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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Other Projects for January

Two more converted Honor Guard:
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Three IG snipers:
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Three IG flamers:
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Two Sabre Defense platforms:
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Which I can now use because I just got a copy of IA 4 (sweet!).

And lastly a small generator (not depicted).

Total for January:
21 figures
1 vehicle
6 small terrain pieces
4 medium terrain pieces

Next month, kicks off the Age of Heresy for my Ultras.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Vengeance at Parson's Gap

When the Colonel recovered from the battle he changed out his shorts and ordered up reinforcements. "Boys," he told the men, "Them ork's is playin' for keeps. Break out the General Leeman." The boys whooped and hollered, grabbed a few extra friends, dusted off the sentinel for good measure and formed up. "Oh and this time, give Cletus the flamer-he cain't miss with that!"

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Meanwhile, Da Boss had his mech boyz whip him up some rides from the tractors and other rigs they had been stealin'. Things were about to ramp up. Y'all pull up a stump and hear what happened next.

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The vets high-tailed it over behind the church, thinking they might need to sneak up behind the cans and use their melta guns on 'em. The Colonel learned his lesson good from the last battle. The moved the command squad over behind the parson's truck to set up his flamers. He had the missile teams open up on the closest Killa Kans. For once their aim was true and down went the cans on the right. Pity there were two more on the left. The General Leeman open fired on the looted wagon and stunned the crew. The blast also hit the truck next to it and took it. A couple orks was too slow and got taken out in the blast but the rest made it out and were madder than cut snakes. The other truck drove forward and the Lootas opened up on the General to no effect. One of the Killa Kans took out the Sentinel though. Looks like old Dingy Pete would have his work cut out at him back at the shop fixin' her up again.

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Undaunted ('cept the boys from the blown up truck-they weren't moving!) the orks surged forward.

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Meanwhile, the tank took out the remaining truck and a couple boys while the vets in the church took out one of the Killa Kans.

The Colonel and his boys stepped up and hosed down the orks with their flamers, then, with showing he had stones the size of Rita Jorgston's famous grox pies he charged into the orks! The warboss was a bit quicker and cut down two lads. The Colonel struck back and killed two orks leading to a draw. The Killa Kan dove into the frey! The Colonel looked back at the vets to charge in but they knew they were no match for the Kan and they stood their ground behind the church. The second command squad slid into position and the General Leeman, having thinned down they other group of boys turned to face the remaining orks. The Warboss decided he'd had enough and high-tailed it out of there to fight another day. Everyone was happier than a Pterra Squirrel at a nut farm, 'cept the Cololen of course, Emperor rest his soul.

Them orks had been stopped...for now.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Massacre at Freen's Farm!

Well them ork boys done sticked it to those local milita folk good and made off with one of the tractors. 'Bout 500 points of Orks handed to 500 point of local militia (Imperial Guard).

Here's what happened:

Freen's Farm by the south bridge before the ruckus:
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Therein's the Orks:
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And the Colonel's boys:
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Them orks charged across the bridge but the Heavy Bolters opened up on them and scared that bunch clean back to the badlands.

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The colonel and his squad took the low ground. Someone should have reminded them that's the opposite of what you are supposed to do.

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The orks then crossed the river and sent their Killa Kans across the bridge. The colonel tried to stop them with a heavy flamer but no luck. Meanwhile the veterens and the platoon command squad crossed over to try to meet the ork by the other tractors. Mayhem ensued. The command platoon broke but the vets stayed on, delaying the orks to the last man. Pity they had two melta guns on them; would have come in real handy back on the other side.

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The heavy bolters tried to stop the orks but just couldn't penetrate (or match) their armor, and they were next to go. Sadly the platoon commander gave the melta gun to Cletus the slack jawed yokel and he failed three times to hit the Killa Kans. On the bright side, he won't be much of a problem any more.

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The orks took out the platoon guarding one tractors, and survivors of the other group consolodated on the other one.

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Looks like there are going to be some open slots at next month's dance. I reckon the platoon commanders shoulda taken a couple melta bombs and melta guns rather than give the middle platoon the rocket launcher. The vets should have swapped places with the other platoon and given those killa cans the whatfor with their meltaguns (they probably would have hit 'em). Them Killa Kans were some tough ombres and next time we'll need to bring some real firepower to take them out. Maybe missile launchers instead of heavy bolters. Meanwhile, I recken the battle for Freen's Farm ain't over by a long shot.

Meantime, ya'll come back now, ya hear?

Monday, January 16, 2012

Down On The Old Farm

Best tractors this side of the Gorak Rift. Well the only tractors this side of the Gorak Rift since those damn orks started raiding these here parts!

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More terrain for the upcoming game. Better yet, completed ahead of schedule.

In Other Painting News This Month

Could have used this against the 'Nids:

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

To Catch A Predator...

For our latest predator we had one of our interns pose as a twelve year old girl on a science fiction chat room. Shortly after, today's subject came on. When we asked how old he was, he replied that parts of him dated back to the Horus Heresy (clearly he was not a minor). The conversation covered various topics, but when our intern brought up the move "Avatar" and how much she liked the Na'vi he immediately became aggitated and wanted to come over. We gave him our address and waited.

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When he came in he seemped suprised to find us here. I asked him to sit, he said he preferred it idle in place. I asked him what he expected to find when he came here. He replied, "A heretic xenos-lover who would need to be purged." I aked him what he would "purge" her with (we have visited several websites and are unsure which connotation he was referring to). He implied that he would use his "heavy bolters" but he also had these with him:

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He claimed they were his " magnetized lascannon sponsons". Again we have scoured the internet and so-called kink sites try to find what these are but they have eluded us.

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When the officers we had on hand attempted to apprehend him, he blew up their squad car and departed. We chose not to follow.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

First Troops of the Year: Scouts

Somewhere in these eleven figures is a full scout squad. Kind of an ecclectic bunch; I will probably need to get a boxed set or two to round out a second squad. Not really sure how to use them but I'll figure something out in the near future. More importantly, it's that many less I'll have to convert over to team blue. Huzzah.

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I Call This Masterpiece "Getting Tabled in Four Rounds by 'Nids"

So here is the battle over Christmas vacation where I got my blue power-armored buttocks devoured by my friend Steve's (of wrote the Powerborne: Book One of the Zarryostrom fame-great read, get your copy at www.nenethomas.com while they last) bugs.

Basic setup is the city of Gorkopolis, infamous for getting ransacked at the drop of a hat (town theme song forthcoming) the scifi sister city to Tubbleheim which frequently suffers a similar fate in Warhammer. End of the world of the week; Tyranids. Since it's late and I'm tired, what you see is pretty much wysiwyg only the Razorbacks had Heavy Bolters.

Deployment (notice the spffy turn counter there in Central Gorkopolis Park)

My setup (make not of the tactical squad to the right, sitting all happy on the flank-that will come up later SPOILER ALERT-it does not end well).

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Steve's setup:
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The panoramic vew of Steve's setup:
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Turn 1: Steve Wins Initiative

Kiss one Dreadnaught and Razorback goodbye in return for a wound on a hive guard or something lame like that.
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Turn 2: Shrikes Advance
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Marneus Calgar runs into Hand to Hand. I fail to wound Zoanthropes with lascannons and oh by the way does anyone else remember that Marne can call down ordinance fire 'cuz apparently he forgot.

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Turn 3: Marne takes out a Hive Guard. There goes the other Razorback (which will make great cover for the shrikes by the way) and the hive tyrant decides Marne is going to get the bonesword. Also, guess who else shows up for the part? Genestealers! Remember the Tac squad I mentioned earlier? Gone of course. My counterattack units rally and whittle the genestealers down (yeah, taking a flamer paid off for once). Oh and Marne bites it.
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Turn 4 The shrikes take out the devastator squad, and guess who was close enough to get get demolished by the genestealers? Yeah, the coutnerattack force who subsequently wipes them and the remaining tac squad out. The last of the devastators get taken out by the hive tyrant and it is all over except the digestion.

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Errors on my part; putting the Razorbacks too far ahead. They worked against me as cover once taken out. Second, placing the Tac squad within charge distance of the flank. Third, placing the counterattack force within charge distance of the flank after demolishing the first group.

It was a fun game and playing with two fully painted armies on fully painted terrain was worth the embarassing loss.

I made up for it by a crushing victory against our friend Jon's Necrons the next day but of course I forgot to take picutres of that. Bummer.