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Video Battle Report - Chaos vs Fists

Robin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:01:49 +0000

I was able to get in a 1250pt game of 40K with my buddy Jarrett this weekend. He is trying out some HD video battle reports (which you can see more of here, so we gave it a go for our game. I think it turned out pretty well, save for serving as a record where we cheated (I think you *should* be able to auto hit something that deep strikes that turn! :p )

Part 1:

Part 2:

Cheers,

Robin

Back in Edmonton, Colton and I do Battle!

Robin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:19:40 +0000

Liz and I are now back in Edmonton, and settled in quite nicely.

My brother Colton visited for the weekend, and we even managed to get in a game of Warhammer 40K. Pictures here!

Cheers,

Robin

John Visits Us In Toronto

Robin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:20:41 +0000

So our good buddy John was able to come visit us for his birthday. We had a blast, and managed to get in quite a few activities while he was here. Check out the pictures on facebook.

So far we are averaging about one visitor a month. First Ray, then Sarah, now John. Who wants to come visit us next?

Cheers,

Robin

Plague Marines

Robin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:42:33 +0000

This is the first of my unit of Plague Marines. I wanted to create a plaguey, Nurgley colour while still keeping some of my army’s overall black and gold scheme. There is also some minor conversion work: hooked hand, head from the Rhino kit, holes and cuts added, as well as removing the skulls from the bolters and adding them to one of the shoulder pads. Now onto the next batch!

Cheers,

Robin

Darius… Done!

Robin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:32:11 +0000

I have wanted to paint up Darius for a long time now, as he plays perfectly in the type of jack heavy lists I play - I even managed to get 3 games in with him on his first outing today, but went 1-2. He was a challenging model to paint, and is the best I have done so far in terms of blending my blues, and highlighting the edges.

He goes with the 3 Halfjacks I finished earlier, which you can see here.

My secondary army colour is red, and I am trying to minimize its use for my next few minis to see how it goes. The base is also still a bit shiny as I haven’t matte coated him yet.

The above picture links to a slightly larger version of the image if you want to see a bit more detail.

Cheers,

Robin

Strange Markers

Robin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:25:01 +0000

First off, Liz and I are almost done a new travel blog post, this time about the Cotswolds in England. We are planning on doing several more posts to finish up our pictures of England and Scotland.

As for this update, I have finished painting up a few things. The latest edition of Warhammer 40K uses a lot of objective-based scenarios (where you fight over the spots marked by the objectives), so I have painted up 3 Chaos-themed objective markers. I don’t have background story for them yet, but I think the 4-way sign post might be ‘all ways lead to Chaos’ or something cheesey like that.

I have also been playing a lot of my Cygnar army for Warmachine lately (I am currently sitting 3rd in our league of 15 or so players), and I am really excited about my new list that will be revealed this weekend, which includes Captain Arlan Strangeways, warjack mechanic extraordinaire. I really enjoyed painting him up. I was finally able to buy the colours I needed for his face off of ebay. His pipe and the little dials and gauges on his chest and backpack were fun to paint.

Cheers,

Robin

40K Battle Report: Chaos vs. Sisters

Robin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:15:36 +0000

I had a great game today with a new friend I have met in Toronto, Adam. His Sisters of Battle against my Chaos Space Marines, a small 500pt battle. I thought I would try to do up a battle report, as I had my camera with me. Here goes :p

Black Legion Chaos

The stage was set… my Chaos Space Marines led by a Khorne-marked Daemon Prince, and two small squads of Chaos Marines, one with an Icon of Khorne (transported in the Rhino), and one with an Icon of Nurgle. Both squads had an Aspiring Champ with Power Fist.

Sisters of Battle

The Sisters army consisted of two Rhinos with 10-women squads each, along with Adam’s HQ choice (using the Celestine Living Saint model, but it was just a regular HQ of some sort, with a power sword).

Game On!

We rolled Capture and Control, with 3 objectives (luckily I had just finished making 3 objectives for my CSM), and the table-quarters deployment.

Here we go!

You can see the 3 objectives labelled above.

Sisters take on the Daemon Prince

The first few turns saw the Daemon Prince head towards the Sisters, but unfortunately the Sisters responded by unloading both Rhinos… all twenty sisters disembarked and then took aim at the Daemon Prince with Melta and Bolter guns.

Daemon Prince needed to roll 3's... Fail

The first squad did two wounds to the Daemon Prince, leaving him at half life. The next round of firing landed three hits on the Daemon Prince… he of course needed to roll 3’s to save, and as you can see above, all three dice came up 2’s. No more Daemon Prince. He didn’t even get his claws dirty.

Sisters and Chaos Space Marines gets stuck in

The squad of Chaos Marines with the Khorne icon (yay for extra attacks!) charged the Sisters to enact their revenge after the early decimation of the Daemon Prince.

Run away! Run away!

After a few rounds of close combat, both sides had been whittled down, with only one squad of Sisters remaining, the Chaos Champ and Icon Bearer, and the Sisters HQ choice failing a morale check and almost running off the table in retreat. Unfortunately, the Sisters HQ choice rallied, and re-entered the fray.

Two Rhinos face off in no-man's land

Strategy tip 101: don’t bother ramming a Rhino with another Rhino when you are only three inches away. I wanted to try out the ramming rules, but since I didn’t build up any speed, I don’t even think we scratched the paint when we connected (there is statistically no way to do damage if you move less than nine inches. Now I know, heh.) I do think the airbags deployed, which means spending $$ getting the damn things repacked.

Mid-battle overhead shot

Melta gunner takes aim at enemy Rhino

While all the action was going on near Objective #3, the Nurgle icon squad snuck down to Objective #2, and started taking pot-shots at the Sister’s Rhino. They stunned it once, but that was all. I am sending my Melta gunner back to sharp shooting school.

And stay down!

The close combat fighting went down to the wire. The only two combatants left where the Chaos Champ with Power Fist, and the Sisters HQ choice. As you can see, the Blood God was smiling as the Champ put down the Sister once and for all.

Game Over Man

I have only played 40K about five times, and almost every time the game has ended early at the end of turn 5. This time was no exception.

Troops claim the objective for the win

Final Result: Chaos wins! Objectives #1 and #3 where both contested, but the Nurgle icon squad camped #2 and claimed it uncontested, sqeaking out the win! Also, the only thing remaining of the Sisters’ army were the two Rhinos. A good day for Chaos!

Thanks for the game Adam - I had a *blast*.

Cheers,
Robin

Half-way There

Robin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:18:53 +0000

Just finished painting up the three little Halfjacks from Darius’ battlegroup (who will be done soon), and the mines that come with them. They can dig themselves into the ground to make mines, but spend most of their time fixing up my broken jacks. The last Halfjack can’t stand the site of the beheaded jack, which is leaking hydrolic fluid, and is running away :p

Cheers,

Robin

What a Wreck

Robin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:01:03 +0000

I created these wreck markers for my Warmachine Cygnar army using spare jack parts I ordered from the Privateer Press online store. There are 2 Heavy and 2 Light wreck markers for when my jacks take enough damage to be destroyed (like that ever happens).

I wanted to make them low enough profile so that you could stand other minis on them when needed, you can see that the top two have their parts ’sunken in’. The bottom two aren’t sunken in as much, partly because I thought it would look better, and partly because it was taking too much time and effort (i.e. I am lazy), heh.

This was also my first attempt at ‘battle damage’ as seen on the leg.

Cheers,

Robin

My 2 Cents

Robin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:19:25 +0000

I have just finished painting up 2 Cygnar Centurions. I started these a while back, but they sat around with just their basecoats for some time. It was an odd job to finish them up, as I have changed some of my techniques since, and it was weird meshing the two styles without totally repainting them. The metals, for example, are done in my old style with ink washes and Vallejo paints, but now I use Citadel washes and colours.

I felt it would be fun to post a pic of the Squire with his two bigger brothers :)

Also, I have created a painting log where I am tracking my completed projects and works in progress.

Cheers,

Robin