Well, after the epic clash of the Deathstars from my last post, I then played Murl's Deathguard with a slightly trimmed down GK list with the grand master & god squad left unchanged. Needless to say, Deathguard, which is usually a strong army, crumpled like tinfoil in the face of so much cheese. Indeed Murl's reaction to the realization that after so many shots that he'd only wounded a Paladin rather than killed one was worthy of a Youtube upload (were a video camera available). He had been considering going to a 40k tourney in Knoxville that's only a few weeks off, but said the hell with it if this is the kind of army he could expect to see there.Way to go GW.
So feeling like a slimeball WAAC player, I'm trading off the god squad to our local cheeseball who's (unsurprisingly) starting a Draigowing army in return for a tau tank of some sort (yeah, yeah, shut up Screech). For whatever reason I've wanted to paint one of those for going on 6 months, yet have had no urge to buy one. So that works. Besides, the Tau rumors are intriguing. I'll keep Matt Fucking Ward (reducing him in rank to just a 'mere paladin') & go back to my original retinue horde with a handful of GK in support idea, that list worked fairly decent & made for a better game i think.
Next I got a few upgrades for my game room this Christmas.
First off are new stools on wheels. Its amazing at how hard these were to find for under $75 a piece. However Lowes came thru in the end, having them @ $30 each. Previously I was using my old & new desk chairs, and while comfy (more for one person than the other), they took up too much space. Especially if you didn't really want to sit down. The stools are low enough to roll under the game table if they're unwanted/in the way, yet still comfortable to sit on for the duration of a game.Next up was an improvement in lighting.
The ceiling looks black when you aim the camera directly at a light...
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"Praise Nurgle heathen, fore he hath bestowed on the world cheese/bean burritos, and all was good."
That lighting should help a lot! I recall getting eyestrain the last time we played. The stools look good too.
I half expected you to declare the Murl was going to switch to Gk after that report! We haven't had an Ork on Ork fight in some time now, and Bink is all excited about playing again, which in turn has me thinking about orks again... think we could make some Waaaghs come true soon? (work schedules permitting of course). My ultimate goal is to see that Gargant in action...
FYI a ceiling fan will only ensure that you the stench of Nurgle keeps circulating back to your side of the table. I would recommend a small box fan facing out of the room to evacuate the odors.
Yeah Charlie, The ceiling fan in the dining room (from before I had the game room set up) proved the futility of clearing the air that way...
I'm going to take the Orks to HT Saturday actually. A bit of soul cleansing after the GK armies, or something like that. Also it will be the battlefield debut of Da Grot Spee!!!
I quit GK after one game. I'm pretty peeved at how excited I got looking at the options, and then it turned out to be a not so good time. Oh well, back to BT, which are if nothing else, fun.
indeed. The guy that I'm trading the Paladins off too texted me last night asking if 2 squads of paladins & 2 landraiders (and presumably Draigo) for a 1500pt army was cheesey.
To which I responded with: 'Is that supposed to be a joke?'
I think the codex was designed to make the over-the-top competitive people happy, at the expense of everyone else. You would think GW would have learned their lesson after the Demon army book was released into and pretty much ruined 7th ed WHFB.
I still say you should hang onto those GK for those special occasions when you need to curbstomp some poor schmuck...
Murl
As the cheeseball mentioned in this post, I feel I should say that I don't think I will actually play this force. I plan to simply paint and have y'all make fun of my painting skills. I want to get another chaos land raider and paint all of it. I am sticking with the Necrons permanently. I just gotta build,convert, and paint the arks. Sincerely , madival.
lol!
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