The Path of the Destroyer

Hi folks,

I Thought I'd share some general thoughts on the Necrons and also show you my newest painted figure, the Destroyer Lord. I've only been able to grab a couple of 1000pt games with them so far with a list that looks a little (exactly) like this:

1x Destroyer Lord: All the toys except the tachyon arrow
5x Triarch Praetorians
8x Warriors
9x Warriors
3x Wraiths: 2x whip coils
1x Triarch Stalker: Twin-linked heavy gauss cannon
1x Annihilation Barge

I've found the Triarch Praetorians have worked really well when supporting a Destroyer Lord. They're pretty expensive at 400pts but the amount of AP2 they put out in both shooting and combat really does wonders! They are also strength and toughness 5 and gain preferred enemy when paired with the Lord, which normally means that they need 2+ to wound in combat re-rolling 1's! They are a seriously good unit in my opinion.

I'm also really impressed with the reliability of Necron firepower, especially when twinned with the twin-linking effects of the Stalker. So far I've been able to reliably destroy a unit a turn by painting it with Stalker, shooting it with my Warriors and Annihilation Barge and then charging the rest with the Praetorians and the Lord. It's a combination that seems to work well against everything, even hoards.

Finally, we all know its good but hats off to the Annihilation Barge and its twin-linked tesla destrutor! I regularly achieve 5+ hits with this weapon, which is amazing as it only gets 4 shots! Tesla really is that good! and for 80pts, it doesn't break the points bank either.

So there you have it. So far I've been able to win two games using this small list, 1 against hoard Orks (60+ boyz) and one against the shiny new Space Marines. Hopefully as I scale up I learn even more neat little tricks.

Anywho here are some pictures of the recently painted Destroyer Lord.

 I wanted him to look menacing with his single glowing eye!

 The warscythe has been painstakingly wet blended

 A must have piece of kit for any Destroyer Lord. The resurrection orb brought him back 2x last game!

 Once again my stupid matt varnish clouded up the model so I've had to gloss varnish the wet blended armour just to make the effect pop again!

Rise of a new Dynasty

Recently my wonderful fiancee convinced me to keep the small number of necrons I'd bought. They were very nearly ebay'ed for some small amount! Woops, disaster averted.

Anywho I began to come around to the mammoth task of painting them using OSL and wet blending techniques, something I've been thinking about for a while. I wanted to try something that would challenge my painting abilities in a big way and trust me, the annihilation barge took some doing! Here's my first attempt at it...it took me 7 days!

Sum git once told me yu cudnt solve evry problem wiv fire.....hu hu hu, I pruved im rong!

It's been a while since I posted anything here so I thought I'd show you all one of my new favourite units, burner boyz. I'm not sure why I've not used them before? They're pretty cheap at a mere 15pts a model and come armed with a burner, which is either a flamer or a power weapon (AP 3). I guess a major downside to them is the fact that they cannot take a dedicated transport vehicle, which meant that they couldn't keep up with the rest of my units in past army builds.

However, as the game changes so to does my approach to building lists. Now I have a much more foot slogging based army replete with large mobs of shoota boyz, lootas and an aegis defense line. Suddenly, my battle wagons look a bit empty, but wait there's space for burner boyz! And so starts my new enthusiasm for the little guys.

Recently, I've been running them up to expensive or large units and just flamming them, either on foot or from the open topped hatch of a battle wagon. When placed carefully, I'm regularly rewarded with 50+ hits!!! That's a lot of armour saves to pass, even if you are a terminator! Then, when they're inevitably assaulted, they can fall back on power weapons for that extra nasty surprise your opponent wasn't expecting! Seriously, for 150pts, they're a steal.

Here's a few quick shots of the buggers. 3 are still being painted, they'll be finished soon :p

Da Red Bastardz!!

The remainder of my Imperial Guard allies consisted of a company command squad with a mortar and a veteran squad with a las cannon. These two units worked so well together manning the aegis defense line with the Icarus las cannon. Orders like 'bring it down' and 'fire on my target' were especially useful considering the sear amount of terrain that was available this year.

The models are mainly micro art studio 'goblin troopers' with some head swaps from the grot kit and some imperial guard lasguns. The las-cannon was a little more complex but again is mainly just a collection of various bits, including: heavy stubber, grot prod, corpse cart wheels and leman russ wheels. I think they look quite good :)

Da Cammanda:

Da Vetrinz:

Grot Whaaagh!

I decided to take a small contingent of Imperial Guard allies to boost the objective holding and anti-air elements that I feel the main Ork codex lacks. As such, I took a company command with a mortar, a veteran squad with a las cannon and a Vendetta gunship. They worked amazingly well and I'm really impressed with the veterans especially, who sat behind the aegis line with the Icarus las cannon receiving orders and killing stuff!

I didn't want to field guardsmen though, so I instead settled on a 'grot mercs for hire' idea. Here's the plane :)

Whaaaagh Vendetta!

Nationals 2013: Leicester Sabres Victory!

This year the Student Nationals Wargaming and Roleplaying Championships were held in Sheffield and I went to compete on behalf of the Leicester Sabres in the Warhammer 40k category. As you all know, I took orks and from the nationals I wanted to achieve 'best painted', 'best sportsman' and 'best fancy dress' rather than any of the tournament placings. That was mainly because I took a rubbish army! There were also two very competent players competing from the Sabres so I thought the best way to grab points would to not be in competition with them. In the end, I came away with 2 out of 3 :p Alas 'best army' still eludes me with a score of 29/30 painting points. The gentleman that won had a beautiful spacemarine army so hats off to him. It was seriously good! Having said that, I'm dead chuffed with the other two awards and the event itself was brilliant fun. I have some great games and I really enjoyed using my army despite only achieving 15th place overall!

Anyway, that's that fluffy guff over with I can get to the meat of this post...the pictures. I'll be posting up pictures of the various units I used at the nationals this year starting with my favorite unit, the nob bikers. So without further ado here they are...

Me in my Fallout Costume (This is a little old, I actually added more pockets holding nukacola...it's all in the details!)

Ok, ok I'll get to the proper pictures!

The Warboss

 The Nob Bikers