The Word Hammered Home

Once more another game of Kill Team, this time against my friend with the Imperial Guard. I rejigged my force from when I took a beating at the hand of the fiancé and went to town with nine Boltgun wielding Chaos Marines (one with Fleet) as well as one Heavy Bolter (Relentless) and one Lascannon Marine (Feel No Pain) each. I had the benefit of seeing what he was to field beforehand and saw that he was going to take a Chimera which is why I added the Lascannon because otherwise I'd have nothing capable of taking it out and that didn't seem right and proper. A bit unsporting though no doubt about that.

He fielded a Chimera, a Infantry Squad and six or seven Storm Troopers with the only extra for anything being a Storm Bolter for the Chimera.

Game was pretty straight forward. We only had access to six pieces of terrain, salvaged from the bowels of the apartment building from where they had been hiding since he moved a year or two ago. Instead of trying to move into close combat like I did in my first game against the Sisters of Battle I tried and succeeded in, much thanks to my opponent allowing me to, staying at 12"-24" range for most of the game relying on my superior strength and armour penetrating firepower as well as armour saves to keep my guys on their feet and the others tumbling down. At the end it was his force removed and two Boltgun wielding Marines from my force having been felled in return.

Main points:

• Some not so good to hit or to wound rolls from my opponent.
• Some quite successful armour saves from myself. 
• The Chimera and Feel No Pain infused Lascannoneer spent the entire game locked in a duel with the lascannon only hitting in the last round when it removed the Chimera as the final Imperial Guard model. Up until that point the Chimera had managed to penetrate the armour saves of the lone Marine on half a dozen occassions without felling him as his Daemon infused body refused to bow down.
• Two passed leadership tests at Ld 7 and Ld 6 from my opponent that showed remarkable courage from the guard in the face of the terrifying superiority of the Sons of Lorgar.

On another note  keep promising pictures! I have some of my fiancés Sisters of Battle and my own Chosen squad, but I am not happy with the way they've come out and so far have not been able to remedy it. Might have to bite the bullet and post them up even though they aren't quite up to scratch.

Modelling progress and a game of Kill Team!

Because I have been of a mind of late that I should get a small 'Kill Team' force ready to start gaming and getting to grips with the rules, well obviously I knew I'd need some models for the job. I have a special thing for Chosen, there is something about their Infiltrate special rule and the amount of special weapons they can take that tickles my fancy, not to mention their name. With that in mind I've fiddled with a list like this:

1 Aspiring Champion (Fleet), 1 Chosen with Flamer (Feel No Pain), 1 Chosen with Flamer, 1 Chosen with Heavy Bolter (Relentless), 5 Chosen with Bolters.

I've been building a few models here and there for a while but I couldn't find the inspiration and motivation to get my thumb out my arse. But today that finally changed as I assembled what I needed to make the entire team. I'll get the pictures up tomorrow (including the ones of my fiancés Witch Hunters force that I promised ages ago) alongside some comments.

Playing Kill Team: I fielded the above list and she did a not entirely legit list of 4 Seraphim (1 Veteran) and 9 Battle Sisters. The game itself was interesting, frustrating but ultimately fun. I had to check rules quite a few times and we did a few mistakes, most notably forgetting about rolling leadership tests for the Victory Conditions when reduced to half or less of starting number of models and when we realised we decided to just go total death match. The result? I lost, quite heavily I might add. I think she had 7 models left on the table when she mopped the floor with my last Chosen courtesy of the Flying Burrito Sisters (two remaining Seraphim).

Lessons learnt: Chosen, for what they do in games of 200 points aren't exactly cutting the mustard. Next time I think I'll drop them to normal Marines, drop a flamer and instead get in another two boltgun armed models. Firstly it'll give me more shooting and more bodies for when we remember to test for leadership when the models start dropping off. Flamers aren't that good to be honest but I like the idea of them.

A dark pledge

A new year has dawned on us and it is a readily available conclusion to make that the project has not gone entirely according to plan! The progress made has been a bit too slow for my liking. I knew it wasn't going to be the fastest pace ever but still, I am a bit disappointed.

But I am going to get organised in this our new year because I want to game and I want to game with models modelled and painted to the best of my abilities. I've got plans to play some Kill Team with my Imperial Guard touting buddy and also with my Sisters of Battle using fiancé. A good goal is thus to have that Kill Team ready and get a few games before the end of the month (January that is).

If I don't succeed in this I offer my soul to the Dark Gods!