Monday 5 December 2011

Inaction

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Recently I have felt my interest in gamesworkshop and 40k on a low ebb. So I took a break from the hobby for a couple of months. I am just beginning to feel the urge to paint and game coming back. So I have started on my Tyranid force again.

My aim is to have the following 2000 point army ready by mid next year (I know that sounds like a long time away but I am a painfully slow painter)
Parasite it mortrex
Tyranid prime
3 x hive guard
3 x hive guard
3 x venom thrope
10 x termagaunt
12 x termagaunt
Tervigon
Tervigon
10 x genestealers
10 x genestealers
20 x gargoyles
Trygon
Trygon

I know it's not a competitive army list by a long shot, but it looks like fun to play. Have to see if it works out..

On the gaming front, I recently attended Bracknell Forest Gamers escalation competition. I took my Tau along for a soon as I haven't got another army painted to standard. The tournament consisted of four games each with an increase of 500 points on an initial 500 point force.

My first game was a kill points game against a Tyranid player with a large squad of gargoyles, a squad of y genestealers and a squad of normal genestealers. I eliminated his bugs before they got into combat giving me a win for no loss on my part.
My second game was against an Eldar player, he was wiping me off the table, my dice were letting me down on the armour penetration and damage rolls. However he was unable to complete the mission objective resulting in a draw..
The third game was a capture and control against an ork list. I managed to win after a heroic charge by the broadsides.

The final game was against my friends star wars themed guard army. This was an objective game with four objectives. With my armies 3 scoring units and the majority of his army scoring, I would have to more or less have to wipe him out, only I don't have the fire power to take out that,many guardsmen. I managed to get a bit of a lucky win in,this one, with 3 contested objectives and one in my hands by the end of the game.

This netted me fourth place overall with 18 points, but not many victory points. Given my lack of practice over the past few months I'm quite happy with that performance.