Warhammer 40k - Kill Team - Second Tournament

While I was home over Christmas we all decided to play another Kill TEam tournament since it turned out to be fun the last time around. So a few more small games of 40k. This time I took a tau army composed as follows:



Sine there is 4 of us it is just a 3 round robin thing and the person with the most wins is the 'winner'.

Game 1:
Escalating Skirmish vs Grey Knights

In the first round I played against some Grey Knights in the Skirmish mission. This one is a pretty normal game, both sides have half their force in reserve and the objective is simply to eliminate the opposition while preserving your force.

I deployed my broadside and a few firewarriors behind a rock wall, with another couple on top of the water fall to give fire support.

The Grey Knight commander deep struck into my lines and used the Psychic Scream power to make quick work of my big broadside.

On my turn I outflanked a few fire warriors with carbines to take a few shots at and distract the grey knights that were advancing up the side.

I also had the fire warriors behind the rock wall kill off the pesky commander.

Next turn I brought in my stealth suits and had them peruse the advancing grey knights who are now hiding behind the tower, meanwhile my guys in the back with carbines went after a guy with a very pesky gun in the ruins top left.

Disconcertingly another pair of grey knights deep struck into my back area, and used a powerful flame thrower to take out most of my troops, and then kill my commander with an assault.

Allot of my guys had been killed, but I managed to kill all of the grey knights ont he table with a bit of luck so it was a victory for me.

Round 2:
Take and Hold vs Chaos Marines

In the second round a faced a bunch of Chaos Terminators supported by a spawn of chaos, the mission this time was 'take and hold', five buildings were spread around the board and the objective was to occupy as many as possible by the end of the game.

This time I put a few guys in the central tower to try and claim it, had a bunch to march up the right flank and take some towers, and few behind the same rock wall to try and retake the tower held by the spawn.

The spawn charged out and assaulted and killed my stealth suit, while my forces tried to shoot everything they could at the chaos champion in order to kill him, which proved very difficult.

Big scary guys getting close

I lost  a few guys to assaults, but did manages to put a wound on the champion, and I think I killed one terminator somewhere.

The chaos pretty much continued to pick at my force this way until the game ran out of time, and it was a draw due to us both holding 2 towers.

Game 3:
Last Stand vs Tyranids

The final round was played using the last stand mission, there was 2 players with a win and a tie, so I figured they could both be the defender and this would settle things. In this mission the defender deploys half there force in the middle of the table, and must hold out until reserves an come and hopefully save them.

I put my fire warriors in a tower with the rest in reserve, and they had lictors and genestealers all around.

The tyranids advanced in the face of a ragged fire, and managed to get off 'the horror' psychic power which pinned down most of my guys in the tower. This prevented them from making much in the way of defensive fire.

I had a few guys come in from reserve and try to take out the broodlord commanding the tyranid force but this went predictably poorly.

He seems happy somehow

I brought in my stealth suits and tried to pincer the tyranids, but they were fast enough to assault and kill both of them with out much trouble. My guys in the tower meanwhile tried their best to hold off the assaults.

But it didn't go terribly well.

This continued for awhile with both sides rolling routing tests, which unfortunately I failed first, leaving the tyranids as the winner.

So in the end it was the Chaos player who won it all, with 2 wins and a tie.

Operation Icestorm:

We also played through the icestorm scenarios, but I didn't get to many pictures as my phone battery died, been having allot of problems with that.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas break.

Thanks;
Mike

Painting - Teutonic Foot Knights

Well I have been having trouble with procrastinating when try to start my Crusades project, something about all the mounted knights I guess. So I decided to get going I would just paint a few foot knights, makes sense to me.

So I have 4 guys from the Fireforge Games Teutonic Foot set, this is a really great plastic set, lots of models in there, you can make Knights or Sergeants even cross bow guys. They are nice also.

So plan is to start I will do a few SAGA armies, and then maybe work on some stuff specifically for Hail Caesar, will have to see how I get on with that. Mainly it's a question of what kind of game I want to do for Cangames as I will soon ahve to start painting stuff for that maybe, but I have allot of ideas.

So there we have those guys, I was a bit lazy with the shields if I'm honest but it turned out alright. The LBMS transfers are really nice, and with these ones you mostly just cut out the symbol so no problems with bad fit, except the small shield. I gave one guy a banner pole, but then couldn't find a standard to give him, so I will have to bring in a few of those and add it on later I guess.

Let me know what you think. The only thing I am not keen on are the cloaks so I likely won't use a ton more of those.

Paints Used:

Liquitex:
Black Gesso

Games Workshop:
Leadbelcher
Mithril Silver

Vallejo:
Black
Dark Grey
Natural Grey
Deck Tan
German Camo Beige
Ivory
White
Woodgrain
Dark Sand
Chocolate Brown
Japan Uniform WW2
Smoke
Orange Brown
Flat Earth
Desert Yellow

The base is Desert Yellow, Flat Earth + Smoke wash, Dark Sand, Dark Grey rocks, pale flock.

Thanks;
Mike

Painting - Tau Cadre Fireblade

So planing to play some Warhammer 40k Kill Team games with my buddies back home over Christmas, so to that end I decided I needed to paint a new comander guy for my old Tau army as that is what I decided to use.

 It turned out pretty good, but the face is more white looking then I had intended but no big deal.

This is a plastic model, but annoyingly they don't give you any options at all, I don't like the fake knife he is holding so would have been nice to have an optional gadget or something, but not a big deal. It's just a quick job for 1 day of gaming really.

I kind of want to collect some fantasy stuff after Christmas to do something a bit different, and would like to use GW stuff, but the price is just brutal. This 1 guy was like 20 bucks and that is just not right.

Thanks;
Mike

Event Report - SAGA Vassals Tournament

So we had our SAGA day after, ended up with 8 people which I thought was pretty good. Never managed to finish off the whole thing, but we got 2 of the games done and everyone seemed to enjoy it so that was pretty successful.

I never played after so I don't really have any reports of the games, just a bunch of pictures.

Round 1:

In round 1 we had 4 games, so every 3 feet of the table is a separate game. This was basically the learning the game mission, we had a bit less experienced then I would have thought but since I was not playing I could answer questions more easily, and Jeff really helped out on the far side.

12 feet of darkages, Vikings vs Normans in the closest game, the Anglo-Danish vs Vikings, Saxons vs Scots, and then Normans vs Scots on the far end. I think the winners were Vikings, Danes, Scots, and Normans going down in order.

Round 2:

For round two all the games doubled in size, and we were then playing the Challenge. This one has the warlord for each side out in the middle ready for a duel and the troops have to race in and rescue them and kill the other guy.

I think the closer battle ended up in another Danish victory as they killed the opposing warlord. The far game ended up as a draw basically, by the wording of the scenario it was technically a Viking victory but no one really had the upper hand.

Some of the other guys had a war of 1812 Naval battle going on.

So lots of activity going on for the last meeting of the year.

Thanks;
Mike

King of Britain - SAGA Vassals Campaign

So tomorrow we are going to have a SAGA vassals tournament at the club (Ottawa Miniatures Gamers http://www.creasey.ca/omg/ ), so I thought I should make a brief post with the rules of said tournament. The general idea is that when ever you beat a player (or team of players), the become your vassals and add a smaller warband to your which they control making later games team games. This continues until only 1 person is left undefeated and all other players are their vassals.

To start players may select a 4 point SAGA warband of their choice, with Heroes of the Viking Age allowed.

When a player becomes a Vassal there force is reduced to 2 points, and their Warlord is reduced to a Vassal warlord.

Vassal Warlord Stats:
Attacks: Melee 3, Shooting 2
Armour Melee 5, Shooting 6
Equipment Options as per options for that armies Warlord
Considered a Hearthguard and Activated as such (generates 1 SAGA Dice)
Benefits from the Determination Special Rule (Once per turn can be activated for free)
Ignore the first un-cancled hit in melee or shooting (limited resilience)

All other Warlord (and hero of Viking age) special rules are lots, especially 'Warlord's Pride'! hah.

Since there are 10 players the format will be as follows:

Turn 1: 1v1 games using the 'Skirmish' mission (first player to loose 2 saga dice loses the game) (4pt armies)
Table Size: 3'x4'


Turn 2: game A will be 4 players total (2 warlords and their vassal), playing 'The Challenge' (Pg. 65)
            game B will be a 3 side 'Feast for Crows' (Pg. 68) game (each side has main players + vassal), but the vassal that scored the most point will betral the winner and join the total force from game A.
Table Size: 6'x4'

Turn 3: A big game where each side has 1 warlord and 4 Vassals, will be t'Champions of God' (Pg 110),
Table Size: 12'x4'

As a bonus here is a shot of the 4 armies I am bringing, 1 for me and 3 loaners.

Pagan Rus: Took this before I finished off the enw warlord and Varagian Guard the other day, so have since swapped them in.

Anglo-Dane:

Norman:

Saxon: (option to use Athelstan or a normal boring warlord)

Plan is to take some pictures of the event so should be a report over the weekend I guess.

Thanks;
Mike

Painting - Viking Warlord

Finished off my new warlord for Friday, this guy I like allot better, he is charging in to get some action, much more interesting.

Vallejo:
Black
Deck Tan
Ivory
White
Woodgrain
Dark Sand
Chocolate Brown
Japan Uniform WW2
Smoke
Orange Brown
Flat Earth
Natural Grey

GW:
Pallid Witch Flesh
Dryad Bark
Khorne Red
Wazdaka Red
Leadbelcher
Mithril Silver
Dawnstone
Blood for the blood god

Foundry: (I really need to get a Caucasian triad I guess)
Oriental Flesh Shade
Oriental Flesh
Oriental Flesh Light



Thanks;
Mike

Painting - Varangian Guard

Well we have a big SAGA day coming up on Friday so I have been feeling like painting some more Dark Ages stuff, nothing like some games to get the interest going. I decided to try out a Pagan Rus force, so basically Russian Vikings, so figured I would try to do a few more eastern looking guys. Had the Gripping Beast Varangian Guard pack in my box so time to give it a go.

They are basically the vikings who joined the personal guard of the Byzantine emperor, who later came back. I thought they would look more eastern. This turned out to be a bad assumption, actually I don't really like these models at all.

So here they are, they all have big giant axes which is pretty fun, but there hands are all really close together which looks dumb. I think it would be more effective to chop people with a wide grip. But also the faces are not well done, and they don't have any extra byzantine looking elements or fancy gear like I feel like they should. So not bad but kind of generic and disappointing.

I have a new warlord to paint so hopefully that is better, the viking warlords and generally fun.

Of course here is the list of paints for my future reference: I used the Vallejo wood and leather set for the axe handle and leather straps which was nice but doesn't really show in the pic.

Vallejo:
Black
Deck Tan
Ivory
White
Reflective Green
Woodgrain
Dark Sand
Chocolate Brown
Japan Uniform WW2
Smoke
Orange Brown
Flat Earth
Natural Grey

GW:
Pallid Witch Flesh
Dryad Bark
Khorne Red
Wazdaka Red
Leadbelcher
Mithril Silver
Dawnstone
Dark Angels Green

Foundry: (I really need to get a Caucasian triad I guess)
Oriental Flesh Shade
Oriental Flesh
Oriental Flesh Light



Thanks;
Mike