Castellan Alaric Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 So i had my first tournament experience today and i had a great experience. It was a 750 points and it ended up being 3 rounds. I went 2-1 and a 3rd place result. Good enough to get me free entry to next months tournament. Good enough for me! So my list is in the army list section and i'll focus on the games i played. Game #1: GK vs orks: he brought a boom gun, looted wagon, bomber (5 missiles, 2 bombs and 4 guns), 2 units of boys on the ground and a special warboss characters (poison attacks stuff) So this game was a 9-0 in my favor, which was a massacre. I ended up losing 4 purifiers and 1 strike knights and wiped every one of his units off the board. my strike squad blasted the flyer off the board it's first turn. rolled the outflank warlord trait, so my terminators and brotherhood champ came in to kill the boom gun and kill a deff kopta (he had 3 or those, oops) So i ended up with 2 objectives and all secondaries (slay the warlord, first blood and linebreaker) Game#2 GK vs sisters: So here is my one loss. I sealed my loss turn 1 when i deployed my obj in an emperor's will game on one side and my strike squad on the other side ^_^ stupid move. my termies and bro champ were supposed to move up the left flank and get into combat with the sisters squads and work their way across the field but placing the strikers on the other side screwed my whole game up. ended up with my bro champ and termy justicar left at the end. i had my obj and he had his, but he had first blood and linebreaker so i lost 5-3. Game#3 GK vs chaos marines: This game was played against a guy who'd been playing for a week and his deployment set him up for a loss. Emperor's will again and he stacked his chosen and lord on his obj (first mistake) and he walked his 2 helbrutes with 5 man chaos squads up both flanks (2nd mistake). I took out the first helbrute after 1 turn and the 2nd on turn 2. It was basic torrent of fire after that destroying the chaos marine units. My terminators and bro champ got outflank again and they came in and destroyed the lord and his chosen. I had some suggestions for the new player on his army composition going forward and explained how troops are everything. Cool guy who i loo forward to playing again in the future and he was grateful for the help. Really pleased with my grey knights' performance in this tournament, and look forward to many more victories to come! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3256802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 so i recently acquired a substantial amount of gk models and tonight i got all of them put together and equipped like i wanted them to. i now have a WYSIWYG 750 gk list. the same list that i recently ran at the tournament, where i was fortunate enough to place 3rd. here's some models! brotherhood champion (with a cooler sword arm cuz i thought he needed some more bling :) ) http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo18-1_zps39753809.jpg strike squad (10 man - 2xPC's, psybolts, hammer, halberd justicar) http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo28-1_zps8f4b2fa4.jpg terminators (5 - 1xPC, hammer, 4xhalberds) http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo45-1_zps026a448b.jpg purifiers (5 - 2xPC, psybolts, halberd justicar) pictured with my extra halberd justicar if i want another body: http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo37-1_zps696c2c5f.jpg group shot: http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo6_zps2b507fb1.jpg comment and criticism is appreciated! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3263769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 Here are some close ups of some of my modeling attempts. i used pinning (paper clips and drilling), but i have no green stuff right now so i will be able to fill some gaps when i get some of that and start practicing with that. brotherhood champ: http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo46-1_zpse823e62a.jpg halberd justicars: http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo38-1_zpsc6e1f6c5.jpg stiker with sword (metal bro champ's arm) and termy justicar: http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo29-1_zps11f911dc.jpg strikers with swords (used falchions cuz i didn't have the arm bits to use the actual swords): http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x419/warriormid8/photo19-1_zpsbee36e8e.jpg what do you think of the use of the falchions as swords? still work for WYSIWYG? appreciate the comments gents. i will be priming and starting to paint tomorrow. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3263778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philsminions Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Hey man! Love the new models you have there. I think you're first attempt at diff poses and using the pinning techniques worked out well. Can't wait to see them all painted up. IMHO, I like the use of the falchion toting brothers. I think the katana-esque swords give a nice variation to what has otherwise become standard across the SM genre. I personally wouldn't have a problem with them being used as "counts as" swords/sword. Your preference. Keep it up! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3266670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Thanks man! appreicate the comment! gonna be getting some more models here real soon to get me up to 1000 pts of gk which will be nice. Next week is basing! keep a look out for it! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3266939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeratul29 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Nice, congrats on the tourney Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3268856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 ugh, frustrating wkd of gaming for me. played a guy 3 games in a row at 750pts and lost all 3...played his eldar, then demons and then eldar again. so game #1: eldar - big guardian blob w/warlock, farseer (fortune and guide), 6 jetbikes (2 cannons), 7? banshees - banshee masks and 5 swooping hawks. i used my tourney list, except i switched the purifiers to interceptors just to see what i could do with them. all day long it was my armor save rolls that were my downfall. in all 3 games i lost half my terminators to 1 turn of shooting (taking normal 2+ saves) so when 3 terms died to shuriken catapults i was just a little peeved... demons - 2x4 flamers, 5 screamers, 4 bloodcrushers and herald, 2x5 plaguebearers. i ended up killing 2 bloodcrushers with shooting on turn1, killing the other 2 in combat by turn 2, and then i had a termy locked in combat with the herald for 3 full turns...by this time my bro champ and termies were gone, so i had my purifiers and strikes to deal with everyone else. needless to say, i didn't get all of em and was tabled turn 5. eldar again - avatar, 5 rangers (bane of my existence), 2x3 jetbikes, swooping hawks. i decided to run a tricked out GM for fun - halberd, OSR, psychotroke 'nades with 6 termy buddies totting 1 PC. strikers the same as before. rolled up kill points. i ended up killing the avatar with my GM by force weapon-ing him, and my OSR did nothing all game...just wanted to roll the GM for fun, and forgot to roll for grand strategy...i need too get back up to playing 1000 and 1250 games i think. getting that second whole squad of strikers helps a bunch! tried some different things and most of em didn't work. pretty disappointed with 3 straight losses, haven't done that since playin with my bt's so definitely don't want to keep that rolling. i'll get some proxying going to get up to 1k points and get back in the W column lol Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3269024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 been awhile since i posted on here, but i had a 2k game vs orks that i played gk in and so i thought it proper to let you all in on it. it was an absolute bloodbath. went 6 turns and was killpoints, which i won 9-7. lists: gk- coteaz OMI-TDA, PC, psyker1 10 terminators - 2xPC, psybolts (4 halberds, 2 hammers, 4 swords) strikers - 2xPC, psybolts, halberd justicar and hammer razor - psybolts strikers - 2xPC, psybolts, halberd justicar and hammer razor - psybolts interceptors - 2xPC, psybolts henchmen - 3xp-cannons, 2 jokers, 7 bolters henchmen - 3xp-guns, 2 jokers, 7 bolters ADL - QG orks: big mekk - kff weirdboy 30 shoota boys - nob klaw/big shoota, 2xbig shootas 30 shoota boys - nob klaw/big shoota, 2xbig shootas battlewagon - mekk boy with 9 burna boys 12 lootas dakka jet deff dread 2x3 killa kans - each had 2 grotzookas and 1 rokkit 20 storm boys + da vulcha so my terms killed 3 killa kans and then rolled awfully and died turn 2...terrible saves, there were a lot of shots but 5 at a time? please...my interceptors lost 6 before i even got to go and still managed to kill the battlewagon on my turn 1 after a shunt with a rear armor psycannon shot! hah! the MVP's were coteaz's p-cannon henchmen. they killed 15 of da vulcha's storm boys after they scattered to within 12" of his unit, they had also already killed the weirdboy and over half of his 30 boy shoota squad in one go! i love prescience...strikers deep struck and on turn 2 when i should have wrecked a ton of stuff i managed to kill 1 kan after firing 4 squads at the unit...absolutely terrible shooting...bad target priority too, shoulda taken out the boys behind me, but lessons learned i guess. so moral of this game was not getting turn 1. with turn 1 i could have taken the wind out of his sails from the get go, but i went second and even with 2 rolls from coteaz couldn't steal the initiative. one cool highlight was a squad of 4 strikers left got charged by the deff dread and lost 2, but the hammer managed to kill it with his 1 return attack! (he only had 1 hull point left) it was awesome! good game over all but could have rolled better, made better decisions and gone for his big units throwing lots of fire, not the kans... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3310363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Alaric Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share Posted March 23, 2013 hey guys i have some modeling and model acquisition news to report. today i will be getting 5 more GKT to make a full 10 man unit, as well as a NIB NDK and storm raven. i'm SUPER excited about the raven/NDK the modeling opportunity is just fantastic. have you guys had any trouble with either modeling kit? any tips/tricks to make clean models are appreciated! thanks fellas Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3333914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vash Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 No the kits are really good. And if you follow the instructions carefully there should be no problem at all. I wouldnt experiment to much with posing in extreme poses. Do that on your next one. On another note, were you not suppose to give up on Grey Knights? Or did the awesome power of the Holy Knights keep you in the game? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3335114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoJack Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I don't know about the NDK, but the storm raven was a breeze. Far easier than putting together a rhino, just a little more involved. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/261730-castellan-alarics-grey-knights-batreps/page/2/#findComment-3335338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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