Team Tournament

I also hit up this camhammer team tournament in Cambridge. I didn't know my teammates, and I even failed to get Molgrimmar in. I roomed with Joe, right beside beer town and all seemed well. Turns out beer town doesn't serve pitchers, but I guess good thing because Joe got pretty vomity, and we had a pretty tame weekend.

The team had chaos, skaven, and orcs, with me playing wood elves. 2400 points, the usual army with a minor tweak. I took a sniper character in place of 5 waywatchers and it was entirely a mistake.

Myself, Andrew w/ orcs, Joe w/ chaos, and Josh w/ skaven.

The Warmasters' Challenge Team Tournament

Hey guys! Long time no post for me, unfortunately.

I've been to two warhammer fantasy tournaments, but instead of talking about them while they were fresh in my memory, I intend to mention both now...

The first was the warmasters' doubles, that Molgrimmar and I teamed up for. It was 2400 points comprised of two 1200 point lists, but otherwise everything was treated as if it were a single force. That means one general, one BSB, no weirdo splitting of power dice, etc.

Pretty sexy army display. There were a few actually, one with a full sized dwarf dirigible.

Flames of War - Early War in the Far East

Earlier tonight I had my first forray into FoW Early War. I learned a number of things. 1) As I've always known, and despite what everybody has always told me, horsemen are badass. 2) As I've always known, and as everybody has always told me, conscripts do suck. 3) KV-1 tanks are dumb. Not because they are unkillable, but because the in the one possible circumstance in which they might possibly die, they will roll a 1.

I didn't take pictures of the game for the entirely valid reason that I forgot to. I put some pictures of cool shit that is tangentially related, so that you perverts don't get bored.

The whole war in a nutshell. The Japanese knew what was really going on.

RAAAAWWWRRR STOMP STOMP STOMP

In light of the fact that I will be seeing all of you fuckers tomorrow, I figured it was time to unveil my new beasties. As a belated Xmas present to myself I purchased a real Stegadon and a Carnosaur.

Also in a surprising turn of events the gaming community here took a huge influx swell this year and we finally have enough people to sign a club charter and start hitting the school up for money to pay for tables and scenery. The vast majority are newfish 40kers but I met with one of them and told him all the shit I play and he was like "OMG fantasy is soo cool" so there is hope for the future. Although the gamers at the GW are still too fucktarded to understand how facebook works, so I have not been able to organize a friday game for myself yet.

Assemble the Monstery Hordes

Assembly Complete

So I finally got around to buidling the rest of my shit, mainly cause I was feeling guilty about it being unassembled. So there were twelve armless skinks that are now each sporting a brand new pair of arms complete with javelin and shield. The ripple doctors were missing riders and a fuckton of magnetizing, which is now complete so I can backhand them off the table now without them breaking permanently. The skink priest was cool and all but he was not nearly as badass as he could be so I added a wicked sick bolt of fire as a cast animation. The coolest part is that the flamey piece is magnetized to his palm so I'm thinking I can now add all kinds of different sweet animation pieces for different spells.

So here we have a swoop of rippledoctors and the flame priest.

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Hobby Report to follow

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Flames of War Tournament Report

This weekend Jed, Molgrimmar and I played in a Flames tourney which included members from Carleton's tabletop gaming club and RMC's wargames club. The format was Late War 1900 points, with six rounds (which became five by sunday). Awards included Best Painted, Rule of Cool and Best Sportsman.

It all went really well - everybody seemed to have tons of fun and nobody's army got dropped on the floor. Molgrimmar's army won best painted, obviously, while I came within a single victory point of winning the whole competition.

I brought a Soviet Heavy Assault Gun Battalion from Red Bear. Two groups of three ISUs, one squad with Bunker Busters and the other with anti-tank cannons. A large artillery battalion provided the core of my support, while a squad of engineer-sappers and a few recon riflemen provided me a some nice infantry backup. The most intimidating element in my list, apart from the six assault guns and the IS-2 commander, was the ten OT-34 flame tanks. These bastards died in every game except the very last one, but killed so many motherfuckers that I think I will keep taking them from now on. They provide so many bodies that my opponents' anti-tank guns can't deal with both the heavy tanks and all those flamers. Light 45mm AT guns and a couple katyusha light rocket mortars rounded out my list.

Tournament Painting

Cool posting guys.
Thought I'd continue the trend of actually posting to this here blog, and show what I've been up to lately.

I have a tournament coming up January 31st, same day as the Carleton FloW tourney and I'll be taking chaos, and as such needed to get some of my models un-grey.