The life and times of gus Part II

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

Dear diary

Today we went afther more of data on the stc. Lord Neaad's spies informed him that plague marines and imperial gaurd wher looking through some old ruins near our position.

Why those two where working to gether is beyond me. Not the be out done Lord Neaad tricked some of those high tech wielding aliens into helping us. We fell upon those imperial gaurd like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. Those aliens sure know how to bbq cause i liked the way thy toasted those imperial gaurd.

Strangely enough the imperial gaurd seemed quick to rally. And went on the coutner offencive. I realy didn't see much of that. I was trying to melt some plauge marines. Hmm hot plasa death. Of course the cowards hugged the terrain like crazy. Now what funn is that.

Well in the end I manged to shoot them anny way. Lord Neaad had a little run in whit the plauge marine leader. Some other choas lord. I don't know what happend but it think the smell allone drove Lord Neaad off. Few Few that plauge marine was a real stinker. Afther hiss smell had overwelmed Lord Neaad. He chopped up the spies lord Neaad had ussed to find the location. Then he came afther me. I fired my melta gun at him. I mean there is nothing like total disintegration when trying to take care of a bad smell.

In the end i think the engage ment was a draw. The plauge marines where no more, and most of our allies had fled. So we disengaged.

Those high tech alliens sure pulled a number on lord Neaad tough. When we tried to download the data we had caputered. We got a message that the datta was beeing used for the greater good, and that we could acces it by submitting to thier Ethernal. What a load of nurgling crap is that. Next time is see those fools they can have some greater good to the face.

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.

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

Oh good lazy Bum………… oh yea and go trolls.

So what have i been doing all this time

Being a Lazy bum that's what¹. Seeing how I was of work for 6 weeks (working in education rocks man) I kind of got out of my routine and didn't update in some time.

So what have I been doing. Well starcraft 2 for starters. I seem to be completely hooked on the game² Apart from that I started constructing my new empire army. Hopefully whit the new rules I am able to win a game whit my empire forces. I think my track record whit empire is the worst of my whole gaming club.

Apart from that its been pretty stale on the wargaming front and I haven't played in weeks.

Oh no wait Trolls that's right Trolls. I have been eagerly awaiting the release of the troll factions book and some new Troll models. In anticipation of that I decided to enter a Warmachine hordes doubles tournament whit Bob³. We would enter whit my cygnar and my trolls.(Bob stopped playing warmachine some time ago and sold his stuff) Now we did that for 3 reasons

1. I got cygnar and Trolls
   
2. I wanted to use Trolls cause thy are awesome sause
   
3. The combination seemed completely broken to me
   

For the troll my strategy was based on the the borrowdeamons. Now coupling those to Siege's feat seemed downright evil (or eviler) . For cygnar they would bring all thing trollkin lacked (mainly speed stealthhosers and hitting power at range). Also the trolls starcrossed would make the cygnar models realy realy hard to hit. I had the list all planed and only had to get one o dire troll bomber…… and it was sold out . So on the day of the of the tournament I had to get some different models and change my list about (since the lack of AOE would hurt the list otherwise). So in the haste en confusion I forgot a few things. Namely my stat cards, my dice and my range ruler. AKA all the stuff I needed to play whoops. So I had to borrow (pun intended indeed) cards from a friend and use the dice and range ruler from whoever we where facing. Now I hope did not piss our opponent s of cause after nicking their stuff we proceeded to pound each pair of them into the ground (although the second game was close) and ended up winning the tournament.⁴

So what did I learn that day

1. Trolls are indeed awesome sause
   
2. Pigmys are indeed evil
   
3. I am Indeed a sloppy guy.⁵
   

 

OK that was it for the past 6 weeks now if I can pull my ass away from starcraft en work I might get around to painting those empire models and oh the dutch 40k GT is on the horizon.

 

Until next time

¹ O well I am a lazy bum most of the time but now it was worse.

² Damm blizzard and their addicting gameplay like wow wasn't bad enough

³ Yea he scares me two pics

⁴ Hell YEA

⁵ So I guess in hindsight I did not learn any thing

thinking about 8th edition part 1

UR GOOD

That where the last word I read on my screen before is quit CODMW2¹ and started to typ this article. Granted those words came form a new players so thy probably don't mean that much. But since i won the last 3 games 30/10 or something i gues he had a small point². Than again according to my computer i have played the game for over 188 hours so I had enough practise whit it. And well for those of you who where wondering what that had to do whit warhammer thats my point. Practise makes perfect. GW has been producing warhammer editions for over 30 years now and they have been getting better at it. The final tome that is the new 8^th edition rule book is a impressive thing indeed³ . Come to think of it I like it a lot. Not only because I can use it to bash my opponents skull in if he argues over the rules to much but also because of the way the rules are written. This is the first time I have ever seen a rule book that is written in first person. And it's a brilliant thing indeed, it feels like something by a gamer for gamers . It just oozes love of the hobby from ever y full colour page. For those of you who download pdf's from the net or want the soft cover version whit just the rules section. I have no problem whit that⁴ but you are all idots. This tome, yes that's what it is, is freaking cool. GO GET IT.

Ok so now that we have established that I have indeed sold my soul to gamesworkshop⁵ lets get into the nitty gritty of it. First of in my preview is sated my relief to see that wheeling was gone. Well its not. And yet it is. Wheeling should still be done when moving forward but there are some major changes non the less. When moving backward or sideways no more wheeling (or marching) when charging you still have to wheel if you can and want to. But it does not cost movement. I can not tell you how glad I am about that. The charge rules are now pretty easy. One you need to see the target. Two you need to bee able to move towards the target in a nearly straight line. (you can wheel once) Three you roll once to see how far you charge and if the target is in range you charge even if a wheel would cost you 40 inch of movement you still get to charge. Great idée. Whit the large 10 wide horde units wheeling would take a lot of inches making it almost impossible to charge. And that would suck ass. Also in the past wheeling on a charge could get you in all kind of arguments about if they had enough movement or not. No more of that. Splendid. Still not happy whit the random charge range tough. Secondly I intensely dislike that the number of ranks you can count when checking if your steadfast. (stubborn )are not reduced when flanked. Realistically (or fantastically)getting flanked should be one of the worst things that can ever happen to you unit . Now not so much worse still whit the reform amid defeat rule units can now reform in combat even when defeated. So your proud flanking unit can expect to be facing the enemy unit head on the next turn. Sadly if feel that this single rule could completely break the game. Because it has the potential to grind the game down into grinding match between really large units. Ah well we shall see.

Also while reading trough the book I noticed on thing that shoked me lets call it the dwarf destroyer witch of doom. Now check this out . Lets say you want to completely destroy a dwarven combat line. Try this trick. Take 2 dark elf sorceress one lvl2 and a lvl 4 on a Pegasus. Give the one on the Pegasus the power scroll and let them both take death magic. Now roll for you level 2 first and your level 4 second. You should now most likely have THE PURPLE SUN OF XEREUS⁶ on you lvl4 wizard.

Fly this sweetheart over to the flank of the dwarf lines and use the scroll to cast the spell of doom on the higher difficulty roling 7 dice (whoot darkelfs) IF guaranteed Now it does not matter much how far the spell goes since there is much change that there is a 5 inch gap between the dwarf units This means that the template will go all the way to the other side of the battle line and effect most of the army. Now dwarfs being dwarfs that will most likely kill about 2/3 of his troops.

Ok ok i'll admit something could go wrong ( you could misfire the spell for instance) But still if it goes right it's game over. Any way the powerscorll is a great item for darkelfes the ability to cast any spell whit a 100% change on IF is great. Some of the higher lore spells are game breaking if they go off. As o other example the last spell form lore of beast is fun charging you sorceress into something and changing her into a freaking great dragon is fun.

Anny way more about the new rules in a few days when i dive into what i would use whit my empire army.

 

¹ CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE 2 for those not into plugged gaming

² OK OK CANN IT BIG GUY REMEBER ARGOGANCE IS A NO-NO

³ If only in sheer weight.

⁴Ok I do have whit those downloaders support the hobby man.

⁵Ok not realy but thy kind of have it as a initial deposit

⁶I think i'll call it the spell of DOOM form now on

Arrogance is epic fail.

So what do I mean by that. Well simply that I am a arrogant twat and that I did EPIC FAIL…..TWICE. Well I doubt that most people I know would describe me as arrogant, in fact I think most folks would considered me quite humble. My gaming friends tough not so much. When it comes to wargaming I am really a arrogant bastard, I consider myself one of the best warhammer players, one of the best 40k players and certainly one of the best warmachine players at my lgs¹. And I think I have a two reasons to do so. One being confidant of yourself certainly helps you play whit more balls than when you are doubtful of your own actions. Two I do seem (in my mind) to win a lot of games.

Ok so warhammer is it fair to be arrogant? Lets see I did win 5 out of 6 games in the recent campaign, but I did not perform all that well within the campaign rules. Out of those 5 only twice did I fulfill my campaign objectives so nope not very well done. Also the last tournament I played I placed LAST. Talk about epic fail (ok to be fair I did go whit one crapy army to begin whit but he no excuses)

40K then? Hmm well properly ok to be a bit arrogant here. After all id did place top ten in the DUTCH GT 3 years in row (and top twenty twice as well). But then again I did only win one game during the last battle of the clubs. And that one did not count for the team score (EPIC FAIL).

Ok war machine. Well ok here I can be arrogant. I have won 24 games in a row (woot) Not that I tent t o keep track of that but after winning 5 times in a row in the ladder campaign (and winning the 2 games before that ) I decided to try and see how long I would last. 24 games it turns out . But than we came to the point that is the reason to type this whole blog. I lost, and not only did I lose I lost because I am a stupid cunt and made a lot of mistakes. And the worst part is I lost to Ben ( sorry Ben) I don't exactly hate the guy, but he kind of gets on my nerves. That's properly because like me his control over his emotions is a little limited. So when he hits whit a attack, he goes on a annoyance spree telling me how awesome that was. When he loses he mopes about for 10 minutes. That kind of thing gets on my nerves². Sadly he's one of the few people who plays war machine against me¹. Getting my war caster shot while I just shut was bad enough. But finding out that I fucked up my own turn by activating my models in the wrong order was even worse. Realizing later I did lose because I was not really paying the game much attention, cause I tough I would easily win. Now that really hurt not only did Ben whoop my ass I helped him do it.

So time for revenge, vengeance, justice, retribution… time for a rematch. And he whooped my ass in turn two because if left my warcaster in the open to be charged by a magehunter assassin.EPIC FAIL⁴.

So time for me to shape up get my brains back , come up whit a master plan and stomp his army flat . I'll get you next time Ben …… next time⁵

 

¹: And well some pll at the lgs are realy good …. Sadly better than me tough.

²: Come on Ben lighten up

³: The lesson here kids is, if you are a ahole you will and up playing against aholes

⁴: I would settle for permanent face palm as well

 

⁵: or the next time or the next or the ………

 

BDZG on 8th

Bad dice short preview of the 8th edition of warhammer

 

Well it's almost here the 8th edition of warhammer fantasy. Personly I can't help but think that this new edition will have the same major impact as the change between 4^th and 5^th . Seeing how everything is getting redone. Form the movement to the combat phase and even the bonuses a command group provides to your unit. Having only been able to have a quick peek at the new rules I can't really say anything final about them yet, but I'll share a few of my thoughts whit you below.

 

The movement Phase.

Finely wheeling is dead. And good riddance. While wheeling was one of the most historically (or practically) correct rules in warhammer, nobody did this right. I have literally only ever played against like 3 persons that wheeled correctly. Most players used the system that is now the rules any way so it's fine whit me.

Random charge ranges: Well I don't really know if I like this rule yet. On the positive side it finally fixes some of the imbalance between cavalry and infantry, by the fact that the difference in max charge range between two units is now only the difference in their movement and not twice the difference (ok that is one weird sentence). On the negative side it introduces more randomness into already pretty random game.

The magic Phase.

Magic gets powered down and up at the same time. First of spells get harder to cast but you get more bang for your buck. The best thing about the new system is that you are no longer required to bring a lot of wizards just for magic defense. Since the amount of magic dice is now random and the max difference between power dice and dispel dice is now 6. You can expect to block some of the incoming magic even if you just brought a single wizard. Sadly the system yet again makes the game more random. But I like it better than the old one cause it had more style and glamour to it and that's what magic should be about .

The shooting phase.

O boy. Well the new shooting rules make a lot more practical sense now. Archers in the good old dark ages did not line up single file to fire their arrows so why did mine have to. The extra rank of shooting means I can get the same amount of fire power into les space and that is great. So shooting should be more effective. On the other side even dwarfs can now charge you gunline form 12 inch or more with a little luck. So there is generally going to be les shooting.

Like wheeling a other thing that I will not miss is guessing ranges. Not that I was bad at it but it always seemed a bit weird to me that the general was ranging in the artillery .What the hell did I hire that engineer for than? Also the very unsporting business of over guessing is now a thing of the past.

 

The combat phase.

Well so much has changed here that I can't even put it into word in on blog. I guess ill do a special one about it when I get my rule book next week. Save to say rank and file units are now back in a big way. There are so many advantages given to having a lot of ranks (or even a lot of file) that you really want to bring some good old infantry again. This gets my personal thumbs up cause I always hated the dominance of heavy cavalry in warhammer. (wel ever since I stopped playing Bretonnia anyway)

My predictions

Well here we go my predictions for what armies will go up in power level and what armies will go down.

+++dwarfs (more tread range for charges, high ld and great warmachines makes dwars the big winner for me

++ empire (the detachment rules seem to be made to fuck the opponent over whit the new rules)

+ Orcs and goblins (well they may still not be that great but they gain a lot in the new rules)

+ogre kingdoms ( the new monster infantry rules are a blessing from the great maw)

- Warriors of Chaos ( not that these will get bad but they suffer a bit by all infantry getting better)

-- Deamons ( well now you'll just have to use something else than 75% characters have you)

--- vampire counts ( for a army that realies both on magic and characters to get the jobs done the future does not look to bright and the changes to fear are both good and very very bad for them)

All in all it think the new edition will require a little les math skills a little more luck and a lot more tactical flexibility

Well I hope you liked the blog this time.

Greets Bad Dice Zappgrot.

• Tought of the day – Change is a force of entropy and must be met whit a closed mind
  

 

    

First post

Well so this is the first post

And it's all thanks to Daan (chec his blog out here )
When he started his wargaming blog i tough well that's a great idee,
to keep myself motivated to do some fun stuff whit the hobby

Talking about crap always helps to keep you engaged
So here i am going to talk about wargames (or more specific Warhammer 40k, fantasy and warmachine)

I like playing those games because they combine two thinks i like

1) A fantasy setting
2) Beating ppl ass

Ok well point two is not always presend but i do try

So from now on i will post here twice a week about my gaming exploids
and hell i might even post some pics of my (disturbingly badly painted) armys.

So let's see where this goes

-tought of the day-
extreem justice demands extreem commitmend-