11th Legion Presents: Road to Blog Wars, episode #4 The end of the road

Yes, it is the end of the road, I have managed to complete the army, with time to spare...

So what follows is a bit of a showcase of my army and my thoughts on my choices.
Hopefully there should be a tournament report of my performance some time next week.

Another thing to look forward to is a battle report between myself and TotalTyke some time after the tournament (if work and life can allow). This will be using our tournament armies. So that is something else to look forward to.

So here is the last part in my Road to blog wars series:


Thanks for watching 

Dispatches from the front: week 5 - Delayed by Chaos

Hello all,

Creidhnan has been waylaid by the powers of chaos, so I have chipped in to collate the progress of the 11th Legion this week (Hence why its late).

I have completed another episode in VLOG Road to Blog Wars, this time with a basing tutorial (if you can call it that) for my now completed (spoilers) WraithGuard:

TotalTyke hosted games night last week and it was Creidhnan to play Wazdak in preparation for blog wars.

So it was 1850 points a side below is a brief Battle Report by Creidhnan:

Creidhnan: This week I had a quick game using the new Space Marine Codex, against Wazdak and his Nurgle Chaos.

Rough lists!

Space Marines (Imperial/Crimson Fists)

Pedro Kantor

4 Tactical squads: Missile Launchers (Flakk missiles)

2 demi-tac squads with Las-Cannons

Bike squadron: 2 Flamers

3 attack bikes with MM (squad of two and a squad of one)

Thunderfire cannon

Full Devastator squad with Plasma cannons

Full Devastator squad with Heavy Bolters.

Chaos Space Marines (with Chaos Daemon allies)

Chaos Lord (Nurgle)

20 cultists

Nurgle sorcerer

2x 6 Plague marines in rhinos

2x Predator with Heavy Bolter sponsons

2x Helldrakes with Baleflamer (ulp!)

Daemon prince, wings, Psyker (level 2?)

Great unclean one, psyker (level 2?)

Nurglings

We played Kill points, Hammer & Anvil. No night fight. I took first deployment/turn.

High(/low?)lights:

Thunderfire cannon eats squads - especially when you finally figure out how the barrage rules work!

The Daemon Prince made himself toughness 8 (immune to my puny guns) and chomped on a bike squad that had carelessly wandered too close. Before they even got to attack. Then survived 4 missiles and 2 Las-Cannons to the face.....

To go down to a Heavy Bolter. Oh, the ignominy....

On the bright side, Helldrakes still eat squads (in two phases - curse you vector strike!)

After seeing four AA missiles bounce off a passing Helldrake, the tactical squad meltagunner decides to show them how it is done... 6 by 6 by 6! Scratch one HellDrake.

The next turn, the missile gunners were obviously impressed, because they repeated the trick..

Enfeeble + Haemorrhage = A big mess of the Emperors finest..

We called the game after Chaos turn three, Wazdak feeling he was no longer in position to contest the game. He still had his plague marines, sorcerer and Great Unclean One in the fight and the lord, lone cultist and Nurglings milled about in his back field. Unfortunately I still had the majority of my firepower, having only really lost the bikes and 3 of the 4 special weapon squads. 

However, when we totaled it up it came to 6 all! I think the game would have rested in my next shooting phase. If I could have taken off the Great Unclean One and the cultist, I think I had the win, so it was probably a fair call. 

Overall, I had some good luck with damage results on the HellDrakes - I don't really have an answer to them, and they're so devastating. The new space marine book seems fairly solid - you can certainly fit a lot more in. And re-rolling 1's always helps!

Prospero: He's arrived! Ahriman has at last joined the ranks of my Thousand Sons.

As befits someone of his stature, I decided to mount him on a bit of wrecked dreadnought for a bit of extra height. Should hopefully have started painting during the next week.

Totaltyke: My hopes of having 5 Terminators finished this weekend have been severely hampered as Grandfather Nurgle has gifted me with one of his poxes. I did manage 1.... Perhaps he has mistaken the Deathwing for Deathguard? More pics next week.

1 on 1 Battle Report - Emperors Champion VS Huron Blackheart

Hey People,
Here is the brand new battle report show 1 on 1. This is where special characters and heroes go head to head battle report style.
There is not many rules:

• No moving back.
• Best of 3 rounds.
• No combat resolotion straight fight.
• 1st game roll off for first turn, then who ever loses gets to pick the next game.
• Board set-up 12 inch in and 24 inch apart

These rules maybe changed in future depending on the fight and characters but these are the starter rules.
Hope you enjoy the show

Battle of 11th Legion update 28/11/2012

Battle of the11th Legion update 28/11/2012

Hey guys,
We have not forgot the Battle of 11th Legion. Me and deathbringa are working hard to get are 600 point list completed. I have been working very hard to get them complete and a tad closer after a mad blitz over the last few week.
This is mainly due to my new desk. I have everything set out now and is alot easier to work from.

Nikolian Creith (Iron Hands)

 Nikolian Creith (150/170pts*)

‘One-hand’, Sinisterum of the Iron Hands

*150 points with servo harness and boltgun. He may exchange these for a conversion beamer or graviton gun, in which case he costs 170 points. He may not take any other upgrades.

First post! (Wooo?)

Hi all,

Nice to meet you.

I'm Creidhnan. As you will find out, I like to make stuff up. In fact, it's probably what I do most, so don't be suprised if very little actual painting goes on.. I'll periodically post up whatever I've been ruminating on recently. Feel free to use it however you please - just let me know how it works out for you!