New Models!!

Yes I had a bit of a Wallet explosion at Forgeworld Open Day this year, but then, I've never walked anywhere near a Forgeworld stand without my bank account screaming in pain as a large part of it is ripped out in one go! Of course I pre reserved it for collection, which is ALWAYS the smarty thing to do at FW open day, the queue is always immense. (it wraps around the entire hall of warhammer world, and takes an age to get to the front) A second Vulture... I've got some Rapid Response force thing in mind for apocalypse games :D

A new command squad, the new Hostile Environment cadians just rock! I'm using them to represent any veterans in my force, making it easier to remember which squads have a higher ballistic skill (which I often forget in the heat of battle)

So the Regimental Command Squads and Veteran Squads will get these funky models. I've actually bought enough to make two 10 man veteran squads, a command squad with 2 plasmas, vox, medic, Master of Ordnance, and a bodyguard, with 4 spare guys for special weapon replacement options.

the plasma gun guys look great, even on the running legs which arent my favourite, the pose just looks cool.

I'm going to have to think how to make this guy into a medic, though he has plenty of kit pouches on his helmet which will be very "mediccy"

I think the scanner will make a good Master of Ordnance upgrade for the command squad, I don't have the imperial armour detailing the scanner rules, and I can't imagine they would fit the lucky 88th fluff.

the hostile environment command squad came with this powerfist wielding commander, who i think will make a great Lord Commissar to wander the battlefield with my other Lord Commissar, keeping a close watch on the lucky88th.

And a second Cyclops!! I love these so much, they really do fit the Urban fighting style of this army, and in games of cityfight will be fantastic as either mobile demo charges, or in strictly "no forgeworld" games could represent some cities of death strategems (though my regular opponents wouldn't deny me the opportunity to play forgeworld gear)

So my painting progress is at a 'limping snail' pace, I'm going to concentrate on building stuff for a while, then once I've got a load of models lined up on my desk, I can concentrate on factory batching a load of vehicles and troops out. after that I have my various projects, such as "Battery 401" an Ordnance Detachment of the Lucky 88th, which I can't wait to get into, but I'm going to make it my personal mission to get the blasted army into a state of completeness.

this basically involves painting up the ragged ends of my infantry, as the general troops are mostly done. (this doesnt include the new squads I want to add in the future.)

Adding tracks to my vehicles, (I'm so lazy...) then getting them finished

building a valkyrie/vendetta, and painting the 2 vultures and 2 vendettas

Once I've hit this point I can start on the Battery 401, finish my Nids, and then plan the next army.... oh yes, I'm thinking that far ahead, i have a rough idea of what to do next, but need an excuse not to buy any for a few months (read: as long as possible) hence the ambitious goal of getting "everything finished first"

Anyways, Cheers for dropping by guys.

Oh, I almost forgot, I've started a Youtube Channel!!

www.youtube.com/TSINIproductions

It's going to host all my battle reports and gaming videos, and possibly some other stuff, but I'm new to all this stuff so it may take a while before anything good appears, I'm currently browsing youtube for inspiration (was watching some amazing sculpting tutorials which have sparked some ideas in my head) so hopefully I'll think up some interesting uses for this medium - suggestions welcome!

Cheers again

TSINI

Lucky88th vs Brightwing Adaptive Tactics. Battle Report from Forgeworld Open Day

I've finally got my laptop back from the shop. a new Hard drive, fingers crossed this one won't go belly up.

Time for some Battle reports

I apologise in advance for the "messyness" of these reports, in particular the video is patchy, shaky and without commentary.

I'm still getting used to my video camera, and these games were, as always, rushed through with little time to think about taking pictures and filming the particular events.

As fellow wargamers I'm sure you can appreciate the visuals of these games, Warhammer world really does take wargaming to another level with their gaming tables.

Game 1: 1 objective each, Spearhead Deployment (Table Quarters) Fought over a scrapyard full of tank hulls and ruined buildings.

I won deployment, and so set up around a building, placing all my heavy weapon teams in elevated positions, with the heavier leman russ tanks in front, surrounded by conscripts. I planned to flank the shifty TAU with a small reconnaissance force of a salamander and a plasma cannon toting armoured sentinel on the left, and a hard hitting Medusa, backed up by troops, a cyclops, and Winters' command squad to the right.

The Command Squad ended up bounding over a large scrap pile, heading for a couple of tau transports. The Medusa lost its main cannon before it had a chance to obliterate any xenos, so the cavalry appeared to lend a hand on the right flank. The Valkyrie entered the board, and was immobilised, bailing out the penal legionnaires

The salamander was immobilised immediately, leaving the sentinel to amble around on its own. the vulture sped overhead to replace it, and some plucky infantry were able to leg it to the left flank and set up a firing position in a ruined building

This building housed my objective, and would have taken a lot of TAU to clear it.

These heavy gun drones dropped in to work through the infantry holding my objective, but even if they were able to wipe out a unit a turn, they would have required 3 turns of shooting to clear them all.

Eventually the game was called a DRAW, due to neither side being able to get any troops to each others objectives within the remaing couple of turns. A particular moment I remember was a junior officer taking a direct hit from a rail cannon and surviving when it failed to wound. he required new commissar trousers afterwards, and a new cap badge.

Game 2: Capture The Bastion

After out lunch, Paul and i decided to squeeze in a VERY quick game in the last 30 mins of Warhammer world being open. we devised a simple scenario.

Get the most points onto the bastion.

if nothing esle we would get some nice shots of our models on another great board.

as you can see from the video, we both set up in straight lines on opposite table edges, the TAU lept onto the bastion by turn 2, and the lucky 88th. I decided that we had no time for me to finish my turn 2, but i could see that none of my infantry would make it, and with the TAU on the high ground already, the game was a bust. The massive building left only narrow firing alleys either side, which allowed units to creep out of the sides

These games were a great opportunity to see Warhammer world in action, we've definately learnt some lessons for the future.

1. Book tables in advance, some of the nicer tables were booked up with no shows all day, which was a bit of an eye opener


2. go for a weekend, 1 day isnt enough, and if we stayed nearby, we could have a few drinks the first day.

If you have any suggestions for my future videos, please do leave a comment. anything at all will be much apreciated.

Cheers for dropping by

TSINI

Forgeworld Open Day 2011 at Warhammer World, The Annual Pilgrimage!

I have been unable to update my blog for some time now, mainly because of an extreme laptop failure, but also the non stopness of work and real life things. but I have commandeered a laptop and will update you on my annual pilgrimage to Warhammer World for the Forgeworld Open Day 2011

This year I was only in it for 3 things

• Imperial Treadhead Pron (including the new Imperial Guard Transport)


• To get my models onto some Forgeworld Gaming Tables (pics/vids + report when my laptop comes back from the shop...)


• Pick up my reserved Forgeworld order (to be discussed in future posts)

I didnt go mad with the pics this year, I had a little chat with a couple of the designers, namely Phil Stutcinskas and Darren Parrwood, about the design of Imperial Vehicles, the design Process of the models in general and Phil helped me with my weathering powder question:

"Q: What do you use to hold it on the models? A: White spirit, you can mix in a bit of varnish if you want"

Onto the pics: I like the idea of the crassus, a mobile bunker for a platoon of men, my only concern was that my platoons tend to consist of 57 men, not the 25 this is built for... also if i had £80/90 to spend on it, i have a long list of other vehicles that would come 1st (thunderbolt, macharius heavy bolter, malcador defender, stormblade, possibly a gorgon...) so i'd have to come into a lot of money before i'd grab one of these armoured tortoises

the new eldar titan is just huge, even compared to the imperial ones.

Imperial Guard Pron...

This twin hulled dark eldar vehicle is only a concept, but does give an insight into some future xenos vehicles on route.

A few concept sketches

The eldar titan head/commander

Soon to come: The Lucky 88th take the helm of my blogging progress, and the nids get a lie down for a while.

Cheers,

TSINI