40K game day at Jack’s!
With Dave W wanting to get in some practice games for a friendly narrative tournament he’s got at the end of the month, we scheduled a game day at Jack’s to let him get some practice in.
With Dave W wanting to get in some practice games for a friendly narrative tournament he’s got at the end of the month, we scheduled a game day at Jack’s to let him get some practice in.
Quick batrep! Haven’t had one in a while, and this was the second game at Jack’s place and the first on the new Necromunda-style terrain! Loads of catwalks, platforms and ladders. Can’t wait to get it all painted!
Initially we were going to do a scenario with the Dark Angels trapped in the Dark Eldar city of Commoragh and they would have to get to a comms unit objective (to allow them to call in reinforcements), but we were running out of time to set everything up, so we did a simple layout with 3 objectives down the middle of the battlefield at 1250 points. No vehicles, just footsloggers!
Dark Angels took Belial with a large Deathwing bodyguard, plus 2 more smaller squads of Deathwing. All would Deep Strike in but only Belial wouldn’t scatter at first.
Dark Eldar took 3 10-man squads of Kabalite Warriors with 1 Splinter Cannon and 1 Shredder each, 20 Hellions, 2 5-man squads of Scourges and a tooled-up Archon with a large cohort of Incubi.
The Kabalite Warriors I painted last month won a prize! 3rd place in the Oath thread The judge said: “From a purely artistic standpoint, I have to give props to anyone that can take those horrible retro Dark Eldar and make them look good. That aside, your scheme is pretty
Defensive Stand! Hammertime: 8th November 1500 points Dark Angels – Jack Librarian (Warlord) with Terminators 7 Terminators in Land Raider Crusader 2 squads of Tactical Marines, combat-squadded 5 Scouts Predator Whirlwind Vindicator Dark Eldar – Frank and ‘Touched by Evil’ Shane Baron Sarthonyx (Warlord) with Hellions Haemonculus (with Scissorhands) with
There’s a few missing, but here’s most of the army! Unassembled and not shown: 1 Raider 1 Venom 7 Wyches ~12 Kabalite Warriors Of course this means our Armies page has been updated, too – check it out!
Hammertime: 30th October 1250 points Space Marine Relictors (Blood Angels) – Shane 2 squads of Assault Marines with Sanguinary Priest Captain (Warlord) with Iron Halo Space Wolves Allies – David W Runepriest psyker Squad of Grey Hunters (very CC-oriented, with bolters as well) Squad of Longfangs (Devastators) Dark Eldar –