Papa Nurgle Is Visiting

My wife is sick. My baby has the first stages of pneumonia, my wife is really sick, my oldest is starting to get sick and NOW I'm sick too.

Children are like walking Petri dishes.

So I'm sorry that I haven't been as active in getting posts up. I know that there are several emails pending in my inbox too... rest assured I'm not ignoring you guys.

Email In: Help with Loganbomb

 Oh I'm sorry... where you using that Land Raider?

Masterslowpoke writes:

Heya! I recently won a smörgåsbord of Space Wolf infantry models, and
I want to put them to good use. A Logan list sounds like it would
require the least amout of purchasing to make, and would be rather fun
to play. I'm leaning more towards the "Loganbomb" idea, and I don't
know of anyone who would know Logan better than you. Here's the list
I'm thinking of making, it's at 1850:

----- HQ ----------------------------
Logan Grimnar

Playing Nids - Lessons Learned

 Ok, so a few of my thoughts after having gotten in a few more games.

-The hardest part is remembering to do everything in the correct order. Tervigons especially have a lot of things that happen at very specific places in the turn sequence (Catalyst, Spawning, Dominion, etc). In a tournament setting without being as practiced as I would like to be with the Nids we messed up the sequences quite a few times. I need to get more practice games in to overcome those challenges.

-So many Gants. Really, just... way too many Gants. Lol. Getting them all placed and moved is a real challenge, especially if terrain is tight or the board is getting cluttered. We were able to stay disciplined enough to not spawn until we needed them, but even then it was just... a lot of them.

-Feel No Pain is essential to survival, and Psychic Hoods easily stop Feel No Pain. Yeah, it's a problem. Especially when you can't seem to get a single psychic power off against a Hood in attempt after attempt. Stelek had talked about how necessary psychic defense has become in 5th edition. Effective psychic defenses can absolutely neuter a Nids army. I now have a lot of pity for my poor Nids opponents being faced by Njal's 3+ Runic Staff of "No really, fuck YOU."

Fuck Yeah Dawn of War

NardyPoontango said:

"I don't know anyone who's like "DoW, fuck yeah!" 

Well sir, I beg to differ: 

Yeah, I made that on Fuck Yeah Nouns, just for you.

Oh wait, you were talking about that shitty deployment type that everyone hates, not the PC game? Yeah, everybody hates that.

I actually said that during the tournament "I fucking hate Dawn of War." And got a chorus of the closest 2-3 people saying "Yeah, me too..."

GW Defender says:

"No, see, it's a narrative scenario in which patrolling forces meet in the pre-dawn darkness and rapidly call in..."

No. Just stop. I hate this deployment. Who's with me on this one?

Team Tourney Results

Ok, so we came, we saw, we conquered the majority of the time. It probably doesn't make for a great latin phrase, but it's still pretty good.

The Tournament  was using NOVA style missions. The only difference was that for two of the games the Objectives were deployed as per book missions rather than 5 centered in their respective NOVA locations. For the third mission the Objectives were deployed NOVA style.

Here was our lists:

Space Wolves

Logan Grimnar
Wolf Guard x 5, Terminator, Cyclone Launcher, Storm Bolter
Wolf Guard x 5, Terminator, Cyclone Launcher, Storm Bolter
Wolf Guard x 5, Terminator, Cyclone Launcher, Storm Bolter
Wolf Guard x 5, Terminator, Cyclone Launcher
Longfangs x 4, Lascannons x 4, Pack Leader

Hive Tyrant, Old Adversary, Heavy Venom Cannon, Tyrant Guard x 2
Tervigon, Catalyst, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
Hive Guard
Hive Guard
Hive Guard
Tervigon, Catalyst, Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
Termagants x 10
Gargoyles x 10, Toxin Sacs

Prepping For Team Tourney

Drinking Beers, Painting Nids and watching Spartacus: Blood and Sand with my bud (and teammate).

Life don't get much better than this.

Spartacus is quite an awesome show, btw. Definitely not for the whole family, though.

I'm taking 1000 points of Loganwing, he's taking 1000 points of bugs. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.

Whoa... This is Awesome!

I had had a crazy thought about making a Silent Hill themed Daemons of Chaos army someday. Pyramid Head could be Skarbrand. Alessa on her bed would be Fateweaver. Blind Nurses as Daemonettes, etc. etc.

Cool idea, no?

Well someone apparently has done an amazing job already.  Go drool over these pictures. I'm not sure if he has done a Pyramid-head yet. I will have to chew through his archives.

Brilliant work.