OK people so I went to the Dutch GT (grand tournament).

I had a blast I’ll try and put up some battle reports in the next week (if I can remember how the battles went).

Anny how four of us went to the tournament but only three of us made it to the finish. The best player of the group ended up whit a lovely lady when he went out after the first day. So he didn’t show up on day two¹ (to bad he had a shot at best general). One of us BOB (yea the guy who went whit me last time) won the great gamer award. That is the award for the most friendly player who made sure that his opponents had the most fun .I think they should rename that award the silver tong award cause Bob did some serious sucking up to his opponents so that they would rate him highly.

Me displaying my dispare at the state of the world because of Bob's win (also i do need a haircut don't i)

But I still think he deserves it more than anyone else. Why? Because not so long ago Bob was considered one of the most annoying players in the whole wargameing club. It even came to a point that some members wouldn’t even play against him any more. (and still don’t) Now that is harsh if you ask me. But Bob has come a long way I since those days. Not only has he become a much better player he’s also much more relaxed. Now I could say that is because of my good advice and exemplary behavior but that would be stroking my own ego (yes it’s a lie I know). Well maby it helped a little bit. But I think it mostly comes because he became a better player. When you know what your downing you are much more secure and there is less need to argue about the rules. Some times you can even let some rules abuse on part of you opponent slide cause you know you are winning. Also he can be a quite charming guy some times and the gods now he does make me laugh (oh and scare the shit out of me some times but let not discuss that on the internet shall we²)

For myself I think I played pretty well all things considered but I should drop the tank fetish soon cause it is starting to affect my army building in a bad way. I am starting to take tanks over everything even if there would be better choices if I give it some more thought. I did enjoy playing whit the stormraven tough. It can be a really effective model. And is also very forgiving to bad play cause it is 12 al round and a fast skimmer so you can get away whit a lot more than you would think since it is kinda hard to destroy³.And the fire power it can bring to bear on a unit is just shocking 230 points well spent if you ask me maybe I should make a second one?

Ill try and put some more pictures up whit my next blogs.

That’s it for now I’ll post some more later this week.

Btw Congrats to you Bob

¹: We call this the Gt curse If you own on the first day something will come up that will prevent you from coming the second day

Getting ready for some Ass whooping.

At least that is what i should have been doing. This weekend sees the Dutch GT. Normally the highlight of my gaming year. But his year I just don't seem te be able to get into it.

I think the problem is thus: I am going to be playing whit a army I don't really like. When I go to these things I like to go prepared¹. Normally I make my army list way in advance, giving it a lot of thought then I spent a few months playing whit my list and testing it out. This year I did that I planned out my space wolf army from start to finish took it out for a spin during the battle of the clubs. Improved it got a few practise games in. Won a few smaller tournaments whit it. And then I made a stromraven,
Yea that's right the Bloodangel dropship. And now I want to show it off of course. Problem is I only see 2 a 3 types of armies working well whit a stormraven in it.

1. A multiple stormraven list but alas I only got the one.
2. A storm raven backed up by a strong fire base. But that I don't have²
3. A storm raven backed up by multiple scout units. Again same problem.
   

So now I am stuck whit a army list I don't like

1 Liberian +1 honour guard unit
1 razorback

2 units of 6 assault marines whit flamer in a razorback (these are just cheap cheap)
1 eight man death company unit
1 death company dread.
1 Chaplain
1 baal predator
1 predator anhilator

1 vindicator.

Off course this could work against certain armies but I am not to big a fan of it.
Mostly because is think it lacks enough marines. Of course I could have switched the vindicator and the ball predator for more assault units but than I would have to paint even more models. (not owning to many marines whit bolt pistol and cc weapon and no jumppack.)
So I guess the only thing I will be doing this weekend is showing off my cool storm raven conversion³

But maybe this is a good thing. When I go to these kind of things I tend to get so caught up in being competitive that I forget to enjoy the event . So now that I don't feel like I can be, maybe that I can finally learn to enjoy it more⁴

Well that's it for now.

¹: Well I always need to paint something on the day but that's tradition
²: At least not painted
³ And hiding my awful dreadnought conversion
^4: Well I do enjoy the winning just not the losing most of the time