Got some stuff ….

It has been rather busy at work, but that has stopped the accumulation of stuff! We popped into a nearby WHSmith and a quick perusal of the magazine shelves and I found issue 4 of stormbringer - a gw part work. 

I pick this up for the 4 paints and a brush - £8.99 seemed like good value.

Steedo and mine joint kickstarter - Onus came through a couple of weeks ago. Steedo took the later period - Trajan Roman empire, and I took the Punic war and Greco-Macedonian-Persian wars. This looks like a really good product. 

The game looks to be a DBA styled card/element game, but with more detail. DK had a fantasy game called Battleground a few years ago which might be similar. I like the transparent terrain to lay over the game mat  and the cards of the troops. Steedo and I have already pencilled in to have a first game (in about 2 weeks).

I also need to get a game of Kill Team in with Tiger-king (I need to return his rule book).

Morts

Kill Team - intercession versus Traitors!

I had an unexpected day off due the lack of communication between my union and government, so I asked if anyone was available for a game - DK stepped up (although I wish I hadn’t …). We played 2 teams which hadn’t had an outing - I chose an Intercession Team with 3 Assault Intercessors (including the sergeant with plasma pistol) and 3 Intercessors (one with Stalker rifle and one with Auxiliary grenade launcher). DK picked Traitor marines - 3 marines (champion with plasma pistol and power fist, one with chainsword and pistol and one with a bolt gun) and 8 cultists (from the Blackstone - including 2 gunners with flamer and heavy stubbed).

We allowed the Traitor marines to have the equivalent of shock assault and bolt discipline for free rather than having to use CP. 

We went through the scouting phase and I won initiative and the starting position of the game - escalation.

The first turn I managed to put some decent damage on the traitors but not enough do put any out of action. By cunningly getting 2 cultists on one side of the container managed to get wrestle the VP from my marine. He also sent the traitor marines and with some quality dice rolling took and plasma out the grenade guy took out and off the objective, so the turn finished 3-1 to him.  

On turn 2 DK won the initiative and sent round the Chaos leader who beat the cr*p out of one of my assault Intercessors - the power fist helped and me not rolling the correct number of dice for my chainsword. And not rolling well …

While on the other flank 4 cultists and a Chaos space marine overwhelmed my Intercessor - again some horrible dice rolling by me. I was down 3 marines, it had all gone wrong. 

Turn 3 saw me plasma the Chaos boss below - which was nice. 

But the lack of figures was servely limiting me scoring points - DK was stacking them up nicely. I did manage to kill of another traitor marine - this did take some rule checking by DK, as he had lots of hits, but as I attacked - my strike got through first, dealing the killing blow! But by the end of the turn I was down to just the sergeant…

The end of the final turn - the intercessor sergeant surrounded and scoring nil points. 

The game ended in a right thrashing 12-2 to DK. Some nice moments. The Chaos team seemed to have a nice mix of a few tough operatives and a number of group activating operatives, allowing them to swamp the objectives. I did have some shocking dice rolls, but I can’t hide from the fact that I didn’t use the intercession team well. It was the first outing for both teams, so I can’t use that as an excuse.

The game played well - no issues with line of sight. DK had a good game - I need to play again … I need to beat someone!

Morts

New Sicarians

So after the last game of kill team I decided to get some more Sicarian Infiltrators for the Hunter Clade. So I did - I have added 3 infiltrators and 1 ruststalker, which need to be painted. 

This means I can field a very varied Kill Team, but will have 2 units of sicarians for 40k games and or Xenos Rampant. 

Just got to paint them up now.  

Morts 

Change of plan …

 A little while ago I picked up the old space wolves 2018 kill team set, with the intention of painting them up as space wolves. Then the new edition of kill team came out and eventually the Phobos kill arrived which used infiltrator and incursors, as well as reivers. I picked up some space wolf 3d printed shoulder pads and some infiltrators and set an out assembling at kill team with some options - did some conversions for the helix adept and was pretty happy with the plan … hadn’t really got into the painting this year. 

Then while browsing eBay at the weekend I came across a silly cheap eliminator model - which could join the team as an incursor marksman. And as luck should have it I won the auction - hurrah. 

But this got me thinking - why was I planning to paint a space wolves team?

I had started a sort of space marine chapter of my own … so I decided that I needed to change the pauldron icon to the rams head from the wolf’s.

A work in progress shot as I remove the wolf icons - and make a few changes to the models - added another grapple launcher and am work on making one of the reivers into an incursor for kill team. For bigger games there will be 2 5 figure squads of reivers and 1 5 figure squads of infiltrators/incursors … would quite like to get a dreadnougt model. 

Morts