tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64983415371871691852024-03-05T06:39:07.229+00:00The WitchbladeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003976081798098666noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-68039176082347434922014-07-21T11:22:00.000+01:002014-07-21T11:22:43.713+01:00The Witchblade is Back!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hail fellow Autarch's!<br />
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Wow the last post was December last year, sorry about that folks. Well it's been a busy last 8 months or so and the hobby really took a back foot in my life but i'm glad to say i'm back into it now. It's been quite a stressful time lately but now I have my new house and can finally sit down and start painting and maybe take a deep breath :)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn2ppAhruzsSL6ShCG3F0JTjh9lyiufXoEfs3ube8cHMUb4y04W3bFdmWBVpb0Y1Riqrfiht9GDbkUwkyrHcT3mcvMdBmVcIFZuPbhgYmxo6MP7zal4YHW6NKPOzXGb9D0WXCM6GLdK8y/s1600/Bonesinger_Miniature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn2ppAhruzsSL6ShCG3F0JTjh9lyiufXoEfs3ube8cHMUb4y04W3bFdmWBVpb0Y1Riqrfiht9GDbkUwkyrHcT3mcvMdBmVcIFZuPbhgYmxo6MP7zal4YHW6NKPOzXGb9D0WXCM6GLdK8y/s1600/Bonesinger_Miniature.jpg" height="200" width="120" /></a>Firstly, whats the current state of my Saim Hann army? Well I have a long list of models to paint and I got started on this last weekend. I have 35 Guardians on my painting table at the moment which I hope to mostly get done this week or early next week. This will then be followed by 20 Dire Avengers. For the medium term I have retired the Jetbike horde but they will certainly make an appearance in my new list's from time to time but rarely will I field a full Jetbike army.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1m4992HQ1YNofkZ25W4JdNOY0FCzrogxXsG-XyHDoITxmXK73Ap500sP5wa7RZUcIgqM4mx_mVIIYwK5_dFHUzg7eQwxmC1aMcUkWOh-VR857W18o5P_shiJNYRem6Rd3BIBkELSr4Bs/s1600/70689_md-Eldar,+Farseer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1m4992HQ1YNofkZ25W4JdNOY0FCzrogxXsG-XyHDoITxmXK73Ap500sP5wa7RZUcIgqM4mx_mVIIYwK5_dFHUzg7eQwxmC1aMcUkWOh-VR857W18o5P_shiJNYRem6Rd3BIBkELSr4Bs/s1600/70689_md-Eldar,+Farseer.jpg" height="200" width="136" /></a>I have found that foot Eldar armies are just so much fun. They pack such a wallop and with so many bodies on the table it's kind of like playing an Ork army, just with less emphasis on rage and blood-lust and more on shiny spirit gems and razor sharp Molecular flying discs! The thing with my Jetbike army is that it either suffered a heavy loss or on another day it absolutely smashed my opponent but with this foot based army I am playing it lends for much closer games and that's much more fun for me and my opponent.<br />
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I have designed my list on a very strong offence with multiple threats backed up by some long ranged heavy weapon defense that can hold back field objectives.<br />
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Offensive Wing:<br />
Avatar - Fast Shot & Disarming Strike<br />
Farseer<br />
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10 Dire Avengers - Exarch with Shimmershield and Power Sword<br />
10 Dire Avengers - Exarch with Shimmershield and Power Sword<br />
10 Wraith Blades - Ghost Axes, Shields<br />
Wraith Lord - Ghost Glaive, Twin Heavy Flamers, Bright Lance, Scatter Laser<br />
Wraith Knight - Suncannon, Scatter Laser<br />
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10 Guardian Defenders - Bright Lance<br />
10 Guardian Defenders - Bright Lance<br />
War Walker Squadron (3) - Dual Scatter Lasers<br />
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I will keep you all up to date on my progress with painting the new army. I have a few pictures from my painting over the weekend which I will stick up after i get some progress done. Once the army is painted I will play a few games and post up some video battle reports along with some tactica. Also I hope you enjoyed some of the pictures of models in this article which of course weren't painted by me but many of the wonderful talented painters we all admire and follow. Particular favourite of mine is the picture just to the right from Thirdeyenuke from the Tale of Painters blog which you can find linked on my site.<br />
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Glad to be back!<br />
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John.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11098743162209825371noreply@blogger.com0Ireland53.41291 -8.243889999999964948.561612499999995 -18.571038499999965 58.2642075 2.083258500000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-79813075167371588702013-12-24T15:00:00.000+00:002013-12-24T15:00:05.755+00:00Kinstrife - Eldar on Eldar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been promising to contribute content here for a while...<br />
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Finally !<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSv0lA0iimg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSv0lA0iimg</a><br />
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Apologies in advance for some errors in ordering... hopefully you can make sense of it!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655563533161716147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-2928784387291806242013-12-20T16:16:00.002+00:002013-12-20T16:17:19.087+00:00A New Eldar Craftworld is BornHey guys,<br />
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As you know I have collected Saim Hann Eldar for a while now. This was inspired by Fritz from www.fritz40k.com. However after a few years i'm a bit bored of
the colour scheme and am thinking of a new Craftworld for my foot Eldar and my
Wraith army. I want to do these armies with my air brush and I want to give
them a battle hardened look as opposed to the usual bright and vibrant Eldar
look. My Saim Hann were painted using Army Painter spray cans as basecoats but I want to master the airbrush and take my level of painting to a whole new level.<br />
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Also being into my fluff I need a good background for the Craftworld. Any
ideas from your creative minds? If anyone can think of a cool and fluffy name
for the Craftworld too I will name my high Farseer after you (with an Eldar
twist of course).<br />
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Here are some of my models that were used to try out my airbrush. They are my learning curve and I must say I was happy with them.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11098743162209825371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-16042452282217887012013-12-18T22:01:00.000+00:002013-12-18T22:01:21.834+00:00The Banshee Not So Scary<div class="MsoNormal">
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So I have had a couple of games with my Banshee’s in my new
list against Sean’s Tau and then against Erik’s Imperial Fists and here’s my
thoughts on them so far.</div>
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which I suspect is to be expected from a very fragile close combat unit that
has to run the length of the battle field to reach their target. I fielded an
Avatar in all the games and generally ran the Banshee’s quite close to him so
they were fearless most of the time. My philosophy of running them in an army
list that was full of higher priority dangers actually worked wonders and in
the couple of games that I did use them, they weren't fired upon until the 3<sup>rd</sup>
or 4<sup>th</sup> turns.<br />
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The problem was, when they did manage to get across the
battlefield their numbers were too sufficiently depleted that their damage
output was critically hamstrung. In the games that I played they were down to
two or three Banshees’s and at Strength 3 (Strength 4 on charge) and rolling
5’s most of the time to wound you really need to be rolling as many dice as
possible. I ran a unit of 6, Exarch with an Executioner but I think you really
would need to field them in a unit of 10 to help mitigate the casualties in
getting across the battlefield, which then creates its own new problem. 10
Banshee’s are hell of a lot more noticeable than the 6 I was fielding and I am
sure they would attract increased fire.</div>
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Their kill tally in both games came to one Devil Fish and
then two tactical marines so effectively they just mopped up a few of my
enemies models near the end of the games. Certainly doesn’t warrant the
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I still love the models and the fluff behind them and I am
sure I will get around to painting them at some stage but sadly my little play
test has only backed up the general consensus of this unit that exists among
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<b>Pro’s:</b></div>
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Fast unit with +3” to run and with fleet</div>
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Great if charging a unit that isn’t in cover</div>
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No Grenades</div>
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Fragile</div>
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Damage output too low for Str 3</div>
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No Delivery Mechanism</div>
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<b>Recommendation: Do not field this unit</b></div>
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Let’s not beat around the bush, the Eldar codex is a strong
one. We are very fortunate to have gotten such a decent book especially if you
compare it to the treatment of the Chaos Space Marine players with their
sub-par book. Few as they may be, the Eldar codex is not without its
weaknesses. I must say that nearly all units in the codex got a boost with our
new army wide special rules and updated rules to some of our weapons and not to
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Some units were not “fixed” though and the most infamous of
these is the Howling Banshees. Probably my favourite infantry model in the
codex bar none but just like the Mandrakes of the Dark Eldar, it just doesn’t
have rules to match. Admittedly Mandrakes are worse rules wise than Howling
Banshees so we are lucky in that respect but is there any way to effectively
use the Howling Banshees?</div>
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no assault vehicle, so putting them in a Wave Serpent is not going to make them
do their primary job any better. They still have to disembark from the Wave
Serpent and stand there for a round of shooting. One way you could “maybe” get
this to work is if you turbo boost that Wave Serpent with Holo Fields and targeting
Matrix across the board to near a nice bit of terrain and hope it survives a
round of shooting. On your next turn disembark the Howling Banshees into the
cover and go from there. Not a very effective strategy and not the best use of
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The next way to use them is to field them on foot. It spells
a swift and painful death for the Banshees since they are so fragile they will
die faster than you can pick them up off the table. However I have been
wondering if you provide your opponent with a good amount of high priority
dangerous targets will the Howling Banshees get ignored long enough to be able
to make it to combat. Of course if that target unit is in cover the Banshees
will be striking the same time as them (Banshee Mask) but are likely to suffer a
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give Erik enough threats to worry about rather than Howling Banshees that
hopefully they will manage to get some action and who knows might prove to be
very useful. Regarding the Exarch, I will equip her with an Executioner which is
a 2 handed power weapon that also gives the Exarch +2 strength. I have also
decided to take “Disarming Strike” Exarch power which on the first turn of a
challenge has the potential to remove a models melee weapon and makes them
strike at just their basic hand to hand weapon. So in other words a power fist
is changed to just a fist for that turn. I will take lots of pics and give you
guys a battle report on how it goes.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11098743162209825371noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-2259646594618303102013-10-14T13:01:00.000+01:002013-10-14T13:01:03.830+01:00NWG 2013 - A Brief ReportIf you came to this page before today, you know that NWG has come and gone. If not, I'm telling you now. And what an event it was! I had 5 great games as well as a tonne of non-gaming related fun over the three days, and though I have found that I do not have time for a full on 5 post battle report, I have decided to make my opening post for the Witchblade a summary report of my games at the event.<br />
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First, my list. I went with a mixed bag for this tournament, trying out some of the various elements that I thought would do well within the Codex. I also added some Forge World units as this was the one tournament per year that actually allowed them. The list revolves around the Seer Council, giving them the Troop support they need, as well as a rake load of S6/7 guns. Dark Eldar allies add some much needed support to the Council (Stealth, Hit and Run, grenades, re-rolls), and mild Land Raider counter measures.<br />
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<b>Farseer</b><br />
<i>Eldar Jetbike, Singing Spear</i><br />
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<b>Baron Sathonyx [A]</b><br />
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<b>5x Warlocks</b><br />
<i>5x Eldar Jetbikes, 2x Singing Spears</i><br />
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<b>5x Dire Avengers</b><br />
<i>In Transport 1</i><br />
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<b>10x Guardians</b><br />
<i>In Transport 2</i><br />
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<b>10x Guardians</b><br />
<i>In Transport 3</i><br />
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<b>5x Wyches [A]</b><br />
<i>Haywire Grenades, in Transport 4</i><br />
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<b>3x Windrider Jetbikes</b><br />
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<b>7x Warp Spiders</b><br />
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<b>2x Hornets</b><br />
<i>4x Pulse Lasers, Holo-Fields</i><br />
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Transport 1: Wave Serpent with Twin-Linked Scatter Laser and Holo-Fields<br />
Transport 2: Wave Serpent with Twin-Linked Scatter Laser and Holo-Fields<br />
Transport 3: Wave Serpent with Twin-Linked Scatter Laser and Holo-Fields<br />
Transport 4: Venom with Splinter Cannon, Night Shields, and Grisly Trophies [A]</blockquote>
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<b>Game 1 - Eoin O'Mahony - Necrons</b><br />
<b>Seize Ground</b><br />
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4 pieces of terrain nearest the center of each table quarter are our objectives to fight over. Eoin has an interesting list with a 10 man Royal Court sporting no less than 5 sets of Mind Shackle Scarabs. While 3 of the Crypteks join his 2 5 man Immortal squads in their Night Scythes, and his 5 man Warrior squad on the ground, the rest remain together and are joined by Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner. They also hi-jack the Warriors' Ghost Ark in turn 1. Last part to the list is a Writhing Landscape C'Tan to play shenanigans with Orikan.<br />
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I won the re-roll and chose to keep first for once and deployed a heavy left flank, which Eoin reciprocated for the most part, with the exception of the C'Tan who took the opposite flank by himself. I stayed put for turn 1 so as not to trigger any of those nasty terrain checks on my many skimmers. In his turn 1 Eoin just got in the Ghost Ark and moved toward me, keeping cover. In turn two I managed to pop the Ark and off a Lord while he waited for his reserves. They arrived in his turn and popped two Wave Serpents surprisingly, as well as causing a unit of Guardians to flee the table. His Court also jumped into one of the now emptied Night Scythes, ready to go where they would.<br />
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Turn 3 was swift retribution, with all but 3 Immortals being killed and 1 Scythes being destroyed, sending the Court back into reserve. The other was brought down to a single Hull Point by the newly arrived Warp Spiders. In his turn the Court returned and the Immortals fled the battlefield in their flyer. The C'Tan finally made his way across the board but would need to wait another turn before seeing combat. As such, my turn 4 was all about killing that C'Tan, and I just about did it. His Scythe came back in his turn and went for my backfield along with the disembarking Immortals. His Court moved to one of his objectives also.<br />
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In turn 5 the heat was on. I managed to off the Immortals and all but one Warrior, leaving him only two scoring models, and after his turn where his Court left Trazyn on the objective and came after mine, the game luckily went on. I managed to kill the lonely Warrior, however his Court got within contesting range of my objective, and that was game.<br />
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We were each given secret secondary objectives denoted by a card in each game, and in this game I got attrition, meaning I had to kill more of Eoin's units that he did of mine. I did that, and he failed his, which was Break Through, meaning he had to get a scoring unit off my table edge. I also held 2 objectives while he held 1, so the game ended a 15.5 - 4.5 win to me.<br />
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<b>Game 2 - Ugo Greevey - Chaos Space Marines</b><br />
<b>The Relic</b><br />
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Ugo was sporting a beautiful Death Guard army with lots of Plague Marines, Bikes, Havocs and Oblits led by Typhus, and a Heldrake. We had Vanguard Strike deployment this time so we set up ready to rush for the Relic. Ugo got first turn, and it ended badly for me as a Lascannon managed to snipe the Baron right off the bat. Things went from bad to worse in my first turn, as though I popped both his Rhinos near the Relic, my assault into one of the now disembarked units of Plague Marine fluffed with the Council, and without the Baron I was stuck in there for the long haul. Precognition would keep my Farseer around, but his buddies might not be so lucky.<b> </b><br />
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Once his second Plague Marine unit had charged into the combat, subsequent turns basically consisted of him advancing toward me and me shooting him to bits, while his Heldrake still didn't show up because of my Warlord Trait (-1 to enemy reserves). The combat was mostly handbags but by the end of turn 4, the Council, the Farseer, a full squad of Plague Marines, and the Champion from the second Squad were all gone and that second squad still had the Relic.<br />
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I was fortunate in game turns once again, as the game went on long enough for me to get the Relic back from him through shooting and holding him up in combat with my Warp Spiders so he couldn't reclaim it before me, however he stopped me getting maximum points by Pinning my Relic unit on the last turn before they could reach their deployment zone. In the end the only Chaos models to survive were Typhus and a single Oblit.<br />
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My secondary this time was Breakthrough, which my Jetbikes got with ease, while Ugo's was the same, but I denied it to him. The game ended a 17-3 win to me.<br />
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<b>Game 3 - Ivan Sheehan - Old Space Marine/Wolves</b><br />
<b>Capture the Flag</b><br />
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While there were no flags, we fought over a single terrain piece in each deployment zone. Ivan rocked a list that looked silly on paper, but could give my list a tough time. Primary was Lysnader, Calgar, 5 Sternguard in a Pod, 5 Tacs in a Pod and 5 Scouts, while allies were Logan, Njal, and 2 Wolf Guard with Arjac in a Pod.<br />
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In castled up in a corner to try and make him Deep Strike more difficult, but left two units on the opposite flank to tempt him to split his Troops, something I didn't think would work but would still be worth trying. In turn 1 he dropped the Space Wolves and the Sternguard with Lysander and Calgar, and proceeded to wipe out the Warlocks and a Wave Serpent. My army retaliated by fleeing to the other side of the board beyond his reach, with the exception of the Baron and the Guardians who had lost their Serpent. The Baron charged Calgar's unit to try and hold them up for awhile, while the Guardians put down some serious hurt on the Space Wolves, killing the Wolf Guard, Arjac, and wounding both Njal and Logan. The Baron made his charge and challenged, but Calgar got one wound past his Shadow Field and he died.<br />
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The remaining turns were just him trying to stay alive on that objective while trying to do what he could at a distance to my Scoring units, while I tried to take him out. By the end of the game, all of the Space Wolves were gone as well as the Sternguard and Calgar. My secondary was to kill his most expensive IC, which was Logan, and his was to get off my table edge. We both achieved those conditions, however I held an objective and contested his, leaving the game at a 13-7 win to me.<br />
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<b>Game 4 - Peter Scott - Chaos Space Marines</b><br />
<b>Seize Ground</b><br />
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Peter was rocking the walking dead for this game, with Typhus, a big units of 30 Zombies, 30 Cultists, 4 smaller squads of Zombies, 2 of which were Outflanking thanks to Huron Blackheart, 2 Heldrakes, and 2 units of 3 Oblits. The game proved very tough, as not only was it going to be difficult to take out that many Fearless Scoring bodies, but Peter was a very good player being last year's Irish ETC Captain.<br />
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I managed a good few first turns, taking out most of the Cultists and a lot of Zombies as well as a few Oblits, but my momentum dropped as the game went on. His Oblits created a lot of havok from afar killing tanks galore. Despite fluffing some of his Heldrake attacks, they made their presence felt when they arrived and so I couldn't focus my full attention on his Zombies. The slowness of his army proved his undoing in the end, as he may have had the game won, however his Zombie couldn't get to contest my objective in time, and though I didn't get to one of the three he was holding, I managed to Hit and Run in the last turn to block the other two. Neither of us got our secondary and go the game ended in a straight 10-10 draw.<br />
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<b>Game 5 - Caolan Gibbons - Dark Angels</b><br />
<b>Annihilation</b><br />
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Annihilation was a bit altered for this tournament, and so whereas Troops and transports were worth the usual 1KP, Elites, Fast and Heavy were all worth 2KPs each, and HQs were worth 3KPs each.<br />
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Caolan was rocking his Ravenwing for this tournament, sporting a full army of Bikes. Lead by Sammael and a Libby, there were two Ravenwing Command Squads, two Black Knight squads, and 4 Troop Melta Bike squads, half of which would be Outflanking.He backed me into a corner easily on turn 1 and managed to pop a Wave Serpent early with his Meltas. With Misfortune and Guide my army combined to get the majority of a squad taken down, and two guys from the second squad.<br />
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In turn 2 most of his army came on, however most of it came on the far flank, giving me some time to breath. What was already there went after my Hornets mostly. He managed to take down a Hornet and the Venom before I got my retaliation, and basically wiped out every Bike that was on the half of the table we were currently fighting in, including Sammy and the Libby.<br />
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It went downhill from there for Caolan as his dice abandoned him completely, and at the end of the game he just had two half Command Squads left while I lost only the Hornets, the Spiders, a Serpent and the Venom. Once again, neither of us managed to achieve our secondary objective, and so with max. points on the primary the game ended in a 16-4 victory to me.<br />
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<b>Conclusions</b><br />
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I was very pleased with my list all weekend. Even when I felt they couldn't handle something they reached up, slapped me in the face, and disagreed. The Hornets were easily the best unit and I will certainly be breaking them out whenever a Forge World friendly tournament shows up. They accounted for a Night Scythe and the C'Tan in game 1, two Oblits, a Rhino and the full squad of Nurgle Bikers in game 2, Logan and Calgar in game 3, a few Oblits and a Heldrake in game 4, and a plethora of Bikes in game 5. Easily my best performing unit.<br />
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In the end the victories I had obtained were enough to net me second place, with Peter from game 4 coming 3rd, and Paul Quigley with his 4 Riptides coming 1st miles ahead of the rest of the pack. For my troubles I got the amazing trophy you see below.<br />
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Thanks to Nigel, Darragh, Ian, and all else involved for making NWG such an amazing event, and I'll be back once again next year to see if I can improve on a successful 2013 bout.Godless-Mimicryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15746649083509064218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-31035380524046452122013-10-03T12:46:00.001+01:002013-10-03T12:46:37.366+01:00NWG Tournament Over - Video and PicsHi all,<br />
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NWG was a blast last weekend! After first day I was in 9th place out of 38 however after two losses on Sunday I slipped way down to 28th. Had a great time though and the armies were incredible. Take a look at the Video and pics.<br />
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John.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11098743162209825371noreply@blogger.com8Ireland53.41291 -8.243889999999964948.561612999999994 -18.571038499999965 58.264207 2.083258500000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498341537187169185.post-85086746967040480772013-09-25T13:54:00.001+01:002013-09-25T13:54:30.350+01:00Guardian Defenders Done!Hey guys,<br />
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I finally got my Guardian Defenders completed. I feel I kind of rushed them but they are a decent standard so I'm fairly happy. Tomorrow evening will be spent painting singing spears for my Jetseer and her warlock council. Be sure to check back and see my progress!<br />
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Coffee in hand and ready to start another week. But this
week is special, because this Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be the NWG
national Wargames tournament held in the Grand Hotel in Wicklow Town Ireland
which is my gaming Club’s home event. You can be sure I will have plenty of pictures
and some videos up on The Witchblade of all the armies and venue and of course
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So the organizers have released the army lists <a href="http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4366" target="_blank">Here</a> for all to see (mine is entry P).
I am really looking forward to this but slightly intimidated by some of the
lists entered. I’m surprised there is no Cron Air or massive Helldrake/Vendetta
spam. In fact I think my list has one of the strongest air combat lists
entered. I was originally going to go with Eldar and Dark Eldar allies as you
seen in <a href="http://witchbladeblog.blogspot.ie/2013/09/crafty-craftworlders.html" target="_blank">Here</a><b> </b>but I wasn’t able to
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serpent spam I will need to try and get first turn to pop one or two of them
before they do too much damage with ignore cover shots. If I were to rate my
list it would actually be the lower end power levels of the lists that have
been entered but I am always up for a challenge and plus I rather try test my
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I really am a lastminue.com sorta fella and this transpired
through my school days and into college and now into my wargaming hobby. So I
got my two Crimson Hunters completed last weekend and you can see them <a href="http://witchbladeblog.blogspot.ie/2013/09/crimson-hunters-done.html" target="_blank">Here</a><b>. </b>I started my squad of Guardian
Defenders and their support platform yesterday. I got them assembled, highlighted
and washed and I just got to paint the details on them and I will of course
post them up on The Witchblade as soon as I am finished them. I got to chop the
Witchblades off my Warlocks and replace them with Singing Spears and do the
same for my Farseer too. Lastly I need to make a display board and all this
before next Friday. Simples…..</div>
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So I started yesterday after work assembling my two Crimson Hunters and well I spent all day today and finally got them done. They are all ready for NWG next weekend. I still have to assemble and paint 10 Guardians and a support weapon. Easy Peasy ;) I only realised after posting these pics that I forgot to finish the target reticule on the canopy. Will only be a quick fix though so all good.<br />
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So you like Ghost Warriors? BOO!! Ok time to grow up a bit
John. I covered Saim Hann in my <i><a href="http://witchbladeblog.blogspot.ie/2013/08/eldar-fun-and-efficient.html" target="_blank">Fun and Efficient</a> </i>article, but this time I would like to go over my second
favourite Craftworld which is Ilyanden. <br />
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it? Great victories in the early days with Biel Tan against Chaos, followed by
humongous losses to a ravaging Tyranid fleet only to be saved by an Outcast
Hero and then the devastation inflicted by a renegade pirate fleet caused by
nuclear torpedoes (ref Ilyanden Supplement). Now though, Ilyanden is an
enormous Craftworld with large sections devastated and devoid of any activity.
A true ghost ship amidst the stars where only a handful of the living Eldar
tend to the dead and keep them alive in menacing wraith constructs. As is customary
on other Craftworlds, the dead are usually released back into the infinity
circuit after a battle, but not on Ilyanden for the dead refuse to go to sleep
while their drifting cosmic continent is on the brink of destruction.</div>
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Bear in mind that if you do decide to do a Wraith army, that
all the other Craftworlds keep an extensive stockpile of Wraithguard pattern
constructs along with Wraithlords and Wraithknights when desperate times
require help from long dead heroes. With that in mind I will be doing a Saim
Hann Wraith themed army. You can imagine the wave upon wave of Jetbike clans
and Vyper Squadrons supported by aircraft and Grav Tanks zooming on ahead and
the Autarch ordering the Wraith Constructs to stay in reserve incase some heavy
handed work is required. Standing there with their ornamental loincloth bearing
their warrior house insignia flapping in the wind waiting for the order to
charge head on into the enemy lines.<br />
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So to lead our army we have a number of fluffy HQ choices
that would fit the bill very well. The Dire Avenger Aspect Warrior shrine is on
Ilyanden so to see the likes of Asurman leading an Ilyanden army wouldn’t be unheard
of. Then you have the Mighty Avatar which would be called upon perhaps more than
any other Craftworld due to the low numbers of warriors Ilyanden can deploy.
Naturally Yriel would be a very fluffy and decent HQ choice to lead your Ilyanden
army, maybe you want to do a pirate themed Ilyanden army? Then there is the
Autarch who has taken a somewhat revival in the new codex and could be useful.
This then brings us on to the Farseer and the Spiritseers. If you want to do a
true Wraith army you will need a Spiritseer. These guys make all Wraithguard
and Wraithblades troops which is key to this army working. I would take 2-3 of
these guys, certainly one for each unit as you can have up to 5 Spiritseers for
one HQ slot. I would then take along a Farseer to boost your army and hopefully
give it an edge with Fortune and prescience etc.<br />
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you want some fairly cheap boots on the ground. Throw in and Exarch with Shimmershield
and then they are quite solid. Guardians as with all Craftworlds would be quite
numerous so taking a squad or two of Guardians might be of interest to you. Of
course being a Wraith army we are going to take Wraith Guard and Wraith blades.
A unit of 10 Wraith Blades with the Ghost Axe and Shimmershield supported by
two Spiritseers would be awesome to say the least. An expensive unit but
extremely durable and the core of the army. The Farseer will hopefully be
casting fortune on this unit too. I would then take a unit of 5 cheesy Wraith
Guard with D-Scythes in a Wave Serpent to cause your opponent some attention.
The Serpent is loaded out with Holofields and Scatter Laser and upgraded to Shuriken
Cannon.<br />
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Finally we need some heavy firepower; ok well we have that
but more heavy fire power! Throw in a Wraithknight with standard Heavy Wraith
Cannon loadout and a Wraithlord with a Ghostglaive, Brightlance and Missile Launcher
and Heavy Flamers and we are laughing. Then a squadron of three War Walkers
with dual Scatter Lasers for tackling flyers and transports and infantry alike.<br />
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Wraithlord with Ghosglaive, Bright Lance, Missile launcher,
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I could have gone all Wraith units but although it would
look awesome, it would get very monotonous after a few games and the fun levels
would go way down. So a bit of variety while sticking loosely to the Wraith
theme and I think we have a nice army that will look great with those big
Wraith constructs and the big intimidating wall of 10 Wraith Blades marching
across the tabletop. It should be able to tackle most non power build armies.
Would it do well at a tournament? I think it would do ok although against heavy
flyer lists it will struggle. I have most of the models mentioned above, I just
need a War Walker, a Wraithlord and 10 WraithBlades.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi fellow Craftworlders,
I was out for a long run the other day and I was contemplating things, as you do.. No it wasn’t along the protruding docking ports of Saim Hann or the dark mystical corridors of The Black Library, but along the beach of my town, Bray in Ireland. </span><br />
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Originally when starting out with Eldar, I decided to go down the fluffy route, hence an all Jetbike Saim Hann army (thanks Fritz!). Luckily this army transcended very well into 6th edition and got an even bigger boost with the new Codex. It’s a good army but it’s not going to win tournaments. It seems like Wave Serpent Spam is the new black at the moment but it’s not a road I want to go down just yet.
With a lot on my plate in RL at the moment (applying for mortgage etc), I didn’t want to invest too much time and expense into adding that little bit of cheese to my already decent army. I just felt I needed a little bit of a power boost tournament style.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So there are just a few allies I would take since I’m a bit fussy. Everyone and their pet dog are taking Tau as allies these days or Eldar if they don’t already play them. I like Tau I do, the models are nice and they have awesome rules that would surely augmentate my army. But with their sit back and shoot nature I don’t think they would slot into my play-style which is a very fluid and fast moving army.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I thought of Dark Eldar then, an army which in my opinion has some of the best model sculpts ever produced by GW and the codex itself is just stuffed cover to cover with great fluff and rules. I needed to extract an allied contingent from this codex that would really boost my army.</span><br />
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<strong>Baron Sathonyx</strong>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I plan on running my Seer Council again but this time everyone in the squad has a Singing Spear including the Farseer so that’s 6 mobile Lascannons, yippy! Add in Baron and the unit get’s hit and run universal special rule, Grenades to help with charging and hitting on that nice high Eldar initiative which will minimize loses. They get stealth which adds +2 to cover and being on a Jetbike and with a Conceal casting Warlock, means there is a potential 2+ cover save when you move which is awesome.</span><br />
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His last contribution to the army is to add +1 to who goes first. This can be handy because I am possibly going to play three flyers at NWG and being AV10 I don’t really want to be going first. I want to go second so my flyers will come in and blow up my opponent’s flyers. So winning the dice roll I can decide to go second.
I have the Autarch in there to manipulate my reserve rolls if needs be and also the Shard of Anaris to give him a good chance in a challenge situation. Although Eldar initiative is high, the Banshee Mask is there to ensure the council hits first. It’s a bit of a gamble since I know there will be a game or two when I don’t get Fortune on my Farseer but that’s life. I think with 505pts invested in fliers I want to control the air engagements as much as possible so I think he Autarch was a better buy for this particular list.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next addition will be some scoring units or in other words, troops. In order to keep up with my army I decided to go for two Venoms with an upgraded Splinter Cannon. These spit out 12 Poison 4+ shots a turn. These will be transporting 5 Kabalite Warriors each with an upgraded Blaster. Two cheap and fairly effective troop’s choices.</span><br />
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Kabalite Warriors (5) with a Blaster</span><br />
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Guardian Jebikes (6) with two Shuriken Cannons
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Is it going to win the tournament? More than likely not as there will be very strong lists there and better players than I but it sure will be great fun to play and for me that’s reason enough!
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In this battle report the Savage Orks take on the enigmatic Eldar of the Saim Hann Craftworld. If I sound nervous that's because I was! :) I suppose the more videos I do the less nervous I will sound. Anyway Enjoy the video and the pics below.<br />
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it before he seen it, the high-pitched whine from the thrusters of a Grav Tank pierced
the air from over a kilometer away. From his elevated hidden position in the
heavy foliage, he used his telescopic sight off the sniper rifle to zoom in on the
coming threat. The vehicle was designated Wave Serpent class and was regarded
to be extremely dangerous and should not be engaged without armored support
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the approaching threat through his telescopic sight as he watched the Eldar
tank come to a standstill followed by the rear access door hissing open. A
squadron of dark blue armoured Eldar Aspect Warriors disembarked from the
vehicle and proceeded to take on a sweeping search pattern heading towards his
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to his team to withdraw to a fallback position. </i><i>Quietly his 3 man team
put their equipment on their backs and withdrew crawling backwards on all fours
from their lookout. Without warning, the top of private Sipton’s head
sliced open as if by a surgeon’s blade exposing brain matter and bone. The man
was lying on his front with his head resting on its side in a pool of gore
looking straight at Sergeant Kanis with lifeless eyes. Taken by surprise and no
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The guys here on The Witchblade love Eldar and hopefully you
do too, but with the new Codex not long out we are still only discovering and
unlocking new ways to play them. There are quite a few different builds
floating around at the moment be it the Monster Build or the Serpent Spam. So
in this article I would like to talk about the first of the many different
builds for Eldar and how they could be fun. <br />
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I will start with the style of list I have been playing for
the last couple of years, which is the Saim Hann themed Jetbike and Skimmer
list. My normal list would consist of a Seer Council (Farseer & 5 Warlocks)
on Jetbikes, 2 Fire Prisms, a Wave Serpent with 5 Fire Dragons, 6 Vyper
Jetbikes with double Shuriken Cannons and 4 squads of 6 Guardian Jetbikes with
two Shuriken Cannons in each squad. I would also take a Nightwing Interceptor
and sometimes an Autarch on a Jetbike.</div>
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In 5<sup>th</sup> edition this was a decent army, in the few
tournaments I played in back then it usually finished mid-table in the final
standings. It was fast and fairly durable with mostly 3+sv’s all round but when
6<sup>th</sup> edition hit this army took a huge boost. Now we had 5+ Jink cover
saves for our tanks and Vypers and also our Jetbikes once they moved,
increasing the overall army’s durability significantly.</div>
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I played this for about a year and yes it was a welcome
boost but it didn’t change the army performance by a huge amount. But once the
new Eldar Codex came out this army was rocketed to a whole new level. Now all the
Jetbikes are BS4 twin linked and the BS 4 on the Vyper’s was a massive boost to
firepower. The Wave Serpent became an absolute beast of a transport and Shuriken
weapons all of kinds suddenly could kill terminators and monstrous creatures
with ease (Im looking at you Belial! I hate Belial! Did I mention I hate
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heights. I designed the army to be a fluffy themed army and not an overly
competitive army. More of an all comers army but I have been surprised how well
it has held up over the years to the power builds of the 40k scene. It’s not
going to win tournaments but it’s an extremely fun army to play and allows for
fantastic amount of flexibility. It’s always fun to get first turn and turbo
boost nearly everything up to your opponent’s deployment zone. Usually ends in
disaster but its good fun and the look on your opponents face is usually worth
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I don’t usually run the Seer Council anymore because at
50points each there are just so many other better options out there than a
Jetbike Warlock who will die on a roll of double 1 or double 6 on 2d6. So Crimson Hunters to join
the Nightwing are the road I am heading down which kind of fit’s the theme as
well. No doubt I will have a couple of battle reports up here soon showing how
awesome Saim Hann Eldar are!</div>
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new Eldar dedicated blog. Here, the three elders on the council, Seer Mike, Pheonix
Lord Jay and Autarch John will be journeying with you through the Infinity
Circuit and sharing their experiences while in command of their mighty War
Hosts. They are going to divulge exclusive tactical data of our combat doctrine
when facing our most hated enemies and sometimes the restraint we must exercise
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scrutinized dissected so we might perform better in engagements in the future.
Great warriors will share their wisdom from other Craftworlds on their own
advice and tactical knowledge.</div>
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