Yeah I bought another one. Off of the Facebook epic trader thingy. And this time an army I have, Epic Tau from Canada. All original FW shit. 600 beans half painted, half raw in the original bags.
It is an army but not really another army for the collection. I am going to cherry pick it. Yeah no shit 600 just to cherry pick. I got a big dam problem.
After my picking. The rest is going up on eBay. I will update this post once the non cherry picked items are sold off.
Another game with Kal. Kal hosted at his casa. Same old same old. I am pushing around the Tau and Kal the Eldar. We own other armies, but we are stuck. Maybe once we get a regular gaming schedule, those other armies will appear. With Cold Wars around the corner and AdeptiCon creeping up on us. We are training with our tourney choices.
This was a non drinking event. Way too many Amish on the county roads to be slamming beers.
KRT1 and Guardians LF. KRT2, KRT3, and Rangers remain BROKEN
A lot of real life shit will create delays throughout the year. We are moving back to the states, selling two houses, buy a house, moving shit from Argentina and storage, flying the dog back, coming out of retirement, and meeting the needs of my parents.
Good news is one house is sold ,waiting on money, and we have an offer excepted on a house in the states. And I better get a god dam wargaming room!
Get the Sudan project on the table. This project is massive. I have maybe 900 Fuzzy Wuzzys, bunch of Naval crews and guns, Egyptian and Sudanese, and most of the British to complete.
I will need to focus on a few battles and get the units required done for them. All the while banging out Ansar as fast as possible.
There are no supply issues this year. No purchase required. All materials are on hand.
20mm Moderns. I got a bunch of characters and Zombies and all the Afghans as a goal this year. There should be no hold ups as all the supplies are on hand. No purchases required.
NetEA Imperial Fists and HH World Eaters armies. As the year moves on, these should be available once moved into the new house.
Attend 2 HMGS cons and AdeptiCon. Hopefully a few NE epic tourneys.
Painting 800 plus dudes painted last year. The goal will be 600 this year.
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| The designed roof lip. |
This is copies of the same building. Quality control? Replacing worn molds? You must have more than one mold!
Replace worn or damaged molds. If your pulling copies with rubber stuck to them, the mold is damaged. If the windows are filling in or bubbles always present check the mold.
Brittle ass resin. Its one to one….or….by weight? I am guessing yours is by weight. Get a fucking scale. Only one of ten buildings has the resin mixed right. That one could drive nails. The others are breaking as they knock into each other.
This is a gravity pour. There is no questioning that. You got bubbles on the very first horizontal lip of your mold. Yet there are none on the second.
Because your dumb ass is pouring the resin too fast. No shit your not vibrating the mold or using a vacuum system! You could, hold the mold at an angle and use a stick to trace that lip. Then no bubbles.
Yeah I lied. More desert terrain.
More 20mm irrigation ditches / 6mm desert roads
These bugs bunny dudes are for 20mm Zombie action.
After spray the pipe bridge I dropped it.
Kal’s List
My list
Garrison
EC Scouts OverWatch
IF Scouts w/ Bunkers & Trenches OverWatch
IF Tacticals & Thudds w/ Bunkers & Trenches
IF Shooty Speeders OverWatch
Teleport
EC Termies
IF Termies & SC BTS
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| Deployment |
Turn 1
Initiative won by EC
EC Hell Talons ground assaults targets the Scouts. 2KIA 3BMs
………bombs blast spills over the IF Shooty
Speeders. 1KIA 2BMs
IF Scouts marshall targets Scouts 1BM. Removes all BMs
EC Tac LF doubles.
IF Tac w/ Thudds sustains targets Scouts. 1KIA 2BMs *1
EC Scouts marshall. Advance, remove all but 1BM.
IF Shooty Speeders advance targets Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Tac C double targets Shooty Speeders. 1BM
IF Storm Talons ground assault BTS. 1BM
EC BTS marshalls. Zero BM
IF Tac advances targets Scouts. 1BM
EC Raptors march.
IF Fell Blade RF advances targets Raptors. 2KIA BROKEN *2
EC Titan doubles targets Fell Blade RF. 1BM
Retains. Fails summoning
EC Tac RF doubles targets Shooty Speeders. 2BMs disrupt
IF Whirlwinds sustains targets Tac RF. 2KIA 3BMs
EC Knights march
IF Devs advance targets Knights. 3KIA BROKEN *3
IF Fell Blade sustains Tac RF. 1KIA 2BMs
IF melt Speeders march.
*1 Both were placed on OW. Wasted, the shoot Speeders should have been on OW not Tac.
*2 They were feed to me. Sadly in terrain, they failed all saves, re-rolls.
*3 This was a crap shot. Again they failed saves & re-rolls.
EC Raptors and Knights stay broken.
IF Shooty Speeders keep 5BMs
Turn 2
Teleporting
EC Termies drop on my Blitz
IF Termies & SC (BTS) drop on Kal’s blitz & BTS
IF won initiative (Both rolled 6s)
IF Melta Speeders double targets BTS. 1KIA 3BMs
Retains on re-roll *1
IF Termies engages BTS. ELIMINATED *2
EC Termies engages Tac w/ Thudds. 7KIA BROKEN *3
Retains
OverWatch IF Scout targets Tac RF. 1BM
EC Tac RF engages Shooty Speeders. ELIMINATED
IF Fell Blade RF sustains targets Titan. No shields, 2DC BROKEN
EC Hell Talons ground assaults Tac. 2KIA 3BMs
IF Tac advances targets Scouts. 1BM *4
EC Tac C engages Tac. 7KIA ELIMINATED
IF Whirlwinds sustains targets Tac C. 1KIA 2BMs
EC Tac LF doubles targets Whirlwinds. 3KIA BROKEN
IF Fighters FAIL
EC Scouts sustains targets FB RF. 1BM
IF Devs advance targets Knight. 1BM
IF Fell Blade LF advances targets Tac LF. 2KIA 3BMs
*1 1st time ever a SC points pays off
*2 HUGE BTS & Blitz
*3 Playing Tau for the last year….One would think I would guard myself against such thing. Really how many times did Dave pound my ass over the last 2 years with this lesson?
*4 I gave this detachment up. Big Dummy!
EC Titan, Knights, Raptors, & Tac C broken
IF Tac Thudds recover 1BM
Turn 3
IF won Initiative (Both rolled 1s)
IF FB RF advances targets Tac RF. 2KIA 3BMs *1
EC summons Great Daemon
OverWatch Scouts. 1BM on Tac RF *1
EC Tac Rf engages FB RF. ELIMINATED
IF Storm Talons ground assault Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Hell Talons ground assaults Scouts. 1KIA BROKEN *1
IF Tac Thudd doubles targets Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Termies advance targets Scouts. ELIMINATED (Blitz)
IF FB LF doubles targets Tac LF. 2KIA BROKEN *2
EC Scouts engage Tac Thudd. ELIMINATED *1
IF Devs march for the objective *2
IF Melta Speeders advance (T&H) targets Titan. 1BM
IF BTS marshall. (Blitz)
*1 Huge fight over the right flank objective my side.
*2 Left Flank objective my side
Emperor’s Children 1 Imperial Fists 3
Blitz Blitz, BTS, T&H
Lessons form the Day;
Storm Talons are well worth the points!
Nothing changes and I created a situation that did not exist. I feed my tactical detachment to Kal. Which which properly gang banged off the table. I got a BM and a KIA for my troubles. Also failed to focus fire and isolate detachments.
Left two units on Overwatch and forgot to use them.
I left my Blitz wide open to Teleport. Quickly giving away a detachment and the Blitz and………my thud guns vaporized.
Kal’s scouts were the MVP. They ate fire all day, broke unit after unit, sucking up activations like they were free.
Kal’s luck went right on the window. The titan lost it shields and failed every save but one. The knights failed enough saves in turn 1 to stay broken all game.
I dumped my BTS onto Kal’s BTS, which was sitting on the Blitz. Then I won initiative and gang banged poor Kal’s BTS with termies and melt speeders. BTS & Blitz
Desert terrain is GamesCraft Minis or Battlefield Terrain Concepts.
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Kal had every player last year return. Plus added 4 more, 60% growth year over year!
Tables
I am running the Tau again. This time out I took the Manta as a WE. The spacecraft is a waste, a one and done activation. Tau work on high activations.
I had 3 primer games with the Manta. By the end of the last primer (Friday afternoon), I seriously thought asking the guys and begging Kal if I could bail on the list I sent in. No sissy, I ran with it.
My history of picture taking continues at this event also. I set the phone there to remind to take pictures. I get one or none.
Game 1 Tau Vs Marines 3 – 1
Activations 12 to 10
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| Deployment |
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| Teleporting Terms |
Game 2 Tau Vs Plague Marines 0 – 3
The Zombies vomited out by the spacecraft are a spectacle tactic. Jon dumped them basically on the Blitz. You had to burn activations killing them or park a unit to contest the blitz. On turn 1 your down Blitz, DTF, and TSNP. First turn teleporting Stealth suits?
Jon is one of the best tactical players you will ever face. He makes zero mistakes. You have to be turned up across the table from him.
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| Soaked up more fire and activations then any unit all day. MVP! |
When the detachment with his Sup Commander broke, I got confused. I suddenly decided that was the BTS. Then proceed to go after it, leaving the BTS sit.
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| Objectives and Garrisons |
Here you see me blow the Objective placement. My 2nd and 3rd objectives are on the center line. Jon’s army has no transports. I just gave his garrison units a free 55cm of movement!
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| Deployment |
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| Jon’s BTS goes after the Suits |
Game 3 Tau Vs Lost&Dammed 1 – 0 end of 4th, points 857.5- 750
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| Deployment |
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| 1st turn Teleport |
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| end of 3rd |
**** Manta ****
At 650 it is a total waste. The model is huge! It never earns back its points. Nor does it suck up enough of your opponent’s activations dealing with it. The weapon load out is not a threat. Even with units MLing the target.
Stealth/Crisis Suits scare people. Two upgrade detachments of suits will do more damage. The fire power will brake a detachment every time it hits.
**** First turn Teleports ****
What a gold mine. (With the exception of rolling 5 ones on landing) Those stealth suits broke every players opening game plan. Each player burned at least two activations trying to eliminate the threat. Then they continued to go after them like a fat kid chasing cake until the were dead to a man.
**** End Phase ****
Well…..shit! A rule never followed or known. I got no excuse!
In just about every game, at the end of 3, we never rallied broken units. We skip 1.14 and 1.14.1 going straight to 1.14.2. In game 2, Jon did say we rally. I can’t tell you how many times I never did this.
1.14 End Phase
“The End phase takes place, unsurprisingly, at the end of the turn, once both players have taken an action with each of their unbroken formations. Both players must attempt to rally any formations and then check the scenario victory conditions to see if either side has won.
1.14.1 Rally formations
1.14.2 Victory conditions
Cooler; 18 beers and 12 Dews were about right. Next time I should throw in some water. Went home with 2 beers and 3 dews.
Our tables were nut to butt. We will have to request one more than we need. Some room in-between would have been more comfortable.
We should also think about charging 15 bucks more. The extra would include lunch and drinks and extras. The guys appeared to hesitate just grabbing a beer. I knew over half of them.
A lot of time is soaked up by groups going some where for lunch. No time to get a proper stalk thru Walley’s basement sale or hike over to the vendor hall.
Maybe run doubles or special scenario game Thursday night. At AdeptiCon, there was a special scenario as the second game. That was tactically the most challenging game of the weekend and the BEST!
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| NetEA Fall In tourney is Saturday |
Everything packed. Each box labeled for each table. Hopefully this will make Saturday morning easy.
Loaded up
No one supplies high priced resin crack than them. But hey, its the quality that keeps you coming back right?
This crack rock was a pricey eBay special long long ago. If you can find one, an original, plan on shelling out 500 plus. The catalog below is from 2004. In 2004 it was 75USD without shipping. With this guy’s rarity, I never wanted to paint it. (like I was going to sell it) It popped out of storage and I got zero to do all day long.
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| 2004 FW catalog |
It was primed with Army Painter wolf grey. Home Depot flat grey was sprayed at a 65 degree down angle. The down angle left the wolf grey in the cracks and over hangs. Craft paint was dry brushed over the outside cream followed by pure white.
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