Showing posts with label Death Korps of Krieg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death Korps of Krieg. Show all posts

Monday 25 June 2018

Battlefield Birmingham Doubles June 2018 - Event Review

Hi All,

Welcome to my review of the Battlefield Birmingham Doubles Event held at the Cadbury's Club, Birmingham. Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June 2018.  We went in force with 4 teams from code members taking part.

First off to say this is a gold standard event in my opinion and I will go on to explain why.  Only a couple of minor things could be improved.



The only success we had as group was Bristles nomination in the best painted category for his Death Korps of Krieg (2nd from the right).  Well done bud and as we played together it was nice to hear the positive feedback he was receiving.

I promised on my last post that I would do a live feed from the event and despite signal issues and battery issues I managed to get round a lot of the armies and the tables.  Check the video out here.

Me and DB had 5 games over the weekend and managed 3 victories, 1 draw and 1 loss and finished up 21st out of 72 teams with our guard combo.  Jack Whitefoot (who makes all the amazing 3d trophies see here) joined Ian with an ork combination and finished 29th.  Innermech and LukoDakka finished 50th with there custodes and primaris marines combination.  Finally Boss Bludtoof and Kelly came in 56th with a marine combination.

On to mine and DB's games:

Game 1 

First off we played Paul and Mark with there Dark Eldar and Necrons combination.  This felt very much like the first game of the world cup and ended up a total stale mate at 12vps each top fellas and me and DB learnt a lot about positioning, playing together etc.  The spirit of this game was immense and that continued throughout the weekend.


Game 2

Unfortunately we dont have a picture for game 2 but it was against Steve and Mike's necrons including a healthy dose of forgeworld necrons.  Both the tesseract arc and anthracites were lethal with DB's super heavy Macharius (below) biting the dust turn one.  This game quickly became a play the mission game and we came out with a close 18 to 13 victory point win.



Game 3:

For the 3rd game we were up against Miles and Chris running Dark Eldar and Nids  This game seemly went well from the off for us but Miles and Chris stayed in there scoring healthy points themselves.  The armigers played a particularly strong game but I thought the main issue for our opponents was our ability to pick on elements on their army at a time as they had a lot in reserve or out of threat range.  DB's re roll buffs also helped.  Overall we ended up with a narrow 13pts to 8pts victory.


Game 4:

By this game we had risen up the table a little and knew we would be facing a tougher test and along cam Dave and Chris.  Space Wolves and Custodes.  All of the space wolves in particular were really well painted and should of been in the best painted category in my opinion.  They had a lot of shield dreads and I forgot the heroic intervention rule meaning Bjorn and mates could counter charge me when I charged one of my armigers in.  This lost one with very little damage.  From very early on it became clear we had to dig deep and play the mission.  DB was being attacked in force by the dreads and I ended having to leave him to it whilst I tried to claim the main objectives.  It came down to the last turn where everything fell apart losing our home objective and their home objective creating a massive vp swing.   Never mind it was a great game and they were both a laugh!  Final score we lost 33vps to 15vps.


Game 5:

On to the last game and everybody is knackered but once again we had fun.  We took on Steve and Marks blood angel combination and this was a real attack versus defence game with the blood angels hunting us in packs.  For this game I made an obscene amount of 5 ups on the armigers and ended feeling sorry for our opponents.  They were great sports mind you.  Also watch out for descent of angels stratagems on hammer wielding heroes (great tactic).  We also had a great card draw and scored a mass of maelstrom points in this game even with a solid end to the game the blood angels were out pointed 24vps to 14vps for another win.


Overall such a great time with all the games played in the right spirit.  My unit of the weekend goes to my Armigers.  Here is a photo on one of them in my new photo booth!  So tick..... another thing I promised in the last post. 



Best Painted:

Below are all the entrants bar one who forget to set up their army until the last second.  The first army the Dark Eldar was the eventual winner and was great looking.  This is always one of my favourite parts of the weekend and arguably the most subjective.  The system used was to allow the organisers to choose the finalist for the best painted.  I would of used the first lunch period to have a vote for the finalists with the final vote on the second day.










So what did I like:

Almost everything I had a great time but for clarity: SCENERY, VENUE, PRIZE SUPPORT, BAR!!!, ATMOSPHERE, ORGANISATION, GREAT COMMUNICATION, TIME WITH FRIENDS

What didn't I like:

Not much but at a pinch; Best painted arrangements, No published painting results or best sportsman.  There was a hint of the potential for a large group to have bought the best sportsman prize via internal voting.  I hope not  and I don't know if this is the case as that could of been removed by only allowing players to vote for people they have played during the weekend. 

In Conclusion:

To end my review, this a gold standard event and I would definitely like to attend next year, thanks to DB for partnering me and thanks to all the great folk we shared the battlefield with.

Peace Out

DOC

Thursday 11 August 2016

If it's not covered in mud or blood then frankly son, you ain't Krieging hard enough!

Evening all, Dark Bristles here with a little update as too what I've been up too of late.
A good few months back I showed off a Krieg Vanquisher tank that I'd finished up....
Well my good buddy and I decided to partake in the doubles tourney this coming weekend at Worcester Wargames and I decided to give my self a (frankly pretty tight) deadline of getting 1K of my Krieg all finished up and ready to war. 

So after sitting up for a while smashing out various ideas for lists, I settled on what I wanted to take and set about pumping out squads of infantry as quick as possible. Bearing in mind however this is my own personal army and a force I've been wanting to paint for a long long time (ever since I returned to the hobby in fact) I was adamant I wanted to keep the standard as high as I could. 

So tight deadline and self imposed high standard. Fun fun. 

I supposed a good place to start was the top of the chain so Company Command Squad with converted Master of Ordanace.....


Infantry Platoon Squads - 2 of these, a Platoon Command Squad and 3 Heavy Weapon Auto Cannon teams 


Cheeky pic of the big guns....


Death Korps Death Riders. My absolute favourite models that's FW produce, I love them. PAIN IN THE BUTT to paint however haha. Found them really tricky! Powered through though and am pleased with the results. 


So this is the complete force....1k of Death Krops of Krieg. Or 15 Blast Templates a turn minimum depending on how you count it :) 


Anyway, this is to be run alongside my friends Militarum Tempestus formation, I'm the shield, him the the spear. Together, the Emperors Hammer! 

I'll be doing my very best trying to take pictures over the course of the three games so stay tuned for a full event write up early next week :)

Thanks for looking guys and girls - Catch you in a bizzle. 

Dark Bristles






Sunday 27 September 2015

Summers over, time to get back in the hobby!

Hey guys and girls, me here again with a bit of an update as to what's going on in my little hobby world.

First up was the Forge world release of the Imperial Knight simply HAD to get myself one of these as I figure this was the reason my knight lancer was so rubbish in close combat - he had no pilot! 




Really really nice little model and it's actually possible to insert him into the pilot seat even if you've already constructed the Knights Cockpit. 


Next up is the Harlequin commission - that's progressing nicely, I'm still absolutely loving the models and each one is such a fun clean joy to paint it's refreshing from the imperial grime! 



Finally, some of you might recal I mentioned a special personal project I was undertaking? Well, after much procrastination about the models I wanted buy and the list I wanted to field I eventually got around to picking up a nice 1750 Krieg list for myself. These models have been on my wish list for years, ever since I returned to the hobby at the start of 6th edition. I didn't truly ever think I'd own one so I'm now attempting to do them justice and make this y own display army. 

I was talking with Doc a little about the armour and he asked if I intended to do heavy weathering on the Armourd division and at the time I said "not massively weathered, no". But then I got carried away playing with a few new techniques and such and ended up with a rather bashed up Vanquisher tank that I'm pretty proud of. 




I also had a quick start at the first infantry platoon this weekend. 


Anyhow, thats pretty much my little corner of the world right now - other than to say thanks to the guys that attended the Pork Chop event in Cheltenham with me, that was a very very fun day. 

I hope you guys are all well and the dice gods rolling in your favour!

Until next time :) 

Tom

Friday 16 March 2012

SVA Reserves.


Just in the nick of time reserves arrive from Krieg to bolstered the 707th Inquisitorial Response Force heading to SVA VII tomorrow.
I only hope their transport arrives from the motor pool in time...