T'au Blogwars Results

Good morning minions of all ages I apologise it has taken me so long to post how I fared but I have had a busy week of making up for 7 weeks of trying to paint my T'au in time ( I managed it but compared to some of the beautiful paint jobs at Blogwars it was a clearly sub par).

Firstly I would like to thank Alex for organising this event which went very smoothly and the staff at Maelstrom for providing such a good quality gaming environment with plenty of good looking terrain (if not a little sparse on some tables). The only low point of the day was the buffet but I did spend a long time checking out the painted armies so may have been better when it was first brought out.

As this was the first tournament I have attended I was looking forward to seeing how the day would play out. My first game was against a beautiful Imperial Guard army who ended up winning joint best painted army brought to the table by Karitas and I couldn't have asked for a friendlier guy to ease me in to the day. The game ended in a draw on turn 5 after me seeming to have all the luck in the game with only failing a handful of saves all game but needing one more turn to claim his objective.

My second game was against Adam with his Space Wolves which was a brutal game played mostly in my deployment zone which did highlight a slight lack of room in between the tables but otherwise a very close game with a lot of blood spilled on both sides and ending in my second draw of the day.

The final game was against Simo with a Long Fang heavy Space Wolves list which didn't look good for my Suits. Another very close game which at turn 5 I was barely holding on to a win by feeding Bjornn Suits to try and keep him from contesting. Unfortunately it was not meant to be and turn 6 was rolled for and Bjornn stormed forward into 3" of my left objective & his Rune Priest squad chased my cowardly broadsides off and consolidated into 3" of my right objective making the game end at 1-0 to Simo. Mercifully it didn't go to turn 7 so the remnants of my army that remained were spared.

In the end I took 21st out of 26, which was 5 places higher than I was expecting for my first outing and had a thoroughly enjoyable day which will look forward to doing again. I didn't take a camera with me so I have lovingly borrowed a picture from The 40k Project of my army on judging table in all its table top glory.

Blog Wars result

Hello, faithful hordes of the Plague Father. The post is a little later then I would have liked tonight. But just was to say a big thank you to Alex over at From the Fang for organising Blog Wars. I think everyone who attended thoroughly enjoyed themselves today. I have to say that everyone was extremely sporting.

The venue was really good over at Maelstrom Games and I have to say, it is an extremely good contender against Warhammer World. I would certainly recommend trying it out for yourselves.

Anyway, onto how I did today.

Game 1

I played Andy from Iron Wolves who played Space Wolves in my first game. The game type (which was the same for everybody) was Capture and Control with Spearhead deployment. I managed to go first and as you may expect with my list against a Space Wolf list it ended up being a bit of a ruckus in the middle of the board. The game was pretty even, partly due to some unlucky rolling by Andy but the game eventually tipped towards Andy's favor. This was helped when my Daemon Prince trying to lash a squad got perils of warp on his last wound! All I ended up left was my Plague marine squad, which where unable to dispatch the inbound Grey Hunters or the Rhino. I will honestly say I made a couple of mistakes in this game that cost me the loss and the game going to turn 7 certainly didn't help!

Game 2

I played the organiser Alex, another Space Wolf player. The game type this time was Dawn of War and Annihilation. This game was a pretty quick game as again both armies crashed into each other! I will be honest in this game luck was most certainly on my side and had completely deserted Alex. I have to say I truly felt sorry for him as I have been in the same situation and it is the most frustrating situation to be in when nothing goes your way. Ragnar Blackmane did not do as much damage as he is famous for and Kharne managed to survive a Wolf Guard powerfist with snake eyes (and that wasn't all there was far too much to fit in)! I can't remember the exact scoring of the game. I think it was 10 - 6/7 kill points (I have a feeling Alex may post results of all games online), but I was happy to get the win as cheesy as it was.

Game 3

This game I was certainly not looking forward to, the game type was pitched battle with Seize and Control. At the beginning of the day it was announced it would be 5 objectives. To cap this off I faced one of the three Grey Knight lists. Now admittedly I had some very good luck in this game same as the previous, but I dare say alot better, which was helped when my opponent was failing to hit or wound. This lasted 3 turns and I was genuinely surprised how well I was doing against he Grey Knight list. And then Draigo came on and changed everything! Yes he moved the full 12 inches when he deepstruck in to end up further then he wanted, but he managed to take out Kharne, his fellow bezerkers and my terminators with ease (with a little help with the Inquisition and the damned Sanctuary power!). After this, to make matters worse, my dice decided to start rolling 1's and 2's for everything and I had my worst defeat of the day! I have to say I have played the Grey Knights twice with my Chaos since the release and they are extremely good at killing Space marine equivalent armies, even better then they are against daemons!

Results

So I lost twice and won once. Doesn't sound great, but one was a close call and it was my first tournament. The scoring system favor wins over draws greatly, so it meant I ended up in 16th place out of 26 players, which I am extremely pleased with for my first tournament.

I think I certainly have room for improvement in both my gaming and my list. At the moment though my Chaos will be on hold. This week I will be using Photoshop to sort out our site banner. The following two weeks I will be doing some terrain tutorials. After that I will be going back to painting my Warhammer Orcs and Goblins army.

Road to Blogwars, progress update.

Hello, Plague bringers of the Master of Flies. So, Blog Wars is a few days away and everyone out there is having test games and doing the finishing touches to their army. I have had a look around the blogging community at the other lists. I will be honest I am a little worried as some lists look really competitive, while others have fully embraced the fun side of things.

My list is not as good as I would like it to be. I have not had time to paint my 4 new Obliterator models, so unfortunately I am stuck with the old out of production models, that I have mounted onto 40mm bases.

All the models I need are fully painted, majority have my new paint scheme. I only had 7 weeks to get what I needed done, which was 3 Bezerkers, 1 Plague marine, 1 Daemon Prince and 3 Rhino's, which personally I think it pretty good going to get to completely finished to a pretty decent level.

My next step after the tournament is make some terrain (which I will be putting tutorials and pictures up) and then go back to my Warhammer Orcs and Goblins horde :)

I have had about three 1v1 test games (a lot of 2v2 games, but they do not really count) with my list and I have mixed opinions. Against an opponent like O'Shashar I get wiped out, his broadsides easily popping the Rhino's and his crisis suits gorging themselves on the yummy goodness within. However against a vanilla marine list (not a very competitive list though), without the same amount of fire power I nearly wiped it off the face of the board. So I think I wont be a top runner at Blogwars but I want to avoid coming in the bottom 2 or 3 at least.

Anyway the moment you have been waiting for, my Chaos Space marine List (Comments are welcome).

HQ
Kharne the Betrayer

Daemon Prince, with Mark of Slaanesh, wings, Lash of submission

Elites
5 Chaos Terminators with 1 chainfist, 1 powerfist, 2 combi meltas and reaper autocannon

Troops
8 Khorne Bezerkers with 1 skull champion equipped with powerfist and personal icon
mounted in rhino

8 Khorne Bezerkers with 1 skull champion equipped with powerfist and personal icon
mounted in rhino

7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns and 1 champion equipped with powerfist and personal icon

Heavy Support
2 Obliterators

2 Obliterators

1 Defiler swapping reaper autocannon with extra close combat weapon

I know its not the best list available, but for the models I had at my disposal that where painted (or get painted in time) this is the best I could get. The idea is that the Obliterators and Defiler go tank/monstrous creature/elite squad hunting. The Defiler constantly advances, so when the inevitable happen (the battle cannon gets removed) it wades into the nearest unit.

The 2 Bezerker squads have Kharne and the Daemon Prince for a very hard hitting, objective capturing section of my army. The plague marines concentrate on objective capturing and holding. The terminators deep strike near one of the 4 icons on the board to give close range support where needed.

There are a few things I would change on this list if I had the time available. Swap out the Defiler as he had been very inconsistent for me. Give the Rhino's extra Armour or Daemonic possession. Look at swapping one of the Bezerker squads for a normal marine squad and mount Kharne with 9 Bezerkers in a Land raider.

Anyway I apologise for the length of the article, but comments are welcome :)

Blogwars 1750 T'au List

Welcome children of the Plague father to another Sunday morning why am I not still in bed post. I submitted my list earlier in the week for the approval of Alex over on From The Fang. After reading his post on how everyone was entering into the spirit of the special character lists, I decided to publish my list as it doesn't have a special character in unlike the honourable gent Firewasp from Ignatum who is also bringing T'au.

I haven't taken a special for two reasons, firstly the T'au specials are over priced and with the exception of Shadow Sun are more trouble than they are worth and secondly I don't own any of the specials.

HQ

Shas'El Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Positional Relay, HW Multi Tracker, HW Drone Controller with 1 Shield Drone, HW Blacksun Filter
Shas'Vre Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Target Array, HW Multi Tracker

Troops

Six Firewarriors with Pulse Rifle
10 Kroot 10 Kroot Hound Kindred
10 Kroot 10 Kroot Hound Kindred

Fast Attack

5 Pathfinders
Pathfinder Devilfish with Disruption Pods

Elites

Shas'Ui Crisis Team leader with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Target Array, HW Multi Tracker, HW Drone Controller with 1 Shield Drone, Bonding Knife.
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker

Shas'Ui Crisis Team leader with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Target Array, HW Multi Tracker, HW Drone Controller with 1 Shield Drone, Bonding Knife.
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker

Shas'Ui Crisis Team leader with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Target Array, HW Multi Tracker, HW Drone Controller with 1 Shield Drone, Bonding Knife.
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker
Shas'Ui Crisis with Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi Tracker

Heavy Support

Shas'Ui Broadside Team leader with SMS, Advanced Stabilisation System, HW Target lock, HW Drone Controller with 2 Shield Drones, Bonding Knife
Shas'Ui Broadside with SMS Advanced Stabilisation System

Shas'Ui Broadside Team leader with SMS, Advanced Stabilisation System, HW Target lock, HW Drone Controller with 2 Shield Drones, Bonding Knife
Shas'Ui Broadside with SMS Advanced Stabilisation System


So that's my list which I have committed to and with only 12 models left to finish which are about half way to completion I'm happy that I will finish in time.

Phew, what a busy week!

Hello again guys, well it's been a busy week for myself and O'Shashar. We've been painting our armies for blog wars and having practices games. the event is only two weeks away and we are cutting it a little close, but we should be OK. At the moment I have a single model and two vehicles left to paint and I believe O'Shashar has about 13 models, so we should be Ok I have all of next week off work, which will certainly help!

I've just sent my Chaos Space Marine army list over to be checked and it's not as competitive as I would like, but to be honest the tournament is more based around fun then anything else. I am glad to see there is a nice mix of opponents and not many Blood Angel or Grey Knights armies, so it should be interesting.

I will be taking my camera to take some photo's of the event and unfortunately, no, we are not posting our army lists. Personally I feel I need as much help as possible as I have mentioned my list is only semi-competitive. One thing I will say is that with a little luck (I will need it!) I will pack a punch ;-)

Oh and we promises some pictures of our models and I am planning a couple of guides in the coming weeks. Hopefully one of my friends will be joining us to review the great novels of Black Library.

We apologise for the little breaks in our posts, we are hoping to post more frequently. Dorn's Arrow was supposed to be doing a post on the new Dark Elder miniatures (they look freakin' awesome!), but it seems he too has been too busy. At the moment we are trying to coax One's for the One God out of his hole. Obviously myself and O'Shashar have been extremely busy.

Until next time my fellow chaotic hoardes of undying decay.

Road to Blogwars

With only three weeks to go until Blogwars I really should be painting my T'au cadre but have had my arm twisted to put up the post I have been putting off.

Blogwars is a blogspot community event being run by  From The Fang and should make for a day of gaming, drinking and general good times all round which is being held at Maelstrom Games in Mansfield.

This is the first tournament I will be attending and with my T'au having nothing painted it will be a challenge that could ruin me. As I have been mightily slack with them despite falling in love with the T'au as soon as I picked them up from a friend to help him get out of 40k my painting had been ignored due to a lack of games giving me no motivation.

This leaves me in the unfortunate position of painting 76 models up in seven weeks since I decided to go within 5 minutes of hearing about a tournament within an hours drive and didn't really think about the work this would cause me while trying to not have my wife kill me.

This does mean I won't be winning the best painted award and have made my peace with this, but at least having my army to table top standard is a push in the right direction ( I just bought a light box so will get some pictures up of them when I get back on schedule).

Sorry to cut my first post a little short but the massed Kroot on my desk are looking like they need the paint I promised them sooner rather than later.

O'Shashar