First BatRep

So I've alrady written a battle report, but blogspot won't let me copy my word document into these posts...so I've posted it on dakkadakka.com. I'll give you all the pics, but if you want the whole story then just follow this link - http://http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/290943.page

Vassal40K

I showed my friend Derek this the other day, and while he wasn't impressed, I can't get enough of it. For those who don't know what it is, it's basicly 40K on a computer. Not Dawn of War or anything, but actually the table top game. Now there are some issues, like the fact that the program is illegal and was shut down by GW, and that it hasn't been updated since the IG codex (I believe). But this program is amazing. It lets you take any unit you want, just write a list and play. You can do it online against someone or with yourself.

This program is also really good for doing batreps, which I plan do now do more of. In the mean time I'm going to play one with Vassal against myself using the new BA codex, so stay tuned. And for your enjoyment here are a couple of pics from a few games I've played so far.

First Vlog!!!

This is my first Vlog. Thought I'd try one out and see how it went, hope to make it a regular thing.

I am #1 @ Air Traffic 2010

Well I did it! I won the 1000pt tourney @ Air Traffic Rosedale. Now it wasn't a regular tourney where you have rounds and 1v1 games, instead it was "mega" battle with 8 people. On my team was Black Templars, Blood Angels, Vanilla Marines, and me with Chaos Marines, versus Black Templars, Vanilla Marines, Necrons, and IG. When you look at it this way we were pretty evenly matched, and it was randomized teams. The rules were as follows:

1 point for:

-Killing an enemy HQ

-Killing a monster in CC (MC, Walkers)

-Killing or finishing off an enemy unit

-If your ally holds an objective at the end of the game

-A successful 'Death or Glory'

2 Points for:

-Holding an objective

And then the following rule: Uneasy Allies

Alliances were made in the direst of circumstances, and the careful, or cunning, commander will take advantage of this. In any shooting phase you may fire at an ally unit if the following criteria are met:

-Ally unit holds an Objective

-Successful Leadership test

-There are no enemy units within 12" of the Objective

-There are no enemy units within 12" of your Unit

So there was room for backstabbing, which I love. First off, oddly, I never utilized this rule to kill my allies, because I never had the need to. However the BT player shot and killed one of my Noise Marines that were on an objective (which he was also on) so I turned around and blew up his tank, thus making him deploy on the other side of it and more than 3" from the objective. And secondly I wasn't able to get a single point until turn 5! And we only played until turn 6. Fortunately we were able to go second, so if I needed to lash anything it could potentially screw over someone.

Anyways, I got 6 of my 11 points in the last 2 turns of the game. The last 5 came from objectives, which put me 1 point over the IG player to win it. It helped that no one had any form of Psychic defense, but it took me 5 fucking turns to kill 1 squad!!! Yes it was a 20 strong unit of Black Templars, but still, 5 fucking turns?! I flipped shit, in happiness, when I finally killed the last guy.

When all the dust settled I managed to pull out a win, barely, but one none the less. The objective that I held ended up winning me the Blood Angels Codex, and one of the employees won a clipper which he gave to me, then I got to pick between an Ironclad or a Mawloc, I of course chose the Dread who still had the entire spruce with him.

All in all it was a great game, and I need to thank Chang for giving me 2 extra points by deep striking a unit of 'crons w/ lord 3.5" away from my objective. And now I'm waist deep in shit because I can't do anything but read this damn codex. So look forward to some random and hopefully insightful rants about the BAs!!

Countdown to first tourny

Well its been awhile since my last post, and I've played many a game. All in all I still haven't lost a game. 3 games @ 1500, Nurgle CSM, Black Templars, and Orks, and 3 games @ 1000 Space Puppies and SM.

Most were a cake walk, considering the fact that most people at my FLGS have no fucking clue what they are doing. Example, the Nurgle CSM army only had 3 Oblits as 1 squad that he decided to Deep Strike as well as his 3 man termie squad w/ Mark of Nurgle who was with a Nurgle Lord w/ Daemon Weapon. I will admit that the list was initially scary. 4 squads of Plague Marines is tough to beat, unless you have Warptime and Lash DPs and a Battle Cannon.

If anything else these games have all been good practice for testing the waters. I've been able to get a feel for the Meta there, which sucks. And most of the players are young and think taking a commander for there HQ is the only way to go. Plus I've never faced off against a Psychic Hood, which is sad. How the fuck am I supposed to get ready for a fucking tourney if I'm playing against total retards!? I don't mean to belittle these kids because I was once one of them, but I NEED to find better players. Maybe I just have to actually play against myself?