Update

Greetings, loyal followers (or lack thereof lol). I have made some progress on my Space Wolves. All of the models have at least been basecoated. I've done some detail work on my Rune Priest, Long Fang and one of my Grey Hunters.
So here's a pic. Enjoy!

Game on!

Update

Hey folks, LightningBoltFTW here with a brief update. We're finally moved in. I'm liking being a homeowner so far, though it's only been a month and a half so maybe my attitude will change lol. Not much to report on the Warhammer front. 6th edition has been released, along with a new starter set (Dark Vengeance! Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines!), but I haven't been able to get my hands on anything new quite yet. Mortgages make that tough. However, with the new starter set comes a new mini rulebook that pops up on eBay for a fraction of the cost of the full hardcover edition, so in all likelihood that it what I will try to acquire.

As for my armies, not much progress yet. I only just got back to a little painting/modelling last night, and that was spent basecoating and washing a Grey Hunter and Rune Priest, and assembling my first Long Fang. I realized I had just enough pieces for one more. Sadly I am all out of leg pieces now, or else I'd build more (probably only 1 since I only have 1 more missile launcher and no lascannons). The only leg pieces I had were from my Space Marine Devastator box. I build a squad of Devastators for my Crimson Fists (lascannon, 1 plasma cannons and a heavy bolter), and they're all using the standard leg pieces, so the crouching legs were left over. So I combined them with some pieces from the Space Wolves box to make a crouching Long Fang with a missile launcher, chainsword and bolt pistol.

I'll hopefully be back soon with more updates.

Game on!

Battle Report of sorts

Hello all, welcome to another edition of... um... this blog... Anyway....

We will probably be going on another hiatus for a while. My family is in the process of buying a house and I need to take some time away from 40k to help out with it, but we managed to eke out one more 40k night with a wee bit of painting (basecoating, drybrushing and washing a few Space Wolves) and even playing an actual game.

So Squick, my son, and I headed to our FLGS to actually play on a proper gaming table. Previously we played on my (admittedly undersized) dining room table so it was fun to actually use an actual battlefield this time around. My son doesn't have nearly enough of an army ready to go (he has Necrons, but only a squad of warriors and a half-completed squad of Lychguard) and, since my Space Wolves are at least assembled and primed (and a few are actually basecoated), I let him play my Crimson Fists. He had been on the fence about continuing this hobby, but changed his mind once he got a feel for playing an actual army instead of a squad-on-squad game.

Here's the breakdown (best as I can remember):

CRIMSON FISTS SPACE MARINES:


Space Marine Captain in power armor, with bolter, power sword and iron halo

Space Marine Tactical Squad:
Sergeant with bolt pistol and chainsword
9 Tactical Marines
Flamer, Missile Launcher

Space Marine Tactical Squad:
Sergeant with plasma pistol and chainsword
9 Tactical Marines
Plasma gun, Meltagun

Space Marine Devastator Squad:
Sergeant with Signum, plasma pistol and chainsword
4 Devastator Marines
Heavy Bolter, Lascannon, 2 Plasma Cannons
Razorback with twin-linked heavy bolter

Dreadnought with multi-melta, CCW with storm bolter

Space Marine Terminator Squad:
Terminator Sergeant with storm bolter and power sword
4 Space Marine Terminators with storm bolters and power fists

TOTAL: 985 points

SPACE WOLVES SPACE MARINES:


Rune Priest in power armor with bolt pistol, runic weapon, Living Lightning and Jaws of the World Wolf

Wolf Priest with bolt pistol

1 Wolf Guard with plasma pistol and powerfist
9 Grey Hunters
Power Sword, Mark of the Wulfen

1 Wolf Guard with Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
4 Blood Claws

3 Wolf Guard
Paired Wolf Claws, Storm Bolter and Thunder Hammer, Bolt Pistol and Frost Axe

TOTAL: 673 points

DARK ELDAR:


Archon with venom blade and combat drugs

5 Incubi
5 Incubi

10 Kabalite Warriors

Sybalite with venom blade
9 Wyches
Hydra gauntlet, razor flail
Raider transport

3 Reaver jetbikes

TOTAL: 565 points

I almost certainly have the Dark Eldar list wrong but made my best guess at it. Mysterysquick can add corrections at some point. Anyway, you can probably guess that things are skewed very heavily in favor of the Crimson Fists, by virtue of the fact that I literally just got my Space Wolves (and haven't even assembled the Drop Pod and Razorback yet) and Squick has been torn between 2 armies. But we were here to have some fun and I have been dying to play Space Wolves for a long time so we figured we'd take a whack at it.

My son went first. Attaching the Captain to the second tactical squad, he began footslogging them and the first squad toward the ruins at the center of the board. he moved his Dread, then bundled the Devastator squad in the Razorback and sent them off to a nearby hill to better fire on the Dark Eldar. Forgetting that the squad counts as moving when they disembark, we had him fire all weapons at the Dark Eldar army, but the dice gods did not smile, as he scattered a plasma cannon harmlessly away, missed the lascannon shot and the heavy bolter wounds he scored were saved.

I began footslogging my Space Wolves (lack of transports ftl) and that was pretty much my turn.

Squick sent a squad of incubi with the archon after the Devastators and quickly ripped them apart in the assault. He sent the Raider with the Wyches toward the ruins, disembarking them, along with the Reavers, then footslogged his Kabalites and other Incubi squad after my Space Wolves.

My son continued slogging the Tactical squads. The Razorback backed away from the Incubi and fired it's heavy bolters but failed to wound. Then the Dreadnought fired it's multi-melta, failing to hit, then charged the Incubi and tarpitted them the rest of the game, as they had no way of harming him. One went down immediately. Then the Terminators deep-striked behind the Kabalites and took a couple out with their storm bolters.

Space Wolves footslogged some more. The Grey Hunters opened fire on the Incubi, sadly not in Rapid-Fire range, killing one Totally forgot that Rune Priests are awesome and didn't use his powers on the Wyches, which would cost me.

My son moved his Tactical Squads up again, this time the Captain and his squad opening fire on the Raider, but scoring no damaging hits. The Dreadnought continued eating Incubi and the Razorback moved to assist the Tactical squads. The Terminators ripped the rest of the Kabalites apart with their storm bolters.

It gets messier from their. Basically my Wolf Guard and Rune Priest get ripped up by the Wyches, while the Incubi get taken down by my Grey Hunters. Squick is bringing the Reavers around in a big loop hoping to catch me in a pincer, but it's backfired, because while the Wyches will probably kill the Rune Priest, they will be exposed to both the Grey Hunter squad and the Wolf Priest-led Blood Claw squad. By the time the Reavers get there it will be too late. Ultimately we ran out of time, and declared my son the winner, having lost only his Devastators, while my army was too small to do much and the Dark Eldar had taken too many casualties, having lost one squad of Incubi to my Grey Hunters, had effectively lost another to the Dreadnought, and had a squad of Kabalites get eaten by the Terminators.

Of course, we're still very new here and miss a lot of details, like Squick forgetting pain tokens for his Dark Eldar, and me forgetting the Rune Priest entirely. But it was still a lot of fun, and we renewed my son's interest in the game. Now he wants to start a Space Marine army, though I told him he needs to work on his Necrons as he already started that.

Until next time, game on!

More Space Wolves

Hey all, three weeks in a row now! What is wrong with me? Anyhow, here's the skinny on my Space Wolves.

I've finished all the models (sans Wolf Scouts, since a couple were sacrificed to experimentation there's no rush), an even includes a couple of conversions: a Rune Priest and a Wolf Priest. I wasn't intially planning on the Wolf Priest, but decided I'd short the Blood Claws to get another HQ option. No one really likes Blood Claws so I figured there's no need for even a minimum squad of 5 for fun games. So I only have 4 Blood Claws, 5 Wolf Guard, 9 Grey Hunters, a Wolf Priest and a Rune Priest. Here's the breakdown:

4 Blood Claws with Bolt Pistols and Chainswords

8 Grey Hunters with Boltguns and Chainswords, 1 with Mark of the Wulfen
1 Grey Hunter with Boltgun and Power Sword

1 Wolf Guard with Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
1 Wolf Guard with Paired Wolf Claws
1 Wolf Guard with Plasma Pistol and Chainfist Power Fist
1 Wolf Guard with Bolt Pistol and Frost Axe
1 Wolf Guard with Thunder Hammer and Storm Bolter

1 Rune Priest in Runic Armor with Bolt Pistol, Runic Sword, Chooser of the Slain... and probably Jaws of the World Wolf and Living Lightning

1 Wolf Priest in Power Armor with Crosius, Plasma Pistol, Wolftooth Necklace and Wolf Tail Talisman

697 points total.  And I'm quite excited as I can now start applying paint to them. I've already started on a Blood Claw. I basecoated in Mechanicus Standard Grey, lightened a few things up with Dawnstone, drybrushed in Longbeard Grey, and doused the whole thing in Badab Black. Yes, using a combination of old paint (well, wash anyway) and new. The dry compounds will take a little getting used to, it came out a little inconsistent on this first attempt but on the whole I think it's a good start. It's the details that will surely kill me.

Until next time, game on!

Space Wolves Update

Hi all, time for another update. 2 weeks in a row, that's a sign of the apocalypse at this point. Anyway, I've been working on my Space Wolves and I'm changing the composition of the army, since Blood Claws suck and I have a lot of special weapons for making Wolf Guard.

So here's the breakdown so far.

4 Grey Hunters with boltguns and chainswords (1 will be given Mark of the Wulfen)
1 Grey Hunter with boltgun and power sword

3 Blood Claws with bolt pistols and chainswords
1 Blood Claw with bolt pistol and dual chainswords (gotta have some fun with them, right?)

1 Wolf Guard in power armor with bolt pistol and frost axe
1 Wolf Guard in power armor with thunder hammer and storm shield
1 Wolf Guard in power armor paired Wolf Claws
1 Wolf Guard Battle Leader in power armor with power fist and plasma pistol "terminator armor with storm bolter and chainfist"

Yeah, technically that last one is in power armor with a plasma pistol and a crappy chainfist conversion (I slapped a chainsword blade on from my Devastator box) and then realized that chainfists go on Terminators. Oh well. So he "counts as" having Terminator armor and a storm bolter for the casual games he will see play in. Until I get a Rune Priest or Grimnar. Or rip the chainsaw blade back off and then he can be in power armor and have a power fist and plasma pistol. Or be a wolf lord in runic armor. Or something. Not too important. I'll be putting 5 more Grey Hunters together and 2 more Wolf Guard (I think I'll try to equip one with a combi-melta and Mark of the Wulfen). Then the Drop Pod and Razorback (which will serve as a Rhino until I get some Long Fangs).

So I'll have a couple of Wolf Guard to lead the Grey Hunters and Blood Claws, plus one to count as a Wolf Guard Battle Leader or Wolf Lord until I get a real HQ, and a few to serve as a small Wolf Guard pack.

Until next time, game on!

EDIT: Looks like I can whip up a Rune Priest conversion out of what I've got in the box. Big improvement over a Wolf Lord or WGBL!

New Update... at last!

Hello all, sorry it's been so long since the last update. Lots of stuff has been happening in that thing called Real Life, but I have found time to work on my 40k armies. I've nearly completed all of the Crimson Fists that I've got for now, and they'll be on the shelf for a while, because The Best Wife EVAR bought me the Space Wolves Battleforce! So I finally get to work on the army I've wanted from Day 1!

Here's the breakdown of my Fists:

Space Marine Captain "Captain Crunch": Power armor, iron halo, power sword, boltgun

Terminator Squad:
1 Terminator Sergeant "Sergeant Rock": Power sword, storm bolter
4 Terminators: Power fists, storm bolters

Tactical Squad:
Space Marine Sergeant "Sergeant Slaughter": Bolt pistol, chainsword
9 Tactical Marines: 1 Flamer, 1 Missile Launcher

Tactical Squad:
Space Marine Sergeant "Sergeant Beakie Badass": Plasma pistol, chainsword
9 Tactical Marines: 1 Plasma gun, 1 Melta gun

Devastator Squad:
Devastator Sergeant: Signum, Plasma pistol, chainsword
4 Devastator Marines: 1 Lascannon, 1 Heavy Bolter, 2 Plasma Cannon
Razorback transport w/ Twin-Linked Heavy bolters and extra armor

Altogether it runs around 1050 points I think. Needs moar METAL BAWKSES for the Tactical marines. So as for the Space Wolves, I'll be making 2 Wolf Guard, 9 Grey Hunters, 9 Blood Claws, and a Drop Pod (and another Razorback; I mentioned Best Wife EVAR right?). It comes with 5 Wolf Scouts, but I never had any intention of using them and they've been sacrificed to experimentation with Krylon primer (which is a LOT cheaper than Citadel primer). I'll deal with the Blood Claws for now but will be replaced with a squad of Grey Hunters ASAP. So far tonight I've assembled and primed 1 Blood Claw (chainsword and bolt pistol), 1 Grey Hunter (chainsword and bolter; going to have Mark of the Wulfen), and 1 Wolf Guard (paired Wolf Claws). I'm using a white primer instead of black, partly because I'm using somewhat lighter colors, and partly because I want arctic bases (they live on an ice world after all)

Next I will need an HQ. I'm trying to decide between Awesome, yet Practical Rune Priest and Just Plain Awesome Logan Grimnar. Grimnar is a close combat fiend but EVERY space wolf army needs a Rune Priest.

Until next time, game on!

Army Pics

Hey, folks. Here's the pics of my army, and the start of my son's army, as well as glimpses of Squick's.

So this is the captain from Assault on Black Reach. Power armor, power sword, bolter, iron halo.

Big Daddy dreadnought, multimelta, close combat weapon with integrated storm bolter.

Terminator squad. Storm bolters and power fists. Power sword and iron halo for the sergeant.

Tactical Squad. One is missing his bolter (and his hands... darn you AoBR) but they're been recovered so he'll have them soon. Bolt pistol and chainsword for the sergeant. Flamer and missile launcher for the special weapons.

The start of my RhinoBack (it can be set up as a Rhino or a Razorback, so I call it a RhinoBack) set up with twin-linked heavy bolters.

The start of my next tactical squad. Beakies! Sergeant has a chainsword and plasma pistol.

My son's Necron Warriors. The "leader" has red feet because he wants to be funny. Also since my Space Marines are Crimson Fists, his Necrons are Crimson Feet.

Oh no! The Crimson Fists are surrounded by Tau, Necrons, and Dark Eldar! Clearly the Xenos are upset that they can never be Ultramarines are testing the Space Marines' Plot Armor! Will my heroes succeed?

Until next time, game on!