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Take lots of pics or have someone assigned to do it .. that way you can focus on the game and snacks.

cormadepanda - pretzels? Fair enough. Beer? Can you be a bit more specific? Are you talking like a crisp cool PBR? lol

Yggdrasil - Sparkling water eh? Is that sparkling water with something or straight up? Whenever the sparkling water shows up at my house it doesn't arrive alone. I try to keep my alcohol away from my 40k. To many breakables.

Solar - I'll be taking the pictures from time to time. The goal is to take the pics on my opponents turn. Lots of pictures will be had though. Don't you worry about that!

 IceAngel wrote:
Yggdrasil - Sparkling water eh? Is that sparkling water with something or straight up? Whenever the sparkling water shows up at my house it doesn't arrive alone. I try to keep my alcohol away from my 40k. To many breakables.

Nah, straight up........... The point of "breakables density" stands at my place too

Okay, my apocalypse thread has been started. Some of the pregame occurred today. Please go and check it out.

Apocalypse Game

Checked

As I. I didn't see any super heavy's in your army. Intresting for a Apoc game!

Despite having 20,000 points of Ice Angels to choose from. I don't have a single apocalypse vehicle or super heavy for my army. For me personally, i think its better that way. My friends that play orks and tyranids don't play as much as Moonpie and I so it's almost like having a built in handicap. Trying to fight a Stompa without a super heavy of my own is its own challenge and I'm looking forward to it.

Speaking of which, here is my official army list.

Apocalypse Ice Angel Army List - 5695

1560 - Black Rage
220 Astorath the Grim
100 Chaplain – Hangs out with Fire Team Ice Castle
180 Death Company Dreadnought – Drop pod w/ deathwind
160 Death Company Dreadnought – Drop pod
400 Death Company x6, jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon + Lemartes (7 total)
250 Death Company x6, jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon
250 Death Company x6, jump packs, 1 powerfist, 1 power weapon

795 Vehicle Support
90 Whirlwind
90 Whirlwind
150 Vindicator w/dozer blade
145 Vindicator
140 Baal Predator lots of flamers
180 Predator Annihilator – all lascannons

945 Insertion Team
145 Captain Razzik – powerfist, storm shield
230 Storm Raven with hurricane bolters
125 Furiouso Dreadnought
380 Vanguard Squad – Inushi, Aquilum, Tek’ar, Nefas, Reven, Inigo, Jaska, Evrard, Xerin, Desai
65 Sanguinary Priest Saddicus – power weapon

1295 Assault Team
175 Epistolary Master Duggan, jump pack
125 Librarian, jump pack
270 Sanguinary Priest x 3, jump packs, power weapon x2, plasma pistol
245 Assault Squad x10 – thunder hammer, meltagun, inferno pistol
250 Assault Squad x10 – powerfist, inferno pistol, meltagun x2
230 Assault Squad x10 – 2 lightning claws, 2 flamers

1100 Fire Team Ice Castle
90 Techmarine Philosir, servo harness, power weapon
65 Sanguinary Priest, power weapon
150 Captain Bel Quapoo, thunder hammer, storm shield
167 Devastators x7 3 heavy bolters, 1 plasma cannon
182 Devastators x7 4 plasma cannons
206 Devastators x6 4 lascannons
240 Devastators x10 1 missile, 1 plasma, 2 multi-meltas, powerfist





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Oh I almost forgot. Does someone have the rules for grot tanks? I was supposed to get the rules before the game but they won't be arriving until afterwards. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance.

Gitsplitta might have the rules.

I can dig them up for you, shoot me a pm this eve to remind me.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Gitsplitta might have the rules.

He does have the rules but he is traveling at the moment and won't be back before my game. BTW Alfndrate, I'll see you in TWO DAYS! Get excited.

Whale, I'll send you a PM tonight.

 IceAngel wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Gitsplitta might have the rules.

He does have the rules but he is traveling at the moment and won't be back before my game. BTW Alfndrate, I'll see you in TWO DAYS! Get excited.

Whale, I'll send you a PM tonight.

It sounds like we're going on a date Also I'll be in Indy tomorrow

I might still have them as well.. I sent them to Git originally.

DONE!

At least the fear da rainbo part.

Looking great !!!

(Nice humorous touch, as befits the Orks )

Very nice touch and good painting.

Thanks guys. The stompa still has a long way to go but the little things like that really help give that massive model some character.

Btw my apocalypse game has come to an end. It was a nasty nasty fight with insane amounts of casualties and death. In the end the Imperials won on victory points BUT we only got through four turns. Had we had time to play two more I fear it would have quickly gone south. Our only saving grace was that we held objectives for most of the game giving us a big point lead. The points ended up 29 us, 17 them.

More pics will show up on the battle report page sometime in the near future.

Still waiting for the battle report ....

Wait no longer sir. The report is up. Once I get a response I'll work on a nice recap for you.

BTW, GenCon has been great. I've played dozens of demos and picked up some nice games. Got in a few rounds of magic, bought lots of gifts for family and friends, got an artist to paint myself, my wife, and my son as planeswalkers. I met Wil Wheaton. I purchased more dice, because you can never have enough. OH, i purchased a massive project. I mean, I found a great deal. I got the Imperial Sector box for next to nothing. SCORE!

There were some great warhammer events this year. Including a massive apocalypse game. I didn't play in it but I checked it out. Forgeworld was there selling their wares. Lets see what else................

I think that sums most of it up. Tomorrow is the last day so I'll be running around getting the left over deals. Time to pick up the newest dominion expansion and possibly the newest pathfinder book. We shall see!

Imperial Sector?

Lucky you !! That box was sooooo cheap when it came out !!!

Will you show us the "planeswalker portrait" when it's done ?

How about a link to the bat rep?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
How about a link to the bat rep?

Here !

Today I got to play with an air brush for a bit. One of my friends just bought one and it was a lot of fun. There may be an airbrush in my future at some point down the road. I wish I had taken some more pictures of some of our experiments. Everything is still at his house as well so I can't exactly take one right now either. One piece that I did bring back was a terrain bit I had started awhile back.


Today we messed around with the broken stone aquila. I really like the way its turning out. Now I just need to paint everything else on this piece. In the meantime we started working on my ork bastion that I made months and months ago. I left that for my buddy to mess with. Who knows what that'll look like when its done.

Yggs, earlier you had requested a picture of my family planeswalker portrait.


The image turned out WAY more yellow then it really is in real life, but the picture itself turned out great. What do you think?

, that portrait is awesome !!! I'm not sure my GF would like it for us, for that's really great !!

As for the piece of terrain... Hopefully you mentioned the base was a Aquila, I'm not sure I would have noticed...

Aaaaannnnd about airbrushes.... You must know how I feel : one of my best purchases ever since I plunged into the Hobby, more than 15 years ago !

I'm glad you like it Yggs. It's actually the third piece we've commissioned from that artist. The first one we did he drew myself and some friends of mine as zombies. The second one was a large group of us so he made half of us as good creatures fighting the other half, which were of course evil creatures. I just noticed I'm terribly evil looking in all three of these pieces.

As for the airbrush, I plan on using my friends a bit more before I make any decision. I'll keep you all posted of course.

I should have turned the terrain piece around before taking the picture. The aquila is covered up from that angle. More pics will come once I get more of it completed.

He did a good job of getting your likeness down.

I like the terrain. I like busy terrain even if it makes difficult placement of figures. After all this is a 3D game!

I have made minimal progress on my terrain. I have spent more time sifting through the bits box. I need to make a marine for Ramos.

Brother Ruqum is the marine on the left. That was what I sent to Ramos last time. Wow that was a long time ago. That was before I had standardized my army. Brother Ruqum isn't even painted the proper Ice Angel assault marine format. Tsk tsk.

The question is now, what should I send Ramos. I am unfortunately out of jump packs. Perhaps an all white death company marine like Brother Utaan.

But without the jump pack of course.

Or perhaps a veteran, like one of Uttuakki

or more like an Ashur-bani


Currently Ramos is sending me an updated Brother Jaska of the marines Chrysemys. He wields a powerfist and a plasma cannon.

Ridiculous?
Yes.
Awesome?
Indeed!

Give me some suggestions!

Please.

Hahaha A very long time ago indeed! I'm sure we'll both find our painting skills have greatly changed through the many years.

As to suggestions, I'm afraid I cant make any. I am perfectly content letting your mind run wild with your marine.
I do quite like the colors of Uttuakki, though.... Just sayin

What about a chaplain in white?