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Some lovely set ups on display in this thread, including the one above me!

Orks versus Space Marines.









Start of the battle did not go so well for the Orks with the Battlewagon being destroyed first round. In fact the Marines proved to be very hard to kill and their only failing was not grabbing more objectives earlier on. However attrition slowly whittled the Orks down in the last two turns to snatch victory for the Marines.

Cheers,

CB

I'm jealous of your 2nd ed cardboard buildings.

I see a lot of all infantry or mostly infantry Imperial Fists armies. Is that a viable list? A mix of normie marines with primariis supported by characters like lieutenants and captains.

sushi2001 wrote:
I see a lot of all infantry or mostly infantry Imperial Fists armies. Is that a viable list? A mix of normie marines with primariis supported by characters like lieutenants and captains.

I think there are a lot of Primaris lists using Imperial Fist doctrine. If you go Primaris,you go infantry heavy since you have really good heavy infantry options that replace vehicles and because what vehicle options you do have are terrible outside the bog-standard predator. Imperial fist's chapter tactic is great for auto-bolt(assault) weapons and for agressors. Hellblasters like it too, since it punishes the enemy for trying to stay in cover.

Platuan4th wrote:I'm jealous of your 2nd ed cardboard buildings.

They are one of the Marine players. Most of mine are packed up for a move.

sushi2001 wrote:I see a lot of all infantry or mostly infantry Imperial Fists armies. Is that a viable list? A mix of normie marines with primariis supported by characters like lieutenants and captains.

The two Marine players fielded regular Marines vice Primaris.

ChargerIIC wrote:

sushi2001 wrote:
I see a lot of all infantry or mostly infantry Imperial Fists armies. Is that a viable list? A mix of normie marines with primariis supported by characters like lieutenants and captains.

I think there are a lot of Primaris lists using Imperial Fist doctrine. If you go Primaris,you go infantry heavy since you have really good heavy infantry options that replace vehicles and because what vehicle options you do have are terrible outside the bog-standard predator. Imperial fist's chapter tactic is great for auto-bolt(assault) weapons and for agressors. Hellblasters like it too, since it punishes the enemy for trying to stay in cover.

One of our regular members has always played Imperial Fist since he started repainting his Crimson Fist Marines many years ago. He is winning about half of his games with the infantry, a dreadnought and a Predator. Perhaps a little less than half, but no where near as many loses as the Orks have suffered.

Cheers,

CB

Last game was on this bank holiday Monday. Took an armoured breakthrough list in 30k. Wasn't much fun tbh as despite being fully informed of the row I was using, my opponents weren't really equipped to deal with it. It was satisfying gunning Dorn down with a predator squadron though.

Star Saga, last Thursday.

Forgive the random eclectic nature of the scenery.

Been trying to get my dad to actually play every now and then, but he isn't a big fan of the more fantastical stuff, or the scale we tend to paint in. He's collected Britians and 1/32 scale toy soldiers since he was a little kid, so he's got quite the collection. So I tried to play to the strength of what he's already got.




My side of a hybrid Song of Drums & Shakos/ Song of Drums & Tomahawks. Maoris versus Von Tempsky and Rangers.

Didn't get a good shot of my dad's side. I believe the figures came from Irregular Miniatures.

Maoris were dug in their Pa pretty well, with the NZ forces having to advance through difficult terrain. My shooting was terrible as always, so my dad split his forces with the bulk trying to go around and surround my Pa.

Frustrated by the lack of ranged success, I sent some close combat- focused scouts through the forest, where one of the topless women proceeded to butcher her way through a unit of constabulary. Having taken out at least three members of the unit and the commanding officer, the constabulary's morale broke, sending the remainder of the unit scattering for safety. The topless woman was then promptly shot by one of the rangers as they made range.

Feeling the overwhelming presence of the foreigners closing in, I sent a few more skirmishers through the woods to try and reduce the Rangers' numbers, hurling spears and closing in on the unsuspecting Kiwis. The results left much to be desired.

Upon reaching the Pa, the Rangers began traversing the fortifications, where they were met swiftly in hand to hand combat, and fell just as swiftly. Things were going well until Von Tempsky arrived, whereupon he challenged the chieftain to a respectable duel.

I rolled a natural 1 to my dad's natural 6. Needless to say that was pretty much the end of my Pa at that point.

What is this game?

Apparntly everyoe in the East Bay had their own tournement going on on Saturday. I attended a 1k tournament in concord in which you and a teammate combined scores.

I failed to bring enough anti-armor and then dropped against three lists I couldn't even scratch. Lesson learned

No pic, but my first matchpu was against a dark agnels list with all the plasma. Found out I've been misreading WoTDA's CP cost wrong for months :p I lost over 2/3rds of my list on the approach and only managed to kill his screens.

My second match was against a Deathwatch army using the new codex. I quickly realized that without my Interceptors or Dark talons, I can't kill a Corvus Blackstar. At one point i was forced to charge a unit with double frag cannons in order to salvage some victory points, only to have all three units die to the 76 frag cannon rounds that were fired in overwatch.

On the plus side, I was able to mix it up in melee and tie up a lot of points with my grapnel wielding reivers :



My final matchup was against my own partner. He brought a levithan dreadnought that I could only wound on a roll of 6 (my own damn fault for the list build). I actualy ended up running my entire army around and away from the dreadnaught to kill the three assasians and managed to last until the bottom of turn 5 before being wiped out.



I'm licking my wounds and getting ready to face my oponents again today, but this time with my anti-armor along.

Edit: The game with the Maoris sounds like it was Ganeesha Games Song of Drums and Shakoe/Tomahawks. Not a fan of those rules myself, but they would be great for beginners. Love the idea of playing to what you had.....

I got another game of Men of Bronze using paper stand-up templates. Nothing like paper templates ot represent those men of bronze! This time, we played the Battle fo Ephesus which was one of the opening battles of the Ionian Revolt. We went back a bit in time since I didn;t have enough Persian Cavalry when we got started.



You can read about the real battle and our results at the blog....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/05/battle-report-men-of-bronze-battle-of.html

Yeah, we were playing Ganesha's rules.

Song of Drums & Tomahawks for the most part. We used Drums & Shakos volley fire rules to both speed things up and to keep it semi- historically accurate.

Only game I have stuck with for over 41 years and still don't understand how to play correctly.

Boy, those new spells-as-models models for Age of Sigmar look pretty fun. Did the newspaper come from the box or do I have to purchase it seperatly?


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Finnaly dropped against one of these custodes/AM lists with the double CP regneeration. We were matched for starting CP, but boy was the game a little one sided. I'm still learning how to use flyers and the mix of 3+ armor saves on the guardsmen and 3+ invul on the custodes was brutal.



In the end I only managed to kill 12 guardsmen and a custode. I really need to put some character removal back in.

Orks vs slaanesh daemon, 1k. Can't understand how me didj't get more than 3 turns. Welj she's fairly new so was bit slow but 3 turns in 2h. Damn.


Was touch and go. I had 3 daemonettes on back field threatening objective with 2 kmk out of los(move would give). Elsewhere charriot plus prince with 2 wounds left vs 15 or so boyz, warboss and painboy. 16 attacks from charriot hurts.

Orks vs ig. For a change brought mechanized army and ran against pask, russ and shadowsword. Got recon scenario which further screwed me as he is only hurt by counting as moved, my units are slowed down and chinork was forced to deep strike on my zone ensuring i got to shoft turn 3. Had it come turn 2 it would have been business as usual. Was reduced to kmk's and grots having killed just hellhound and odd infantry.

The one time i don't bring infantry swarm opponent is skewed toward at and then scenario was perfect for him...ugh

Me and my regular opponent 1750pts 40k
Marines vs Dread mob with lots of Kans and Dreads

Sometimes you gotta make do with what you got.

except in my case where sometimes is all the times, but it's still good.



Orks fighting space marines using modified Vedross rules, against my little nephew who is becoming quite good at rockets.

Last game in the 500 points part of our slow grow Konflikt 47 league. My Germans against British.



Things learned:
Jeeps are fast. Very fast.
100 free points of off-board artillery sucks (for me, that is. British player loves it), especially when at such a low points value.
Never leave my power armor jump infantry at home.

Tau Versus Orks





Game was as close to one sided as I have played in 8th edition. Tau used their Stealth Suits to lay a beacon close to the head of the Ork advance and dropped two units of Crisis Suits with 3 flamers each to whip out entire units. Orks never really recovered from the loss of so many models.

Cheers,

CB

 infinite_array wrote:
Last game in the 500 points part of our slow grow Konflikt 47 league. My Germans against British.

Nice to see some Konflict '47. I thought about it.... and ultimately decided against it because I just didn;t have the money for yet another game, even if I could use a lot of the models for WWII games.

Space Marines versus Eldar.




Space Marine player set up his army on a broad front to try and control as many objectives as possible while the Eldar concentrated on their right flank.

While the Marine did control more objectives for a turn or two the Eldar crushed the Marines left flank and rolled up the centre capturing the objectives and destroying most of the Imperial force.

There were a few epic defensive actions on the Marine's side, with single models stalling the Eldar sweep.

Cheers,

CB

This was a "Multiplayer Battle: Carnage" with four players. On my right flank were 20 Death Company that charged me almost immediately. After wiping out 20 of my infantry my Tank Commander in a Punisher mulched them. On my left flank was a demon prince and four dreadnoughts (all forgeworld, I cannot recall the names) who charged head first into the Tau in the opposite corner. Early game I moved one of my APCs and its load of troops to the middle, securing points. Ultimately I won the match, both by points and the fact that the Death Company and Tau were wiped from the board, and my Chaos opponent only had two heavily damaged Dreadnoughts to take on my APCs, Hellhound, Tank, and Bullgryns.



Overall it was a good match.

We played two back-to-back games of Full Thrust over the weekend. Swapped fleets and refought the fight. Only proved that some star nations have superior ships in close quarter fights.

EDIT: Yeah, we used a dollar store black plastic table cloth and it really shows.

Brought out my chess clock in order to see just how big of an effect it would have on my game. Just to double down on my fumbling, it was also the first time I brought my list as a DeathWatch force instead of a Iron Hands/ Dark Agnels combined force.

I dropped against a list containing about 6 leman russ tanks, 3-4 squads of mixed elysian and vostroyan infantry, and 2-3 plasma command squads (elysian). In my Space Marine list it would have been my death.

Turns out 5 intercessor/5 hellblaster fortis squads backed by a 10 stalker pattern intercessor squads can really ruin a tank.

We both started with a lot in reserve. I had to run things much tighter since I didn't have Chapter Tactics boosting everything without auras.


There was three tanks there...


When the elysians dropped, I just had all the backfield shooters advance. Reviers ran back to keep them off my guys.


We ran 90 minutes per player and finished in turn 5 with 15/20 minutes left. I won via a single VP from first blood, having taken the right side of the board and prevented his securing the objectives on the left. I've decided to keep painting and use this list (slightly tweaked) for BAO. My opponent was a superior player and veteran, so I felt pretty good about pulling a victory out.

Fun game of orks vs wolves involving shooting orks, gretchins charging(twice) and goffs that retreated out of combat. In other words all sort of weirdness.

A thing

5 vs 5 apoc game starting. Turn 1 1/3 army(or best fit) starts so my dep was super easy. Stompa

A game of flying battleships called Castles in the Sky....



Yes, more paper templates. Once I get my Greek sorted, it will be onto some flying ships..... maybe.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/06/battle-report-castles-in-sky-raiders-of.html