Monthly Archives: April 2011

Weekly Battle Report: First Battle Against Grey Knights

Posted on April 28, 2011 08:22 am by Thor

I brought Fate’s Angels, my Marines, and faced Grey Knights last night. I had a test list I was trying out that was more shooting oriented than I normally run, which I figured would be handy since he had a large 10-man Paladin Squad and I certainly wasn’t going to beat him in assault. So, here’s the battle report. Read more... (410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Fate's Angels, Grey Knights, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | 6 comments

My Experiences with Shadow Captain Kayvaan Shrike

Posted on April 27, 2011 12:00 pm by Thor

Let me preface this by saying this is not an all-inclusive tactica on using Shrike. I have used him for a while and this is about my experiences with him, the good and the bad, and some advice. I’m not going to justify using him, his point efficiency, etc. Read more... (941 words, 1 image, estimated 3:46 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged Kayvaan Shrike, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | no comments

April Tournament Woes – Or Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get a New Army.

Posted on April 26, 2011 01:11 pm by EvantheNoob

So the monthly tournament rolled around at our humble FLGS, and I decided to make the requisite monthly pilgrimage. I actually live 2 1/2 hours away so I usually only get down there on for the tournament. Read more... (1081 words, 1 image, estimated 4:19 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Tau, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 1 comment

April Tournament Report: Snow…Seriously?

Posted on April 25, 2011 08:36 am by Thor

It was raining in the morning and by the time I got to the LGS for the monthly tournament it was snowing. Even for Maine that’s uncharacteristic and it did clear off later in the day and go figure, the next day was damn near 70 degrees. It is a rather good analogy of my day of gaming. Read more... (1207 words, 1 image, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Fate's Angels, Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Tau, Tournament, Tyranids, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Happy Easter

Posted on April 24, 2011 08:24 am by Thor

Yesterday myself and EvantheNoob headed down to the LGS for the monthly tournament. I’d write my report on it today but it’s Easter, so hope everyone has a great Easter and look for my report, and Evan’s, early in the week.

Posted in News | Tagged Easter, Real Life, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 3 comments

Weekly Pimp’n: 3rd Week of April

Posted on April 23, 2011 08:00 am by Thor

As usual, the stuff I found of interest. Read more... (141 words, 1 image, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Hobby, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Weekly Battle Report: Big Team Game

Posted on April 21, 2011 12:29 pm by Thor

Last night at the LGS we held a bitz trade, got some cool stuff I needed, but it also resulted in a larger than usual turnout. There were four of us not gaming and one table, so we threw down a 4K per-side team game. I paired off with a Space Wolf player against Dark Eldar and Tau. I knew it would prove interesting as me and my teammate had a heavy assault force against an assault army paired with a shooty army. If they could work together well it would be rough for us. Here’s the battle report. Read more... (772 words, 1 image, estimated 3:05 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Dark Eldar, Fate's Angels, Space Marines, Space Wolves, Tau, Team Game, Warhammer 40K | no comments

Rok Da Vote: Win Percentage

Posted on April 19, 2011 10:19 am by Thor

A while ago I wrote an article titled What Does Your Gaming Record Say which discussed what it sounds like. I’m curious what the winning ratio is for the various 40K’ers out there. I know not everyone keeps a detailed record but I feel it’s safe to say most people can give a reasonably accurate range. Many of us play more than one army but what I’m after is your record as a whole, all games of 40K. Read more... (151 words, 2 images, estimated 36 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Rok Da Vote | Tagged Gaming Record, Warhammer 40K | 16 comments

I’m My Own Worst Enemy

Posted on April 18, 2011 09:21 am by Thor

You ever have that realization that you are your own downfall in a game? That there’s some daemon lurking inside your mind telling you to do stupid stuff despite the fact you know it’s a bad idea? I feel that way and I need to exorcise my daemons. Read more... (393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged Gaming, Lessons Learned, Stupid | 14 comments

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast

Posted on April 16, 2011 03:54 pm by Thor

Those of you in the states know that the 18th is tax day. If you’re young, single and have virtually no assets then your taxes were done easily, probably done months ago and you got a nice return. Those of us on the other side of the coin tend to wait until the last minute because good old Uncle Sam prefers us to pay him. Something everyone in the states can look forward to when your a bit older and make decent money but certainly aren’t rich. Who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky and have enough itemized deductions to avoid it, or make that fine line of income where you fall into a smaller tax bracket. Hmm…children will offset some of the tax burden. Is having kids for the sake of income tax a good idea? Read more... (180 words, 1 image, estimated 43 secs reading time)

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Weekly Battle: Deflation & Evaluation

Posted on April 14, 2011 09:55 am by Thor

After last week’s match up against an IG Air Cavalry force, the player wanted to rematch this week to redeem his honor. This time he brought his Black Templars, which was cool since I’ve never faced them. Read more... (473 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Black Templars, Fate's Angels, Space Marines, Ultramarines, Warhammer 40K | 5 comments

Mission: Defensive Onslaught v1.0 (Updated)

Posted on April 12, 2011 09:53 am by Thor

In my continuing efforts to create more tournament missions for my FLGS I’ve written this new one. I’m sticking with keeping things simple but different enough that it should be interesting. Read more... (314 words, 1 image, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Posted in Defensive Onslaught, Gaming, Missions | Tagged Custom Missions, Missions, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 13 comments

Weekly Pimp’n: 2nd Week of April

Posted on April 9, 2011 08:00 am by Thor

It’s been a few weeks so some of these are from last week. Read more... (141 words, 1 image, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Assault Units, Hobby, Painting, Warhammer 40K | 3 comments

Rok Da Vote: Grey Knights Poll is Closed

Posted on April 8, 2011 12:12 pm by Thor

I’m happy to say there was an impressive amount of votes on this latest poll. Well, impressive for my blog anyway. The question posed was what people thought of the upcoming, at the time, Grey Knights. Here’s the results: Read more... (341 words, 2 images, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Rok Da Vote | Tagged Grey Knights, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Weekly Battle Report: April 6th – Air Cavalry

Posted on April 7, 2011 09:56 am by Thor

As with last week’s battle report and wanting to play test my revised missions, we did so last night and ran King of the Hill. I was playing against an IG player, amongst other armies, and he was running an in-progress Air Cavalry list. This player is someone I’ve played a lot at the LGS and lose against way more often than not, especially against his IG. His list was roughly: Read more... (692 words, 1 image, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Fate's Angels, Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | 10 comments

Looking for Some Help

Posted on April 6, 2011 02:38 pm by Thor

I meant to post this sooner but what can I say, I’m a bit of a slacker. So, Extreme Home Makeover Edition is looking for families to help out. Well, there’s a family here in Maine that could really use the help. The below part is from my wife. Read more... (129 words, 1 image, estimated 31 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News | Tagged Real | no comments