Fantasy Lives

Got an exception treat today, got to play part of  a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Had a really good time. Maybe can fuel a renaissance of WFB and find other players here in Chattanooga.

Defiler 3

I've assembled and done the base work on the Defiler as shown below. The majority of the conversion work will be to the external metal plates.

Here is a side by side shot of the front view. One of my main concerns for 'counts as' models is size. I want to reasonibly get the size the same. I think the height is close enough to count that as a success. The base of the Dreadknight is very close to the spread of the legs on the actual defiler so width is fine.

This shot reveals the one flaw, Depth is not the same. The back set of legs are 1 1/2 inches beyond the back of the base. Though honestly this only affects Blast Marker weapons who scatter.

This top view is a little more skew than it should be, Overall I am happy and don't expect any flak for taking this to friendly games or even any tournaments. It's height and width will let all the Missile launching, razorback hiding, Autocannon weilding players to shoot it just fine.

Defiler 2

Since Blogger being a pain, I've had to break up this post more than I wanted to. I went ahead and went overboard on the magnet's and did the upper arms as well. For rules this is going to be a defiler with 4 Close Combat Weapons and a Battle Cannon. I'm counting the 2 claws and the arms themselves as weapons. Here's a pic of the Defiler totall disarmed.

I'll so some side by sides to compare model size between this and a normal defiler to see what feedback I get.

Delifer Conversion

Last month I attended a very nice little tournament at Organized Play in Knoxviller, TN. I had a lto fo fun and walked away with Best Sportsmanship and a shiny new Grey Knight DreadKnight. Here is the story of how it got corrupted to Chaos.

This is a dry assembly picture. Not much has been done to the kit yet.

You may observe the claws instead of the hand from the normal kit. In my mind Chaos pretty much always has claws or some sort of sharp bits. The claws were made from the old Imperial Guard Bullbozer. Here they are shown cut apart.

Here you can see the claws glued together and the magnets I installed inside the wrist and to the claw itself. This will allow me to portray 'Weapon Destroyed' results very easily. I simply pull off the claw. Both arms have been modified this way.

Since a lot of people are kinda picky about vehicle destroyed markers I decided to just make it so I could destroy the defiler without removing it from the table. Here you can see 2 magnets installed in the waist section.

And the corresponding magnets in the upper section. I can now remove the top half of the model and just leave the base and legs standing on the battlefield to represent it being destroyed.

Sad

It's been 1 year since a tornado touched down just under a mile from my house. My wife was pregnant with twins before the storm hit. The ultrasound after the tornado had no more heartbeats. Now a year later and despite spending hundreds of $$$ from our savings we still havn't managed to get pregnant again. Add into it how insensitive people are and life is $hitty right now. Why do people insist on talking about babies and pregnanices around a woman who has lost 3 babies in the past 1 1/2 years? And these are your coworkers who KNOW what has happened.

Round 2

The second mission was a flash back to the 'good ole days' of 40k.

Objectives -
Primary - Table Quarters
Secondary - Kill points

Twist - Any infantry unit can hold a quarters, thats right not just troops

Deployment - I held everything in reserve while my opponent deployed as follows from my point of view left to right

Crusader - loaded with Cortez and 10 Grey Knights, Chimera in a tower (and yes I mean it was a 5 in tall tower with a platform on top and he deployed the chimera on it, Empty normal Landraider, 2nd tower with a Chimera on top of it, empty land raider, and then last chimera on a huge pile of rocks.

I rolled a 6 to seize as I wanted to start shooting vehicles before they started spreading out like roaches to cover the board. But was stopped by Cortez's Spy network.

Looking at my opponents army, he only had 4 troop  choices, 6 vehicles. I decided I just wanted to bottle him up on his side of the board, if I could stop the land raiders. since they can still contest quarters.

For some reason my opponent did nothing his 1st turn, did not move, just stood still.

My turn- deep struck in 3 Squads, without difficulties, Belial  and command Squad went in on the right side near the Chimera on the rock, one squad in the center of the table, their job was to remain in the center and move to whatever quarter I needed them in the last turn, and 2nd Term Assault Squad and LIbrarian on left flank, targetting left most Chimera, Also acting as bait for Grey Knights squad.

My shooting, Cyclones FTW, left Chimera in tower destroyed, middle Chimera immobolised, Right Chimera, shaken.

Instead of turn by turn blows here's a highlights reel:

Cortez and Grey Knights try and use the casting +1 Str twice and assaulting my Librarian and his squad. Bloody combat results, Librarian ends up force weaponing Cortez to death, but in the end Librarian and all 5 terms die leaving 5 grey knight alive.

Left Chimera was destroyed, the 3 guardsmen inside, jump down tower, take the Grey Knights Land raider and move into my near left quadrant.

My center term Squad, destroys center Chimera, that 3 man guard squad, jumps into center land raider and fearing my chain fist moves and attempts to claim my near right quadrant.

Belial and squad destroy right Chimera and ( surprise) 3 IG run into right Land raider, which stays in far right quadrant.

Turn 5 my last squad of terms auto matically comes in. I put them in the Far left quadrant, right next to the 5 surviving Grey Knights, Cyclone and Storm bolters later, 2 dead, 11 on Ld test, 10 on fallback distance and game ends. There was going to be an argument on how far a vehicle needed to be into a table quarter to claim it in my near right quadrant because a land raider had just the thickness of 1 tread into that quadrant, maybe, I was going to call the judege over to measure and call it, I've always gone with majority placement to determine which quarter a model is in. BUT this was all moot because I broke the Grey Knights and he had no units in the far Left Quarter.

Also, he had only killed my Librarian and the squad he joined, while I had killed 3 chimeras and Cortex, 4-2 kill points my favor. Major Victory for me.

Round 2

Second round saw me paired up against Grey Knights.

Cortez

10x Grey Knights - had Hammerhand

3 - henchmen  - Chimera
3 - henchmen Chimera
3 - henchmen Chimera

2 Landraider - twin lascannon, heavy bolter
1 Land Raider Crusader