Friday, July 27, 2012

Tournament results!




Heyah!

Yeah, I'm a bit lazy again. :(

My team partner and I actually won the tournament and even though it was a small one we were pretty happy.

I played against: Necrons, 2x Grey Knights and Dark Eldar

I'll shortly summarize my games:

Game 1 - Necrons
 - Lord with command barge, destroyer lord in a couple of phantoms and about 4 troop choices
 - Mission was killpoints with an objective in our own deployment zone.

I've never played against Necrons, so I tried what every GK would do - shoot him to bits.
In turn 2 or 3 I finally realized thats not gonna happen and after I tied KP-wise, my troops hid behind a building in range of my objective.

Result: 5:5

Game 2 - Grey Knights
 - 2 Inquisitors with grenades, 2 Stormravens, 2x5 Terminatorsquads and a Psyfleman
 - Mission was table quarters

He hid his Terminators behind a great LoS blocker and wanted to tie the game by holding 2 quarters.
I decided to split all my GKSS's into 5 man squads and let 3 of them deep strike.
To be honest, not much happened here, both SR came in turn 2 and I shot both down in the same... he was a bit unlucky though. One SR survived my combined shooting with 1 hull point but ultimately destroyed himself as he attempted to repair himself -> snake eyes.
Afterwards, I simply took advantage of this situation and forced him to act with his Terminators, which I shot to bits.

Result: 8:2 in my favor

Game 3 - Grey Knights
 - 1 Malleus Inquisitor, 3x10 GKSS with ammunition, 3 Psyfleman
 - Mission was fight for the center (everything fully in 12" of the table center would award 1 point, every troop choice would award 2)

Pretty hard game. His list was obviously better suited for a mission like this. (More troops, more dakka > 24") The premeasuring killed the fun and the game for us. We spend like 15 minutes every turn to measure the exact distances between all units, so no one could shot with his Grey Knights... exciting! Oh wait...
Another problem was the LoS blocker which was pretty much in the center as well. So both armies hid behind that little bunker, shot a little and waited for the end.
I've to admit that I made some mistakes, I've realized way to late that vehicles would award points and I've chosen the wrong table edge to begin with.
Luckily my opponent wasn't even able to kill my rhino with one of his psyflemen, which ultimately awarded me 1 more point at the end.

Result: 3:7

Game 4 - Dark Eldar

- 1 Haemonculus, 3x5 Wrecks w/ venoms, Warriors w/ venom, bigger unit of Reavers, Wyches(?) w/ Raider, 2(?) Ravagers - I'm not quite sure about this list, I'm most likely missing or mixing something up. :(
- Mission was to hold up to 5 objectives

I gave him the first turn and decided to split one of my strike squads, to make use of deep strike again.
My plan was to turn the game into a war of attrition, knowing that my units a way more durable in the later turns than his.
Everything worked out quite fine, except 5 Knights getting stuck in close combat against some Reavers or a single wreck holding an objective... to bad the game ended after turn 5. :/

Result: 6:4 in my favor

My team partner won 3 games and lost 1, if I'm not mistaken, Necrons are freakin' beasts!
Concerning 6th edition, it's fun but the wound allocation is pretty much messed up. Dakka seems very important and flyers aren't that durable except that you only can hit them on a 6. (but with enough dakka and/or sync'd weapons you can work around this problem)

Sadly there won't be any tournaments for me the next month, everyone is busy and I have to finish 2 more exams. :/
But there will be a test game or 2 and I could show you my painting progress... we'll see!

See ya soon!

Friday, July 20, 2012

Rostock Royal Rumble

Our little team tournament is today!

Sadly, there won't be as many people there as last year and I haven't played a single test game in preparation. (my sparing partner had to cancel our games :/ )

My armylist:

Inquisitor w/ TDA, psicannon, hammer, mastery (1)

10 Purifier w/ 4x psycannon, 4x halberds, 2x hammer

10 GKSS w/ 2x psycannon, 1x hammer, ammunition, rhino
10 GKSS w/ 2x psycannon, 1x hammer, ammunition

Dreadnought w/ 2x autocannon, ammunition
Dreadnought w/ 2x autocannon, ammunition

My team partner is playing Necrons.
So, we should be fine but we'll see how it turns out.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

back from the dead!



Yeah, I'm finally back from my horrible 40k-depression. :)
(and a couple of exams...)

So, the 6th edition is here and I'm still not 100% certain what to think of it.
On the one hand it's pretty fluffy and, on first sight, nicely written.
But on the other hand... the new wound allocation is just horrible and flyers seem pretty op right now.
We'll see how it turns out, in the next couple of weeks.

Before 6th edition came out, I've played Grey Knights at one of the last 5th edition and biggest tournaments for 40k here in Germany. (Stadtmeisterschaften)
The weekend was pure fun, it was a team tournament with 5 people per team. So, I grabbed 4 other people from my local club and so it began.
Our first day was awesome, we'd won all 3 games and placed quite high in the rankings.
On the second day we struggled. We tied one round against a pretty good team and in the last round we'd lost against the second team in the ranking. (my game in the last round was just horrible... I've got tabled and felt pretty bad about it, made a stupid mistake with my terminators and got charged by a dreadnought which was pretty much game after turn 3)
So, we ended the tournament as 4th, which was a little bit depressing because we still lead the rankings after game 4.
Shit happens.

Tomorrow will be my first game with the new edition, so I'm a little bit excited tbh. (made a lot of theory crafting + my first tournament with 6th will be this weekend!) :)

So stay tuned!
cYa

Monday, March 5, 2012

... back home

Yeah it was a funny weekend but I'm a bit depressed because of the outcome.

I've lost more or less 3 of my 5 games because of my horrible dice... (  for example  5-6 melta guns vs a Land Raider without cover... -> not even one hit o0)
This is the first time I've got so unlucky and it happened in more than one game over the weekend.

Don't get me wrong, the problem is not that I lost, it's just kind of depressing if you've done not a single big mistake but still lose and at the end of the game you've learned pretty much nothing.
(I'm not the guy who hides behind excuses when I've done something retarded)

Maybe, I'll write some short report when my mood brightened over the week.

cYa guys.

Friday, March 2, 2012

NGC + TableTopStreams

Yeah,

I'm finally done painting for tomorrows tourney!
Unfortunately I wasn't be able to take pictures of my rallied forces... but at least there will be a stream for the tourney.

Check it out: http://de.twitch.tv/tabletopstreams

Games will start at about 10 am CET

I'll hopefully have some great games and be able to take some pictures.

Till then, I wish you a great weekend!

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Juhu,

ich bin endlich fertig mit meiner Armee für das Turnier morgen!
Leider hab ich es nicht mehr geschafft mal ein Gruppenbild von meiner Armee zu machen... dafür gibt es aber morgen einen Stream vom Turnier.

Schaut einfach mal rein: http://de.twitch.tv/tabletopstreams

Die Spiele sollten so gegen 10 Uhr starten.

Ich hoffe mal dass ich ein paar coole Spiele haben werden und ein paar Impressionen einfangen kann.

Bis dann, schönes Wochenende euch!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Lack of activity -> painting

Heyo,

I'm sorry for my recent inactivity but I'm horribly busy painting all the miniatures for the upcoming tourney this weekend.
If there is time tomorrow I'll share some pictures of my latest accomplishments. :)

cYa

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Heyo,

ich muss mich für meine Inaktivität in der letzten Zeit wirklich entschuldigen aber ich hab irgendwie alle Hände voll zu tun die Modelle für das Turnier am Wochenende fertig zu bekommen.
Wenn ich morgen die Zeit finde werde ich euch mal ein paar Bilder meiner fertigen Modelle liefern. :)

Bis dahin byebye.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Skyrim finally got me...

Oh well, I most likely did a big mistake in buying the new Elder Scrolls game...
It's killing my sparetime so quickly, which I should use to paint my models but it's so much fun to run around skyrim. :(

That aside, last week I played another practice game for the upcoming tourney against some demons.
I used my updated armylist and I was able to achieve a solid victory.

My new list:

Runepriest w/Chooser, Lightning, Jaws

5x WG w/combi-melta, fist
5x Scouts w/melta, meltabombs

4x7x GHs w/meltagun, standard, rhino
2x5x GHs w/flamer, LasPlasRB

2x1x LS typhoon

2x5x LFs w/4x Missiles
Whirlwind

I'm quite satisfied with this list and I'm looking forward for some more practice games. (If I finally get my ass out of skyrim...)

So far

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Practice Game II


Alright my second game this evening.

This time I would have to fight against a Tau army:

Commander

3x 3 Crisis teams

1x 6 Fire warriors
3x 3 Kroot with hounds

Pathfinders with their car
1x 1 Broadside
1x 2 Broadsides
1x 1 Hammerhead

(I'm not sure about the particular war gear but it should be pretty much standard for Tau. -> missile pods, rail guns and outflanking kroot)

The mission was to get into the opponents deployment zone. Every unit would award 1 mission objective and every troop choice would award 2.
Tau player got the first turn.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Practice Game I

Man, yesterday was amazing!

We met up at the a local students' fraternity (one of our club members is the boss there or something like this) and we were able to play two games, instead of one.
Between the games we had plenty of time for small talk and the great lasagna made by our host.
After the stress with the exams and other tests a whole afternoon dedicated to the hobby was more than welcome and I think everyone of us enjoyed it.

My first game was against "barroomhero" he is an experienced Space Marines player and someone who played nearly every codex so far and he loves his power armors.
This time he brought his Grey Knights and they are a quite nasty match up for my Space Wolves, but back then I was quite optimistic about my chances of success.

His army list was:

Coteaz
Malleus Inquisitor, TDA, Psycannon, Hammer, 3x Servo skulls

10 Purifiers, 3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 4x Psycannons
5 Purifiers, 1x Hammer, 2x Psycannons, Psyback

10 Grey Knights, 1x Hammer, 2x Psycannons, Psy ammunition
5 Acolytes, 3x Meltas, Psyback
5 Acolytes , 3x Meltas, Psyback
5 Acolytes , 3x Meltas, Psyback
5 Psykers + 1 Acolyte, Chimera
5 Psykers + 1 Acolyte, Chimera

Psyflemanbot
Psyflemanbot
Psyflemanbot

-> 1848 p.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

NGC 1850 Gedanken/thoughts

by calavera666


Okay,

I am finally done with my exams for this term (more or less) and the first big tournament is in sight! (first week of march)
The point limit will be 1850, special characters alongside with Forgeworld will be allowed.

Here is my first concept:

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

My Space Wolves

So, hier mal ein paar Bilder von meinen Space Wolves.

Space Wolves
Es sind nicht die hübschesten Modelle und ich werde sicherlich an keinen Golden-Demon-Wettbewert teilnehmen, aber ich bin zufrieden mit ihnen.

Ich werde auch versuchen mal ein Gesamtbild von meinen ca. 4000 Punkten Space Wolves zu machen. Leider nehmen mich die Klausuren ganz schön aus dem Hobby raus im Moment, dass sollte sich aber nach der nächsten Woche endlich erledigt haben!
Dann kann ich auch endlich den Blog weiter aufhübschen und einstellen.

Bis dahin, Gruß und gute Würfe!

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Alright, here are some pictures of my Space Wolves.

Space Wolves
They are not the prettiest and I will most certainly never attend to a Golden-Demon-competition, but I am quite satisfied with the outcome.

In the future I will try to take a picture of my Space Wolves army as whole (around 4000 points).
Unfortunately I have to deal with the terms exams right now and  at the moment there is not much time left for the hobby or the blog, but in a week or two it should be done and I will be back.
Than I can finally customize the blog and bring up more content.

So long, I wish you the best of luck and good dice!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Roadmap

 

Heyo,

ich habe mich endlich entscheiden können welchen Weg ich mit diesem Blog einschlagen möchte!
Selbstverständlich wird er sich mit meinem lieblings-Hobby Warhammer 40k und allem was dazu gehört beschäftigen. 
Des weiteren bin ich mir aber sicher, dass es eine total töffige Idee wäre, wenn ich das Nützliche mit dem Praktischen Verbinde. Ich studiere nämlich Sprachen und unter anderem auch Englisch, somit werde ich diesen Blog zweisprachig gestaltet.
Damit erreiche ich gleich mehrere Ziele, zum einen erreiche ich natürlich viel mehr Leute. Zum anderen habe ich die Möglichkeit an meiner Ausdrucksweise und allg. Rechtschreibung zu arbeiten, da die Texte die ich auf Deutsch verfasse auch in Englisch erscheinen werden.

Ich hoffe dass euch diese Idee ebenfalls gefällt und ich die kommenden Tage damit beginnen kann gezielt Inhalte hinzuzufügen. Geplant sind unter anderem Videos, Streams, Schlachtberichte und vieles mehr!

Also schaut wieder rein!

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Heyo,

I finally decided what I want to do with this blog.
Naturally it will be about my favorite hobby, warhammer 40k and all the neat things around it.
In addition, I have got an outstanding idea. I am currently studying languages, including English, so I am going to organize this blog in a bilingual fashion.
There are different reasons for that, at first I will obviously be able to reach far more people with both languages. Secondly, I will get the opportunity to improve my grammar and my style of writing.
Which are both quite mandatory for a good college degree. :D

I hope you like the idea and I get the chance to start uploading content in the next couple of days. I would like to share a lot of videos, streams, battle reports and so on with you in the future.

So, stay tuned!




Thursday, January 12, 2012

Hello world!

This will be my new blog about my favorite hobby, Warhammer 40k.
When I am done with exploring the interface and the possibilities of Blogger, I will write frequently about the german/european tournament scene and of course my armys.

Stay tuned and see you soon!