Yup.
The ap of system of 40k is bullshit and needs to be scrapped. Survivability is one thing, outright nigh-invulnerabilty is another.
People complained about 2nd editon being hero-hammer, but is nothing compared to what 40k is nowdays.
Becoming ever more disillisoned with it all.
Friday 30 April 2010
Thursday 29 April 2010
Jezzails!!
Finished them!! The sum of the past three days.
Shields look damn awesome. shame about the rest of them >_> Still, only part the enemy should see :D
Cloth also is extremely good looking, dunno what the pic has done the face of the one the left. It's really doesn't look that bad >_<
It's progress!
Shields look damn awesome. shame about the rest of them >_> Still, only part the enemy should see :D
Cloth also is extremely good looking, dunno what the pic has done the face of the one the left. It's really doesn't look that bad >_<
It's progress!
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Commander [INSERT SUBJECT NAME HERE] from [INSERT SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]
Best quality photo I'm ever going to get. This is my incompetent leader and a couple members of his command. Sniper rifles have done ok, and are somewhat lethal when combined with psyker battle squads. Good luck passing your pinning test on ld 2.
Master of ordance is yet to register a kill, but he stays mostly because hes painted and the squad is essentialy immobile. Biggest problem is you have to target something with the blast, and it always scatters. Be better if you could put wherever you like, you could at least gamble on the direction and maybe actually hit something. Also bendy sword ftl :(
Yes he has no name, as does the entire army, woo.
Monday 26 April 2010
Painting
Been painting jezzails this morning. About 60% done on all 8 of them. Just got shields, gun and the details to do + basing. iphone well needs a flash, or I need a lamp. I have photos of virtually nothing. White background is nicely visible though :D
But newest toy...
Wet palette!!
Best invention ever. The bestial brown in there is from 7 hours ago, and it's still wet! What it means is that I get to concetrate more on painting rather than having to keep the paint from drying out.
But newest toy...
Wet palette!!
Best invention ever. The bestial brown in there is from 7 hours ago, and it's still wet! What it means is that I get to concetrate more on painting rather than having to keep the paint from drying out.
Friday 9 April 2010
A game
Played my second campaign game last night. Did enjoy it, even though I lost. Eldar have way too many s6 shots. Got my armor saves v everything, and passed a hell of a lot of them, but somehow always managed to only fail exactly the right amount to lose the entire squad. Stupid crappy flak armour.
Was surprised when I found my psykers taking tests on 3d6, would normally be 15 points wasted against guard, but there you go.
A bad deployment leaving all my scoring units on a flank by themselves was bad bad move. But the risk you take when you deploy first I guess. keeping it all in reserve would of been better, being in chimeras would of made the slight loss of turns on table slightly less, and they maybe would of of been ripped to shreds as much. Should of definitely gone with my first plan of using Al'Rahem but meh, no vaguely good model to use.
Didn't really make use of my valkyrie as I should. After the veterans dropped of and suffered a deep strike mishap which resulted in them being left in front of scorpions, avengers and some jetbikes, bad day for them, I ended up using it as a poor gunship. Should of used it to extract my poor troops from their death trap, could of got 1 unit out at least.
Marbo was mostly useless due to how spread the Eldar were. Killed a wave serpent, then stayed in ruins for the rest of the game. No targets in range and no cover to advance behind without getting shot, lots.
What went right? Finally got some good rolls later on and killed troops, lots of them. One invulnerable wave serpent left me unable to get to one of the last two scoring units. Which won the game.
Hindsights a wonderful a thing
What really erked me though was how slow I was. My second turn really dragged. It's really hard to see why it's so. Only realised how bad I was after 3 hours and was only turn 4. Maybe just need to play more games? Dawned on me that I've only played ~10 games since 5th was released.
Was surprised when I found my psykers taking tests on 3d6, would normally be 15 points wasted against guard, but there you go.
A bad deployment leaving all my scoring units on a flank by themselves was bad bad move. But the risk you take when you deploy first I guess. keeping it all in reserve would of been better, being in chimeras would of made the slight loss of turns on table slightly less, and they maybe would of of been ripped to shreds as much. Should of definitely gone with my first plan of using Al'Rahem but meh, no vaguely good model to use.
Didn't really make use of my valkyrie as I should. After the veterans dropped of and suffered a deep strike mishap which resulted in them being left in front of scorpions, avengers and some jetbikes, bad day for them, I ended up using it as a poor gunship. Should of used it to extract my poor troops from their death trap, could of got 1 unit out at least.
Marbo was mostly useless due to how spread the Eldar were. Killed a wave serpent, then stayed in ruins for the rest of the game. No targets in range and no cover to advance behind without getting shot, lots.
What went right? Finally got some good rolls later on and killed troops, lots of them. One invulnerable wave serpent left me unable to get to one of the last two scoring units. Which won the game.
Hindsights a wonderful a thing
What really erked me though was how slow I was. My second turn really dragged. It's really hard to see why it's so. Only realised how bad I was after 3 hours and was only turn 4. Maybe just need to play more games? Dawned on me that I've only played ~10 games since 5th was released.
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