A late update, but a couple weeks ago I made my first visit to the Cage. The clubhouse for the Gameongw group arranged for by Bobby Ash. I went Saturday to meet Patrick and trade for a bunch of catachan but he was tied up with his recruiter and wasn't able to show. I did play a game of Ogre with Chuckaroobob and his buddy Oliver, but The Main Event was on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
My second foray into the Imperial guard Codex had a better outcome. This was also another campaign battle and after much trash talking I decided to reveal unto John the darkness in the new guard codex. My army consisted of Col (Elvo) Straken and a loaded squad in a chimera, an infantry platoon with a loaded command squad in a chimera and 2 infantry squads, a vet squad with 3 plasma guns, 2 ratling squads, Mort(sly marbo)Brandysnap, 2 banewolves, a demolisher with plasma sponsons and an Executioner with plasma sponsons. Basically an army loaded up with plasma goodness to cleanse the Nurgle filth that John Bays brought.
The start line for my deployment. I may have lead John to believe I was bringing a horde list but when the trade didn't happen with Patrick Saturday I fell back to a more mechanised list.
John Gave me first turn and I used it well. I moved everything up and and my second Banewolf multimelta shot of the game destroyed his Predator parked in the woods before it got a shot off. Then the game really went south for John. His Chaos dread fire frenzied and the closest unit was his nurgle bikers so he turbo boosted his bikes near the Banewolves. I pointed out the chemical cannon ignored cover saves but John did the move anyway. My turn I chemcannoned the bikesquad and then we realized John misunderstood that turbo boosting gave a cover save and not an invulnerable save. After an ugly turn of shooting only the Chaos sorcerer on a bike was left with one wound. Then I remembered the multilaser in the platoon commanders chimera and it took the Sorcerer's last wound. John's second turn his plague marines burnt down the ratlings . Another plague marine squad shot up my vet squad. His dreadnought frenzied again and had to move toward the platoon commanders chimera. Unfortunately his vindicator shot scattered and landed on the chimera destroying it but because of the medic I didn't lose anyone from the command squad. This left his dreadnought outside of charge range but inside range of the meltaguns from the command squad. My turn The Executioner burnt down a plague marine squad and another sorcerer with them, the demolisher destroyed his vindicator, Elvo Strakens squad destroyed a plaguemarine squads rhino and the command squad destroyed his dreadnought. Johns turn he summoned in a daemon squad. The only icon he had left was in the plaguemarine squad in front of Elvo's squad. The daemons charged Elvo in cover. Elvo strakens squad threw a bunch of attacks and killed a couple daemons and then the squad saved all the wounds the daemons did in return. This disgusted John in a way that is had to describe. A guard unit beating daemons in close combat was too wrong to conceive. So objective hammer ensued and I held my objective and he would have to walk through all the fire my army could put out to get to it, while I had several units able to get to his objective and there was little he could do to stop it. He conceded the game and gave me the win. The new guard codex can be ugly if you have the models to field it.
Pregame shot of the Battlefield.
Infiltrating ratlings that were a little too close and died quickly the next turn.
The Cage from the inside looking out.
The flames of war Demo Game. It consisted om Chuckaroobob, a guy named Joe and me playing Soviet against John Bays, Shaun and another guy playing germans. It was a massive tank battle. T34/85's and IS-2 against a bunch of Panthers and Tigers. the usual. The high point of my game was when my M3 stuarts contested a german objective for a 1/2 a turn. It was a fun game and I believe it spread the interest for Flames of War.
The line o Tanks.
I had a couple good days of gaming at the Cage and hope that it will last for a while to come.
Adeptus Mechanicus Officer with a power fist and plasma pistol. I built this one a few weeks ago to lead an anti-Nurgle command squad in my game against John Bays. He worked out well and I have been fielding his squad in the last couple games I have played. He will eventually end up with a red paint scheme and metallic gold highlights.
With the release of the New Imperial Guard codex I have decided to increase the number of infantry squads in my Adeptus Mechanicus army.These two are going to be the sergents of two new squads. These two originally had pistols but I cut them off and gave then meltaguns. Later I broke the meltaguns off to use on other models. I painted these up with my Delaque heavy weapon platoon and left them without firearms so when the new codex came out all I had to do was add the special weapons to them as part of the Heavy weapon platoon. Of course the heavy weapon platoon was no longer in the codex so now they are promoted to sergents.
Colonel Elvo's bodyguards. A couple of escher juves I had laying around. the one with the club was a miscast missing half its head. I resculpted the head and scalp lock and I think it will be hard to notice it once I get her painted.
Three medics. Nothing like feel no pain to help a squad out. I am debating about building a fourth medic for when I field a third platoon.
A regimental standard and 2 platoon standard bearers. Again I am debating on building another platoon standard for my projected third platoon.
Oldies but Goldies, some of my old rogue trader Commissars. I stripped the old paint jobs and then rebuilt them to use with the new codex. A couple had stormbolters and all of those had to go away.
A detail shot of the power fist/plasma pistol commissar. I used and old Eldar power fist and added a little green stuff to cover up the eldar armor on the arm.
Here is a side project I have been working on, a Las Carbine. It is a cut down lasgun with a 1mm rod barrel and a couple 5mm strips of 1mm x2.5mm styrene strips glued together to make the magazine. I have some other odds and ends lasgun conversions I have been working on. I am Planning on making them a Vet squad or a Kill team. The inspiration for the conversion was a picture of an Arbite entry team conversion in the white dwarf magazine.
Italian machine gun finished.
Here is a closer view.
Here is a comparison picture on my scratch build and the inspiration, a Bolt action Italian machine gun.
