Thinking outside of T6; HQ

By TheGraveMind

Last time I covered some of the options of troops. I'll come back to other options, but lets jump to the other important FOC; Hq. I've already covered Tervigons in the troops, and that is where they should be. Don't be afraid of taking one as HQ, but don't make it your only HQ, nor your only Terv. What I'm saying is, if you want two tervigons, and think you have enough troops, then feel free to take it as a secondary Hq. The main meat of this post is going to be Alpha warriors vs Tyrants.

Interesting...

by SandWyrm

So I noticed today that GW updated it's 40K Tournament Circuit results. Here's how the different army books stack up as a percentage of first, second, and 3rd place winners:

Reader Question: Color Scheme For Lizardmen

by SandWyrm

Hey SandWyrm, this is Aus-Rotten from 4 Up Cover. I'm looking for a color scheme for my Lizardmen and unfortunately I am pretty fail in the painting department. I'm looking to have the Saurus and such be cool blues and the Slann to be cool greens. That's pretty much as far as I know what I want. I'm not very good at coming up with color schemes and I'm looking for some help.

Hive Fleet Indy Tourney: The Armies

by SandWyrm

The Hive Fleet Indy Tourney happened today, and I'd say it was quite successful. We had 28 players, most of whom had fully painted armies to play with. It's pretty special when you get this much pretty at a competitive win/loss non-soft-score event.

My (late) halloween project, Death company

By TheGraveMind

There was a painting contest for Halloween. It was to paint a new DE warrior that the store got. So my planned Halloween model got pushed to the back burner. Well, I got second place with my DE, so I'm happy. But now back to my Halloween model. He is my custom Lemartes, Guardian of the Damned. Yes, I know he is supposed to be guardian of the lost, but here is the kicker, I'm probably using legion of the damned for my death company. He is also my Astorath the grim if I decided to use him, seeing as I would not use both characters in the same list. I'm going to attempt and paint him similar to Sandwyrm's excellent Emo-wing. I think if done right, the black and white will give him the feeling I'm hoping to convey. Maybe he'll put up a step by step sometime soon ::hint::

A Penny for the guy

By TheGraveMind

Just a reminder to remember remember the Fifth of November!

Some people may be making bonfires (which doesn't sound to bad with this near-freezing weather we have), but I am a simple person and am going to watch V for vendetta while trying to finish up my list for Tomorrow's tournament. Not sure what tournament I'm talking about, see the past five posts or so. I have 4 posts lined up that will get finished after the tourney. So Five posts counting the tournament write up.

Hive Fleet Indy Tourney Changes

by SandWyrm

Just got this from Aaron (Spanguatyrine):

Due to the overwhelming response to the tournament and potetially 28 players(27 are signed up now), we have decided to add a 4th round playoff round for the top 4 undefeated players. The prizes have been modified to include:

What We Had Here, Was A Failure To Communicate

by SandWyrm

So yesterday, Cool Hand Foodie and I threw down. I brought my Mech IG, and he brought a Dark Eldar army based on the new codex.

Hive Fleet Indy Tournament Update

by SandWyrm

I received this email update tonight from Aaron on the upcoming Hive Fleet Indy Tourney:

SandWyrm,

If you want to update your blog, we are up to 24 players for Saturday and have extended the field to 28. This is definitely going to feel like a mini-GT with nearly 30 players.  Even Carlos is traveling down to take care of business. So far I am aware of players from every Game Preserve, Saltire, and a few independents.  FYI.

Thanks!!

Aaron

Sounds like it's going to be quite the event. Must... Finish... Painting...

Dark Eldar vs Tyranids

By TheGraveMind

I had my very first game against dark eldar yesterday. The internet will tell you that it is a bad match up for Tyranids. Well for once the internet is right. The local Eldar player was like, "My strategy is to ram their vehicles, and use Star engines. What is yours?" Well... mine is to do the picture. My army goes belly up. The strategy part is to try and not do it too quickly. I had a rough weekend, so I didn't remember to take to many pictures, but here goes.