1st quarter comissions and fun stuff

Kinda not feeling a good write up but here is the stuff I have been working on. Lots of adepticon commissions.

2013 painting review

Here is a quick recap of major painting in 2013, this dont count the 3-4k of troops i painted and one off comissions. enjoy 2014 - Tryanids

Whats been happing at the inquistion

So a lot going on lately.  GW celebrated the holidays by 24 days of meta change.  Woohoo to digital releases.  Some interesting datasheets and formations, but still a lot of wait and see about what the TOs will allow, so it doesn't make sense to build an army of them yet.   I am still putting together the army for Adepticon and after all of the practice games with Jackie and Calvin's Deamons. I wanted to play an army of psykers too.  I couldn't find the Marine or Space Wolf army that had enough pyskic powers so I turned to the Inquisition, Grey Knights really.  I liked the way the Storm Raven and Purifers worked in my Nova list, and S10 AP1 large blast is always fun.  The good news is I think I am getting close to a build I like, and its partially painted! I still have a lot to do to model and paint.  So far I have some warriors with boltguns, who will eventually accompany a weaponsmith.  Also fresh from the first wash warriors with special weapons, for another weaponsmith unit.  So far the weaponsmiths have paid for themselves, although typical Relictor style the lascannons usually miss.

With the new stuff I like the idea of the shield generators.  I got to thinking how to build one when I realized I did last year.  Originally it started for a game of Apoc, but it never made it to paint.  I have removed the bitz and want to restart the flooring to make it look more 40k. 














and it even lights up

My 2014 Tourny Travels

Been forever it seems since I actually posted here. Alot going on, Family (added a new baby boy to the family), School (first semester down, next starts in 2 weeks). Gaming has slipped way down my priority list. With Holiday sales, time off, and seeing the league move on (first season I am not playing in!) makes me take a look at my long time hobby and drool to get back to rolling some dice. Over the holiday season I purchased and put together (amazing wysiwyg units) the first I will have in 17 years of playing. (thanks to all those opponents who didn't mind asking every turn :What is that unit". I now am just awaiting a few more boxes I have orderd to get my full list out on the table and begin the small local tournaments (no gt's for me it seems this year) but running a wysiwyg army is my attempt at hitting the tourny scene this year. I will be running Crimson fists, and if any allies it will be white scars.

I want to wish everyone the best in the year to come and of course THANKS for YOUR SUPPORT!!!! Let's get this blog back to where it should be. Pictures of models/paint to be within the next month.

Enjoy the New year!!!!

Chris

2013 tourney Season and a reflction to my beginnings

Recap tournament season 2013

SO i wanted to do a recap and a small analysis on the 2013 tournament season. Until this year I never been really interested in tournaments. Now, remember my first game i ever played of WH40k was in March of 2011 at Chris Freeman's house with coffee cans as terrain. I remember seeing all the miniatures and thinking that it was extremely nerdy. After the first dice roll i was hooked. During that game I was given 5 terminators and a scout squad and we played a 3 way battle with Bob Casselberry. It wasn't 4 weeks later I had made my first GW purchase. Bought about 1000.00 of Blood angels and the codex. I started a frantic pace of assembling and painting. Some of my early attempts of painting can be seen should you scroll through the very first days of this blog. I played Blood Angels all summer long until the release of 6th edition. The people I played with were friendly but, still they are tough competitors, so my skills grew quickly from the ass whoopings. My painting was far above my play and in the paint lab i began working on my skills every night. I became a painting machine spending 4-5 hours a night 4-5 days a week. My blood angels began atking a very dark and broodish look when i began repainting them, many asked why I didnt just play chaos. When the chaos book hit I swapped over and began a CSM army. Briefly followed by my favorite army, chaos deamons. In 2013 I began competing in tournaments, which is the sole purpose of this post.

So for the record

Indy GT - 3-3

Adepticon - visitor only

Origins GT - 3-0 BEST GENERAL (combo of painting and battle points)

Nova GT - 3-3 Top 10 in painting out of 256

Da Boyz GT - 4-2

Steel City - 1-2 BEST PAINTED

So 14 W and 10L

58% win ratio

Armies I lost to, -

INDY --- IG, CSM, Dark Eldar (playing CSM main no allies)

ORIGINS - zero losses (played Daemons main no allies)

Nova - Tau, Tau-dar. and Tau (Daemons no allies)

Da Boyz - Eldar and Taudar (CSM main Daemon allies)

Steel city - IG and Tau (CSM main and Daemon allies)

50% of my losses came via some sort of Tau or combo of Tau

30% to Taudar

20% - IG and assorted

All in all I learned a lot about the tournament scene and a lot of list building. I think for the first time in a long time the release schedule doesn't allow for you to play the exact same army all year long. Numerous changes and revamps will occur due to the release schedule which force you to constantly re-tool your army for the meta shifts. So if nothing else anyone competing this year got a lot of experience in the list building phase of the game. Well that's my reflection of 2013. For 2014, I will be focusing on tooling up my Nids for Adepticon. If I dont get all the painting and conversions done, I will be playing my go to army, which is some sort of Daemon and CSM.