Monday, June 23, 2014

Tournament

Ok so the tournament i play in every year known as Battle In the Vines is over and I thought id write something up.

My list

HQ

Pask in vanquisher with lascannon and camo, partnered up with a leman russ bt with heavy bolters and lascannon

Company command squad – power weapon, mortar, vox, regimental standard

Primaris Psyker - Level 2

Troops

35 man platoon, power weapon and 4 flamers in chimera, 30 men with 2 heavy bolters, 1 autocannon, 1 power weapon and 3 grenade launchers, x 2 vox

35 man platoon, vox and lascannon and 30 man with 2 rocket launchers, lascannon, 1 power weapon and 3 grenade launchers, x 2 vox

Veteran squad 2 melta and 1 flamer

Fast Attack

Valkyrie with multiple rocket pods

Heavy support

Leman russ eradicator with 3 heavy bolters

Manticore

Basilisk

Game 1

Vs chaos and guard running Warpsmith, 10 men in rhino, 20 cultists, heldrake, forgefiend, 2 oblits and guard with command squad, 45 man platoon mix of autocannons and lascannon, special weapons squad and leman russ with lass and 2 heavy bolters, aegis defnese line with quad gun.



Basically we deployed opposite each other, his list had no chance against mine in the shooting department I proceeded to basically smash him, it was kill points mission and the game ended turn 4 so I walked away with a minor win, probably would have been a major win or wipeout if the game didn’t end early.

Game 2

Vs iron hand space marines (the game 1 guys son) had two techmarines, 2 10 man units in rhinos, 1 10 man unit on foot, 7 sternguard with librarian in rhino, 5 bikes, 10 scouts, 3 land speeders, 10 devastators and aegis defense line. There was 4 objectives two in our deployments zones, I proceeded to wipe him out, as he came at my line one unit at a time and I managed to claim 3 out of the 4 objectives and ended with a major win.

Game 3

Vs 0rks had gaz thraka with 4 mega armoured nobs in battle wagon, 2 flyers, 2 20 man ork units, ork zap guns, a looted wagon, big mek with shock attack gun and the shooty orks ah looters? There was 5 objectives in a vanguard deployment. Shouting war chants of revenge for the 24th regiment, Pask proceeded to destroy the battle wagon leaving gaz and buddies pretty much useless and the rest of the army proceeded to mop up big time, I had 4 out of the 5 objectives with one contested giving me a major victory.

Game 4

Vs tau and goes to show that tau players cant be trusted, he had farsight, a fogeworld special character, 3 riptides 2 sets of 3 crisis sutis and one set of 2 as troops, 2 units of fire warriors and broadsides. 6 objectives that had numbers. He had two objectives and I had 1 ended in a minor loss. This guy rolled each dice individually, rolled ones on his super charging riptides and told me they get their armour saves, but it turns out they dont, I had to call him out on it every time he rolled a one as he said nothing to me when it happened and was content to do nothing about it. Rerolled cocked dice if it missed but kept the ones that hit, in comp he scored 1 out of 5, 2 1’s/5 and 2 3’s/5 ( this as it turns out later cost me)

Game 5

Vs elder with farseer with dire avengers in a wave serpent, another 2 untis of dires in wave serpents, fire dragons in wave serpents, 2 of the tanks with the big crystal and 2 forgeworld vehicles and warp spiders. I got first turn blew up two vehicles, and strong game which ended with me claiming 10 kp’s to his 5 and giving me a major victory.

So in the end I came second by 0.3 of a point. So if I had given the tau guy a 1 or 2 (Would of been a one if i knew about the supercharge thing)for sports instead of a 3, the glorious 124th would have won.

Hands down Pask, manticore, basilisk and eradicator did great. Orders were very effective, going to ground in cover/behind the aegis and ordering them back up was wonderful and a psyker very helpful. List only needs a slight tweak if I take it next year.

Friday, May 30, 2014

New additions and return to an old one

Well some reinforcements arrived during the week and now that I am finished with uni for the next 6 weeks and with a tournament looming at the end of June its time to get to work. Also funnily enough the Valkyrie I last posted on, was back in April 2009! So there has been much progress on this bad boy. So plan is to build the new additions and paint all my tanks including finishing of the russ from last post.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Ok so some progress on the tank thus far:
I haven't bought the new book yet but I've been reading a lot of stuff on the new codex and am tempted to team this russ up with commander Pask in a vanquisher tank and thus freeing up a HS slot. A rough list using battle scribe for 2000pts gives me: 1.Command squad with mortar, banner and vox 2. Pask in vanquisher with hull lascannon Battle tank with sponson hb and lascannon 3. 2 platoons of 35 man - various hw and assault weapons 4. veterans squad in Valkyrie 5. leman russ eradicator with hb's all round 6. manticore 7. basilisk 8. aegis defence line with quad gun

Friday, March 28, 2014

Lost in the warp

Hey folks, Its been a while, I've been rather busy with work and uni (no surprise really). Lost a lot of motivation and desire to work on the Praetorians or any of my other projects. However my group of friends should be starting up a campaign soon and that has motivated me to work on stuff again. Originally the plan was to work on a new project, that being a marine chapter but I have decided to finish my guard. Especially with the new codex and models just around the corner, so expect some actual updates soon. Currently just started painting a leman russ. Thanks, Extrac

Friday, October 12, 2012

Long time between posts

Hi, Well its been awhile since I last updated, unfortunately I have been rather busy. I have been rather busy with uni this year, moving and work. Ill be working on the Praetorians once im finished with uni for the year. However another game has grabbed my attention:Dreadball. First time in a long time has a game concept interested me, so I pledged at the guard level on kickstarter scoring: a team with free mvp, and the rulebook + season 2 and 3 supplements. So I have chosen the Zees as my team of choice and will have to wait patiently for them to eventually arrive. In the meantime ill be working on my Chaos army as well, after I get the new codex in the mail. Also I have decided to give infinity a go, starting with the new race, the tohaa. Updates to follow when I've done something lol.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Update

So im working on a few things for my list in the next tournament. This includes some of these guys:
Im looking to have a small squad of 5 to 6 guys.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Wow

It has been a long time since I lasted posted on here, but I assure you the 124th is still very active. Having been a little distracted over the last while, ill be wrapping up uni for another semester. During the short break that I will have, there is a doubles tournament coming up in August and a 3 day tournament in October. So im hoping I can take the 124th to both of these tournaments. I have a few things to add to the force for both events and ill post them up when I am officially finished with assignments.