Norcon or bust

Last weekend saw me place a respectable 6th overall out of 36 players and Great Escape Games Sacramento contest of champions.

I fought orks, space wolves and grey knights and won all my games tho some by greater margin than others.

so I figured that I would give it another go!
this Sunday I will be in redding for Norcon.

my list and maybe some battle reports will follow but for now if you find yourself in northern California, swing by and say hello to the man in the pith helmet!

My Death company chaplain challanges Mike O's Grand master at the CoC. 

Even tho I won the game, this fight I didn't do well in as the grand master broke the poor chaplain across his knee leaving him broken and filled with feelings of inadequacy. 

Well it's been a long damn time...

Gearing up for yet another tournament at great escape games in Sacramento! 

This time around I've opted to call upon the astartes for some support. 

I must thank my lovely wife for helping out with the paint!

Bring the thunder..

By bolt pistol and chainsword!

The bruise-iarch.

Angels Encarmine death company. 

Onward to Victory 23rd!

Just a few shots from my recent tournament.
3/3 wins and 20/20 on paint!

unfortunatly those wins were by too narrow a margin to net me any awards and my paint competitors were just fantastic so no prizes there but overall a great day and some great games.

apologies for the poor picture quality.

A squad of mortars shell the ork line in game 1!

my deployment. veteran squad, psykers platoon command and 20man blob outside the walls on my left flank with the manticores, 30man blob and company command inside the walls.
the lone sentinal was an important part of my strategy moving into position with a scout move and first turn. The mortar squad not pictured is a good 15" to my left flank.

The sentinal uses his search light to counter the night fighting on turn 1. this results in the smoke clouds seen in my opponents deployment as the manticores unhindered by the darkness rain death down upon the awaiting orks, killing a battle wagon, 4 or so lootas inside and a few boyz standing too close.

this cunning ploy proves deadly for the poor sentinal as he quickly finds that the enemy can see his oversized flashlight in the dark...

the enemy rides down to assault my mortars. this proves their undoing as they roll a 1" consolidation and are forced to remain clumped up from assault for my manticores to target them.

having been delayed till turn 4 by the officer of the fleet the enemies 2 dakka jets finally make their attack runs but it is too little too late. Victory to the 23rd Praetorian!

I forgot to get pictures of my game 2. This is unfortunate mostly because my opponent has a fantastically converted godzilla themed army...

my third game was against the Tau. Here you can see the company banner and the 20man blob holding the far left flank. The manticores fired their missiles dry during this game and barely seemed to scratch the enemy. I don't know if I've ever thrown so many 1's with these guys.

The Enemy's not so secret weapon drops in to say hello. In the background you can make out the source of the enemies power.... bottled water.

here is the final display board.

hope you enjoyed.

-J

Final preparations for battle

Apologies for the poor picture quality.

Front view of the board for tomorrows 1750.

The lone sentinal acts as a searchlight spotter for the manticores during night fighting.

First Rank Fire!

The battle psykers cast their minds about the battlefield while overseer Strapp ensures their "safety"

prepare for preliminary bombardment!

flight of valkyries inbound.

squads 4 and 5 man the skyeagle missile turret and hold the bunker on hill 17.

here a lowly orderly can be seen taking stock of ammo researves.

the Colonel pours over tactical maps with his advisors! "there right bloody there! look where I'm pointing damnit!"

the Company colors.

Blue Company; Black Platoon command!

Field justice, up against a wall.

and there you have it! hopefully will be getting some decent paint scores for these tomorrow and maybe even win? that may be asking too much. List and strategies to come.

-J

Current projects

It's been awhile since my last meaningful post. I've been too busy with life and school and being horribly lacking in hobby funds to name just a few activities. I have however managed time to start work on a proper display board for tournaments.


here you can see the base minus a few key personnel...

and here is a little higher view with the flight of valkaries providing support.

adding anothr platoon and some battle psykers!

this is a fun little idea I had to encourage a more orderly base camp.
anyone guess what it is?

That's right! it is a Lasgun rack!

and that's all for today! Cheers.