PREVIEW: Battle Report: 1500pts. BA vs Chaos?

It's been so long since I touched a mini. I've been very busy with winter workouts for the football team, practices with my band ( I play drums btw) and school. So anyway my uncle called me up before and asked if I would come with him to play a young neophyte, who he's been training over the past couple of months. It's 1500pts. and I will, of course using Blood Angels. Him however, will be using Chaos marine or just marines, so i know to pack a lot of melta and plasma weapons with me. Batrep will be up soon.

Our wishes are finally fulfilled..........

After many months of using our imagination to convert stormraven gunships, there finally uis no need for that because GW will be releasing a plastic version on February 5th. It might just be the paintjob, but this thing looks HOT. However, to me, it looks a little too bulky and short. I was hoping for more of a jet-like figure. But on the plus side, it looks great and I will be getting one of these soon.

Games workshop will also be releaseing a plastic furioso kit and a BA battle force.

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................

Pics of Some Marines

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

(WIP Hand Painted Logo)

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.

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