Throne of Skulls - Alex Y - Day 1

So this is going to be the first of the promised Throne of Skulls features. The information provided is as correct as the circumstances allowed so don't go all CSI on me if the points are a bit out or it was your list and I forgot about or didn't notice a Plasma Pistol that some guy had ;-)

Anyway,

You know that guy who always insists on doing the Waaagh! shout whenever he uses that particular rule?

Yep?

Ever met one who can shout so loud that everybody stops playing and gives him a round of applause?

Well this one can, lol.

Alex is a die-hard Ork player who has through lots of game experience manages to avoid many of the inherent problems suffered by the average Ork player by the simple and effective tactic of.....not putting himself in that position in the first place ;-)

His current 1750 point list consists of the following,

Ghazghkull Thrakka,
Big Mek with Kustom Force Field,
3 x Lootas,
1 x Meganobz in Transport with Extra Armour,
5 x Boyz units with obligatory Power Klaw Nob with Boss Pole.

So without further ado.....Game One.....

Game One Vs. Dark Eldar.
Mission - Capture and Control, Deployment - Dawn of War
Result - Draw

Opponents Army List.
Archon (Agoniser? and Phantasm Grenade Launcher) + 7 Incubi in Raider
2 x 8 Wyches + Hekatrix (Agoniser?) in Raider
10 Warriors, Blaster and Splinter Cannon in Raider
5 Warriors, Blaster in Venom
4 True Born, Blaster in Venom
Razorwing,
6 Reaver Jetbikes, 2 Heat Lance.

Significant Events.
1st turn, Razorwing fired all 4 missiles, only 6 dead orks.
16 wyches held up 25 orks, 5 mega nobs and Gazz for 10 rounds of cc, only Gaz and a nob walked away.
Mek held up the 6 bikes for 6 rounds of cc preventing them from contesting my objective.

Game 2 Vs. Blood Angels.
Mission - Annihilation, Deployment - Spearhead.
Result - Loss (Tabled).

Opponents Army List.
Librarian with Blood Lance,
Librarian Dreadnought,
Furioso Dreadnought,
5 Marines in Rhino,
2x 10 marines with Missile Launcher,
10 Jump Pack Marines with attached Priest,
Storm Raven,
Baal Predator,
Vindicator.

Significant Events.
Turn 2 Waaaaagh, everything in. Re-posed for the photo and did a silent Waaagh, after that the dice fucked up, I should have pwnd him but turn 3 I had half an army, I couldn’t kill his Lib Dred and 10 Jumpacks killed 75 orks from turn 2 to turn 5 and the Furioso killed 40 orks. The Bastard.

Game 3 Vs. Blood Angels.
Mission - Sieze Ground, Deployment - Pitched Battle.
Result - Win (Tabled Opponent).

Opponents Army List.
Mephiston,
10 Jump Pack Assault Marines,
Terminators in Land Raider,
Stormraven,
2 x 10 Scouts,
Vindicator.

Significant Events.
Turn 2 Waaagh. And he couldn’t bring enogh models in to bear. Mephison killed Gaz and 5 Mega Nobs, then got jobbed by 25 orks.

Okay, so that was Alex's first day. I'll post his adventures on day two...tomorrow...ish...

Thoughts and comments are (as usual) most welcome.

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Grotesques, Wracks and other Finecast leaks...

Some pictures have found their merry way from the 'secret' pile into the 'leaked' pile yet again...

Grotesques.

Wracks.

Haemonculus.

Citadel Finecast.

Credit goes to Natfka for these pics by the way just in case he thinks I'm stealing his stuff rather than just borrowing it ;-)

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New Razorwing Jetfighter Pic

A few more Pics of the new Dark Eldar Razorwing Jetfighter have emerged.

Release Date is apparently June 18th.

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Dark Eldar - New Models including the Razorwing Jetfighter?

I'm not sure if 'new release' articles are of any interest to people as the information is usually readily available everywhere on the internet by the time I get around to posting anything about them but here it comes anyway ;-)

The Dark Eldar Cronos/Talos.

Despite having separate entries on the pre-order page these are apparently one kit.

The Cronos Parasite.

The Talos Pain Engine.

And for those of you (like me) who'll be buying one purely to use as a bitz resource here's some pictures of the sprues,

Expect to see a lot more of these bastards on the gaming tables now as they look fucking ace (in a hideous sort of way). In addition expect to see some of the spares from the sprue appearing on the models of every other evil race in the 40K universe as I for one would love to see a Chaos Dreadnought conversion using these bitz.....

Also, In addition we have the long anticipated Venom,

It has been noted in several places that this kit looks very close in style to the conversions people have been making anyway. I think this has a lot to do with the overall style of the Dark Eldar being very distinct. The good thing about the release of this model is that it opens up a lot of new builds for Dark Eldar players who didn't have the time or resources to make their own Venoms and have been using other units because of it.

and of course there's the eagerly awaited Scourges,

Again these are beautiful models though I was hoping the helmets would be a bit more avian than they actually are. Still, that's a relatively minor gripe. My Daemon Princesses of Slaanesh will most likely be getting a wing upgrade courtesy of this kits bat wings ;-)

I also got e-mailed this picture a few minutes ago,

Not sure where it originates from but it's allegedly a Razorwing?

Feel free to comment if you have some brilliant idea for using these kits that you'd like to share with the world*

*by which I mean the few hundred people in it who check my blog, lol.

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