Escalation League

Some friends and I have been getting together and playing a lot of games lately in my "Dungeon" / Garage. We have been gaming on Monday nights and Saturday afternoons. It has been going well and we have a good group. We have been toying with the idea of putting something together and we finally broke down and did.

Here are our rules...

40K ESCALATION LEAGUE


Week 1 5 Sep 500 Annihilation Pitched
Week 2 12 Sep 550 Annihilation Spear Head
Week 3 19 Sep 600 Annihilation Dawn of War
Week 4 26 Sep 650 C&C Pitched
Week 5 3 Oct 700 C&C Spear Head
Week 6 10 Oct 750 C&C Dawn of War
Week 7 17 Oct 800 Seize Ground Pitched
Week 8 24 Oct 850 Seize Ground Pitched
Week 9 31 Oct 900 Seize Ground Pitched
Week 10 7 Nov 950 Random Random
Week 11 14 Nov 1000 Random Random
Week 12 21 Nov 1250 Random Random

RULES
• 1 Troop Selection is required.
• No Model with more than 2 wounds allowed.
• No Save or 2+
• No Model with an AV of 34+ (Add up all the sides)
• Anything else in your codex may be fielded up to 2 HQ, 3 Elite, 6 Troop, 3 Fast, and/or 3 Heavy.
• If you lose you roll once on the “terrain” chart.
• If you draw/tie you roll once on the “terrain” chart.
• If you win you roll twice, and get to pick which roll to keep, on the “terrain” chart.
• You may trade 2 “terrain” for another roll.
• No more than 2 “terrain” gained per week allowed.

TERRAIN (2d6)
1. How? Really… How did you roll this on 2 dice?
2. Elite – An Extra Elite. This Elite may have a save of 2+
3. Save – You may field a single “unit” with a 2+ Save
4. HQ – An Extra HQ. This HQ unit may have more than 2 wounds, and a save of 2+
5. Heavy – An Extra Heavy. This Heavy may have any AV.
6. More Points – You may field an extra 50 Points.
7. Troop – An Extra Troop.
8. Fast – An Extra Fast Attack.
9. Veterans – You may add +1 to any of the following stats for a single “unit”. WS, BS, S, T, I, LD, A.
10. AV – You may field a Vehicle with any AV.
11. Wounds – You may field a single “unit” with more than 2 wounds
12. CHOICE – You may choose any one “terrain.”

Still Alive

I am still alive.

Life has a way of catching up to us and things become "confused" for a lack of a better word. I abandoned the blog-o-sphere without a note and apologize. I allowed my blog to become a "chore" rather than an expression of my local gaming, and because of that it became a burden.

I allowed myself to get into the rut of, I must post as people... both of them... are expecting an update. I started this blog for fun, but every now and then "duty" takes over.

I have done a lot of painting and building in my time off though.

I have 500 points painted of the following...

Saim-Hermit
Sept Hermit
Necrons
IG (Although this list is changing soon to incorporate two vendettas)
Tyranids (Both horde version & Genestealers R Us)
Chaos (My Son's Army)
Ultra Hermits
WAAAGH!!!! Hermit (Both speed freaks version & Foot Sloggers)

I am currently painting up a 500 point Ravenwing.

I have plans on building each of these forces out to at least 1000 points. I will try and get some pics up of my progress sometime this week.

Hermit out.

Storage on the Cheap

Plano 3600 Series

I am sure by now that most of you have struggled with the storage issue. I am sure that I am not alone here.

Per my last post... see below... These are a great storage solution.

The plastic boxes have customizable inserts that gives you some flexability in what it holds. The way that I have them gives me 36 "chambers" that can fit two space marines easy. So far I have been able to fit the following in with ease:

* Terminator (SB & PF)
* Terminator (SB & PW)
* Black Reach Captain
* Genestealer
* Two Space Marines
* Black Reach Space Marine Sergeant
* Two Guants
* Two Necron Warriors
* Khorne Beserker
* Chaos Lord (Terminator Armor & Lightning Claws)

As you can see they are pretty versatile and not that bad price wise either. Amazon lists them at $6.58 at the time I write this, but I found my batch at a Bass Pro Shop for around $4.50.

Spread the Wealth

In between my various trips lately I have been undergoing a mission...

What is that mission?

Ah, allow me to explain...

I have a new goal in the 40K world that stems from showing my hobby off to the various people that I meet. In an effort to support that goal I have decided to slowly collect 500 points of all existing plastic armies.

This accomplishes two things at once for me.

1. It allows me to be able to paint a large variety of things so that I do not get burnt out on any given force... read millions of orcs...

2. It allows me to playtest my other armies against a large variety of models.

3. It allows me to showcase for any who care to see what ever army they may be interested in.

As of right now I have the following :

* Ultramarines
* Saim-Hann
* Tyranids
* Orcs
* Necrons
* Chaos Marines (Khorne & Nurgle)

This week I will be picking up the Tau or the Imperial Guard Box. I am going for Tau first, but it will be an "impulse" buy... so if they are out, then the Guard are next. I figure I should be able to keep this going for a while, and still collect my "real" army. Space Wolves and Dark Eldar should be next in the works.

The really good thing, in my opinion at least, is that they are all painted so far. I finished up my Saim-Hermit this weekend, and quickly painted up 20 Necrons and a plastic Lord this weekend.

Who knows, I may branch out and have a couple of different 500 point builds later or slowly take them up to 1000 points... only time will tell.

All Apologies

Does anyone else hear Kurt in the background...

Sorry for the lack of updates, been hectic around here as of late. This post will be a minor update for my loyal readers... I owe both of you lunch or something...

I now have enough to field 500 points of Saim-Hermit. I broke down and bought some red spray paint and some Testor's Window Tint stuff. I have the vYper (odd spelling thanks to Sherpa... I saw him do it and thought it looked cool... NINJA!) and 4 jetbikes painted up. I have 1 "Farseer" painted red and tinted, along with 8 more jetbikes.

I have the Farseer in quotes as he will not really be my farseer bu rather one of my 5 warlocks later. I did a real simple conversion and ordered up some dire avenger bits. I really liked the exarch sword, so I ordered up 5. I also got the exarch chest piece and bare head. Not sure if the warlocks are supposed to be girls or not, but I liked the look so went with the dude.

For my Farseer I plan on Ninjaing another bloggers work and copying CJ. I thought that looked really good and will make my farseer stand out... Unless of course I ever meet up with CJ at a tournie or other event :)

Now...

You may be asking yourself... "Self... What is that testor's window tint Hermit is talking about?" Well... your self could not possibly answer that question as clearly you do not know. Unless of course you know what it is, at which point your are just messing with your self...

Ahem...

The Testor's Window Tint is a really neat product that a local gamer introduced me to. It is like a spray on wash. It is getting the look that I want for my jetbikes pretty quickly. At least the base coat and saves me a lot of work.

Sorry no images today... Lazy... Will post updates of Saim-Hermit soon.

Curse My Lack of Imagination...

I found this to be absolutely amazing. Check out the full thread here...

Tau - Droid Federation

Reading through the pages it looks like everything is either green stuff or modified 40k bits... Necron, Tau, and some dabbling in other kits...

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.