drama inbetween the statistics... and the last paragraph was specially nice too...sort of drama that opens up a possible sequel^^

Well vik, next game I play at home I'll take pics of and add arrows and such to it ^^
and yes, I think I'll do the (very) short story finisher thing on the end of my battle reports, especially on the games I have against chaos/my regular gaming partner in particlar. ATM my life's all coursework, coursework, coursework, but I think in a month or so (between revising) I might manage a few games ^^

well....




and looking forward to some strategic pics^^

Heh ^^
Now, back to geography coursework.. fun...

Just thought I'd dump all my photos, kind of as a summary (assume any crappy paintjobs are WIP ):

https://picasaweb.google.com/114447485267376140969/20110129?authkey=Gv1sRgCKDB5YiqhPF1#


















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finally you uploaded them all to dakka... about bloody time mate!!! not kidding here^^...because lets face it ... i already tried to look thorugh them and had to look back ages of banter to see your picasa account not really something i want to do too often^^

Nice pic Shrike, buy you need some paint man!

Aye, haven't really been too into 40k of late because of exams etc., but they'll all be over by the end of July and I'll have 8 weeks of hobby-time free
Hopefully I might get some other stuff done to appease you before then ^^

well... 8 weeks...that could be time enough to start maing some true wonders...^^

Why is this an article, shouldn't it be a P&M blog instead?

It kind of started as an all-in-one thing with my army background and then some accompanying pictures, which then turned it to a kind-of blog about my army with a short story going, then I decided to split off the story into it's own article and never really moved the blog part... plus I don't think it really classes as a blog with a grand total of two updates

Sure it is

Thread resurrection time!

So there haven't been any posts on here for quite some time, mostly because I really haven't done much.
well, that's changed after I found an old unassembled chaplain biker I never got round to doing anything with.
I've started building a kind of space marine trike, with the regular bike but a tracked section as a back half. Now, I was wondering what could go in the tracked section. I'm not going for rules or fluff, but mostly just which would be more awesome, and my favourite two ideas are:

the chaplain in a kind of throne, or
the chaplain operating a turret (maybe a heavy bolter)

I'm leaning towards the throne idea because I think it'd look cooler, but how to model the throne and his legs will be... interesting...

Yes! A sidecar turret would rock!

It's more of a:
http://thekneeslider.com/images/kettenkradforsale2.jpg
obviously more space marine-y (bigger, armoured, chunkier) and the bike part stops just before the back wheel, not just after the front, but that's generally what it's like.
a space marine bike with a sidecar would be the attack bike:


after a few minutes of messing around with turret setups and different guns, I can't make it happen without taking it all apart again, so I've just given the chaplain a plasma pistol and put the bolters on the bike's handlebars and made the chaplain stand up.

Why would they need padded seats?

in the grim, dark future of the 41st millenium, space marines arses need padding during their ongoing struggle against the foes of humanity?

I dunno, it's warhammer logic

anyway, I've made my chaplain be stood on the back, which saves me the bother of making a throne and cutting up his legs and also makes me able to use him as a foot slogging chaplain- I'll stick some pics up once it's sprayed, dry and whenever I can get the camera ^^

finally something going on here.... hopefully you will spoil us with some nice pics of said trikechaplain^^

hopefully ^^

so I finished the job today and primered it, gonna paint it tomorrow and, if it's still daylight, take some pics... hopefully

har har har

but i am looking forward to these... like the promised ones before

Do I owe you other pics? I'll take 'em when I take some of the chaplain

I've got him up to TT standards, but the trike... it lacks detail, looks a bit flat, but I don't know how to make it more colourful (the raven guard bike paint scheme is basically just entirely black apart from the actual marine, who is only mostly black.)

i would add red whenever possible... the trimmings on the fenders and such things... and if all else fails then go gold...and maybe a banner at the back could help make it look less boring?

I always go red with black if I can ^^

though I'm not sure where I could add it- the marine can't be because only the third company wear red shoulder pads, the bike itself doesn't really have many bits to paint differently and the rear section of the trike is in a similar situation... hmm...

same with gold- only the 2nd company wear gold
I might see about cutting the banner off my biker captain and sticking it on there... (which also has hints of red)

hmmm... are you really that strikt with colors from a fluffy kind of perspective? i wouldn´t mind some colors that arent meant for that company...

I tend to be fairly strict in fluff, aye ^^