Upkeep

Hey all!

Been a while since I last posted, so I will fill you in on everything that has been going on hobby wise.

New stuff via several different routes includes:

- Scourge Starter Box for Dropzone Commander
- Tohaa Starter box for Infinity
- X-Wing Core Set
- Maulerfiend and a pair of Chaos Predators

Cannot wait to get everything painted up and ready to roll out.  Already almost to 750 points of Chaos painted for our 40k Escalation League.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to do much more than paint Chaos stuff as school has really picked up the last week or so.

Stuff that is preparing for its final voyage:

- Entire Eldar Collection
- Armourcast Reaver Titan
- Entire High Elves Collection

This stuff just needed to get a new home where someone could take the time to use them and do them right.  I traded my buddy my well used Eldar army, my High Elves, and my Titan to get my hands on the Chaos stuff, as well as my Infinity starter kit and the new Terrans out of the Two Player Box set for Firestorm Armada.  Should be pretty sweet to get into all of this new stuff.

In addition to all of this excitement, I got about 6 games of X-Wing in today.  What a fantastic game.  It is so simple, yet it is so fun and the replayability is insane, that I might just invest in a second core set.  Or in some different stuff, such as a few y-wings and TIE Interceptors.

Anyway, thats all I have for now, so take care!

New 40k Beginners Escalation League

Hey all!

So, with the birth of a new hobby group and the reset of 40k for all of us in it, adds starting an escalation league within our group!  

Rules are that every 2 weeks you have another 250 points painted.  First week you just need a HQ and 1 Troop, then fill out the rest.  We play games every other Friday evening, which will get everyone up to speed with rules and painting hopefully!  Should be good fun! 

Participants:

Myself - Chaos Space Marines

Michael - Grey Knights

James - Necrons

Russell - Tyranids

Shawn - Imperial Guard
Mike - Orks
Brayson - Space Marines
Brandon - Tau

An excellent mix I think.  Should be a lot of fun, and good experience for everyone at a relaxed enough pace to get everything accomplished within school time constraints.

However, this Friday is the start of it.  And there will still be a storm coming.  Although it might be rescheduled....

Something Big is on the Horizon

A storm is brewing over the Uncharted Seas....

The Orc Raiders have been growing bolder.  The Shroud Mages can feel something big is coming.  They know not what it is....  But they know it is coming.

A Storm is coming........

This Friday

The Big Swap

Hey All!

Just wanted to take the time to let y'all know about some recent developments in my hobby world.  As some of you might have known, I used to play Eldar for Warhammer 40k, but they were really starting to drag me down.  They just weren't fun any more to me personally.  And then the new update came out and that sealed the deal for me.

Also, I had a relatively large force of High Elves that I was never going to get around to being able to spend the proper amount of time on, so I also mothballed them for the longest time.

During the time those were mothballed, I came to love Uncharted Seas, Firestorm Armada, Warmachine, Dreadball, and even Infinity.  I meant my good buddy Michael - a 40k fanatic and collector for many years - and we started to talk.  I got him into other games and he loves it.  Although deep down inside he is still a 40k fanatic.  So, after much debate and dealings we decided on the following arrangement, to make both of our lives a little more variety filled:

A TRADE *drumrolls please*

So, heres a neat little list of all the dealings:

Sinscaptain gets:

Lots of Chaos Space Marines
Chaos Daemons
Terrans from the Firestorm Armada Box Set when it releases
Tohaa Starter box for Infinity

Michael gets:

Eldar
High Elves

Armor cast Reaver Titan

With everything it's a fairly equal trade, so it is an excellent day for hobbying.  My blood thirst is growing and Khornr demands skulls, so my Traitors are more than ready to throw themselves into the breach and attack....  It's always a good day to die in 40k...

Terrans and Infinity are also awesome.  Looking forward to the awesome battleship in the Firestorm box set, as well as the space station and really just everything.  Infinity should be awesome because.... Terrain and infinity?  That's awesome!  Anywho, take care, and as always remember to cry "Havoc!" before you let slip the dogs of war.

BREAKING NEWS

So, we have some important news to show off today!

Played my first game of Warhammer 40k in almost a year.  1000 points of Chaos Space Marines against 1000 points of Necrons.  Great game!

Chaos Marines 1000:

Khorne Lord - chain ax, plasma pistol, mark of Khorne.

10 Bezerkers - 2 plasma pistols, powerfist, chainaxes

10 Marines - mark of tzeench, bolters, 2 plasma guns

10 Marines - mark of tzeench, ccw, power sword, plasma pistol

2 Naked Rhinos

2 Obliterators - mark of tzeench

Necrons 1000:

Overlord - Resurrection orb, gauntlet of fire, and other stuff I don't remember

Crypt tech

20 warriors in 2 squads

5 Deathmarks

2 Ghost Arcs

Doom Scythe

Mission:

Relic

Game had 4 buildings in the center with scattered crates and such as debris around the field.  Game was pretty fast paced.  Exchanged plenty of shots, until my Bezerkers jumped out of their rhino and launched into the Overlord and his warrior retinue.  Chaos lord challenged, was a stalemate for the whole game.  Bezerkers finished off the Warriors, but didn't make it happen until the end of turn 5.  We didn't make the roll to keep going, so the Relic sat 3 inches from my troop bezerkers at the end of the game.  It was a win for the Necrons, who had first blood and line breaker.  Great game though!

Tomorrow I will be playing a game of Uncharted with my Shroud Mages against Bone Griffons, and then maybe a game of 40k that is smaller against some new folks that we are introducing to the game.  Sorry for not posting any pictures, I didn't manage to snag any.