Merry Christmas!

Hey, its been 4 months since my last post and even since I picked up some dice or a brush, but its Christmas vacation. I finally have a week off from all the hard work in high school, plus I play drums in a garage band and I'm on the football team at school. See what I mean by hard work. So anyway, for the week, I'm gonna try to work on 2 projects a Baal Pred and Commander Dante. A week isn't really a lot of time to finish a tac squad. 2 assault squads, two baal preds, a razorback, Dante, a chaplain and a priest. So, Im just doing this. One problem, however is that when the week ends, I'll be done for another couple of weeks again. :( So I'm just gonna savor the week and get as much done.

-Ultradude

Oh....I almost forgot that CHRISTMAS is tomorrow, so................

Goin back to the good 'ol times

I was rummaging through my bits and past armies the other day and found my orks who I've played with about 2 or 3 times in the past. When I thought to it, I realized how much I loved to play with them, how I would need about 30 dice for each squad while shooting, how fast my "dead pile" got and just the fun rules and units (such as the shok attack gun and my most favorite, the stompa) So I guess I smacked some sense into myself and decided to finish what is left of painting my orks and play with them for another 5 or 10 games, until I get tired of them again and go back to my blood angels.................again.

For some people who are new to this blog, here is one of my battle reports from one game while using my orks.

Goodbye Summer.....Hello School

For kids like me, Labor Day marks the end of summer and the beginning of school. All summer, I've been working on mini's and playing some games. But now that school is starting, I will have to slow down on my painting and gaming. I will still work on my mini's from time to time, mostly on weekends and vacations, but I don't expect to post anything anymore more than once or twice a month till december. Sorry. Thats just life when your 14.

-Ultradude268

Gamesday 2010

Just like last year......it was amazing!

Another Website That Caught My Eye

I was exploring some of the eavy metal/ golden demon painters websites and came across this. Minivault is a website by golden demon painter,Thomas Schadle. He won the slayer sword and won gold in golden demon competitions 25 times in europe. And by looking at his site, you can see why.

http://www.minivault.com/

Models By Dave Taylor

I was exploring some of my fellow blogger's blogs and found these, Dave Taylor 40k squad golden demon entry. I am a huge fan of the ultramarines......well, I should be. I play an ultramarines army for about 3 years. So anyway, I thought I'd put them up for others to see The colors of the chapter and Dave's awesome painting. Notice the tyranic war conversions.

Heading Out :)

And were off!!!! We just departed from my uncle's home along with one of his friends and brother and are headed to Baltimore. Gamesday here we come!!!

Random Video #2

I remember watching this all the time when I first started the hobby. I still love it.......

(video taken from coltsith )

Gamesday Armylist Revised

I got a lot done today. I was able to finish my rhino and tactical sq. However, I still have a death company sq. , an assault squad, predator and a vindicator to do. The tac. sq. took me about 2 days to finish, so I dont think I will be able to finish it all by Friday night. So I dropped the assault squad. Now the list looks like this:

1) (HQ)Captian with power weapon, combi melta and jump pack

2) ( TROOP) Death Company x5 with power weapon, 2 power fists and 2 CCW's, jump packs

3) (TROOP) 10 man tactical sq. with heavy bolter and meltagun in a rhino with extra armor

Now that I got the compulsory units down, I can get some more stuff........

6) Vindicator with hunter k. missiles and siege shield

7) Predator with autocannon and lascannon sponsons, hunter killer miss.

I'll try my best to get the predator done in time, but no promises. The new death company aren't really easy to paint. But if I rush the vindicator in today I could probably get most of the tank done. It could happen. Anyway, gamesday is in 2 days. Ill be leaving for Baltimore Friday night so for the next two days, I'll be pretty busy, which means I probably wont be able to post anymore posts till Sunday. I would just like to wish everyone a safe trip over and a fun weekend.

-Ultradude2468

Ultradude at Gamesday 2010

This August 21st is the 2010 Baltimore Gamesday and I will be going. Last year, I brought my orks to play against jawaballs and fritz. But it was my first time going and instead, I explored the con. But this year, I will try to face-off. Fritz recently posted a video saying that they will be hosting an apocalypse game and to bring an army that is PAINTED and follow the force org. rules. I have the army and now I have to paint it. Here is the list:

Compulsory

1) (HQ)Captian with power weapon, combi melta and jump pack

2) ( TROOP) Death Company x5 with power weapon, 2 power fists and 2 CCW's

3) (TROOP) 10 man tactical sq. with lascan. and meltagun

Extra

4) Assult sq. with Sanguinary preist on foot with rhino

5) Predator with autocannon and lascan sponsons and hunter k. missile

6) Vindicator with hunter k. missiles and seige sheild


It's all about 1000 pts.

Pics of Some Marines

Just finished these guys the other day. Thought i'd put 'em up.

(WIP Hand Painted Logo)

Golden Demon Updates

Please see my other blog, "The Journey Of A Blood Angels Golden Demon" for updates.

http://ba-golden-demon.blogspot.com/

Golden Deamon Contest 2010

This year at the 2010 Baltimore Gamesday, I will be entering in the Golden Deamon Competition. I know I am not the best painter in the world, but this is something that I can try so hard at. I dont hope to win or even be in 3rd place, just to get my mini in the drawing. Yes, I know I siund like I dont know what Im doing.......well I dont, but Ill try. I will post updates as the model goes on.

MISSile Launchers?

In my last game, both armies had a lot of Missile Launchers in each side. Just to give you a number, there were maybe 4 on his and 3 on mine. Anyway, every time we rolled to hit for them, we would say, "Missile Launcher on terminators" or "Missile Launcher on tank". But what we didn't realize was that they missed every time. Then, the next time my opponent rolled to hit he noticed how the word missile had the word "miss" in it. We started to call them Rocket Launchers or RPG's and such. We still kept missing the shots though. I guess it was just just some bad luck or rolling. But that still is kind of odd how Missile Launchers have the word "miss" in it.

-Ultradude

Blood Talons???

(Not My Photo)

I was playing a game the other day and was reading through the codex to make a list and ran across "blood talons". They are basically giant lighting claws that will keep hitting the enemy until they make there saves. That's right. "for every unsaved wound caused with a blood talon, the dreadnought makes an additional attack." Until no further unsaved wounds are made, the dread will keep at you like " a hungry homo at a hot dog stand". lol. Anyway, Is this the ultimate dreadnought weapon? Until my friends and I find a fault or down side, it must be.



Update: Unfortunately I did find some faults. For this rule to work, you must have two blood talons. They also have "rage", which means that if the dread is near a vehicle or a squad of terminators, it is more likely that it will not do as well as these things are meant to do.Just be careful when you are using the dread and keep it near some tactical squads, assault marines or anything that these weapons would be best to go against.

Ultradude gets heavily defeated! (1500 pts. BA vs Ultramarines)

On Friday, I met with my uncle again for our yearly game at Grasshopper Comics. We each had 1500 pts of marines. I played with my blood angels and he used his unstoppable Ultramarines.

My List

Captain with Jump Pack and Power Weapon

Assault Termis x5

Death Company x5 with a chaplain and Rhino

Tactical Squad x10 with heavy bolter and melta gun. sergeant had a power sword

Death Company Dreadnought with two blood talons

Land Speeder with Asscan and Heavy bolter

Predator- autocannon and heavy bolter sponsons

devs with plasma cannon, RPG, Hbolters, lascanon and power sword

Whirlwind

His List

Captain with relic blade

Chaplain

10 Terminators with 2 assault cannons equipped

x4 10 man tactical sq. with RPG and either a melta gun or flamer

(The mission was annihilation with kill points)

Deployment:

I deployed all my tanks (whirlwind and predator), my tactical squad and devs. I wanted to get my devs in a nearby tall building as quickly as possible because i needed them in cover. I kept everything else in reserve. He deployed his termis and a tactical squad.

The Battle:

He had a small list but it was very powerful. For the first 3 turns i concentrated my predator and whirlwind fire on his termis. I had to get most of them down before they got to my side but there 2+ save only left 2 of them dead. I know, I was surprised too. My land Speeder was shot up in the first turn. In turn 2 I brought in my termis, only for them to get shot up and killed by his who stayed in the center of the board for the whole game. They would occasionally fall back an inch or 2 to stay out of my death company and dread's range of assault. My whirlwind and predator were destroyed by RPG fire by the 2rd turn and my devs were killed by a flanking tactical sq. that I didn't notice coming up until they started to kill by devs. There were only 2 in the sq by the time that they had to to fall back. In the 4th turn my death company dread assaulted the commander and left it with 2 wounds. It then assaulted the termis and was "destroyed". The blast did nothing to the commander and terminators. In the fifth turn, with only my rhino, death company, tactical squad and 2 devastors, I decided to rush and try and make them assault before the 6th turn had to end. The score was 5 to 0 and I knew I wasn't gonna win. My death company attacked the terminators and took out 4 more. then they were killed by the power fists. With three left in the squad I turned to my plasma cannon in the back and shot them up. It took out 2 more. The last one took a leadership test and passed it. But it still retreated in fear that it would give me a kill point. My rhino's storm bolter took out 3 more marines in a tactical sq. My tac marines were then assault by a tactical squad and which defeated them, making the score 5-1. By the end of the 5th turn, we both noticed that we still had units that we hadn't touched since the turn 4, my captain and his chaplain who were still in combat. We returned to it and my captain one, another point for me.

Conclusion:

By the end of the game the score was 5 to 2. His army was composed of units that were both hard to kill and large in numbers. This was the perfect army for this mission. I guess for my next game I should add more troops to each of my units. I also noticed that my wargear was sometimes unnecessary for some units because the effect from the wargear was already providing by a rule, such as a rule for the death company dread that ignored "crew stunned and shaken". I added extra armor anyway because I did not read my rules. This was my first game using this army. I do admit, I need to balance my list and think out my strategies, and most of all memorize my codex.

Some Problems

Hey guys, its me again. I just finished one of my tanks and commander the other day and took some pics. But when I went to make a video, I had trouble looking for the link to "Create a Movie". Apparently "Picasa", the program I use does not support this anymore in there new edition. This means that i wont be able to make any videos for a long time. Slide shows are the only thing you will be able to see on my youtube page. However I will be able to post pics on my blog, such as the one above of my Commander, so I'll keep you posted.

Sorry Guys................I've been busy

Its been almost 3 months since my last post which was about the newly released blood angels. To tell you the truth, I literally havent even touched a mini since then. I've been very busy with graduation prep and sports. I have aslo been working on the 3 xbox 360 games, Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4. But a little thing smacked some sense into me recently and got me back into the hobby, the new edition of Warhammer. Im looking to try it out. Well.....maybe not. I still have to put together my BA army. Last year at Gamesday, I left my ork army at home and missed out on challenging gamers to a game, since they were all BYOA (bring your own army). I was looking frwd to playing against Jawaballs and Fritz. But this year is different. I will complete my BA army by August. Just a little rumor going around too..............Me and my uncle have noticed that this year maybe be the last gamesday. There is only one that has been anounced for this year. The east coaster is lucky for it is in Baltimore. I hope to make the most of this year. Anyway, I got a LOT of work to do. I try to get my captian done by saturday. Pics WILL be up.

New Blood Angels Now Out!!!!!!!

The new blood angels codex and models have finally been released! I am so excited to get some goodies. My uncle, who took a trip down to grasshopper comics (the store we go to for our stuff), got a copy of the codex and let me take a look. Hear are 10 new rules and changes to the codex that really got me happy and excited to play with the blood angels again.

- A death company squad can now have up to 30 models in it.
- There is now a librarian dreadnought
- Though not that good, it is pretty interesting. There is now a "flamer pistol".
- Rhinos, whirlwinds, vindicators, predators, and any tank with the "rhino" body have the fast vehicle rules.
- Land Raiders count as dedicated transports instead of heavy support.
- Tycho doesn't suck anymore. He can now be played as a death company character.
- Blood Angels have there own version of the imperial guard's valkyrie called the Storm Raven
- Scouts are not elites anymore.
- Dreadnoughts are Heavy Support, unless you use a death company dread which is troops. Furioso dreads are still elites.
- LAND RAIDERS CAN DEEP STRIKE!!!

There are TONS of more new stuff in the codex that are very pleasing. I will be sure to go over the the shop to get some of the new death company models and the codex this week. Hopefully I will be able to complete most of my army this week too. Pics and videos will be up soon.

ADVANCE ORDER:BLOOD ANGELS!

Today, I logged on the GW.com only to find out that dreams do come true. I saw an article saying Advance Order: Blood Angels. My reaction was one of those awkward shrieks and some crying because I was relieved that I didn't have to carry around some printed out papers in a binder with the BA logo that I painted on. Starting April 3rd, Blood Angels collectors will have access to the new Blood Angels models and codex. I've already started the countdown.

-Ultradude2468