Prior to my recent bout of laziness I finished up a few pieces of my scatter terrain for my board.
I have 3 more on my paint bench nearing completion now.
I managed a couple of games over the past 3 weeks including a send off apocalypse match at the local for one of the store guys Adz. It was fairly eventful with 3 Eldar Titans bouncing around the place shooting up large chunks of army with their D Strength lances of doom. I take pleasure in knowing that my 3,000 point contribution was the only entirely painted force on the board, even if it still died just as quickly as a set of legs stuck to a base. Highlights of the game for me including watching my 'crack Marine's' inability to take down an Eldar flyer, only for said flyer to be swatted out of the air by a Guard missile team (my Guard never hit anything); and the finale to the game being my Termies assaulting the Titans after my 'Blade had spent a turn trying to kill one off (I took off both arm weapons and had it down to one structure point). Through judicious use of a re-roll I took another one out Apocalyptic style which also saw off the one with no arms and the majority of my remaining forces. I'll take that as a moral victory.
I also got a game in against my non-gamer mate Jay who now has a win-loss-draw record against me of 5-1-2, not bad for a supposed non-gamer. He used my vanilla Marines (I have stopped letting him sub them for Space Wolves or Blood Angels) and thumped my Guard 10-6 in kill points. It was all looking good until his reserves rolled up and ate most of my army in assault. We used the red barrells are explosive house rule and I lost half a heavy weapons team to some which I had deployed too close too. It does add a bit more realism to the game, and we have now decide that I will build some unexploded ordinance (can anyone say Death Strike) which will be harder to detonate, but have a much bigger effect if it does go off.
I'm currently painting up an old Empire Lord model for a painting comp and need to start a Nurgling base for another comp my local is running. I also have a Giant on my paint table which I picked up the other week with some gift cards I got for my birthday. He will go in my WoC army and I built him to represent a giant Marauder, but green stuffed some basic pustules on him to keep with the Nurgle theme.
I've also been base coating my Guard Armour using an airbrush/compressor setup I picked up on the cheap to help me lay down my base coats on my terrain, so I once again have a nice mix of projects underway that I can flick between.
Pappa JJ has got some inspiring terrain building going on at his blog diceRolla which is giving me plenty of ideas on how to add to my current board to give it a denser urban feel. I urge anyone with an interest in 40K terrain building to pop over and check out his stuff (he also has a cool idea for a Simpson themed Guard army).
On non-hobby news I will be going away with the missus this weekend to sunny Queensland for a two week holiday to get away from the crappy weather we have been having where I live. This means that I won't have access to the blog or any hobby gear, but will be making an effort to get into as many of the local GW's as I can while I am away (It is actually planned on the itinerary my missus has drawn up - how nerdy is that and how awesome is she for letting me do it).
Around the house I now have replanted parts of my garden and have a shiny new veranda although the contractors are due back to fix a leak that started with the heavy rain we have been having (better found now than later on). The veranda gives us some much needed under cover entertaning space and some shade for the rear rooms of the house. We still plan to replace all the fences when we get back from our holiday and then most of the out door stuff will be done.
With the veranda up I have been able to clear out the back shed and spread more of my hobby gear out in there. The missus picked up some cabinets from her work which are perfect for storing my terrain in when not in use (also useful for putting deceased units in while playing).
I think I will eventually move my armies out there as well for ease of use when we play (saves lugging them back and forth all the time). I still have plans to build a second story extension and deck out a man cave inside the house proper but that one is on the back burner for now.
And that's the state of the hobby at this time.
Keep those dice rolling,
Cheers all,
Pom
The scenery pieces look really good all painted up and I love the usage of exploding barrels! One idea I have for 7G is to try out a First-Person-Shooter type of game in which each player controls a single model, armed initially with something simple like a laspistol or knife but capable of making use of any of the weapons modeled onto the terrain. Exploding barrels would fit in perfectly so I'm definitely going to steal that idea!
ReplyDeleteThe games you've played recently sound like a lot of fun... even if your guys all died in the Apocalypse game, at least they went out in style. Your table looks really good with all those big buildings and I'm glad I could help contribute some inspiration for expanding your terrain collection. Thanks!
I hope you have a wonderful holiday, that really is awesome that your itinerary has taken into account visits to gaming stores... now that's love!! Fantastic shelves, too.
Cheers for the feedback Paps. House rules are a must and exploding barrels were too cool to pass up.
ReplyDeleteThe games were good fun and the whole point of Apocalypse is to kill stuff - the cooler the death (hand to hand with atitan is pretty cool) the better.
The missus is pretty chill about the whole hobby thing. I have a mutual respect for her tupperware addiction.