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And the promised Army shot.

Previous page is more photos that are important.

I think a list very similar to that one kicked my ass tonight...

That is a lovely shade of bone there sir

Galorn wrote:I think a list very similar to that one kicked my ass tonight...

I posted it on my tip thread, Wonder if he saw it.. If you need help on its weakness I can fill you in.

inmygravenimage wrote:That is a lovely shade of bone there sir

Danke! Hope you saw photos previous page

Oh I certainly did

The booth works well. Nice work. Bone is looking good and the army will be very nice once everything is painted.

I don have much to contribute as I don't play either , but the bone is great, and it looks like an impressive war host assembled on the table. I always wanted to do eldar, but they just aren't insane enough for me. The harlequin aren't insane before anyone starts that debate, they are just artsy fartsy.

these pics proove what i was suspecting...

you have an amazing work done there!...

i need to get me some extra lamps and make my own...

That's some nice work panda.

inmygravenimage wrote:Oh I certainly did

Dr H wrote:The booth works well. Nice work. Bone is looking good and the army will be very nice once everything is painted.

Oh yes.. painting everything.. i do that...

Theophony wrote:I don have much to contribute as I don't play either , but the bone is great, and it looks like an impressive war host assembled on the table. I always wanted to do eldar, but they just aren't insane enough for me. The harlequin aren't insane before anyone starts that debate, they are just artsy fartsy.

Eldar.. they crazy when their socks are older than your entire race.

Viktor von Domm wrote:these pics proove what i was suspecting...

you have an amazing work done there!...

i need to get me some extra lamps and make my own...

or just buy the thingy off ebay for an almost same cost?
drat my work is good. I thought it was all photo booth.

40kFSU wrote:That's some nice work panda.

Danke!


BATTLE TIME

Alright so here is the match up line ups.
Game 1 Dead Dar VS Black Templar = BURN THE WITCH. Ya right I smacked that butt. its mostly old codex. The game was great, many laughs.. killed one character "Grimmie" 16 times.. he just kept reviving. We laughed as I killed him 6 times in one turn.
Some pictures


Game 2 Dead Dar VS Tau = HOLY BATMAN DID THIS GUN LINE TURN TO CHEESE.
If you look in the photos you can see my foe deployed rather reserved as my army is very punchy and tau is very shooty. If you are unaware Tau fight with the equal of pillows in combat and I wield your flavor of fisty cuff death. So naturally he deployed behind his wall he brought and the big guns. It was a sound plan, but my bullets were mighty and true. He lost more than half his army in one turn of my shooting on the first turn! it was rather amazing. Pictures of deployment.


So the first two games went great. I am aiming for first or second going into the third round. Sadly this is what we call a bad match up. The Dark Elder ignores my strongest power of my army. Thier toughness. So in a giant bloody slug fest I nearly lose my whole army, I kill 80% of his. I lost with 4 objectives held to 1 objective. All in all it was a great game, and also my first against Dark Eldar as in my 5 years of playing I have never played them. Ha! go figure. Andrew and I are going to get a rematch in, and we know the results will be different.


So with my huge defeat in the last round I slide from taking first or second to 4th place! Oh no! and not by much.. pesky paint scores prevented me from taking third place! It was about a 2~ battle point difference.. Ah well! However....




I still qualified.

Thanks to the kindness of a player simply named John, who is a fantastic player! He solves rule problems well in my opinion, and does such with ease. His nids are often a great challenge in mind, sadly we never meet on the tournament field. John gave up his position and as the next runner up I got it. I am still going to go to the other qualifiers and get some dang painting done! I placed 4th out of 20~ players pretty happy about that.

Other photos of the tourny with some carnage.



Thanks mate! enjoy the read.

Congratulations.

Looking good. Looks like you have a very formidable force there. So you get penalties for unpainted models?

Thank you for the report, I enjoyed it. Noticed we did not see much of your nemesis (the dark elder) in the pics.

Got to say in the first 2 matches your army looks very impressive compared to your opponents. I mean that your models look intimidating compared. Poor Tau player cowering behind the rocks. "Don't move maybe they will go away!!!!"

4th out of 20 is great. Is that your first tourney with this army? If so that's really great and bodes well for the future.

Do you have more matches today?

That's going to be an impressive looking army, mate!

Good job Panda. Congratulations on doing well. That's a mean looking army of your's there. Nice report, interesting.

Good rep, sounds like there was a good attitude along there and your army is nails.

Camkierhi wrote:Congratulations.

Looking good. Looks like you have a very formidable force there. So you get penalties for unpainted models?

Thank you for the report, I enjoyed it. Noticed we did not see much of your nemesis (the dark elder) in the pics.

Got to say in the first 2 matches your army looks very impressive compared to your opponents. I mean that your models look intimidating compared. Poor Tau player cowering behind the rocks. "Don't move maybe they will go away!!!!"

4th out of 20 is great. Is that your first tourney with this army? If so that's really great and bodes well for the future.

Do you have more matches today?

Its not so much penalties as you dont get as many points. You get points for basing, and painting skill and a display up to 8.7 battle points. I got 3.3 battle points for painting the player who took 3rd got 7.5 painting battle points. He painted alright, but had his entire army done! a real underhanded situation. Those paint points gave him 3rd.

This was my first GT tourny with this army. I took first at another tourny, but the list was very different. Yeah, this army is tough and good. About those pictures! It was really late like 8:30 pm and I was to busy thinking of how to not die! Andrew and I will play again and see what happens (will do a full rep)

Danke on the force.

Casey's Law wrote:That's going to be an impressive looking army, mate!

Yes... I just have to do the impressive thing of painting!

Dr H wrote:Good job Panda. Congratulations on doing well. That's a mean looking army of your's there. Nice report, interesting.

Its not quite a report. If you look at bat reps on dakka mine was just the deployment, and a small recap. Simple for those who don't play. Also just to give scope into the game. In the future I will do reports more in depth.

inmygravenimage wrote:Good rep, sounds like there was a good attitude along there and your army is nails.

Its nails for many other armies, but Tyranids and Dark Eldar will give me a hard time.

Even just the deployment can say a lot about an army, like those fire warriors hiding behind a hill (the cowards ).

Look forward to some more in-depth details about how your army works.

now these battle reports even i could enjoy^^...

but what i have to say... you had some awesome tables to play on... that lava board and that red rock something... brilliant looking...on such tables it is no wonder you coud enjoy playing... and then with a good oponent... winning whike your loosing... tho... you won a fair amount even... so winning while your winning

Dr H wrote:Even just the deployment can say a lot about an army, like those fire warriors hiding behind a hill (the cowards ).

Look forward to some more in-depth details about how your army works.

I will happily fill you in there. A simple over view is my army is "tough" the largest models the knights are immune to many weapons such as the bolter. My foe usually has to roll a '6' to inflict damage on me, and I can usually ignore it easily.

I am slow, so I use the Eldar transport to make my army fast, my range is short, again I use the transport to get in the range I need. My weapons are the some of the most lethal in the game, but I am a low body count.

I use my HQ to buff a unit or two to make them even harder to kill and move on with life.

Viktor von Domm wrote:now these battle reports even i could enjoy^^...

but what i have to say... you had some awesome tables to play on... that lava board and that red rock something... brilliant looking...on such tables it is no wonder you coud enjoy playing... and then with a good oponent... winning while your loosing... tho... you won a fair amount even... so winning while your winning

I can live with a loss. Especially when I never faced that army before. It was a good old fashioned 'surprise' and about two mistakes were made no big deal. Just sad did so bad I fell to 4th place from first or second.

Now I just need to paint!

Now I just need to paint!

i think that is the major cause of dismay here... unpainted armies don´t deserve to win

Ah paint......well hurry up then.

Don't really have anything constructive to contribute. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello.

Hello

LOL.... i refrained from doing that punchline just the other sec...

Sorry could not help myself.....it just slipped out.

well i bite mine away... i think i dont need to be that hesitant again^^

OH hai there everyone! wait..


....pretty sure you wanted me to do a painting update.. WELL here is a small one..

I AM ON VACTION FOR a few days DAYS that is like 24 hours of PAINTING TIME to PAINT FOR painting's sake, but hai stick around things will happen, I also get off work in a half hour

Alrighty then! did some painting. This model has so much detail it hurts..

things left to finish on it
Free hand some symbols and dohickeys
highlight the black
maybe more base detailing like a tree/bush.
Weathering.. got to get my pigments in and some varnish finish.

But this model has come a long way.

good job 'panda - it's looking great! Simple, clean and sophisticated, just like every Eldar piece should ; )

 finnan wrote:
good job 'panda - it's looking great! Simple, clean and sophisticated, just like every Eldar piece should ; )

Danke Finnan. I hope to add some symbols here, and kinda add some busy.

Nice work Panda. Look forward to the little details, but it's very nicely done.

Base is nice. Good work on the stone. But could do with something taller than the little patches of green.