Games for the Game God

Victory for the Victory Throne!

Played 2 games today; one at 2500, another at 2000 both against Space Wolves. One Victory at 2500, one loss 7-5 kill points. Trying out a few new things, namely Warp Spiders, and getting familiar with old things - Eldrad, Dire Avengers and Banshees.

As always the Banshee's never fail to perform. Infact they probably tend to over perform. I was running them in squads of 10, though I can see why people run them in squads of 8. Doom makes them awesome.

The only reason why I ran shee's over Harlies is because Harlies #1; can't but a dedicated transport. (Night Spinner is pretty aite) and #2, they are more expensive.

Shees are trading an extra attack, which may not seem like a lot, and even though with Doom, Rending and wounds against T4 models, the consistent power weapon attacks seems to really help.

I was considering dropping the Night Spinner for some Reapers, but that would remove the fluff from the Army. At 2500, 7 tanks, 4 gunboat serpents; 2 Fire Prisms; 1 Night Spinner. Quite frankly I'm not too impressed with gunboat serpents. On paper they seem to be pretty alright. In the field, they should be good, but I can't help but feel underwhelmed by them.

The Night Spinner is the same. Though; the dangerous terrain tests are nice to knock off a couple of models, as is the rending. Since Doom specifically lets you reroll *any* wound roll.

Eldrad; as expected was fantastic. I forgot how good he was thanks to always running a seer council. In the 2500 point game, I took an Autarch over a second Farseer. Autarch came on from reserve attached to a 3 man bike squad and charged into combat.

Long story short, the whole squad copped instant death and died on the turn they arrived.

Ah well.

In other news; don't take gambles :v. It cost me the 2000 point game; it was tied for KP's. 5-5. He had a single wolf priest with 1 wound left; pouring all kinds of fire into his squad had killed the rest.

I charged him with 6 bikes and 2 Warp Spiders - Normally for any Marine that would be the end of it.

Nup.

Out of all the hits and wounds; 1 wound was made, and it was saved.

Wolf Lord proceeded to flatten the spiders and the bikes fled off the table.

Cool lost 2 Kill points, and the game ended.

Reflection;

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Oh yeeeaaah

I plan on contrasting the sword more, and I've redone the cape, since I don't think a starscape looked good, even after a fair bit of experimentation.

More Eldrad!

Work and Uni have kept me busy, so progress on Eldrad has been really slow.

Not that I'm in a rush anyway; but I'll have to get cracking if I want to paint up Grimgor Ironhide too.

Some more of Eldrad

Slowly painting him up, I can see this taking a better part of a fortnight non stop painting, and more since I'm back at uni as of Monday.

Then again, it doesn't have to be done by October so I'm in no rush.

I've also been toying with the idea of running some Reapers and Banshees in conjunction with 2 Spinners, Eldrad and a Seer council in 1750. Might be a tight fight, but it could fit. If not I'll drop the reapers and save on some points. I'm just worried I may be trading off long range AT.

Eldrad, he is totally rad.

WIP of Eldrad I'm working on.

The idea is that it will be a GD entry this year, but I'll have to wait until he is complete to really pass judgment on whether he is worthy or not.

Something I think I'll work on is his Sash, I might darken the recesses again to really make it pop.

I also chose Eldrad over any other model just because 1; hes bad arse on the tabletop. Sure he might be a little bit expensive, but comparatively and for what he does, he cannot be beat. The ability to use a second power is fantastic. He can do the job of 2 Farseers for the price of one.

Anyway, back onto delicious hobby goodness. I'm pretty happy with the robe, though I'm afraid it may look too stark, however Eldary. Another one is the Wraithbone on his chest, which I am afraid may not have enough contrast. Things like this won't be apparrent until the model is mostly completed however.

I used a mix of Black + Shadow Grey with increments of Shadow gray and then Space Wolfs Grey for his robe, slowly building up colour, the wraithbone was a bit more simple with Tau Sept Ochre and Bleached Bone and adding white.

The cloak was the same deal, with Liche and Warlock Purple being blended up and then adding white to the mix to really make it pop. For the back of the cloak I'm considering using a similar design from the Celestial Wizard from the Heavy Metal Empire Wizard challenge, though probably not so much for stars but more a purple blue backdrop with some colour.