Welcome back everyone! This week I actually got in some games of 40k (with orks), and did a ton of hobby work...but as you'll see, sometimes you can spray and build for hours and have absolutely nothing to show for it!
This is an hour of scrubbing, soaking, and cleaning!
To start out with, I inventoried the sicaran, and snipped off the main pieces, sanded, took off mould lines and flash, then soaked and scrubbed them all. So as you can see this pile of resin is basically hours of work. It's pretty at least?
I have to get a lot of this stuff assembled, as it's taking up space on my work benches. And I've still got a Meka dread and another Gorkanaut to build! Question for FW resin folks. Generally when I scrub the FW resin, the shine disappears, and you are left with somewhat of a matte finish. However on some of the pieces of the sicaran, (like the top turret), no matter how much I soak and scrub, its still extremely shiny and very smooth (almost like car wax). Is this just how it is? Or should I get out some sanding blocks....
Going to have to boil these to set straight!
Also started working on magnetizing the guns. Though they will fit without magnets, I prefer to have them a bit more secure. You can also see these aren't exactly straight. Going to have some fun trying to straighten these out. My buddy suggested boiling water, followed by an ice bath. Any other suggestions?
Moving on to even more FW goodness. I was working on washing, scrubbing, an fixing my warboss biker. The individual I got him from off ebay had matched his arm to grab the bike handle, but in doing so had left a massive of nearly a centimeter. Though I am awful at greenstuff, I think I was able to patch the gap pretty well, at least to the point of drawing less attention to that part of the model!.
Next up, we played some Nova Open Trios Practice. FYN is competing in Trios (and I'm in narrative) at nova open this year, so I wanted to expose the guys to some of the more tricky of Nova's regulations. In trios you play as a member of a three person team. One person plays 2k vs 2k in a 1 on 1, while the other two play in a team game 1k+1k vs 1k+1k. The trick with the team game? No formations, and you can only use the Ally CAD. (1 HQ, 0-1 fast, elite, heavy, 1-3 troops) Nothing else. Heavy restrictions compared to what most of us are used to! It looks like our final group will be Orks, Eldar, and Dark Eldar. Still working on theme!
We rolled off for teams. Shantz and Jeremy (Dark Eldar and Eldar [new codex]) ended up on one team. Macathu (necron) and I (orks) on the other. We played the Nova mission where there is an objective in each table quarter (center), with the relic in the middle of the board. The relic is worth 5 points at the end, and objectives in your opponents zone are worth 2 each, and 1 each in your own.
My list basically consisted of two grot squads, a mega armored warboss with lucky stix. Meganobz in a battle wagon, a bomber, and max squad of lootas. I'll eventually type one of these up properly and put up on battle directory, but this is a quick one.
We rolled off for teams. Shantz and Jeremy (Dark Eldar and Eldar [new codex]) ended up on one team. Macathu (necron) and I (orks) on the other. We played the Nova mission where there is an objective in each table quarter (center), with the relic in the middle of the board. The relic is worth 5 points at the end, and objectives in your opponents zone are worth 2 each, and 1 each in your own.
My list basically consisted of two grot squads, a mega armored warboss with lucky stix. Meganobz in a battle wagon, a bomber, and max squad of lootas. I'll eventually type one of these up properly and put up on battle directory, but this is a quick one.
With the relic in the center, I position the loota's for maximum coverage. We were going first, so our opponents deployed very defensively, with reavers out of LOS, wraithlord, raider, dire avengers, and wave serpent (with fire dragons) hidden...or so they thought!
The crafty lootas draw line of sight through a window of a building, and knock off two hull points on the wave serpent on the opening barrage. The battle wagon zooms up daring anyone to shoot at it. Macathu positions units to support the center. (photos of the triarch stalker in construction will be moving around, as he was gluing it as we played).
The crafty lootas draw line of sight through a window of a building, and knock off two hull points on the wave serpent on the opening barrage. The battle wagon zooms up daring anyone to shoot at it. Macathu positions units to support the center. (photos of the triarch stalker in construction will be moving around, as he was gluing it as we played).
On fancy elves turn, they position to fire at the battle wagon, the reavers zoom up to shoot at the immortals. Shots glance off the battle wagon...nice try shiny dakka!. The reavers brutalize the immortals and then fail a six inch charge. Oh oh. On our turn, combined firepower from most of our side wittles the reavers from 15 to two. (even with a 3+ jink). The mega nobz get out and grab the relic. Wraiths move up to put pressure on their flank. Most of their forces are in reserve, and kept in cover due to the loota's large range and relative immunity to fire due to the lucky stick tanking wounds. Macathu also took the necron warlord who can change warlord traits every turn, so he picked the -1 to reserve rolls...
I just kinda of took photos randomly, instead of being disciplined, as this was practice and not really a bat rep :). So that is why its all kinda of clustered here. So you'll have to read what happened!
So the mega nobz come under fire from the opposing side, as hey, they are holding the relic. They take a few wounds but survive. Then get back into the battle wagon with the relic (haha suckers!) and start backing up, proudly showcasing that orks can strategically retreat, but only while reversing at a snails pace.
The bomber comes in, zooms on, and drops a bomb on the wave serpent and fails to pen it. The loota's (in anger), then blow up the wave serpent. A unit of fire dragons gets out, and proceeds to melta the bomber out of the sky, which then promptly crashes into them killing one.
All this while, a single reaver and single immortal have been fighting every round, while the reaver flys into the immortal over and over again. Eventually the reaver wins, and goes and runs off to hide.
Feeling pretty confident in our position, I adjust my troops, and bring some grots on, only to have swooping hawks appear and drop bombs on the lootas, and wipe out my grots...then disappear as quickly as they came. I then sudder in horror as a Web way portal opens up, and a haemy and five grotescues all show up with liquifiers and hit the battle wagon...which is open topped, and then roll a 1 on the AP table.
Luckily for me, the liquidfier is str 3, so only I lose four mega nobz. One of which drops the relic outside the wagon in his death throes.
Now the battle for the center is on. Everything comes in from reserve, and it's juts a massive slug fest to see who can grab the relic. Shantz brings his raider in full of warriors, and it doesn't scatter...and we pour all our firepower into it. He makes 22 of 23 cover saves.... It finally blows up when I charge it with the warboss. (jink this!).
With such a melee in the center, we didn't notice Shantz zooming his final jetbike to snag an objective in our zone. If the game ends, they win (really well played). If it continues, we win. They roll to continue the game, and Shantz finally rolls high, continuing the game, which gives us the Win!
So the mega nobz come under fire from the opposing side, as hey, they are holding the relic. They take a few wounds but survive. Then get back into the battle wagon with the relic (haha suckers!) and start backing up, proudly showcasing that orks can strategically retreat, but only while reversing at a snails pace.
The bomber comes in, zooms on, and drops a bomb on the wave serpent and fails to pen it. The loota's (in anger), then blow up the wave serpent. A unit of fire dragons gets out, and proceeds to melta the bomber out of the sky, which then promptly crashes into them killing one.
All this while, a single reaver and single immortal have been fighting every round, while the reaver flys into the immortal over and over again. Eventually the reaver wins, and goes and runs off to hide.
Feeling pretty confident in our position, I adjust my troops, and bring some grots on, only to have swooping hawks appear and drop bombs on the lootas, and wipe out my grots...then disappear as quickly as they came. I then sudder in horror as a Web way portal opens up, and a haemy and five grotescues all show up with liquifiers and hit the battle wagon...which is open topped, and then roll a 1 on the AP table.
Luckily for me, the liquidfier is str 3, so only I lose four mega nobz. One of which drops the relic outside the wagon in his death throes.
Now the battle for the center is on. Everything comes in from reserve, and it's juts a massive slug fest to see who can grab the relic. Shantz brings his raider in full of warriors, and it doesn't scatter...and we pour all our firepower into it. He makes 22 of 23 cover saves.... It finally blows up when I charge it with the warboss. (jink this!).
With such a melee in the center, we didn't notice Shantz zooming his final jetbike to snag an objective in our zone. If the game ends, they win (really well played). If it continues, we win. They roll to continue the game, and Shantz finally rolls high, continuing the game, which gives us the Win!
It was a really good game (very close) and we all had a blast. Now we finally have an idea of how this will play! I'll have more detailed info next game we play...and Todd from Sincain40k is coming by in a few weeks for another battle royale! Until next time!
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Shantz did a webcomic about our battle! Go Orks!
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