2014-15 Hammerfest Apocalypse Game at Warhammer World!

This will be updated over the next couple of days, but here are the pictures from the big 20,000pt Apocalypse game at Warhammer World!

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Dark Eldar v Dark Angels…Necromunda-style terrain battle report!

Quick batrep! Haven’t had one in a while, and this was the second game at Jack’s place and the first on the new Necromunda-style terrain! Loads of catwalks, platforms and ladders. Can’t wait to get it all painted!

Initially we were going to do a scenario with the Dark Angels trapped in the Dark Eldar city of Commoragh and they would have to get to a comms unit objective (to allow them to call in reinforcements), but we were running out of time to set everything up, so we did a simple layout with 3 objectives down the middle of the battlefield at 1250 points. No vehicles, just footsloggers!

Dark Angels took Belial with a large Deathwing bodyguard, plus 2 more smaller squads of Deathwing. All would Deep Strike in but only Belial wouldn’t scatter at first.

Dark Eldar took 3 10-man squads of Kabalite Warriors with 1 Splinter Cannon and 1 Shredder each, 20 Hellions, 2 5-man squads of Scourges and a tooled-up Archon with a large cohort of Incubi.

Warhammer World Trip: 7th edition Mini-Tournament!

DW’s friend Wiggy was up from the South to pay a visit to Warhammer World, so we took the opportunity to make it a day for a 3-person mini-tournament!

We only had 8 hours to get in 3 games. Each one of us would play twice, playing everyone in round-robin fashion. We used the Maelstrom of War missions (using the Tactical Objectives), rolling randomly to decide the mission. The first two players were decided by rolling a die, with Wiggy and David playing first. Frank got to sit and see Wiggy’s Mechanicum force in action! The overall winner would be decided by the total of Victory Points earned in every game!!

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Space Wolves v Mechanicum

7th Edition: Space Wolves v Tyranids!

DW’s first 7th edition game, facing a Tyranid horde! WHO WILL WIN?!

Space Wolves:
Rune Priest (Warlord)
Lone Wolf
2 x 10 Grey Hunters in Rhinos
2 x Vindicators
3 x wolf-rider dudes
Long Fangs

Tyranids:
Flying Hive Tyrant with 2 x T-L Devourers with Brainleech Worms
2 x Tervigons with 30 Termagants each
3 x Venomthropes
3 x Carnifexes with 2 x T-L Devourers with Brainleech Worms
3 x Biovores
Exocrine

2nd 7th edition game! Chaos vs Dark Angels

The board setup – there’s no more ‘roll for terrain’, you just place the terrain as you like it. I imagine tournaments will handle this very differently, but if you want to set up like an entrance to a city with wide-open areas at one side and a mega-dense area at the other, you can do that. It makes it a little less tactical but for ‘serious’ games you can roll 6th edition style. I think 7th requires you to talk a lot more with the other player to decide what sort of feel you both want for the game.

We are now the Tabletop Warlords!

Yes! We are re-branding and updating a bit, the new site (with 99% of the same content) is here: http://www.tabletopwarlords.com/ There’s a few new things coming, so head on over to the new site and stay tuned for some cool new announcements!

Play It Painted Pledge!

Saw this on one of the 40K forums I’m on, and thought it would be a pretty cool thing to try to do. Play it painted basically means for this year, I’ll only play games with models that have been painted. I know we all have our own constraints on time and all that, but…

40K podcast: The Independent Characters

Hey guys, just wanted to share this podcast with you all, I’ve been listening to it for a while and even Jack has started listening to it. I usually listen to it while painting (if I’m not watching some Netflix on my phone) and at work. It helps keep my interest up and the guys…