So almost a month since my last update! Ive done some painting tho. Managed to complete the 40man big greatsword unit, aswell as 20 swordsmen and 4 greyhunters +1 Wolf Guard w PF! Not that bad to be honest. Still got a lot of painting to do before I can justify any new purchases. I’ll try and update more often as it is better for myself to record my progress if I do. Next up will be another 5 man squad of GH and then ill start on the outriders. I realy love their background and the way they behave on the battlefield. Considering they can dish out 15 shots a turn they are realy good for protecting the artillery from small units. The only downside is that they cannot move and fire, but tbh you will know before hand if your machines are gonna be hunted by skirmishers/small flyers. So a smart position in round 1 is adviced. Then after the threat has been dealt with you can move them around to support/threat other things. Now why use them instead of the more mobile pistoliers? Well it realy depends on your playstyle aswell. I prefer to have the range, and the option to be mobile. Its easier for flyers to outrange the pistoliers, with their 8” range instead of 24” u get less shots, at BS3 instead of 4. And they are way cooler then pistoliers! So that’s why Im gonna make me a unit of outriders!
So what have I been doing besides painting on the geeky front? Well ive played about 5 games of warhammer 40k. My Space Wolves vs Eldar. It went very good for the spacewolves, theres many a reason for that, my main reason being aleks needs to stop tossing an average of 2 on 30 dices, and I need to stop tossing an average of 5 on 30 dices. Not that much to do about it, but there’s something we can do. We play with loads of terrain, but none of it is blocking LOS. My army can take a lot of beating, while eldars realy cant. So next time we will keep the woods as los blockers, up the scale on some craters(shouldn’t be to hard with a little imagination and some *forgot the name on the stuff shit* that would make positioning and moving abit more important. So that its easier for him to single out me, and its harder for the OP(yes their crazy imo, I can see why people would field 3x5 of these guys, but its boring so care) LongFangs a harder time to hit things. Anyway, its our first games of 40k, we need time to learn rules and other things. Our lists the last time where 1400 pts and they looked something like this:
SW
Rune Priest SC,LL runic armor
Wolf Lord, saga of slaying manythingsthaticantrememberthenameof TA,SS thunder hammer
2x 5 GH, PW,MoW std WG PF
In razor
1x8 GH PW MoW STD WG PF
Rhino with runepriest
5Long Fangs with TA Cyclone dude 2HB and 2ML
3 TA wolf guards with SS,TH PF PW
1 Wolf guard
1 wolf guard PF
Drop pod.
His list roughly:
Farseer, doom fortune and some other stuff that I don’t recall
10 guardians with weapon platform thingy x2
10 dire avengers with “captain” thing
10 wyches? Power weapon wielding things
5 council with various equipment
3 wave serpents
2 war walkers.
Yes, none of the lists are optimized for tournament play, but that is not the point either. Wielding 5x3 LF with missile spam of doom sounds a lot like playing a shooty dwarf army.. boring in other words…
Pictures will follow in the weekend or later this week
Until next time!
