1000 pt 40k League: The best points level?

     I really enjoy 6th edition 40k at 1000 points. The games play fast, it makes it hard to spam units, and it plays faster. Perfect for my hobby needs. I am participating in a 6 week league at the local FLGS with my Orks.

Game 1 was versus Dark Angels with an Imperial Knight w/ 2 objectives in the enemy deployment. Yikes! Lucky for me, the lootas took off some hull points, and meganobs got some punches in, so it went down. Nob bikers and a trukk of meganobs drew away fire from the boyz, so they could bully all ready weakened units. A victory for the green-skins.

Dark Angel Deployment

Ork Deployment

The lootas, probably the one with the huge rocket launcher, take down the metallic beast.

Ravenwing Bikers evaporated my Nob bikers and Warboss

Boyz came over to get revenge on the Ravenwing

Boyz hustle towards the 2 objectives

Boyz fight with a stubborn Dark Angel

Game 2 was a Farsight Crisis suit list with a Riptide w/ a modified Relic mission type. Another scary list for my boyz. It was Hammer and Anvil deployment, so Bikers and the Meganobs screamed towards the shootiness to tie it up, hopefully. Another, surprising, Ork victory since I have been defeated by Tau much before.

Warboss caught the Riptide in the top of turn 3

Nob bikers charged the gunline. The painboy failed Dangerous Terrain, failed his saves, so he died. :(

This Riptide fought my boss for 3 full rounds of combat! We now named this Riptide Ran'De Sav'age for his fighting prowess. 

Why Infinity is Awesome: Breaching Terrain with Demo Charges

Here is the highlight of our Supplies mission game, and shows why I love Infinity. First, you see our board. This instance occurs on the large garage on the right side. The blue/grey buildings are from Shark Mounted Lasers. 

 It is Turn 3, the final turn, and my TO specialist is hiding out of sight with a mine protecting his flank, and Order Sergeants covering him.

On Opponent's side, he has an Irmandinho, who has a Chain Rifle and D-Charges on the exact opposite side of the same garage. First, the Irrmandinho places a D-Charge and blows a template sized hole in the wall. 

Next, the Irmandinho charges through the breach, and catches all of my Order Sargeants and TO Specialist under the Chain Rifle template. 

My models fire back at the Irmandinho with Combirifle AROs since I cannot cancel out the direct template shot, and to dodge would be at -6 to my PH, so needing a 4. All of my models fail their Armor rolls, but they get vengeance on the crafty, murderous Irmandinho. 

Thus, I lose my Supply box, and opponent sweeps the objective points for max scoring. Here are more shots from the day. We played Antenna Field and Supplies from the ITS 2014 document.

Autocannon Tank Hunter gibs my Link team of Order Sergeants.

This TO Specialist survived 3 turns of armor rolls before finally failing an armor roll of 1 caused by an angry Scots man's axe.

A sniper duel rages, as my Order Sergeant fires at an enemy Cateran sniper on the roof of the far building in the background. The OS sniper wins via the 5-man Link team bonus of +1 Burst and +3 BS.

1775 Ork Escalation List: Pogo Stompa Powaa!

     Here are two of my kitbashed Meks to make repair rolls on the Stompa. They wouldn't be too bad in a Battlewagon, either, come to think of it..... My favorite piece is the little Imperial tool/lunch box.

     Here is the 1775 list for an Escalation tournament. I don't expect many non-Imperial Guard super heavies at my store, beyond a Thunderhawk.

- Big Mek w/ KFF and grot oiler - 7 Loota w/ 3 Meks (1 loota per firing port) - 3*20 Shoota boys w/ Klaw/Pole/Armor Nob - 10 Grots w/ Runtherd - 2*Dakkajet w/ ExtraShoota/FlyBoss - Stompa w/ Extra SupaRokkit

    What do you think? The Extra Supa Rokkit could be more grots, but I think the large blast is more valuable. The idea is that I want to have troops surround the Stompa to protect the it from fast melta. Also, the Stompa makes all of my Ork units Fearless, which is nice.

    I could drop the Dakkajets and buy the boys 3 Deff-rolla wagons. The benefit of that idea would be that everything in the list could move 12", which seems scary. Also, it would be very satisfying to Deff-rolla an Imperial Guard Lord of War. Dakkajets are MVPs of my usual lists, though, and exploding Battlewagons kills a LOT of boys.

Pogo-Stompa Basecoat = Complete

I primed it with Krylon Metallic Matte, and I have been brushing/sponging on colors for about 3 hours now. Next up, detail work and such.

Pogo-Stompa: Ready for Paint

I think that I may have lost my finger prints doing all of this super gluing....

I left the butt hatch blank, so I can paint "Krump Exit" on it, and so it wouldn't blend in with the rest of the body.

My Own Tater Titan: The Pogo-Stompa

"A wonderful thing is a Stompa; 
A Stompa's a wonderful thing. 
Their tops are made out of rokkits, 
their bottoms are made out of spring 
They're stompy, bouncy, stompy, bouncy,
 fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, 
The most wonderful thing 
about Stompas is: 
I'm the stompiest one!"

from my amigo, Pat. 

I've always wanted to make a potato Stompa ever since I saw the original made by IronDog Studios. I bought the stompa weapons many moons ago, when they were cheap. Escalation finally pushed me into making my own.

The idea of the pogo-stompa is to represent the rules, where the Stompa stomps on units after it moves. I like the image of it pogo-ing on it's victims cheerfully. 

The other benefit to the pogo leg, is that the potato head body is a touch too small to be a full-size stompa, so now I don't have to worry about being called cheesy.

The next step is to start cutting up cereal boxes for armor plates, and add on other bits to spruce it up. I have a deadline because I want to run this beast in an Escalation tournament in mid-January at 1775 points. I want to run the Zombie Stompa, which is full of meks to keep repairing hull points.

Infinity Terrain from Toys: Avengers Quinjet and a Transformer

     I want to incorporate more non-building terrain pieces, so I have been looking around. I found this Avengers Quinjet for ~$30, which is a good deal compared to actual hobby models of a similar size.

   

     That is an Infinity Hospitaler Knight for scale. The kitchen counter isn't the best place for pictures, I found out, but it will do for this entry. I have sprayed the whole jet black to repaint it. I also glued down all of the moving pieces.

     As you can see, nothing can see under the jet's fuselage, so it will be good for blocking Line of Sight.

     Now this transformer was rummaged out of an old toy box from 15+ years ago. I was surprised that the toy seemed to be somewhat in scale.

     I will be adding some bits to the wheels in order to Sci-Fi it up some more.

     Not toys, but these are Really Useful Boxes from Office Depot, which I want to use a cheap crates for scatter terrain.