Happy New year, yadda yadda

Hope you all had a good one! It has already been a busy one for me! I've been to Disneyland Paris, been mullered by Daemons and drawn an Apocalypse game! Oh, and fallen unconscious at the club! (sorry John)


I've not managed much by way of assembling my Marines, though the Scouts are now up to 10 strong. Next on the assembly line is a 5 man squad of Scouts and the Land Speeder Storm I intend to mount them in - just need to decide upon whether the scouts will have shotguns or blades and pistols. At the moment I am considering making the first 5 blades/pistols and then the next 5 shot gunners and mixing them and switching them to suit. Thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

Right, game wise I'll start with the one I had versus Alan. I used my Warriors against his Daemons and we played 2,250 a piece. It was just a regular pitched battle with the only bit of flavour being that we had a Portal in the centre of the board, which added some fun.

To be honest, my opponent already outclassed me, never mind that he was using Daemons, so I just planned to give it my best, and frankly I was impressed. It was a convincing win to Alan, but I made it hard for him nonetheless. It was a much needed game this one, as lately I’d begun to get a bit weary of the Warriors either winning by a mile or losing by one. I think I’m now going to mix it up a bit with them and switch units now and then to keep things interesting.

The next game I had was part of the Apocalypse battle at Hull's Angels. Each side had approximately 15,000 points with me bringing 3,000. I hadn't changed much to the force I used for Sam's stag do last year, just trimming it down by a thousand points. Because of the sheer size of the game, it went slowly and we only managed a couple to turns, consequently I didn't manage to get much of my army fielded because all my force was left in strategic reverve as I took Flank March as an asset owing to using the 'Wisdom of the Ancients' formation from the IA: Apocalypse book.

This is what I managed to field:

Heavy Support: Vindicator

1 Vindicator, 135 pts (Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank); Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Dozer Blade; Extra Armor; Demolisher Cannon; Storm Bolter)

Heavy Support: Vindicator

1 Vindicator, 135 pts (Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank); Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Dozer Blade; Extra Armor; Demolisher Cannon; Storm Bolter)

Heavy Support: Vindicator

1 Vindicator, 135 pts (Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank); Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Dozer Blade; Extra Armor; Demolisher Cannon; Storm Bolter)

Heavy Support: Predator

1 Predator, 180 pts (Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank); Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Extra Armor; Twin Linked Lascannon; Lascannon (each side))

Formation: Ancients Assault Force (IA)

1 Ancients Assault Force (IA)

1 Techmarine (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Artificer Armour; Bolt Pistol; Power Weapon; And They Shall Know No Fear; Blessing of the Omnissiah; Bolster Defenses; Combat Tactics; Independent Character), 1 Servo Harness

1 Ironclad Dreadnought (Unit Type: Vehicle (Walker); Extra Armor; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Hunter-Killer Missile(s) x2; Dreadnought CCW; Meltagun; Seismic Hammer; Heavy Flamer; Move Through Cover)

1 Ironclad Dreadnought (Unit Type: Vehicle (Walker); Extra Armor; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Hunter-Killer Missile(s) x2; Dreadnought CCW; Meltagun; Seismic Hammer; Heavy Flamer; Move Through Cover)

1 Venerable Dreadnought (Unit Type: Vehicle (Walker); Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Extra Armor; Twin Linked Lascannon; Missile Launcher; Venerable)

Troops: Tactical Squad

9 Tactical Squad (Bolt Pistol x9; Bolter x7; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Meltagun; Multi-Melta)

1 Sergeant (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol; Power Fist x1; And They Shall Know No Fear; Combat Squads; Combat Tactics)

1 Drop Pod (Unit Type: Vehicle (Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 12 models; Locator Beacon; Storm Bolter; Drop Pod Assault; Immobile; Inertial Guidance System)

I'm really pleased with how the performed as between the Ironclads and the Venerable they managed to immobilise a Stompa and destroy its main ranged armament (I forget the name) and would have caused it more pain if the game had continued. The Techmarine also did well! With the plasmacutter from the Servo Harness it managed to explode a Defiler, which killed 3 Orks. He then survived two rounds of combat (and thus the game) against a squad of (now) 17 strong Ork Boyz with Choppas. Luckily the Nob had a Uge Choppa, so i didn't need to worry about negating armour, and in return he killed another 6 Boyz.

The tactical squad did well as I dropped them in and used them to secure an objective, without then, we would have lost the game 1-0 out of a possible 3! Two of the Vindies picked on squads but didn't have time to wipe out full units, though each came close and the Pred and the third Vindie both took out a truck each. In the end, the only unit in my army to be destroyed was the drop pod that the Tactical squad arrived in. a result methinks!

It was a great game and I enjoyed gaming alongside Matt (of wooden spoon fame), and it is just a shame we ran out of time.

I'm running out of time at the moment, so I shall insert the pics properly later - check back!

Right, I’m signing up to this ‘game a week’ malarkey, though I’m counting Warhammer Online and Blood Bowl on the PC and DS to this as well!

See you later folks!