The First Battle Report! Abes XVIII Legion vs. DAVEs VIII Legion

Hello and Welcome to our first Blog Battle Report. Daveco vs. Abenormal

We hope to bring back the good old days of these once treasured articles in White Dwarf. Our game of Choice at the Club is Horus Heresy. In the Dark days of the early Imperium battles are fought not against humanities many foes but against its very protectors.

Siege of the Von Strann Manse

On the war-torn world of Austellus Arbiea in the capital city Primus, battle is joined between two of the Emperors Legions. This planet was once a jewel in the crown and the very epitome of a complaint Imperial world. First discovered and brought into the Imperial fold by the XVIII Legion this world flourished thanks to the Salamanders efficient and gentle rule. After the Atrocities of the Istvaan system war soon found this world.

Jealous, hateful eyes regarded this prize as an affront to the true nature of the Imperium. Soon the sons of Nostromo Launched an attack with all the merciless and calculated malice of the Night Lords.

Daveco’s Army

Naturally being a good (bad) Son of the Sunless world, I wanted to teach the Imperial dogs a lesson in humility. This world was built on a lie and it will be torn apart by the truth… well my terror squads and raptors but that is beside the point.

I have a huge Night lords force almost 10k and counting, so for me it is hard to narrow it down to just 3500. I wanted the classics. So, three Terror Squads and one Squad of Night Raptors make up the starting point of the Army. These units are pretty useful at both shooting and combat, Terror squads have preferred enemy and make a mess of weaker enemy infantry. Raptors kind of do what they say the tin and kill stuff. After that I took a tough back line with two Terminator squads in their own Landraiders, to tie it all together A Large Tactical squad for my Praetor to live in (he was never going to lead from the front, was he?). A legion support squad with Volkite Claivers to add that bit of extra pop against my opponent’s harder infantry units. Two Storm eagle gunships and a Sicaran tank make up my mobile back up to act as a swift hard-hitting reserve.

I deliberately made the Night Lords legion look like a disorganised mess, they are after all an army of units that don’t really get on well with each other. All of my squads have names too, and background to go with them. Any questions feel free to ask.

15th Company under Avros Jasster

HQ:

·         Legion Praetor – Avros Jasster, Paragon Blade, Digital Lasers, Iron Halo and Melta-Bombs = 180pts (Master of the Legion – Terror Assault) 1

ELITES:

·         Legion Terminator Squad – Bedlam Krypt, Sgt with Pair of Lighting claws and grenade harness, 4 Terminators with, 2 Power fists, 1 Chain-fist, 1 Lightning claw, 1 Combi weapon and 1 Reaper Auto-cannon. Mounted in a Landraider Phobos Korsh (Armoured Ceramite) = 487pts 2

·         Legion Terminator Squad – The Head Takers, Sgt with Power fist, 4 Terminators with 2 Power fists, 2 Chain-fists and 1 Plasma blaster. Mounted in Landraider Phobos Movetium (Armoured Ceramite) = 470pts 3

TROOPS:

·         Terror Squad – The Red Skulls, Headsman with Power weapon, Melta-bomb and Volkite Charger. 9 Executioners with Volkite Calivers. Mounted in a Dreadclaw Drop pod = 355pts 4

·         Terror Squad – The Brotherhood of Duplicity, Headsman with Lightning Claw, Melta-bomb and Bolter. 9 Executioners with 4 Bolters = 230pts 5

·         Terror Squad – Third Claw, Headsman with Power Axe and Melta-bomb, 9 Executioners with 2 Bolters, 5 Volkite Chargers and 1 Rotor Cannon = 249pts 6

·         Legion Tactical Squad – Midnights Storm, Sgt with Lightning Claw and Melta-bomb, 18 Legionaries with Additional Combat blades = 273pts 8

·         Legion Support Squad – The Faceless Murder, Sgt with Augry Scanner and Volkite Caliver, 9 Legionnaires with Volkite Calivers = 225pts 7

FAST ATTACK:

·         Night Raptors – The Sunless Host, Hunt master with Chain-glaive and Melta-bomb. 9 Raptors with 1 Chain-glaive, 1 Melta-gun, 1 Plasma Pistol and 1 Power weapon = 315pts 9

·         Storm Eagle Gunship – Korvash-ull (red tail fins), Las-cannons and Missile Launcher = 255pts 10 

·         Storm Eagle Gunship – Nishallitha Valas (white tail fins), Multi-melta and Hell strike missiles = 245pts 11

HEAVY SUPPORT

·         Sicaran Tank – Vallia Vor, sponson mounted Las-cannons and Auxiliary drive = 215pts 12

Army Total 3499pts

I hope you enjoy the Battle and AVE DOMINUS NOX.

Bloodbowl, Bloodbowl and more Bloodbowl

Hey guys, Abe here.

It' been a hectic couple of months but I've decided to get back into the swing of things and paint up my new Bloodbowl team. For christmas I recieved a box of green, slimy, mischevious imps:

I forsee no problems arising from this.

Anyway without further ado heres my bloodbowl team, the Sing Sing Stranglers.

Thats right it's Goblins.

 I have never really played with a Gobbo team before but as they were a suprise gift, and pleasing to look at to boot, I decided to make them my team for the upcoming league.

  First I decided on the theme, after decided they were all filthy criminals I decided to make them wear orange jumpsuits and then pick them out with a little gold bling.

First things first I decide to paint my trolls, the first was the old bloodbowl troll that was kindly donated and the second was the new troll released for bloodbowl, take your pick which is your favourite.

Typical prima donna Bloodbowl player hiding from the cameras

Next I moved on to the three forgeworld secret weapons; the fanatic, looney and bombadier. These are lovely models but forgeworld do need to pull their finger out and relase the last three; the pogoer, doom diver and ooligan.

It takes real ball to be a fanatic... I'll show myself out.

  Finally I took matters into my own hands and created a ooligan of my very own, these fellas come with disturbing prescence so I had to think of something disturbing and well...

What's more disturbing than a Goblin clown?

Thats it for now folks, later we'll be posting about the Section 8 Bloodbowl league but for now enjoy.

My first Predator

Okay so first thing is, this was my first predator...ever. Like ever. I had an old old plastic one that my dad got me when I was little, but it was unpainted, had no sponsons on account of them being snapped off, and no turret, that went walkies long before it came to me. So this gunmetal bad lad was to be the first of many.

Currently I have 2 preds in my Iron Warriors now, with plasma and conversion beaters. I've used both but I personally much prefer the Beamer. It feels very IV legion to just sit back and melt people from 48-72 inches away! Both weapons were magnetised so I could chose my fancy on the day ?
Love the tank and it's joined the already full ranks of my IW, it's got a lot of tanks, but after doing two of these I want more! I have a lot of tanks for the IV but I think the next thing would be some more land raiders. I have 2 now, one Achilles alpha and one old old plastic block (you know the one, looks like the old remote control car that one friend of yours had). So I'd say 2-3 Mkii b's...we'll see. But hey there are always more World Eaters to be done, bad JB! Focus on one legion at a time...oh and maybe I should finish those Skitarii...

Thanks folks
JB

Raven Guard- Drop Pods

I have six drop pods.... six! Painting these sapped my life away. They are hard work.

The paint scheme was a simple black scheme with weathering. I chipped the models with a sponge and used an airbrush for the re-entry marks.

Of my two drop pods, two are death storms, these have a useful distraction in games. They’re also dangerous enough to do some damage, particularly when armed with krak missiles.

My raven guard army is all about the alpha strike and these are a major part of it!

Horus Heresy Weekender

Once again the weekender comes around. I’ve been to all of these events from the very start, I’ve enjoyed them all, they’re not cheap and in my opinion you go with money in your pocket, after all it is a retail event. After a couple of years I convinced some of the others, so Abe and Dave have already been to a couple and for JB this will be his second weekender.

One of my pics from a previous Weekender, did my Corax end up like this?

I’ve went to great lengths to go to these events, since I’ve been to them all I’ve tried to keep it up, even if the releases aren’t for me. This has lead to some sacrifices, namely by my long suffering fiancée, who kindly went on her birthday weekend when the Heresy team change the event from April to February. This involved me booking the el presidente suite and calling in a lot of favours, she also attended the first event as a customer and got some funny looks from the regular clientele in her giant bunny jumper (she is definitely not a gamer girl).

Every weekender is important for at least one of us, this year the other three get the limelight as they have the following interests:

Daveco- Blood Angels

Abenormal- Dark Angels

JB- Dark Angels

Maybe we’ll see some of this at the Weekender...or maybe loads of Wolves!

Whereas I’m hoping for some of the missing space wolf releases and Necromunda stuff, either way, I’m sure we’ll have a good time again. If anyone wants to say hello we will all be wearing white carnations....

We’ll likely be heading to Warhammer world first for a game, last year it fell apart because of Abenormal.....but that’s another story. Needless to say we hope he has a routefinder this year.