June Warhammering.

From the grim darkness of the far future, and here in sunless Karuvas XIII, aloha. Wanted to post some pictures of the warhammers that have been falling in the month of June. I had a large amount of time to consider lists for the June 28th ACG Tournament, but not as much time to appraise myself of the rules. Without the time to battle test my force I was worried. Also, in the absence of being able to play, theoretical armies became more and more esoteric. 

Evil Smurf Village [2000]

The Gargamel force will not take us without a fight.

HQ [285]

Marneus AKA Papa Smurf 275 Armor 10 [285]

TROOP [975]

10 Tactical Gold 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]

10 Tactical Silver 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]

10 Tactical White 140 Rocket 15 Flamer 5 [160]

10 Tactical Red 140 MM 10 MG 10 [160]

10 Tactical Black 140 Rocket 15 Flamer 5 [160]

10 Tactical Blue 140 Rocket 15 Flak 10 [165]

FA [235]

10 Assault White 170 VS 10 Fist 25 Shield 10 PP*2 30 [235]

HS [505]

10 Devastator Gold 140 Rocket*2 30 [170]

10 Devastator Silver 140 HB*4 40 [180]

10 Devastator Black 140 Rocket 15 [155]

The Paint It Black 5 Raider Iron Hands List

Primary Detachment: Iron Hands [2000]

HQ [205]

Warlord MOF Meineke Spareparts 90 Power Axe 15 [105]

Librarian Scary Ghost Dad 65 Terminator 25 Storm Shield 10 [100]

TROOP [125]

5 Scout Squad [55]

5 Scout Squad 55 rifles 5 Cloaks 10 [70]

ELITE [915]

5 Terminator Assault Squad [200]

Dedicated Raider Crusader 250 Multimelta 10 [260]

5 Terminator Squad [200]

Dedicated Raider 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

HEAVY SUPPORT [755]

Land Raider 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Unbound list. No list available. But you know. Marneus, and almost all my terminators, and Vect on the dias with the lady, and whatever. You get the idea. It was announced that there would only be battle forged lists, and this relieved me, and I resolved to field Grey Knights, at least, and something else probably. 

Vect’s Suicide Squad and the War God [1999]

Dark Eldar Primary Detachment [1605]

HQ [670]

Vect 240 Dias 200 [440]

Drazar [230]

TROOP [230]

5 Kabalite 45 Venom 55 Night shield 10 Retrofire 5 [115]

5 Kabalite 45 Venom 55 Night shield 10 Retrofire 5 [115]

ELITE [176]

8 Incubi 198 [176]

FAST ATTACK [184]

3 Reaver 66 Heat lance 12 Cluster 20 [98]

3 Reaver 66 Cluster 20 [86]

HEAVY SUPPORT [345]

Talos 100 Chains 10 [110]

Talos 100 Chains 10 [110]

Ravager 105 Flickerfield 10 Night shield 10 [125]

Grey Knight Ally of Last Resort [394]

HQ [100]

Coteaz 100

TROOP [54]

4 Henchmen 2[Acolyte 4 MB 5 Hot Shot 5] 28 2[Acolyte 4 PA 10 Bolter 1] 30 [58]

FAST ATTACK [236]

Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 Spotlight 1 [236]

Jerry had gotten me a Ravager which I was nursing back to health, and I brought back a carnifex that had become infested with a chronos time parasite. 

I got to play a game for my Bday, and so I ran a full on Grey Knights list against Andrew, whose librarian robots and Mephiston always dominate me. 

Ordo Exterminatus [2000]

Grey Knight Primary Combined Arms Detachment [1840]

HQ[375]

Draigo {WL} [275]

Coteaz [100]

TROOP [835]

6 Paladin 330 Apothecary 75 Mastercrafted Hammer 5 Psybolt 20 Brotherhood Banner 25 Psycannon 20 [475]

6 Henchmen  Jakaero*2 70 Acolyte*4 [Acolyte 4 Bolter 1 Power Armor 10 {15} 60] [130]

Dedicated Rhino [40]

5 Strike Squad 100 Halberd*4 20 Psycannon 10 [130]

Dedicated Razorback 45 Psybolt 5 Stormbolter 10 [60]

  

HEAVY SUPPORT [375]

Land Raider Crusader 255 Psybolt 5 [260]

Dreadnought [115]

FAST ATTACK [255]

Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 Psybolt 20 [255]

Space Marine Battle Brother Ally Iron Hands Detachment [160]

HQ [90]

Master of Forge [90]

TROOP [70]

5 Scout 55 Rifles 5 Cloaks 10 [70]

In the end, the Blood Angels won. They are so very fast. And now, everything scores. Which was good before, and even better now. Below are the Blood Angels surivvors, including Mephiston, Lord of Death, with a lone remaining wound. 

I was able to play a game against Brian's marines, and it was the first time playing tactical whatever, and I did not understand the rules completely, and lost. So. Despite that, I am fairly certain a turn 6 or 7 would have seen me destroy everything that remained. 

Here, Draigo assaults the terminator librarian. 

This is Brian's actual 2,000 for the tournament. 

This is my game 1 hammer and anvil deployment of my ultimate list.

ACG Tournament 6-28-14 Battle Forged Grey Knight and White Scars

Grey Knight Combined Arms Primary Detachment [1000]

HQ[375]

Lord Draigo {WL} [275]

Coteaz [100]

TROOP [110]

1 Paladin [55]

1 Paladin [55]

HEAVY SUPPORT [260]

Land Raider Crusader 255 Psybolt 5 [260]

FAST ATTACK [255]

Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 Psybolt 20 [255]

Space Marine White Scars Combined Arms Battle Brother Detachment [1000]

HQ [490]

Q’han (Of The North) 125 Bike 25 [150]

Command Squad 100 Bikes 35 Apothecary 15 Champion 15 Power*2 30 Fist 25 Shield 10 [230]

Chaplain 90 Bike 20 [110]

TROOP [510]

10 Bike Tactical 213 VS 10 Fist 25 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [273]

9 Bike Tactical 192 VS 10 Power 15 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 [237]

Against so many bugs.

And Emperors Children?

And it was kind of a mess...

And in the end it was a tactical draw and I got a single battle point over Jerry.

My second game was against Tori fielding Deathwing Dark Angels. This is just before I killed Belial in the face to death by combining Khan and Draigo into the same squad. Furious Charge Hit and run Draigo? Yes please. 

This is towards the end, as the remainder of my force considers attempting to eliminate the last Deathwing squad, and elects instead to win the game without danger.

 This is my only picture of game 3 against Brian. I had never fought a Wraithknight before. I also forgot that D-Sythes are template weapons, and so this picture is titled the last charge of the silver bike squad. Because their noble sacrifice ended swiftly the following turn, and Gold squad got frightened and drove off the board. I considered quitting at that point. Top of 2 and 510 points just drove off the board. 1/4 of my force removed, uncontested. But. I played it out, and eventually won. In the end I took 3rd, and was only 6 battle points away from tying for first. Had game one been a victory, things would have been much different. With my winnings swag, I got half a box of paladin, and those paladin are going to beat everyone's asses, with a list I will close with. One love. UM

Crouching Paladin Pouncing Tygre [2500]

Grey Knight Primary Combined Arms Detachment [2275]

HQ[475]

Draigo {WL} [275]

Levar Burton 150 Mastery 3 50 [200]

TROOP [625]

5 Paladin 275 Apothecary 75 [350]

1 Paladin [55]

1 Paladin [55]

1 Paladin [55]

1 Paladin [55]

1 Paladin [55]

ELITE [290]

Vindicare Assassin [145]

Callidus Assassin [145]

  

HEAVY SUPPORT [630]

Land Raider Crusader 255 Psybolt 5 [260]

Land Raider 255 [255]

Dreadnought [115]

FAST ATTACK [255]

Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 Psybolt 20 [255]

Battle Brother Allied Detachment Space Marine Ultramarine [225]

HQ [165]

Tigurius [165]

TROOP [60]

5 Scout 55 Rifles 5 [60]

Rise Of 1st Company. The Trifecta Game Theory.

Game theory and tactics are destroying our concentration among a period of mental testing. Battling for control are three forces, equal in both thematic and tactical value. But, that is for you to judge, gentle reader. 

Evil Smurf Village [2000]

The Gargamel incursion will not take us without a fight.

HQ [285]

Marneus AKA Papa Smurf 275 Armor 10 [285]

TROOP [975]

10 Tactical Gold 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]

10 Tactical Silver 140 Lascannon 20 Flamer 5 [165]

10 Tactical White 140 Rocket 15 Flamer 5 [160]

10 Tactical Red 140 MM 10 MG 10 [160]

10 Tactical Black 140 Rocket 15 Flamer 5 [160]

10 Tactical Blue 140 Rocket 15 Flak 10 [165]

FA [235]

10 Assault White 170 VS 10 Fist 25 Shield 10 PP*2 30 [235]

HS [505]

10 Devastator Gold 140 Rocket*2 30 [170]

10 Devastator Silver 140 HB*4 40 [180]

10 Devastator Black 140 Rocket 15 [155]

The Paint It Black 5 Raider Iron Hands List OR Is Black The New Armor?

Primary Detachment: Iron Hands [2000]

HQ [205]

Warlord MOF Meineke Spareparts 90 Power Axe 15 [105]

Librarian Scary Ghost Dad 65 Terminator 25 Storm Shield 10 [100]

TROOP [125]

5 Scout Squad [55]

5 Scout Squad 55 rifles 5 Cloaks 10 [70]

ELITE [915]

5 Terminator Assault Squad [200]

Dedicated Raider Crusader 250 Multimelta 10 [260]

5 Terminator Squad [200]

Dedicated Raider 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

HEAVY SUPPORT [755]

Land Raider 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Vect and Coteaz party like it's [1999] or Suicide Squads, ATTACK!!!

Dark Eldar Primary Detachment [1605]

HQ [670]

Vect 240 Dias 200 [440]

Drazar [230]

TROOP [230]

5 Kabalite 45 Venom 55 Night shield 10 Retrofire 5 [115]

5 Kabalite 45 Venom 55 Night shield 10 Retrofire 5 [115]

ELITE [176]

8 Incubi 198 [176]

FAST ATTACK [184]

3 Reaver 66 Heat lance 12 Cluster 20 [98]

3 Reaver 66 Cluster 20 [86]

HEAVY SUPPORT [345]

Talos 100 Chains 10 [110]

Talos 100 Chains 10 [110]

Ravager 105 Flickerfield 10 Night shield 10 [125]

Grey Knight Desperate Ally [394]

HQ [100]

Coteaz 100

TROOP [58]

4 Henchmen 2[Acolyte 4 MB 5 Hot Shot 5] 28 2[Acolyte 4 PA 10 Bolter 1] 30 [58]

FAST ATTACK [236]

Stormraven 205 Hurricane 30 Spotlight 1 [236]

Iron Hands VS Blood Angels 2000 Points.

Hello all. We are really excited to be sharing this battle report, as it is the first game played in the house. Lived here over a year. Have not been able to play 40K. So, it was with great anticipation and longing that finally a Blood Angels force arrived to challenge the perpetual list manufacturing that occurs in the absence of regular games. We had talked about doing 1750, in preparation for the Con Of The North, but decided instead on 2000, as it is our preferred point total. I was prepared for either contingency, but the additional 250 points allowed me to field another terminator squad. Which makes an already mean list much meaner. The concept behind my force, even as Ultramarines are painted over to Iron Hands, is the revitalization of the marine armor list. I am not a fan of Hull Points. I think they sabotage an elegant and random element to vehicles that makes tactical games of armored forces a delight to play. Because no one brings Land Raiders anymore. And certainly not four. But.

The Paint It Black 6 Raider/Robot Iron Hands List

Primary Detachment: Iron Hands [2000]

HQ [230]

Warlord Librarian Scary Ghost Dad 65 Level 2 25 Terminator 25 Storm Shield 10 [125]

MOF 90 Power Axe 15 [105]

TROOP [115]

5 Scout Squad [55]

5 Scout Squad 55 rifles 5 [60]

ELITE [1055]

5 Terminator Squad 200 Cyclone 25 [225]

Dedicated Raider Crusader 250 Storm Bolter 5 [255]

5 Terminator Assault 200 Hammer/Shields 25 [225]

Dedicated Land Raider 250 [250]

Dreadnought [100]

HEAVY SUPPORT [600]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Land Raider 250 [250]

Dreadnought [100]

So yeah. In the min/max game, two scout squads are king. I don't have the point totals for the Blood Angels, but the FO is;

HQ

Mephiston [Lord of Death]

Reclusiarc in Terminator armor

TROOP

5 Scout squad rifles

5 Scout squad rifles and HB

8 Death company hammer 2 fists rhino

10 Assault jetpack squad with 3 melta pistols

Elite

3 Sanguinary Priest Squad with Corbullo one with jetpack

2 Sanguinary Priest in terminator armor

Dreadnought with Frag Cannon

FAST ATTACK

Baal Predator with heavy bolter 

Land Speeder with Melta flamer

Land Speeder with Melta flamer

So. Here are a whole bunch of pictures. 

This is my force. It is kind of painted for crap. I'll cop to it. It's a WIP.

This is my brother's Castle Ragnar, which was retired from this game after much debate. It was in charge of holding the mysterious objective dice.

 From farther back, you can see that Skeletor is overseeing the game.

 The Blood Angels force.

 The board is irregular, in that it is meant to be irregular.

 There is a crash site which is 4+ battle field wreckage, a cemetery center, providing ruin cover, and 3 mysterious forests. Shrouded in mystery.

 The upper courtyard is surrounded by ruins, but is itself not dangerous within.

 The beacon is the location of table center.

 Crash site.

 Game type is Big Guns Never Tire, which is fantastic. 3 objectives, all women. It's a fight over girls, as it always is. Mephiston's girlfriend is in the cemetery, and it is this girl the Iron Hands crave to hang out with the most. Vanguard deployment, BA win roll off, but allow SM to deploy first.

 Turn 1 was all jockeying for position and being to far away and poping smoke. Turn 1 drop pod assault with Dreadnought Fractus does not wipe out the scouts, because they are in Iron Bark forest.

 The Raider line always wants to move at least 6, get a lascannon shot off clean with some accessorized heavy bolters if practical, and then machine spirit the other lascannon at either the same target, or something farther.

 The Blood Angels took the courtyard, as it is an incredibly defensible position, but the choke point of the ramp makes getting forces down field difficult.

 The Librarian, who has Mechanicus Abjurum or whatever and Psychic Shriek eliminates the robot and the pod, and that is all that this 350 points does this game.

 Krak kills. Fists kill faster.

 The ramp.

 Grandma Ball making her way down the ramp while Death Company consistently fails to move quickly from the blast crater left from their lascannoned rhino.

 But man, they are pretty.

 Those two little speeders try to pop some landraider and suck up an entire round of fire only to miss the one melta shot that could have paid off. As it was, hammer terminators who initially deployed to contend with Mephiston hammers it to death.

 Then hammers Mephiston to death.

 Death company just can't get down the ramp, but their ranks are bolstered by a terminator doctor and the wandering monk. There are actually three doctors and a priest in this squad.

 The jet pack troops descend.

 The scouts at the gate, reverse angle.

 The larger view down field.

 Everything is set to hold the middle objective.

 It is to the Blood Angels to close the distance, but, the Master of the Forge, the lone occupant of the raider crusader, exploded with melta pistol fire, stands as a bulwark against their victory.

 The snipers hold their objective, unable to assist with fire.

 Death Company is pretty, but just too slow.

 Master of the Forge Meineke Spareparts makes all of his 2+ saves against a crippling series of chainsword blows.

 Scary Ghost dad looks on, holding the rear objective with the diminished scout squad as the game ends, turn 5. Iron Hands 8 Blood Angels 3.

 These were my only casualties.

I didn't get a shot of the BA casualties, but they were also pretty light. I feel like the Iron Hands may be the only way to play Space Marine armor in 6th ed. But this is all just opinion and pictures. Thanks, from Karuvas XIII!

Ultramarine Strike Force Lightning.

Marneus and Tigerious recruited the Khan to lead 6th company bikers in an advanced assault party. Hoping to use sheer speed and power to confound any tactic set forth by the enemy.

Ultramarine Strike Force Lightning [2500]

Ultramarine Primary Detachment. [1314]

HQ [585]

Marneus 275 Armor 10 [285]

Tigerious [170]

Command squad 100 Apothecary 15 Champion 15 [130]

TROOP [529]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [165]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [165]

5 Scout 55 Telion 50 Cloaks *4 8 Rifles*1 1 Rocket 10 [124]

5 Tactical 70 Flamer 5 [75]

HEAVY SUPPORT [200]

Storm Raven 200 [200]

White Scars Primary Detachment. [1086]

HQ [540]

Q’han of the North [Khan] 125 Moondraken 25 [150]

Q’han Command 100 Bikes 35 Apothecary 15 Champion 15 Storm Shield*3 30 Fist 25 Hammer*2 60 [280]

Chaplain 90 Bike 20 [110]

TROOP [546]

10 Bike Tactical 213 V.Sgt 10 Fist 25 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [273]

10 Bike Tactical 213 V.Sgt 10 Fist 25 Multimelta 10 Meltagun 10 Flamer 5 [273]

FORTIFICATION [100]

Aegis Line 50 Quad Gun 50 [100]

2,500 Point Ultramarine Omega Force

I was preparing for a tournament the weekend after T-Giving and after formulating a number of different lists suddently realized: Wait. You have a blog claming you are the last Ultramarine. So. You should probably field the most badass UM list available. Thus I present to you a force and list that uses every member of the Ultramarine cast.

Ultramarine Strike Force Omega [2500]

HQ [920]

Marneus 275 Armor 10 [285]

Sicarius [185]

Tigerious [165]

Cassius [130]

Command squad 100 Apothecary 15 Fist 25 Champion 15 [155]

TROOP [845]

10 Tactical 140 Vet Sgt 10 Fist 25 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [200]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

10 Tactical 140 Vet Sgt 10 Fist 25 Flamer 5 Lascannon 20 [200]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

10 Tactical 140 Flamer 5 Launcher 15 Flak 10 [170]

Dedicated Rhino [35]

5 Scout 55 Telion 50 Cloaks*4 8 rifles*2 2 [115]

Dedicated Storm 45 Multimelta 10 [55]

ELITE [225]

5 Assault Terminator 200 Hammers 25[225]

HEAVY SUPPORT [510]

Stormraven [200]

Land Raider Crusader 250 Chronus 50 Multimelta 10 [310]