Resolution 2010 Ends

This officially ends my chances of reaching my 2010 hobby resolutions, with none of my 40k projects completed and over 50% of my High Elves painted for 7th Edition play. I broke my left thumb on Thursday, basically ending any chance of painting clean lines.

Here's the recap of all the hobby items, and I'll update this again in Dec:
High Elves - 20 archers, 11 Phoenix Guardsmen, and 16 Swordmasters are over 80% complete and need their final 2 layers, bases, and detailing to complete. 15 White Lions are about 50% complete. The Lords and Heroes are about 80% complete. Another 20 archers still need to be undercoated. The Dragon and the Eagles need to be build/greenstuffed before undercoating.

White Scars - 5 man Combat Squad is about 70% complete. Test unit for painting white techniques. The rest of the army is undercoated white.

Farsight Tau - Haven't been worked on this year. Maybe next year.

Tau BFG - All but the Emissary Cruisers are basecoated black. Half of the fleet have a layer of Shadow Grey applied.

Tau Aeronautica Imperialis - 4 Tau Barracudas basecoated and a layer of Shadow Grey.

Warmachine - Cygnar warcaster undercoated and 1st 2 layers applied.

Next year, I'll set more realistic goals...

8th Edition? Maybe not

Looks like the prices for 8th edition WHFB is out. Check out at BoLS. The big red book is priced at $75US. When rulebooks cost that much, it's going to drive the gamers from playing...Looks like I'm sticking to 7th edition until I get 8th on sale somewhere.

WHFB Teams

Looks like the teams have been set for next month's battle:
Mike and Dave
Forrest and Lenny
Bob and Robby
Ian and Ron

Come up with your 1000pt army and team with your partner for a little WHFB rumble. Use the Adepticon 2009 WHFB Teams rules.

Update: We will use the 2010 Adepticon WHFB Team Rules.

Happy New Year! Or 2010 Resolutions

Happy New Year to all. 2010 is here, so what are your resolutions? Mine are to finish off the White Scars army (build the 4 Rhino chassis and paint everyone), finish 2000pts of High Elves, and finish off 1500pts of Farsight Tau. Besides that, build a raceway piece of terrain and no more than 3 one-offs for our games. Achievable, I think except I've been building these armies for years now. 2010 is when they get finished. Anyone else want to post their resolutions and have the group hold them to it?

2010 Events

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and got cool gifts. I didn't do too badly with getting Imperial Armour Volumes 5-7, the Seige of Vraks, compilation with maps/posters. I'll post pictures when I have the posters up. Now, onto the topic at hand; Here are the proposed games for the new year so you will have time to build/paint/customize:

January: By popular demand, Planetstrike! Tyranids incoming (new Codex lands around the planned game date)!

February: Fantasy Battle, because we haven't played in a while

March: 40K, just a couple of games to break up the Apoc games we've been having

April: Fantasy Teams - Adepticon 2009 scenarios for teams. 2 Player teams, only need 1000pts per player.

May: Turkey Hunter Tourney - Fantasy Tournament (Who's the best WHFB General?); Adepticon 2010 scenarios

June: 40k Apoc

July: Race Day - Bring both a 40K and FB single model. This is a deathmatch race to the finish line. Details to come later.

Aug: 40K Teams, 2 Player teams, 1000pts per player.

Sept: Adeptus Turkiecus - 40K Tournament, Adepticon 2010 Scenarios

Oct: Zombie Hunt - Fantasy, single model/survivor

November: Turkey Hunt - 40K, single squad or model (TBD)

December: Revenge of the Snowmen, Santa's Return (Apoc or Fantasy Legendary battles)

Comments?

Next Game

Hi All,

So July is here, and we need to find a day to play. What's the recommendation from everyone?

Update:
Well, it's the end of July, and we still haven't nailed down a day. So the recommendation will be Aug 15 (Saturday), with a game of WH Fantasy Battle. Who wants to play?

Update #2:
Looks like Aug 15th is a bad day to get everyone together. Email voting is pushing for Aug 9th for our gaming. Still waiting on a couple of responses to close out the voting.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle Report

Five of us got together to play some Fantasy battles at 1000 points today. High Elves, Skaven, Dwarves, Night Goblins, and Vampire Counts. About 3 games were played between the 5 armies. Skaven and Dwarves squared off after the Night Goblins and the High Elves charged out of the gate. The Skaven charged into the static Dwarves and in 6 turns, took the field. Then everyone waited for the High Elves and Night Goblins to actually fight. The first charge by the High Elves made the Goblins break, leading to half the Goblin regiments breaking and for the Fanatics to jump out. Fanatic pinball took out most of a HE Spearman group, and the Spider Riders took out another. However, the HE and NG played a King of the Hill scenario, and the High Elf White Lions and Swordmasters held the high ground by turn 5.

The final battle of the night was the Vampire Counts versus the High Elves. The VC had a Vampire, Necromancer, a unit of Blood Knights, 2 units of Ghouls, and a unit of Skeletons. They faces off with a Mage, Noble, a unit of Swordmasters, 2 units of Spearmen, and 2 Eagle Claw Repeating Bolt Throwers. The RBTs helped decide the battle with their fire eliminating the Blood Knights by turn 4, and a Elf Spearmen turning and deflecting the Blood Knights away from the Swordmasters. The other turning point was the charge by the Vampire, Necromancer, and Skeleton unit into the Swordmasters, Mage, and Noble who were already in combat with a unit Ghouls. The Swordmasters nearly broke the VC units, but lost due to the lack of a musician. The morale break and the retreat took the unit far enough away to allow for another round of RBT fire into the VC. The final turning point was when the Vampire Count forgot to charge because they wanted to get into the magic phase as soon as possible in Turn 6 (and neither of us bothered to go back to the movement phase since it we didn't realize that we missed it until after all the casting was completed). This meant that the RBTs didn't get attacked, and that the Ghouls that did charge due to magic was wiped out by the Swordmasters. In the end, the HE army only lost the 2 units of Swordmasters by turn 6, and the VC lost a couple of units.

It was a fun day of gaming (11:30-5:30). Most everyone got a single game in (since game 2 didn't start until 3pm) because of other commitments by 4pm. Next session, WH40K Apocalypse.