Hermit vs Son Bat Rep

Hermit : 1000 Point IG
CCS, 4 Melta, Plasma Pistol
Chimera, Heavy Stubber

PCS, 4 Melta
Chimera, Heavy Stubber

IS
Ventatta

IS
Ventatta

Vet Squad, Autocannon

Vet Squad, Autocannon

Leman Russ
Heavy Bolter Sponson, Heavy Stubber


Son of Hermit:
Chaos Termie Lord, 2 LC, Khorne
5 Beserkers
Skull Champ, Power Weapon
Land Raider

Chaos Termie Lord, Combi-Melta, Nurgle
6 Plague Marines, 2 Melta
Plague Champ, Power Fist

6 Beserkers
Skull Champ, Power Weapon
Rhino

6 Beserkers
Skull Champ, Power Weapon
Rhino

Defiler

Game was Seize Ground and Spearhead. I won first round and he failed to seize initiative.



End of Round 1. Score 2 - 1
Vendatta targets Rhino and wrecks it. Vendatta 2 targets Land Raider and immobilises it and 1 Lascannon is blown off. Leman Russ Targets Plague Marines with Battle Cannon killing 3.

Beserkers move out of wreck and run. Termie Lord and Beserkers disembark from immobilised Land Raider and run. Due to LoS Defiler has few targets and fires battle cannon at Veteran Squad killing 1. Remaining Rhino drops off third squad of beserkers in my son's quarter and moves out to contest.



Round 2 End. Score 2 - 2
Leman Russ, and thePCS Chimera kill the remainder of plague Marines. One Vendatta wrecks the Defiler. Vendatta, CCS Chimera and both Veteran Squads kill 3 Beserkers in Khorne Lord's Squad.

Beserkers squads now sitting on two objectives. Khorne Lord and his squad, along with Nurgle Lord continue to run forward trying to close gap. Land Raider fires remaining Lascannon Immobilising PCS Chimera.



Round 3 End. Score 2 - 2
Leman Russ has to shift for better lane of fire. One Vendetta targets Land Raider taking its second Lascannon. PCS and Chimera target Nurgle Lord and fail get past his save. Vendetta, both Veteran Squads, CCS squad and their Chimera kill off the Khorne Lord's squad and give him two wounds (I cheated and let him have eternal warrior...)

Rhino moves in closer and pops smoke. Khorne Lord and Nurgle Lord close the gap... Nothing else to be done.



Round 4 End. Score 2 - 2 (1 Contested)
Veteran Squad moves to claim objective deep in my quarter. Vendetta targets beserkers in my son's quarter and kill two. Leman Russ targets Rhino and misses. Vendatta and Veteran Squad finish off Khorne Lord. CCS and Chimera target and kill 3 berserkers in squad in top right quarter. PCS and Chimera target Nurgle Lord taking two wounds (again... cheater... eternal warrior).

Nurgle Lord pops PCS Chimera with combi-melta all guard make their save. Rhino close gap to be in contest range next turn. Beserkers in son's quarter move into cover smartly still holding objective.

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No image for Round 5. Sorry I am such a loser... Table is cleaned up now too late...

/sigh

Round 5 End. Score 4 - 1
Vendatta destroyed remaining Rhino. PCS finally took down the Nurgle Lord. CCS Chimera moved to contest objective then melted the remaining beserkers.

4 Beserkers hunkered down in the woodline on in my son's quarter and we called it...

"But Hermit... what the heck was that ork trukk doing on the field? And those unpainted PCS... And that unfinished Chimera... You suck!" You might say...

I hear you... I do suck. I need to finish. My shame is my own...

I suppose if I deduct point for my unpainted crap and my proxy chimera it was a tie...

All in all a fun game. My son and I enjoy our games. Question for the Dad's out there... Do you let your son win? I do not. I cheat for him often, but never yield. I always give him a handicap, but again... never yield. I want him to get better. I want to challenge him. What are your thoughts?

Much Improvement

Last night my son and I played a game of 40k. He was tying out his Chaos Army that we are working on for him. I am building him a Plague Marine force, based off of what is nasty and what he likes. A blending of the two that fits the way he plays. I allowed him to choose what 500 point force I was going to play. My orks with new Warboss on bike, or my Saim-Hermit. He chose Saim-Hermit.

Saim-Hermit (500ish)
Farseer on bike, Doom, Shining Spear

6 Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Shuriken Cannons

6 Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Shuriken Cannons

Vyper, Starcannon, Shuriken Cannon


Nurgle Marines(900ish)
Chaos Lord, Terminator, Mark of Nurgle, Lightning claws

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

Defiler


It was a fun game. It was a tie, more importantly my son is learning from previous games. When I field my orks against him he spreads out so that my Warboss and company can not pile into everything at once. When I play Eldar he plays close so that I can not easily pick him off.

I managed to kill the Defiler and a couple of Plague Marines.

He took my Farseer and Vyper.

He killed more points that I, but not enough for a victory. He was close though and made sure that I knew it.

Hermit-Geek to the Rescue

At my son's school this year they have this project that they are doing. It is not being limited to a science project, just anything you want to write about, then talk about, then create a display for.

My son and I have been watching this new show on Spike called Deadliest Warrior. The show places two of histories deadly warriors into a fight and lets a computer simulation determine the winner. I really could care less how accurate the show is, we enjoy the crazy fights and weapon demonstrations.

Up to this point his favorite warrior has been the gladiator. I do not know why... it just has.

Well for his project he wants the two of us to build a Colosseum cut out with some gladiators and roman soldiers and stuff. I think it will be great.

Now here is where my title comes into play... duhn duhn duhn! "Hermit-Geek to the Rescue"... See... That is called suspense... I just did that right there...

We are going to build it like we would terrain and paint it up like models. I will have to look for some gladiator types miniatures when we go to the hobby store tomorrow.

I am looking forward to this project and will post an image...

What? Bah... You will enjoy the image or else....

Hermit Games Day

So... Saturday is here...

Table set up... Check

Models ready... Check

Lists ready... Check

Dice and Templates ready... Check

Pizza and drinks ready... Check

Camera ready... Check

Well, not so much. The camera was there. The camera was ready. I just was not ready. I forgot to take photos. Bah!

No worry, it was a good game on Saturday. All went according to plan. Many questions were asked, and all involved had loads of fun. I decided to let my son invite a friend over and he played pokemon and wii all day. I figured the two new guys would get more out of it one on one.

Marines won by the way... Both guys now want to play Marines.

Today after church there was a baby shower. I am not going... On my way out the door, Nick (the guy who just started playing 40k) asks what I have going on. I say nothing. He says... want to play 40k again? It is on... This time... photos!

Following is how the game went down. I upped the points to 1k each, per Nick's request. He wanted to field some of the guys he already painted...

Newflash incoming... He just started playing. Has had the box since Wednesday... Already has 9 Marines painted up and his Dread... shame shame on all those with no models painted :P

My son asks to play and wants to field his Nids. No Problem. 1k Nids vs. 1k Marines vs. 1k Orks (WAAAGH! Hermit) I break the board up into three chunks and I take the "odd" spot.

Nick wins the roll and wants to go last. Cool. My son is next and wants to go first. Done. I am in the middle. My son begins moving his force. No shooting, just moving. I go second. I leave my lootas on their hill shoot at the gaunts and hit nothing. The rest of my force moves towards the marines getting ready for round 2. The marines move closer to my orks and my son's nids. Note... I allowed him to make "tactical errors" hoping he could learn more from mistakes. I pointed them out at the end of each turn. he managed to kill 1 ork with minimal shooting. He killed some genestealers on the opposite flank.

Turn 1 End




My son runs some more and engages the two Dreadnoughts with his Broodlord and Genestealers. He takes the arm off one and stuns the other. This combat goes on for most of the game. I fire at the guants with my lootas and take some down. I charge the first Marine squad and the captain with 2 squads of Orks and both squads of Deff Koptas. The Warboss and Nobz just run having horrible difficult terrain rolls. The Marine squad is slaughtered the Captain fails his leadership and falls back. He falls back and the orks give chase assaulting the Marine squad right behind. The Deff Koptas "hit and run" moving back. In the next Marine turn the terminators shoot at the koptas, one goes down and another has a wound. In the assault phase the captain and remaining squad are wiped out. On the other flank the Dreads kill a few more genestealers, and get stunned again. The other squad of Marines fires at some guants.

Turn 2 End



My son moves his guants towards my lootas and the rest of his army moves closer. The genestealers and broodlord still locked in combat. I call the WAAAGH! this turn and send my Warboss, 10 Nobz, and both boy squads at 5 lonely Terminators. The poor guys never knew what hit them. The last marine squad kills a few more guants and another genestealer... one lost an arm and the other is now immobile.

Turn 3 End



The guants close in on my lootas and between them and the zoanthrope there is one loota left... who passes a leadership test. I am evil and remove the close models so my son cannot assault (Such a great father...) The Carnifex joins the fight with the Dreads and has his way with them. Guants charge into the last Marine squad just to hold them so the Carnifex and Broodlord can say hey next turn. Orks run... Deff Koptas zip across the board to support the lonely loota.

Turn 4 End




My son for some reason tries to shoot my last loota to death rather than charge... and fails. His carnifex and Broodlord make short work of the last of the Marines. My 2 ork deff kopta squad charges what is left of the guants and kills them. My orks charge his Carnifex, and gaunts. Nothing remains when they are done.

Turn 5 End



Last turn of the game I tell my son... "Charge or get charged?" He charges his warriors, Broodlord, and remaining two genestealers at my orks. He kills 6 total, then gets killed. On the other side he charges his zoanthrope at my deffkoptas... Nothing happens... I miss he misses. My turn. I charge my Warboss, Nobz, and last boy squad into one Zoanthrope, then my remaining Deff kopta into the other. Only orks left on the field.

Turn 6 End
No Pics... To quote my son "Nobody wants to see more picks of stinky orks anyway..." I have to agree lol

Calm Before the Storm

Here are some images of the playroom. Notice how it is all set up for tomorrow's training day? Marines vs Nids vs Orks. My son vs Brandon (Teen from Church) vs Nick (Friend from church). Looking forward to a good time. It may not be Adepticon (Wish I was there) but we shall have fun none-the-less.







750 Points for each force. In a nutshell here are the lists...

Marines
Captain
10 Man Tactical with Missile Launcher & Flamer
10 Man Tactical with Missile Launcher & Flamer
5 Man Terminator Squad
Dreadnought with Multi-melta

Nids
Broodlord with 11 Genestealers
3 Warriors with Venom Cannon & Devourer
20 Guants with Fleshborer
20 Guants with Fleshborer
2 Zoanthropes with Warp Blast

Orks
Warboss with Power Klaw
10 Nobz, 3 Power Klaw, 3 Big Choppa, 3 "Regular", 1 Skorcha
11 Boyz, Nob with Power Klaw, Big Shoota
11 Boyz, Nob with Power Klaw, Big Shoota
9 Lootas, Mek

I plan on having them play "Kill them all" for 6 turns with table quarters randomly chosen. It there is time, then they can switch armies and go again. We shall see...

Wish me luck...

PokeDistraction

As I look around my painting / gaming room / garage I notice that over the last two weeks I have made very little progress.... I realize why that is. I have had a pokedistraction.

My son and I are having a race with the new pokemon game, Platinum. We are racing to see who can get all 8 badges and beat the elite 4 first. Right now I am a little in the lead, but I keep slowing down so he can catch up. I do not want to make it obvious, but want it to be close. Not to say I am better than him at it, just more "dedicated". He gets side tract quite often while playing.

For those of you who do not know, it is a really good rpg under all that cute pokemon. I have suffered through the scorn and ridicule of my peers for a long time as I have played all the little pokegames.

I was able to teach my son how to drybrush this weekend. He has two spawn he is using for his chaos army but was not sure how to paint them up. We talked about it as he was concerned that he would mess it up. He has had a hard time lately with not painting "as good as me" as he calls it.

I took him on a tour of many of the blogs that I frequent to let him see plenty of people that are far more talented than me. I wanted to show him that as long as you do a good job and are happy with your work, then that is all that counts. As we get better we can always go back and redo or replace some of our original work.

My son got pretty good at drybrushing and enjoys it. It is a simple but effective technique. I just wish now that there was a "drybrush" army for 40k (skaven) that he could be happy with.

I will post some pics of his progress as soon as I get finished with my pokedistraction.

Chaos

No... Not as in the demons or daemons from the warp... I mean as in lack of order, or disarray. That is what can best describe my gaming area / painting area / playroom / garage. My 4 x 8 table is covered with "stuff." Half finished projects that need to be completed.

I have a Stompa now. He is built. He has been primed black. The red undercoat has begun... Yes. He is a he. All orks are "hes", so therefore, the walking stomping idol of gork/mork must be as well :)

In no particular order here is a list of "incompletes"

Stompa
5 Lootas
Warboss
10 Nobz with Various weapons
Wartrukk
10 Shoota Boyz
10 Slugga Boyz
60 Boyz (not assembled yet... just arrived today from E-Bay)
2 Big Shoota Boyz
2 Rokkit Launcha Boyz
2 Random Ammo Grots
A Games Workshop Wood
Some "Fish" Terrain...
Carnifex

A note on the "Fish" terrain. I picked up some random sale junk from my local pet shop this weekend. I was in there buying my girls hamsters some things and did a "sale check." I plan on putting this together... eventually.

Must finish some stuff... Need more hours in the day... Or at least one of those cool life pause buttons.

Need more stuff

Goal complete!

I managed to paint the following :

20 Slugga Boyz
15 Dwarf Warriors
24 Goblin Spearman
16 Goblin Archers
2 Deffkoptas
1 Castle Terrain

My son managed to paint :

3 Chaos Knights
10 Chaos Hounds
1 Chaos Lord on Juggernaught
1 Goblin Spearman

All in all a very productive weekend. I have nothing left to paint now. I have some more terrain that I would like to put together and my son has lots more to paint. I think I will be picking up a couple of Ork Wartrukks and a Battlewagon this week. That will give me some more junk to paint.

I have to get around to taking some more photos too. I will have to create a section for my son's models as well.

On a non-related note... Serenity / Firefly is back... Now if only Farscape would return I would be truly happy...

A Proud Dad

Well based upon my last post I am making good progress for my "to do" list for my time off. I am not painting my son's Chaos models. I started painted the Chaos Lord on Juggernaught and quit. I am not painting it or any others. He is. Now my son is only 9. He has never painted before. He has only watched me paint. He has 1000 points of Chaos, fresh from Christmas. I struggled with letting him paint or even encouraging him. He never asked, he just assumed that I would do it and he would watch.

I am a proud dad for one reason. I asked him if he would like to paint his own, no matter what they looked like. He accepted the offer. I was reluctant at first because I was worried that he would "mess them up." I had to put that idea to rest. That was the wrong attitude if I was ever going to get my son really into gaming. I have to allow him to mess up. I have to allow him to fail. Most importantly, I have to encourage and guide him while he does it.

I have to admit, they are not up to my standard. Does that matter? Should it matter? No. No. No. They are his models. They are his to play. His to enjoy. His to mess up. His to paint. His to be proud of. His to change and grow with. I am proud of my son for enjoying what he does. He is much better than me when I started. Much better. When we take his models to play at our local store, The Hobbit, he can be proud too because...

1. They are painted.
2. More than likely his opponent can not say the same.
3. He did it himself