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Battle Report: Chaos vs Blood Angels

Posted on January 27, 2012 07:00 am by Thor

I’m trying to take a new approach to my Chaos lists. At this point I’m over the honeymoon stage where I feel compelled to throw down all sorts of different stuff to learn about the army. That’s not to say there aren’t still units I want to test out, still plenty of those, but that I’m comfortable with the army now at least. So on Wednesday when I got to play I brought along this list: http://cmdctr.net/lists/712. I was planning on an 1,850 game so I threw in the Havocs to make points, it was quick and easy.  Read more... (821 words, 1 image, estimated 3:17 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: 2 Days, 2 Games

Posted on January 22, 2012 07:00 am by Thor

Let’s get right to it. Wednesday I got to play a practice team game for tomorrow’s team tournament at my FLGS. I partnered with a Daemon player and we played against two Blood Angels players. I was running Chaos with the following list: http://cmdctr.net/lists/678. In my typical fashion I’ll cover these games in broad strokes.  Read more... (1011 words, 1 image, estimated 4:03 mins reading time)

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Tournament Report: Kill Team

Posted on January 5, 2012 08:32 am by Thor

Every few months we run a quick Kill Team tournament at my FLGS. There’s always a good showing and last night we had 16 of us for it. The last time we did this I ran five Chaos Terminators and got smoked in all three games. This time I opted for seven Plague Marines with two plasma guns. I gave one plasma gun infiltrate, one relentless and a bolter guy slow and purposeful.  Read more... (632 words, 1 image, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

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December Tournament Report: The Chaos Induction

Posted on January 3, 2012 08:04 am by Thor

Originally we, myself and two other authors here, had planned on doing a joint battle report but that never came to pass. I had already written my portion of things so instead of wasting it I may as well toss it up here.  Read more... (557 words, 1 image, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Team Game with Chaos

Posted on December 30, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Wednesday night at my FLGS I played a team game. January’s tournament will be a team game with 1,250 per-player and random pairings. The force org is restricted to avoid breaking it and make pairings easier. It’s 1 HQ, 0-1 elite, 1-3 troops, 0-1 fast attack and 0-1 heavy and you can add 1 more to any of the 0-1 selections. In my continuing effort to test things out with Chaos I brought this list, the same one I used last week: http://cmdctr.net/lists/611.  Read more... (765 words, 1 image, estimated 3:04 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Planetstrike – The Forgotten Expansion

Posted on December 22, 2011 09:34 am by Thor

I recall when Planetstrike was due out how excited I was to try it. That was just about three years ago and I had only played it twice despite owning the book. Last night though at my FLGS almost everyone decided to play Planetstrike.  Read more... (1150 words, 1 image, estimated 4:36 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Disciples of Twilight vs Cobra

Posted on December 16, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Wednesday my Chaos Marines faced Imperial Guard. His army is themed as Cobra. Wish I had a shot of his army, it’s cool, complete with Cobra Commander and Destro. You can see it a bit on the left image.  Read more... (688 words, 1 image, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Dark Gods and the Inevitable

Posted on December 9, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Thus far my Chaos Marines, Disciples of Twilight, have had a really strong showing in the handful of games I’ve managed with them. By far the best start, win/loss ratio, I’ve had with any army. Part of that I feel is honestly because nobody plays them at my FLGS with regularity. Players are on a bit of a learning curve when across from them. Once people become more accustomed to them the harder it will be for me.  Read more... (1066 words, 1 image, estimated 4:16 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Chaotic Christmas

Posted on December 2, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

For my FLGS’ December tournament we’ll be playing at 1,225 (12/25, get it?). So on Wednesday I brought in my Chaos Marines to get them ready for their first ever monthly tournament appearance. I’m pretty excited to see how they do as I’ve been doing really well with the army thus far.  Read more... (803 words, 1 image, estimated 3:13 mins reading time)

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The Standish Standoff: Tournament Wrap-up

Posted on November 14, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

After months of preparing for it it’s almost sad to see it go. My FLGS, Crossroad Games, hosted its first ever annual large 40K tournament on Saturday. It was a 30 person event with three rounds using soft scores, which is uncommon for us. Our monthly events are straight battle points but this new annual event we wanted to create a more friendly and hobby oriented event. Many of us spent the past four months getting ready for it. Tables had to be built, more terrain created, old tables and terrain repaired, etc. It’s been a long road but the payoff was well worth it.  Read more... (1168 words, 18 images, estimated 4:40 mins reading time)

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Quick Report: New Necrons and Tournament Prep

Posted on November 11, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

On Wednesday I got to face off against the new Necrons. I brought my 1,850 Marine list I’m using for this Saturday’s tournament. No offense to my opponent, who I know reads my blog, but there’s not a ton to report from the game itself. I threw Terminators with an attached Librarian and Cassius at him, ate some Warriors and a Lord, then got stuck into a damn near endless combat by a counter-charge from Oberon (I spell that right?), and Lychguard. With both our assault units tied up I just went about shooting the hell out of him and when the game ended on turn 7 he was tabled.  Read more... (335 words, 1 image, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

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Quick Report: More Standoff Practice

Posted on November 3, 2011 08:44 am by Thor

After another night of working on terrain as we prepare for The Standish Standoff, I got in a practice game for the event. Last week I also got in a practice game but I decided to completely overhaul my list. My previous list was more assault oriented, utilizing Fate Lord Monthu (aka: Shrike), and the list I brought last night was a much more balanced list. As with last week I’m not giving out my list. I’d hate for all the players at my FLGS to decide to build lists to counter mine ;)  Read more... (539 words, 1 image, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

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Quick Report: Standoff Practice

Posted on October 28, 2011 09:13 am by Thor

My FLGS is hosting a large 30-person tournament on Nov. 12th called The Standish Standoff. In short it’s a more hobby oriented tournament where our monthly ones are not. As such, I’m working out some lists for my Space Marines that capitalize on what I have painted to avoid the last-minute rush of needing to get things done. Tournaments are a motivator for painting but at the same time I don’t want to do rush jobs on my army either.  Read more... (416 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: FLGS October Tournament

Posted on October 24, 2011 09:17 am by Thor

This month my FLGS ran a 2K tournament. Normally in our tournaments we put all the entry fees into the prize pool but this month it was a benefit for a store regular who was diagnosed with cancer. Originally it was to be 75% to the benefit and 25% to the players but GW decided to do prize support for us allowing us to give 100% to this gentleman, which is awesome. The downside is that it would seem a fair amount of people didn’t want to bother thinking the prize pool was insubstantial and we had one of our worst showings ever. It’s sad really. I guess some people care more about the prize support than they do playing some games for fun and benefiting a man with a life threatening illness.  Read more... (1064 words, 4 images, estimated 4:15 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: Back to the Warp

Posted on October 7, 2011 07:00 am by Thor
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Steve's Khorne Prince  Read more... (519 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: The Favored Ones

Posted on September 22, 2011 09:14 am by Thor

Another week, another report. Last night I played a Chaos player who is working on creating his Alpha Legion. I had brought my Chaos, Disciples of Twilight, and we played an 1,850 game. We rolled up capture and control with pitched battle and I won first turn. Oh, here’s the list I brought: http://cmdctr.net/lists/439. As I did last week, this week I’ll also do a more narrative report.  Read more... (949 words, 1 image, estimated 3:48 mins reading time)

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