Has it really been 4 months since my last post? And where exactly have I been? Why I've building, painting and gaming of course! We had another big bash in June, about 360,000 points. Sorry, i did not take photos. The Imperials gave us a whupping, 3 tables to 1. Then I went up north as part of
The Apocalyptic Travelling Roadshow to
Redding CA. They were holding
NorCon 2010, and we supplied the opponents for a big
Apoc game. To read more about it click the link. That is me and my force above. Dosen't look like 15,000 points, does it? It will when all the Slaanesh Daemons drop!
The guys in
Redding had really nice looking armies! I was most blown away by Brent's
Nurgle army. Not only was it dangerous and huge (14,000 points!), it was freaking gorgeous! here are some high lights from his force. Above is a very nice Daemon Prince.
He converted all his
Obliterators, very pretty, and then he blew up most of my tanks with them.
The
Forgeworld super
Nurgle Soulgrinder. Simply amazing!
Brent finished the game by turning his whole army on
Fulgrim and beating him to the ground! Fair play for doing it in hand-to-hand! I need to kill that damned
Epidemius faster next time, as 2 squads of Plague Marines that wound on 2's with no armor save kill
Primarchs quick!
After returning, and reflecting on all the great armies, I realized I am falling behind on my force. I need to add a lot of troops quickly, so I am challenging myself to finish a 10 man squad of Chaos Marines with their Rhino in a week! My army seems and looks so puny on the table compared to the others. I need bulk and objective holding units, with some tank killing ability, so 10 men with meltas and a Aspiring Champion with a fist and a combi melta. They will also be able to scoot forward on the first turn and hopefully put a dent in the parking lots of tanks I am seeing lately. Wish me luck!
GMI Games hosted the 4th War on Triton this last weekend. We put a colossal 520,000+ points on the board. The conflict raged across 3 tables. The most players were on this green table, upon which the forces of the Imperium and their Tau allies battled against Warlords of Chaos and their Dark Eldar/Necron allies. The Imperium used a well-played asset to get the victory, but I am sure the Warlords could have grabbed/contested another Objective if we had gone the planned 4 turns. (I was still sitting on 4 Orbital Bombardments when we ended!) In the back of the store (and the back left of the photo!) Space Wolves and Eldar dueled. The Space Wolves brought an Imperator Titan with the, but the Eldar out-maneuvered and out-shot the Sons of Russ for a decisive Eldar victory.
In the front of the store the Chaos Legions of Khorne assaulted a united Ork/Tyranid force. There were many custom Ork Stompas/Gargants on the board, along with lots of vicious Gargantuan bugs monstrosities. In the end the Khorne generals pulled out a victory.
Above are the victorious Imperium Lords on the main board. Left to right we have Garrett, Keith, Jon-Michael, Rob, their Arch-General Fernando, Blood Angel Willie and Andre. Well done guys!
And here are the Chaos Warlords, smiling as usual! From right to left is Dan, Brandon, Paul, Randy, Rob, me, and a friend of Dan's, whose name I have forgotten. Sorry man!
And on the front table we have everyone but Dave and Ork Chris, including Tyranid Chris, Mark, Mario, Touradj and Irv. A lot of the players where taking part in their first mega-Apoc game, as we added more races to the table to give them a chance to play! I will post more gratuitous action shots this week!
