Blog Wars X - Tournament Rundown and loads of PICS!

Hey peoples!

So I went to Blog Wars X on Saturday 7th and had an absolute blast! I'm afraid my excitement got the better of me and I didn't take pictures of my games as I was very carried away with the whole event but I will give a quick run-down of each game I had anyway! If you want some excellent battle reports I suggest you head over to this BLOG run my Mike who also competed at blog wars and did very well indeed! He is also a whizz at writing shorthand and taking pictures on the fly and his reports are very reminiscent of when White Dwarf did full in depth reports. Also a cracking blog and lovely bloke!

And it was meeting many people who I chat to on blogs in the flesh that made this event particularly fun, it was a very enjoyable meet and greet with everyone there for a fun time indeed!

I didn't want any prizes sadly, and the painting competition really highlighted (pun!) just how far I have to go to even dream of competing at these sort of events for those prizes. That level seems very unattainable right now, but hopefully in a couple of years I can say differently! Hope springs eternal and all that...

In terms of games they broke down as thus:

Game 1 - I got absolutely minced by a Nurgle Daemon list, it just ripped me to pieces and I was the second person to be tabled, narrowly missing out on a prize for being the first to be tabled! But it was a fun game knowing I couldn't win it and my opponent was very friendly and it was a blast regardless!

Game 2 - I played an absolutely fantastic gent called Graeme who had a bloody awesome converted squat imperial guard army with Zeppelins! Pictures of his army can be seen below! This was the one game where the Death Company worked as planned and I slowly ripped my way through his force, but it was a 6 turn game and I was disgustingly lucky on my armour and feel no pain rolls. As well as when my storm raven was brought down it scattered onto a squad of his vets killing 2! I got near full points on this game which sadly probably spelt doom for me in Game 3!

Game 3 - This chap was the unlucky soul who snatched the fastest tabling from me in game 1! But he also had a stonking game 2 and we ended up facing each other. A really nice guy with some beautiful black/red/purple grey knights and white scars for the main body of his force. Highlight for me include destroying a squad of grey knight terminators and librarian in one nasty assault on my turn 1 and also getting 4 S8 AP2 wounds on his special character the Khan himself who then rolles two 2's a 1 and a 3 for his jink saves! SO despite skilled rider he bit the dust. But as this was maelstrom and he had first turn I just couldn't keep up and his shooting took just enough bit out of me that I was always backpedalling and his manoeuvrability kept him out of my angry claws.

So a strong win and 2 heavy losses. Not too shabby overall, both of my losses were mismatches to some degree, though I feel I could have played better in game 3, though I am sure he would have still won but by a smaller margin. Game 2 was the most fun I had and had me laughing the whole way through.

Below are the pictures for best painted army, best painted special character and best converted army. They are absolutely gorgeous all of them, but alas you can see the skill gap from my lemartes to the other special character so more practise needed!

Before I leave you with pictures I would like to chuck a thanks out to Mike, Dave and Naff (I know its nathaniel but Naff is just a cool name) from standwargaming.blogspot.co.uk, 40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk, and objectivesecured.blogspot.co.uk who made me feel extremely welcome and were all to a man lovely people, as much as you ever might guess from the respectively great blogs.

And a final special note to Dan who came up from Bristol Vanguard club as well, as he took a turn 1 tabling in the face from D-scythes against his all reserve drop pod/flyer army. Sorry that happened Dan! Damn dirty eldar...

Oh and pleasure to meet Ian Plumpton as well :)

Pictures!

Sadly I had to leave to catch a train before all the results were in so I don't know who won the AMAZING raffles prizes (the boxes behind the special character pictures which included a ghost keel and storm surge models) or how the overall places turned out so hopefully they will be up on Alex's blog fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk who organised the event amazingly with great humour. Till then though

Peace out,

Rob

All Death Company Army - Blog Wars X Assembled

Death Company ASSEMBLE!

So here we have my fully assembled Death Company force that will be coming with me to sunny Stockport to try my hand in Blog Wars X on the morrow. They aren't quite as numerous as I would like but I think they still cut a good looking force of black and red death on the battlefield.

I'm not expecting to bag any painting prizes but as long as some people pay me a compliment I will gush at them... I'm also not exactly expecting to win any of my games either but one would be nice! The point is just to have a boat load of fun and meet some cool people! Aaaand probably blow some money I don't have on shiny things...

Wish me luck!

Peace out,

Rob

Final 3 Death Company for Blog Wars... I promise!

Good morrow,

Finally! The final Death Company are ready for my tournament on friday! I am writing this at 1am and I think my eyes are slowing burning through to the back of my skull but they are done! The had to be done tonight (monday night/tuesday morning) as I won't be in my house till friday at which point I will pack and get the train to stay in a hotel before the tournament on saturday. Stress!

But here they are :)

Peace out,

Rob

Sanguinary Priest No.2 - Start to finish AND Arbitrary Milestone!

My thumbs feel weird,

So after re-vamping my blog wars list which you can find here, I needed to procure another sanguinary priest. I decided to plump for the latest kit from GW for the sanguinary priest and then just convert a jump pack on to him so that he can keep up with the Death Company squad that he will be accompanying.

Here is the sprue as it came:

To give it a bit of an individual look, I decided to use a spare pait of Age of Sigmar Prosecutor wings as his jump pack and also use a spare sanguinary guard helmet for his head. I, like many others, don't generally like the idea of bare headed models on the battlefield as it looks a bit funny!

Anyway, here's what he looks like all together:

The wings are, of course, magnetised and the helmet isn't currently glued on so that I can more easily access the collar of his power armour for painting purposes so he disassembles like so:

This also means that I can magnetise his normal back pack and just take him as a regular foot based sanguinary priest if I want to which is always nice!

And here he is after basecoating with a wash (wings done later):

And the finished body with undercoated wings:

And the final full finished product!

I'm not ashamed to say I think this is one of the best paint jobs I've ever produced and I am very pleased with it.


Arbitrary Milestone!

Today is my 100th post! When I started blogging I sort of expected to have fizzled out by the end of the year, but here am on 100 post, about 17K views and 220K google plus profile views and nearly 500 comments! I am as pleased as punch and a lot of that is down to the generally fantastic community of gamers the world over who share and share alike with humour, wisdom and wit in equal measure.

Thanks for reading my blog it is greatly appreciated :)

Peace out,

Rob