Sisters @ Moofool Game 1

Chaosy. Needs more tentacles though.

This was against Alan's Wolves riddled with Grey Hunters and Fangs with TWC and Scouts to cause havoc amongst my proxied lines. The mission was 5 set Objectives primary with KP secondary. I reckoned if I pushed some units into midfield and drew out the GH that I'd be able to counter-charge them or blow them away with Bolters one by one and have Celestine float about getting shot, getting back up and being an annoyance. A bit like Space Wolf Scouts really. Except she can cause havoc from the get-go.

Because the photos might cause confusion I'll add a guide as to what was masquerading as what in my army later.

6 Nations Round 3: Scotland

I assume the Scots retired early to practice bagpipes.

So with an early nights sleep due to the lack of drink on Good Friday we expected the Scots to be well refreshed and ready for our games i.e. not hungover.

So it was that I was put up against Pete and his very fancy newly-airbrushed Dark Eldar. With all the floating gunboats I figured that I'd have to hide most of my army before getting stuck in over the last few turns rather than deploying stuff and getting blown away very quickly.

6 Nations Round 2: Barbarians

That's a lot of Lootas.

They've probably got other names to go by too but I'm not sure what they are. Still dying of a gin-flavoured hangover I was thrown up with the Barbars captain Gareth and his 45 Lootas. Yeah, this was going to be messy.

I had to get stuck in but things didn't go my way when I lost the roll to go first. I was wondering about what and how to deploy when I asked Mike beside if I should reserve everything or deploy everything. 'Seize' was all he had to say.

6 Nations Round 1: Norn Iron

Or Northern Ireland as most people would know them. Following on from FIFA there's two teams from the island of Ireland. Thankfully, as the song suggests, they're not Brazil they're Northern Ireland: at the ETC they finished lower than Ireland last year so we were reckoned we could beat them but it looked a hard task as their armies looked impressive on paper.

I'll take the time now to thank the Nordie team for actually allowing the game to go ahead. I'd gone with Eoin, Caolán, Chris, and some of the boyos from Way-ells the night before and ended up drinking gin & o.j. till half 11 before stumbling off home. My phone died when I got back and fell asleep on the couch so I slept in as I had no alarm, had a quick shower and a puke, rang a taxi and headed up there. When I finally arrived 45 mins later I made my apologies and was told that the Nordies' Dave Mc was still willing to throw dice even though they were fully entitled to take a 20-0 win (I wouldn't have complained to be honest).

So thanks again to Captain Jonny and the lads, but especially Dave, for their patience.

ETC 6 Nations Day 2

Wales: Full of rugby fans, sheep and some sound 40k players.

Its the day after and the dust has settled and most of the lads who travelled over to Cork will be on the way back home about now. Congratulations to the English lads that won it, just taking it from the Welsh by a point. I'm pretty sure they had tonnes of VPs to spare if it came down to a tie-breaker though. War.org has the results.

I just have to say that it was savage and I'm looking forward to the weekend in Switzerland. A big shout out to the Welsh boys for making a weekend out of it - including standing in a park until half 11 drinking beer and gin with orange juice. Classy. Or as the lads would say: Tidy.


Onto the games on Day 2.

I still don't like Thunderwolves.

Linky from here. I'm actually in the middle of typing up my Itzacon and Retcon reports (you're next Colin) and I only just saw Skarvald the Troll-Faced's comments this morning. I was going to put up a response on the page itself but I felt that it deserved its own post as it might get buried although I'm worried that I might be flogging a dead horse. At least it drives home the point that I don't rate TWC as highly as I used to.

And it'll make it appear as if I've been busier by typing up more quality content.

 

I just don't like Thunderwolves

Shameless self-promotion.

Having seen posts and articles from all over the blogosphere about how good TWC are I have to say that I can't bring myself to agree with them. Spaguatyrine over on theback40k and Simo on Claws and Fists give their views (note to Simo: label your TWC stuff separately :P) but I have to say that I don't rate them as much as Spaggy - TWC are definitely not the best unit in the game. I think that Darkseer got it right in that thread.

I've also been reading The War Altar and its observations of the past few month's tourneys in Ireland, and the fact that TWC were popular among the Wolf players but not one of my staples.

Its a steep learning curve: Gaelcon Game 1

I've got Ivan's game to add but that'll get pushed to one side. See Ivan: that's what happens when you don't do as you're told. I'll throw up the games that I played at Gaelcon instead, as they're competitive games and people usually learn more from them. I know I do...

There were 6 missions with ETC scoring: 15 for a Win, 10 for a Draw, 5 for a Loss with +/- points based on VP difference.

Game 1 - 5 objectives with Spearhead Deployment

Dave and his Space Wolves

I was happy to see Dave as I always have a great laugh playing him and I was out for revenge . The mission in this game had an objective in the centre of the board and one in the centre of each quarter.

Thunder Wolf Cavalry

Seeing as I despise the Steroid-Gerbil/Steroid-rat/Hairy-Cow/Muscle-Cat that GW produced for Canis Wolfborn's mount I decided to build my own TWC. I'm not fond of the idea of gigantic genetic armoured super-soldiers riding even more gigantic genetic armoured-super-wolves either. I like the idea of a Wolf hunting pack so I went with that. The Marines are simply running with a pack of Iron Priest created cyborg canine monstrosities, directing where they go so they can beat face. You might ask why the Wolves look dessicated - well, I imagine that's what they'd look like after a bomb has hit them and come walking through the flames Hollywood style.