Stormy's A.S.S.: Multi-charging

So while not quite a cheesy tactic or trick to pull on people this is something I've been meaning to type up for a while.

Go big or go home. That's all I have to say about multi-assaulting. Like buses, you don’t see one for ages and then two come along at once.  This comes from a game I played against England’s Ork player at the 6 Nations (Hello Harry) and after Mike from my team came over to have a look he told me that I had got it wrong with the way my units had assaulted the various Ork units.

I told him I reckoned I had got it right. I knew I had to get photos and write something up on the blog afterwards to analyse how it went and what I would have done differently. And to give advice as to how it can be done right because if it goes wrong you'll suffer. Badly.

ETC 6 Nations Round 5: England.

Hello. I'm scouting ahead of the Queen to make sure this city is safe.

Round 6 and the defending champions are up against the Old Enemy and only we can stop them. That's the romantic version. We were in 3rd place, with Wales in 2nd and England leading the pack. England only needed a draw to win it because of their VP's already scored  because we'd ruled ourselves out of it by drawing with the Nordies in Round 1.

Speaking of people being late: a big shout out to Mark (our stand-in Guard player) who got very drunk the night before and went home with 'some wee wan' according to ComplainyShanie (better known as Root).

Thankfully Ivan was able to stand in at the last minute. Yeah, the old drink tends to have a detrimental effect on the 40k tourney performances of Cork players alright. Thinking about it now if I had been in Mark's shoes I'd have done exactly the same thing. But with more mooing.

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.

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.

ETC 6 Nations Day 1

Alright lads, I meant to have this updated regularly but we can't use the computer during the day because its used for results and they're afraid of crashing or something.

Bag of dicks.

Tourney Report: Retcon 2011 Day 1

Weeeeeeeeeeeee're going down the pub.

Having to start playing games at 10am in the Pale meant that I had to get up at 4am to catch the 5am train to make it up on time. It was always going to be a rocky road to Dublin with that kind of early start. The field up there was going to be top-notch with 18 of the top 25 players on Rankings (I don't like how its scored but we're using that to select the ETC team this year so I'm going along with it) registered to attend. There were a few that couldn't make it but it was still a tough field.

A few of the lads were worried that things would be really tense with this being the arbiter of who would get an invite to the ETC team, especially in the latter rounds, but I found it was quite laid-back which is always nice to see. Especially as I was running a new list and was bound to forget stuff/get it wrong. With Courage Wolf's advice ringing in my ears I got to work.

Tourney Report: Warpcon Game 5

When terrain is this sparse you're in Long Fang country.

With the taste of vomit in my mouth and a manky hangover I was about to call it quits and head home to die in my bed before Floody and a few others came over to me and asked if I was going to be playing in the final round. Suppressing the taste of vomit better than an Arab dictator suppresses dissent I hauled myself over to table 17 to face Anthony.

He's one of the people in my group but I couldn't remember playing him before so I was looking forward to playing against his Orks. I was hoping for something that wouldn't be too taxing on the brain but it was not to be as I had to play 5 objective mission.

Nice one.

Tourney Report: Warpcon Game 1

Those wagons sure are pink.

After wandering about the hall for about 15 mins wondering who my opponent would be I was directed to Table 17 where Brian and his Orks were waiting. With Battlewagons. 3 of them. In case I haven't mentioned it before I don't like Battlewagons. I was getting more nervous the more I thought about it.

It turns out my opponent was apprehensive too as the mere mention of Wolves make him die a little inside. Sweet. I might eke out a win here if I can keep the scary stuff in his face I thought to myself. Cue Thunderlord being put up front. I was looking forward to this game as Keaveney had played Brian at Conclave in Limerick in October and told me he was a very good player and a good laugh too.

Stormy's ASS: The Tork Bow

Purdy Trukk stolen from the internets.

Welcome again to my ASS (Army Specific Shenanigans) and this time to the antics that have been unleashed with the latest FAQ answers dealing with Fast Vehicles. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Tork Bow (I may not have created it but I can damn well name it).*

Named for a weapon that a buddy loves to wield in his obsession (Gears of War 2) this follows the same principle as the one in the computer game: take aim and loose a missile that will lodge itself in an enemy and take them out with an explosive detonation.

There is one additional dimension to the 40k Tork Bow.

Gaelcon Games 5 and 6

Yes, this is Captain Hero.*

Darren and his lovely Wolves: Seize Ground (5 Objectives)/Dawn of War.

Darren had one of those 'counts as' armies that he uses to represent every kind of Marine. His stuff has a lovely neon effect from bright green and bright orange colours with a brilliant white centre over black. I'll have to get pics off one of the lads as I used his camera to take some shots.

Darren's army had Pods. Lots of Pods. Lots and lots. About 8 if I remember correctly.

Rune Priest with Jaws and Lightning
2 Dreads with MultiMelta and Heavy Flamer in Pods
4 Wolf Guard with CombiMelta, Fist
4 x 6 Grey Hunters with Wulfen, Power Weapon, Meltagun in Pods
2 x 5 Long Fangs with 4 Rockets in Pods
Land Raider Redeemer with Extra Armour

Cian's Boy's Nob

Well this isn't a long time coming at all...

So only 2 months after I played this game I finally commit it to blog. I do have excuses though but you don't need to hear that (Cork did win though :D), so its on with the show.

Despite the childish title I am not showing photos of Cian's tackle but of his Orks, which are very nice. The ones that are done at any rate. He's got like 7 layers on the skin blended together which takes him AGES to get his stuff done.

As a result there are various cameo appearances by Blood Angel bikes and tubs of peanut butter to proxy as stuff. I know, shocking, but at least I have been labouring hard to get my stuff up to scratch in the past few weeks and most of it will be painted by Gaelcon this weekend, even if Iggy can't go. Your boss owes you big time lad. BIG TIME.

I'll go through this game before I show how my list has evolved over time to what I'm currently using and hope to bring to the Pale.