Slaughter in Space Game #3 Blackmoor's Grey Knights vs. ChristianA’s Imperial Guard

Slaughter in Space Game #3

My List (in case you have forgot)

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberd

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Christian’s Imperial Guard

Christian has a very well painted army, and one that is brutal. His list: 

HQ

Company Command Squad

4 Plasma Guns

Chimera

Company Command Squad

4 Melta Guns

Chimera

Troops

2x Veteran Squad w/3 Melta Guns

Chimeras

3x Veteran Squad w/3 Plasma Guns

Chimeras

Fast Attack

3x Vendetta

Heavy Support

3x Manticore

Wow! Not what I wanted to see. 3 Manticores+ 3 Vendettas + Melta and Plasma Vets. My poor Paladins and Land Raiders!

Slaughter in Space Game #2 Grey Knights vs Necrons (The Memorial Day Massacre!)

So after my massacre what army do I get paired up with? IG? Blood Angels? Another Space Wolf?

Nope, I get Necrons!

My List

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberd

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Kieth H's (Skrewpa) Necron list

HQ

The Deceiver

Troops

10 Warriors

10 Warriors

Fast Attack

5 Destroyers

5 Destroyers

5 Destroyers

Heavy Support

Monolith

Monolith

2 Tomb Spiders

Well, this is not good. He is fast and resilient, and I will have trouble getting into assault with him. I am glad that we are playing in mission that he can’t win

People, know your rules!!!

As posted blow I was playing in a RTT yesterday when a rules question came up.

Here are the units involved:

Lone Wolf w/Thunderhammer and Stormshield

5 Thunderwolf Cavalry w/1 Thunderhammer

Vs.

6 Purifiers

Knight of the Flame w/MC Demonhammer

Xenos Inquisitor w/Rad Grenades

The Space Wolves charged my Purifiers. The Lone Wolf and a Halberd get locked up together and everyone else on the Thunderwolves. To start off the combat I can’t cast any psychic powers because I need to save it for the Force Weapons. The Rad grenades lower his Toughness to 4 (this was a big argument because he did not think that one IC’s grenades can work on his whole squad but in the rules it clearly states that it affects the unit). On to the combat; both of my Halberds whiff to start the combat at I6. Then the scrum begins. He does all of his attacks and I can’t make a save and he kills all 6 of my Purifiers. I strike back and do 4 wounds. Because he has 4 un-upgraded Thunderwolves he places the wounds on them and removes 2 models so I can’t force weapon them. This does not sound right and I start looking through the rules for wound allocation. After spending a reasonable amount of time I let it go. (This is my MO for tournament play. If I can’t find the rule in short amount of time I move on). Then my Demonhammer swings I do two more wounds and he takes another model off. In the next round he kills my Inq and my Knight of the Flame and those 2 Thunderwolves then go and kill all of my vehicles giving him the win after tabling me. That loss cost me the win and a swing of about $40 in store credit. 

I know that the way he allocated the wounds in this manner was incorrect because then force weapons would be useless because you can never kill units of multi-wounded creatures. It was not until that night that I found the correct rule about units with multi-wounds against weapons that cause instant death. The rule is that if you have a weapons that inflicts instant death you have to apply each wound to each unwounded model and that model is removed.

 

So if the rules would have been played correctly then I would have killed those 5 Thunder Wolves and then had a good shot at killing the Lone Wolf. Oh well, each game you learn something new and will play the rule correctly in the future. 

Oh well, I need to brush up on my rules. This is the same store where I played a Tau player and after shooting shield drones he told me that they were wargear and that they did not count for leadership checks, and I know that they did. I did not know where to find that rule and it was right in the Tau codex under drones.

1000 Pt. RTT today with Grey Knights and a few thoughts plus upcoming events

I played at an RTT, it was 1000 points and you had to take 3 elites. I have been having a hankering to play my Eldar recently, but there is no way I can do 3 elites with them. Some armies love 3 elites (Demons, Tyranids) but not Eldar at 1000 points.

So I took my Demonhunters. They do elites ok. I had a 10 man purifier squad, A Callidus Assassin, and a Ven Dred.

Slaughter in Space III Batrep Game #1 Grey Knights vs. Space Wolves

So I tried some units that I have never played with before (Draigo/Paladins) and I think going forward I will playtest units more before a big tournament

Game #1

Here is my 24 model army:

HQ

Draigo

Librarian w/Force Staff, 2 Servo Skulls, Shrouding, Sanctuary, Might of Titian, Hammerhand, Quicksilver, Warp Rift

Elite

Purifier Squad

Knight of the Flame w/Master Crafted, Demonhammer

3 Purifiers w/Halberds

1 Purifier w/Sword

2 Purifiers w/Psycannons

Troops

10 Paladins w/4 Psycannons, 2 Demonhammers, Halberds, Swords, 1 Falchion, Brotherhood Banner

5 Grey Knight Strike Squad w/Psycannon

Heavy Support

Land Raider

Land Raider

Finecast+Heat is not a good thing.

This blog post has been making the rounds:
http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/2011/06/dont-leave-finecast-in-sun.html


So it is a good thing that I have sworn off finecast. Not only do I like metal models (I am trying to stock pile them before they are not longer available), but if that melting it true, I can't buy any.

There have been many times I have left my army in my car during the day and everything has been fine. Now when I say that I have left it in the car, I mean in Phoenix the temp gets up to 115 degrees and I do not know how hot inside the car gets, but I have never had a problem with metal and plastic. If I do that with finecast I will be coming back to a puddle.

A quick post about GW's price hikes

So I was working on getting my army ready for Wargames Con and I was going throught the models that I needed when I came across these:

I was getting out my 7 Death Jesters (don't ask) and I noticed the price. $7.99!!! These are what 4-5 years old now and I looked at the GW price and they are $18.25! They more than doubled in price in the space of a few years. It looks like I make a great investment in my Death Jester stock!