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++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247


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+++ Tournament Report +++

++ Date :: 08417M03 || Location :: Games Workshop Amsterdam South ++

 

Hey guys, as promised, a report about today's tournament! I went in hoping to have three fun games, and I wasn't sure my army was all that competitive. I wrote the list last night at 2AM, after coming home from an evening of beers with mates I hadn't seen in quite a while. I had never played with it, nor it's like, before. Turns out, my list was pretty good, because....

 

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Well, not quite. Actually I didn't wipe out anyone. In fact all three of my games were close, intense, hard-fought battles, with lots of gambling, thought-through tactics, and some lucky dice rolls. But in the end, I came out as the only one with three wins and the first place in the tournament!  Hurray!

There were ten players (1x SM, 1x Necrons, 2x Tyranid, 2x Orks, 1x Eldar, 1x Harlequins, 1x Space Wolves, and 1x Mechanicum. We all played three games. A WIN scored 3 points, a draw scored 1 points, and a loss 0. Those with the most total points went up against their peers in consecutive round.  

 

My list was as follows:
Demi Company (Gives ObSec to all units, plus one Tactical Doctrine)

Captain (Bike, Power Fist)

Dreadnought (Multimelta, Dreadnought CC Weapon) in Drop Pod

Bike Squad (Biker Sergeant, 4x Bikers, 2 Grav Guns)

Devastator Squad (Sergeant with Signum, 9 Marines, 2 Missile Launchers, 2 Lascannons) - I combat Squatted this squad, with the sergeant in the lascannon squad)

Tactical Squad (Sergeant, 4 Marines, Grav Cannon with Grav Amp) in Razorback

Tactical Squad (Sergeant with Combi-melta, 4 marines, Meltagun) in Drop Pod

Tactical Squad (Sergeant with Combi-melta, 3 marines, Meltagun, Imperial Space Marine) in Drop Pod

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Imperial%20Fists/temporary_zpsxzrzasgf.jpg

 

The three games I played went as follows:

 

First Game

  • Maelstrom Mission 3, Tactical Escalation, with the restriction/addition that objectives were placed after choosing table sides, and one of those objectives had to be put in your own deployment zone - which would be worth 4 VPs at the end of the game to the opposing player. 
  • Dawn of War deployment on a 4'x4' table.

Opponents were determined through lottery, and for the third tournament in a row, I drew my namesake Michiel, who always plays an Eldar Scatbike list:

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Farseer on Jetbike

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)

D-cannon artillery

D-cannon artillery

FW Hornet

Aspect Host Formation (giving +1 BS to the whole formation)

Dark Reapers (Dark Reaper exarch with Barrage 3, Blast, S4 AP3 weapon, 2 Dark Reapers)

Warp Spiders (6 Warp Spiders)

Warp Spiders (6 Warp Spiders) 

 

Jetbike squad (3 jetbikes, scatterlasers)As you see, this list was SCARY. Holy crap. Luckily, I had first turn, and managed to alpha strike the living crap out of his units. He lost two Scatterbike units - mostly due to horrendous saving throws on his part) to the two drop podded tactical units (one of which landed dead on the important objective) and my devastators shot up his hornet. I was also lucky to get Master of Ambush for my warlord trait, which allowed me to infiltrate the remaining tactical squad, which shot up 2 more scatterbikes, leaving a single one. He then badly shot up two tactical squads in his deployment zone, but miraculously couldn't kill all of them. He also destroyed most of my bikes, who didn't do anything all game except dying. Other highlights:

  • I killed his warlord with the Imperial Space Marine
  • Both deepstriking tacticals were badly shot up, and both ended assaulting his artilley with one guy remaining, killing both units in two assault rounds
  • his warpspiders were horrible, shooting my deepstruck dreadnought and a drop pod
  • both his warpspiders units shot at my drop pod in the last turn, and stripped two hull points, but it wasn´t enough to kill it, landing me the prized objective.
  • by the end of the game, I had one devastator squad, my razorback, one tactical marine, and a drop pod on one hullpoint left, while he had one scatterbike and two full squads of 6 warp spiders left. I was lucky the game ended when it did. 

My deployment zone:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Terrain/temporary_zpsthluk9o6.jpg

 

His deployment zone:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Terrain/temporary_zpsp8qxcytu.jpg

 

End result: 16-2 WIN

 

SECOND GAME

  • Maelstrom Mission 5, Cloak and Shadows, with the addition of a Relic in the deadcentre of the board, worth 4 VPs to anyone holding/controlling it by the end of the game.
  • Vanguard Strike Deployment on a 4'x4' table 

 

My opponent was Erik, a Tyranid player with a nasty Flyrant list:

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Flying Hive Tyrant, Mastery level 3, 2x twin-linked Brainleech Devourers

Flying Hive Tyrant, Mastery level 2, 2x twin-linked Brainleech Devourers

Zoanthrope

Mucolid Spore

Mucolid Spore

Carnifex

Carnifex

Exocrine

 

I was incredibly lucky to get first turn, and managed to kill a Carnifex, his Exocrine, to put his second Carnifex down to two wounds, and one of the Spores to one. He then wiped out my bike squad with the remaining Carnifex and the Hive Tyrants (my god, the amount of shots those two terrible thing can churn out). He also charged with his spores, but I killed one with overwacth fire and the remainging one could kill only one tactical due to smart model placement on my part. My deepstruck tactical squads then killed off the zoanthrope and remaining carnifex, but I had absolutely no answer to those two flying Hive Tyrants, who in one turn of psychic powers and shooting managed to kill the grav tacticals, my two devastator squads, and the razorback! Poor maneuvering on his part forced him to put one (hs warlord) in ongoing reserves, while the remainging one landed - why he did that, I had no idea.... But I shot at it with everythign I had left, and then charged it with my warlord, who managed to strip him down to 0 wounds in two rounds. His warlord had come back by that point, but to no avail, The game was over in 40 minutes - after which I had three drop pods and four marines in two squads remaining. and he only one Flyrant. 

 

The game was played outside in the garden at the back of the store. Note that the droppod on the left, with the dreadnough, had not been deployed when I took this picture. As you see, the terrain was very sparse, with almost no line-of sight blockers - which ultimately didn't really favour either of us, except me in the first turn.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Terrain/temporary_zps2fkkpyrs.jpg

 

End result: 14-4 WIN

 

THIRD AND FINAL GAME 

  • Maelstrom mission 6, Deadlock, with the addition of the kill points system.
  • Dawn of War Deployment, 4'x4' table.

 

My tongue-in-cheek nemesis, Dean was my third and final opponent. We were the only two players with two wins in our pocket, so this was the battle of the titans. I hate Dean, because he always allies with Inquisitor Coteaz, who is the ultimate anti-drop pod character. Dean and I played a massive 3000 point KDK vs Mechanicum battle in my home a couple weeks back, which I narrowly lost, and for which I wanted revenge!  So it was on! :biggrin.: His list:

 

I'm not sure what kind of detachments he brought, but his units were as follows:

Cult mechanicus

Tech Priest Dominus

Kataphron Destroyers with Grav Cannons and Phosphor Blasters

Kataphron Destroyers with Grav Cannons and Phosphor Blasters

Inquisition

Inquisitor Coteaz.

Skitarii 

Vanguards (5 vanguards)

Vanguards (5 vanguards)

Sicarian Infiltrators (Princpesen, 5 Infiltrators)

Ironstrider formation

Dragoon

Dragoon

Ironstrider (twin-linked outocannon)

 

He fricking seized the initiative on me, outflanking his Ironstriders right in my deployment zone and killing four of my five bikers. Luckily, there was a huge line-of sight blocking building in the middle of the table, which prevented him from totally shooting up my army. My devastators were deployed in a bunker on the edge of my deployment zone, while one each of his Vanguards and Kataphron Destroyer squads was deployed in a ruin on the edge of his. Neither could really shoot at each other. I then deepstruck my tacticals on the edge of Coteaz' 12" interceptor bubble, preventing their demise and capturing the two objectives I had to get, which of course were in his deployment zone. The fact that even my drop pods were objective secured helped a lot! The remaining biker and my Captain then proceeded to charge an Dragoon each, while my entire army shot at the infiltrated Sicarians, which threatened to overrun my deployment. I managed to kill all but one, while they shot up all but one of my lower-deployed devastators. Meanwhile my biker was killed by the Dragoon, so now my lascannon devastators had to decide who to shoot up - the Dragoon, or the remaining Sicarian Infiltrator. Both hit equally hard, but the Sicarian was easier to kill in combat. So the lascannons destroyed the Dragoon, was then charged and a bit beat up by the Sicarian, but managed to kill it. It was a very tense game, which somehow felt more like a game of chess than actual 40K. In the end, Dean made the mistake of casting Invisibility on his Destroyers and not on the Ironstrider with which it had been fighting. This allowed my Captain to kill the Ironstrider, claim an objective, and ultimately to secure another objective in his deployment zone, and thus also the point for Linebreaker. 

 

Aerial view of the game from my deployment zone. My captain (lower middle, was actually in the ruin on the top right)   

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A massively enjoyable, tactically intense, and also good-natured game by the two old gits. Ironically, Dean threw his back out during the game, which coupled with my lingering slipped disc injury, caused many old-men jokes and Schadenfreude laughs. Grmbl grmbl.

 

Final result: 17-16 WIN

 

FINAL PLACES

Which landed me the crown! A squad of Scout Bikers was my prize, which I will happily paint in the yellow of my Imperial Fists! I still cannot believe I won, because I honestly went in thinking my list wasn't top tier, and just aimed to have a couple of fun, if competitive games. 

 

There were four other players with two wins and one loss, namely all my former opponents Michiel, Eric, and Dean, as well as my hobby buddy Ruben, who played a terrifying Harlequin assault/psychic list. Their placings were determined by the total amount of points they garnered throughout the tournament, which led to the following listing:

1 Michiel (I)

2 Dean (Dino)

3 Ruben

4 Michiel

5 Eric

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Hope you like! Let me know if you enjoy these kinds of battle/event reports. :smile.:

 

Replies!

 

@ Viarocanum: Thanks buddy! It worked :smile.:

 

@ lionofjudah: Thanks to you too! Both of your best wishes certainly helped!

 

@ hushrong: Crap! I hadn't noticed that. I'll fix it tomorrow, when I have better lighting;. I'll be sure to post a couple pics of the conversion, with an explanation. :smile.:
 

@ SalvationOfReason: Cheers!

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Cheers, guys! :smile.: I'm glad I haven't let my online hobby mates down :wink:

 

I promised hushrong some pictures of the alternative Grav Cannon backpack:

 


 

The bits I used are as follows: a missile launcher backpack, with the open missile cannister filled with putty and filed down once dry. I then glued a cut-out bit of Grav 'charger/ammo' from a left-over piece of Grav Cannon from the centurion kit I used for my Chaos Obliterators. This bit:

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http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/cent%20(31).JPG


Once that was all done, I cut off the cables from the Grav Cannon itself, and drilled a 2mm and a 1.5mm hole where the cables used to enter the gun, as well as in the bottom of the backpack. I then put 2mm and 1.5mm pewter cables I bought years ago into those holes - done! :smile.:

 

I hope that helped/was informative :smile.:

 

Cheers!

 

@ Mitsman: Thanks you! For both :smile.:

 

@ Race Bannon: Which one? 

 

@ KrautScientist: Thanks a lot, buddy! It's the only way I roll - I reneged on entering a recent Blood Bowl league because my Orks aren't quite finished... Turned out, had Ientered, I would have been the only one with actual painted models. 

 

@ Dragonlover: Hey, that's a great tip - thanks for that, I'll be sure to check it out. :thumbsup:

 

@ Uprising; YES! Another awesome name. He's on the list, and I'll write some fluff for him. 

 

@ Sgt. Blank: Thank you, mate. 

 

@ misterkho: Yeah, he's pretty awesome. He plays Death Guard too, which is an admirable choice. :wink:

 

@ Tekman: Damn, we should still play a game!

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@ Vairocanum: I got these from Dragonforge. The thicker ones do bend, but not much further than I made them on the above miniature. 

 

@ Tekman: PM incoming!

 

@ Race Bannon: I had no idea you played all those armies!

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Over at the Walls Fail, Fists Do Not event thread, Coldfyre asked about my hobby- and photography setup. I thought I'd share it here:

 

First, my hobby setup. I am very lucky to have a small room dedicated solely to the hobby (Plus a rack for drying clothes, and two vertically placed mattresses for guests). So here goes:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/Desk%20setup_zpsomyyxatw.jpg

In addition to all my paints, stored conveniently in a recent paint rack, I divided my setup in seven 'regions' :sweat::
1. All kinds of pots and cans with putties, glues, basecoats, cleaning fluids, and other fluid hobby materials, plus a paper envelope end a ziplock plastic back with FW Legion and GW miscellaneous transfer sheets, respectively.

2. Old wine crate with all my tools, from jewelery saws to pliers, GreenStuff Rollers to Syphons, and GreenStuff and Milliput rolls, as well as a pot of shaving cream with which to clean my brushes.

3. Two IKEA desk lamps with a daylight bulb and a 'normal' light bulb, plus a daylight spot for when I place my photo setup. The desk lamp on the right also holds all my unused magnets, which conveniently clamp several tweezers and clippers. The ´head´ of the lamp also stores my blod of Poster Buddy.  

4. Hobby mat, together with a table magazine I stole from my doctor´s waiting room: it (used to) has 400 pages of a material that is perfect to use as a paint receptical on which to mix and thin paints.
5. A porcelain pot that holds all my brushes, as well as my water pot and the place I keep my super and plastic glue, Vallejo Airbrush primers, and airbrush thinning fluid and flow improver.
6. Airbrush tank and holder, dremmel tool, hairdryer.
7. Bucket of water in which to clean my airbrush between paints, compressor, and bin.

Now, my Photo setup is a mobile one, which I keep next to and set up on my hobby area. I got very lucky: one day I told my dad I wanted to get more serious about miniature photography, and he was like "Oh, my brother gave me this the other day, you can have it", and he proceeded to give me this awesome mobile light box:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/WP_20170327_004_zpsuhsri6ic.jpg

 

Which folds open into this:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/WP_20170327_005_zpsdaafagme.jpg 

I then place an A2 sized piece of photo background in it, which I attach with Poster Buddy - as you see, I should replace this particular one soon, as it has ripped in several places, and has been damaged throughout the two years I've been using it. :D
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/WP_20170327_006_zpszgo9w1hg.jpg

I then clip on the 'roof', using a semi-transparent white piece of cloth:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/WP_20170327_007_zpsv44zuhzq.jpg

 

And finally, I point my desk lamps into it (daylight bulb from above, 'normal' bulb from the right), and the daylight spot from the left. I also clip my camera phone onto a super cheap phone camera holder I got from China (photo camera not included in pic, for obvious reasons) :wink: 
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/WP_20170327_009_zpsqstbawy9.jpg

And that's it! I used to take hints from Kierdale's tutorial, but the one Warhammer Community posted is just as fine. IN any case, the whole Miniature Photography Section of the B&C has been a great source of inspiration, tips, tricks, and hacks for me, and I am sure it will be to everyone interested in miniature photography. 

I hope you like and that this has been inspirational/useful to anyone. My photography is not perfect by far, but it works for me - I'm not willing to invest in a good camera, so I have to make due with my phone's camera. I have more than pleasing results, if I may say so myself, but I also admit that there is a lot to be improved on it. 

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That's super useful, especially as I have the same mobile studio! I got it years ago but never bothered with it, but I'm totally going to crack it out now :smile.:

That's good to hear! Do you know where to get them? I got mine from my dad, but I'd like to know the producer/store, as many people have asked me where I got it. :tu: 

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That's super useful, especially as I have the same mobile studio! I got it years ago but never bothered with it, but I'm totally going to crack it out now :smile.:

That's good to hear! Do you know where to get them? I got mine from my dad, but I'd like to know the producer/store, as many people have asked me where I got it. :thumbsup:

 

Never got that PM but.... I'll forgive you ;)

 

Also the Xenos (you know what I mean) has them quite often, sometimes the action as well, but the Xenos has it 9/10 in stock.

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After that whole Skyhammer Annihilation Force rollercoaster of the past month or so, I decided to take it somewhat easy and focus on somthing that required a little more effort. I've been wanting to do a fully kitted Imperial Fists Command Squad on bikes for quite a while now, and have been collecting bits for them too. They have all already been named a loooooong time ago, too, so it's about time these models get some names to them!

 

Biker Command Squad

Company Champion - Klass Valfodd - Dolchiate Remembrancer
Weapon Specialist - Alric Dustan - guardian31
Weapon Specialist - Koorso Drakk - Dragonlover
Apothecary - Cespar Kolloman - Slipstreams
Company Vexilla - Honored Haekon Druss - Flint13

 

I'm going to do them one at a time - except for the two Weapon Specialists. All the bikers in this squad need to look as spiffy as can be - like the OOP Ultramarine Honour Guard, but instead of the toilet seats, I'm looking for the same Templaresque Imperial Fist theme I've striven towards in the rest of my army. :smile.: This is why I'm using the Dark Vengeance bikers as a base, because of the cool Acquila-wings-for-biker-steering-bar-shields-thingies.

I'll begin with Flint13's miniature, as she was the one that got me into the B&C, originally. She's quite a bit less active nowadays, so I hope she'll still see this creation. Here's a preliminary mockup of the vexillarius.

On this guy, I've dremmelled away the Dark Angel iconography of the flag and smoothed the surface out with liquid GS as best as I could, so I hope it'll look like a battered, but well-cared for Company Standard and will take some (a lot of) transfers. I might also give him a storm shield, made from the shields of the Templar Brethren set. And there´s the issue of a severe lack of purity seals for one with the surfix 'honoured'. 

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Imperial%20Fists/temporary_zpsl5rp3f1a.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Imperial%20Fists/temporary_zpshzcd4y1o.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Imperial%20Fists/temporary_zpszxj0lgf5.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Imperial%20Fists/temporary_zpsxx2ho1kh.jpg

What do you think? Any ideas about Honoured Haekon Druss? Let me know! :yes:

 

I really appreciate your feedback in comments on this. I appreciate likes too, but they don't really qualify as constructive feedback, no do they? :smile.: My goal in posting here is to inspire and share my skills, but also to be inspired and to improve myself - and for that I need actual feedback :thumbsup:

 

 

@ Tekman: well you know how we feel about the Xenos around these parts. :wink:

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Maybe a purity seal on his chest or the front wheel housing or both? What power pack are you going to give him? An older mark pack would help with the honored part I think too. If possible to swap a shoulder pad with one of  the terminator honor pads from the sternguard? You could also put text lines on his shoulder pads or armor or both.

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Yes! Those are some excellent points. I'll see about that sternguard pauldron - I'd have to dremmel away the current one, which will be quite the operation - but I think I can pull it off. For the torso, I could actually swap it for one of the Templar Brethren torsos - which would go nicely with their backpacks, too :)

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Thanks a lot Augustus! It really gives me some ideas for the space to work toward. Right now, since this was such a spur of the moment thing, my work space is a corner of the dining room table :D. Of course it lets me spend time with my 4 year old as he plays with his green army men next yo mine.

 

As for the bikes, it looks great, but what's always bothered me is that special wespond ought to have a mount. Have you thought of anything like that? Some sort of fixable swivel mount so the biker can use both hands on the bike when needed, instead of being permanently one-handed.

 

I'm thinking something similar IN CONCEPT to the secondary machinegun mounts that we used to put in our gunner turrets. Here's an example:

 

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/modern/USA/MRAPS/Oshkosh_MATV-SXB.png

 

Not a great photo but the best i can find. The 50cal is in the main turret mount, and the 7.62 is in a second mount up and to the sode of the gunner, so he can switch to it when needed, but its already stabilized on a mount for when he needs it. It seems like this would be ideal for special weapons on bikes, a single point mount slightly forward and to one side.

 

Does that make sense? I would do it on bikes if i had them but im waiting for an eventual updated bike kit that doesnt use 2nd edition bolters...

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@ coldfyre: Ha! that's a really cool idea buddy - but actually I kinda like the special-weapon-in-hand look of bikers. If you are willing to and have the skills to convert that onto a bike, then there's really no reason why you wouldn't be able to also swap around the 2nd edition bolters for modern ones! :tu: Glad you like the pictures and setup, buddy. Hopefully you can make your own space someday. For now, having fun with your son sounds awesome, too! :)

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That's super useful, especially as I have the same mobile studio! I got it years ago but never bothered with it, but I'm totally going to crack it out now :smile.:

That's good to hear! Do you know where to get them? I got mine from my dad, but I'd like to know the producer/store, as many people have asked me where I got it. :thumbsup:

 

Oh now that's a question! I think Amazon but not sure...I'll have a look and update on here!

 

Update - I found it on Ebay for quite cheap, but it just seems to be a generic product.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/281533502542?chn=ps&adgroupid=40208487538&rlsatarget=aud-295856144804%3Apla-279605277745&abcId=923846&adtype=pla&merchantid=107334197&poi=&googleloc=9046172&device=c&campaignid=738085096&crdt=0

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