Second Game

Was even more a rout then last game. I won't go into it, but in the Liber Angelis that the Angels of Wrath keep from the days of the Nova Terra Interregnum, it is known as the Folly of Chaplain Xarivus.

I will do a rematch against andy on saturday to try another list design. I'm sort of half playing as I throw units on the table and just watch what happens. I think I am starting to get a feel for how I want to play my marines... but it's a slow go.

On the painting front, I need to get down on some more stuff, but I am still getting used to the move and settling in. I am going to try to get a dreadnought painted this week, and if I do, that's doing good I think considering my new schedule.

I'm actually considering not taking marines to the tournament on the 5th and instead taking tau. I think at the moment my Tau are more competitive. I'm just more used to playing them, the marines are giving me fits.

Back to the drawing board. I'll try and get a dreadnought painted and posted by next week.

First Game

Well... not my first game ever... but my first game back.

I took a mish/mash of marine stuff and threw it against Ryar's tooled up salamander list... it got stuck in like a spit ball down a volcano. I maned to almost have a tie... and didn't get tabled (by one immobilized, partially damaged predator and (2) scouts.

The scouts were more impressive then I thought.

The bikes were not. I was fairly impressed with combat tactics to be honest, but I think the problem with the use of the bikes wasn't them, but me. Sometimes when you use strange units and they don't work out, blame yourself. The scouts were actually pretty good that game, even though everyone told me what trash they were exactly because I knew how to use them. I am going to drop my terminator librarian and use a normal librarian I think. I also need to get to painting a few units, but I want to finish my dreadnougths and drop pod first.

Anyway, that's it. No new pictures, I'm to busy trying to get settled here.

I should play another game on wednesday, and some this weekend. I'm very very glad that I have a

Landed

Well finally landed in Jackson. Nothing new to post hobby wise, as my things are still in transit. they should get here this week and hopefully when I get some sanity I can work on my dreadnoughts and drop pods next week and *gasp* actually get a game in. If I get a game in, I may post it as a video blog of the battle to youtube if people are interested. Hmmm, that's not a bad idea.

Ug

I'm drinking the random beers that seem to breed that are left in the fridge.

MGD 64 is not a drink fit for consumtion by man.

I'm Out

Ok, minitures/paints are packed so this will probably be my last post for a few weeks. I leave on saturday and will drive until next wednesday/thursday. My guess is that my stuff will not arrive till around another week or so after that, and it will take me a week to get set up, so expect something realistically before Thanksgiving (late November).

See you guys later.

Angels Terminators

Ok, so I got the terminators and the terminator Librarian finished last weekend. They took quite a bit more time then I had anticipated to be honest with you, but I'm pretty pleased with the way they came out. As usual, I think they are better then the photographs. The highlighting is always better, and it always sort of gets muted in the photos. I tried using the flash, but that didn't come out that well either. One day, when I'm stable again, I'll work on that.

Anyway, as I wrote about on the 40K Radio Forums, I did the battledamage and weathering on these terminators. I struggled with that decision, because I thought they looked good the first time, without the need to any, but then they would not have worked well with the army. Also, it took me awhile to decide how to paint them. I'm a Dark Angel successor chapter (sort of) so we use their number system for squads and companies, so it makes since they would also have single colors for the the 1st company (or 1st Order in my case). However the Deathwing didn't paint their armor bone until after an event from Post-Heresy. I decided to stick with the army color scheme. However I did make the decision that the Terminators from my First Order all wear their individual heraldry on their right should pad, so you may notice that. The reason for this is that by the time they are part of the 1st Order, you are quite the hero. Also my guys are sort of a Dark Angel/Black Templars blend. I'm working on their background that I will throw up here at some point



Here is my cyclone terminator. The cyclone is magnitized and can be pulled off. Wow did the highlights not come out on him at all. The red in this photo generally pops a lot more in RL. Sad really.

A picture I took with the flash of the Sarg.

Terminator Arixa, who has some battle damage on him.

And finally my terminator librarian

No Camera

The wife is in Jackson/Tupelo, MS scoping out the new place we're living, with the camera as I pack up the rest of the house. Yesterday I had a breather though, so I was able to finish my terminators. They took quite a bit longer then I honestly anticipated, but are now safely bixed away.

For the next hour or two I have some things around the house to work on, then I am going to dive into probably "The Last Models Painted In California" for me. Two Rogue Trader dreadnoughts and my scratch built drop pod.

Rogue Trader dreadnought you ask? Aren't those the bix boxy crappy dreads from the late 80s? Why Bother? Well, first off, I like old stuff. All my dreadnoughts are lead actually (3 new style metal, 2 rogue trader). Next, I think with a little conversion work, they look pretty good. Sadly, you probably will only get to see the finished stage of the miniture. Yesterday night was spent completely scratch building the arms and weapons and what not for my Ironclad (Rogue Trader) that turned out... quite nice to be honest.

Anyway, that's what I'm up to. I'll post photo's this week if I can. On saturday we hop in the car and leave so I will be out of contact for a week or so. That's it.