Weekend doubles tournement

Had some great fun at the weekend playing in a mini doubles tournement at my local GW store. I wanted to get some games in with my new 1500 point list but this was the main event of the day. The games were 1000 points with each team mate bring 500 points, each player taking one troops choice and the who army sharing a HQ. My fellow team mate took Catachan guard which using very much in-your-face tactics in mind. So I went mainly assaulty taking:

5 man tactical squad w/power weapon/flamer/rhino
5 death company w/jump packs
furioso dreadnought w/death company/heavy flamer/drop pod

His guard:
Colonel 'Iron Hand' Straken w/5 man command squad
Harker w/9 guardsmen/2 flamers
Vendeta

We had great fun in all our games and long story short we won one game and lost two.

First game was against Space wolves which we had a laugh as we stole first turn and moved up and killed alot of wolves with only one casualty taken. What lost use the game was the wolves had an hammer unit of Logan Grimnar and Wolf Guard in a drop pod which took a ponding. It didn't help my DC tried deep striking and scattered in were lost in the warp :( .

Game two we played Nids and eldar. This game feature the highlight of the tournement when I rammed my rhino into a Mawloc trying to get it to fail it leadership and push it off the edge of the board. Instead it took Death or Glory and failed! Road Kill!!! We all laughed at it was suggested the Mawloc get track treds painted on its head. We tabled them and won the game.

Game three we played Edlar/Space marines with mass templates- two vindicators and two fire prisms. We found it difficult to come to grips with this army and lost but at least we all had fun and the dread took a round of firing from nearly the whole army. Smoke Launchers to the rescue!

Great day but hopefully next week if there isn't too much fantasy going on I'll get a proper game in.

Librarian Ezio

If the rumours are true librarians in the new codex might just become a viable HQ option. I still like to use one now as I quite like them but I now almost every other blood angels player prefers chaplain, corbulo and/or danta. I'm hoping they make a come back as I love the idea of marines running around making people's heads melt and shooting fire from their hands.

I'll be righting fluff for my librarian soon and will add on to it after every game as I want him to be a key character in my army.

Hope you like the picture and should have more stuff done soon!

Nids!!! Fighting fire with fire!

It is time for another FtW collaborative post and the topic... Bugs!!!

I've only played a quick 2 turn game(I only had 30 minutes)against them and they are quite nasty. The tunneling S6 AP2 blast template made short work of my death company and the sheer volume of smaller bugs is staggering. But in that short game I've come up with some ideas. The scariest threat was the big Nids so I say fight fire with fire in two death company furioso dreads in drop pods. My new list looks like this:

Lemartes
Librarian w/plasma pistol

Tactical squad (10)w/powerfist/meltagun/missile launcher/rhino
Tactical squad (10)w/powerfist/flamer/missile launcher/rhino

Furioso dreadnought w/death company/venerable/heavy flamer/drop pod
Furioso dreadnought w/death company/venerable/heavy flamer/drop pod
Death company (3)w/jump packs

Baal predator w/heavy bolter
Baal predator w/heavy bolter

The mind set behind this is that the librarian forms a gun line with the tactical squads using his hood to try and stop the Nid psychic powers from reducing my Baals to wreckage. He also is quite affective at counter attacking, in the small game he almost single handedly (a couple of assault marines may have helped) reduce 18 gargoles to 1 in a turns combat! The baals are just a great laugh spraying mass amounts of shots into the horde but might need to start considering vindicators. Now the dreads will be something new and I'm hoping they with start beating down the bigger Nids to allow other units to concentrate fire into the hordes.

Hopefully I'll have a battle report to post on Saturday when I get to play this list.

I'm getting somewhere.

With the new codex around the corner I need to get in gear and paint. Here is my week efforts:



The shadow grey highlights are no way near as bright as that on the actual figs.

Now for tactical squad number 2!

I have a Follower!

I've actually managed to get a follower, now I really have to keep the blog up to date. Thank you Sidestreaker, hope you enjoy following the Blood Angels 4th Company.

I love ebay sometimes

I managed to get this old furioso dread on ebay resently for a very good price, I think this will be the last full metal one I'll get (I've got one already) as the Ironclad kit is soo easy to convert and I prefer plastics. I'm going to have to do lots of green stuff filling later as all around the the main body are great big holes!

Cheers

More to come!

Time to expand the collection!

I really want to expand my army to apocolypes scale so I've been slowly been building more stuff. Here are just a few WIP HQ models that I liked. To start this is my Captain of the 4th who was converted from a dark angels captain.



I love librarians as characters but the rules and the way the pdf.codex is written it is very hard to fit one into a standard game. I'm going to do a bit more blend with the highlights on the Librarian as I think it looks to harsh.


The chaplains still need their highlights done but I'm just deciding which grey to use.




This is my veteran sergeant for the honour guard to go with the captain, the rest of the honour guard will follow shortly.


I've also built a tactical squad and rhino and will have more death company painted shortly.

Cheers

Callum