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Here we go,



The players: Sousou (Samoan name) and me Solomon. I let him use all my stuff.


The place: The Back of Kalihi Valley, I am the caretaker of a 100 acre nature preserve


We each draw a random 500 point army.


I draw the Eldar.


Sousou draws the Tyranid


Game one set up: All Eldar at middle top and only Tyranid Warriors set up.Genestealers infiltrate into building within charge range of avatar. 3 objectives and 12 inch deployment


Eldar fail to steal initiative and Tyranid go first. Due to poor difficult terrain and Fleet rolls only one unit of genes reach and they pour everything into the Avatar


Avatar with the support of his Storm Guardians massacre 9 Genestealers. Avatar only took a two wounds.


Top of the 2nd


Genestealers pull back


Eldar reposition


Top of the 3rd


Genestealers continue to pull back. Tyranid Warriors all the while providing support fire


Eldar army divides in half


Top of the 4th


A unit of Genestealers wipe out Gaurdians


Wraithlord passes his Wraithsighgt check and uses his flamers to wipe out genestealers while he weeps for the loss of his kin


Game ends. Avatar and Storm Gaurdians win with one objective near the middle of table.


Game two



Sousou draws Salamanders


I draw the Tau


The set up: Dawn of War and Capture and Control


Tau steals the initiative, Firewarriors kill 3 scouts and force them out of their perch


Salamanders captain advances


Top of the 2nd


Kroot advance


Salamaders open fire and kill 5 Kroot


Top of the 3rd


In a deadly round of close combat marines wipe out chargeing Kroot and then a Shas El with a Fail Safe Detonator


Scouts move to take objective


Top of the 4th (ignore venerable dread in lower left)


Stealth Suits finally appear and wipe out scouts.


Venerable dread finally arrives to threaten tau base


Top of the 5th


Captain survives attack from Stealth Suits.


Captain wipes out Stealth Suits and protects their base while Venerable dreadnought takes the tau base
Game ends a Salamander victory


Game 3



I draw Thousand Sons


Sousou draws Slaanesh Daemons


Set up: Dawn of War and 3 objectives


I get first turn and take positions


Daemons begin to arrive


Top of the 2nd


Thousand Sons take out Fiend while Daemonettes hang back


Keeper advances and fails to entice the Thousand Sons with Pavane


Top of the 3rd


Daemon Prince takes out another Fiend but takes a wound


Another unit of Daemonettes move to take another objective


Top of the 4th


Thousand Sons Lesser Daemons finally arrive


Daemonettes move onto an objective


Top of the 5th


Daemon Prince uses Warptime and charges Keeper of Secrets ad no one takes damage


Daemonettes charge Lesser daemons and win because they have an Intsrument but stay lockedup


Battle Rages on with both scraps real close. Thosand Sons take an Objecttive and the game ends a draw.



WHEW!

That was a blast. Stay tuned for more next weekend when we return to larger battles.

Woh, that looked fun not knowing what army your going to use.
mmmmmm the eldar arrmy seemed a bit over powered to the nid's but oh well look like you had fun.

!! the SOUL brothers! ( playing on pronunciation of the 2 names )

I like the concept of the armies, you never know what you'll get!

cool report looked like a fun day.

Sternguard_rock wrote:Woh, that looked fun not knowing what army your going to use.
mmmmmm the eldar arrmy seemed a bit over powered to the nid's but oh well look like you had fun.

Well if he had made it in with all 3 squads of Genestealers it would have looked very different

Thanks for the props folks

Lol, sous-sol is French for basement

I like the idea of not knowing what army your going to use.

I think i will play one like that thanks for the idea

Thanks for taking time to snap photos and write this up.

Looks like a fun way to play. Is your friend new to 40k? I can see this being a good way to introduce new people to the game, too.

I may have to try this also!

Looked like a lot of fun.

More than that, great painted armies. I hate to see a battle report with pictures of unpainted metal and plastic.

Great fun and great armies!!

Very original and fun battle reports! This was really entertaining to read.

The armies were very well painted and pre-balanced;

The selection was random, making things fair & forcing you guys to adopt your tactics to the army and situation at hand;

and the battles were small enough to get in 3 games!

I hope you make more of these. I really enjoyed it.

By the way, what model is that for the Tzeentch DP?

I hope you make more of these. I really enjoyed it.

By the way, what model is that for the Tzeentch DP?

Thanks!

The Daemon Prince model was the body of the original Blood Thirster model , The original Lord of Change wings, the old-school titan head and bits.

How did you find the smaller point scenarios? There was another thread where a person stated the missions didn't all hold up at that points level. Also, did you find that the bigger critters (Avatar, DP) dominated at all?

Cheers!

ps. love the terrain on your website, any chance for a how-to for the Chaos Trees?

How did you find the smaller point scenarios? There was another thread where a person stated the missions didn't all hold up at that points level. Also, did you find that the bigger critters (Avatar, DP) dominated at all?

Cheers!

ps. love the terrain on your website, any chance for a how-to for the Chaos Trees?

All I did was modify the seize ground scenario by keeping it to 3 objectives only. Larger models can be dominating so I that is why I built each army myself. That way they would all be balanced against each other. This is also a great way to teach the hobby.

My buddy Pat (the photographer) runs that site by the way, email him and ask

Mahalo!

Small games, big funz.

I like the concept, I think I may start doing that.