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| Time to wake up :) |
Goodmorning,
goodmorning! It has been a while, but on this lovely sunny Monday I thought I´d do another blog post. Consider these past few
months my summer hibernation, and we´ll see if I can post with some regularity
on here again!
Anyway,
of course there’s a reason for me to start posting again. Not only has my good
friend Apophis been hounding me for an update (thanks for that), but also I
have made a deal with Balephon. Both
Balephon and myself are going to be participate in the Dutch 40K GT this autumn
and we’ve decided to show our road to the tournament on here.
That’s
not all for today. There’s also a small thing I’d like to mention as well. A
brilliant (in my humble opinion) idea from the brains behind wargaming.nl:
single models!,
Let’s
get to it, eh?
Road to
the ’12 GT
The
rules for the tournament are here. It’s 1750, full 6th tournament
(so no comp and we’ll use all the rules in 6th, yes that includes
having terrain placed the players each round.)
Now, for
those who know me a bit, I don’t usually tend to do to well at tournaments. It’s
been pretty bad the last year or so, but even before that, I don’t think I’ve
cracked top ten in a big tournament more than once (if that). There’s probably
a dozen different reasons why I never do too well, and I won’t bore you with an
in-depth psychological analysis, but I think one of the main reasons is that I
only ever decide on an army to use with about 2 weeks to go. (Sometimes even
less).
I cannot
count the number of times I’ve spent the night before the tournament staying up
till three in the morning, painting the final models (badly, btw) I needed to
complete the new army build I’d decided on using. I’ve switched from vanilla Marines
to Chaos Marines, from Dark Angels to Daemons and from Imperial Guard to, well,
a completely different type of Guard army.
The
result is always the same: I lose the first battle of the tournament as that
often is the first real game I play with my army. Basically I start playtesting
my army properly during the
tournament!
With
that first loss under my belt, the rest of the tournament is either a) an
uphill struggle to claw my way back up the rankings if the army actually works
or b) me playing games trying to avoid playing consecutive games on the bottom table
if the army doesn’t work.
And
every year after a tournament I make the same vow: next year will be different!
Guess
what, this year will be different!
I’ll
post updates on here when stuff happens. I’ve got a game (or two?) lined up vs
Bra’tac next week, so that will give me some time to assemble my army and get
started on the painting.
Balephon
has already sent over some pics of his army’s progress so far, and I’ll do a modeling
post next week.
Here’s
the lists we’ve made:
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| Flying Ork! |
Balephon’s
Tyranorks:
Hive
Tyrant, Wings, tl Devourer
5 Ymgarl
Stealers
2x10
Termagaunts
Tervigon
20
Gargoyles
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| Flying Dark Eldar! |
My list
will be as follows:
Crimson
Death
Haemonculus,
stinger pistol
10
Warriors, blaster, sybarite, Raider, Night Shield, Splinter Racks
9
Warriors, blaster, sybarite, Raider, Night Shield, Splinter Racks
2x5
Wyches, haywire grenades, Venom, Splinter Cannon
2x6
Reaver Jetbikes, 2 heat lances, 2 cluster caltrops
Ravager
Razorwing
I’ll do
a tactics post later on. For now, I need to get modeling!
Warhammer
Singles:
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| New Logo! |
Have you
ever needed just that one more model to finish your unit? That 6th
terminator to complete your tournament army, those 3 phoenix guard to finish
your High Elf army, or that 3rd Mournfang model to finally be done
with that Ogre unit? Don’t want to buy a full set of models when all you need
is one or two? Well, wargaming.nl has you covered! They now sell single models
for pretty much every unit you could want. Heck, even if they don’t have it
currently, I’m sure they can help you get the model you need as soon as possible!
I’ve already used them to get a couple of more scourges and I need 2 more
jetbikes. I think it’s a great idea.
The
price is exactly what you’d pay for a full set, divided by the number of models
in it. So you’d get a single Gargoyle for €2.50, or one
river troll for €12.50.
If you
need just a few models to finish your unit/army, this is for you!
Check it
out here!
And just
so you know, I have absolutely nothing to do with wargaming.nl. Just helping
out!
And as a
final bit of news: I’ve asked Bra’tac to contribute some articles for this blog
as well. We’ve yet to work out the details, but expect to see the occasional
article by the man who brought us the rebel grots and tons of other cool
conversions!
Well,
that’s it for now. Let’s see if I can keep this posting updates a bit more
regular, shall we?
