I was beaten by a girl!

Quite badly too and no, she didn't play Eldar!

Friday night I joined up with R.T.Voril and we went to me up with his gaming club out in the hinterlands of (not quite as) eastern Tennessee. There was a pretty good sized crowd there, and I'd already met about half of them from my forays out to Morristown. Only one 40k game was played while we were there (we had to duck out kinda early as its roughly an hour and a half drive home, as it was I didn't get back till 3am).  Still much fun was had.

Her avatar from a geek forum.

In that game I was declared the 'fresh meat' and thus the reigning champion Raven was required to fight me (champion of what I never did figure out). However considering just how the game went, champion was an apt term. I had made the comment 'hey, I might lose to a girl' which after turn 1 was changed to 'yes, I am going to get beaten by a girl' lol.  Dawn of war deployment, the scouring, 1k of my CSMs vs. her Demons.  My warlord was able to hold objectives, hers got a +1 to reserves. She then stole the initiative and i discovered just how bad ass Flamers of Tzeentch really were!  To be honest, while the Soul grinder killed several marines, the Blood Thirster killed two havocs with sweep attacks, and the demonette horde pulled down the last member of plasma death, the 9 flamers pretty much killed the remaining 80% of my army! At the end of turn 3, i had just a lascannon predator left, and while I could have fought to the end, it would be pointless to do so. So I raised the white flag of surrender. I did at least manage to gun down the Blood Thirster which in my book is a (vaguely) moral victory, as well as the soul grinder.

Its all good though. I've been playing 40k for close to 2 decades, and while I've dated gamer girls, played alongside them going all the way back to 2nd. ed., and lost other mini games to them, this was the first time I lost a 40k game to one. So, I guess that's another milestone reached?

On the painting front, last week I managed to finish up the first of my Dark Vengeance Chosen:

I'm rather pleased with him, and indeed prior to our game (where he was one of the first to die, typical of newly painted minis), my opponent's boyfriend was asking if I'd notice (or mind) if that mini went missing! lol!

I painted his tabard to look like it was torn from the hide of an Ork! Finding a worthy foe who's death would be one to remember removes any mere humans (or Space Wolves) from the list of potentials. Though after my last bout using the Ork vs. Hive Angel, they ought to be off of the list as well! My guess is that my game table was still strewn with Ork carcases and he skinned the one that had claimed to be Da' Warmasta which, is kinda fitting I suppose.