Blood Angels Battle Report

THREATCON: COREY

In regards to the my local game group.

DEFCON: COREY status has now been lowered to THREATCON: COREY status.

Assassins were sent, missiles were fired, and even the local game space had to be moved to a new location.

The new location is much better and it appears the attached shop has some love coming for our local game group in the form of useful terrain. If this reveals to be true I think it is really cool and they will get continued support from me in the form of my money.

Battle Report

I did get to play a game last Saturday and I thought I might have been able to encounter Rogue Trader's mysterious Dark Eldar representing the Cabal of the Black Primer. Instead I encountered Eldar representing the Craftworld of the White Primer with attached * Flare Boys squads with "Heeey!" shields.

* Flare Boys = Harlequins
* "Hey!" = Advanced

Army Lists

Blood Angel army list


Headquarters
(Warlord)
Librarian w/ JP w/ Psychic Powers - Biomancy x 2
(Joined to Assault squad)

Elites
Sanguinary Priest w/ JP
(Joined to Assault squad)

Troops
Assault Squad w/ 2x Melta guns, PW
Tactical Squad w/ Lascannon, Plasma Rifle, PW
Death Company x5 w/ PW
Dedicated Transport - Land Raider w/ Multi-Melta

Fast Attack
Baal Predator w/ HB Sponsors, Dozer blades
Landspeeder Squadron x2 w/ x2 Tornado pattern HB
Landspeeder Typhoon

Heavy Support
Devastator Squad w/ x4 ML

Two ideas which continue to cross my mind are

Only two scoring units and one of the scoring units is the most aggressive units.
If the Land Raider is switched to a Land Raider Crusader, how much will change.

Eldar army list

What follows are the units I can remember.

Farseer (Warlord)

Warlock (I think)

Avatar

Striking Scorpions

Harlequins x 2 (Flare Boys w/ "Heeey" shields)

Guardians ???

Guardians with a gun platform of the utmost uselessness

Rangers x 2 Snipers

War Walkers

The game was kind of one sided due to the Eldar's codex and lack of anti-vehicle support. The eldar in this fight could hold their own to an extent in close combat, but against vehicles, they were hopeless to stop them. I have no idea what Rogue Trader's Eldar unit inventory consists of nor do I understand the problems plaguing the Eldar. The Eldar army was almost entirely made of infantry units except a small squadron of war walkers. No Tanks, Vyphers, or Jet Bikes suprised me since his Dark Eldar army is full of them.

Deployment, lol.

In accident I nuked the deployment picture.

Speaking of deployment, last game Kushial's Marine army was crowned "Bucket of Marines".This game Masta Cheef brought a huge Gretchin based army and deployed it with a different perspective using his new "Box of Gretchin" deployment style. Go here if you would like to see an army of Gretchin woop a marine army good and best of all they brought the Space Choo Choo!

Gretchin deploy using the experimental "Box of Gretchin" deployment method.

Now on to the hopeless engagement of a Blood Angel headless beat down of Eldar. The game had six objective of various point values to capture.

Blood Angels Warlord trait was WIN.

Eldar Warlord trait was FAIL. A re-roll of -1 was awarded. The Warlord trait re-roll was another Fail.

Blood Angels win the first turn.

Turn 1

Blood Angel

All units advanced except the Devastator and Tactical squads. The Baal Predator advanced around the front of the far right Harlequin squad. The Land Raider advanced to the Striking Scorpions and opened the assault ramps to let the Death Company inside have some fun. The Assault squad advanced to the other side of the Striking Scorpions position in support. The Landspeeder squadron advanced from behind a building to an open fire lane to the guardian squad next to the Avatar. The Typhoon advanced from behind a building to an open fire lane to the center Harlequin squad.

The Baal combined with the Tactical squad and the Devastators could not harm the Harlequins. The Typhoon proved no use either. 

Stupid amount of fire power = Stupid cover save power

The Assault squad soften up the rear of the Striking Scorpions for the Death Company upcoming assault. The Landspeeders chewed up the Eldar near the Avatar while the Land Raider managed to kill a single ranger above them.

The Death Company after making a risky assault move assaulted and completely annihilated the Striking Scorpions.

"A warrior doesn't need a head, just a good strong body."  -  Megatron

Eldar

In response to the Blood Angel's first turn the Eldar were like LOL, while the Harleguins were like "Heeey". The rest of the Eldar which had range to the Death Company shot the Death Company to bits leaving only the lone Death Company with a power weapon alive. The middle rangers moved closer to the Devastator squad and the War Walkers ran behind buildings.

The Blood Angel's Tactical squad claimed a mysterious objective and received a grav field severely limiting enemy assault distance to their position.

The Eldar claimed a mysterious objective and received a skyfire bonus. FAIL
The Eldar claimed another mysterious objective and received another skyfire bonus. Another FAIL

End of Turn 1

Turn 2

Blood Angels

The Assault Squad and all of the Land Speeders advanced slightly while the Baal Predator back peddle slightly in case the Harlequins move with intentions of assault. The lone Death Company marine advanced towards the Eldar with courage.

The Landspeeders chewed up the remaining Eldar near the Avatar while the Land Raider made the rangers above them go to ground. The Devastators killed a single ranger in the center.

Eldar

The Avatar was like you don't scare me bro and walked past the lone Death Company marine and hid behind a building near the advancing Assault squad. Both Harlequin squads advanced along with the War Walkers running behind a building again. 

The center Rangers fired at the Devastator squad with much hate for Sergeant Sir point to nothing useful, killed Sergeant Sir point to nothing useful and a missile launcher marine.

End of Turn 2

Turn 3

Blood Angels

The lone Death Company marine advanced to the Rangers on the left. The Assault squad advanced to the Harlequin squad in the center. The landspeeders advanced next to the Land Raider and the Typhoon advanced slightly as well.

The Land Raider shot the Avatar a bit with little success. The Landspeeders outright murdered the lone Warlock below the rangers.

The Tactical Squad killed a single Harlequin. The happy Harlequins responded with "Heeey". The Baal Predator killed the rest of the Harlequins. The happy Harlequins responded with "Heeeeeey". The Typhoon was left without a target. :(

The Lone Death Company marine assaulted the rangers on the left and wiped them out. The Assault squad assault the harlequins in the center and wiped them out losing only a single assault marine to the Eldar initiative.

Eldar

The Eldar might have got some firing in, but I believe at this point the game was hopeless for the Eldar. The Eldars's closely guarded Keeblar recipes were now in the hands of the Blood Angels's.

End of Turn 3

End Game

Rogue Trader folded and I can't blame him for doing so. Rogue Trader mentioned the Death Company who have no heads must kill to get heads. The taken heads from kill provide vital knowledge through their possession. Chaos winds indeed.

Death Company enemy head count total.

Striking Scorpions - 7

Rangers - 4

Despite the endless flaming against one's own army codex the game was fun and it was nice to try out the new camera on my new iPhone which is superb to my much older Droid 1.

Blood Angels vs Necrons Battle Report 1500 Points

Blood Angels Battle Report

Blood Angels versus Necrons 1500 Points

I decided to get out and play some 40K last Saturday since the prior week was a double dose of the flu and a sinus infection and still the cough remains. When I got there I saw I was the sixth player and I was getting the feeling I would be paired with the not so loved Necron player and for the most part his Necron Air Force or whatever army list. Plus I have not played against him so this adds to the pool. Someone mentioned to me his list was a tough list. Either way I did not turn him down nor did I create anew or alter my standard army list I have been using lately. I even turned down an AA gun emplacement and vehicles. I think I had the mindset of seeing how this so called list works. This was my first game against Necrons, but I don't think it really shows what Necrons are.

Leonidas: "Necrons. We'll put their name to the test."

Landraider Crusader WIP Part 2

Here is a progress update from Part 1

I wanted to show everything post Part 1 with some black washes applied to the metal parts and some cleanup paint applied to the hull along with all the new painted portions.

First up since I forgot it last time is the glorious Engine block.

Engine Block

The engine block is always the pride and joy of the interior for me. I originally was going to go for a red mechanicus symbol and decided against it. To not compete with the purity seals, I went with the previously used black/white as it stands out better as an over all seal. I might paint to more buttons perhaps, but otherwise it looks good. The black wash went well, not sure on the main engine block though as it is an easy fix.

The green pipes I am also cooking an idea on how to show a light see through black pipe look. I am thinking of apply very light black paint or wash on the sides and working to the middle slightly and then start from the middle and working to the side. I may have to test the idea. The pipes are fine as is and a mess up can ruin it.

Mechanicus Approved?

Computer Panel

The Computer panel I am glad how it has turned out so far. It is done unless I do anything else to it. The only thing I would do and I have had encouragement to do is the screens. White dot them or even apply some scorpion green to the upper portions perhaps.

One idea I have thought about is the design of the interface. A Land Raider carries a full ten marine squad or a full five terminators and in the case of a Crusader more than ten marines or more than five terminators. I consider the nine screen on the right side of the panel are separate from the two screens on the left for a reason. The two panels on the left are for command communications and the nine panels on the right are for squad members. If I was a damn good painter i won't paint miniature helmets or HUDs on each panel.

The HUD idea I think I can acomplish. Dots in the lower corner for ammo and so forth. I'm going to have to watch Aliens again. :) Lines in upper corner for health. I went looking through my stuff last night for a Blood Angels transfer sheet and could not find a single sheet. Maybe I can use yellow skull/wings for command and normal black skull/wings for troops. Question is which of the two screens to the left is the squad leader? I would say the top left is the squad leader. Even if a commander is riding within or part of the deployed squad he would have access to the left screen which is turned slightly to whomever is watching the panel. The rest of the screens are for checking on the deployed squad. The large radar type screen is for position.

Gotta love the shinny mirror!

Left Side Hull

The left side hull is almost done. It still needs to have the blue light painting on the top of the steel pipe, a small black wash on the seats, and maybe something done to the screens. I am so afraid of messing it up at least I can try a white dot or something.

If I can find them I want to add a set of special weapons to the weapons rack. Plastic melta and plasma are expensive to purchase, but I think I have a spare flamer which will look cool on it. Time to pay the Ork toll and dive into Masta Cheefs bitz bin of doom.

Right Side Hull

The right side hull is almost done. I need to paint the candle fire and the left and right arrow buttons on the panel next to the door. I figure I will have a green "open" button, an orange "close" button, and a red "stop" button. Also a simple black wash against the seats.

I have noticed in the picture you can't really see the difference from the bone spray cleaned up with the bone paint. Makes me happy.

In between painting the various pieces I am assembling the Hurricane Bolters which are a big pain and don't let me mention the metal Multi Melta which will be a nightmare.

My goal of having this assembled in in sight. I need to come to a perfection decision on red spray paint, figure out an ink recipe for my part. The weather need to stop being so stupid as wind completely halts spray paint operations.

Either way I am a happy camper for the meantime.

Halo 4 releases November 6th!

Landraider Crusader WIP Part 1

Here is an update of the interior of my Blood Angel's Land Raider Crusader I am painting.

Recently I have been in a good mood and willing to pick up my brush and paint this vehicle some more plus I feel a drive to finish it. I have joined a forums based paint per points challenge so this might be the driving force, but for the most part it is working for me. I think what helps the most is feedback and questions answered, especially for me because I can really get stuck on decisions a lot.

I found myself wanting to paint my previous Land Raider one night and I did. Don't get to excited as I was just painting a lot of black, but i painted a lot of black so this is progress. It would be nice to see both my Land Raider fully assembled and painted for once. The Crusader has only been in the box for about 10 years now, lol.


Left hull interior

The left hull interior piece I feel is coming along well. I am still debating upon painting the upper portion of the seats a leather color. I know it sounds silly, but then again all the metal armor sliding around on metal seats sounds silly. The screen I will probably keep a plain green. Me and designs are not their yet to be honest. The yellow light I have been able to work a bit better as well. The metal valves I am thinking about using a light blue wash to give them kind of a blue steel glow. Finally there is the clean up and touch up and its done.

Right hull interior

The right hull piece is at the same level as the left. Only the small debatable decisions and painting the buttons towards the entrance. I also need to paint the tips of the candles. The silver mirror in between the candles is really shinny so kind of throws off the eyes a bit.

Control panel

The control panel I am pleased with and all the smaller buttons are what is left. The screens look better than my last Land Raider I painted. I used a different green first and then applied the current color. I have also applied a glaze as well. The top two small  screens to the left of the largest screen I messed up a bit including the middle, but I like how they are now as it gives a more older and perhaps broken screen feel.

Engine block

I forgot to take a picture of the engine block.

Please check back later for the engine block.

My goal is to finish all of the interior pieces and assemble the main hull together within the next few weeks at most. I feel I can achieve this goal easily.