WAAGH! Drillteef

In our lives we often take stances that can seem odd or even subversive to others. Sometimes we do this in order to further a righteous cause or possibly because it just plain makes good sense. We are driven to these heights by a sense of justice and integrity. Today I was shocked by Games Workshop, a company I've grown to admire and throw, in great handfulls, all manner of dead presidents at. I have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the new Fliers supplement. I didn't care how dated the material was. I knew I was going to be getting rehashed content re-packaged in a supplement. I thought it was worth me throwing down up to four Hamiltons in order to make this purchase so that I could more easily run my Stormtalons and Dakkajets, all told two and one quarter Benjamins (before discount, of course... I'm not CRAZY). Imagine my SURPRISE and SHOCK and OTHER EMOTIONS of all NEGATIVE VARIETIES when I read the description of the book on their website. Ther...

I ran a contest over on the Freeboota forums and the winner finally received it in the mail, so I'm going to post the pics I took here.  This is a pretty decent line-of-sight blocker and obstruction for movement.

After a great deal of effort, the my Stormboyz are complete.  This is what happens when Orks spend too much time hanging out with Tau!  I haven't decided on a name for the Zagstruck model yet.

Eugene and I played in the team tournament yesterday and won by a slim margin.  The battle points for 3rd 2nd and 1st were 47, 48, and 49. Gene took a Master of the Forge with a conversion beamer, two units of five Scouts, and five Ironclad Dreadnoughts with Heavy Flamers all in Drop pods. This was my list: 1200 Pts - Codex: Orks Roster - Wings Over Boyz Big Mek Scar 'Ead , 115 pts (Bosspole; Kustom Force Field; Power Klaw;  Warlord) 26 Boyz , 177 pts    1 Boyz Nob (Bosspole) 27 Boyz, 162 pts (Shootas) 27 Boyz , 162 pts (Shootas) 27 Boyz , 162 pts 27 Boyz, 162 pts 1 Dakkajet , 130 pts (Fighta Ace; TL Supa Shoota) 1 Dakkajet , 130 pts (Fighta Ace; TL Supa Shoota) After the last tournament, I overheard someone say that assault was dead in 6th edition.  I told him that was a ridiculous notion and he replied, "Well, that's because you didn't face my gun line."  I set out to prove him wrong. Game 1: Chaos Space Marines and Imperial Gu...

Every once in a while I like to do a feature of all my painted models.  I've surpassed the 7000 point mark so it seems an apt time for it. The painted portion of my army is about 7300 points with about 200 to 300 points of other options. Here's the list... 7332 - Codex: Orks Roster - WAAGH! Drillteef 1 Mad Doc Drillteef, D.D.S., 160 pts ( Warlord) 1 Big Mek Scar 'Ead, 140 pts ('Eavy Armour; Attack Squig; Bosspole; Kustom Force Field; Power Klaw; Cybork Body) 1 Warboss Wagonkrumpa, 115 pts ('Eavy Armour; Attack Squig; Bosspole; Cybork Body; Power Klaw) 1 Big Boss Grimblitz, 110 pts (Bosspole; Cybork Body) 1 Boss Thudguts, 80 pts ('Eavy Armour; Bosspole; Cybork Body; Big Choppa) 1 Old Greg, 145 pts 1 Wurr Bob and Loopy, 85 pts (Warphead) 1 Big Mek Bolt Toof, 50 pts ('Eavy Armour; Bosspole; Cybork Body) 10 Da Brute Squad's Tankbusta Boyz, 195 pts (Tankhammer x2)    1 Sarge Hullkrakka (Bosspole; Power Klaw) 19 Da Brute Squad...

In this month's singles tourney, we were doing 1500 points in 1.5 hour rounds. Not a lot of time to get things done, but we had a fun time. This is the list I took yesterday. 1500 Tourney - Convoy 1 Mad Doc Drillteef, D.D.S. , 160 pts ( Warlord) 5 Meganobz , 330 pts (Cybork Body) . .  1 The Electrork Mayhem  (Red Paint Job; Reinforced Ram; Big Shoota x1) 1 Big Mek Scar 'Ead , 120 pts (Bosspole; Kustom Force Field; Power Klaw; Cybork Body) 1 Fat Pig , 105 pts (Red Paint Job; Reinforced Ram; Big Shoota x1) 18 Boyz , 129 pts (Shootas) . .  1 Boyz Nob  (Bosspole; Shoota) 1 Steamrolla , 120 pts (Boarding Plank; Deff Rolla; Big Shoota x1) 15 Boyz , 111 pts (Shootas) . .  1 Boyz Nob  (Bosspole; Shoota) 1 Orktimus Prime , 110 pts (Red Paint Job; Reinforced Ram; Stikkbomb Chukka; Big Shoota x1) 19 'Ard Boyz , 240 pts . .  1 'Ard Boyz Nob  (Bosspole; Power Klaw) 5 Lootas , 75 pts I was going to take a squad of 'Ard Boyz, but...

Alex Fennel's Necrons This article isn't a wisdom-soaked diatribe on cutting the fat from your lists.  It is a quick note on my need to do so.  Please note that I do not diminish the necessity of skill in the game of 40k, but this is an article about list-building. A story popped up in my Google+ stream today concerning a quote on design: "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."  - Terre des Hommes, 1939 A lot of lists which win in game stores rely on pure, dumb muscle.  These are your heavy-shooting Grey Knight and Imperial Guard lists and the gimmicky Cron Air and various deathstar army lists.  These lists are capable of leaving you with a relatively good feeling at a tournament, but do not guarantee a win or a place in the finals. You'll see quite a few tournament-successful lists which have some odd things in them.  There are ICs which defy conventio...

I am loving this model!  It will heretofore be one of the centerpieces of my army.

I wonder people are always so surprised when they get beaten by Orks? I feel as if every opponent goes through the traditional stages of greif. Denial — Uh, let's re-count those victory points again. Anger — This is BULL****! How is it that you get an AV14 vehicle for 90 points!??!?!? My ****ing Land Raider is 250 points! 250 ****ing points! This is BULL****! Bargaining — Are you SURE you're right about those 18 shots your Dakkajets get? Let me see your rulebook. Depression — I have over 8000 points of space marines. God help me. Acceptance — Well, there's no way I'm winning this tournament now. Not with 8 battle points for the round. I may as well go have a few shots while we wait for the next one to start...

I really want to try and pick this up at Adepticon on the cheap.  I would probably replace 1 killa kan in each force org for 2 squads of grots just so I could at least attempt to score objectives. The units in italics are ones I would need to buy... Primary Force Org: HQ: 090 - Big Mek (KFF, Bosspole) 040 - Big Mek (Bosspole) Troops: 110 - Deff Dread (+2 CCW, Grot Rigger) 110 - Deff Dread (+2 CCW, Grot Rigger) Elite: 160 - 3 Nobz (Battlewagon (big shoota, ram)) Fast: 130 - Dakkajet (extra supa-shoota, fighta ace) Heavy: 120 - 3 Killa Kans ( skorchas ) 120 - 3 Killa Kans (skorchas) 120 - 3 Killa Kans (skorchas) Secondary Force Org: HQ: 090 - Big Mek (KFF, Bosspole) 040 - Big Mek (Bosspole) Troops: 110 - Deff Dread (+2 CCW, Grot Rigger) 110 - Deff Dread (+2 CCW, Grot Rigger) Elite: 160 - 3 Nobz (Battlewagon (big shoota, ram)) Fast: 130 - Dakkajet (extra supa-shoota, fighta ace) Heavy: 120 - 3 Killa Kans (skorchas) 120 - 3 Killa Kans (skorch...

I had a great time playing JamesI with his deepstriking Blood Angels led by Dante. We played an 1850 game. The game was Big Guns Never Tire and deployment was Vanguard Strike.  We usually deploy terrain using the Alternating style, but this was an Adepticon training game, so we did a more even placement of terrain. I found out later I'd cheated him a bit with my points. I should not have had Deffrollas on my Battlewagons, but they never came into play during the game. Sorry, James! This is why I think it's funny when people complain about Army Builder being inaccurate.  It's far more accurate than I am! I deployed my battlewagons bravely and the Boyz and Lootas cowardly. James deploys a squad of Assault Marines with Librarian and Apothecary, a squad of Sanguinary Guard, and two squads of Bikes in a standard counter-counter assault formation.   The vanilla approach for this is to zoom forward, have the wagon destroyed by the bikes, then I ...