It's probably common knowledge to anyone who plays wargames that Games Workshop is increasing prices again. I kind of understand the business side of things and totally understand that this is a hobby so it's not like raising the price on food, but still it is kind of depressing to see a hobby get more and more expensive. Especially so when extra funds are limited and when I want to get back into Warhammer Fantasy gaming.
One fortunate thing about Fantasy games though is that there are a lot of companies out there that produce fantasy figures at a much reduced price compared to GWs. GW (in my view) kind of has the futuristic grimdark setting monopoly (no other company could produce space marine like figures without getting a lot of legal flak) but in the fantasy realm they don't (a dwarf is a dwarf whether it is a GW dwarf or a non-GW dwarf). So I've decided to build a Dogs of War/Empire army using figures from other companies.
It's going to be much cheaper and hopefully after a coat of paint look just as good. I decided not to do a dwarf army (see previous post about Mantic Dwarves) as I really don't like their playstyle and besides, I can always fit dwarves into a Dogs of War army if I decide to buy some Mantic Dwarves in the future.
I already have a bunch of knights, heroes and wizards from Bretonnia that could easily fit in with any DoW/Empire army so part of the army is already made. I just need infantry and I think I'll take those from Wargames Factory.
I could use their Samurai Warriors to represent swordsmen/greatswords/paymaster bodyguard (armed with katana), the Ashigaru Yari Troops as pikemen/spearmen, the Ashigaru Missile Troops as crossbowmen/handgunners and their Viking Huscarls to represent norse marauders/flagellants.
As an Empire army using the vastly different styles of models might be awkward but for a Dogs of War army not so much I think. After all the Dogs of War are mercenaries from all over the world. I just hope the local gamer folk don't mind me using alternate figures to play Warhammer Fantasy. Admittedly I could just try and get ancients/historical gaming going but that I think is going to be harder as it requires investment from more people.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Tournament Results
Store tournament was this past weekend and I took the list from my previous post to it.
Escaped with a 2-1-1 record. EDIT: Apparently this was good enough for 2nd place (out of 8) after taking soft scores into account. Either that shows the intense level of competition in that no one escaped with a perfect record, or the soft scores factored in quite predominantly.
Game 1 vs Necrons - Win
- First time playing Necrons in an annihilation mission. The player didn't take a super-nasty list so I was able to pull out a win. He seemed surprised that my terminator squads could weather two squads worth of firepower. I told him after the game that he should dedicate twice that if he wants to bring down a terminator squad with regular anti-infantry guns (I did the math once and it requires a ridiculous amount of wounds to reliably kill a squad of terminators in one round of shooting)
Game 2 vs Grey Knights - Loss
- First time playing Grey Knights. It was Capture & Control and I think the only reason I lost was his grand master and grey knight terminators were able to assault my Deathwing. I grounded their ride, but they were still close enough. Those 4 guys tore through all 15 of my terminators without too much trouble (initiative S6 power weapons and the grand master with a 2+ ward save really sucked). By the time I killed them I had no troops left. His shooting took down the land speeders so couldn't contest in my last turn.
Game 3 vs. Daemons - Draw
- First time playing Daemons. Sieze Ground with 4 objectives. 12 blood crushers, blood thirster and 3 soul grinders. My shooting was enough to nullify the blood thirster and soul grinders but those blood crushers annihilated my terminators (made the mistake of disembarking from the land raider a turn too early). Forced a draw by killing all of his horrors and contesting the one objective from the one horror I couldn't kill.
Game 4 vs. Chaos - Win
- Nothing really of note, his vehicles were rendered useless for the most part by my shooting. He had a vindicator that was pretty ineffective and a land raider of berserkers that spent 2 turns shooting at my land raider. His rhinos and the squishy squads inside were his downfall. Easy KPs for my rockets and terminators.
Next 40k tournament should be in July and I think I'll bring a more competitive list. The lists that were present were much more competitive than I expected (probably because everyone was from out of town). Time to go and paint some more terminators.
Escaped with a 2-1-1 record. EDIT: Apparently this was good enough for 2nd place (out of 8) after taking soft scores into account. Either that shows the intense level of competition in that no one escaped with a perfect record, or the soft scores factored in quite predominantly.
Game 1 vs Necrons - Win
- First time playing Necrons in an annihilation mission. The player didn't take a super-nasty list so I was able to pull out a win. He seemed surprised that my terminator squads could weather two squads worth of firepower. I told him after the game that he should dedicate twice that if he wants to bring down a terminator squad with regular anti-infantry guns (I did the math once and it requires a ridiculous amount of wounds to reliably kill a squad of terminators in one round of shooting)
Game 2 vs Grey Knights - Loss
- First time playing Grey Knights. It was Capture & Control and I think the only reason I lost was his grand master and grey knight terminators were able to assault my Deathwing. I grounded their ride, but they were still close enough. Those 4 guys tore through all 15 of my terminators without too much trouble (initiative S6 power weapons and the grand master with a 2+ ward save really sucked). By the time I killed them I had no troops left. His shooting took down the land speeders so couldn't contest in my last turn.
Game 3 vs. Daemons - Draw
- First time playing Daemons. Sieze Ground with 4 objectives. 12 blood crushers, blood thirster and 3 soul grinders. My shooting was enough to nullify the blood thirster and soul grinders but those blood crushers annihilated my terminators (made the mistake of disembarking from the land raider a turn too early). Forced a draw by killing all of his horrors and contesting the one objective from the one horror I couldn't kill.
Game 4 vs. Chaos - Win
- Nothing really of note, his vehicles were rendered useless for the most part by my shooting. He had a vindicator that was pretty ineffective and a land raider of berserkers that spent 2 turns shooting at my land raider. His rhinos and the squishy squads inside were his downfall. Easy KPs for my rockets and terminators.
Next 40k tournament should be in July and I think I'll bring a more competitive list. The lists that were present were much more competitive than I expected (probably because everyone was from out of town). Time to go and paint some more terminators.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
1500pt Dark Angels
Looking over the models I have, this is the list I plan on taking to the first of these monthly tournaments that the FLGS is hosting later this month. Keep in mind that the goal of the tournament is to introduce new players to tournament game play. They aren't meant to be super competitive WAAC type games (though inevitably I will make it that way against whomever I play simply because I like a good competition)
HQ
Belial - Lightning Claws
Troops
Deathwing Squad 1 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist, 1 pair of Lightning Claws, Apothecary
Deathwing Squad 2 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist,
Deathwing Squad 3 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist,
Fast Attack
Ravenwing Land Speeder - Multi-melta, typhoon missiles
Ravenwing Land Speeder - Multi-melta, typhoon missiles
Heavy Support
Land Raider Crusader
Predator - Twin-lascannon turret, pintle storm bolter
Predator - Twin-lascannon turret, pintle storm bolter
Seems kind of hard at 1500 points, lots of armor, lots of missiles, lots of powerfists and who is going to suspect 15 terminators? Mind you if I run up against melta/plasma/power weapon spam I'm screwed. Could be worse, I could have taken 5 squads of hammernators with cyclones I suppose (thankfully for the opposition I don't have that many painted hammernators.... yet).
Should be competitive enough yet not cheesy enough to dissuade new tournament players. I originally planned to run with two land raiders, but figured that would be over the top; and it doesn't help the second land raider isn't fully painted. The second land raider is a scratch built model and I am in the process of adding rivets and details to it (it is painted except for the minor details).
HQ
Belial - Lightning Claws
Troops
Deathwing Squad 1 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist, 1 pair of Lightning Claws, Apothecary
Deathwing Squad 2 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist,
Deathwing Squad 3 - Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, Cyclone, Chainfist,
Fast Attack
Ravenwing Land Speeder - Multi-melta, typhoon missiles
Ravenwing Land Speeder - Multi-melta, typhoon missiles
Heavy Support
Land Raider Crusader
Predator - Twin-lascannon turret, pintle storm bolter
Predator - Twin-lascannon turret, pintle storm bolter
Seems kind of hard at 1500 points, lots of armor, lots of missiles, lots of powerfists and who is going to suspect 15 terminators? Mind you if I run up against melta/plasma/power weapon spam I'm screwed. Could be worse, I could have taken 5 squads of hammernators with cyclones I suppose (thankfully for the opposition I don't have that many painted hammernators.... yet).
Should be competitive enough yet not cheesy enough to dissuade new tournament players. I originally planned to run with two land raiders, but figured that would be over the top; and it doesn't help the second land raider isn't fully painted. The second land raider is a scratch built model and I am in the process of adding rivets and details to it (it is painted except for the minor details).
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tournament News
Popped into one of the FLGS in town last week and found out they are planning on hosting small monthly tournaments in addition to their larger Remembrance Day Challenge and Spring Fantasy tournament. It appears tournament attendance has been low so they are trying to get more interest in tournaments by hosting smaller and friendlier events.
I whole heartedly approve of this. Mind you I only really care about this because the more people that are interested in tournaments means the more people who might be interested in attending Orctoberfest in October.
For my part I'm going to try and attend as many of these tournaments as possible so I can push Orctoberfest 2012 and hopefully get a few more people than I have the past two years. I keep hearing that it is an absolute blast to play in and everyone would love to attend but the numbers just don't show it. Mind you I think I picked a bad weekend for Orktoberfest 2011 (Canadian Thanksgiving weekend) and I changed the format from Fantasy in 2010 to 40k in 2011. Orctoberfest 2012 will be Fantasy again so that might affect numbers. Still, I am hoping that I get more fantasy players this year than in 2010.
First tournament is a 1500 point 40k tournament. Although I did sell some of my Deathwing (the black reach half) I still have enough painted models to bring a decently competitive force. I probably should hold back as the tournaments are meant to bring in new tournament players, but what good are new tourament players if they don't play to win or can't stomach losing? Anyways, got about 2 weeks to think about the army I will bring to this first tournament.
I whole heartedly approve of this. Mind you I only really care about this because the more people that are interested in tournaments means the more people who might be interested in attending Orctoberfest in October.
For my part I'm going to try and attend as many of these tournaments as possible so I can push Orctoberfest 2012 and hopefully get a few more people than I have the past two years. I keep hearing that it is an absolute blast to play in and everyone would love to attend but the numbers just don't show it. Mind you I think I picked a bad weekend for Orktoberfest 2011 (Canadian Thanksgiving weekend) and I changed the format from Fantasy in 2010 to 40k in 2011. Orctoberfest 2012 will be Fantasy again so that might affect numbers. Still, I am hoping that I get more fantasy players this year than in 2010.
First tournament is a 1500 point 40k tournament. Although I did sell some of my Deathwing (the black reach half) I still have enough painted models to bring a decently competitive force. I probably should hold back as the tournaments are meant to bring in new tournament players, but what good are new tourament players if they don't play to win or can't stomach losing? Anyways, got about 2 weeks to think about the army I will bring to this first tournament.
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