The Leaman Russ pic

Hey guys a long delay but my photo is finally up. It is my Leaman Russ Executioner tank. Im pritty cool with the result of how it looks. I have recently added some rust and dirt to it so another photo is needed. A few things really. 1st is how my hobby is going. I have continued my collection of Imperial Guard. My target is to have a competitive and good looking army ready for BFG annual 1750 GT and Throne of Skulls 2012 in Nottingham, UK. I currently have plenty of time and options to tweek the list. I have also added a 50 man Platoon to sit upon an objective to be a big defense. I also have added a heavy Weapons team and an Armoured Sentinal all with Autocannons to be a bit anti-everything and also to give me a little more buffer against Eldar and Dark Eldar.
Over Easter I have had 3W 1D 3L which is not to bad. I need to get to the local gaming club in High Wycombe for a few weeks to see how it works against former Throne of Skulls lists to tweek it. The biggest weakness is only having 2 troops slots filled but I feel a 58 man platoon with a Lord commissar is a good enough to hold one objective and a Veteran Squad in a Vendetta to fly onto another gives me a fair chance in Objective games :)

Secondly is the news on YouTube about Emperors Canaries and his local store banning him from their store for various reasons. I have read it and am very saddened by the behaviour of the store. Check it out..


Next Issue I plan to post my 1750 army list and some tactic Pages and to use this page more often. More to come

A year into my 40K life.

I celebrated by buying a vendetta and a 2nd Leaman Russ.

Pics on here when done

500 Point Game with IG

Today was my first game with IG even though it was at 500 points. My list

Psyker
Vet Squad (1 grenade Launcher)
Vet Squad (1 grenade Launcher)
Leaman Russ Executioner (Plasma sides, HB front, Pask upgrade)

I played Dark Eldar. I won in turn 4 via table. It shouldnt of gone on this long. I made a mistake in thinking the cannon was Heavy 1 not Heavy 3 LOL!

So maybe turn 2 table should of happend. I give credit to the player he should of got a few pens but I kept making cover saves and his foot slog Dark Eldar just didnt match up.

I get my Vendetta next weekend and a new Leaman Russ to play with.

An update

Hey guys my labtop had broken and Ive been away.

Im now back and hopefully able to make daily updates to the blog.

1st thing is I have started a new army. Imperial Guard. Im really happy that I found a 3rd army which I enjoy playing more than when I started the hobby.

2nd: I competed in my 1st GT and obtained 3rd place which I am really happy about. Won a Book and DVD. Into my prize winnings It goes.

Lastly New years are coming up. My Hobby tasks is to:
enter 4 tournaments instead of 2 in 2010, enter into 1 catagory at Goldern Demon, and complete all my armys to 2000 points (Marines, Necrons, Imperial Guard, High Elves, and Skaven).

Have a fantastic New year guys and speak soon.

Update: Saturday 4th September

hey all
This is an update on what I am doing 40K wise. Lots of painting on my part :-) completed 10 troops of my Necron Warriors. Only another 20 to go :-(.

Been reading other Blogs and I do tend to agree with Fritz's blog about size of 40K games. 750point limit I find is the hardest limit to find a competitive list for and is the biggest challenge.

Setting my own 750 Space Marine list to go and play with at my local club tomorrow so it should be a good laugh to play with if they are not all playing fantasy...

Later today I'll be working on my 2nd youtube video. 1st video did not take off as I wanted (this maybe because I had no other videos on my channel and also that I have not put enough key search words) 16 views in 1 day. So my next video I want to try and see if I can double the views and hopefully bring some more subscribers. I have 4 at the moment (Not a lot I know but it a start)

Lets see what happens.

1750 Tournament 21/08/2010

I entered this tournament a few weeks back. It didnt go as well as expected.

Game 1 I faced CSM in a 3 objectives match. After a closly fought game I failed 4 2+ armour save to give up one objective on the last turn to lose the match 2 objectives to 1 instead of 1 each and a contest.

Game 2 I faced Imperial Guard in a capture and control battle. My infentry got killed very quickly on my objective and vise versa. So both players had a mad rush to aquire an objective and he managed to get on the objective by the games end (Turn 5) and my SGT was 4" away from the objective so I lost that game 1-0.

Game 3 was against Space Marines in a Anhilation battle and up to turn 3 he was winning 2-0 and then all my reserves came in and made the score 4-2 to me. The game however continued to turn 7 and I lost 5-7 when I was winning 5-3 on turn 5.

Game 4 was against Tau and was a 5 objectives match. This match was a disaster. My reserves came on at the wrong time at the wrong side and I failed lots of simple armour saves at the begining. At the end of the game I was again 1" away from contesting a vital objective. He won 2-1

What I learned?

1.) The bad areas in the list. My Marine army is based on ambush and assault so the Thunderfire cannon does not quite fit in. The strenguard didn't do their job either.

2.) Make sure my troups are covered at all times.

3.) Do not just go on rampage with Lysander, make every unit have a mission of their own to help the overal game.

Got another tournament in October to look forward to :-D

First Youtube Post ever :-)

Hey.
My First ever Youtube video is up and is able to view. The models need tidying up and I need to make more purchases to complete to army list but I thought I'd place the video on there for you all to view.

Thit is the channel. Please subscribe on youtube and let me know what you all think of the video.

You Tube Link


More to come.

1750 Tournament 21/08/2010

I entered and competed in my first tournament competing at 1750 points. Details of the chosen army and how I got on will be put on here and Youtube over the next few days.

More to come :-)

New Blog

Hey I'm very new to blogging and video uploading etc...

A little about me

I am a Uni student in the UK and have only been playing 40K since Jan 2010 (Newbie!). Got into the 40K world via a friend who played and told me to give the game a go. First collected Space Marines (as most starting players do) and have built up a big collection of Marines since and am regularly victorious against people who have the same experience.

I attend various clubs both at the Uni club, the Local club in the town, and while at home in my local GW store.

In the future I'm hoping to put up here my army photos videos and other bits which hopefully help me and anybody who reads and comments a better player.