No Retreat V – Application Accepted!
1,5 years into this hobby, and my first application, and I got accepted! The hype has already started and can’t wait to go to Gibraltar and truly enjoy true high level painted gaming with some of the greatest people out there.
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400pts in 40min local tournament
Attended the local miniature gaming club’s 400pts in 40min tournament today. Over 20 players joined today and I had 6 really good games with lots of nail biting dice rolling. The rules were quite modified to fit small size armies and no formations and house rules restrictions were in play. Finished with 2 wins, 2 draws (both time tabled the opponent but failed to reach mission objective), 2 losses. Could have done better with more aggressive play!
My list was:
100pts – Dreadnought: Power Fist w/ storm bolter, Multi-melta
105pts – Tactical Squad 5man: 1x Grav Cannon
85pts – Tactical Squad 5man: 1x Melta gun, Sgt with Melta bomb (Warlord)
35pts – Rhino
75pts – Razorback w/ Twin-linked Assault Cannon
Puppetwar turret done!
And of course it’s all magnetized as puppetwar stuff comes pre-drilled for 1x3mm magnets.
Rhino Chassis
Done with my first ever Rhino chassis. A bit more weathering than i thought it would be when i started, but I like the look anway, so this is what my 2nd Company vehicles will use as a standard. It’s assigned to 1st tactical squad “Vandar”. Keeping my gladius strike force close to the lore!
Captain Cato Sicarius
Finally finished with my new HQ! Will be the proxy for all Captains in my future Ultramarines lists.
Bolt Action/Chain of Command
Been looking into WW2 games recently. Want something different to my normal 40k sci-fi power creep gaming. Right now I’m painting up a demo-army from Warlord gaming that was donated to our gaming community here in Malmö. The first user being shown the game with this demo army, is me!
Painting update
Invested in an airbrush and love it. Worth every penny. Still trying a lot out, but did some glowing and trying out modulation on the base colors on my Sicarius model. More contrast still needed on the cape and armor though…
Ultramarines (Gladius) vs Tau – 1850pts
Two straight losses against Tau… Riptides and Stormsurge completely eats my Razorbacks up. Starting to think that 7 razorbacks and 3 pods should have been 5 razorbacks and 5 pods. The pressure that pods create in the back lines is hard to compete with, but I would loose a lot of firepower. In this duel though my razorbacks melted away and left was foot slogging 24″-grav cannons. It just did not work out. I could keep up with the scoring initially, but the losses each turn was too grave without seriously inflicting anything on the Tau.
However, I learned a lot regarding positioning. There are better ways to create cover for the transports. But in the end, first round to Tau will hurt either way.
Hobby supplies
Have to give a shout out to SnM Stuff. I get almost all my supplies here, despite having brick and mortar hobby shops around where I live in Sweden, I still buy from these guys in the UK. SnM Stuff have such a wide selection, and shipping is quick and affordable. Lately I have been stocking up on weathering supplies, and they have all the fun little supplies I’ve been wanting to try out.
Looking forward to my new purchase. Will try Heavy chipping from AK Interactive. Instead of just the normal sponge dabbing, I want a bigger variation of the under colors. I hope I can get this with airbrushing and Heavy chipping!
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