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.