Thursday 30 April 2015

Worcester War 4 - Fortification of The Code - Change of Plans

Morning All,

After feedback on the format and number of players finding availability for the chosen date difficult we have decided to change the format for Worcester War 4.

The Event:

The code40K team present our fourth event: Worcester War 4, “Fortification of the Code”. We have space for up to 24 players who will form two teams; Good and Evil, these teams will compete in 2 rounds of 7th ED 40k working in pairs or alone depending on numbers and to be determined on the day. You will be attempting to gain control of secret data packets hidden in an abandoned underground complex in order to provide your forces with an advantage in the final event in this story; “Assault on the Code” which will be held sometime in 2016.  This event follows on directly from the events played out during Worcester War 3; please note participation in WW3 is NOT required for entry into this event.  


Worcester War 4 follows on directly from our last event, Worcester War 3, which saw a widespread conflict spread across the 5th planet of the Lentarum system; a backwater Imperial colony near The Maelstrom in the Ultima Segmentum.

The day saw 24 players fight for dominance and control of a psychic beacon which had sent a mysterious signal throughout known space. In the end the beacon was claimed by the forces of chaos in the form of a Nurgle Daemon force!

If you're interested in joining us, the event is on Saturday 6th June 2015 at Whittington Village Hall. Entry fee is £15 and includes lunch and refreshments through the day.

Please e-mail mrtweedy_77@yahoo.co.uk to check if places are available and sign up to take part.

The rules pack can be viewed here

The deadline for entry is Sunday 31st May 2015

Hope to see you there.

Bluddtoof


Tuesday 21 April 2015

Worcester War 4; The Assault on The Code

Hi All

It's that time of the year again!
Time for The Code 40K Gaming event!



Worcester War 4 follows on directly from our last event, Worcester War 3, which saw a widespread conflict spread across the 5th planet of the Lentarum system; a backwater Imperial colony near The Maelstrom in the Ultima Segmentum.

The day saw 24 players fight for dominance and control of a psychic beacon which had sent a mysterious signal throughout known space. In the end the beacon was claimed by the forces of chaos in the form of a Nurgle Daemon force!

Now the war rages on and the forces of Good are ready for one final push!

Worcester War 4 will see the final assault on a heavily defended position, held by the forces of Evil!! by an alliance of Good forces.

We will be playing a single massive multi player game of 7th Ed 40K, over a large C shaped board made of 9 standard 6' tables joined end to end. You will fight either for Good or Evil over this defensive perimeter and then the game will culminate on a 2nd table representing the primary objective. Events on the perimeter will directly effect your chances on the final objective.

We have space for 30 players, if you're interested in joining us, the event is on Saturday 6th June 2015 at Whittington Village Hall. Entry fee is £15 and includes lunch and refreshments through the day.

Please e-mail mrtweedy_77@yahoo.co.uk to check if places are available and sign up to take part.

Rules pack is available here


Hope to see you there.

Bluddtoof

Monday 13 April 2015

Battle Report: Marines V Tyranids


This should be my final one for a while. 4 games in 2 weeks, and now my wife is starting to give me the look.....
 
This time I am taking on Alex_H and his NIds. It has been a while since we had played and this is our first 7th game.

We played 1500 points. I am a big fan of this value.

1.       It allows plenty of chat throughout the game and still be finished at a sensible time. This game took 5 hours!

2.       Choices have to be made. At 1750 you can generally get everything you want in your list, and 2000 you can take an extra something a bit special that you have not used to see how it plays without affecting your army too much. 1500 something has to give. You can’t have all your fancy units and toys to play with. Some have to stay in the box

3.       There is so many rules to remember in 7th and trying to keep track of what is going on you need to keep it as simple as possible.

I had chosen 3 lists initially so I could choose which to take at the time. The first was based on my unbound terminator list from a few games back. This time I used the Dark Angels codex with Belial, a librarian, 5 DW Knights, 2*5 DW and 1*10 DW. It looked good and if I was playing the emperors will missions then I think would have had a chance, but playing Maelstrom I did not have enough units or manoeuvrability to cover the board. Also I had no flyer protection (in hindsight I may have worried about that too much).

The next 2 lists were basically the same. The main change was terminators for stern guard. Here is the list I settled on:

Chapter Tactics: Imperial Fists

  • Librarian level 1 Telepathy
  • 9 Sternguard in a pod with PF and 4 combi-grav guns
  • 10 tacts in rhino flamer missile
  • 10 tacts in rhino flamer missile and veteran
  • 10 scouts with Camo Cloaks and sniper rifles and missile
  • Whirlwind
  • Landspeeder typhoon
  • Stormtalon with skyhammer missiles
  • Thunderfire
  • 10 devastators with 3 missile and 1 lascannon
I initially wanted 3 typhoons and was going to drop a talon. I am worried about Nig flying monstrous creatures as they can vector strike and shoot good weapons, as I found out. The grounding test now is definitely may FMC a solid choice for armies

 His list (CAD)


Winged Hive Tyrant
Winged Hive Tyrant
Venomthrope
Exotrine
Harpy
Mawloc
4 Zonethropes with a Nuerothrope (sp?)
4 Zonethropes
2 Spores

As you can see the basic minimal troop choices, and they don’t even have objective secured! I was not really expecting such a small force. When I think of nids I normally think loads of gribbly stuff supported by some fancy big stuff.

As Alex and I had played a few game recently we decided on a mission neither of us had played, Maelstrom 4. This had an interesting twist where both you and your opponent can claim tactical objective “secure objective X” when they are in your hand! The newer codexes will be at a slight advantage here as they only have 12 of those and 24 other ones where using the one from the books there rae 18 “Secure Object X” cards. As we both have an older codex  it levelled out.

Again I am not going to give a turn by turn report, but here are some of the main highlights.

·         I set up with the heavy stuff at the back. The idea was for the scouts to infiltrate up field and the 2 tactical squads (the assault half) would get forward for objectives on the other side.

·         I was interested to see how the whirlwind would perform as I had not used one. It would have been ok against a horde list but against this high armour/inv save list it was pretty poor. Will I still get the model.....probably

·         Initially forgetting about the sternguard! But when they came on they were OK. Helped kill a squad of zonethropes for first blood. There second round of shooting against the Exotrine with only 2 wounds left....5 grav gun wound and he made all 5 of his 5+ cover saves!

·         The librarian was poor but a cheap HQ choice. I am not sure what other option a marine player has. The others are more points, and a captain needs even more points to make him useful. The librarian did get shrouding off once but failed a perils test, and eventually died. He is a bit of a soft VP for slay the warlord and also some of the tactical objectives require you to kill the warlord and offer D3. In the turn he died he gave up 3VPs.

·         I worried too much about the spores. They couldn’t get objectives and worst of all they didn’t give up any VP’s killing it first did not get me first blood.

·         Again the lack of solid mobile units, objective secured or not, was my opponent’s downfall. He bunched in one corner and all I had to do was bombard him. He could not go and get the other 4-5 objectives. I had enough stuff to cover lots of area and on turn 4 I controlled every objective on the board. I was picking up objectives on both of our turns. It could be said I had reasonable luck  in getting the objectives, but I generally covered 4-5 of them in most turns.

·         The legendary deathstar units are a thing of the past at 1500pts. I can’t see how you can justify 450pts, for something like a land raider and a squad of assault terminators (about a 1/3rd of your army) and still have enough stuff to get everywhere. Edit: my sternguard and librarian were 372pts!

·         The internet whinge about a lot of things! I was out gunned 8-1 in psychic phase. Did anything horrible happen in the psychic phase, no it didn’t? Power went off, powers failed, powers were nullified. Even rolling 3 dice for a warp charge one was failing. Additionally he got half of the charges from the zonethopes who used up a lot of points that could have been spent on other things.

·         The final score was 17-4 at the end of turn 4 where Alex conceded. His flyers were bombing around causing problems but nothing else was on the board. The flyers would have had to land to get the objectives when my fire power should have been enough to sort them out

·         Net lists are they any good. Alex played a strong net list that is doing the rounds. I think it would have been ok in the emperors will games. KP wise at the end I was 5-5. If we had carried on playing I had a lot of easy KPs that his flyers could have dealt with, but his venomthrope was about to go splay and his mawloc had one wound left.

 In review of my last few games. A solid core of marines is a hard army to beat. They have survivability and can manoeuvre very well. Boss Bludtoof has been playing something similar since 4th but the older rules set and missions didn’t suit “balanced” armies. Now they do and we all have to adapt (apart from Boss Bludtoof!)

The aim of the game should not be to build a list that will be rock to your opponent’s scissors. I think the missions have produced a good levelling effect for this. Will we see the deathstar unit again? Yes, but not at 1500 and maybe not even 1750.
 
Pictures:
 
Setup-




Turn 2:




The End: 
 


 

 

Thursday 9 April 2015

Lorgar and Word Bearers 30k The Build

Lorgar and the Word bearers.

I've had the Horus heresy itch for some time now and I have finally succumbed to scratching it. The models from forge world are great. I must admit that I am a little uneasy working with resin. It just feels so delicate. I'll explain more about that shortly.

I already have some Chaos Word bearers that run with my Plague Marines, but these were done years ago. I still want to add to them but also want to portray how they were before their fall. I'll go into colour schemes in my next post when I have added some paint to them.

So starting with Lorgar, it would be rude not to, I found building him to be straightforward. All the bits fit well. Not sure where to attach his pistol yet, plus I have left his cloak off to paint separately. I had to make sure it would fit on by correctly positioning the haft of his great mace. The handle sits across his buttocks. The spikes on his mace gave me a headache. They are so small and come in three pieces of three spikes on each. When I was cutting the flash off one of them I managed to cut through the whole piece. I thought I had ruined it. But by the luck of the gods it all glued into place. Amazing!




Now I can't wait to paint him.

The Word bearers squad is a mixture of armour types. I had bought the torsos and helmets upgrade set mk IV and had two Mk III  torsos spare from another set. I also had two legs from the Kromlech range. They were close in appearance to Mk III armour so decided to add these two together.
I bought the new tactical box set and used most of what I could to make them appear more akin to the heresy period.





I stuck with safe poses carrying bolters across the body. I have tried to ensure the details from the upgrade torsos can be seen.
The sergeant and his next in line have open poses. I gave him a power mace to match Lorgar's.

I have also built a dark apostle who can be my Erebus stand in.



You will see another figure of a captain who has gate crashed the photo. More about him another time.
Well, I'm pretty happy about the build and have already spray undercoated. The resulting look is more uniform.

Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think.

Until next time, "By your word".

Posted on Behalf of Trev Dog

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Battle Report: Marines V Eldar

I am certainly getting good use out of my games board and scenery. Over the Easter weekend my dad came down with his steadily growing Eldar army.

He has only been collecting for about 1 year and has managed to get a fair bit of stuff. I recently purchased a job lot on Warseer for about 50% of cost which really boosted his collection


As this was his first game of 7th we kept the points low (1500)

His list (CAD)

Autarch
Spiritseer
4 dire avengers + exarch
4 fire dragons + exarch
5 Scorpians + exarch
10 Guardians
10 Guardians + missile launcher
10 Guardians + missile launcher
2 falcons
5 wraithguard in a wave serpent

My list was a pretty standard battle company (well as much as I could fit in)

Chapter Tactics: Ultramarines

Librarian in terminator armour
5 terminators with CML
10 tacts in rhino flamer missile
10 tacts in rhino plasmagun/cannon and pistol
5 scouts in a storm
Dakka predator
Landspeeder typhoon
10 Assault marines 2 flamers and a plasma pistol power sword
10 devastators with 3 missile and 1 lascannon

the army (without typhoon)



I tried to field a bit of everything as this was one of his first games and he still learning the rules. This would allow him to face most stuff and get an understanding of what he would be facing. We agreed no flyers as he did not have any.

We rolled for the mission and it was the escalation objective missions. Turn 1 – 1 objective, turn 2 – 2 objectives and so on.

Again I am not going to give a turn by turn report, but here are some of the main highlights.

• Forgetting I had a typhoon until turn 2, which it then stayed in reserves until turn 4! I could have done with it as in trying to get first blood I had a falcon left on 1HP and 2 missiles could have killed it.
• Forgetting about Chapter tactics: Ultramarines are not a permanent force “buff”. You have 3 doctrines to use throughout the game
• 1 round of shooting from a guardian squad taking out my terminators and librarian (turn 2)
• Spirit Seer psychic checks. Turn 1 perils looses a power, turn 2 perils rolls 6, turn 3 fails to cast warp charge 1 with 3 dice, turn 4 perils rolls 6 turn 5 perils rolls 6, turn 6 fails to cast with 3 dice.
• Scouts and storm were rubbish again (punishment for scouts not being painted and using a stand in model for storm?), combi melta failed to hit the falcon, storm gave up a VP for first blood.

This is now the second game in a row where my marines did not do anything great. They did a lot of nothing really. But yet again their versatility pulled off an unlikely win. At the end of turn 2 I was 7-2 down and had just lost my terminators and warlord about a 5th of the army, and yet after that my dad failed to score a VP despite getting more cards. We did manipulate the objective cards once or twice, blowing up a building and destroying a flyer we got rid of. Generally I say we play the deck and tough if you get a duff card, but that is the luck of the draw. In the end I won 16-7.

It was an interesting game where again sticking to plans and focusing on the objectives in hand were key to what I did. We tried to do that with my dad’s game plan too, but the elder just don’t have the versatility that marines do (when you are playing a non spammy list)


Pictures:

setup

 

Striking Scorpions (painted by my brother as a present for my dad)




In Game pictures




I see you






What is this snap fire rule........


I survived being hit bu teh aurtach in a challenge.......I hit back and all 3 attacks with teh power fist hit. 2's to kill........


Pictures towards the end of the game




Final positions




I have one more game tonight and then I will be back on expanding the chapter

Wednesday 1 April 2015

Battle Report: Marines V Necrons

 
Battle report (again). Like busses, you wait ages then 2 turn up at once.
 
This time I was up against my old sparring partner commandojimbob. He has been out of the hobby for a while and is starting to get back in to it. He has bought the new Necron codex and cards and fixed up his models.
 
As this was his first game of 7th we kept the points low (1500)
 
His list (CAD)
 
Cryptek
Illuminor Szeras
5 Triarch Praetorians
Triarch Stalker
10 Immortals
10 Immortals in a Night Scythe
15 Warriors
3 destroyers
3 destroyers
Spyder
Spyder
 
For my list I wanted to try out a formation.
 
Librarian in Term
Tactical Squad in rhino
10 Sniper Scouts
5 scouts (CC) in a storm
Speeder Typhoon
Speeder Typhoon

Formation (Skyspear Assault (I think)
Raven
5 CC terms (all LC)
5 terms with Assault Cannon
Venerable Dread
 
We did each choose 3 lists and rolled to see which one we played with. You should try it sometime it adds another little dimension to the game.
 
We rolled for the mission and it was the 3 objectives and they are kept secret during the game until you claim it.
 
I set up first. This was a bit difficult as over half my list was in reserve. All the units combat squaded and I set up on 3 objectives in my deployment zone. For the second game in a row my opponent stole the initiative scuppering my best laid plans!
 
Again I am not going to give a turn by turn report, but here are some of the main highlights.
After stealing the initiative the crons immobilise the storm (I suppose it serves me right for using a proxy), but could only kill a few scouts. The thing with necrons is that they only have short range (24” or rapid fire)) weaponry so I had chosen plenty of long range stuff like missile launchers. The typhoons did their job and with 4 krak missiles took out a spider.... first blood.
 
My main issue during the game was my librarian and close combat terminators. They spent 9 rounds of combat trying to kill 15 warriors and his HQ. FAIL. There was a lot of poor to hit rolls so I could not make good use of the shred rule. Enfeeble proved invaluable as he had buffed them up. (Edit, just doing some quick maths and that is about right! I would have thought they would have been better)
 
The Necron reanimation is very useful for them as it is basically an additional inv save! He also passed some low morale checks rolls. The game was close throughout.
 
Here are the scores at the end of each of our turns
 
Nec1: 0-0
Mar1: 0-3
Nec2: 1-3
Mar2: 1-5
Nec3: 4-5
Mar3: 4-5
Nec4: 5-5
Mar4: 5-7
Nec5: 8-7
Mar5: 8-9
 
Game continued
Nec6: 11-9
Mar6: 11-13
 
Game continued
Nec7: 13-13
Mar7: 13-14 then we each got a point for linebreaker
 
Over all I am not sure how I won. My marines were very poor. No one unit stood out to have done anything useful. The typhoons killing a spyder on turn one was a standout moment. But the terminators (both squads) were poor. The storm was immobilised turn 1 and the scouts couldn’t hit a barn door. The Raven made little impact, but I suppose the versatility of the marines and my great commanding won me the game!
 
Would I use that formation again?  Unlikely as it were a lot of points to commit especially in 1500. The small bonuses it had weren’t really enough to justify it. I rarely run 2 squads of terminators and a venerable dread, so I can’t see it being used regularly
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Next is a painting update in a few days and hopefully more games in April.
 
Pictures:
The Army
 
The battle field
 
 
 
Setup
 
 
 
ASSAULT and challenge!
 
 
 
mid game
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The end






 
 
 
I have also nearly completed Ashmantle on the Battle Automata. They require few more details and then they are complete. 


 
 
Afetr this i have the terminators and scouts to complete