Mournival Hobby Challenge - Sam Whitt (April)

 Sam painted some more Space Wolves, ready for the FOB NZ Grand Tournament

He also managed a game versus Cody's Minotaurs using the White Dwarf Maelstrom missions.

 

Mournival Hobby Challenge - Lliam Munro (April)

1.  Build new 40k army:

Completed three tyranid warriors and four hive guard. 

Begun three more ripper bases. 

Nearly completed two exocrines. 

Completion of exocrines and rippers will give me a workable 1000-point list. 

2. Add units to an existing army. 

Nearly done on a falcon grav tank. 

Nearly finished a farseer on jetbike. 

Begun work on a wraithlord and two additional wraithblades. 

Finished a vyper jetbike. 

3. Organise a campaign:

Had a test Crusade game with Carson. 

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Hobby - Happy Families With Hivefleet Cerebane

 What better way to spend Mother's Day than to spend the morning putting together a happy family group while watching the football.

A couple of weeks ago I purchased two Tyrannofex/Tervigon kits off a local Facebook group. The intent was to have them join Hivefleet Cerebane in time for Call toArms at the start of July.

So here is Terri the Tervigon with her current baby-daddy, Tyrone the Tyrannofex. Really nice kits to put together and I expect they will paint up very easily. Effectively, this is another 400 points for the Hivefleet which is growing by the day. 

Unsure which of the three weapon options was best for Tyrone, but in the end went with the Acid Spray gun because of its short range nature. 

Hobby - "You, Flock of Seagulls"

 This week continued the Tyranid paint up.

Got out a bunch of half finished projects and finished them up to Battle Ready.

The first of these was sixteen METAL Gargoyles. These have sat around 15 years uncompleted....in fact, I think it may have been a Jack project. They have now had wings finished, claws etc done and been based.

You forget how unwieldy and painful metal models were. These Gargoyles are 5 pieces each plus a bloody annoying clear flying stand.

Nice to finish a unit you absolutely never see on the table

Mournival Hobby Challenge - Bruce Manning (April)

 1. Paint a new 40k army

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

Got some foam hills from MA, I like them for 2 reasons. You can stack small on large to make a reasonable LOS blocking piece of terrain. And you have to move around the hill or fly over so it adds another aspect to the movement tactics. It's not just hiding behind ruins and then charging out. More planning is required.

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army

I am still working on my SW and added 2 new units.

Some Assault Intercessors and Wolf Guard Terminators. I forgot I had the assault troops and was looking for something to paint one day. Got them in a Recruit box with some necrons.

Had these for years not painted. I must admit to just painting them because they now have 3 wounds and are just better!

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it

Steve is still flogging his GSC and having a hard time vs my Necrons. Really shows the difference between 8th and 9th edition codex. We tried the Valley Con rules and decided it was fun and very different to chapter approved GT 2020 rules.

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Mournival Hobby Challenge - Pete Dunn (April)

Another month done and time to chart progress on the Mournival Hobby Challenge.

The challenges are:

1. Paint a new 40k army

2000 point Death Guard army completed

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game 10' x 4' Ruined City table completed

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

Legio Vulpa completed.

I have purchased some 3D printed terrain which is next project.

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group Nothing done

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army Five or six Tyranid units added to my bug army. The latest being some Lictors. Purchased two Tyrannofex/Tervigons off local Facebook group. Intention is to have 6000+ painted points ready for Call to Arms multiplayer.

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

Nothing done

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it Had three games at home with new Death Guard.

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband Starter set purchased. Also picked up Cursed City.

9. Organise a multiplayer game Looking to run a 6000 point a side game at Call to Arms, local Club convention. Building/painting Nids currently

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords First one was last Saturday. Took Death Guard, going 2-1 and finishing 6th out of 16.

Blog - Fields of Blood Twitter Account

 For the last month I have been posting material from this blog to Twitter as I know people consume their hobby social media differently.

I had an inactive Twitter account but decided to start afresh. The new account is:

@40kFields 

Generally I'll post notifications of new content plus additional pictures or stuff I'm working on that I haven't blogged.

Hobby - A Tray of Bugs

 Yesterday I pulled out all the Tyranid models that I could find in the house. Over the past week I have been painting random Nid models and following on from this I thought I would corral all my bugs into one place and go through them over the next month and paint them.

The first thing to do was to repair all the painted and partly painted models. Which brings me to the tray of bugs.

Phase One - Remember the Fallen

There is a real plethora of models there. Raveners, 3rd and 4th Edition Tyrant Guard, a Flyrant, Biovores, Zoanathropes....and my favourite, The Red Terror.

Last evening I repaired them all - with metal models aerosol CA accelerator is your friend - and those that need painting re-touches have been primed ready to go.

So over the next month expect to see pictures of a series of older Tyranid models as I comlete them.

40K - The Long War 021.M3

The first of the 2021 Long War Series was held at the Warlords this weekend. The event was organised by  Sean Sullivan and attracted 16 participants.

THE LONG WAR CONTINUES

Going into the event, my major concern was my lack of practice with my new Death Guard army. I didn't want to curtail the experience of others by any slowness on my part. In the end we got through three turns in the first game, four in the second and five in the third......so an "Improving" grade.

Game One - The Scouring - Sam Whitt (Chaos)

Sam grudged me in the week leading up to the event which, for me, was excellent as he is my favourite opponent. His army was a mix of CSM and Daemons. Basically the game game down to a single set of die rolls. I had to make saving throws of 6 on three wounds and (of course, because I was on top of my game) i made them....oh how we lol'd. This denied Sam 10 Primary Points.

Win: 45-37

Game Two - Search & Destroy - Kent Jackson (Ultramarine Successors)

Key in this game was a 7 point Command Point dump in Turn One which allowed me to survive Kent's three Invictus Dread charge. I managed to get extremely lucky inflicting 6 Mortal Wounds from Curse of the Leper on a unit of Eliminators who were picking off my characters. As the game wore the Death Guard resilience won out.

Win: 78-62

Game Three - Scorched Earth - Aaron Wilson (Imperial Knights)

Going into the last round Aaron and I were playing for second place (except in the unlikely event of a draw in the other undefeated game). We had played with the same armies the previous week where I had managed a solid win. Aaron had learned the lesson from that game and tried to maintain range between the armies. It was a tight game of cat and mouse but effectively came down to poor placement of my Lord of Contagion, who was bearing down on a Knight. I failed three 9" charges which meant that I failed to kill a bracketed Knight. This allowed Aaron to reposition the Knight to shoot the Lord off the board. I had thought I was ok if I dumped 4 CP on Cloud of Flies but had forgotten that the strat doesn't work if you are still the closest. Really good game, and well done to Aaron.

Loss: 76-81

Wrap Up

I was pretty happy with the overall result given it was my first run with the army. I finished 6th out of 16 (between Kent in 5th [well done] and Sam in 7th). Aaron was 2nd.

My score was inflated by some pretty clutch die rolls - especially the one vs. Sam. I felt I had the best of the in-game dice but really suffered in pre-game. For the three games, I failed both the roll-off to pick deployment zone and for first turn......1.56% chance of that happening, thanks for asking.

My speed with the army is increasing and my knowledge of the various unit rules is better. Apologies to all three opponents for anything I got wrong. Certainly by game three my mind was a mush.

Great day. Thanks Sean.

40K - Salty John from TFG Radio On Fire Re Dark Eldar

 Competitively, at events, Dark Eldar had a wonderful record last weekend. They won 4-5 GT sized events and had a 75% win record.

Only one word for this performance - IMPRESSIVE!!

Salty John from TFG Radio Podcast has been having a wonderful time with his memes in light of this. 

Here are some of his best:

Couldn't Happen to a Better Bunch of Corporate Lackeys

Think I'll call this one "The Sam Whitt Memorial Meme"

As Seen at Total War

Absolutely!!

Staggeringly though, despite using Drukhari, Haydn Korach was 0-2 at the end on day one at Total War. "Surely, Haydn can't be that shit a player?" I mused to myself. Then I checked and saw that his two losses were to other Dark Eldar.

It's going to be interesting over the next couple of events just how much self-respect matters to people 😉

The Long War this weekend has no DE present.......Wellington: The Self Respect Capital of the World