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I'm a Net Celeb, Yay Me!

2010-09-04T16:16:00.000-06:00

So I finally listened to the two podcasts from the NOVA Open. At the time, the Gamer's Lounge seemed to have a little bit more organization - and of course they had the ustream going. The 11th Company was also there, and while theirs seemed a bit more informal at the time, with post-processing they end up sounding much better.

I'm on both, but the 11th Company I'm not being overshadowed by the presence of Chumbalaya (jerk). I start talking at 1:56:35 on Episode 30.

Also, if by some miracle you came here first, and haven't been over to YTTH lately, we just announced YetiCon. Go forth and check it out!

NOVA Open, Game 3 BatRep

2010-08-31T18:16:00.001-06:00

Game 4 vs Sam P (finished 4/88 on day 1, 4-0. finished 5th overall with 5-2 final record)

Sam kicked my ass. There's not a lot of picks here, but I'll try to identify how he did it, what he did right, and what I did wrong. Yes, his dice were rolling well and mine were atrocious, but even without that, he still would've beaten me - it just wouldn't have been a tabling.

His List - Space Wolves
Njal Stormcaller
2x 5 Wolf Scouts, Melta, PW + WolfGuard w/ combi-flamer, PW
7 GH, flamer, rhino (Njal in here)
2 x 5 GH, flamer in HB Razback + WolfGuard
2 x 5 TWC (1 w/ Thunderhammer)
3 Landspeeders MM/HF
2x Predators Las/HB-sponson

Not the most efficient list I've ever seen - and to tell you the truth, based on the two previous games I had played, I was feeling kinda cocky. It seemed nobody knew how to deal with the 2+ FNP that mostly come in on turn 2 and only scatter 1d6". Because of that, I made some mistakes that cost me pretty dearly.

Primary Mission: Table Quarters
Secondary Mission: Objectives
Tertiary Mission: Victory Points

Deployment: Spearhead

Again, I won roll to go first and gave it to him. He castled back in his corner thinking I would have a little more on turn 1, but I just deployed Mephiston behind some cover.

Turn 1

Reincluding the same pic from above... I only have 3 pics from this game, so no need to be stingy. On his turn he moved forward, Njal's ride is the middle rhino. I brought Mephy up to play, hiding from shooting.

Turn 2

One unit of scouts come on, but I have nothing on the table yet, so they go play in the backfield.
He brings his speeders around and puts a couple wounds on Mephiston and then assaults him with his TWC. I get off Preferred Enemy, but Njal stops my Str10 power, ouch... stupid 3+. Mephy puts 4 wounds on the cav (pulls one model, puts wound on TH and normal guy), then dies.

Pic above shows just after my drops - got all but one squad. And my big mistake, right there in the middle... stupid, overconfident schmuck. I did try to drop them close to Njal's ride, but scattered next to a pred. This unit would've cost me the game if I had normal dice rolls. Also, I dropped the wrong unit to the far right - it should've been one of my two units without a powerfist or Sang Priest. Everything else should be over on the left side. At that point he would have the option of eating my right squad with his TWC or coming across to help out on the left - either option should've been a lose/lose. Man, hindsight is 20/20. So are new dice.

Anyhow, my shooting kills the whole scout squad (he probably could've saved the wolfguard, but he didn't try wound allocation there for some reason - maybe he knew he had me in the bag) and removes a weapon from the predator. 2 squads shooting (including 3 fusion pistols) manage to put one wound on the left TWC, so he pulled a normal guy. At this point, I'm thinking it could have gone better, but it aint terrible.

Turn 3
No pic. His other scout squad comes on and he puts brings them in to punish me for shooting away his previous squad. His 3 speeders all move in for HF/MM shots on the squad nearest me (you can see aftermath in pic below) and brings a razback along to help. His scouts kill a SG with a melta shot then prepare to assault. The speeders and HB razback and the squad inside (dismounted) kill all but one SG - and that was with me pulling some fancy wound allocation stuff (the 2 melta wounds went on my fusion pistol guy - so the other 3 dead were all failed 2+ saves). His back razback, the squad inside (dismounted) and the TWC lit up Dante's squad and killed the Sang Priest - stupid 3+ save'll get you every time. The TWC on the right did nothing except move a little to the left to wait for my last squad to drop. He ignored my squad in the center.
The scouts assault my SG, and with 4 guys having 2 attacks with mc-powerweapons and 2 powerfist attacks, I kill... 2 scouts. His attacks kill 2 of my guys - drawn combat. The TWC and the Razback squad assault Dante's squad - I manage to kill 4 guys from the razback squad and put one wound on a TWC and lose everyone except Dante and one SG. I win combat by 1, but both of his units stay. Oof. I should have Hit-n-Run here, then split and reassaulted.

My last squad arrives and I have to choose between hopeless situation on the left, or hopeless situation on the right. I chose the right because there I could at least shoot at something that mattered (the TWC). I drop right next to them. My other big mistake of the night is that I left the squad in the middle there - silly me, I thought my units on the right could handle their stuff. My lone SG left to deal with the 3 speeders and razback/unit goes nowhere because Njal's got the Jumppack-models-are-screwed power going. Shoots at the unit, kills a guy, but then fails to roll assault distance (because it's all dangerous/difficult terrain for me).
Shooting involved my new unit doing nothing to his TWC. Nothing. In the center, I assaulted his tank pred needing 4+ to hit with a bunch of Str5 guys (and a Str9 pfist) and shake it.
The scout assault sees my guys doin nuttin' and his kill an SG - I stay. In Dante's fight, he finishes off the razback squad, and the TWC put a wound on him and kill the other SG. No one's going anywhere.

Turn 4

His pred & TWC line up on my newly arrived SG unit shooting and killing two. Then the TWC assault. He shoots away my lone SG (still in the pic because I forgot to pull him).
The TWC kill 2 more SG (I do nothing), I flee combat but he catches and I save the wounds.
The TWC on the left (that you can't see) kill off Dante - there's one model left in their unit. The scouts and my SG swing ineffectively at each other (really, how long can SCOUTS last against close combat elite units???).

On my turn it's pretty clear, this is a table-quarters game, and I have 3 units on the table, he still has 11. But hey, let's make it a game anyway. My unit in the center jumps over to help the unit fighting the TWC - Furious Charge should be good for something, right?
No shooting, so I jump in and kill 2 TWC models, he kills the last of my other squad.
The SCOUTS finish off my 2 SG on the upper right.

Turns 5-6
He only has one unit of mine to worry about, and he sends his razbacks and predators my way. The glorious Wolf Scouts come down to help out vs my last remaining 3 models on the table.
He kills two of mine and I kill one more TWC - I run and get away almost to the table edge, he doesn't get within 6" so I rally on my turn.

I call the game and congratulate Sam.

He tabled me and I managed to kill... 1 scout unit with WG, one GH with WG, got his two TWC units below half, one scout unit below half, and damage one predator... w00t

He wins with 4 quarters to my none, able to grab two objectives, and 2000 vp to my 650(ish) vp

Quick note, Sam was an absolute pleasure to play against. Even though I was deep-striking in incorrect locations and not using my units properly and having terrible dice - it was amazing to see the clinic that he put on for me on isolating and removing certain threats, while ignoring others and accepting what may come (even though nothing did). Sam obviously knew his army and he showed it against me. It took a pretty serious miscalculation on his part, for him to fall apart against Dash's Orks on Day 2.

I hope you were all able to see (even with the lack of pics) the way to NOT play as demonstrated by yours truly, and the way TO play, as Sam did.

NOVA Open, Game 2 BatRep

2010-08-30T15:20:00.002-06:00

Game 2 vs Bob S (finished 24/88, looks 3-1 from his score)

>>> WARNING <<<
Do NOT click pics to see zoomed version - you will think you need glasses. This is the last time I try to use a phone camera for pics (who cares if it's 8 megapixels if you can't see %#@*?).

His List - Ultramarines:

Libby, Null Zone & Gate of Infinity
3x Dreadnought, 2 TL-Autocannons
2x 10 Tac Marines, Flamer/Missile in TL-Las Razback
5 Tac Marines, Sgt combi-flamer in TL-Las Razback
2x 2 Typhoon Landspeeders
2 HF/MM Landspeeders
3x Predator, AC/Las-sponsons

Primary Mission: Objectives
Secondary Mission: Victory Points
Tertiary Mission: Table Quarters

Deployment: Pitched Battle

I win roll to go first and opt to have him go first - I want to make objective grabs last.

He deployed "okay" - not bad, but not great (pic up top). For true deepstrike defense with no template worries, everything should be clustered as close as possible, with some units out to prevent me from being in close melta range on the drop.

I deploy Mephiston all by his lonesome behind a hill.

Turn 1 (no pics cause not much happened)
He shoots what he can at Mephiston - which isn't much, I had a nice hill to hide him behind, and puts a wound on him.
I move up Mephy to a spot that makes him really hard to shoot.

Turn 2

He brings his MM speeders around the bend and put another wound on him.

I drop - focusing mostly on the left side, but spread out because there's just not a lot of AP2 in his army.
With shooting, Dante's squad shoots up the Librarian's squad causing him to make a save, which he promptly fails and dies (Dante's curse, ftw) and the squad runs off the table. While minorly important, this was emotionally crushing to Bob. I also killed one typhoon and shook the other and then blew the multimelta off one back speeder and shook the other - mebbe one or two marines died to squad shooting..
Mephy jumps out of cover for giggles and kills a squad, opting to ignore the Dread and penetrate deeper (mistake).

Turn 3

On his turn, the razbacks and predators shot at squads killing a couple, only putting one pred into Mephiston, giving him 1 more wound... ok, I accept. (At this point everything that could have, should have gotten into a razorback - and Mephiston should be d-e-a-d.)
He decided the dreads would work better as unit tarpits rather than shooting (good choice) and assaulted two of my units with them (one with, one without a pfist). They all stare at each other angrily.

I'm able to assault enough that I'm not worried about efficiency, so I start throwing units around in the backfield where the can do nothing except annoy some speeders, but claim objectives. Mephiston starts his 1 turn, 1 vehicle rampage - downing a pred. I also shoot the razback on the left and killed the occupants - he now has 2 scoring units left (about to be 1, from the assault on the right). The dread assaults go nowhere.

Turns 4 & 5

On his turn, he still mostly ignores Mephiston, shooting up Dante's squad (behind cover), he did shoot one MM at Meph and got him down to 1 wound left. His dread on the right comes up to help in the assault. My left squad finally remembers they have a pfist and kill the dread - time to start hunting!

Mephiston kills a pred turn, then a razback - I hunt down all his speeders except one squadron that's missing weapons. My squad in center stays with the dread - doing nothing to each other. He kills a couple more marines, but only kills one squad outright.

Turn 6

He sends his speeders over to contest objective in my back left, hoping to tie up unit in center with dread, and get the dread on the right to tie up a lone marine I have there to grab objective - but it's a lost cause... even if everything goes his way, I still have 2 squads within range of grabbing the forward left objective and he has nothing left to contest.

I send Mephiston after the dread in the center and bring it down, so the squad can sweep onto the objective in the center. I grab the back left objective and my one marine grabs his since his dread couldn't kill my other marine.

In the end he had a dread and two speeders left - I've lost one squad, 2 are below half, and Mephy is wounded.

I win, 3 objectives to none, 1695 VP to 640, and 3 table quarters to none.

The Next Big Thing

2010-08-20T14:16:00.004-06:00

So here's the next army I'm working on. Right now it's all proxies - I want to solidify my feel for the game before I buy that many more vehicles.

It's Blood Angels - and it's kind of AV13 MSU. Kind of... anyways, I don't feel the need to keep it secret, so here goes:

NO MEPHISTON, WTF?

2000 Pts - Blood Angels Roster

HQ: Librarian (1#, 100 pts)
   1 Librarian @ 100 pts (...in Power Armour; Shield of Sanguinius; The Sanguine Sword)

Troops: Assault Squad (6#, 165 pts)
   3 Assault Squad @ 165 pts
   1 Assault Marine with Meltagun
   1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon)
   1 Razorback (Twin Linked Assault Cannon)

Troops: Assault Squad (6#, 165 pts)

3 Assault Squad @ 165 pts

1 Assault Marine with Meltagun

1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon)

1 Razorback (Twin Linked Assault Cannon)

Troops: Assault Squad (6#, 165 pts)

3 Assault Squad @ 165 pts

1 Assault Marine with Meltagun

1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon)

1 Razorback (Twin Linked Assault Cannon)

Troops: Assault Squad (6#, 165 pts)

3 Assault Squad @ 165 pts

1 Assault Marine with Meltagun

1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon)

1 Razorback (Twin Linked Assault Cannon)

Elite: Furioso Dreadnought (1#, 140 pts)
   1 Furioso Dreadnought @ 140 pts (Magna-grapple)

Elite: Furioso Dreadnought (1#, 135 pts)
   1 Furioso Dreadnought @ 135 pts (Heavy Flamer; Blood Talons)

Elite: Furioso Dreadnought (1#, 125 pts)
   1 Furioso Dreadnought @ 125 pts

Fast Attack: Baal Predator (1#, 145 pts)
   1 Baal Predator @ 145 pts (Heavy Bolter Sponsons)

Fast Attack: Baal Predator (1#, 145 pts)
   1 Baal Predator @ 145 pts (Heavy Bolter Sponsons)

Fast Attack: Baal Predator (1#, 145 pts)
   1 Baal Predator @ 145 pts (Heavy Bolter Sponsons)

Heavy Support: Predator (1#, 135 pts)
   1 Predator @ 135 pts (Lascannon Sponsons)

Heavy Support: Predator (1#, 135 pts)
   1 Predator @ 135 pts (Lascannon Sponsons)

Heavy Support: Predator (1#, 135 pts)
   1 Predator @ 135 pts (Lascannon Sponsons)

Total Roster Cost: 2000

Note - this was inspired by several armies I saw at the NOVA Open. None of them had quite gone to this level, but a few were quite close... this is an amalgamation and distillation (oooh, 236 points in Scrabble!) of these armies.

Options: When I pointed out the army, it came to 1975 pts, so for grins I gave a dread the magna-grapple, and the talons dread the Hvy Flamer - those aren't necessary. But I do like them.

Thoughts: The army has long/med/short range shooting in abundance. The Assault Cannons can move 12" and still fire: forward for the added range, or obliquely for side armor shots. 7 TL-Assault Cannons, 3 Autocannons, 6 Lascannons, and 6 Heavy Bolters - all on move and fire platforms. The Libby provides cover, the dreads provide assault threats, counter-assaults, and general all around short-range threat. 4 Meltaguns back up the big guns for close range anti-armor. Small unit sizes means if they're getting out to shoot, I'd better be able to protect them ala dread in front or the triangle of doom with vehicles.

So what do you think?

Searching for Mr Goodbar... er, Trueblood

2010-08-19T17:36:00.000-06:00

I'm hoping that someone out there knows Joseph Trueblood. I played him on Sunday at the NOVA Open against his Blood Angels. I have some questions I'd like to ask. If you could direct him here or have him send me an email at john[at]yesthetruthhurts.com, that would be awesome.

Thanks!

NOVA Open, Game 1 BatRep

2010-08-19T15:10:00.000-06:00

Game 1 vs Nathan M (finished 69/88 looks like 1-3)

His list (doing this from memory/pic now will double check list I have at home tonight):

Mephiston
Librarian
Sang Priest - nekkid
2 x 5 Assault Marines (NoJP), Melta, Razback w/ AssCan
2 x 6 Assault Marines (NoJP), Melta, Razback w/ AssCan
8 or 9 Scouts (there's 9 in pic, but w/ 8 comes to 1997 points, so am unsure)
3 Attack Bikes (2 MM, 1 HB)
2 LandSpeeders HvyFlam/MM
Baal Pred, AssCan + HB Spons
2 Vindicator

Primary Mission: Victory Points
Secondary Mission: Objectives
Tertiary Mission: Table Quarters

Deployment: Dawn of War

I won roll to go first and opted to do so, deploying Mehpiston and two SG units on the table at center... I mean, why not? He deployed Mephiston and tried to do 2 Assault Squads in their Razbacks. I told him that it sucks, but that the unit and the transport count as separate units - he wanted to doublecheck, so we grabbed a judge that confirmed what I said. So he deployed the one unit. This was his first mistake: he should have had it all come on together. Maybe have Mephiston on so that he can gain Wings - but far enough away from my Meph to not get charged.

He fails to Seize.

Turn 1

I move my squads slightly to the right. I don't want to give Meph a free meal - and I want to bait out his Vindicators.
He obliges me and brings his Vindi's on right in front of my squads and spreads his army. Another really big mistake. Yes, his weapons all only have 24" range, but he needed to bring everything in at the far side and use that 24" range to the best he can. His whole army shoots and I lose 1 SG model and a wound on Meph. He's holding his scouts and Baal in Outflank.

Turn 2

I get 2 of my 4 SG squads in - drop one on the left to tie up his army from supporting his left flank, and send a squad each to deal with each Vindi and the speeders - Mephiston goes for the Razback containing the Priest. I blow the weapon off one Vindi, stun the other, and down both speeders. Squad on the left kills the HB bike.

Mephiston assaults and destroys the Razback.

His weaponless Vindi tankshocks and gets outta Dodge, while Meph comes over to get a little Meph on Meph action going. With the Priest right there I know he's got me, but that's ok - I'm willing to trade Queens here. On the left he forms a circle of death for my squad - but even with all that shooting, a model still lives!

Meph goes in to play with himself - he gets off Preferred Enemy, I get off Str 10, we hood the other powers. With Furious Charge, he goes at Init 8, and gets 5 hits and does 4 wounds... I'm dead. Bummer, I at least wanted to put a couple wounds on him. He consolidates the wrong way - going onto hill that we determined is difficult terrain, but doesn't provide cover - he should have gone into the razorback wreck.

Turn 3

I get my last 2 units on and bring them down into the fray. My one model goes way out left and shakes a razback, while Dante and his squad drop next to another and nuke it. Around Mephiston, I create a Charlie Foxtrot of a mess, involving 3 of my squads and 4 of his. I shoot Mephiston a lot, putting 3 wounds on him.

Then I charge in, getting guys on the live Vindi, his assault squad (2 units), Mephiston (all 3 units), and his attack bikes - note my Priest in the center giving all squads Furious Charge. Mephiston kills 3 models from a unit of mine, but I nearly wipe out what he has left leaving 2 models from the assault squad that stay. Oh, and I failed to hurt the Vindi. This fight was really the key to the whole game.

On his turn, instead of running and gaining distance he brings his living razbacks and squads over to help, but to shoot, not to assault. His Scouts outflanked into my back left corner, his Baal came in near Dante's squad to shoot. Not much happened except me finishing off the assault without losing anyone.

Turn 4+

I spend the rest of the game chasing down his units, getting everything except 3 vehicles - all damaged: the Baal, a Vindi, and a Razorback.

I win - 1771 VP to 570 (other than Mephiston, he didn't kill much), 3 objectives to none, and 3 quarters to 1.

NOVA Open - Army Pics, the Return of the Blurry Pics

2010-08-18T15:20:00.003-06:00

Last of the blurry pics (that aren't part of a batrep) - I swear!

Pic 1 of 3 for this army

2 of 3

3 of 3

Can't tell from this pic, but this display board is half off the table...

So I took this pic. Oof - that's a trusting soul.

Fantasy armies

Oh speaking of batreps, those will start showing up tomorrow, but probably won't finish until mid next week.

NOVA Open - Army Pics, pt 2

2010-08-17T16:46:00.000-06:00

More army pics, more to follow...

Medic w/ wounded guy

Bah, having problems getting the rest of the pics onto my pc here ... will have to wait until later to upload them. But I did get the pic Monty requested - the hall pic. Note that the nearest row of tables is cutoff (you can see pplz heads). For detail purposes, the 40k players are close, the Fantasy are the furthest. The lowest 20 tables for 40k had felt for table base, the top 24 had painted/graveled terrain boards. Most terrain was pretty consistent. Also, this was just after Round 1, so if you see people playing near to the camera, don't worry, they weren't necessarily relegated to the lower tables.

I spy with my little eye... Chumbalaya, Hulksmash's back, DashofPepper, Mark (guy who placed 2nd), Sam (dick... er, nice guy who crushed me), Don Mondo, Islyfe, & Mobious.

NOVA Open - Army Pics, pt 1

2010-08-17T15:01:00.000-06:00

I have no idea whose armies these are, so don't ask... I just went around when they were setup for paint judging and took some pics. 90% of the players weren't at their tables - they were doing the same thing I was.

I present to you, in no particular order, pictures of armies I found interesting, be it theme, paint, or conversions. Click the pics for the large versions, I apologize for blurry pics - apparently my phone has an 8 megapixel camera, but no image stabilization.

This army won best painted...

Moar to come...

NOVA Open: Army Thoughts

2010-08-16T23:20:00.001-06:00

So I had a great time and went 3-1 with my army... but I need to add a disclaimer: my pure Sanguinary Guard army is NOT competitive.

Yes, I beat 3 tournament armies and 2 friendly games as well. But I lost spectacularly to Sam in round 3 because, unlike my other opponents, had A) had a good list and B) wasn't dazzled by my army deep-striking all around him. Not to say the other 3 were noobs or had bad lists, but they either didn't have the low AP guns or power weapons, or they just weren't able to isolate and remove threat elements.

On day 2, I was asked to play Joe Strongblood's Blood Angels for his placement round, because his opponent had left. He also had a decent army list and knew how to protect his stuff - he never gave me the chance to use my 2+ armor with FNP. It was a slaughter.

I knew this coming into the tournament. I had decided to take it as a fun list... and I had a TON of fun and got lots of comments on it.

So as a final warning:

DO NOT TAKE THIS LIST AND EXPECT TO DO WELL!

Heading Home

2010-08-16T07:24:00.001-06:00

Well it's time to head on out.

I would really like to thank Mike Brandt for working with us and keeping pushing so that we made the trip. Honestly, the cost was nearly the same as our trip to Vegas for the 2008 GT (travel was $200 more, food $25 less, event $100 less, and lodging $100 less - so we came out on top!).

The event was a blast! I met a lot of great people - practically every one of them would be someone I would hang out with and would DEFINITELY play a game with.

Special props go out to Bob, Sam, Nathan, and Michael (my opponents), and Chumby, Islyfe, Mobious, and the rest of the Grim crew.... and especially Mike (again) and all his wonderful crew (except John - you'll be getting a bill from my ear doctor, holy hell man ;-) ).

NOVA Open Results!

2010-08-14T19:41:00.001-06:00

Stelek is an Ace and going to day 2.

Danny Internet won Renaissance Man - ticket to Vegas and all that.

NOVA Open, Round 4 Results

2010-08-14T18:47:00.001-06:00

Objectives win conditions, I end with 4 to his none, 1895 bps to his 990, and 3 quarters to his one.

Highlights included Mephiston going nuts and killing a grey hunter squad, twc lord, and some twc before going down. My dice returning and deciding to make up for horrid rolling the game previous. And the general look of surprise on his face as my army dropped down and only scattered 1d6.

At the bottom of 6, he had 3 drop pods left.

NOVA Open - Round 4 Opponent

2010-08-14T15:58:00.001-06:00

Michael Johnson with Drop Pod Space Wolves. Great guy, but I'm a little disappointed that I've played 4 marine armies. Ah well.

Pitched Battle deployment, objectives win condition. I won the rolloff and have made him take the first turn.

NOVA Open, Round 3 Results

2010-08-14T14:59:00.001-06:00

Got tabled. Lol.

Game highlights include... him playing a strong game, and my dice abandoning me. I made 2+ saves like they were 4+, couldn't hit (like EVER) in assault (master-crafted power weapons? Who has those?), and when I *did* hit, no wounds were forthcoming.

Don't get me wrong, Samuel still played a good game. I think it would have been close going into the last round with the nod going to him for number of units and ability to claim quarters... but as it was - it was U-G-L-Y.

NOVA Open, Round 3

2010-08-14T12:51:00.002-06:00

Samuel and his Space Wolves. Funny - he played on table next to me for round 1 and said, "I do NOT want to play your list..."

Karma man, karma.

NOVA Open, Game 2 Results

2010-08-14T12:04:00.001-06:00

Won Game 2, objectives win condition.

I had 3 objectives to his 0, 3 table quarters to his 0, and 1695 vp to his 640.

Highlights included him never really shooting at Mephiston - so he killed a vehicle a turn. His dreads tying up a couple units of mine for pretty much the whole game (until Mephiston freed one unit at the bottom of 6 to claim the center objective. And Dante's squad shooting his Libby squad, putting enough wounds for the Libby to take a save - who promptly failed it and dies because of Dante's curse... and then the squad fails Ld and ran off the table.

More to come...

Start Game 2

2010-08-14T09:43:00.001-06:00

Bob Sinnot - Ultramarines.

Table 9.

NOVA Open, Game 1

2010-08-14T09:10:00.001-06:00

Game 1 vs mech Blood Angels.

VP win conditions.

I win 1771 - 570. Plus get 3 (out of 5) to his 0 objectives and 3 table quarters to his one.

Highlights included his Mephiston killing my Mephiston. Me only failing 3 2+ saves all game (out of maybe 60). He only got 3 vindicator shots off and 2 deviated off my squads completely. And him only getting 3 rends total with all his assault cannon shots.

Full(ish) batreps to come when I get back.

Stelek v Dash

2010-08-13T21:25:00.001-06:00

... I can't tell who's winning, everything is jumbled on the table. But I can tell you this, it has been a killing field - in slow motion. Holy hell this game is taking long.

Oh btw, I tabled Chumby - but the game was a blast (and not just because I won). But when we ended our game, Stelek v Dash was still on turn 2.

DashOfLiquor

2010-08-13T18:08:00.001-06:00

Dash brought his bottle of Morgan to drown his sorrows in his breakdown.

Chest of Gold

2010-08-13T18:03:00.001-06:00

My highly sophisticated army transport system. Yes, that is a shoebox.

By the Pricking of My Thumb...

2010-08-13T12:38:00.002-06:00

We've arrived in D.C.

Midas Touch

2010-08-12T20:53:00.000-06:00

Ack, the gold! Hey, the army was just primed on Sunday.

Super NOVA

2010-08-12T13:33:00.000-06:00

I'm about to head home from work to go pack up my army and clothes (in that order of importance) to go to the NOVA Open. Our flight leaves at 6am, so I'm crashing at Andy's house tonight.

I promise some form of pics, batreps, and other coverage - I may even see if I can figure out how to do some of it from my phone over the weekend (but I aint promisin nuttin'!). If I can't or don't have the time, then I'll have a fun-filled few days of reporting when I get back.

Note: I still haven't figured out what I'm transporting my army in - everything I have is either too big or too little or I don't feel great about taking it through airport security (hello guncase, yeah I'm talkin to you).

Oh, and I'll see what I can do about posting a pic of the army before I pack it tonight.
For reference though, see:
Oooooh Goodies & Budget Scissors

Before the hue & cry, just know that I planned on taking an army that I could have a lot of fun with. I expect to win 2-3 games out of 4 (depending on matchups), and I doubt any of them will be close. I will either table or be tabled. Here's to hoping my matchups don't all include ceramite plated Land Raiders... lol.