Weekend Round Up

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Saturday was of course uneventful, both in part because of it being the 4th and some internal communication errors, Sunday however I managed to get an unplanned game in, or I should say 2 turns of a game in. Most of Sunday was spent down in the Octagon over at Legends re surfacing the terrain tables and painting up most of the buildings and such. Other then that though not much going on but stay tuned, Bay Hammer Radio will be coming to you live in another week or so to cover planetstrike and the 3rd wave of IG and possibly talk about some tips and tactics when playing, or going up against a horde army.

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Unfortunetly we could only play about 2 turns but here are some pics from my game on sunday, we where both fielding about 1100 points, I of course was using my oh so trusty AoBR Dark Angels and Bryce had of course brought out the hord. By the end of turn 2 I had killed 3 of his boys, 4 storm boyz and immobilised and partialy disabled his Kan, I lost two termies but the game is yet to be resolved and we do plan to pick it back up at a later date. Over all it was fun to finaly play against some of his armie and try out the new board (which he had just finished painting that morning)

Photos provided by Bryce and his mI-phone

Cheers

Scott

BH Senior Editor

Weekend Showdown/1st BoLs post

On The Battlefield:

This weekend over at Legends I managed to get in a brawl with my number one knock down drag out arch enemy army (the guy I played was very nice though) anyways if your wondering, its Necrons, years of abuse at the hands of 3 Edition (unpainted) Necrons had left me a bitter and tested man when it comes to fighting them. However this game turned out to be rather casual and fun, my opponent played a great game and for the most part I won a fair game (we both played about 1000 points) So now after realising how badly GW has neglected that codex I have taken a much softer view on playing them, this dose not mean I wont do everything I can to blow them away but this game was definitely one of sportsmanship.

Deployment saw my Dark Angels fielding two 10 man tac squads, a chapter master, two dreadnoughts with Multi meltas and a squad of termies and a razorback with a twin plas las configuration.

He fielded 3 destroyers 6 scarab swarms, 20 Warriors and one lord with the orb (I was assured that that was 1000 points)


Turn one saw my orbital strike obliterate his scarab swarms (by accident naturally) which In my opinion possibly lead to my victory later on do to the loss of the only unit that might have taken down my Razorback.

Turn 2 was mostly short movement, I brought my Dreadnoughts up to the front and he swung his destroyers around to face my Razorback while I played it safe and kept my Tac squads out of range and stationary so I could fire twin frag missiles into his ranks through the broken cover.

Turn 3 was a firefight between my dug in marines and a unit of his Warriors of which he had attached his lord to, in the end I felled 4 of them but thanks to the "well be back" rule he had managed to resurrect all 4. It was at this point that his lords squad became the soul target of the full force of my dreadnoughts, but to no avail I managed to wing a lone Destroyer and wound his lord but he managed to bounce back.



Turn 4 was mostly much of the same but by now he had lost 3 of his warriors and my Razor back was doing its best to lay into his Destroyers with a full barrage from the twin las plas and storm bolter but again he made some damn good saves, oh it is at this point I will mention that my termies which where brought to the front also suffered some damage, I lost two but by the shinning light of the dice gods I managed to make a miraculous 10 saves (don't ask me how)


Turn 5 was a drag out fire fight but when the dice stopped rolling and the dust had settled 2 of his Destroyers where down and he had jumped his remaining warriors to my side of the table to face off. He managed to blast away 4 Tac marines but by turn 6 I was on the counter attack.

Turn 6 saw my heavies open up in full force with my two rocket launchers and a flamer which in the end smashed his lord and another warrior, here we can see the end result with his broken Destroyers.

Over all it was a great game and I hope to get the chance to play him again although maybe with a little less armor. In the end though what really capped it was my heavy weapons and ranged armor. I think that had I taken Sicarius as I usually do instead of a chapter master things may have gone differently. When it came down to it he was prepared for an assault where as I planned a ranged offensive (I played eldar and now guard of course I am going to be shooty) though to be fair the tactics I used where more guard then space marine, I simply filed up my marines and moved my armor into cover and began multiple barrages which over the course of the game eventually ground down his warriors.

On The Work Bench:
Its a new week and guess what I am back on the the guard, that right I now can devote my attention the the Hammer of the imperium because today my order from pig iron came in. 20 Kol militia covered heads to go nicely on the 69th troopers. I also got in my tech priest from WCC, which I have to say was a thrill to paint slightly inebriated, but still i love the robes and bare metal on this model, I wish my camera was not in such a temperamental state. So expect more on the Guard in the coming weeks.



Ok just a reminder, on the 1st of July we will be officially announcing the Bay Hammer Radio contest so stay tuned for that on the blog.


Cheers

Scott
BH Senior Editor

Happy Fathers Day and Battle Report

First off if you are one of the many lucky men to have the fortune to oversee the growth and learning development of your own gene stealer brood then happy fathers day (seriously though with what my father has done for me over the years I cannot express how much I owe him. So enjoy your fathers day)


So on a less dramatic note, we finally organized the game space down in the octagon (only had to move a few hundred pounds of metal to really open the place up, also there are more tables behind me this shot just looked best) so now things are much more feng shui I suppose.

Two of the game tables and a BR demo table

In other news, I got in not one but two battles over at Legends on Saturday, Ill spare you the long back and forth details of my first battle, one cause I forgot to get my camera and two because I was fighting Tau and it was basically a slap fight between his Devilfish and my twin Dreadnoughts for the first three rounds.

Turn 3 saw the loss of 1 of my Dark Angels squads
and a unit of his fire warriors to both storm bolter fire
and a incident involving a GPS failure during the moral check

Again in turn 3 Dreadnought number one managed to take down one of the enemy Devilfish but not without taking a fatal blow wreaking it, but in the process saving the second dred from the remaining garrisoned tau's LoS

The start of turn 4 See's the broken smoking hull of the Devilfish (imagine smoke damn you)
By Turn 6 our commanders had come to blows in a furious battle in which neither commander could gain the upper hand (he didn't fall for the untied shoe trick either)

The match ended with the failed roll to go into turn 7 and with a roughly equal amount of points and units lost we decided to call it a draw. All in all it was a great game and I hope for a rematch (Ill have my marines taste fresh sushi yet)

Alright so to start of the intro to my second battle I will say this, I lost, tabled by turn 5 by a combination of poor choice of unit place meant on my part and a slightly better list from my opponent (who by the way was fielding some amazingly painted salamanders)

Deployment

Turn 2 Dedicated Transport moves to table edge

My dread backed by infantry goes to meet them

by turn 3 my infantry have been out flanked by his mobile armor but I have managed to take out his company master and one of his assault bikes and a few odd infantryTurn 4 I have my Terminators holed up in the ruins firing into the massed troops both behind the dedicated rhino and in the open

Turn 5 my infantry is decimated both dreds are down and my commander has finallay been blown away by his bike.

Over all it was a good game, I wish I had moved my dreads into his armor a lot sooner but I made the gamble to split my forces to try and divide his target list, which needless to say he had enough troops and armor to compensate for. Again look forward to a rematch, possibly against my Guard when I have them done, but for now the Dark Angels will have to do.


Happy Fathers Day

Scott
BH Senior Editor

P.S.
Planet Strike is comming up, so dont forget to place your advance orders with WCC to have everything at your door by game night.

New Imperial Armor

Image Property of Games Workshop 2009

Finally GW has put up the new Demolisher and Hellhound kits up for advance order. Both kits will be retailing for about $50 (or $38 if you go through WCC) all in all though I am not upset about the price, both kits have multiple variants for the turret and they are all plastic, no more eavy metal bitz weighing down your collection. The sets should hit stores August 1st so keep an eye out at your FLGS for the new sets.

Your Local Game Store:
Legends Comics and games is as usual having there Saturday Game night from 12 to 8pm down in the octagon in front of sears so if you want to come hang with the Bay Hammer crew or just play some 40k head on over.



This Saturday Game Kastle will be participating in Free RPG day and giving out among other things the new Fantasy Flight Games Rouge Trader RPG booklet, so stop by if you can, supplies will run out fast. On a side note, free RPG day and Free comic book day are not actually free, the stores that participate in these events have to pay for those books and comics, so pick up something while your there, doesn't have to be big some paint maybe or a new brush, every bit helps support your local hobby community. For a full list of the stores participating check here.

On the Work Bench:
Well its been a busy week getting the show up and dealing with finals on top of getting the orks painted up but I some how managed to get ten of the little buggers painted up and I have 4 tac marines waiting to be detailed so needless to say its going to be a long night.


Corrections for BH Radio:
-Land Speeder Storm has deep strike not infiltrate
-no announced release date for space wolves (I keep hearing September though)
-Legends is offering %15 off on the black reach sets only now that they have the new buyer card system
-Man hit by train did not actually explode, he was dragged underneath for about 100ft
-Legends will be open july 4 but game night is postponed (so if you want to get your planet strike stuff you can stop by)

Well that about wraps everything up for today, hope last nights show wasn't to unbearable and to some degree informative but hey I am just glad we got it moving.

Cheers

Scott
BH Senior Editor

Send in the troops!/Contest Announcement

Announcement:
Ok boys and girls Bay Hammer along with WCC Comics and Collectibles are going to be having a contest soon celebrating BH joining the BoLs blogroll in the next few weeks. Alright here's the kicker you have to be a follower to enter and the prize will be announced along with details in our celebration post. So why do I bring this up now, well because I want you to send in ideas what the contest should be, keep in mind it must be 40k related and not something that only a few people could possibly win (basically for the masses) So lets hear those ideas while we count down to our entry post.

Ideas I have:
(mostly paint work)
*Super heavy showdown
*Singles (just the model, basing and aesthetics don't count)
*Best scene
*Best back story/custom army
*best new army (aka something you just started on)

So email your ideas or comment here, I will have the top three put to a poll.

On The Work bench:
Alright after distracting myself with heavy armor I am now back on track with my infantry. I have about 5 IG base painted and another 5 waiting to be primed and I am working on getting my Black Reach marines ready for the weekend over at Legends, I wish I had more interesting news but I decided to cut back on the news section as most people seem to be more interested in projects. Right now I am looking to finish my IG by July in time for planet strike, I have been chipping away at getting the Valkyrie done and I have my advance order in over at WCC for the imperial Bastion and Aegis defense line (can you believe that even with shipping that package combined will be under $40 with there discount) So things have been getting busy. As you might have noticed I squeezed my "Steel Legion Commissar" in at the last minute.




Also a quick update, Planetary Empires will retail for 49.99 not $60.00
that I had originally posted, sorry for the mix up.

Cheers

Scott
BH Senior Editor

The Growing Darkness and Price changes

Alright things have gone red alert at my work bench, the guard, while detailed and sexy are no where near done and as luck would have it I have been invited to play in an Apocalypse session this Sunday. So this is the challenge I face, I am as I type (well sort of) clipping out those fun marines from the black reach set as mentioned in the last few posts, my average is one figures every one to one and a half hours, if I don't sleep I think I can manage it. Alright you might ask why I don't just paint a few and just go with the rest un painted(though that may wind up being the case) The answer is its a challenge, and I am not just talking base color and shoulders I am talking detailed pieces in under two days.

I might be crazy but its the fun kind of crazy. As always comments, questions and death threats are always welcome.

On a more shocking but most expected note I got word in on a few things regarding the price changes in June, for legal reasons I cannot post a majority of that information but I can say we are going to be looking at an average price increase of about .25-$5 as well as a few new bits of terrain ("Shrine of The Aquila" what ever that is) the Black Reach set will also be soaring to about $75 the 5th editon rule book will also be going up to $55. Alright thats about all I heard from the mysterious gentleman in the game section that's worth mentioning.

Update:
I may as well post this while I have a spare moment, I got my second Valkyrie today, lord knows when Ill start on it but essentially this one is going to be built with the techniques and mistakes that I learned from the first one in mind, I will post pics in my next post on how that goes.



Cheers

Scott
BH Senior Editor

Simple Dark Angels

Alright so I decided to do up one of the space marines in my black reach box. I have decided to go with the most classic (don't debate me on this) chapter, the Dark Angels. Alright so Ill give you a quick illustrated run through of the process.

For this project I used Dark Angel green, badab black wash and bleached bone and a Thraka Green wash all over a matte gray primer. I got a few extra paints from the GW store when I was at Oakridge today.

Base Gray matte primer

Next I applied a rough dry brushed coat of the Dark angel green


next the bleached bone and bolter metal for details and red cermacoat applied with a 003
brush on the eyes



last up everything gets a mixed coating of badab black and Tharka green to darken everything up, though the harsh light reveals a lot of the imperfections, to the naked eye this will appear as
a average piece.

Well its not a long post and I wasn't surgical with the details but this was a rough project I just decided to do. questions and comments always welcome. Next up (if I don't sell the set) the Assault Dreadnought