Tournament Report - 40k 3rd Ed

 Hello Folks,

This past Sunday I got the chance to play in a 3rd ed Warhammer 40k tournament! I decided to take Necrons to change things up a bit, also no one seemed to be playing them so good for variety.

I tried to shy away from to many warriors and immortals to make it a bit more fun to play against, so took the Deceiver, some wraith, and pariahs. This makes phase out much more of a risk so takes things fien a notch. Pretty happywith how things worked out.

Meat grinder vs Imperial Guard

First game I was defending in meat grinder vs the guard. They have to phase me out or lose.

Here's the set up. My plan is to hide my warriors and lord behind the barn away from pesky tank shots that might give the guard a chance, and distract with my chaff units like the deceiver?

Wraith charging snipers, can't have the shooting any Catan, flayed ones advance. Oh and the scarab wat a demolisher turret. Dint like those either.

Guard advance doing de ent damage but all necrons i cured get back up.

Tomb spider snacks on a hellhound.

Flayed ones eating units.

Eventually the guard are loosing units and can't even attack my unkillable warrior blob so throw in the towel.

The Relic vs Sisters

Game vs the ladies, control the relic and you win, will my very slow no vehicles army get punished?

Turn 1 just walking.

Turn 2 reserves, I put allot on the right due to warriors on the left.

Sisters immedstly find the relic close to their side, oh dear.

Start closing in the noose, but we are turn 3 already!

Sisters block a gap with a tank like the 300 or some shit.

Sisters taking a pounding, but the relic is moving away as fast as I can advance.

Final push, the deceiver uses his deception to make the sister with the the relic take a morale test, going for a tie, but they easily pass.

Pitched Battle vs White Scars

This game became very interesting, so somewhat less pictures, plus late in the day.

Necrons deploy in standard formation, blod on a side, toys on the other bit of a refused flank i guess. White Scars mostly on reserve except landraider with terminators and librarian and a rhino. Cool to see librarian,very rare choice in 3rd.

Wraith fighting a 5 man marine squad, flayed ones up front fighting bikers, and sneaky bikers fighting my back line.

The back bikers did some good damage, but the pariah kill allot including the power fist sgt. Unfortunately next turn they wiff vs the hammer commander and die. 

Terminators clean the flayed ones, my lord charges the commander but also wife's and eventually dies.

On the other hand the deceiver eats the raider, and all the terminators including the librarian. But its not enough Mc. Hammer kills exactly enough warriors and immortals phase out! Back to the tombs!

Very fun tournament. I think I succeeded making the Necrons scary but still fun to play against, ok maybe not game 1 but I don't choose the scenarios! Otherwise all good.

Now what army to play next time??

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Star Wars Legion

 Hello Folks,

Had some canada day star wars action.

I took the Echo Base Defenders against Blizard Force in a skirmish fight. The mission was bunker assault, plus some scanning.

Here's the set up, most of my guys have prepared positions so set up on the board, the rest come in turn 1.

Turn 1 I played a card that put allot of my machine gun lasers on stand by so they could shoot up advancing storm troopers

 This worked pretty well. But the speeder came in early which let the walker get the drop on him. Less good.

Turn 2, my first idea was to try to whooping the walker, but else fly him far away to try and distract the walker from my bunker, and help clear a path for my tauntauns to take one. This kinda worked but my speeder git shot down. Other wise chipping away at the walker with my big laser and getting efficiency from the blaster guys with standby.

Turn 3 was about the taun tauns forcing forward while an infantry unit came up to contest the bunker. The riders turned out surprisingly good charging into melee. This plus all the blaster fire took a toll on the storm troopers.

I forgot the last picture, but by then end of turn 4 or 5? They just had 2 units including the walker. That guy could do allot of damage to my force, but won't be able to catch up on points.

So a win for the rebels. MVP probably standby token, but I'll say the riders!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Last 40k day at Fandom

 Hello Folks,

Had our final 40k day today at, end of an era for sure. Anyway we had 3 people so went for a king of the hill scenario.

I had Steel Legion

Vs Iron Warriors and Space Wolves 13th company

Here's the set up loads of Marines, loads pf tanks, and loads of evil Marines and tanks. Who can hold thr crash plane in the middle.

Iron warriors immedatly kill a chimera, so that's how ots gonna be eh. Also she'll some wolf guys.

Advance to the objective, and shoot up some Iron dudes.

Wolves march forward.

More shelling from the warriors and they kill a sentinel.

Raptors assault my tank commander, then retreat? Deep in to my lines. Don't question it.

The lads hope out to kill some raptors, tank commander was shaken so he backed it up.

Wolves charge a chimera and smash it, what do these guys have against chimeras?? Missed a couple turns of pics, eh long story short we blew up most of each other's tanks.

What i hoped would be the last turn I dashed my last chimera unto the objective.

Surrounded by like 40 Marines, with their chimera obliterated, these 5 guys had to explain sorry chaps times up planes ours, bad luck.

I think that wolf lord wanted 1 more turn but themselves the breaks!

Thanks;

Mike

Tournament Report - Old World at Red Dragon

 Hello Folks,

This past Sunday was another Warhammer tournament at Red Dragon, have been feeling like doing some fantasy lately so I attended and brought my 100 yrs wars guys using the renegade crowns list.

Game 1: vs Slayers

Here's the set up, sellswords with the griffon banner in the center, flanked by veteran sellswords with full plate and great weapons, flanked by crossbows and archers, cav one the right flank. My plan just to shoot em up.

Dwarves coming in but taking lots of casualties.

A line guy charges sone archers but the gets shot up.

One dwarf block makes it in but gets ground down.

More dwarfs charge in.

Block with a lord broke a unit.

Ran out of turns at this point. Basically we each lost a unit, ended up a draw!

Game 2: vs Chaos Warriors

Setup for game 2 fighting chaos now. More or less same game plan,but they have more armor and are faster so that's  concern.

Hello cannon immedatly goes crazy and charges up fast.

Not many chaos die from shooting...

Units break through bith sides of my lines.

Have maybe a decent chance to turn it around but my knights fail a charge by 1".

Got surrounded and cleaned up from there. Missing last picture but I got wiped out.

Game 3: vs more Chaos!

Set up for game 3, mission this time is to capture the sacred swamp in the middle. For the third time in a row I fail to get first turn. But the dice gods have my back after that.

Demon prince coming in hot.

Shoot him up pretty good, I think like half killing the guy. Stupidly give him the flank pf my knights thou.

Demon prince comes in but he just can't take out my lord, used a Joan of arc model.

Blast a unit of forsaken and try to get some help in time.

The dice gods aren't behind the demon prince. After like 3 combats he chips joan away 1 wound at a time. Oh also the warriors fly in just like their boss.

I shoot the good out of the warriors, and my foot unit saves the day. Their champion challenged the demon prince who only did 1-2 wounds with his 500 str 8 attacks, the rolled high on his beard test and ceased to exist.

Chaos chosen knights are problematic thou, and the bloodied warriors are feasting on my Bombard are missile troops.

Knights chewing up sellswords, marauders flailing out riders. But my griffion standard guys smash the warriors.

My knights get the rear of the chosen knights to clean it up.

Very fun game, ending in a victory for me. Very lucky thou, I got every spell off, lord would die, vs Chaos casting maybe 2. But that's how it goes lots of murdering fir both sides!

Fun tournament overall, look forward to the next. Would really love to do 1 with the 500pt rules to change things up!

Thanks;

Mike