Happy new year to everybody! I hope everybody has a fun 2014 with many victories.
One of my new years resolutions for this year is to be less slack about my blogging - the initial goal is one post a week. So I'll get myself off to a good start by posting this.
Orks. in. Spaacccceeeeeeee!
On boxing day I went round to Mark's place for a game of
Battlefleet Gothic. Mark was using his Orks (with the latest revisions of the fleet list) and I was trying out the Space Marine fleet list for the first time.
Mark's blog covers the events of the battle pretty well, so I'm just going to post my pictures;
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| My fleet deployed in the center |
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| "Ork battleship and carriers approaching to starboard sir!" |
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| Overall situation. |
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| My (temporarily) disabled capital ships move off, while the escorts provide cover |
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| Escorts successfully cross the T against the Ork carriers, while the two battleships engage in a broadside duel. |
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| Endgame. My battle-barge and strike cruisers picking off the Ork escort ships |
This was a fun game, with some hilarious swings of luck for and against both sides. The marine list was interesting. Having armour 6+ all round makes it very tough (at least against gunnery) but I don't think it can dish out as much firepower as the Chaos fleet that I'm used to. Still, I think I'll use it for at least a couple more games to get a better feel for it.
Darkness Awakening
My first painting project for 2014 will be my old Dark Elf army for
Warhammer Fantasy Battle. I used to play quite a bit of Warhammer back in 7th edition, and I'm a fan of the rules (although not so much a fan of GW). A couple of friends have been playing some WHFB (8th edition) lately, so I figured it was worth pulling the Dark Elves out of the cupboard and seeing what needs to be done to get it presentable. After a bit of reading to refresh my memory and familiarise myself with what has changed, here is what I'm considering for an initial 1200 point army;
- Supreme Sorceress, level 4 with 50 points of magic items
- Regiment of 24 Warriors with spears and full command
- Regiment of 12 Warriors with crossbows and musician
- Regiment of 12 Warriors with crossbows and musician
- Regiment of 18 Witch-Elves with full command
- War-Hydra
A lot of this is already painted, and the standard is actually better than I thought it was. The major thing I'm disappointed with is the basing - it looks like I got bored and just painted the bases brown! So re-doing all the basing is the first step, then the second step will be finishing off the Witch-Elf unit. Witch-Elves are actually quite a bit of effort to paint because each one is quite distinct, and they also have lots of mixed areas of clothes/skin/jewelery that is quite fiddly to do well. Still, one model at a time and I'll work my way through them.
Hi John, I like the look of the new projects.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your blogging pledge. I find that if I do three a month, I am doing well. That may be because I largely do batreps and by the time I add in speech bubbles etc there is a bit of time involved? It was easier during the phase where I used to chip away weekly at Wotr figs as progress posts are very quick.
Good luck with the blog target - sounds ambitious! I find that the best motivation for painting/blogging is having some upcoming event I need them for, otherwise I tend to be slack.. Speaking of which have you thought about the 1200 point WFB doubles at Warclouds? http://forum.nzwargamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11176 I'll be your partner if you want to enter, provided you think you can have the 1200 points all painted and based by then - looks like you only need to do about a dozen figures with more than a month to go. How's that for motivation? :)
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ReplyDeleteGood luck on your wargaming and blogging efforts for 2014! I love BFG so was good to see a game and likewise the Dark Elves have always been a favourite of mine so it would be nice to see them on the table, even if I will have to crush them :)
Good luck on the post a week! You can do it! Just plan ahead a bit.
ReplyDeleteShow us more of your bolt action army. :-)
Dark elves... awesome John... nice wee army.
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