Olympia's Finest

I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to paint over the winter months and have decided that it’s going to be the pin-up boys from Olympia, the Iron Warriors.

Magnetising the Razorwing

Those of you that know me and have seen my previous 40k armies probably also know that I tend to go a bit magnet crazy at times. My Eldar have 5 Grav Tank hulls that can be changed freely between Wave Serpents and Falcons, as well as all the weapons being switchable. My World Eaters weren’t as extreme, but there was a Predator that could take any combination of weapons or drop back to being a Rhino.

This leads me to my current project, the Dark Eldar. Now, there’s not much to do to the Raiders and Venoms apart from magnetising the flying stands, so I looked instead at the Razorwing. It’s got four missiles, each of which can be one of three types. They are also one-use-only, so it makes sense to have them come off as you fire them. It’s also not quite as clear as with the Raiders, Ravagers or Venoms which weapon configuration is the best, so I decided to make them swappable too.

Here’s a step by step guide of what I did, along with photos of each stage that I took during the process. The magnets I used were just ones we had sitting around at home (3mm diameter and 1mm deep). I hope the guide is interesting and helpful to some.

MINDRAZOR FTW! - Part 2

After a stunning first day that saw the Dark Alliance go 9/9 wins, we were back on Sunday to see if we could keep up the trend. However, with us being the clear leaders in number of tiles on the map, everyone else was out to get us and started using the ‘Disaster’ event to collapse our buildings, castles and mines. Not fair I tell you! ;)

Game 4 – Raymond Dick (Lizards)

So far, we’d been quite indifferent to the Lizards, who bordered us on the south, but when the matchups for this round were announced it was clear there was a bit of bad blood between us after all. Raymond had a Carnosaur Lord, BSB and normal Vet on Cold One, a Priest, 20 Saurus, 2 medium Skrox units, an Ancient Steg, 2 Salamanders and 5 Chameleon Skinks.

Skaven Delta Force.....Locked and Loaded

By the start of the second day the Skaven had abandoned their objective of destroying the Realm of man, deciding that this was an obvious printing error and their real target were the Elves.

“Elf…..the other white meat”

With this change in strategy we had to go through the Orcs to get there so……..

Space Husky Battle Report

Hi all....

This week I am blessed with the house guest that is Haydn Korach. Other than having my nosey neighbours peering out their window trying to work out why a police car is parked on my lawn all night, this came with the added benefit of getting a game in with the new Wolves against one of New Zealands top ranked players, using an army he is very familiar with.

Who Needs Delta Force When You Play Skaven!!!!!!

Over the weekend I ran the second of the Warhammer Fantasy Campaign Weekends, The Horned Rat IV. The event attracted 20 gamers split into seven teams. There were five games over the two days. The armies were 2000 points (using Pete-Lite Comp), with the opportunity to add three sideboards of up to 100 points each.

My list was as follows:

Grey Seer – Earthing Rod, 4+ Ward
BSB – Standard of Discipline
Plague Priest – Furnace, Rival Hide Talisman, Ironcurse Icon, Dispel Scroll
Engineer – Doomrocket
Engineer
Engineer

25 Clanrats – Full Command, Shields
23 Clanrats – Full Command, Shields
40 Slaves
40 Slaves
39 Slaves

6 Gutter Runners – Poison, Slings
6 Gutter Runners – Poison, Slings
20 Plague Monks – Full Command, Banner of Under-Empire

Warplightning Cannon
Hell Pit Abomination

I had a sideboard but never used it.

Our objective was to destroy the Realm of Men and we started off by declaring “Disaster” on them and destroying their capital city.

MINDRAZOR FTW! - Part 1

So over the weekend we had the Horned Rat campaign weekend. I was part of the Dark Alliance along with Tim Norling and Tom Dunn, and my list is in the post below. Like I said before, I was trying out some of the more ‘standard’ choices in the current Dark Elf lists being used in the UK, those being the 2x10 Shades and the Shadow Level 4 with Dagger and Lifetaker.

We rocked up on Saturday morning, and discovered our team goal was to claim the northern mountains, which meant that we’d have to get through Orcs and/or Dwarfs to achieve this. We also for some reason had to make sure we were always bordering the Realm of Men, which was strange, because we really wanted to fight them and wipe them out!

Something Different

So I've just finished painting up some of the markers for Horned Rat tomorrow, and thought I'd throw up my list. I'm using Dark Elves for the first time in a long while, and decided to try out some of the filth that's been running around in the UK for while. I've been inducted into the Dark Alliance as a result, alongside my brother Tom's Daemons and Tim Norling's WoC.

Now, I don't have 2 lots of 20 Black Guard, or 30 Corsairs, so I couldn't copy all the good stuff, but I am trying 2x10 Shades along with a Shadow Level 4 (Mindrazor!!!) with a dagger, which is something I haven't used before. I'm not sure how the list will go, but I've been told the lists this weekend are all harder than last time, so that should make it good fun with nice tight games.

Level 4, Shadow, Dagger, Ruby Ring, Lifetaker

Cauldron, BSB

30 Spears, Std, Mus

16 Spears, Std, Mus

2x10 Xbows, Mus

2x5 Harpies

20 Black Guard. Std, Mus, Banner of Murder

2x10 Shades

Hydra

And the sideboard is:

5 Dark Riders, Mus

Chariot

Bolt Thrower

I'll take some photos of the games over the weekend and do a rundown of our team's results next week. Now that I'm on holiday and at home, there will be a lot of Dark Eldar stuff going on too!

Lie of the Land

The Teams for Horned Rat are finalised:

Slippery - All Lizardmen - Reid Pittams, Mike King and Raymond Dick

Stunty - All Dwarfs - Hagen Kerr and Matt Hassall

Realm of Man - Neil Williamson (Brets), Peter Williamson (Woodies) and Joel van der Ven-Long (Empire)

S.A.D. - All Skaven - James Millington, Doug Rosendale, Pete Dunn

Resplendant - All High Elves - Glen Burfield, Hugh Dixon, Adam Richards

Pigstikkas - All Orcs & Goblins - Sam Whitt, Hamish Forbes, Ben Wadsworth

Dark (Dull) Alliance - Tim Norling (WoC), Tom Dunn (Daemons) and Jack Dunn (Dark Elves)

The event cards have been written, the objectives decided.....let's roll some dice!

Tick, Tock......Mousies on the March

So Horned Rat tomorrow and I realised I hadn’t put up my list.

Having tried a Pestilens themed list in my last game, I’ve decided to go back to a standard Skaven list.

So here’s what it is

Grey Seer
Priest on Furnace
BSB
Three Engineers

3x 40 Slaves Muso
2x 25 Clanrats Full Command

2x 6 Gutter runners with Poison & Slings
20 Plague Monks

Warp Lightning Cannon
Hell Pit Abomination

Sideboards:

Core: 20 Rats with 4 Packmasters

Special: 6 Plague Censer Bearers

Rare: Plagueclaw Catapult

I am in Team S.A.D. (Skaven Armies of Doom) with James Millington and Doug Rosendale.

All I can promise is “There Will Be Cheese”