Gobbos vs Daemons

Had 3 games over last 2 days with my 7th ed. daemons(in practise for Natcon), lost by 500 points to Sam Whitt's nicely painted Orcs and Gobliins, finally beat Hamish's nasty Skaven list by 500 points(first victory for me over Skaven) and a game versus Fern's Night Goblins.

In the game versus Sam I moved badly allowing his chariots to kill all my chaff and I didn't play aggressive enough. The Savage orcs with bows was an interesting tactic. I don't think it's as good as having AHW though.

My two letter hordes was much more functional after charging across the field in a meeting engagement against Hamish's Skaven. I had enough to blast his slave units in two turns to break them and i landed 2 killingblows against his grey seer, killing him on the second one. I only managed to get 3 wounds off the bell but that will change once I've stopped playing 7th ed. daemons. Skull Cannons.

So this is a bit of a pictorial expose, the missus and I had a 2500 point game of my Daemons versus her Night Goblins on Wednesday night. Fern's been Horde painting at the moment so has lots of Skaven and night Goblins being painted.


I had
Herald of Khorne, BSB and Armour of Khorne
Herald of Khorne, Firestorm Blade and Armour of Khorne
Herald of Tzeentch,Winged Horror, Master of Sorcery:Death
herald of Tzeentch, Spell breaker, master of Sorcery:light
39 Bloodletters Full command
39 Bloodletters Full command
19 Pink Horrors, musician, standard, icon of sorcery
3 Screamers
3 Screamers
5 Furies
1 Bloodcrusher
1 Bloodcrusher
1 Fiend of Slaanesh
1 Fiend of Slaanesh
1 Beast of Nurgle.

Fern had
Night Goblin Great Shaman with 4+ ward
Warboss on gigantic spider
2 Big Bosses
2 level 2 Night gobbo shamans
60 Night Goblins full command
60 Night Goblins full command
20 Night goblins w/ 3 fanatics
20 Night goblins w/ 3 fanatics
3 x 5 Spider riders
2 Goblin doom divers
1 Rock Lobber
2 Mangler Squigs
Arachnarok

We only got up to end of turn 3, just learning to speed up games with night goblin army and

Daemon Setup

Night Goblins

Night Gobbos hiding

Turn 1Furies draw Fanatics out

Arachnarok being redirected for flank charge.

a little too close for comfort.

Very close.

What happened to all the stuff in the middle, Mangler Squig, that's what.

No more Arachnarok; Flaming Herald of Khorne and Bloodletters dealt to that.

Two Fnatics pop through my Unit of letters taking a couple of casualties.

These guys didn't end up doing much for the rest of the battle.

Also spent some time with the little Berzerker and got his Dorf Cannons base coated, painted 1 layer and based. only needs a wash and some details picked out and the base fully pauinted and flocked.

Kapiti Krushers with Swedish Comp

So ran our Swedish comp  of our armies for NZTC and got the following in descending (or ascending) order;

Nick "Fluffy Bunny" Jebson's Orcs and Gobbos
Dispel scroll -7
Orc Warbos -9
Savage Orc great Shamn -21
level 4 -8
night gobbo shaman -7
level 2 -3
Orc big boss -3
BSB -10
Savage orc Bigunz -47
Shrunken head -6
Goblins -4
Night Goblins -3
Night Goblins -3
6 fanatics, -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -5
wolf riders -3 -3
Trolls -28
rock lobber -7 -7
doom diver -11 -11
18 Wmp -18

300-239 = 61/10 = 6.1 comp




Hamish "Brick in a Sock" Gordon and his Warriors of Chaos
Dispel Scroll -5
Infernal Puppet -35
Talisman of Preservation -4
Third Eye of Tzeenntch -7
Sorcerer Lord -20
level 4 -8
Marck of Tzeentch -6
Disc of Tzeetnch -4
Exalted hero -4
BSB -10
Chaos Steed -1
Chaos Warriors -21
Mark of Tzeentch with hand weapons and shields -2
marauder Horsemen -3 -3
Chaos Knights -28
Mark of TZeetch -3
SkullCrushers -21
Skullcrushers -26
3 after 6 Skullcrushers -30
each unit after 1st(more than 7) -10

300 -251 =49/10 = 4.9 comp




Samuel "But I really want a Greater Daemon" Campbell

Spell Destroyer -7
Herald of Korne -7, Battle standard bearer -10, armour of khorne -2
Herald of Korne -7, Fire Storm blade -3 , armour of khorne -2
Herald of Korne -7, Fire Storm blade -3 , armour of khorne -2
herald Of tzeentch -7 Master of sorcery (light) -18
29 Bloodletters -40
29 Bloodletters -40 -10
29 Bloodletters -40 -10
10 Pink Horrors -6
3 Screamers -3 -1
3 Screamers -3 -3
Bloodcrusher -3
Bloodcrusher -3
Fiend -6
Fiend -9
-252
300 -252 = 48/10 = 4.8 comp


Herman "The Sherman" Van Kradenburg

Dark elves
Repeater crossbows -8
Dispel scroll -7
Seal of Ghrond -7
tome of Furion -3
dread lord -10
black Dragon -20
Pendant -35
Sorceress -8
level 2 -2
Shadow -4
Level 1 -8
Death -2
Death hag -1
BSB -8
Rune of Khaine -1
Cauldron of Blood -20
Repeater Crossbowman -23
Corsairs -21
Sea serpent standard -3
Shades -4 -6
12 Shades -18
reaper Bolt Thrower -4 -6
War Hydra -40 -2

300 -271 = 29/10 = 2.9 comp

Herman you dirty dirty bastard, well according to Swedish Comp anyway.

NZTC Team Kapiti

So Hamish has organised us boys up at Kapiti Wargaming Club.

Our team will probably consist of;

WoC - Hamish
Orcs and Goblins - Nic
Dark Elves - Herman
and my DoC

Looking forward to it as it's my first tournament in 10 years. Have to get the final lots of my minis painted. Billy and his Bloodletters plus chaff and light mage will probably be making the stage for me.

Gaming Extravaganza

Things seem to be rocketing off at the moment, I managed to get no less than 8 Games in the last week.

1200pts Slaaenshi Daemons vs 1200pts VC (Fern)
HoS Siren song
HoS Siren song + BSB
9 Seekers
29 Daemonettes
2 x 1 Fiends

Played Dawn Attack and managed to bottle the Vampire counts in a corner.  Seekers are absolutely horrible to play and died easily to a black coach.


1200pts Nurgle Daemons vs 1200pts VC (Fern)
HoN, level 1
29 Plaguebearers
2 BoN
1 BoN
3 Pox Riders
3 Nurglings

I basically fed her vampire unit chaff so I could Hold the objective with my Plaguebearers who got to the objective in turn 2. Hex wraiths kept on scythign through the building. I lost more than she did but rolled a 6 for Watchtower on 4th turn and took home the goods.

2400pts Daemons vs 2400pts VC (Fern)
4 HoK in 29 Bloodletters, 1w/ AoK +BSB Standard of Sundering, 3 w/ FB +AoK
2 x 1 Fiends
3 Screamers
5 Furies

This is a Brutal list which shredded through most of her army and eventually killed the Vampire bus Fern had rolling. Pretty much a battle for the pass secnario as well so not a lot of manouvering could be done.


2400pts Daemons vs 2400pts Skaven (Hamish)
Took the above list and fairded really badly due to artillery. The standard of sundering blocked all the dreaded 13th attempts. Must block skitterleap and doom rocket because that is pants.

2400pts Daemons vs 2400pts Orcs & Goblins (Nick)
Cut down to 3 Bloodletter hordes and GUO. Proceeded to take sever advantage of Nick's abysmal dice rolling and

2400pts Daemons vs 2400pts Warriors of Chaos(Hamish)
Took the above list and my GUO didn't manage to kill . The res to fo Bloodletter hordes died badly.

3000pts Daemons vs 3000pts VC (Storm of Magic) (Fern)
Took the above list again and added, Dark Emissary, Spawn of Khorne,

2400pts Daemons vs 2400pts Warriors of Chaos (Hamish)
GUO died to gateway first turn. The rest of the game was spent not moving whilst Hamish moved his troops slowly across the table. I almost accounted for his Knights, and 2 units of 5 Skullcrushers. 'nuff said.


I may need to take Billy the blood thirster and bunker my HoTz in a large anvil of Horrors. I need an all comers list.

So I'm looking at:
Bloodthirster w/ AoK, Axe of Khorne, Immortal Fury, Spellbreaker
2x HoK w/ FsB +AoK, 1 BSB in 2 units of 29 Bloodletters

1 HoTz w/ Mastery of Sorcery + Spellbreaker bunkered in 29 Horrors with icon of sorcery.
3 Screamers
2 x 1 Fiend

I'nm still trying to figure out the best Lore and have been flipping through, Shadows, Light, Life and Death. Maybe Beasts.

More Assemblage & Secret Plan Log #2: Undercoating and Inking

Assembled some more Mantic Orcs. Did a bit more yesterday on the dragon and I'm liking the model a lot. I only have time in the evenings now.

The Orc Hordes.

Primed in secret weapon Green primer and inked with one lot of thraka green

...of Movement Trays and Magnetisation

So over the last couple of days I've been making movement trays and magnetizing so my army is easy to put on the field and put back away, but most importantly easy to transport. Here's some action shots.

Assembling movement trays on my well used cutting board.

Mantic Orc army half assembled and movement trays sorted. The Orcs have a Warhammer  Chaos Maruader Standard and the champion has a Beastmen Gor Champion Axe. There is another 10 assembled not in this picture. The GW trays fit perfectly. I've Assembled 10 Orc Gore Riders, 43 Orc Axe, 4 Orc Great Axe and Wip the half cast. so I have 17 Orc Axe, 16 Orc Great Axe, 10 Morax, 10 Orc Gore Riders, Flagger, Orc Boss on Gore and a whole bunch of Orclings to assemble. So about half way.

Plaster filling bases and magnetizing has taken up the whole table. The Khorne stuff is mostly magnetised. what's in progress is plastering of Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh.

I think I might try a putty, something that doesn't dry too quickly as plaster does as I had to make up 5 lots of plaster and work quickly to fill the bases. But here are all my Horrors, Screamers, Plaguebearers and extra Bloodlettters with their bases filled. And a pile of plaster.

Magnetisied Movement trays. These are essential and what I've been spending this month's hobby allowance on. I will be buying more next week.

All my Nurgly goodness back on the shelf.

GW price rant (why Mantic is getting more of my money)

So I'm a little miffed at the Bretonnian Finecast releases; I really wanted 2 Trebuchets and maybe some questing Knights to finish off my Bret army. Sadly no more. To Ebay and trademe.

The Fay Enchantress                 $ 73.00
Bretonnian Lord with Lance          $ 48.00
Bretonnian Damsel with Sword        $ 48.00
Bretonnian Damsel with Staff        $ 48.00
Bretonnian Battle Standard Bearer   $ 46.00
Bretonnian Grail Knights            $146.00
Bretonnian Questing Knights         $146.00
Bretonnian Grail Reliquae           $ 94.00
Bretonnian Trebuchet                $105.00
Unicorn                             $ 33.00

So for the same amount $150  as one unit of Grail Knights I purchased 1200 points of Mantic Kings of War Orcs from the Kickstarter, which are comparable in quality if not better than the clunky knights and I will probably use the miniatures in Fnatasy games as well. Here is an impromptu list of what I have at the moment. This currently retails at probably around $200.

http://www.slavetopainting.co.nz/products/kings-of-war-orc-army
http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Kings-of-War/Army-Deals/Orc-Army-Deals.html

1447 points Warhammer Fantasy Orcs

Lords (142pts)

• Orc Warboss (142pts)
  Choppas (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33), Waaagh! (AB-34)
  Shield (3pts), War Boar (24pts) (Swiftstride (BRB-76), Thick-skinned (AB-37), Tusker Charge (AB-37))

Heroes (80pts)

• Orc Big Boss (80pts)
  Choppas (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33)
  Battle Standard Bearer (25pts)

Core (625pts)

• Orc Big 'Uns (195pts)
  Animosity (AB-32), Choppas (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33)
  Boss (15pts), Musician (10pts), 20x Orc Boyz (160pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
• Orc Boyz (215pts)
  Animosity (AB-32), Choppas (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33)
  Boss (15pts), Musician (10pts), 30x Orc Boyz (180pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
• Orc Boyz (215pts)
  Animosity (AB-32), Choppas (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33)
  Boss (15pts), Musician (10pts), 30x Orc Boyz (180pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)

Special (600pts)

• Black Orcs (120pts)
  Armed to da Teef (AB-39), Choppas (AB-33), Immune to Psychology (BRB-71), Size Matters (AB-33)
  10x Black Orcs (120pts)
• Orc Boar Boyz (195pts)
  Animosity (AB-32), Choppas (orc) (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33), Thick-skinned (AB-37), Tusker Charge (war boar) (AB-37)
  Boss (15pts), Musician (10pts), 10x Orc Boar Boyz (160pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
• Orc Boar Boyz (195pts)
  Animosity (AB-32), Choppas (orc) (AB-33), Size Matters (AB-33), Thick-skinned (AB-37), Tusker Charge (war boar) (AB-37)
  Boss (15pts), Musician (10pts), 10x Orc Boar Boyz (160pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
• Snotlings (90pts)
  Skirmishers (BRB-77), Unbreakable (BRB-78), Unstable (BRB-78)
  3x Snotlings (90pts)

..and that's without magic items.


Don't you think it's rather disparate?

I've started cleaning and assembling the Orcs: 9 Ax dudes, 4 great Axes, Wip the half Cast and 10 Boar riders done. At first I was a little miffed that there was so very few options on each sprue but when I compared the sprues together they were all interchangeable so it allows for a fair bit of flexibiility and swapping bits when you have mutiple sprues to draw from. I must say the boar riders are by far my favourite at the moment.

Mantic Orcs, Dark Vengeance and Bloodletters

GUESS WHAT I GOT TODAY!!!

My Mantic stuff arrived in the mail today. 1200 points of Orcs thereabouts. Here's my fat arse in some action shots of my new gaming T-shirt.

To the left.

To the right.

Shake it.

I even framed the signed map.

I'll need another copy to game with.

here is a list of stuff I have to to assemble

1 Krudger on Gore, 1 Orc Flagger, 2 Ax Regiments (60), 1 Greatax Regiment (20), 1 Morax Troop (10) 2 Gore Rider Regiments (20), Orclings (1-3 bases)

Very pleased.

It's been a good week. On Wednesday decided to buy the Dark Vengeance box set. I smell a 40k Cultist heavy army in the works. I think my 40k stuff is going to get some love soon. 


1 Dark Vengeance box set Chaos side 20 Kaos Kultists, 6 Chosen, 1 Hellbrute, 1 Kaos Lord and some Dark anglez, but i wont put them together someone else can.

plus the rest of which I have to assemble.
10 Dark Eldar Wyches
10 Dark eldar Warriors
Dark Eldar Raider.


10 Bestigors (will wait till I get another 2 battalions worth of Bestigors(20)).



Plus i have to help the little sorceress assemble Dark Elves and assemble the special project for the little dryad.

I can't even list my unpainted stuff, but it's a measure of my mortality in the time it will take to paint them.

However I did manage to cut into that list and I assembled 20 Bloodletters to fill 25 bases on Wednesday.
 
I have undercoated them dragon red from the army painter range and mounted them on rocks selected from the driveway. Now I have to fully paint them up and slot them into my Khorne Daemonic Legion.

On a side note, have made it to the Gym 5 days in a row.

Progressing Slowly.

So been busy Playing Civ 4 on the train, touched a bit of paint to my 36 Daemonettes, all the base colouring is done and first ink wash completed. so may nee another wash and then highlighting and touching up to be done and basing.

My better half managed to pick up an old starter set of Illuminati.so we played last night, me as Servants of Cthulhu and her as Shangrila and the highlight of the game was killing Princess Di, never mind winning the game. Lots of good fun and better than the most recent Illuminati release.

I've been sorely tempted by the reaper bones Kickstarter lately.

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min

We'll get back to that. My kids and I have been playing Heroquest and have finished the first campaign on last weekend. At the moment it is their favourite game of all time. So I have a little AD&D apprenticeship group happening with the five of them. The girls will probably end up playing Elves of some configuration, oldest boy will be a Wizard, youngest boy will be the barbarian/warrior/tank and the middle boy will run into the room and die every single time. So anyway back to the kickstarter...lots of miniatures for an awesome foundation for some basic D&D with the kids. as all the stretch goals are being realised it's pushing me to the brink. Especially as for $100US you get all this.

This might push my daemons back a little. I want to get 3 boxes of Plaguebearers, 1 of Nurglings, 1 of Flamers, 1 of Screamers, enough chariots for a hellflayer and exalted chariot. $73 is too much to pay for the blue scribes so will look for a cheaper way to get a verified quality version because it's finecast or just convert my own.

My first lot of Orcs fromt he Mantic Kickstarter should be shipped in the next few weeks once they have the print run done.

Aw bugger it!

Ah well I decided to pledge to $175 which gets me instead

A Kings of War Hardback Rulebook,
Mini-rulebook
10 Dice
A Kickstarter exclusive Undead Skeletal Dog Handler
1000 points Orcs – 1 Krudger on Gore, 1 Orc Flagger, 2 Ax Regiments (60), 1 Greatax Regiment (20), 1 Morax Troop (10) 2 Gore Rider Regiments (20), Orclings (1-3 bases)
3 Celestian Angels,
5 Celestian Battle Sisters,
5 Celestian Men-at-Arms,
either 5 Elf Cavalry or 5 Twilight Kin Knights,
5 Immortal Guard,
5 Fleabag Riders,
5 Brock Riders,
3 Trolls,
5 Palace Guard,
5 Mummies,
5 Gargoyles.
3 Abyssal Golems
Orc Gore Chariot or a Fight Wagon
Your name immortalised in the Kings of War Hardback Rulebook
A free electronic version of the Kings of War Hardback Rulebook
An electronic version of the Kings and Legends Supplement
A signed Lithoprint of the Mantica Map
a free ticket to our Mantic Party in September/Gencon Kings of War event in August (yay)
Undead Standard Bearer
the Undead Vampiress from the cover art of the book
"Wip the Half-cast" - an Orc Wizard Special Character from the Mantic Point Scheme.

I'd like to see GW do something like this for value... I highly doubt it.

Mantic Games Kings of WAR

So I backed them for $100 with only 17 hours to go and I like the Orcs better than Games Workshop Orcs. Not to mention way better value.


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/kings-of-war

For $100 now i get

A Kings of War Hardback Rulebook, Mini-rulebook and 10 Dice
Undead Vampiress from the cover art
Army of Orcs – 30 Ax Warriors, 20 Greatax, 10 Gore Riders, 24 Orclings
 Plus
 - A Kickstarter exclusive Undead Skeletal Dog Handler
- A free Celestian Human Paladin
- A free Celestian Men-at-Arms
- A free Celestian Angel Paladin
- A free Celestian Battle Sister
- A free Elf Palace Guard
- A free Dwarf Berserker Brock Rider
- A free Gargoyle figure
- A free Mummy figure
- A free Troll figure
- A free Orc Chariot/Fight Wagon
- Your name immortalised in the Kings of War Hardback Rulebook
- A free electronic version of the Kings of War Hardback Rulebook
- An electronic version of the Kings and Legends Supplement
- A signed Lithoprint of the Mantica Map
- a free ticket to our Mantic Party in September/Gencon Kings of War event in August (probably wont be flying to that)

and a book Bloodstone of Cerillion, by Jonathan Peace

Slace to Painting stock Mantic Kings of War and I've already bought Avatar of Wars Daemon Champion and Herald of Pestilence, plus some of the Army builder primer which works a treat.

I find I'm getting priced out of GW warhammer, so it's good for an alternative.