DISPLAY BOARD!

Got the Display Board done! Here are a couple shots. I did some touch ups after taking these pics, so any pink insulation foam is now brown! Hopefully our army will look great sitting on this and who knows maybe we will win the fancy pants army award!

Tourney Season: WGC

Alright, here is the what I am thinking of taking to WargamesCon in Austin this July, I also will be playing in Wasteland Wars here in Lubbock in September, and I want to try my hand at 'Ard Boyz up here in August. So this will be a tournament filled summer. Just need to get things painted.
Wargames is 2000, Wasteland is 1850, and 'Ard Boyz is 2500, I plan to essentially make variations of this list as I really like the elements that are in it.

But today we are starting with Wargames Con, as it is first.

Here is my 1999 point Space Wolf list, I have a few variations that I will put at the bottom, let me know what you think.

So, it's pretty simple, no tricks, just reliable units. That's what I like. A rune priest for disruption(skimmers/BA jumpers/Grey Knights) and defense. Two bags of hammers. Four troops that can handle most things, 4 plasma guns as I am NOW scared of terminators. Scouts to harass, annoy and blow up tanks, speeders to do the same, as well as contest last minute.  Finally some long fangs, you know what they do.

HQ 100+45+30+20+30+35=

260 Wolf lord, 100, TW 45, SS 30, rune armor 20, thunder hammer 30, saga of the bear 35

105 Rune priest, tempest's, lightning, meltabomb

Elites

129 3x Wolf guard, powerfist/ combi-melta

85 5x scouts, meltagun

Troops

160 8x grey hunters, meltagun, rhino 

175 9x grey hunters, meltagun, rhino 

195 10x grey hunters, 2x plasmaguns, rhino

195 10x grey hunters, 2x plasmaguns, rhino 

Fast Attack

270 3x TWC , 3x Storm Shields, Powerfist , meltabomb 

70 Speeder, Multi Melta/ Heavy Flamer

70 Speeder, Multi Melta/ Heavy Flamer

Heavy Support

145 5 long fangs, 2 missiles, 2 lascannons

140 6 long fangs 5 missiles

Alternatively, for the Wolf Lord I could take him on a wolf, with shield, armor, a wolf claw, and saga of the beast slayer, for 225 and save 35 points, but I don't think he would his as hard or stand up to as much punishment, but would be more effective against infantry in general.

Stay Classy Rhino.

Here are a couple shots of the first completed rhino that Jack has finished up for me in our "Guard for Painted Wolves Best Gaming Idea Ever" (tm). I give him guard that I was going to ebay anyway, and he finishes up my space wolves, it's amazing.

Thunderwolves Ho!

I got 4 new chaos knights from a guy up at the shop the other night. Here is what I did with them. One is a wolf lord/ TWC with a storm shield and wolf claw. The others are my standard 1 powerfist/ storm shield, 1 storm shield, and 1 meltabomb/storm shield. I am going to magnetize the shields on the last ones so I can shave some points if need be. 

 Here is a picture of the wolf lord, and also a closer shot of my super crappy but getting better greenstuff work to make his pelt flap in the wind. 

Also here is my newest balanced version of my half of out team list. Thoughts? 

HQ

230 Wolf Lord 100, TW 45, Rune Armor 20, SS 30, Frost Weapon 25, Saga of the Beast Slayer 10

100 Rune Priest, living lightning, tempests wrath

Troops

115 5 Grey  hunters 75, Meltagun 5, Rhino 35

115 5 Grey  hunters 75, Meltagun 5, Rhino 35

Fast Attack

270 3x TWC 150, 3 SS 90, Pf 25, meltabomb 5

Heavy Support

170 6 long fangs 90, 3 missile launchers 30, 2 lascannons 50

Tournament list 2

Alright, after only one game, we have made some revisions to the team list. This may be hasty, but what do y'all think about this new list as compared to the old one HERE.

I dropped one thunderwolf squad to gain two speeders, a third storm shield on the TWC with a meltabomb for wound allocation, another rhino, and some additional upgrades.
So now both squads have a metal box/ mobility, and we have some actual melta that is quite mobile.
But, now there are only two close combat threats.

Space Wolves

HQ 

250 Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Storm Shield, Rune Armor, Frostblade, Saga of the Beastslayer, 2x wolves 

110 Rune priest, chooser of the slain, living lightning , tempests wrath

Troops

115 5x grey hunters, meltagun, rhino

115 5x grey hunters, meltagun, rhino

Fast Attack

270 3x TWC 150, 1: (Powerfist), SS, 2:( SS) , 3:( SS , meltabomb) 

70 Speeder, Multi Melta /Heavy Flamer

70 Speeder, Multi Melta /Heavy Flamer

The guard are actually a copy of what Mitchell had, though I think he only had 3 meltavet squads for some reason. This trades a small amount of reserves disruption, and 5 autocannons, for more focused meltavet squads and a stock leman russ. 

Imperial Guard

HQ

70 Lord Commissar

Troops

155 Veterans, 3x meltaguns, chimera 

155 Veterans, 3x meltaguns, chimera

 155 Veterans, 3x meltaguns, chimera

155 Veterans, 3x meltaguns, chimera

Heavy Support

150 Leman Russ, HB

160 Manticore 

Don't hate the gamer, hate the prices.

Alright, y'all may have noticed the ads we have been putting up recently. The adsense has been up for a while, and has made $0.36. They are clutter, annoying, and unproductive, so I have removed them.

Now, we are not in this to make money, and it doesn't cost us anything to maintain the blog, but buying new models and supplies does cost money.

We have opened an Amazon aStore, the link over there on the right with the basics for the armies that we play, Black Library books and Warhammer RPGs. If anything is ordered through Amazon from there, we get a small part of it back.

Mostly it's just products that I would recommend, as I either own the RPGs or have read many of the books.
Basically I am sharing things that I like in a way that might make us a couple bucks so we can buy the new stuff to showcase here on the blog.

So if you see anything on there that looks good, let me tell you it is. All those items have the DissentingDice stamp of approval*.

*Approval does not grant any warranty express or implied.

1st Team Test. Fail

Alright, Tuesday night Jack and I got to try out our team list. We played up at Challenge games here in Lubbock, against a good fellow named Mitchell. He brought guard and black templars, him against the two of us.

Oh gods the carnage. It was a total wipe out on our part. We got maybe 1 kill point and had I think 1 left at the end of the game.

We played annihilation with spear head deployment.

Here is our lists

HQ

230 Wolf lord 100, TW 45, SS 30, Rune armor 20, frost blade 25, Saga of the Beastslayer 10

100 Rune Priest, Tempest's Wrath, Living lightning.

Troops

120 5 grey hunters, plasmagun 10, rhino 35

80 5 grey hunters, meltagun 5

Fast Attack

235 3 TWC 150, 2 SS 60, PF 25

235 3 TWC 150, 2 SS 60, PF 25

HQ

175 CS 50, autocannon 10, Officer of the Fleet 30, 2 plasmaguns 30, chimera 55, hull heavy flamer

Troops

165 Veterans 70, 3 meltaguns 30, AC 10 chimera 55, hull heavy flamer

165 Veterans 70, 3 meltaguns 30, AC 10 chimera 55, hull heavy flamer

160 Veterans 70, 2 meltaguns 20, 1 flamer 5, AC 10 chimera 55

160 Veterans 70, 2 meltaguns 20, 1 flamer 5, AC 10 chimera 55

Heavy Support

160 Manticore

Mitchell took:
Guard: A lord commissar, 3 standard melta-vet squads, a manticore, and a stock leman russ.
Black Templars: An emperors champion with the preferred enemy vow, 7 terminators 5 LC, 2 Th/SS with furious charge, a venerable dread with a lascannon, missile launcher and tank hunter, and 2 minimum squads of troops.

This was a slaughter. Running my thunderwolves with lord first turn got them just into charge range of the terminators, they all died. Also during his first shooting phase the manticore took out two of the other thunder wolves, the powerfist/SS rider was the only model to survive the game.

Everything just went down hill from there. We tried to put up a defense, but those terminators were in our back lines and chasing the wolf lord off the table, he never ran fast enough to get away.

However, the lone powerfist cavalry model immobilized the land raider, allowing vets to kill it( our only kill point I think), he also killed both of the black templar troops choices on his own.

At one point he passed about 5 or 7 3++ invulnerable saves all at the same time. It was awesome.

Commander

So I put together a commander and painted him up. Tried to use NMM but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, with about a million hours of practice ill get it I'm sure!

Holy Crap

I was looking around on the interwebs and found this guys flicker stream, check out some of his stuff, its amazing. Its Guard stuff he made including guns, heavy weapons, bunkers, armour and all. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30305501@N06/page6/

Converted Meltas

Since Meltas are somewhat rare to come by and I didnt want to buy in from GW I decided to convert some. Here is the product of that! Let me know what you think.

Space Wolves, Painted!

Alright, first step on the road to WARGamesCon.

Here's a complete space wolf squad 10 Grey Hunters, 2 meltaguns and a Wolf Guard with Combi Melta and Powerfist.

Jack did most of the work and basing, we are trading IG for painted my army. I did some finishing touches and made some changes from what the test model was.
As usual sorry, we mostly just have iphones to do pictures with, so they suck a bit.

Also, it really seems that most of my hobby photos have a can of PBR in the background..... Maybe I should find some stickers for my Rhino top hatches.

1000 points.

HQ

225 Wolf lord, TW, SS, Rune armor, frost blade, melta bomb

100 Rune Priest Tempest's Wrath, living lightning 

Troops

75 5 grey hunters, plasma gun, rhino

75 5 grey hunters, plasma gun

Fast Attack

235 3x TWC, 2x SS, PF, one plain

235 3x TWC, 2x SS, PF, one plain

Deathwatch?

Alright, due to the anomalous non Ordo Malleus Inquisitors in the Grey Knights Codex, I had the idea to make an Ordo Xenos force using the book. Basically Grey Knights count as Deathwatch marines.

So Coteaz to unlock henchmen troops. A xenos inquis for the crazy stuff they can take. The Purifiers are elite Deathwatch with some sort of alien conflagration generator. Psycannons are represented by suspensor assisted heavy bolters, and incinerators are heavy flamer models. The various force weapons are either just included and make them awesome or stand in for other things like a powerfist(daemonhammer), or maybe an eldar spear for the halberds. The general idea is to combat squad one of the purifiers and put coteaz with some psycannons to fire at deep strikers. The other inquisitor will go with the last henchmen squad that is tooled up.

HQ 1850(30 points left)

100 Ordo Xenos Lord Inquisitor (Coteaz)

97 Xenos inquis, power armor, psyhotroke grenades, rad grenades, 3 servo skulls , power weapon , needle pistol

Elites

349 Deathwatch Heavy Assault Squad (Purifiers) x10 , 4 psycannons, rhino , powerfist(daemonhammer) , Special(psybolt) Ammo , 2 phase halberds 

329 Deathwatch Heavy Assault Squad (Purifiers) x10  , 2 psycannons ,  2 incinerators , rhino , powerfist(daemonhammer) , Special Ammo , 2 phase halberds 

Troops

172 Henchmen squad Chimera , 3 jokaero , 3 warriors 

172 Henchmen squad Chimera, 3 jokaero , 3 warriors

132 Henchmen squad rhino , 3 x (warrior , meltaguns ), 5 warriors, 2 assassins 

132 Henchmen squad rhino , 3 x (warrior, meltaguns), 5 warriors, 2 assassins

202 Henchmen squad Rhino , 2 x(warriors , meltaguns 2), 1 (warrior , flamer), 4 assassins, 4 crusaders 

Heavy Support

135 Ancient Antimon, 2x TLAC , plasma(psybolt) ammo

Whatcha think?

WarGamesCon Team, Rough Draft

Alright, summer internships permitting, Jack and I are going to be playing the the team Tournament at WAR Games Con on July 7th, the event is all weekend long.
He has his brand new guard that you've been seeing, and I will be taking my space wolves. Each player gets 1000 points, and a separate normal force org chart. So 1 HQ, 2 Troops each.

We have not gotten the chance to test this yet, but on paper it might work. The biggest weakness I can see is suppression of vehicles/ popping transports. The go getters are also the long range fire power. The thunderwolves will usually take out what they can touch, but they have to get there.

HQ
245 Wolf lord, Thunder Wolf, storm shield, Frost Weapon, rune armor, 2 wolves, meltabomb 


150 Rune Priest, Master of Runes 50 Living lightning, tempest's wrath

Troops
115 5 grey hunters  meltagun, rhino 
115 5 grey hunters  meltagun,  rhino 

Fast Attack
185 2 TWC, 2x Storm Shield, Powerfist 
190 2 TWC, 2x Storm Shield, Thunder Hammer


HQ
170 CC , autocannon, Officer of the Fleet, camo cloaks, 2 plasmaguns, Master of Ordnance

Troops

160 Veterans, 2 meltaguns, 1 flamer , Autocannon  chimera
160 Veterans, 2 meltaguns, 1 flamer , Autocannon  chimera
160 Veterans, 2 meltaguns, 1 flamer , Autocannon  chimera
160 Veterans, 2 meltaguns, 1 flamer , Autocannon  chimera

Heavy Support
190 Manticore , camo netting


What'cha think?