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Hi, my name is Obeliske, a group of friends and I have set up a challenge this year. We all started new armies and each month we will be increasing the size of them by 250 points starting this month at 250 points a month until 2000 points in November. Starting at the end of next month we will be doing a series of monthly games as well against each other just for fun and to get together and hang out. Most of us live fairly far apart so this gives us a reason to hang out and do things while enjoying a hobby we all partake of. Our group is called A.T.O.M. or "A Tale of Misfits" there are ten of us currently all playing different teams we will be documenting for the masses our travels through the hobby including pictures pre and post painting so people can see what were up to and how things are going. This is an account of our goings on...

I play Astra Militarum or Imperial Guard I plan on eventually having a bit of a jack of all trades army but my first 250 points will consist of two tanks and Pask. As our first game isn't until 500 points I'm not overly worried yet about the fact that my army consists of two models I'll have some preliminary pictures posted up in a few days. I just wanted to get this up first so people in the group could start introducing themselves.

PS. If this is in the wrong subforum my apologies feel free to move it.

Heyo all! DistractedElf here, and I'll be playing Eldar with this group! I mean, might as well get to it!

First few things I've got together are a farseer, some Wraithguard and 10 Rangers! Most of which are naked grey models at the moment save for the farseer!


Looking foward to posting more as it all progresses!~

Hi! I go by raemarsbar, and I'll be playing Orks. I initially planned for a Speed Freeks army, but with all the new formations that came out recently I think I am going to try and take advantage of those instead.

I'm starting out with the Start Collecting box painmob and I'll see where I go from there.

Hey all. Kirk here. I'll be playing Tau. I figured since I'm getting back into the swing of things after being out for a while I'd go with something I've never played before.

I'll post pics once the first 250 are finished later this week.

I decided to play Dark Eldar and bring the pain. Embracing a true rockstar's life, sex drugs and rock and roll (and murder). My first 250 points includes a Succubus, Venom and wyches.

So I'm running behind this month I fell out of a tree and sprained my ankle badly I havn't been able to walk for more then two weeks and I have to keep my ankle elevated or it swells up like an overstuffed sausage. I'm finally off crutches and am attempting to catch up. I took these WIP photos right before the accident and I do have some guys done I'll get some pics of them posted tomorrow In the meantime enjoy!

I completed 250 points of Dark eldar and I am now working on 500 points by adding in scourges, a raider and reavers

Hey all, I'm tamuru. Never did make a intro post, so here it is. I'm playing tyranids, and starting with this here Hive Tyrant, with all the Fixins.

So being completely new to 40k and miniatures in general, I realized about half way through this month that there's no way I could get the entire start collecting box finished in time for our challenge.

I picked up Ghazghkull as my HQ, and conveniently, he covers nearly 250 points!

I didn't add anything extra to him, and just drilled out the barrels of his guns. If I had to do this again, I would have left the metal jaw off - making painting his face much easier!

Sorry to everybody, we've had a lot happen this month. A number of people have decided the challenge isn't for them. We had live come and kick us in the cajones a bit but were back on track as of this weekend.

On a personal note I owe an apology to everybody as well I didn't post the required pictures this month I got busy and forgot in the bustle of everything, I'll endeavor to do better next month!

So an update on models! inc picture drop

Sooo I didn't manage to get everything painted. But I'm close!

I worked on the painmob, and the only things I didn't finish were three Nobz.

The Nobz were the only ones I remembered to take WIPs of. My bad. D:

First of all, you'll be able to find these characterful Nobz throughout the campaign. Each has their own eccentricities. Meet Morkimer's Fancy Gitz!



Morkimer, da Chaos Killa (head from Kromlech, left arm stolen from a chaos marine)



"E' ripped da arm off dat demon beaky and 'ad da Doc sew it on 'im before woppin' da 'ead off dat beakie wit' 'is own choppa!" - Snot'ead da Slugga Boy



Boom Bertrand. Never without his trusty bommpack. (head and 'pack both from Kromlech)



The infamous bommpack.



Ezikill. Has a strange fascination for Eldar. His choppa may not be the most flashy, but it's ded killy. Plus, he doesn't have to worry about his choppa getting stolen. (head from Kromlech, axe nicked from a wraithguard)

He was the only Nob I managed to completely finish, so here's a shot to show off his axe!



I tried some blending on the axe edges.



And there's all three. Morkimer, Boom Bertrand, and Ezikill.

There will be more odd Nobz added as my points limit grows.



Da Krumpa. The ork wired inside has a terrible temper, known to lash out at anything in his path. The only saving grace - he's a lot slower than most orks.



Krumpton's Slugga Boyz



And last but not least, Dok Chopoff, well known for his amputation skills.



Here's a shot of the full Waaagh Slagrippa to date.

So our first Game was due a week ago but due to circumstances made us unable to play until this weekend, so without further ado I give you our the battle for Rygan between Raemarsbar and Tamaru.

So this matchup was a blast to sit and watch both players were new and this was their first game so there were a LOT of rules questions and the largest number wasn't even from the players but two spectators

Obeliske was having some issues with the auto append. Let the games continue!

Start of turn two Slagrippa calls a waaagh and charges the gaunt unit, shooting wildly they manage a few hits but his invulnerability field holds them all off. Into the melee the nobs really get stuck into it and gaunt blood rolls. The gaunts attack first but again manage to make no hits while the nobs go before Slagrippa due to his power klaw and they leave nobody alive to witness Slags disappointment in not getting to kill anything.

Our Tyranid player at this point let out a crazed scream of anguish.

Da Krumpa manages again to make no connections.

The Orks turn ends with two points to zero. One for a killed unit and one for first blood.

Turn two for the Tyranids start he makes a few more pot shots at the Deff Dread but does nothing again! This thing just will not take damage!

Moving his second unit of gaunts into position for a good charge at the orks in cover next turn the turn ends

Turn 3 opens with the Ork player failing every role! Bad luck for sure but Raemarsbar manages to look like she's sitting pretty in the center of the boards ruins cover (conferring a 4+ cover save). Unfortunately this doesn't help her during the Tyranids excellent turn 3 when...

Game one ends with a tabling for our Tamaru and being the gracious loser that he is he shakes hands with Raemarsbar congratulates her and the game ends 6-1 in favor of the orks.

It was a fantastic game and for a turn or two there it could have gone either way. Asking about it after our Tyranid player Tamaru said his favorite moment of the game was the first round of combat when he got to roll 30 dice with rerolls and he plans on upgrading his Hive Tyrant claiming it was most definately his MVP of this game.

Raemarsbar when asked said her favorite moment during the game was when she managed to kill the entire first group of gaunts. After the previous shooting phases she was feeling like she had picked the wrong team but when she tore them apart she realized she could do things and went on to win the game! She says her MVP is a very tough choice between either Doc Chopoff and SlagRippa but she's very happy with the turn out.

Tomorrow we will have another game up for you fine folks out there in internet land. We have Astra Militarum vs. Necrons!

Have a good night and great gaming all!

Our second game is between Necrons (he hasn't posted here yet) and Obeliske's Imperial Guard.

Necrons began with the initiative. Guard attempts to steal, but doesn't make it.

Necrons keep Deathmarks in reserve for deep strike later.



T1 necrons: Triarch Stalker fires snap shot at infantry - misses.



T1 IG: Paskisher (Pask + Punisher tank) attempts to split fire on Canoptek Scarabs and Warriors/Lord. Passes. Paskisher kills whole unit of scarabs, giving IG first blood! First two Executioner blasts cause 8 wounds on Warriors/Lord unit. 2 Warriors resurrect. 5 die.



Third blast hit scatters backwards around onto the Stalker! 1 glancing hit on stalker.



T2 Necrons: Lord uses veil of darkness to try and deep strike.



Scatters into the middle of IG infantry. Rolls to remain in reserves.

Stalker attempts to shoot Paskisher, upon seeing dice roll, Necron player tentatively asks for a truce. Stalker missed wildly.



T2 IG: Paskisher and Executioner roll for strike and shroud, but fail. Right side infantry 'run run run' a total of 3 inches. Necron player accuses IG infantry of skipping leg day. However, infantry manage to get close enough to take ruin objective. Left side infantry takes the cover objective.



Paskisher fires on stalker, of 20 shots, 2 penetrate to destroy the stalker!



With no necrons units on the board, IG wins at the end of the turn, having not lost a single model!



The game ends 5-0 for the Imperial Guard.

Both Obeliske and the Necron player had the same favourite moment - the scatter shot that defied all logic to hit the back of the Triarch Stalker.

IG MVP: Paskisher for taking out a whole unit and killing the Stalker.

Necron MVP: White masked Warrior for being the main target for all Executioner blasts.

Tomorrow is Dark Eldar vs. Tau!

This was a fantastic game I only passes half of my orders rolls but my poor opponent didn't get a single die roll go his way and managed to fail his reserve roll on the Deathmarks along with a bad scatter result on his leader. Our Necrons player was graceful in defeat and is a fantastic opponent to play against he's always so full of quips and keeps the laughs rolling. End of the game we shook hands and talked about what were adding for next month. I've never played against Necrons before and I have to say those stalkers are terrifying! Overall I learned Pask isn't as good in a punisher as I thought but he's still fantastic at taking out infantry and really any multiple wound model while including the executioner in with him was a fantastic idea.

Hi everyone this is Geki. I'm the Tau player of our group.

Myself and our Dark Eldar player Mojito465 had the third game this Tuesday.

The game started with Dark Eldar going first. The scurges moved up towards the the center and fired at my Breacher team killing all but on fire warrior causing them to flee towards my side of the board. His Vemon moves behind the building and shots with his splinter cannon at my Crisis suits killing one and wounding each of my suits with a successful Look out sir on for my commander. The Reaver jet bikes moved forward behind the building opposite of my broadside. His transport moves behind the building carring his Warlord and Troops.

My turn had my Marklight Drones light up the Scurges allowing my Broadside to hit and kill he whole unit. My pathfinders marklighted the Venom and denied cover to the two strike team fire warriors allowing them to glance the craft to death. Crisis suits where left with nothing to shot at.

Dark Eldar turn two had transport move up and off load this wyches, they shot their pistols at my crisis suits for no affect they then charged into the suits with his warlord challenging my Commander. In over watch all my troops fire at his unit dropping him down to his warlord and two Wyches. His assault does no damage to my unit and I inflict two wounds on his warlord. His reaver jet bikes come around and shot my broadside inflicting one wound and then charge.

Tau turn two has me use my fire warriors shot and kill two of the Reaves leaving three left. My second team fires and damage the raider transport for one damage. Assault phase has both warlord drop to 1 wound left. Crisis suit kills 1 wyche leaving it and on unit left each.

Dark Eldar turn 3

The three Reaver jet bikes shot and charge and the fire warrior team loosing one and killing three the fire warriors start to run of the board but the bikes don't give chase. Raider moves to block LOS on Reavers. Assault has Commander die leaving the single crisis suit all alone.

Tau turn 3 Both Breacher team and Strike team run off the board. Pathfinder us pulse carbins with fire warrion pulse rifle to kill raider. Pulse rifle penitrate Raider hull but only destroy Raider on cause explosion. Crisis suit dies in following assult

Dark Eldar turm 4

Reaver bikes charge fire warriors and lose one bike in assult phase killing only one warrior. Warlord and Wyches assult and kill pathfinders.

Tau Turn 4

I charge my drones into the fire warrior/ Reaver combat hoping to kill the bike so that the firewarriors may get a chance at overwatch. Unfortunatly no luck the bikes survive and no wounds on either side.

Dark eldar Turn 5

He charges his warlord into my fire warrios and kills all of the the bike missed on my drones again.

Tou trun 5

Dark eldar kills drones in assult phase Tabling Me.

Dark eldar wins with three models left. His warlord one Wyche and one Reaver bike,

Here's a WIP pic of my fighter. Gotta get some color on there now and finish priming a few touch up spots I carved off after this pic