Not Going to Blog Wars ... BUT: Sisters!

I'll leave the self righteous and probably horribly boring spiel about 40K and me for another time, all you need to know for this post is that I am the only SON not attending Blog Wars (and that Killswitch loser!) This means a couple of things, one, Venerable is absolutely assuredly not going to have to play me to a draw on Dawn of War Kill Points and potentially ruin his tournament (or watch as me winning the game comes down to better than 50% dice rolling and blowing it). Secondly it means I've not been working or tuning lists, but I thought it might be a fun to look at what I might have played, had models, paint and availability not been an issue.

In this post, I am looking at what probably, barring model availability, would have been my first or second choice. The Sisters of Battle. When I returned from my last hiatus, this was the army I picked up, now on my second hiatus, this is the army, along with one other, that I am hoping gets a significant power boost via 6th Edition rules:

The Sisters of Battle !!

Olive Branch to Blog Wars

For the first Blog Wars I was going to take SW until I realised that no one was taking DE and at that point in time there was some consternation about whether or not they could actually hang.

I felt they certainly could hang and took a tough list which did exceptionally well for me and won the tournament.

For Blog Wars 2 I took my Necrons as the new hotness and to show what they could do, I was the only Necron player there as well if I remember rightly.

I've made a name not just for winning the tournie, but surely also for taking under represented or new armies.

By taking my Necrons I am in some ways going against the spirit of the event. They are established as a tough and legitimately competitive army. Like Alex over at From the Fang says, half the field is taking stuff they wouldn't dream of taking to a hardcore event.. then there is me.. I am taking that sort of thing..

For a moment, let's forget the GK players, the IG players, the BA players and the DE players that are all attending.. especially Atreides... all of whom make up the majority of the tournament.. there are currently 2 Necron players.

Soon to be one.

If the Blog Wars community wants, I will run an army that is not currently being represented at Blog Wars.

How to beat my Necrons - a guide for Blog Wars

I am going to list all the elements of the 1750 army I am taking to Blog Wars 3 on the 2nd June, held at Maelstrom Games.
I will then analyse the missions/scenarios that are to be played at the tournament and discuss how to stop my Necrons from winning those games.
I will do this from a general view point, but I will also look at some of the armies that are heading to Blog Wars and include notes for each of these...or as many as I can.

For those of you who are struggling with Necrons, please read this and also have a read of this guide to beating Necrons.

Why am I doing this? Firstly let me note that whilst I am a good player I am not unbeatable, I am beaten plenty of times at tournaments, plenty haha. But I have won Blog Wars twice and whilst I have played a range of players from our very own Bully and Atreides, Gary Perceival from 40KUK and a number of other UK bloggers at the tournament.. I am not facing a lot of regular tournament players, or so it seems...far more casual relaxed gaming, or the first one was anyway.. there were a number of 'good' tournament players at BW2 including the Sons guys, the 40KUK guys- Gary and Dave..and well, that made up a quarter of the field..alone. There are normally only 25ish players and at a relatively small tournie, the proportions of a regular tournament in terms of player representation are in play...

Blog Wars is a semi-competitive, friendly community event. Except of course, it is a tournament which by its very nature is a competitive even that must have a victor. And then we have the game itself, 40K. It is a game designed to have winners and losers..of course you can draw too, but that's not as likely in tournaments, even if the victory is only on VPs.

Add in to the mix that I like to compete, that I am, by my very nature, a competitive guy. This is what has kept me sucked in and coming back to the game again and again. So for Blog Wars, I have to compete, it is some kind of juxtaposition to go to a tournament and not compete. So I will educate, guide, provide ideas, strategies, tactics etc designed to beat Necrons and in particular, my Necrons.

Blog Wars 3! 2 Weeks to go!!

Hey all,
Just a quick one today, a community post/reminder. Over at From The Fang, we all have just a few more days to purchase our tickets for Blog Wars 3!

What is it you ask? Nice and simple, an 1750 WH40K tournament, played over 3 games in one day.
The difference? You must include a special character.

No biggie here to be honest as so many of the characters in 40K these days (read: 5th ed lol) have been hyper useful *cough* Coteaz *cough*
Some special characters are turd on the other hand. Brother Captain Stern for example.

As of now, the Sons are representing with myself (Venerable Brother), Atreides, Kabalite and friend of the Sons, Bringer of Death.


See, here's the rub. Can you beat me? I've won Blog Wars for the past two times.. can you stop me? lol! 

Perfect Sunday Morning?

So many rivets... ;) 

Chilled out Sunday morning for me today.

Painting my Dystopian Wars fleet with Das Boot on the TV. 

What a film, not watched it since I was in college about 18..whoa ten years since then! 

Forget how tense it is! Crushing feeling of dread inside that boat with all the U Boat crew.. 

Perfect for painting up my Naval Battle Group though, 

These guys now all have 3 colours on them, next to come is the airbrushed Devlan Mud wash over the lot..then highlighting. 

Going to have to get stuck into some of these rivets.. there a literally dozens per boat.. little touch of metal and then a little extra oil leak, perhaps some green in there too for the brass/bronze. 

It's so quick to get these guys up to speed.. there is a lot more detailing to do before these guys are finished, but it is a wonderful feeling to get the models painted up. 

Still have the Bombers and the Tiny Flyers to do.. hopefully have 2 more squadrons being delivered for the end of next week, some Inari Scout Gyro's and some Tanuki Gunships... both of which I am told are very good units.. I genuinely orded them cause I like the look of them! 

To complete my Empire of the Blazing Sun I want a HeliCarrier to launch Tiny Flyers off of, then a Dreadnought - a massive heavily armed naval unit and finally I'd really like the Ika Squid Sub/Robot.. then I have all the cool looking stuff in the army and job done. 

Airbrushing Dystopian Wars

HaHa! Got hold of Bringer's airbrush! Going to smash out my new Dystopian Wars Empire of the Blazing Sun/Japanese fleet now!!

We've got a games night planned tonight between Bringer, Kabalite and myself as the other half is away on her Hen Do. Geek on!

So what have we got..

This is what I want them to look like. Not a finished product by any means, but it has a base coat in all the colours I want as well as a magical Devlan Mud wash. I'm going to try and bring up the French Mirage Blue (Vallejo range) through at least 2 blends, well glazes more like.. but it'll look nice.

I am wondering if a sharply contrasting colour is required.. ? Thoughts appreciated. Red or White for the Empire flag.



So this is the airbrushed fleet with just FM Blue on it: