The life and times of gus the obliterator (part one)

( Gus the proud and slightly stupid obliterator recounts my campaing battles for you)

Dear diary

Today we went up into the hills form our landing site.Lord Neaad says we are looking for the SCT whatever that may be. I think he want’s to use it to lure more warriors to fight us . I guess he likes to keep himself entertained. So we went into those hills I realy didn’t like that. I mean it is hard enough dragging around enough weapons for a whole armie on my own. Now I had to do it uphill while in the mud. Anny way after a few hours we arrived on small plato. There where ruins of some ancient city there. Acrous the city we soon spotted some blood angles. Now there is a enemy we like to fight. Just as hard and just as tough as marines, but full of rage. I would say they are quick to anger: easy to trick easy to taunt. The perfect enemy. They where there for the SCT aswell i guess. But what’s so imported about that? Can it shoot stuff i don’t think so! Can it smash stuff I don’t think so! I think I rember that those things where a great price back in the day when I still was a techpriest. But frankly I don’t care anny more.

Well after seeing that those fancy pants noticed us, we took up position on the edge of some buildings. Those bastards where sure quick to hide, using there jumpacks to hide behind cover. So we just made it a waiting game. Repositioned our selves so that we could take them out, as soon as those cowards showed themselves. To our surprise we where soon attacked by weird looking humanoids, they where part man part machine. Well kind of like me I guess but then without the deamon extra’s. At first we thought them to be blood angle lackeys, But al to soon we realised they where attacking the blood angels as well. So it became a three way battle.

We kept our lines and whit disciplined fire mowed these newcomers down. The blood angels for their part where lured out of position. I had the perfect shot lined up but some of those things distracted me. I think they where calling me names.... urlhgaaula is a name right? Anny way my first shot mised, frustrating me to no end. Lord Neaad made short work of the distractions, so I blasted of a other shot. OOOOOOOH how I love plasma. It's so sweet to see the enemy melt into a little pool of slag. The bubbles form melting power armour are so cute. I could get a other shot of whit my lascannon a few minutes later nothing like saying someone burn to crisp in mere seconds So delight full.

Anny way I think by that time lord Neaad found out the blood angels where looking for something in the rubble of the city. Apparently there was some data on the STC there. Of course such a prize must be secured so he moved forward. While I moved in for support some of those things started shooting me. I think they where throwing spears at me. I killed those gitz right quick whit a couple of rapid plasma shots. But more of them kept coming they all seemed to have it in for me. Maybe they found me familiar? It didn’t end at spears tough, they also shot rockets grenades and all kind of energy weapons at me. They even had the guts to attack me in close combat. They could morf various weapons from their cute little arms. Enough to scratch my armour any way. They did make nice red fountains tough when I crushed their cute little body’s whit my claws.

I think that while I was amusing myself whit them the blood angels had found what they wanted. They had to fight of a couple of those things as well, but where now retreating of the battle field. Neaad also had found some data on the SCT is some ruins. And we just had to clear up some of those savages before we could pursue. I burned a couple of them just for some variation. But i don’t really like toasting people. Not that it’s not amusing to watch. Cause dear diary it really is but it tends to leave a smell. JUk.

Anny how I think I am going to enjoy my time here. Since lord Neaad summond me I have fought two space marine chapters. You know there are also the ones in grey greenish armour that we fought yesterday. They looked nurgelisch to me but Neaad ensure me they where loyalists. Mwa the melt al the same. And of course today we had those savages. Those were nice to kill, maybe we get to kill some more of those later. To bad they don’t leave those nice slug pools that marines do. Just not enough armour.

So dear diary I hope tomorrow we get to kill some more sutff. Can’t wait to melt burn and evaporate some more people.

My storm raven

Well i have beent talking about it a lot during the last few post so it thought it would be a good idee to give you some pictures of the stormraven.

So here it is in all it's purple glory

You might ask yourself why the hell is it purple ? Well all my loyal marines are purple (look at the razorback) Thy are part of my own chapter the dawn's children. I liked the idee of having my own chapter. My own chapter colour(purple) and my own chapter symbol a rising sun. Because purple is my favorite colour and it is one of the colours associated whit the rising sun it seemed like a natural choice.

Well it doesn't work so well on large models (or i can't paint like shit)

Hmm it might need some more work doesn't it.

Anny way even tough i am not realy proud of the paintjob i am pleased whit the conversion on a whole. The thing is when the new store opend in Eindhoven, I saw the one the crew of the gamesworkshop store in Roterdam had build as a starting gift. And i tought wow that is realy awsome. And i just knew i had to build one my self. One hondred euro's later i had a landraider and a valkarie kit . In one club evening of kit hacking drilling and ripping I smashed the thing to gather. And whitin one week i had painted the thing. It shocked me a bit that i did it that fast. On fryday i had nothing and on wensday my new flying doom machine was ripping up eldar.

So how does thing play.
Well for thos intrested it is a awsome glass cannon.
Fielding one of these will ensure that every gun in the enemy armie is homed in on it on turn one. So don't expect it to survive for long. But of course if it makes it to turn two, the havoc it can cause is awe inspiring. Not only are it's pasangers very deadly but its not a bad gunship on it's own. Power of the machine spirit is nasty on a fast skimmer. You can get that twinliked melta gun in 2d6 rang from 36 inches away. That is nasty.

Mostly my plan goes like this

1 Turn one move flat out towards the most expansive tank in the enemy armie and shoot at it whit the melta gun.
2 Turn two disembarke the deathcompany and the dreadnought and move them into combat.
Shoot a tank met the melta gun, and shoot infatry whit the assault cannon and bolters.
3 keep shooting until it gets destroyed.

Sadly i still think that the current army I have does not realy support it verry well.
Mabye i should build a second one so i can dubble up

Getting into the fluff

Hmm ok so maybe that title is a bit suspect but hey at least it’s a title. Lately I have been playing in a campaign at the local game store. The campaign starts you out whit just 250 points to spent on your forces and only a HQ and a troops slot to do so on. Even more annoying you only get to buy a single upgrade for each unit. The concept is that you need to play your games well to earn extra slots for units en extra changes to upgrade your army. I do think the no upgrade clause is a bit lame seeing how modern armies come whit their charters in full gear, and older armies need to upgrade all their charters for scratch. Apart from that I am havening lots of fun. The campaign awards your troops exp that you can use to upgrade you troops Most of these upgrades are fairly crap except the vehicle ones, those are overpowered like hell¹. But since you can’t use vehicles yet it’s hard to care.

But those exp upgrades are not what makes the campaign fun for me. It’s getting a sense of story that does it for me . I try to write small stories that are kind of like a battle report after each battle. This gives me the feeling that my army is really on a quest during this campaign a quest for a SCT apparently. Well at least that’ s the campaigns narrative. But that ‘s not what I feel my army is interested in. My army is there to engage in honourless combat whit my foes, killing and murdering them by using every dirty trick in the book. I am using my alpha legion for this one. And as we all know all the alpha legion is interested in is proving that they are the best space marine legion ever created. I really like the alpha legion, the whole outsmart your foes and them beat them into bloody pulp theme really attracts me. I always find that force should be applied whit smarts not just brawl. You won’t find me playing world eaters that’s for sure².

Now I have been working on upgrading the look of my chaos forces. The point being to try and make them as offending as possible to put of my opponent. Alpha legion never being to shy to fuck whit their enemies heads. I have also been creating some new models like my new chaos lord Neaad³.

Lord Neaad is dressed in power armour sutible for all your marine killing ocasions

Ultra marines? Lord Neaad says : Just say no!!!!

While I was doing that I made a discovery about my self. I found the reason why i like playing warhammer. Now if you would have asked me what my motivation to play was two days ago my answer would be thus. I like the gaming aspect of it: the challenge of overcoming the opponent the thrill of the fight and i would have been a fucking liar. I mean if all I wanted was a good game I could have been playing magic. Where I don’t need to paint hundreds of little men. Or even better chess where there is no luck involved in the game and every victory if achieved by skill alone. Now while I did like magic I suck at chess. And I don’t care about either any more.

The cold hard fact is that I do like playing whit little men. While I am painting a new model I see it move in full motion in my minds eye. Stabbing and shooting it’s enemies. I even have to confirm the fact that when I am alone in my room where no one can see. I make pew pew noises running around whit my stormraven pretending it’s strafing my orks. Sad but true.

Any way that’s why I am enjoying the campaign so much it’s a chance to build some new units for my alpha legion and really get a feeling for the fluff of my army. Crafting a story of my army’s rise to power, or fall from grace whatever may be the case.

1: Maybe that’s because the guy writing the rules plays imperial gaurd.

2: although I do use khorne berserkers they are just to good to pass up WRAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH

3: Yes that’s a reference to Daan seeing how he beat me at the GT by his name alone.