Battles!!

Yes plural

Vs versus Tau, kill points.  Turns out I can be outshot a great deal.  Also broadsides > tanks.  Stupid cover.  Lost 9 kill points to 5.

Also played a friendly game versus Richard.  Was slightly unbalanced. To be fair his army was very all round.  But couldn't do much versus me.  There was also some atrocious rolls.  If it could go wrong, it did for the Eldar.
Won turn one, and the roll off for objective placement of the 3 objectives.  And if theirs anything guard can do, it's defend versus anyone walking across the board.  And I had two of the objectives right next to me. 
Turn one saw me annihilate the seer council, who unfortunately had not got fortune yet.  The farseer survived with a single wound to die later to volume of fire. More misfortune when my vanquisher pure sniped a wave serpent out the sky behind ruins.  Also Hellhounds > rangers.  Who only really survived the onslaught due to be on two levels of  a ruin.  They did immobilise the tank in return with an extremely well placed sniper rifle shot.
The rest of the game saw the falcons try to snipe what that could behind cover, but I don't think they hit anything all game.  Manage to immobilise a chimera on terrain, So some guys had to get out to to claim the objective.  Banshees attempted to reach them from their immobilised wave serpent, but rolled a 2 for running, not quite making it.  Game ended there.  2-1 Guard, yay.

What i've painted

An old internet buddy thought about starting 40k, so mid discussion I figred I would take a (bad) photo of what I have. So took everything that I've actually painted and took the photo.

Ta da!!

Rules

Been having fun arguing on a internet forum about 40k rules.

The 40k rulebook is full of holes. I'm not really one to pick at this, but if someone ask a question or brings up a point, I do get an urge to be correct.
You can tell people what happens, and they will refuse to listen. They seem to what to stick to their interpretation because it makes sense. But the 40k rules have a fair amount of abstraction involved. Stuff often makes no sense.

The more you look into 40k rules, the more absurd it becomes. I'm glad I don't tend to question stuff that much in games unless I really beleive I am right, or am totally unsure (which is when I am most dangerous at makign a fool of one self). Or at least I hope I don't question that much. If I do, I apologise to everyone who I do it to.

The internet, populated by idiots since 1970 whenever it was.

Vs Grey Knights

Was a draw, knew it would be that or a loss.

Singular objective basically meant I would have to kill every single Grey Knight pretty much to get a win. But on the other hand, all was needed by either side was to get one unit in the ruin and was a draw.

Won the roll of and was faced with a hard choice, wanted to go second, but only one quarter offered LoS into the ruins so had to pick my deployment zone. From there just shot as best I could. hellhounds were useless. Only targets in the table turn one was the stormraven and a vindicare. Vindicare didn't stand much chance.
Immobilsied and dropped the multi melta from the stormraven turn two, a nice result. Other highlights include throwing plasma at terminators, always feels good.
Turn 6 I just drove a tank into the ruin, and was able to get a squad in there as well. Another silliness of the rules, move 12", Disembark, then ran 6". 18" of movement from a guardsman. Simon could of of maybe dislodged everybody but couldn't in the end. And it was a draw.

Simon seemed very worried about my tank line, and as it turns out, Grey Knights really have limited options versus AV. Was rather shocked. Only lost 4 vehicles in the end.

Psychology

My army has a lot of guns. People seem terrified of this. And they cry out for more cover on the table.

Fun fact I have hardly killed anything with my tanks. Only games which I did any damge were v Dan (Who sat in the open) and Aven (who I mostly killed with plasma guns from the standard guys)

Unfortuantly this fear of guns is working totally against me.

Necrons

So necrons.

Flicked through the codex, it's god awful. Turn off number one
Model range is a bit meh. Some of them look good, but you see a necron army and everything looks the same, meh.
BoL's battle report this week has necrons and barley managed to get through, was complelety non interesting to me.

Their are armies that do nothing for me, but none as badly as the current iteration of Necrons, and I loved the old ones.
Wonder if I can get away with not every playing v necrons ever again and having them totally not part of my 40k universe.

update 2

Yeah I beat Aven, but not going to make a big deal. Aven was declared the winner and so be it, he has chance of topping the table, I do not. I know I won and thats enough for me.

My army was a pretty good counter to Aven's Dark eldar. Aside from 7 or so dark lances and haywire grenades, he could do nothing to my tanks. Helped that the dark lances failed just 90% of their shots Although as usual the silly fragility of vehicles was on display as pretty much everything spent the game shaken, and just about everything lost it's turret.
Leman russ Kill tally, one flyer, one of my own chimeras, awesome.

Not a fan of Annihilation. Stand and shoot, a tad boring, but then thats guard I guess.