Dutch 40K Grand Tournament 2012 Recap

That's what my whole army should look like

This past weekend I went to play in the Dutch GT 2012, bringing my Dark Eldar and seeing if I can get some more experience with the army. Also, I was aiming to not finish horribly in the overall standings (you know, like I usually do). Read on to see how I did!

Hear Hear, Bra'tac has something to say!

Off we go then, my very first post on Thunderstomp!

thank you thank you, you're far to kind!!!

Before showing you what I've been building the past few days, I thought it would be nice to use the space allocated to me to talk some Blood bowl!!!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Blood Bowl

Coming Sunday will be the day of days, the very first  "Annual"  Necessary Roughness Blood Bowl Tournament, held at my  place for our little gamers group called Triplex Phall Techpriest.

This year will see 6 teams fighting for the awesomest of awesomestest  title of Club Blood Bowl Champion....Hopefully I can get a proper Trophy designed for next year's tournament so we can forget about this horrible title.

So let's have a look at who signed up with which team. (mind you, it's full of chaos) and being an arse ignoring etiquette and general politeness I'll start with myself.

I'll be Bringing my Chaos Warrior team called the Pitch Invaders.... (Count 1)  Balephon will be bringing "his" Prancing Squirrels as you might have guessed, wood elves for Balephon, I tried to get him to use one of his "actual teams" Orges or Humies but he wouldn't listen. Then we have Lord Thalenchar the ever versatile (could be his next title)  I mean that dude is everywhere, first you see him riding his mighty dragon into battle you blink twice and he's standing on the Pitch beating up the Referee , being a player/coach we'll see him bring his squad of Beastmen and  Warriors The Order of the Moon (Count 2) you might have thought those woodies aren't gonna last against all the violence those chaos teams will bring...hear this..A goblin team has signed up to participate, Coach Boelie will bring his Sneaky Gits we wish them all the best as they will need it, even more than the pansies brought by Balephon.  you guessed it (Count 3) the last of the chaos teams to participate in this tournament. Dre will be bring his Hell's Wanderers , having announced the last chaos team, it's now time to announce the last of the participants, Inzeen will bring his Stormwind Knights.  Will they be the first champions? who knows what they have in store, time will tell.

I won't be posting the rules here, the format I saved it in, does not allow me to copy paste it without the layout being F*ck#d up and I really can't be bothered fixing it. I can tell you this much, it will be a resurrection tournament with allies, Meaning that you have a fixed team and for every game your team will be the same, if players die on the pitch in game 1, they will be available again in game 2! and allies well..., you are not limited to your own roster, humans for instance can ally with Dwarfs, High elves and several other teams, should be fun fielding different races in one team, I know I like it fluff wise, if you haven't you should read the Blood Bowl Novels from the Black Library, and you'll understand what I mean.blacklibrary - Blood Bowl

I aim to post the tournament results somewhere next week, of course y 'all know who the winner will be.

Now then. leaving Blood Bowl for what it is, it's time to show you what I've been building last weekend. it's not spectacular just a simple kit bash to make myself a counts as Pedro Kantor.

Warning the following images were taken with a mobile phone, don't say I didn't warn you.

Name all the parts I used and an internet cookie will be awarded to you!

That's it for now, Thanks for reading

Cheers

 Bra'tac

p.s please ignore any spelling and grammar fails you found.... they simply don't exist

Monday Morning Gamer 20/8

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?

  

Midweek Modelling 12-6

Hello all! A small update today. I'll show you the progress we've made with our Farewell to 5th painting challenge (yes, we're still working on this) and I thought I'd throw in a few other thing as well. Firstly, a pc version of a classic game and, secondly, a bit of news on 6th edition 40K. Here we go!

Sneak peek!

I have been sent this mysterious picture by Bra'tac. Apparently he's been hard at work painting for this week's part of our Farewell to 5th painting challenge.
I think the weathering looks awesome and I can't wait to see what he'll have done by the end of the week.
What do you guys think?

Monday Morning Gamer 22-5

Hello and good morning! I think this is a first: me actually posting a Monday Morning Gamer post on an actual morning! (It’s 8:14 am here, for those wondering). Sure, pessimists might point to the fact that it is Tuesday instead of Monday, but I choose to look at the glass as half full!

Anyway, another shortish post for you this morning. I have a few thoughts on the new Empire book. I know it’s been out for a while already, but I didn’t do a proper post on it before so I’ll mention some thoughts now. Secondly, we have another installment of our Farewell to 5^th painting challenge. We’ve hit a sizeable snag last week, which I’ll mention below, but most of us managed to push through and get some painting done. Lastly, just some thoughts on the way army selection works in our group currently. Nothing big, just some thoughts I’ve had while playing in our Blood in the Badlands campaign.

Let’s get to is, shall we?

Monday Morning Gamer 14/5

Goodday to all! I have a short post for you today. Haven´t been up to much gaming lately, so have nothing to share on that front. What I do have for you are some pics! Last week we started a Farewell to 5^th painting challenge and my, my, are we off to a great start! Well, when I say great, I actually mean a good start. Or rather, let´s just say we´ve at the very least gotten started! Check below for more!

Also, as has been mentioned over on our Blood in the Badlands page, I promised to put up two versions of the map Shalen made for our campaign. One is with grids, the other is completely grid-less.