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Reavers Hobby: Wolf Lord Conversion WIP

Posted on January 30, 2012 03:00 am by Kamui

Hello all,  Read more... (411 words, 8 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

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Reavers pics: Skyclaw and Thunderwolf Cavlary WIP

Posted on December 17, 2011 05:07 am by Kamui

Hello all,

Just a brief update on my current projects.  I wanted to add a couple of fast moving units to my army so I’ve been working on a unit of Skyclaws and some Thunderwolf Cavalry.   Read more... (469 words, 5 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

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Kamui’s Summer Challenge 2011: Wrap-up Pictures

Posted on November 20, 2011 02:32 pm by Kamui

Well, as I mentioned in my last post I’ve not managed to paint 2000 points of Reavers by the end of summer.  I did manage to get 1850 by the Standish Standoff, and I’ve been happy with the performance of what I’ve got.  I did struggle in the last game against Stealthy Stealth’s orks, but my shooting rolls were horrendous so I can’t really blame the list.  I also made a couple of mistakes throughout the day but I came in 11th for battle points with two wins and a loss.  Here’s a few pictures of what I’ve finished, as well as the Thunderwolf Cavalry I’m working on:  Read more... (387 words, 8 images, estimated 1:33 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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Lessons Learned: Don’t Be Stupid

Posted on October 21, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Played a game on Wednesday against a Daemon player I routinely face. He’s been trying to deal with Marines using null zone to learn to overcome it and he did just that. He went into the game very aggressively. We had spearhead deployment and he had first turn. I set up my parking lot of vehicles and he dropped most everything in my face. The aggressive deployment is not typical of this player. Usually he goes more mid-field which gives me a few turns to soften things up before I send in my assault units. Putting it all in my face was a smart move on his part, especially with spearhead deployment as it left me little room to disengage.  Read more... (423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 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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Kamui’s Summer Challenge 2011: Quick update and fluff

Posted on September 14, 2011 07:33 am by Kamui

Hello all!

I know I’ve been absent for some time, but I have been making slow progress on painting and haven’t really felt like I had much to post.  I am four marines away from competing my core of Grey Hunters and will post a group shot when I get there.  I’ve also started on a squad of Long Fangs to break things up, pics of them will be posted when they’re finished.  For now I’ve written the second half of the origin story for the Reavers.  If you don’t remember it or haven’t read it the first half is here:   http://creativetwilight.com/2011/07/kamuis-summer-challenge-2011-reavers-origin-part-1/

Now on to part two:  Read more... (708 words, 1 image, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

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Monthly Tournament Report: Playing for Fun

Posted on September 12, 2011 12:00 pm by Thor

This past weekend the LGS hosted its normal monthly tournament. This month it was 1,850 and as a test run for the event we’re hosting in November we also incorporated sportsmanship scoring and painting scoring. As a result I opted to bring my Space Marines but I wanted to do something different and field a more ‘fun’ list. Here’s the list I brought: http://cmdctr.net/lists/472  Read more... (1006 words, 1 image, estimated 4:01 mins reading time)

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Battle Report: The True Test of Chaos

Posted on August 25, 2011 08:53 am by Thor

Last night I played two 1,850 games with Chaos. My first opponent was playing vanilla Marines with a Legion of the Damned army using Vulkan. He, at the recommendation of another player, was trying out Tigurius. He list featured three Drop Pods, two full of Tacts and one with Sternguard who were joined by Vulkan and Tigurius. He also had two full Legion squads. Naturally the entire list was melta heavy.  Read more... (990 words, 1 image, estimated 3:58 mins reading time)

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A Bit of a Break and Changing Gears

Posted on August 19, 2011 09:14 am by Thor

With ‘ard Boyz over, and not having qualified for regionals, it’s time to set aside my Marines for a while and focus on my Chaos army. For the past eight months I’ve played the hell out of my Marines and though I’m far from bored with them, rather the beauty of Marines if you ask me, I want to get my Chaos army on its feet.  Read more... (407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

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‘Ard Boyz re-cap

Posted on August 17, 2011 07:00 am by Amberclad

Greetings all, Amberclad here.

It’s been a while since my last article, I have been slaving away (pun intended) with my dark eldar for the last three months. But I’ll talk about them another time. Today I want to talk about ‘Ard Boyz and my experience this past weekend.  Read more... (1312 words, 1 image, estimated 5:15 mins reading time)

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Kamui’s Summer Challenge 2011: More pics

Posted on August 13, 2011 07:42 pm by Kamui
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This gallery contains 9 photos.

Since I wasn’t able to participate in ‘Ard Boyz today, and those who did are probably not going to post anything tonight, I thought I’d toss up a few close-ups of the Grey Hunters:  Read more... (35 words, 9 images, estimated 8 secs reading time)

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