Welcome back to the final bat reps of the Narrative!  These two are amazing!  First one was vs Craig and Amanda, two awesomely drunk people who are great to play with (craig blew me up one of the previous years, and now he got his wife in the action of blowing up greg's stuff), and my partner was Dave, who you will remember from the awesome landraiders last year.  (He's playing Khorne daemons).  Big stompy things vs big stompy things! My type of game!

Dave also won best painted this year! Congrats Dave! Well deserved!

Welcome my friends.  Prepare for a punishing round of battle reports.  I faced tau three times in a row at Nova Open....it was pretty brutal.  Here is how the games went! (all fantastic opponents, just index orks vs codex tau is brutal unless you are running a particular list).

Off to the races, lets see how those green skins did!

Welcome my friends! Time to do some Nova Open battle reports!  My first battle was vs Dan, an awesome guy I previously played with last year.  We'd be facing off in the first game of the night, 2k, nids and gene stealer cults vs Trust in Rust Walkers!  Dan and all the players in narrative were happy to allow me use of the Dakka Dakka rule (published on warhammer community), so this was the first time I got to utilize it!

I was especially happy because we got to play on the awesome Ork fort terrain, brought and supplied by Chris Stover.  It was a great looking board with two awesome armies matched up!  My list was bunch of walkers + stuff, Dan's was bunch of big buggies + gene stealer cult shennigans.

Welcome my friends! This post covers the remaining battles of trust and rust, and my adepticon 2018 journey!

For my birthday this year, I got a half sized tablewar case. (to go with my mini tablewar case).  I had heard it can fit in the overhead bin on most aircraft, so went about fitting a list into it.  Boy those walkers are huge!

Hey my friends! Short little battle report for you today.  I was able to play a few games with my good friend Scott from brushwizard on an amazing table, so snagged a few photos for you all to enjoy.

If you just want to see the photos in their full res (well half res, as I always cut the camera res in half before I upload, else it takes forever), just visit the imgur link below.  Otherwise just browse the photos while I ramble on about things.

Welcome my friends! Now that I had some time to recoup from the wonderful time at Nova, I can start working on my battle reports and great times I had there!  First off, I'm going to put all the bat reps in a single post.  I didn't go nuts taking photos of the games this year, (and some were short!), So I'll just combine them all into one mega post.  Second...once again the Narrative did not disappoint.  It was a wonderful time!  I am also proud to say that I actually placed this year in the army painting competition...and not only placed, but took first!

The second place went to Dave's amazing freehand painted inquisition army.

With a tie for second (or third) going to Christopher Stover and his amazing Tau army! (Including a Manta!!!)

Chris's army is missing some of its components, as I didn't get a snap of it all setup.  Supposedly the judging was really close, I'm glad to have competed against such beautiful painters!  (These were not all the competing armies, just the top 3) Now onto the battle reports I'm sure you are all curious about.  Spoiler alert, I went 4-3 for the event, and ended up 6th out of 72!

This is the event you were all waiting for.  A call goes out for the last battle of the narrative.  Greggles throws down his army for the comm relay mission.  Dave steps up for a rematch.  Would the game be a blow out like before with the orks barely holding on?  Or would gork and mork smile favorably upon the great walkers!!!  The orks have an ace up their sleeve this game.

Such is the orks excitement, their first recon photos show up blurry!  And what is this? A wraithknight on their lines? (I had my ork knight in the capital palette painting comp, and didn't have time to pick it up before this game, so Todd allowed me use of his wraithknight as a proxy!)

Welcome back! Continuing my Monday battle reports with another lost battle.  This time featuring my first outing vs the mechanium, with double knight support.  This is gonna be a bruiser!

Don't you love that most of the armies I'm facing also include giant robots? This is by design! Everyone wanted robot on robot action!

Greetings my friends! Welcome back! Today's battle report is a very short one.  I had a lovely opponent (who I can't find his name right now), who bartaked with me in great cups of wine during our game.  As such, I stopped taking photos at one point, because I was completely blasted drunk.  Narrative nightfight is such a great time!

Once again, I was playing with the great ork walkers, and my opponent was facing me with an all biker white scar army! 3+ jinks, obj secured (whole army), 12 inch movement, and hit n run (my bane).

Do you like walkers exploding en masse?  Screams of poor grots who only wanted to help weed the taus garden?  Then you are going to love this post!  Today I revisit the battle between the all suit Tau army (Dave's), and the all walker army, Greggles.  So who thinks Walkers are better then MC's? :)

Welcome my friends!  I found my Nova open photos of the battle reports (well not really battle reports, since I was drunk, but more battle photos).  Here is the first of the matchups the latest iteration of trust in rust faced!

​...no one can hear the Tau go "Wheeeee".

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​Weaallll, Jefe, Mo, Gar and I kicked off the start of our 2016 campaign this past Saturday and had a blast doing something completely different <cue Monty Python intro>.
 
If you read the mission post (if not, go ahead and take a look, I'll wait till you get back)

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This is the bat rep you all have been waiting for.  The mighty steel legion faces down the ork walkers for battle supremacy in the campaign to keep the dirty humans back in their own space.  With a whopping fourteen tanks lining up to end the orks day, it was going to be a brutal slugfest of drinking, yelling, and balling so hard.

This battle would swing back and forth from turn to turn, with every tea light marker being used, and the orks taking massive losses.  This battle was also vs Dan, and was one of my all time most enjoyable 40k games I've ever played.  How much fun was it?  Lets just say our secondary points were "Drinking, Yelling, and Having fun".  

Welcome back loyal rust friends!  Today is the battle royale between Colin's awesome Daemon army, and the Trust in Rust Walkers!  I'd met Colin at the previous Nova Open, and at Adepticon, but had yet to play a game with him! Was definitely looking forward to this.  (We also played Jason and Brett [his teammates] in an earlier matchup!) 

Colin had a number of wicked things in his list, including a void shield relay network, which rendered all my shooting pretty much mute!  This was going to be an absolute slug fest back and forth