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Played a game as IG against Tau, both semi competitive lists, and came out on top. It was my first game against Riptides, and there were two of them. Some big, big reasons for my success included getting the first turn and having fiery hot dice that turn. Wrecking a devilish with lascannon HWS, finishing off the passengers with a Wyvern, removing lots of Fire Warriors with a Hellhound and Eradicator. I had Pasknisher, and he was not killed on the first turn by Riptide + 3 marker lights, just down to 1 hull point. Bullgryns charged a Riptide, tying it up for 4 rounds of combat until they inflicted 2 unsaved wounds and made the Riptide fail morale, nearly killing it with sweeping advance in the 5th. I also made a couple clutch 6+ camo netting saves between my Wyvern and Pask, preventing both from being wrecked. On the last turn a Riptide could have gotten slay the warlord and linebreaker for a tie by charging Pask and consolidating into my deployment zone, but he failed a 5" charge. So though I never quite killed either riptide, getting both down to 2 wounds, it was a really interesting game.

I also scattered grenades onto my own units at least 3 times, even glancing a Taurox accidentally

Building vanguard stormcast. Starting with Lord Aquilor. Thought he was going to be a pain to assemble but so far, so good.

I'm done with the turquoise... and I love the results.

Watching BloodBowl game.
^_^

 War Kitten wrote:
Currently contemplating starting an Ork army

What sane person isn't?

Beginning to spray a massive Mordheim terrain project I've been keeping under wraps...finished assembling some additional walkways - time to buy paint.

Hauled myself over to the local GW to pick up the gryph riders I ordered midweek and to gawk at an ongoing painting competition.

As a rare and treasured prize turns out there was a sealed and unwanted copy of the Eldar Sketchbook hanging around, so bagged that as a real bonus prize!

Finishing off build work on a couple of projects. My favourite though's this Panther based LVT.

Just played in an ITC format tournament. Lost 2 games, and managed to barely squeak by in the third for a win, and that was only because we ran out of time (I would have lost for sure if there had been another turn). I think I'm going to give up on my Chaos stuff for the time being; not permanently though as I do intend to slowly build up some Daemons stuff and maybe make my Chaos collection great again. I just don't really have the tools to take on tougher opponents right now.

My takeaway:
Chaos Knights are awesome, especially the Khorne one. Too bad for all the ranged D shots Eldar can throw around (a Lynx killed my Knight in the first turn of the first game).
Be'lakor is just not worth his points. Guaranteed Invisibility is nice, but not for 350 points with only T5. He's too squishy to accomplish much on the ground despite his statline and weapon, and too expensive to hide in the air, especially against anyone with Skyfire or a ton of shooting (like Eldar).
Khorne Daemonkin, on the whole, are just not that good right now. They suffer from being an assault army in a game that is biased toward shooting. Maybe 8th edition will help them, maybe not.
The Cyclopia Cabal can be good, but it really depends heavily on rolling the right powers. They are kind of expensive for what they do, and they might not do a whole lot if they don't get good powers.

Won my first event ever...and with solo Fyreslayers using old/gakky points.
Assembled prize Rhino for my Death Guard

then...more Adepticon prep.

Played Battletech Alpha Strike for the first time.
Also played Columbia Games' Hammer of the Scots.
Finished building 6 gryph-hounds and my lord aquilor.

Left to be built are 3 palladors, 3 vanguard-raptors and 10 vanguard hunters.

The plan for today is to finish my bully boyz. They need some checkers, flames and dabs.

Lovely smooth yellow, jealous!

Almost finished a Sister Superior and half way through a Repentia Mistress.

Cheers,

CB

Hopefully finish up my Glottkin!

Finally got my 3D printer up and running, now I just need to do some scenery to print on it!

Another batch of arms from the Mantic Kings of War Orcs Army set, painted with the Army Painter Greenskins Paint Set!

Painting tutorials in the BGG KoW forum: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85204/kings-war/forums/0



Plus, gap filling and scraping mold lines from Fireside Game's "Here, Kitty, Kitty" game.

I'm experimenting with an airbrush... first serious attempt in nearly 20 years.

Plan for the rest of the evening. Watch the second half of this weeks Critical Role and work on painting up some more ninjas.



No idea how to approach painting Lady Shiva though.

First time putting brush to mini this year, started work on my UCM Broadsword and Mortar teams

Won our FLGS' Blizmania postseason Bloodbowl tournament. Beat Chaos Chosen to be placed as 4th seed in overtime (highlight: his Minotaur got KO'ed turn 2 and never woke up), upset the 1st seed Lizardmen team in overtime (highlight: Kroxigor failed Bone Head 5 times, and failed break tackle once as well), then more handily defeated 2nd seed Chaos Dwarves 2-0 in the final (highlights: 1st block of the game his Minotaur pushed my Morg n Thorg and lost support from guard, rolled skulls, and got casualty'ed, his S5 bull centaur also failed 2+ break tackle 4 or 5 times.)

My opponents swore that I generated some sort of null field because everybody was rolling 1s on 2+ rolls. I guess Nuffle just decided to pick me, or?

Working on the two Mark I Immolators for my Sisters.

Cheers,

CB

awesome yellow meganobz, there! I'm a fan and play those mega bad moonz myself

Planned out my 6mm Alexandrian army.

Basecoated the skin of about 5 or 6 termagants. Hopefully this evening I'll get a wash over all 11 I'm working on, tomorrow drybrush the skin, basecoat the other bits and maybe pick out the teeth, eyes and tongue. Tyranids are numerous but quite fast to paint if you have a simple scheme

Received my Heroclix stand in figs for Knights, basecoated Blob and I'm gonna paint him up tonight. Also had to do a head swap for Avalanche cuz the 'Clix one has no lower face; just a blob of skin color. Used a Mantic Enforcer pathfinder head with a green stuffed helmet.

Finished painting/basing my 1-week Mordheim terrain blitz.

I like it a lot, Elbows! Looks excellent for small skirmishes.

...Quite possibly something 10-yr-old me would want to run around on if it existed 1:1

Yep, it's essentially a Mordheim-flavored treehouse of doom.

Finished my first squad of Grey Hunters.. Now im painting SW wolves !