IG painting

So I know it will not be believed, but I have actually started painting my Guardsman.  Though I still am horrible at it the first 2 turned out as dan would say, "Table top quality.  Take a lokk below at the 2 guys.  I am still thinking of darkening the guns and need to work on something for the base.

I have 6 more plasma to get done and then figure start on some Meltas.  The vehicals will not get started before the 1850 tourny

Chaos rolls over the under equipped loyalists

So I finally decided on the bulk of my Marine army.  for the 1500 point core I went with

1 Pedro
1 5 man scout/telion with Rocket launcher, 3 sniper rifles
10 man Tac with rhino, ML, Melta
10 man stern guard with 6 combi meltas + Drop pod
1 Iron clad + Drop pod + locator beacon
5 Assault Terminators
1 Vindicator
1 Ped Auto cannon + 2 Las cannons

The list performed pretty well, mission was kill points and  long table edges, though we mostly deployed corner deployment.  Termies were teleporting.   I forgot to deploy my scouts.

List performed pretty well, got a little unlucky on some shooting, 6 ap 3 get hot shots 4 1's, and some clutch saves by the DP.

Game was fun and back and forth.  I need to get better with the Drop pods and remember once again to deploy my entire army.

Termies did nothing, nor did the tac squad I did not use well

Options to consider, swap out pedro who currently DP with sternguard.   Change telion into a land speeder storm for more mobility and protection for the scouts.  doing something with the termies.

so I need a pedro model along with 2 drop pods and a few more combi meltas for the Sternguard

Working on Marines

So I have taken a step back from playing and been putting my feeble modeling skills to use.   I decided to concentrate on my marines as my IG have had way too much play in the last few months.  I have assembled my Ironclad at long last.  I could no resist getting it any longer though it is not a very powerful piece, I do like the concept of it.  The real nice part about it, is that it come with complete arm assembly for all the main weapon options, so you do not need to do any magnet work.  Though I may revisit the melta/Heavy flamer options to add on to the piece. 

I moved on to my Pred which has been sitting in a box for 3 months.  nothing much special though I did mag the main turret weapon which turned out poorly at best, table top as dan would say.  I am debating on if I want to take a stab at the side sponssons or just go with las cannons and call it good?

My new concept still requires me to get 3 Drop pods, and Pedro to fill out my 1500/1850 lists

1250 results

Well what started off promising ended up sucking for me. 

Game 1:
Got an all DS Dark Angle army in game one.  That was really a one sided affair, it was dawn of war and I started in all off the table, he put 2 units and a hq up right on the line.  then I rolled in and started shooting, he just tried to servive in cover, his only anti tank was 3 auto cannons.

Game 2:
Space wolves with 5 man thunderwolf Calvery squad (5 man complex unit of toughness 5 2 wound pieces.
Rune priest, Vindicator, long fangs and some normal marines.  He stole turn one and destroyed one of my vendettas.   Objective game, I manage to pin then eliminate his closing troop choices to get an extra contest in on him, with us each getting 1 KP.

Game 3:
At this point I am tied for second, 1 kp behind dan.  So of course I draw dan and not the other guy, we tie, Dan drops from first to second, I drop from second to forth.  Really ruined the entire event for me.  To the point where I am thankful I will miss the next couple events

1250 Tourny is coming, and Divine inspiration has come to me

I was making my army, trying to figure out how to make a solid list.  I was building off my 1000 list and had the following as my core

2 Vendettas
2 Battle Tanks
1 Plasma command squad + officer of the fleet (chimera)

The problems was troops, I could not afford to put both my 2 plasma chimera squads out there + my 2 melta squads in my vendettas.  I had a few options

1  Drop Command squad down to a psyker  (saves points, gain a lot of str 6 shots) lose plasma and tank
2  Run an empty Vendetta (  lose scoring mobility)
3 Drop one plasma troop squad (lose plasma shots and 1 las cannon

So I decided to go with 3.  Purchased my troops
1 Vet (Chimera 3 plas, 1 LC)
2 Vet (3 melta)

And with my left over points
Marbo is back to lay havoc in the backfield to those loots hiding and trying to shoot me.

So my army looks like this
2 LRBT with LC add on
1 Command squad (3 plasma + Chimera)
1 Vet (3 plasma +chimera +1 LC)
2 Vendettas + 2 HB
2 Vet (3 Melta, In vendettas)
1 Marbo the all powerful

I am toying with dropping one of the plas from the command squad and changing it to a Las Cannon using the last of my 5 remaining points

The last option I am toying with is dropping a LRBT and going with a Manicore.  I lose an armor 14 piece but get some big alpha strike str 10 capability (d3 big blast barrage + indirect fire).

Any thoughts on this

Game Day approaches

Tomorrow is game day.  Not sure on who we have attending still.  Since this is a home game I may break out a second army.  I am running my 1250 guard at the Jan tourney but I don't really need to run them as I am sure what they an do.  I have done zero modeling after getting the second vendetta together but will start back up in the new year, got a few more guards men to assemble then begin the painting run before tackling the few marine vehicles remaining.

1850 IG getting ready

The Ig had a good weekend in preparation for the tourny.

I played with some new things, Added a LR Demoloisher that performed much better than expected, that str 10 ap 2 blast adds a lot a pop.

Second Vendetta performed well also 1 is a target but 2 are a weapon and all that las fire can be a pain, though Tau did a good job negating them.

Tweeking a little bit to add marbo to the list to jump in back and take out a broad side squad or something that is hiding in back.

All in all I think the list is set, need to work on advancing my chimeras more, I may drop the las in one to make it an advancing unit (switch plasma - meltas?)