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Played in a local tourney today with my Khornate horde. One of the TOs let peop who did not play in the tourney vote for best painted and I lost that award by one vote. To me that is what Khorne is all about.

Here is my abbreviated list:

Angrath - Bloodthirster/Blessing of the Blood God, Unholy Might
Skulltaker/Juggernaught
Herald/Juggernaught, Blessing of the Blood God, Unholy Might, Fury

6x Blood Crusher/Fury, Icon, Instrument

2x Soul Grinder/Phleghm & Tongue

3x 12x Bloodletter

The first game was versus CSM. Here is the list:

2x Lash Prince/wings
Summoned Greater Daemon
2x 3x Oblit
2x 5x Nurgle Marine/2x meltagun, power fist - rhino/extra combi bolter
6x Noise Marine/power sword, doom siren, blast master
Defiler/lascannon

The game was straight from the rulebook - Dawn of War & Capture & Control. I went second and my primary wave came in first... Bloodthirster, 2x Grinder, Blood Crushers

my opponent started with Noise Marines and one lash prince on the table. Both objectives were placed exactly 12" apart. The Noise Marines were deployed in cover with the first lash prince beside them. My deep strikers on the first wave all came in well except for the combined Crushers who mishaped and went back into reserve.

More to come soon.

G


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So the first turn like I said I got my preferred wave but the Crushers mishapped and went back into reserve. The Bloodthirster came in behind cover and both grinders fired the large blast on the Noise Marines and killed a couple (they were in cover).

2nd Turn - CSM
Everything came in from reserve except for the two Oblit units. The lash prince tried to lash my greater daemon but Blessing of the Blood God blocked it. The defiler shot at my greater daemon but did no damage. The Noise Marines also shot at the Bloodthirster again for no damage. The lash prince then assaulted my forward walker and bounced. The grinder struck back and dropped 2 wounds.

My turn in came one pack of Bloodletters that landed behind my grinder locked in combat with the lash prince beside my objective. The unengaged grinder fired it's large blast on the Noise Marines and killed three more (only two left now). Bloodthirster charged the Noise Marines and destroyed them.

Third turn - CSM
In came both squads of Oblits plus the summoned greater daemon. The Oblits and defiler fired on my Bloodthirster and did two wounds. The Nurgal Marines sat sti in their rhinos firing the pintle mounted combi bolters into my greater daemon for no wounds. Summoned greater daemon is too far away to assault my Bloodthirster. Again the lash prince whifs in close combat and the grinder scores another wound.

My turn in comes another squad of Bloodletters who land to bolster my objective. This time the Crushers make it safely landing close to the CSM line. Unengaged Grinder drops blast on a Nurghal rhino and immobilizes it. First pack of Bloodletters charge lash prince. Lash Prince kills two Bloodletters then is vaporized. Bloodthirster charges the other squad of Oblits and destroys them.

4th Turn - CSM
Nurghal Marines continue to hang back. Defiler fires on my greater daemon and scores another wound (one wound left now). Nurghal rhinos fire combi bolters at my greater daemon for no damage. Summoned greater daemon charges Crushers and I only can manage one wound... Summoned greater daemon puts all his attacks on the Crushers ignoring herald and Skulltaker doing a couple wounds. Also the squad of Plague Marines in the immobile rhino disembarked.

My turn in comes the last pack of Bloodletters. I try to land on the opponent's objective but they drift back 8" away. Defiler fires on Bloodthirster and does no wounds. Crushers score another wound on the summoned greater daemon while taking three more wounds.

My turn the Bloodthirster will charge the defiler, exploding it and the blast puts a wound on the summoned greater daemon plus two crushers who make their saves. Grinders drop blast on the exposed Nurghal Marines and destroy the unit. Crushers finally kill the summoned greater daemon. The forward pack of Bloodletters move and run to the enemy objective.

Time is called and I win the first round.

G

GBF I thought Blessing of the Blood God only negates psychic powers that cause Wounds. Lash doesn't get negated by it.

I just checked the codex and you are correct. Thanks!

G


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The second game was against Blood Angels. My opponent had an all jump infantry army with two venerable DC dreads in drop pods. He chose to start the dreads on the table and deepstrike empty drop pods. His list looked something like this:

Dante + Honorguard
Chaplain + 7x Death Company

2x Assault squads/power fist
Veteran Assault squad

2x Venerable DC Furisio dreadnaught

the mission was killpoints with table quarters for deployment. I had to go first and force my opponent to place his army in a table quarter with no terrain or cover. He setup everything fairly deep in his corner using the two dreads in front of some of his jump squads. I got my preferred wave. Everything came in with no mishaps, the greater daemon scattered 12" toward the BA but I ran him back 5". I immediately started shelling him with the two pie plates and over the course of six turns he took a lot of losses from the dual blast. My opponent unwisely chose to land his two empty drop pods behind my army and I destroyed both of them for a 2-0 KP lead. My opponent I think was afraid to engage my army as I castled up my entire force. The last turn he managed to wreck one of my grinders with a shot from a dreadnaught meltagun so I ended up winning by one killpoint. Not really an exciting game as only to two empty pods were the only units assaulted.

G

My last battle was against another CSM army:

Nurgle Prince/wings & warptime
Defiler
10 Berzerkers/power fist - rhino
10 CSM/power fist - rhino
10 CSM/power fist, ML

7x terminators
Landraider

2x 2 Oblits

this game was 5 objectives and 12" deployment. I was doing very well even though my primary wave came in second, then I lost all my Crushers to a deep strike mishap. I was able to kill two of my opponent's troop choices but one managed to survive and he won by one objective as all my Bloodletters died. I think it would have been a lot different had I not lost the Crushers but that's the way it goes sometimes and I learned a valuable lesson the hard way that I need an icon in one of my Bloodletter units. I ended up in third place overall so if I could drawn the last game I would have won the RTT.

G

Green Blow Fly wrote:My last battle was against another CSM army:

Nurgle Prince/wings & warptime
Defiler
10 Berzerkers/power fist - rhino
10 CSM/power fist - rhino
10 CSM/power fist, ML

7x terminators
Landraider

2x 2 Oblits

this game was 5 objectives and 12" deployment. I was doing very well even though my primary wave came in second, then I lost all my Crushers to a deep strike mishap. I was able to kill two of my opponent's troop choices but one managed to survive and he won by one objective as all my Bloodletters died. I think it would have been a lot different had I not lost the Crushers but that's the way it goes sometimes and I learned a valuable lesson the hard way that I need an icon in one of my Bloodletter units. I ended up in third place overall so if I could drawn the last game I would have won the RTT.

G

Which army one the RTT

The CSM list from my third game. If I could have drawn that game I would have won.

G

The last list is not good at all. I bet if you got your crushers you would have won by a large margin.

You have a nice themed list I like it.

Thanks! I appreciate that.

G

Not trying to be argumentative, but the BA vs you game doesn't seem very 'Khornate'.
I realize that it's a game and you as a general are outside of it, but you sat back, shot and only assaulted two drop pods.
I guess I get too into army character in my games.

It was a tournament. He certainly could have assaulted as well which I think many would find the lack thereof to be just as unfluffy.

Tournament =/= Fluff

G

I found out on Friday there would be a 1500 point 40k RTT in my backyard so I headed over on Saturday morning. Here is the list I brought:

_HQ_
Bloodthirster/Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God
Herald/Juggernaught, Unholy Might, Fury, Blessing of the Blood God
Herald/same as above

_Elites_
4x Blood Crusher/Fury, Icon, Instrument

_Troops_
12x Bloodletter/icon
11x Bloodletter

_Heavy Support_
Soul Grinder/tongue, phleghm
Soul Grinder/same as above

Tables were 6' x 4' with a good amount of terrain. We would be using the three missions from this year's Ard Boyz semifinals which was fun as I always enjoy multiple objectives. We had a medium size crowd with a couple of new Space Wolf armies. In fact I got to play against a Space Wolf army the first game, do here we go.

FIRST MISSION - Annilihation (with a twist)
Troops were worth 3 killpoints each, elites worth 2 killpoints each and everything else was 1 killpoint each. The deployment was pitched battle (12" in from your long table edge). I won the roll and opted to go second. Here are my two waves:

Primary - Bloodthirster, 2x Herald + Crushers, Soul Grinder
Secondary - Bloodletters, Bloodletters, Soul Grinder


Here is my opponent's Space Wolf army:

_HQ_
Wolf Priest/meltabombs, Wolftooth necklace, Saga of the Hunter
Rune Priest/Storm Caller, Living Lightning, Chooser of the Slain

_Troops_
5x Grey Hunters/meltagun, power fist - razorback/twin linked assault cannon
5x Grey Hunters/same as above
6x Blood Claws/meltagun, power fist

_Elites_
Venerable Dreadnaught/assault cannon, Wolftooth necklace
Wolfguard x1/terminator armor, cyclone missile launcher, power fist

_Heavy Support_
5x Long Fangs/2x lascannon, missile launcher, heavy bolter

1st Turn/Space Wolves
My opponent deployed everything except the Wolf Priest and Blood Claws which were held in reserves. CotS was setup on top of a ruin in the middle of the table and had complete LOS of the entire table. One razorback with Rune Priest setup on his left flank beside the dreadnaught. The other razorback setup on his right flank and the Long Fangs setup on the second level of a ruin in his far right corner. He had nothing to shoot so both razorbacks and dreadnaught moved up towards the middle of the board. Long Fangs move up towards the front of their building.

1st Turn/KDA
I got my primary wave. The Bloodthirster comes in on my left flank ready to counter razorback with Rune Priest and Venerable dreadnaught. First Grinder comes in behind greater daemon using some terrain for cover. Heralds and Crushers come in right beside building with the Long Fangs. Thirster runs a bit to his left to keep out of dreadnaught charge arc, Grinder lobs a blast on the Long Fangs but it drifts off target. Crushers run into first floor of building, moving out of Long Fangs LOS.

2nd Turn/Space Wolves
In from reserves comes both the Wolf Priest and the Blood Claws. My oponent wants to join the Wolf Priest with the Blood Claws and outflank. There is a lot of discussion about the rules and nothing supports being able to do so. Finally the judge comes over, reads all the pertinent rules and declares that the Blood Claws cannot outflank. So... The Wolf Priest comes in solo and outflanks coming in on my left flank to challenge the lone Grinder... That was one brave Wolf Priest! Blood Claws come in from their long table edge moving and then running up to the razorback without the Rune Priest and the Grey Hunters disembark. The Grey Hunters with the Rune Priest also disembark moving towards the Bloodthirster. Dreadnaught moves and runs forward toward my Bloodthirster. Long Fangs attempt to backpedal away from Crushers but don't get too far. One razorback fires into Bloodthirster and drops a wound... ouch! The other razorback targets the Crushers but I make all my saves. Grey Hunters with Rune Priest fire the meltagun and bolt pistols into the Bloodthirster and the melta drops another wound... Good thing the dreadnaught decided to run! Finally the Rune Priest casts Living Lightning targeting the Bloodthirster but Blessing of the Blood God wards off any harm. I forgot to mention that the Rune Priest also successfully castes Storm Caller. Oh and the Wolf Priest charged the 1st Grinder rolling a 6 to hit with meltabombs, penetrates but rolls a 1 on the AP table...Grinder splatters the Priest... Oh well it was very close but no cigar.

2nd Turn/KDA
All my reserves come on. Second Grinder drops into middle of the table to support incoming Bloodletters. Both squads of Bloodletters come on in the middle of the table... Time to go to work now and the game really begins for me. Crushers move up into building to assault Long Fangs. First Grinder remains behind cover. Bloodthirster flies up beside Rune Priest and Grey Hunters ready to assault them. Second Grinder targets right razorback with tongue and destroys it... One Grey Hunter dies during the ensuing explosion. First Grinder targets the other razorback with tongue and wrecks it. Crushers charge Long Fangs/Wolfguard killing them all. Bloodthirster charges Grey Hunters and Rune Priest. They count asbeing in cover so they get to swing first... Rune Priest inflicts one wound with runic weapon (wounds daemons on 2+), Thirster then fails to ward it with BotBG and also fails his 4+ INV save and is down to his last wound. Greater Daemon swings back into the Grey Hunters killing them all and the Grey Hunter with the power fist fails to hit (WS10 is very nice like that). The Rune Priest fails his leadership test and runs away.

3rd Turn/Space Wolves
The remaining squad of Grey Hunters team up with the Blood Claws and decide they will go after the Crushers (who had consolidated back down to the bottom of the building)... There's an epic tale to be told at the Fang if they could manage that task. Rune Priest continues to fall back and the dreadnaught target the Bloodthirster, bringing down the greater daemon with it's assault cannon! The remaining Space Wolves charge the Crushers and die a valiant death.

3rd Turn/KDA
First Grinder targets the Rune Priest with his tongue and blasts him out of his runic armor. The other Grinder takes a shot onto the rear of the Venerable dreadnaught with his tongue and immobilizes it. Time is then called. I win by a massacre and score two extra bonus points.

G

I never seem to get any good feedback on my batreps...

I see two issues with your reports that can explain the lack of feedback, lack of pictures (biggie), and sometimes a very slow release schedule (sp?)

People are lazy, we don't want to just look at lots of text, we want something nice to look at too, and it is also much easier to get a real feel for the battle with pics (and when you almost won best painted, would be nice to see some pics )

Okay next report I will take some pictures. The last time I took pictures did not seem to make a big difference.

G

I enjoy reading them, I just don't have stuff to offer in return :-)

Well you get a skull from the Skull God today.



G

Nice report. shep has been suggesting that maybe I finish painting my Khorne daemons (well, put some extra touches on them to make them prettier to get higher painting scores) and I have been tempted to pull them out of the foam. Plus I have a World Eaters winged daemon prince I need to finish up, so I love reading about how they have been going.

do you have any pics of your skulltaker on jugger? I got an extra skulltaker and the fantasy champion on juggernaut for conversion, but am not sure how to go about it.

I will post some pictures tomorrow evening for you. I think you'll like it.

G

Awesome, can't wait to see it.

I am going home now... will have up some pix in a couple hours.

: )

G


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Hi Somnicide! I really appreciate your interest in my army. It took a long time to finally put it together.

I know this is kind of lame and I hope you'll forgive me... Here is where some nice pictures of my army can be found. Follow the link provided below to the Painting & Modeling forum:

http://40kwreckingcrew.aceboard.com

Scroll down a bit to the thread entitled Steves Daemons. My army was painted on commission by the amazing Brandon Palmer who runs GMM Studios. I built and converted all the miniatures. The typical time to build and convert one Bloodletter took around one and a half evenings. Many of the Bloodletters mounted on juggernaughts (i.e., Blood Crushers) have full upper body armor taken from various bits found in the Chaos Marauders and Chaos Knights boxed sets. Some of my Bloodletters were converted to include a third arm which I think represents a worthy mutation from the Blood God. Several of the Blood Crusher bases are actually mini dioramas, especially so for the Skulltaker and the other Khornate herald. You can't see it in the picture but the Skulltaker has a plasmagun and some ammunition sacks attached to the rear of his juggernaught. I used the Fantasy Chaos Lord mounted on a juggernaught to count as the Skulltaker. Like the Black Library Fantasy novel my version of the Skulltaker is also a mortal champion of Khorne, albiet greatly endowed by his patron, the Blood God. Some people have asked me what his face looks like underneath his warmask. I'll just say it might surprise if I could show it. The short story about the Skulltaker I wrote and mention below provides some insight if you happen to be interested.

I wanted my Bloodletters to stand upright and be dynamically posed, which is the main reason why it took so long to convert them. Each Bloodletter is unique... One is my depiction of a notorious (sp?) Internet personality possessed by a Khornate lesser daemon... The model has a head and lobster claw terminated arm from the Chaos mutation sprue. The Bloodthirster was purchased from Ultraforge (Greater War Daemon).

The red in the pictures comes out quite strong and washes out some of the fantastic detailed airbrush work by Brandon but they will leave you with the idea behind the overall appearance and theme chosen for this army. I had to special order the 1520 gamer's case from Battlefoam so that I can carry the whole army in one case. I don't know what I would have done without Battlefoam. The 1520 case is expensive but the price was well worth it for me.

If you really like the army then I recommend that you might like to read the short story I wrote entitled Phoenix Rising. The story creates the background for my army. You can find it here at the Dakka Fiction forum. I received mixed reviews on the short story BUT I am very happy with the overall result. If you like the god Khorne then you might just like the story... Basically it's a tale of cold blooded revenge that covers the course of several millenia as the Skulltaker slowly rises to the vaunted position of second in command of Lord Khorne's daemonic hordes. Let me know what you think if you have the opportunity to give it the once over. It's fairly long and it has a lot of detailed writing. I think I wrote the whole thing over the course of several months.

Well that's all for now.

: )

G

totally digging the bat reps and i love the all the bloodletter conversions, each model is like its own diorama. Awesome stuff. Just heading over to the fiction to read your fluff. Greatstuff. also pics would be helpful as even though readings great, it can sometimes be hard :(

Those really look great! I love the smooth gradation from black to red. I am hoping to get that same kind of effect with blues for my crimson fists so if you have any tips, they would be appreciated.

I like the addition of the chaos fantasy bits, makes it look a bit more eternal, which I dig. So, is the fantasy khorne champion counting as skulltaker?

It's a great looking army.

Thanks guys!

Somnicide I suggest you stop by the 40k WC Painting & Modeling forum so you can ask Brandon for tips. I'm sure he would be glad to help.

G

Nice army. As has been said before, the black-to red is awesome.

Okay so here is another batrep from the 1500 point RTT last weekend over in Tampa. By the way I'll be playing in a team tourney outside of Florida next weekend and will be bringing 1k worth of Khorne!

This mission was versus CSM and my opponent had a very interesting list to say the least:

_HQ_
Lucius
Summoned Greater Daemon

_Elites_
10x Chosen/2x meltagun, power fist - rhino/extra armor, havoc missile launcher

_Troops_
9x Berzerkers/power fist - rhino/extra armor, combi-melta
9x Thousand Sons - rhino/extra armor, combi-melta
10x CSM/2x meltagun, power fist - rhino/extra armor, Havoc missile launcher

_Heavy Support_
5x Havoc/autocannon, missile launcher, lascannon, heavy bolter

Deployment was Spearhead. My opponent won the roll and decided to go first.

Mission had two objectives:
* Primary - Objective placed at the center of the table
* Secondary - Table quarters

I would get my preferred wave on the first drop.

First Turn - CSM
My opponent setup his Havocs on top of a tall ruin back in his table quarter. He held the Chosen in reserve so they could outflank onto the table. He put the three rhinos full of troops setup side by side right on the 12" boundary from the table center. Note that there was a huge ruin located at the center of the table. He pops smoke on all three rhinos and sits still.

First Turn - KDA
I drop the Crushers first landing them on top of the central objective with no scatter. It was an aggressive move. My greater daemon drops next off to my side of the central ruin and he runs off a bit to move out of LOS from the Havocs. I wanted to playboy safe with the drops for my two Grinders since the opponent had a good amount of meltaguns. The first Grinder also drops on my side of the central ruin staying out of range from the combi meltas and meltaguns for the next turn. The second Grinder comes in beside the first Grinder. I drop pieplates on the Havocs... One drifts off target and the other can't get through the 4+ cover. Now it's time to see how my opponent will react.

Second Turn - CSM
The summoned greater daemon comes in falling out of a rhino and is posed to charge my Crushers. The rhino carrying the Berzerkers (Lucius is joined to this squad) moves around the central ruin towards my right flank. The rhino carrying the kSons moves around the central ruin towards my left flank. The rhino with the CSM moves six inches towards my left and still behind the central ruin. The Chaos Space Marines fire on the Crushers with their meltaguns but I make both 4+ cover saves. The Havocs also try to bake my Crushers with some long range fire but do no wounds. The summoned greater daemon then charges my Crushers, assaulting into cover, and is killed before he can swing back. The Crushers consolidate towards the CSM rhino.

Second Turn - KDA
Both of my Bloodletter squads come in landing beside the icon in the Crusher unit. They are both behind the central ruin with respect to the Havocs. My Grinders line up to play tag team with the Berzerkers' rhino and my Bloodthirster flies up right beside it. The Crushers move out of the ruin to surround the CSM rhino on three sides. The first Grinder fires his railgun and destroys the Berzerker rhino. Three Berzerkers die from the explosion. The second Grinder drops a pieplate on the Berzerkers, I roll a hit and all that is left is Lucius and the skull champion. The Bloodthirster charges them and destroys them both. The Crushers assault the CSM rhino and wreck it. Only four CSM can emergency disembark out from the front of the wreck. A great turn!

Third Turn - CSM
The Chosen come in from reserve and outflank onto the short table edge closest to my army. The Thousand Sons rhino moves 12" towards one squad of my Bloodletters and disembark so they can rapid fire. The Havocs shoot at the Bloodthirster but he makes all his saves. The kSons rapid fire but only manage to kill a couple of my lesser daemons.

Third Turn - KDA
My Bloodletters assault the kSons and wipe them out then my opponent concedes the match. It was a swift and brutal game for sure.

G

Fantastic looking army and thanks for sharing the reps

Here is another batrep from a team tournament I played in up in Tennessee yesterday. I was representing the Blade N Bolter club and got to team up with George Flowers. George is a great guy and I was really looking forward to playing with him. We both ran a 1k point list. Here is mine:

HQ
Skulltaker/Juggernaught
Herald/Juggernaught, Fury, Unholy Might, Blessing of the Blood God

Elites
6x Blood Crusher/Icon, Fury, Instrument

Troops
14x Bloodletter/Icon
5x Bloodletter

You were only required to run one troop choice per list and upon reflection I probably should have combined both squads of Bloodletters into one super unit. Edit - I just looked over my list again and I realized I should have run 19 Bloodletters in the first unit... could have possibly made a difference in the second game but no big deal.

Here is George's list to the best of my recollection:

HQ
Warboss/Mega armor, cybork body, power klaw, shoota, boss pole

Troops
9x Mega Armored Nobs/power klaws + shootas
15x Shoota Boys, Nob/power klaw

Elites
5x Mega Armored Nobs - Trukk/red paint, shoota, reinforced ram

Heavy Support
Battlewagon/red paint, big shoota, deff rolla

I am going to skip ahead and report the third game first as it had a very interesting moment. We were playing a team that was composed of Space Wolves and Necrons.

More soon!

G

Painting's great. I can't begin to tell you how much I LOVE how deep you got the reds.