MODELLING: Cleaning yet more Orks

Well after my game with Obi and a week passing I finally just went ahead and cleaned off the mold lines from a slew of models from the AOBR box set as well as for the Lootas and 10man Ork boy squad.

I am of course covered in plastic residue and I once again stabbed myself with the Xacto knife.

Still it was all worth it -- for at least its a start

Hordes Gaming in McDonalds

A change of pace for a bit. I finally got SJ to have lunch. It was probably
because I told him he should show me a quick game of Privateer Press's
Hordes :P


Well not caring about the stares coming from the other tables we
set off for quick game with my Starter box of Everblight versus his
Starter box of Trolls.

I have to say he was right with his Analysis.. Everblight packs a mean punch but
has a glass jaw.. and Trolls are more like Dwarves .. tough as nails :P


I managed to kill his Impaler by Carni and a lot of Shredders only to have the Carni
dead by Thrashers.. taking down a shredder or two as well.

Lesson learned was that I forgot to save a fury point as Mandrake Ironhide through
a very large Axe at Lylth taking her out of the game.

On to the next game then :)

GENERAL : State of the Spawning Address - New hopes for 2009

The start of the new year is always a time of reflection for ones past achievements (or lack thereof) and were one gets a chance to recharge the batteries and to start anew. Looking at back I would like to see what I was able to do based on what I had planned myself here
Looking at it I failed to have done the majority of them (which was mostly modelling and painting resolutions)

Frequency of posts.
- The year 2008 I had a total of 30 posts. A far cry from the expected weekly posting but higher than 2007 with only 14. This reflects more of a lack of actual modeling time more than anything, particularly painting. I do resolve to give bi-weekly updates to the site. I eventually would like to have each army of mine have there own blog starting with the Orks.

WHFB + BFG + HORDES
- absolutely no gaming time was done for any of the armies.
- dwarves were actually sold off so there goes any second army for fantasy this 2009.


I shall implement the same point scheme as what Lone pilgrim had done over at his site:
I also need to get more games in to motivate myself to model and paint more.


Number of games in
I had only 6 games in for the whole year with 2 of them being at the GT all of them wh40k. Not a good year of gaming. However with the weekday gaming starting to go full swing at the bunker I should be able to ramp up my gaming considerably and the more games I play the more incentive I have of painting my existing models.

However with the prospect of me working abroad by the second half of the year my chances look slim for gaming then. So I need to get some good gaming while I can.


What are my resolutions for this year 2009? Here they are:
- NO NEW MODELS for the YEAR unless it comes from proceeds selling of old models.
-- I have too much stuff that I have accumulated over the years. I wont buy stuff unless I am able to get rid of
some of my other inventory of figures and use the proceeds from that. The Model Fund will be for MODELS only and not for anything else.

- Focus on one painting project at a time
-- I will stop my ningas cogon habit of painting (starting great but never finishing) I will concentrate on finishing one thing before going to the other. As my blog does indicate
I will finish painting the Inquisitor Retinue before going to the next thing which is painting the various ork units that I have. I shall paint one non-ork unit everytime I finish one so that I dont die of monotony. Still I want to be able to field a fully painted 1500 point Ork Army by 2009 then I can start to revive and finish my Crimson Fists (those that have been in storage for so long)
-- I will not kick myself in the ass for poor painting skills. As Kenton said in his blog, painting is a chore and I will paint my to "Good Enough Standards"
- Paint 50 points worth of models this 2009
- Focus on one assembly project at a time
-- I had a habit of starting something and then stopping it and trying to assemble the next thing.
- get to game at the Bunker at least once a month.

Thats all for now. Now let me assemble this Ork Trukk I have :D

HOBBY FUND: End of Year

Well I got the idea of having my own model fund to track my expenses based on the Lone Pilgrim's Site. That way I can "save" up on my modeling and hobby purchases and to stop me from just splurging on everything.

So at the end of the year 2008 this is my Model Fund report:

End of Year Report 2008

Hobby Fund.
-- the amount from savings = 21,594.61
-- the amount from figures sold = 5,800.00
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27,394.61


-- new warhammer products bought = 7,020.00
-- new boardgames sold = 10,340.73
-- new Airsoft Gun bought = 3,000.00
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-20,360.73


NET AMOUNT 7,033.88 -> coming in 2009


Obviously I bought more non miniature stuff than I probably should have. The
quick gaming fix I am actually getting it by playing boardgames specially the
"Last Nigh on Earth" and the "StarCraft"

Heres to this year though. It might actually be different this time around :D

MODELLING: Assembling yet more Orks

Well I was supposed to start painting the rest of the DH Inquisitor Retinue but the painting bug just wasn't there. So I merely did some modeling work with Exacto Knife and Needle File.



I was able to assemble the Mek with Shokk Attak Gun that I got from Paul waay back in October. Pinned the gun in place and placed him in a bigger base. I finished assembling the last DeathKopta from the AOBR set ( 3 more from the second box to go !!!) and added dreadnought sized bases on some of my Killer Kans.

I then started on taking out the plastic pieces from the different space ork models I have and placed them in the different bits boxes.. For the time when I feel like assembling them already.

Started as well on assembling the Ork Trukk but only got as far as assembling the wheels..

Lets see what I can do next week.

(Note: Interestingly I just discovered that my Nokia phone has a Sepang, Greyscale and a Negative view of the camera.... hmm maybe I should really get me a micro sd card for my
phone pics)

BATTLE REPORT: Space Orks Vs Eldar

Just when I thought I had no more games to play for the year than when Freddie plays me a game at ATC with his newly aquired Eldar Army.

What he had based on my bad memory
2 Farseers
Howling Banshees
PathFinders
Dire Avengers w/ Wave Serpent
Fire Dragons w/ Wave Serpent
Guardian Unit w/ Warlock and Scatter Laser
Guardian Unit w/ Scatter Laser
Guardian Unit w/ Scatter

The game was a Seize and Control with a Dawn of War setup.

We had rolled for who gets to decide who goes first. I win the roll and elect to go second.

He deploys his eldar jetbikes and dire avengers while I elect to deploy both of my 20 ork slugga squad and the the mec with forcefield on the center of the table near one objective.

Turn 1 had him come on the board attempting to shoot at my orks but were foiled by the night fight rules on turn 1. My 2 ork mobs weathered most of the fire and the big shootas on one squad managed to wittle the guardian squad that was in front of them.

My turn saw both trukks and the battlewagon on my right flank. The shoota boys, killer kans and dreadnought came in my center to support the 2 ork mobs there while the Looted Vehicle stayed on the left flank.

The center and left flank just peppered the guardian squads with ordnance and big shoota shots. My right flank saw my trukks shaken and its big shoota ripped off but stayed steady.

Freddies miscalculation had his dire avengers finally embarking on a wave serpent but I had gotten close enough with my nobs that I was able to assault and blow up the wave serpent.

My trukk with the warboss and the burna boys finally got destroyed but they went in near the pathfinders. They get jumped by the Howling Banshees but managed to fend them off.

This is when Freddie said it was time to go.. so he conceded and the game was done :)

BATTLE REPORT: Space Orks Vs Chaos Marines

Ahh finally got to have one last game before the year ends and it was against good ol Romy and his Slaanesh with the expected Lash.

I had used the same list as the last time when I played at the bunker, mainly because I was too pressed for time to hunt down my figs for another list.











Romy had.

Daemon Prince with Lash
10 Chaos Space Marines with meltaguns w/ Rhino
10 Chaos Space Marines with meltaguns w/ Rhino
10 Chaos space Marines with plasma gun and Las Cannon
1 Vindicator

Battle Area.
- Playing field was a 4x4 with most of the buildings on my table quarter ( we had played Annihilation yet again ) and his side mainly open. This would be initially unwieldy as I tried to move my units around and charge him in the open.

I had setup first but romy was able to take the initiative and started the game (curses)

Game Play.

A good movement and turn 2 Waagh had me up for points as my Warboss leading the Mega armour Nobs charged and wiped out the 10 Man Chaos Marines with the LasCannon while my other 20 Ork strong force disembarked from their immobilized BattleWagon ( I hate glances that manage to do that ) reached another 10 Man Chaos Marine squad and wiped them out.

The next remaining turns turned into frustration as Romy went for denial and had his remaining Squad and Daemon Prince run to the farthest corner. He was able to lash in successive turns the Warboss and Mega Armor nobz (after being pummelled by the Vindicator), wiped them out and proceeded to do the same to the ork nob that destroyed the Vindicator and the Burna Boyz.

My tankbustas and other units were unable to even destroy the two rhinos that were just milling around. My luck of being able to kill tanks but not transports continue.

He was thus up in Kill Points by my last turn on game turn 7. Fortunately I finally had my 10 ork shoota boyz on a trukk already which allowed me to barrel in, disembark and shoot the last chaos marine squad and wiped them out in close combat. This turned the entire game into a draw.

Funkyness :)

GENERAL: The Search for more space

Well after more than a day and a half of organizing all of my model stuff around the room and on the balcony. It still felt like that I didn't get to free up more space around the room. Oh well at least I more or less moved stuff around so that I know now where each army is supposed to be in. Well most of them anyway.

BATTLE REPORT: Space Orks Vs. Dark Angels

Finally made it to Lito's Battle Bunker with Obi and Romy and yes the place is huge.. lots of tables to be able to put in. Lito actually rented the warehouse for him to move out his warhammer stuff from his house and place it there.

Of all the people that I had to fight though it had to be Obi again (dohh) well actually it was a toss up with Obi and Romy pointing to each other as to who to fight me :P.

The game was actually fast == well it was supposed to be fast except that I had a Virtual meeting during the game for at least 45 minutes which caused severe delays during it.

I had decided to field the followinng

• Warboss (Eavy Armour slugga, choppa)
• 3 Mega Armor Nobs w/ Trukk
  
• 7 Burna Boys
• 7 Tank Bustas
  
• 20 Ork Boys w/ slugga choppa, Ork Nob with Banner and uge Choppa
• 20 Ork Boys w/ slugga choppa, Ork Nob with PK
• 10 Ork Boys w/ Shoota and Big Shoota w/ Trukk
• 10 Gretchin w/ Slaver
• BattleWagon 2 Big Shootas/ Deff Rolla

Obi Had

• Chaplain
• 10 man Assault Squad
• 5 Scouts w/ Sniper and Missile Launcher
• 2 Land Speeders with Heavy Bolters
• 2 10 man Tactical Squads with Missile Launchers

Mission was an Annihilate and we had a Pitch Battle Set up. I had the Burna Boys borrow the truck of the Shoota Boys and the Warboss and one 20 man squad was in the Battlewagon (which too Late I realized was illegal since the Boss wouldnt have fit in)

The Burnas, BattleWagon and the other 20 man Ork boys squared off against the Chaplain, Assault Squad and Tac squad and the two Speeders on one side of the table while the Nobz, Gretchin and Tank Bustas where on the other side facing off the Tac Squad and Scouts.

Good Shooting on the part of Obi had my Trukk with the Nob immobilized on Turn 1 and the BattleWagon destroyed after it took a Missile on the front (stupid open top) by Turn 2. The Nobs decided to leg it up the mountain with their running eventually made it to the other side. They Skorchaed the scouts before they charged into the the 10 man Tac squad which they eventually ground down with only one nob left.

The Gretchin provided a screen to the 20 ork boys on foot before they went right and took pot shots at the tac squad there. They were largely ignored which suited me fine. The TankBustas managed to finally destroy the Land Speeders during the course of the game.

On the left. The Burnas jumped from their borrowed trukk side to start flaming the 10 man Tac squad but because I was having a teleconference I forgot to charge them into the 10 man squad. They eventually got rapid fired to death.

The Ork Warboss leading the 20 boys from the dead BattleWagon charged into the 10 man squad and butchered it only to be slaughtered in turn by the Chaplain with Assault Squad. They were in turn wiped out by the walking 20 ork boys as well.

The Ork shoota boyz took pot shots at the tac and assault squads while the other larger mobs where getting ready to charge in.

So score one win for the Orks due to sheer numbers. I guess with my Lost and the Damned Army Gone its Orks for my Horde army fix for now :)

Gotta get more games in

Note: More pictures can be found here

GENERAL: What the Wife gave me when she came home =)

Well last week the wifey came home and gave me a bunch of stuff to simply just stock up at home and store them in my cabinets =P

• Assault On Black Reach - Starter -- yeah more stuff
  
• Ork Boys box - (just 10 boys now.. booh.. I miss the 16 per box )
• Loota/Burna Box ( 5 loota bits, 5 burna bits.. whats not to like?)
• Tank Busta box with 2 bomb squigs :D
• Round Bases set (arggh had to buy some)
• Counter set (this I actually loved to have)

Now I wonder when I will get the chance to paint them much less assemble em :D