Bad Dice - What is your voodoo?

The picture to the left is an example of a good Snake Eyes.  The snake eyes I have been seeing recently are of a different variety all together. 

Clash of the Titans - C:SM vs Blood Angels - Part 2

Thanks for checking back.  As promised here is part 2 and the conclusion to the Space Marine vs Blood Angels battle report.

40k: Battle Report - C:SM vs. Blood Angels - part 1

This past Sunday I hosted a mini clash of the titans in my man cave.

Until recently I had been using proxies to represent my 1st company Blood Angel force.  I was really aching to get them on the table top and when I did I wanted it to be against a top notch opponent.

I invited a buddy of mine over.  He's no slouch and is one of the top tournament performers in the Atlanta area.  A couple of years ago he won our local circuit of champions. He is known for taking somewhat unconventional lists that could be considered 'spoilers' for other tournament winning armies.

For the first game he took:

HQ

Librarian

w/ Null Zone

Tech Marine

2 servitors

Fast

10 man Assault Squad

Rhino

Troops:

3 5 man tactical squads

3 Las/Razorbacks

AND

6 Ironclads

w/ 2 hunter killers each

I took:

The Sanguinor

Librarian

w/ Might and Sanguin Sword

Jump Pack

Honor Guard w/ banner

Power Fist x 2

Melta Gun x 2

Storm shield x 4

Chaplain

Jump Pack

4 Assault Marine squads

All with two melta guns and power fists

The mission is 'draw fest' where two objectives are placed on the table top.  You have to control more objectives than your opponent to win.  90% of these games result in a draw when you are playing a good opponent unless someone gets lucky.

I won the roll to choose deployment and opted go first for no other reason that to test the viability of having the less favorable option for me.  I would have really liked to go second for the obvious reason of wanting to use the Descent of Angels after my opponent had already positioned, either moving around on the table or coming in from reserves.

I choose to hold everything in reserve.  My opponent does the same.

Our game basically starts on turn two.

I come in with the Sanguinor, the Honor Guard with attached Lib and Chaplain and one of my assault squads with a priest which I opt to combat squad.

He has nothing on the table. I scatter an inch or two from my desired locations and then run for a slightly more favorable position.

Bottom of two he has somewhat favorable reserve rolls and gets in four of his six dreads, his tech marine and one of his razorback squads.  He brings that RB on the table lined up at my objective.

He murders one of my combat squads down to the last man.  Thankfully that man had a melta gun.  I pass my leadership test.

Turn 3 I get the rest of my army in.  He has a few thing left in reserve so I have to position a few units over near where he brought his RB just in case he comes screaming in with the rest of his force in the same area to make a serious push for my objective.

I opt to combat squad everything allowing me to have more options late in the game and split my melta guns up.

I don't have a lot of luck on my turn and only manage to kill one dreadnought. This should have gone a little better but it's a dice game.

On the other side of the field I take the weapon off of the Razorback and Immobilize it.

Bottom of Turn three he moves up and assaults me. As expected his ironclads made decently quick work of my Assault marines but he is in a good position for me to counter assault with my Super Unit.

He kills one 5 man squad and leaves only the priest in another squad who ends up breaking and getting away.

More to come....

900 pnts of win. - Couple of Battle Report teasers

Some full battle reports complete with pictures are coming soon.  (Let me apologize in advance for my poor picture taking skills).

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of playing one of the top local tournament players with my all jump Blood Angels.

Dragon Con Warhammer Based Costumes

Hey hey..

I admit it - I am terrible at taking pictures but thankfully another local guy did.  And since he's in the FTW blogger group and The Bols Alliance I'm going to link his blog here :)

There were a ton of cool costumes at D*C.  Half of the reason to go is to just people watch.

http://sepulchreofheroes.blogspot.com/

Non warhammer related  - I got my copy of X-Men #1 signed by Stan 'The Man' Lee. Whoo!

40k: Interview - Top GT Tread Heads - Part 3

Hello again - thanks a lot for following along this far.  As you can tell this is a pretty in depth and candid interview as promised. Hopefully IG players are finding something to love and non IG players are finding something to hate.  We pick back up talking about the top three or four power army books in 40k right now and how the IG will handle the codex creep.