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Nice work from page one! Looking forward to seeing some more Ice Angels

I could send you some superheavys, that might help clear the board
10k will be tight, more so given the number of foot sloggers you seem to fancy.

Thanks Gretar!

Whale, as much as I'd appreciate your super heavies I think I like the challenge of trying to beat a Stompa and a Barbed Heirodule without the use of my some titan or equivalent tank. And yes, I do have a weakness for infantry. However, if I ever started an Imperial Guard army I'd have nothing but tanks. I think it has something to do with the look of space marine vehicles. Planes however, are another story. I have one storm raven and a talon, and that is unacceptable. I'd love to have many more fliers in my future. Some of those Forgeworld fliers would be delicious in black and blue.

After further reading and discussion with my cohorts, we are going to try the 8 x 4 board this time and try to use the scenarios to our advantage. Plenty of reserves and deep strikes etc. At the rate I expect things to die, we should be able to move things right along. At least that's the thought. Believe me, there will be plenty of pictures and a giant battle report to back it all up so we can all learn together. YAY!

Eagerly wait to see this. take lots of pics!

So whose going to GenCon? I will of course be there. It is rather convenient having it in the town in which I live.

I'm running six starship bridges at Gencon. Come visit.

Ice, I have found that for the "big games" you want to have enough space for each players to deploy their forces. A good rule of thumb is to take the amount of points one side has, and divide by 1000, or one foot per 1000 points. Since you have 10,000 points per side, that's a table ten feet long by four feet wide. Give yourself some wriggle room, and make it twelve feet long.

You will also want side tables for people to put their armies on, to speed deployment and reserves. And beer.

--Brian, veteran of a dozen mega-battles, ones even pre-apocalypse.

*wants to go to Gencon but can't*

Ahhh stupid money! Its never there when you need it!
Another year, perhaps :/

While I wont be there, some of my models will!
Doing a bit of Brushfire and Endless right now for their demo booths.

Is there much 40K there?

At GenCon? Lords no, but there is a ForgeWorld booth, and a fantastic 4 days of gaming.

If you just enjoy 40k, then you're better off going to a con like AdeptiCon (as I know you do). If you enjoy all sorts of gaming, then GenCon is something you should visit.

GW and GenCon had a major falling out, awhile back. Only last year did you see a GW presence again.

Yep, usually the 40k games and tournaments at GenCon are store driven not company run. I even played one that was run by two random guys, no sponsors or anything. GenCon is a very huge event that covers a little bit of everything, but GW does not have a strong presence.

I go every year and spend 4 days demoing games. It's fantastic. My wife even gets a vendor pass through work and gets in a day early. Even with both of us spending all that time, it still isn't enough time to see everything.

Come visit me in Room 239, Ice!

I'll be at the On the Lamb Games booth next to Geek Chic

I will visit you both for sure.

Draft 1 - Apocalypse Game

My opponents have been giving me good ideas of points that they'll be bringing. Orks are 3601. Tyranid force 1 is 3280. All that's left is the second Tyranid force which will be the largest of the three. With that in mind, my teammate Moonpie and I decided to plan out around 5k each. Here is my first draft of what I'll be fielding for the Apocalypse game.

The Black Rage -
Astorath the Grim,
1 Chaplain
Brother Sattawatzu - Death Company Dread in a drop pod with a deathwind launcher (because I can)
Brother Mattawatzu - Death Company Dread in a drop pod
Death Company x6 + Lemartes - jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon
Death Company x6 - jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon
Death Company x6 - jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon

Characters
Captain Ruusa - Captain with a jump pack, power axe, and storm shield
Captain Razzik - Captain with powerfist and storm shield
Boarding Master Bel Quapoo - Captain with Thunder Hammer Storm shield
Tech Marine Philosir - servo harness, power axe
Librarian Vayu - jump pack
Master Librarian Duggon Frostclaw - jump pack epistolary
Sanguinary Priests - x4 - 3 jump packs, 3 power weapons, 1 plasma pistol

Strike Force White Out
Assault Squad x10 - powerfist, 2 flamers
Assault Squad x5 - power weapon, inferno pistol
Assault Squad x5 - powerfist, meltagun
Assault Squad x5 - thunder hammer, meltagun
Vanguard Squad (which consist entirely of guest marines from the swap thread) - all sorts of power weapons, fists, plasma, etc
Sanguinary Priest with a power weapon
Brother Frakkatazuli - Furiouso Dreadnought
Storm Raven with hurricane bolters - which will carry the priest, vanguard, furiouso and Captain Razzik
Whirlwind
Whirlwind
Vindicator
Vindicator
Baal Predator with inferno cannon and heavy flamers
Devastator Squad x10 - 4 lascannons, powerfist



This is 5075 points. All of it is painted and WYSIWYG. If I get extra points there will be more assault squads, possibly more death company, maybe even an assault squad in a crusader. My team mate will be fielding a space wolf army comprised entirely of infantry many of which will be wolf guard terminators.

Wow this thread is epic!
Just looked through the whole thing and everything is awesome!

I really love your Ice Angels and your tiger claws, the painting on them is perfect!
The diorama of the Mantis Warriors being visited by the Inquisitor is especially cool.

Looking forward to more!

Thanks HoeJarris, I'm glad you like it.

Despite my lack of posts I've been slowly working on a wide variety of projects. I didn't take pictures of all of them but I do have a couple pics to give you an idea of what I've been spending some of my hobby time on.



Both models have lots of crap still left to do, especially the Stompa. I really enjoy the models but good gracious that's a lot to paint. I haven't even started on the Stompa's lifta droppa arm. I'm not sure I'll have them completed by my Apocalypse deadline but they'll at least have enough on them to not look to horrible on the battlefield. Speaking of which, has any one seen a Khorne Lord of Battle converted into a Stompa yet? I haven't but I think its a fantastic idea.

Oh I almost forgot. I need a name for my Stompa. GO!

Stomph and the Amazing Technicolor coat of paint!

Looks amazing Ice!

"Technicolor Yawn"

Rainbo'Stompa FTW !!

Rainbow stompa supports equality?

Absolutely! Rainbow Stompa does not care what preference you have in partners or even what race or species you are. All Rainbow Stompa cares about is that you DIE! STOMP DA HUMIES!

Praise Huron.


Wait, wrong topic.

You should call him Skittlez. Duzn't matta if dez pink, blue or green, he'za stomp em all! Fear Da Rainbow!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Fear Da Rainbow!

You should write THAT somewhere on a hull plate

 IceAngel wrote:

Original and disturbing at the same time..

Priase Huron back at YA!

It is good to see some color in the Grimdark!

Thanks guys! This Wednesday is my apocalypse game. Be prepared for a report plus some. I have the next couple of days off to prepare for it so we should be able to see some work get done. I think I will have to paint Fear Da Rainbow some where on the Stompa too. Good idea Whale!

In other apocalypse related news my other opponent checked in over the weekend and let us know he will be bringing 4,463 points worth of nids. That brings us up to around 11500 points on the xenos side. I thought about tossing in some bastions for them to get some more points but I'm afraid board space may be an issue. To counter act that it looks like our scenario will be bringing in guys in waves so it may work out just fine. BUT more on that tomorrow.

So, Ice, whats left to do? Well, Ice, I'm glad you asked. I need to type up some army lists. Finalize our scenario. Set up the board. Get everyone over to for deployment before Wednesday that way when everyone arrives we can get started RIGHT AWAY! Time permitting I'm going to try and work on the Stompa. Oh, and make some snacks.

Random question everyone! What's your favorite snack to have while playing 40k?

 IceAngel wrote:
Thanks guys! This Wednesday is my apocalypse game. Be prepared for a report plus some. I have the next couple of days off to prepare for it so we should be able to see some work get done. I think I will have to paint Fear Da Rainbow some where on the Stompa too. Good idea Whale!

In other apocalypse related news my other opponent checked in over the weekend and let us know he will be bringing 4,463 points worth of nids. That brings us up to around 11500 points on the xenos side. I thought about tossing in some bastions for them to get some more points but I'm afraid board space may be an issue. To counter act that it looks like our scenario will be bringing in guys in waves so it may work out just fine. BUT more on that tomorrow.

So, Ice, whats left to do? Well, Ice, I'm glad you asked. I need to type up some army lists. Finalize our scenario. Set up the board. Get everyone over to for deployment before Wednesday that way when everyone arrives we can get started RIGHT AWAY! Time permitting I'm going to try and work on the Stompa. Oh, and make some snacks.

Random question everyone! What's your favorite snack to have while playing 40k?

Favorite Snack: Umies. But if no Umies, I enjoy pretzels because they dont get all over your hands like chips, also if you can soft pretzels.. and a beer.

No snack. Just some good coffee (Nespresso anyone ?) & sparkling water