First Game in 2013

Yesterday night Krüger and I introduced Jörg to Warhammer 40K.

Jörg is a neighbor whose two kids go to the same kindergarten as mine. He grew up not far away from Dortmund, where Krüger and I are from, and used to play a lot of role-playing games and Battletech.

Jörg and Krüger played as a team against me. Jörg brought 500 points of Dark Angels which he has recently bought and painted. Krüger brought his Space Marines.

I played 1000 points of Plague Marines. I've been playing this list for about a year.

Chaos Lord (HQ / 150 points)

mark of nurgle, plaguebringer

9 Nurgle Plague Marines (Troops / 257 points)

2 meltaguns

plague champion with power weapon

Chaos Rhino (45 points)

twin-linked bolter, dozer blade

11 Nurgle Plague Marines (Troops / 323 points)

2 plasma guns

plague champion with power fist

3 Obliterators (Heavy Support / 225 points)

My list was quite effective. After explaining the basic rules (5th edition) to Jörg, we started to play around 9pm. We used seize ground as a mission and dawn of war as deployment type. Three hours later I hadn't lost a unit, while the only remaining unit on the other side was Krüger's immobilised dreadnought, whom I consider to be the hero of the game. (Krüger thinks otherwise.)

I feel a bit awkward that this went so well for me and hope Jörg nevertheless had fun playing 40K for the first time.  It would be cool to play with him more often.

Speed Painting

In January and February I got together with Krüger a couple of times to paint.

I managed to repair my damaged miniatures while Krüger finished 10 Ork Kommandos, painted a Stormraven, assembled 5 Scouts and started to paint them. Krüger, the speed painter!

This year we want to meet more often to paint and sculpt.

2012

If you have been reading this blog you already know that I like numbers. So here we go:

This year I played 26 tabletop games, 9 games of 40K, 9 games of Warhammer Fantasy and 8 games of HOTT. Three of these games were team games.

I played 25 times with Krüger, twice with my cousin Sven and twice with Patrick.

I won 11 games, lost 11 games and 4 games were tied.

Apart from the little accident we had two weeks ago, it was a good gaming year. Let's see what happens in 2013!

Wargaming Disaster

Yesterday night Krüger and I met to play HOTT.

After I had prepared the battlefield and gaming materials, I went away for a minute, leaving my 4-year old daughter and Krüger in the room with all the miniatures. I suddenly heard a loud noise. Somehow Lina who was taking pictures of our armies with her Fisher Price camera managed to tear down the gaming board with Krüger standing right next to her. She was crying. My HOTT army was on the floor, the miniatures mostly damaged. The board had landed on Lina's foot. Fortunately she was ok after a while. But it will probably take me a couple of weeks to repair my miniatures. Not cool.

I was luckier playing the game. Krüger was the defender and had to deploy his troops first. I divided my army, placing one part on the left side, the other on the right to avoid getting in contact with Krüger's general and his knights which he had placed in the centre. The plan worked. I destroyed 6 of his elements, not loosing one myself, and won the game.

Weihnachtsmarkt

Marjorie, Lina, Herr Zinnling und Hendrik auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Dortmund.

Generic Green Creatures

Warband General (2 points)

6 Warbands (12 points)

I play Hordes of the Things on a 120 mm x 120 mm board with single based 28 mm miniatures put on regiment bases that have a base width of 80 mm. (I basically double all the measurements recommended for playing with 15 mm miniatures.) To fix the miniatures to the regiment bases, I use magnets and flexible steel sheets.

The core of my army consists of a warband general and 6 warbands. I tried all kinds of elements to supplement my core army, a hero, a magician, behemoths and beasts, and finally decided to play the following list: a warband general, 6 warbands, a behemoth and 3 flyers.

Warbands are difficult to play, so I posted a question in the Fanaticus Forum: what would be a good match against this army? People kindly responded and Alan Saunders suggested a list: 6 blades, 3 knights, a magician and a shooter.

Krüger, the friend whom I regulary play HOTT with, accepted to try the list against me. The miniatures he uses are old school GW High Elves. We have played 6 very challenging games using the two lists so far. I won 4 times and lost twice. It's too early to tell if the lists are balanced, I guess, but they are lots of fun to play.

Thanks, Alan Saunders!

Krüger's Orks & Goblins

Yesterday night, Krüger and I had a game of Warhammer Fantasy. I played my Wood Elf army, he brought 1500 points of Orks & Goblins. This is his army list:

Orc Warboss (lord / 171 points)
great weapon, armour of destiny

Orc Big Boss (hero / 73 points)
boar, light armour

Night Goblin Big Boss (hero / 36 points)
great weapon, light armour

Night Goblin Shaman (hero / 85 points)
level 2 wizard
magic mushrooms

20 Orc Big 'Uns (core unit / 215 points)
champion, standard bearer, musician
shields

20 Orc Boys (core unit / 175 points)
champion, standard bearer, musician
additional hand weapon, shields

30 Night Goblins (core unit / 215 points)
champion, standard bearer, musician
nets, shields
2 fanatics

5 Goblin Wolf Riders (core unit / 50 points)

5 Goblin Wolf Riders (core unit / 50 points)

Goblin Wolf Chariot (special unit / 50 points)

8 Orc Boar Boys (special unit / 179 points)
champion, standard bearer, musician

Giant (rare unit / 200 points)

The game was quite entertaining as it was tied until the last turn, when the dice turned against me and I finally lost. My two main mistakes: to accept a challenge with my general and not to use the treeman's Strangle-roots attack as a stand and shoot charge reaction against Krüger's giant.

You can find a complete battle report with pictures on Krüger's blog Spielosophie.