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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-74410356766818411972019-12-17T12:39:00.000+00:002019-12-17T12:39:51.101+00:00COSH Team I - Team Redshirts Rides Again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the 30th November, my mates Sam and Courtney ran the first COSH Team tournament at 4TK Gaming in Colchester. It was a four game, three-player team tournament with space for twelve teams - so I asked my team-mates from the EurOpen last year to join in and Team Redshirts was ready to rock once again!<br />
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Looking at the rules that Sam decided on, we all thought that Lizardmen and Chaos Dwarfs looked the strongest options as they'd been put in the Tier 2 category and had more skill options than they normally do. Gary was already painting up Chaos Dwarfs so we all thought it would be good if we just all took the same team (although we all took different rosters). The other guys liked the idea of a Minotaur on their team but I went for something different :<br /><br />2 x Bull Centaur (Block and Break Tackle)<br />6 x Chaos Dwarf Blockers (3 x Guard, Claw)<br />4 x Hobgoblin Runner<br />3 x Rerolls<br />1 x Apothecary<br /><br />
Come the morning of the tournament we were quite looking forward to battle and we got settled in for a long day of gaming!<br /><br />Round 1 - Gethyn from Team EATBATS with Lizardmen<br />
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<br />Chaos Dwarfs vs Lizardmen - it seemed we both had seen the opportunity for some extra skills on our teams. Gethyn's Lizards had the Krox and all six Sauruses with Block and a Sure Hands Skink. He did a great job of maximising all the strength on his team and despite my Guard doing sterling work, I had some bad luck at a couple of key moments and I lost this game 1-2 although I did go 4-1 on casualties.<br />
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Round 2- Besters from Vulture's Squadron with High Elves<br />
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<br />Jim is the one coach I've played more times than anyone else in tournaments - this was our thirteenth game. He's definitely the chap I set my standards against as I've only beaten him twice out of those. So when I started knocking out all his players, Jim really had no option but to just suffer and watch my team go 1-0 up at half time. He did get all his elves back for the 2nd half and I started smashing them up again - and at my turn 7 of the final half I had a chance to go 2-0 which would seal the deal. I just needed to make a 4+ dodge with a bull centaur to do it. Of course, he tripped over - and Jim then made a lot of elfy rolls to equalise on the final turn. I was really quite annoyed as I thought I'd managed to beat him! Argh. The game ended 1-1 and another 4-1 on casualties. <br /><br />Round 3 - Larkin2012 from Team Friendless with Humans<br /><br />
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I was playing Daniel in this game who is a member of my Chelmsford Bunker league - and we'd only been chatting the night before about the nightmare he was having with some of his models melting while he was trying to get the basing dry on them! Thankfully he'd done a great job and they were ready for action despite this setback. Daniel is a fairly new player and this was his first tournament - so although he had some solid decision for his team, I think my experience showed through. It was a bit of a bash-fest for my Chorfs so the game ended 2-0 to me and 5-1 on casualties. I think he was glad when the game was over!<br />
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Ro<span style="font-family: inherit;">und 4 - Ackredies from Alpharest Alphas with Halflings</span><br />
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Definitely<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the most interesting Halfling team I've ever played against as he had Deeproot and Captain Colander from the latest halfing rules. I set about trying to keep his trees tied up so they couldn't wander around but Deeproot was as much of a menace as ever. I kept picking on the halflings and took out both of his Catchers early on - and eventually I just keep hitting hobbits so they couldn't do anything. The game ended 1-0 to me and 4-3 on casualties.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">So my tournament finished with a 2/1/1 result which was okay but I was annoyed about not beating Jim having had the upper hand for most of the game. Ah well! Next time :) Andrew had a bit of a rough weekend and ended 1/1/2 and Gary did the best of all of us and finished unbeaten on 3/1/0. As a team we finished 4th overall which wasn't too bad. I also ended up winning the Most </span>Casualties<span style="font-family: inherit;"> award with 17 which was quite cool.</span><br />That was my final tournament of 2019 - but I'll be playing again early in 2020 at the UK Team Challenge in York where I'm teaming up with Gary, Jim and Jack - the Unlikely Lads :)<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-56589096184236860662019-11-04T22:18:00.002+00:002019-11-05T20:36:31.290+00:00Cambridge Double Trouble + completing the 26<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So this past weekend I went off to Cambridge to play in one of my favourite tournaments - the Cambridge Double Trouble. I was teamed up with my buddy Andrew and we were both taking Khorne - we had worked things out so that we were both completing using all 26 NAF registed teams as this tournament as we thought it would be a nice way to round off going to so many tournaments together. Quite a lot of our gaming mates were attending including our friend Gary who was staying over - so we opted to stay at the same place so we could all go out for a curry on the Saturday night. Doubles skills were the order of the day for this tournament so we chucked together some rosters and headed off. I'd played a couple of practice matches and had decided on the following roster :<br />
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1 x Bloodthirster<br />
2 x Heralds (one with Leader)<br />
9 x Pit Fighters (four with Guard)<br />
2 x Rerolls<br />
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It was a late start for the gaming as it was the Rugby World Cup final and everyone wanted to watch that - so we didn't start playing until around 11:30. For my first game I was playing against GreyMurphy42 and we've played a number of times, including the last tournament I went to. He was using Dark Elves again for this one although this time he had a multiple block assassin which was really annoying! The git kep stabbing everyone within reach and I just couldn't kill the swine! The game ended 1-1 which I was pretty happy with as I was up against it all game.<br />
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For game two I was drawn against our friend Pete W who was teamed up with his son Thomas. He and Thomas play in a team at the UK Team Challenge with Andrew and his son. Pete is an excellent player and he was using an eccletic Vampire roster with no vampires! He had Count Luthor, Wilhelm Chaney and a bunch of thralls - and six of those thralls had Guard. It was an absolute nightmare to play against and what made it worse was that I just couldn't cause a single injury to anyone. The game ended 2-1 and I think I got away quite lightly to be honest!<br />
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For the final game of the day, I was playing against a chap who plays in Colchester called MonkeyRage with a Skaven team. This game went well for me however and I got quite a lot of luck and was 2-0 up by half time. He got one touchdown back but I scored again to finish the game 3-1. So I finished the day with a 1-1-1 tally as did Andrew - and as a team we'd done the same too. Purplegoo had awarded us our Khorne patches to congratulate us for completing the 26 and we headed off the hotel to dump our gear, jumped in a taxi and headed off the the resturant for a curry with the rest of the crew.<br />
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Sunday morning arrived and, after a breakfast at the hotel, we headed off to the venue again to carry on with the Blood Bowl shenanigans. We we drawn against our HEBBL buddies James and Graeme and I was facing James' Norse team. He'd brought Wilhelm Chaney (2nd time facing that hairy git!) and before I knew it, I had three players off the pitch and I was 1-0 down. For the 2nd half though my dice behaved better and I was doing okay. I managed to do some nice chainpushing too which allowed me to ge the Bloodthirster free so he could blitz Wilhelm Chaney to get the ball off him - which then allowed me to equalise. I had to defend the draw after that but the game ended 1-1.<br />
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For the fifth game we were down in the three-way split at the bottom of the table - I was facing Knowmad using his Dwarf team. He'd given Dodge to both Blitzers and Sidestep to a Trollslayer - but luckily for me I managed to take out one of his Blitzers quite early and KO'd his Runner so he was men down while my guys were still running around. He had terrible luck breaking armour and I seemed to break his armour whenever I needed it - so the game ended 3-0 to me which I was quite pleased about.<br />
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For the final game, I was playing against Mr_Zay and his Dark Elf team. He was a good coach who'd won his first three games and lost all those up until our game on the second day. So he was looking for a fourth win and I wasn't too worried as I'd be happy even if I lost. As it happened, this was another game where my team just couldn't break armour so I was struggling from the off. We battled it out and he stopped me from scoring in the first half - and I did my best to do the same to him despite being men down. The best move I did of that game was to manage to do some dodging to blitz his Runner who messed up his Dump Off which allowed me to dodge out, grab the ball and throw it up field. Unfortunately it was not quite enough to stop him and he scored to end the game 1-0 to him.<br />
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As the tournament ended I'd gone 2-2-2 which I was pretty happy about especially with a sub-par roster like Khorne - everyone on my team had Frenzy which is a bit of a nightmare to control. Looking at the results, I finished 15th out of 30 coaches so I'm very chuffed about that.<br />
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So there we have it - my quest to finished the 26 is complete and I can now use Tier 1 teams with impunity!<br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-37640304618083433472019-10-16T00:32:00.001+01:002019-10-25T14:58:09.775+01:00Blood Bowl Khorne Team completedWell it took me about a week of painting to get the Khorne team finished but they're now completed and ready for their first test game tomorrow. I did enjoy painting them but was keen to get them done and dusted so I can move on to painting something else. I won't be using this team that much but I think they look pretty good despite the rather rushed job I did on them.<br /><br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-43559568478879874052019-09-26T11:59:00.000+01:002019-09-26T11:59:01.588+01:00Blood Bowl Khorne Team - test model completedA number of years ago, one of the guys at my gaming club bought and painted a MK1881 Khorne Blood Bowl team to play with in the club league. After four games of using them, he found them too frustrating to use, dropped out of the league and binned the team. He gave the minis to me as he was never planning on using them again.<br />
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They were never a team I was keen on using either - but when the NAF decided to have a vote on whether they should be allowed as a ranked team, the vote result of a yes meant that if I ever wanted to complete the 26 I'd have to use them. So I chucked the metal minis from the team into some paint stripper so I could paint them one day.<br /><br />"One day" has turned into "now" :)<br /><br />After using the Bretonnians at the NAF Championship earlier this year, I have one last team to tick off the list - and it's the Khorne team. I'm planning on using them at the Cambridge Double trouble in November so I need to get them painted ready for that.<br /><br />I picked the Bloodthirster mini as the tester as when I dug the team out, I found I'd not undercoated the metal minis and the weather was too wet for me to run out into the garden and spray them. As the Bloodthirster was the only resin model from the team, I'd not stripped it - I had planned to just paint over the top of the previous colours. So over the last couple of days I've done that and he's just about ready to go. It was a pretty easy paint scheme of just red skin, black clothing and brass armour - so it shouldn't take too long to replicate on the rest of the models in the team. I only plan to use this team once so I won't be spending too much time on painting the minis if I can help it!<br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-32245532655833022792019-09-16T20:45:00.001+01:002019-09-16T20:45:41.839+01:00First Primaris Crimson Fists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I resisted for a long time but it finally happened. I bought some Primaris Space Marines for my Crimson Fists army...<br /><br />I
blame Kill Team. That box set came out last year and it seemed the
perfect opportunity to get some of the easy build Primaris models which I
did - and then tried spraying them white with the idea of painting them
as Sons of Medusa. Unfortunately the spray was fuzzy and the models
were ruined so I gave up on them. Eventually I bought more of the
Intercessors and Reivers and this time decided they'd join my Crimson
Fists. Of course, then I added some easy build Aggressors... So with
these models built I started painting these plus a ten-man unit of metal
sniper scouts that I've had forever. While I was digging these out I
also rediscovered the Pedro Kantor mini so I thought I'd built and paint
him just as he'd been languishing in a box for a decade. I even
chucked in one of the Space Marine Heroes minis I'd bought a while
back. So - all in all quite a nice painting project which,
unfortunately, have been stuck on my paint station for months. I
finally decided to crack on with finishing them a couple of weeks ago as
I need to start painting a Blood Bowl team for a tournament in
November. Anyway enough wittering - here's the minis.<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-85169083890236730922019-08-18T14:59:00.000+01:002019-08-20T17:22:07.137+01:00Hobby updateIt's been a while since I did any hobby as work got pretty busy and I have to go overseas a couple of times which didn't help. Neither did my laptop dying which put a real downer on updating this site! That being said, I'd done a small amount of hobby recently so I thought I'd put some updates on here.<br />
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First thing I did was to build some Necromunda scenery for my gaming club. This is the Complex scenery from Mad Gaming Terrain - it's all lovely MDF lasercut stuff which fits together really well, especially if you use a little wood glue to make sure it sticks. I'd built off of all and in the photo below I was preparing to glue hundreds of 3mm x 3mm magnets into the sides so it can all easily stack together via magnets. It took me a couple of days to do this - and longer than that before I could use my glued up fingerprint to unlock my phone - but it's all built now and it just needs painting when I get a chance.<br />
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After this I decided to get some more work done on my Catachan army. A few months previously I'd mostly built a Leman Russ battle tank and I'd magnetised the turret so I could switch out the weapons - but I just wasn't sure whether I really should use magents for everything or just stick to one tank version. I already have three fully built Leman Russes with battle cannons so there was no really need for a fourth. I'd also been toying with the idea of converting the Exterminator twin autocannons into an Annihilator with twin lascannons. As it happened, I found an unused Predator Annihilator turret in my bits box so I did make the tank up as a Leman Russ Annihilator with options for the Eradicator and Vanquisher as well.<br /></div>
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While I'd been digging around in the garage for the lascannon turret for that conversion, I rediscovered some models I'd bought earlier this year and totally forgotten about - three Sentinels still in the boxes. Whoops... I had bought these with the idea of making them into armoured Sentinels as I already have three painted scout Sentinels with flamers and chainswords and I have three more that are unpainted that were built with metal autocannons. So for these I was planning to magnetise them to be able to switch between lascannon or plasmacannon loadouts. After messing around with the first one to work out the process, it only took me a couple of days to bash out the other two. So I now have a full squad of armoured Sentinels to paint along with a stack of weapon options - I also magentised options for the missile launcher and even the hunter killer missiles.<br />
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Since then I've been working on a Valkyrie with more magentised weapon options - I've made it so I can switch out the rocket pods for the missiles and the lascannon for the multi-laser. I don't have it yet but I know there's a Forge World upgrade kit to turn the Valkyrie into a Vendetta which is bristling with lascannons - so I've prepared this kit for turning into a Vendetta by magnetising the nose sensor pod too. Still a little more to do on this until it's ready for pictures as I converted the pilots into Catachans - and I need to paint them completely before I can construct the nose of the ship and glue it to the rest of the hull.<br />
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So - I'm still plugging away at bits and pieces but, as ever, there's always more to do :)Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-55713328148551762482019-05-23T00:21:00.000+01:002019-05-23T00:21:01.322+01:00Classic Catachan metal minis paintedAfter finishing those Crimson Fists, I wanted to get back to painting some more Catachans as I've got a ton more to paint and I really want to get them game ready this year. That being said, these few minis are probably a bit extraneous - it's just that out of all the metal models I've got built and undercoated (of which I've done for all my remaining metal Catachan minis), these are the last of these types of models. I had a couple of the classic metal Lieutenants, a couple of the Voxcasters, three Demo Charges and three Heavy Flamers. I think I can still use Demo Charges if I use rules from one of the Indexes so it'd be cool to try to get them used in a game sometime.<br /><br />Next up on the painting table is probably going to be a couple of Leman Russ tanks that I built and basecoated last year - when I got my airbrush recently I tidied up the camo by spraying the black lines between the camo colours. They won't take long to get completed and then I'll easily have enough armour to get a 2000 point game going.<br />
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Not sure when I'll use these but I still might grab some more for painting at some point.<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-27566415626289884292019-05-13T11:35:00.004+01:002019-05-13T11:37:53.280+01:00NAF Championship 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weekend was one of the highlights of the UK Blood Bowl calendar - the NAF Championship held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. I've been a couple of times, most recently was my visit last year where I used Wood Elves for the first time and completed the 24 - using all 24 NAF approved teams in NAF tournaments. Since then I've been playing any team that's taken my fancy just like regular BB coaches do - but for this year's NAF I wanted to try to get closer to completing the 26 by playing Bretonnians. I don't really like the Bretonnian roster but I did want to tick them off the list so I made up a cheap team using plastics which you can see in more details in another section of this blog. I finished painting them back in March so I've been using them in the HEBBL league without a huge amount of success. They just seem to be a team that doesn't thrill me. So I wasn't quite sure of how well I'd do with them at the NAF but they needed to be played and so I worked out this roster for them :<br />
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4 x Blitzers (Leader and Sure Hand on Day 1, 2 x Dodge on Day 2)<br />
4 x Yeoman (Guard on Day 1 and another Guard on Day 2)<br />
6 x Linemen<br />
2 x Rerolls<br />
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My plan with taking so many players was that if I was numbers up I could chuck in a few fouls without worrying about losing cheap players.<br />
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I'd booked the Friday off before the weekend just so I could travel up early to Nottingham (which is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours away depending on traffic) and go to Warhammer World for lunch. I went there for the first time in years last year and had a great time looking around the exhibition and doing some shopping. This year I'd signed up to play in a Blood Bowl Sevens tournament on the Friday night so I had lunch in Bugman's Bar, did a bit of shopping then headed to the hotel to check in. I met up with my buddy Robin and his friend Dave who were also playing in the Sevens tourney - and we jumped in a taxi to take us to Warhammer World. We were set up in the main gaming hall which was brilliant fun. I had bought High Elves for me to use and my Skaven team for Robin to use in the NAF tourney. Dave borrowed the Skaven for the Sevens - and as luck would have it, Dave and I were drawn against each other in Round 1. BB7s games go really quick and before we knew it, I'd won 3-1. There was only two rounds being played - and my 2nd game was drawn against Robin and his Pro Elves! Robin ran rings around me on that one and won easily 4-1. It was a fun night though as we had more beers in Bugman's until closing time, then headed back to the hotel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Robin at the bar. No surprise three ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blood Bowl Sevens in Warhammer World - my High Elves vs Dave's Skaven</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's not your dice cup Robin :)</td></tr>
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Saturday morning came and it was time to play full games of Blood Bowl. The gaming room in the conference centre was pretty full with almost 200 players and it was brilliant to catch up with a load of gaming buddies including my old friend Phil who set up the Blood Bowl league with me at the Chelmsford Bunker back in 2006. Phil moved to Leeds a few years later so we'd not met up in about a decade so it was great to see him again. The tournament draw was made and it was time to roll some dice. I did collect a Blocksfam patch for donating some BB related goodies to the Blood Bowl charity though.</div>
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Game 1 was against Lamour and his Chaos Dwarf team. He was a really nice chap and was fairly new to tabletop tournaments but he was really quite good at coaching. I managed to stop him scoring in the first half and in the second half I managed to score and hold him off from equalising. The final results was a 1-0 win and 1-3 on casualties.</div>
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Game 2 was against sonofbattlepuppy's Chaos Pact team. This was a totally different game from the first and I really just couldn't get any traction on this game. He broke armour at will and my team really struggled. A 1-2 loss and 2-3 on casualties<br />
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Game 3 was against Mister_Joshua's Necromantic team. Again I just couldn't break armour and my team was just getting smashed up. He turned me over really easily and I only just started to get some casualties at the end of the game - too late by then. A 0-2 loss and 3-2 on casualties.<br />
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For Saturday night I needed a beer and I headed off with Wotfudboy, Scs.Sam and Myrmedon to get some food. We came back to the hotel after and I caught up with my old friend Phil Staines who used to live near me - we started the Chelmsford Bunker league together back in 2006. He had dug out the old game that I helped design when we did Chaos Bowl for a Gamesday table in 2007 - great to see it again and to catch up with Phil.<br />
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Sunday morning and I had already found I was drawn against Dunan Holman's Ogres. Duncan ran the Coins of Corruption kickstarter last year and is a really decent played who runs games in Leicester. He had a no reroll ogre team with three ogres and Morg who was an absolute beast. I somehow managed to hold him from scoring in the first half and, despite the lack of available players and the pouring rain, I scored. Morg then kept fumbling the ball when he was trying to pick it up and the game ended a 1-0 win to me despite only having four players left of the field. We ended 3-4 on casualties.<br />
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Game five and I was against one of Phil's friends called miserable and his Chaos Dwarf team. I struggled on this game against the Chaos Dwarfs and I lost 1-2 loss and 0-3 on casualties.<br />
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For the last game I'd been chatting with Phil and we then found we we playing against each other! He was using an Amazon team with Roxanna Darknail - so I wasn't expecting to have much success against them. As things happened I managed to do okay and won the game 3-0 win and 1-0 on casualties.<br />
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So - the weekend tally was three wins and three losses and I ticked the Bretonnians off the list. 25 NAF teams played and a patch to prove it. Khorne last and very much least - I'll probably field those at the CamDub in November.<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-72604656391788081272019-04-22T21:38:00.000+01:002019-04-22T21:38:10.039+01:00HEBBL mini paintedThe guys that run the HEBBL league that I play in commissioned a mini from Sukubus Studios earlier this year as they wanted a model that could represent the two areas where the league plays over (Herts and Essex Blood Bowl League). It's a great mini with a stag skull and sabre - the guys are planning to use it as a sideline model that occasionally takes to the pitch as well. I decided to paint mine in the old league colours of orange and black. I'm quite pleased with how it came out - and I'm the first person in the league to paint their copy :)<br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-26345185096213010852019-04-15T15:09:00.000+01:002019-04-29T11:13:41.920+01:00Crimson Fists Tactical Squad paintedWell I wasn't really expecting to be painting any Crimson Fists any time soon but after I finished the Hellhound for my Catachans, I was looking for something else to paint. I have a few metal Catachans waiting for some attention but then I remembered these tactical marines...<br />
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Last year when I was building lots of different models from very different game systems, I'd dug out some of my old unpainted space marines that I'd built to add to my Crimson Fists army. They'd been in a box in the garage for around ten years so I thought I'd get a squad of them done and maybe using them in Kill Team. I got as far as basecoating the models dark blue, did the base coats for the metallics and given them a black wash. Then I dropped out of painting for a bit and they've been sat on my painting station since then.<br />
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So, yesterday when I was looking for something to paint, I spotted these and remembered how sick I was of seeing them unpainted - so it was time to pull my finger out. The way I painted my old Crimson Fists army that these would be joining was to edge highlight the models using an ultramarine blue colour. After that it was just painting the red gauntlets, painting the guns black and highlighting them all. One thing I did try was painting the plasma weapons parts white, then I just covered that with Guilliman Blue glaze which made them really easy! I'd forgotten about how much of a pain doing decals could be though but it didn't take me long to get them done. I painted the pads with gloss varnish, applied the decals and soaked them in MicroSol to get them to adhere to the curve of the shoulder pads. Once that was dry, I painted over the top of the shoulder pads with Lahmian Medium to matt it down and to help ensure they stuck in place. After I'd based the minis to match the rest of my Crimson Fists army, I stuck on some dead grass tufts and gave them all a spray with Testors Dullcote.<br />
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IIRC, the sergeant in this squad was an old metal space marine veteran from a five man box set. That was before GW came up with the idea of Sternguard or Vanguards! I just stuck a Crimson Fists backpack on him. Everything else in the squad is pretty standard space marine bits although there is one marine with arms from an old metal Iron Hands box set.<br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-6228778456110190042019-04-13T21:40:00.000+01:002019-04-13T21:43:48.138+01:00Classic Catachan Hellhound completedBack in February, I spotted a classic 1995 Imperial Guard Hellhound on sale on eBay for only £20 which I snapped up immediately. Who could resist a bargain like that? Not me anyway...<br />
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I built the tank pretty much as soon as it arrived but, as I was in a tank building mood, I carried on building all the others I had so I could back undercoat them all in one go with a Caliban Green spray. With all the camo still to do though, I thought I might treat myself to an airbrush to make things easier. It took me a little while to save up for one but once it arrived, I thought I'd give this Hellhound a try first just try try to work out what I was doing with it. It came out pretty okay I thought - and after doing the metals, the recess shading and dryrushing it was looking much better. I spent today detailing the tank, putting on the decals and giving it a varnish.<br />
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I'm very happy with the result and I'm looking forward to doing the same with the rest of my tanks - the airbrush should help me crack on with all of them now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was how you turned the heavy bolter into a heavy flamer 1995 style!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1995 Hellhound build but with tracks. I later glued them on anyway.</td></tr>
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-20007570210931527202019-03-27T00:53:00.001+00:002019-03-27T00:53:34.791+00:00Bretonnian Blood Bowl team completed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First things first, let me just say, I was not one of the people supporting Bretonnians being allowed as a team into Blood Bowl. The original roster had been around for years and I never felt there was the need for another human Blood Bowl team to be added. When Cyanide brought Bretonnians into the Blood Bowl 2 PC game back in 2015 I was quite annoyed about it as I knew it would mean that another unofficial race would start getting more attention, just like Khorne did when the Blood Bowl 1 : Chaos Edition was brought out. Since then, the team's become more popular in leagues and back in November 2017, the NAF decided to allow both Bretonnians and Khorne as playable teams in NAF tournaments, bringing the official amount of playable teams to 26. I was against this at the time as I was working hard just to complete the 24, let alone having these extra two added at the last minute.<br /><br />So, why have I now opted to paint a team of them?<br /><br />Quite simply, I wanted to be able to say I'd played all available teams at NAF tournaments so just had to suck it up and get a team done. I completed the 24 last year so I've only got these last two to go. I've actually played against a couple of Bretonnian teams in tournaments and they're quite frustrating so they will be interesting to see how they are from the other side of the pitch.<br /><br />With my dislike of the Bretonnian team being quite a big factor, I really didn't want to spend lots of money on some of the nice teams being brought out for them (such as Greebo who make a lovely team but quite expensive). Ideally I wanted to make them out of Bretonnian plastic kits but those are also really expensive 2nd hand now as everything in the Bretonnian range is OOP. In the end I found some stand in models from the Fireforge Miniatures ranges. They make a lot of nice historical models and their medieval foot knights and sergeants seemed a good cheap option. I picked up a couple of sprues of each from an eBay seller - and I also bought a fantasy knight set from them at the same time, just so I could get some fancy helments to look like the classic Bretonnian knight helms. All in all, I spent £23.75 on all the sprues including postage which seemed quite reasonable for a team I won't be using much. When I was building them, I tried to make the different positionals quite obvious from the parts I've used for them but, just to be safe, I've painted them all in different colours so there's no chance of mistaking a Knight for a Yeoman. They're not the most detailed models in the world. Far from it in fact! But they painted, cheap and will do the trick.<br /><br />My plan is to use these minis at the NAF Championship this year to tick the Bretonnians off my list and then try to finish with Khorne later this year. I'm just about to start playing in a new league at the HEBBL though - and as I've just painted these I might actually use them in the league just to get my money's worth from the minis.<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-62592927062804210912019-03-18T11:31:00.003+00:002019-03-18T11:31:54.067+00:00The Red Trophy II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />One of the guys I know from years of playing Blood Bowl tournaments is Tom Cullerton - known as "nonumber" in the BB world as that's his NAF username. A little while ago he set up a game / hobby store in High Wycombe and he had started to run Blood Bowl tournaments - so as I was free this weekend I went along to take part. It's about an hour and a half away from my house and Tom was running a four-game one-day tournament so it was an early start to get there in time for the 9:00 dice rolling! I drove with my buddy Andrew and my other gaming buddy Gary attended too as it was a local tournament for him. It's always a good time when I get to spend the day with a couple of mates playing Blood Bowl.<br /><br />I took Dwarfs to this one just because I've been using Wood Elves a lot recently and I thought it would be great to play something totally different for a change. The rules allowed 1.1 mil to pick a team from with six normal skills so my roster was :<br /><br />2 x Runners<br />2 x Blitzers (both with Guard)<div>
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In my first game I was drawn against one of the local Blood Bowl players who was taking part in his first tabletop tournament - he was using Ogres. It was a bit of a bad match up for him really as his snotlings were at the mercy of the Dwarfs from the start but I didn't actually cause that many casualties on his team - only two actually injuries. The tournament rules said that anyone who finished in the casualty box counted towards the number of cas caused - and my opponent managed to put two of his own players in there by failing dodges (I'm not sure whether I was more shocked that an Ogre or a Snotling ended up in there through this! The game finished 2-0 and 4-0 on cas to me.</div>
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For game 2 I was facing the chap who was leading the tournament - Gritter who was using Lizardmen. He's in the ECBBL league and is a very good player - and a nice guy too as it turns out. We had a great game but unfortunately I didn't manage to get a win. It was a 2-0 loss and I even forgot to take a photo.<br /><br />A quick break for lunch later and we were straight into game 3 where I was drawn against Gary and his newly painted High Elves. It's always a pleasure to play against Gary and I was hopeful that I'd managed to do well against his elves - but he turned me over pretty quickly and went 1-0 up on me. I had to try to do well to recover - which is when we got a pitch invasion result and four of my players were stunned including both my runners! I had to move a blizter back to pick up the ball and protect him. I eventually got my other blitzer loose and managed to throw the ball from one to the other - very undwarflike! The game ended a 1-1 draw which I was happy with after all the bad luck.<br /></div>
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For my final game I was playing against another local chap who was using a Nurgle team. I'd had a bit of practice against Nurgle with my Dwarfs as I'd played a warmup game against Andrew earlier in the week where he was using the stinky chaps. I managed to stop him from scoring in the first half and then went on to do an outrageous amount of stalling to win this final game 1-0.</div>
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-73288508801716868482019-02-21T16:38:00.002+00:002019-02-21T16:38:31.315+00:00Kill Team - Crimson Fists vs Kroot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My buddy Andrew and I both bought Kill Team sets last year when it was released and we've played a couple of games since then but very sporadically. We've been talking about trying some regular games of it just to try to make sure we remember the rules if nothing else. Andrew has been buying pretty much every Kill Team release each month so he's amassed quite a collection of scenery - so it'd be a shame not to use it. White Dwarf recently released a Kroot Kill Team list so Andrew thought he'd give them a try as he's still got all his Kroot from his old Tau army from when he played back in 2000! I busted out some of my Crimson Fist so we could roll some dice together - I would have used Catachans but as I don't have any Tempestus Scions painted yet, I end up with something like 20 infantry models in 100 points which is a bit crazy...<br />
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We played a couple of games and got a ton of rules wrong but it was good fun! We're going to play a few more nights of Kill Team over the next few weeks so more to come.<br />
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-59069553086893969682019-02-11T00:32:00.002+00:002019-02-11T00:32:24.242+00:00Catachan HQ painted<span style="font-size: small;">I painted a few extra Catachan models today including the infamous</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Gunnery Sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker. He's apparently an auto include for most Catachan armies as he allows rerolls of 1s for any shooting within 6in of him. I've also painted a mini of Colonel Schaffer who used to be a character in the old Codexes based off the old 40K novels of Schaffer's Last Chancers. I thought I'd just use him as a cool option for a Catachan Colonel. Lastly I painted a couple more Lieutenants just for more options.</span></span><br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-21545560011426249082019-02-10T14:58:00.002+00:002019-02-10T14:58:23.517+00:00Chelmsford Bunker Painting Competition - Howling Griffon marineSince Christmas, I've been back in the Chelmsford Bunker committee (I'm the club secretary again) and we've been trying to promote some more hobby activirty. We decided to set up some painting competitions to get everyone into painting a bit more- so we came up with the plan to hand out a either a Space Marine or a Stormcast Eternal to club members, have them paint them over the course of a week and then bring them back for judging.<br />
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My model was one of the old style quick build marines from the 2nd
edition. As it was such an old model, I knew I had to paint it as a
Howling Griffon as that was where I started painting 40K. I still had
some of my original Griffon decals that I'd bought from the USA - I
posted a picture of these on Twitter and weirdly enough the guy that ran
the store and printed them spotted them and we chatted about them.<br /><br />In
honour of him, I've named my marine Brother Adan - he's now ready for
submission in the painting competion. I don't think I'll win - I just
wanted to take part. Painting a Howling Griffon again was quite fun too
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-31778502608206450732019-02-03T16:12:00.001+00:002019-02-03T16:13:00.808+00:00Catachan Primaris PsykersI've not done any painting for months but I've been meaning to get cracking again on my Catachans for a while now. I've got so much stuff to paint for them and I really do want to start playing 40K. One of my mates asked me if I had any painted Primaris Psykers as one of his buddies needed to borrow one for an upcoming tournament. I said I did have a couple but they weren't built or painted - but then I thought it'd give me a push to get moving on them. So I said I'd get them painted so his buddy could borrow one. A few days later, here they are! I built more minis than these and I'm now painting those - so hopefully it will be a bit of motivation to get the rest of the army painted. If nothing else, I've now got some models to use inthe Psychic Phase :)<br />
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Last weekend I traveled to York for the 5th UK Team Challenge as part of Team HEBBL - joining Martyn, Gavin and Andy from the HEBBL league as part of a four-man team. The new venue was the Roger Kirk Centre at the University of York which was really good - lots of room for everyone including some seating areas plus a bar. Awesome!<br />
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I was using Wood Elves, Martyn was using Skaven, Gavin was using Dark Elves and Andy opted to use Undead. I was hoping to do well with my Elves as I'd done pretty good with them at the EurOpen. My roster was the same as that event but with a slight change to the skills.<br />
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2 x Wardancers (Strip Ball & Tackle from start)<br />
1 x Thrower (Leader from start)<br />
3 x Catchers (2 x Block from Game 3 and then another Block from Game 5)<br />
4 x Linemen<br />
Treeman (Grab from Game 5)<br />
1 x reroll<br />
Apoth<br />
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For our first games we were drawn against the Granite City Avengers - I was playing Amroth's Dark Elves. I was happy with how things went on this one as I manager to win 3-0 and we both got a casualty each. We got a team draw for this round.<br />
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For game two we were facing the DBL Dreamboats and I was playing against Raughri's High Elves. This one didn't go great for me - we finished with a 1-1 draw and 3-4 on casualties. This round was a loss for the team.<br />
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For the third round, we were playing the DBBL POWs which was Jbone's team - I was facing KissTheHurricane and his Bretonnians. I really struggled in this game and I lost 3-2. I lost on casualties too with a 2-0 score against me. That being said, this round was a team win.<br />
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For day 2 we started round four against the Dirty Burgers who were half of Team Scotland. I was up against Sadface and his Underworld team which featured Kreek Rustgouger which is the new ball & chain player - a MV5 player. Despite my best efforts I couldn't get a win on this won - it ended 2-1 to Sadface and 3-1 on casualties to him as well. Great game though and a lovely chap. This was a team loss round.<br />
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Round 5 and we were down in the bottom tables playing against a great Spanish team - Retromonguers in a Pop World Universe. I was facing Lord_Destruccion's Elves. This was a really close game and he was a brilliant coach. It ended as a 2-1 loss and 3-2 on casualties. It was a team draw this round.<br />
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For the final round we were playing Team OTT and I was facing Lord_Relictor and his Goblins. I managed to win this game ending with a 3-1 win but going 1-3 on casualties. This was a team win round.<br />
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So - my final results were a disappointing 2/1/3 which is one of my worst results for a long time! Team HEBBL finish with a 2/2/2 thanks to the efforts of the other guys though which left us 39th out of 60 teams.<br />
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Andy did the best out of us finishing 39th (out of 260), Martyn finished 124th, I finished 170th and Gavin ended 178th. We had a fun weekend though which was the main thing!<br />
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I attended my first Blood Bowl tournament of 2019 on Saturday - the Chaos Cards Winter Cup which was in Folkestone. It's a tournament that I've been to before and it's run by my buddies Oli and Pete. I had to miss their last couple of events due to conflicts with work so I really wanted to get to this one to help boost numbers. As things turned out, a lot of people had thought the same thing so there were eighteen of us playing.<br />
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The tourney was a one-day three game event which allowed 1200 TV to pick your team from, with different numbers of skills allowed based on tiers (6/8/10 skills). You could only have three of the same skills though.<br />
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I had a hard time choosing which team to take as I originally had thought about taking Khorne just to tick them off the list. That was reliant on me actually painting my team though and I hadn't done that over the Christmas break as I'd intended. I then thought about Amazons as they're one of the teams I have only played three games with. In the end though I picked Necromantic as they're my worst ranked team and I thought I might be able to get their ranking back up a bit.<br />
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As Necromantic was Tier 2 I had eight skills to play with - so my roster was :<br />
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2 x Werewolves with Block<br />
2 x Golems, one with Block, one with Guard<br />
2 x Wights with Guard<br />
1 x Ghoul with Sure Hands<br />
7 x Zombies, one with Dirty Player<br />
3 x Rerolls<br />
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I got to the venue in time to go and get some breakfast and get ready to start and in my first game I was up against a chap I'd played the last time at the venue - he was using Humans this time with the Mighty Zug and lots of decent skills spread around. I struggled to stop the combination of Zug and his Ogre and he scored halfway though turn 1 which gave me a chance to try to get one back - but it didn't work out. I scored in the 2nd half and did my best to turn him over but again it wasn't to be so the game ended 1-1.<br />
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For game two I was playing against Lizardmen with a pretty standard tourney roster apart from the addition of Hemlock. That little stabby skink was a real pain - he stabbed one of my wights to undeath in the first turn of the game and he didn't regen. Later on he stabbed the other one as well but thankfully that one did regenerate! Game ended with another 1-1 draw.<br />
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For my final game I was up against an Undead team - again with a star player in the form of Hack Enslash. Hack didn't live up to his reputation in this game as he rolled kickback early on and stunned himself. I scored early on and managed to turn over my opponent and score again at the end of the 1st half. For the 2nd half I over-committed to pushing my players forward and he got the ball to a ghoul which ran into my half of the pitch. All I could do was press him into scoring. Rather than stalling with the ball in my half for the last few turns I thought I'd try to score again - I didn't manage it but I didn't mess up and let him equalise so the game finished 2-1 to me.<br />
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I ended the tournament with a win and two draws - which was a little disappointing but I guess the points to take away from it was that I didn't lose and I was playing with the team I'm terrible at using. I did manage to get their ranking up a little as well.<br />
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It's not too long until my next tournament - I'm off to York next weekend to play in the UK Team Challenge with some guys from the HEBBL league. I'm using my Wood Elves again for that one.<br />
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2019 is here and, like a lot of wargamers, I thought I should have a quick review of how I did last year and make some plans for the new year.<br /><br />Last year I promised myself I'd aim for the following targets :<br /><br /><i>Paint my Catachan army so I could play a 2000 point game<br />Paint my Necromunda stuff and play some games<br />Paint and use my final Blood Bowl team so I could finish the 24 at the NAF Championship and then go to the EurOpen in Cardiff</i><br /><br />I did pretty well with these really. I did paint my Escher gang for Necromunda as well as the scenery from the box set and played in a couple of campaigns at my club. I still have some more Escher to paint plus Goliaths and Orlocks though.<br /><br />I painted my Chaos Pact and Wood Elf teams for Blood Bowl and completed my 24 at the NAF Champs. I also painted a Human team for a friend's tournament prize and I got to play at the EurOpen which was brilliant fun. I've built teams for Khorne and Brettonians which I still need to paint and take to tourneys to finish the 26.<br /><br />As for my Catachans, I did quite well with them as I painted quite a lot of minis but I didn't finish 2000 points and only got some games of Kill Team in with them. Which leads me onto my plans for 2019...<br /><br />Over Christmas I got a couple of new boxes of toys for Astra Militarum - a Hellhound (fantastic!) and a box of Cadians (excellent!). These made me have a quick look at what other stuff I had bought for the Catachans and I've actually got a ridiculous amount of unbuilt and unpainted models for them. On top of this, I bought a lot of new toys last year for other systems and armies. Kill Team's release made me buy Adeptus Mechanicus minis and Genestealer Cult for the first time. I bought quite a lot of Deathwatch minis too. I bought Adeptus Titanicus and have only half-painted one Warlord titan from that. I also bought the Lord of the Rings new boxed game and have a host of riders of Rohan that need to be painted now.<br /><br />So this means that for 2019 I'm going to try to just focus on two things :<br /><br />1) Build, paint and play with my Catachans. I really want to get some games in with these camouflaged nutters so I am going to get these guys ready to rock.<br /><br />2) Stop buying new minis! I bought soooo much last year, I really don't need to buy more as I could paint for a couple of years and still not run out of hobby projects! I may have to review this one later in the year based on how well I've done with the Catachan project and whether the plastic Sisters of Battle kits are released!<br /><br />I may try to finish the 26 this year sometime but I really want to focus on 40K - and I am not planning on going to the Blood Bowl World Cup in Austria in October as it's just too expensive. I do have three tournaments planned already though - I'm going to the Blood Bowl Winter Cup in Folkestone, the UK Team Challenge in York and the NAF Championship. So there will be enough Blood Bowl being played to keep me practiced :)<br /><br />The Winter Cup is tomorrow and next weekend I'm off to York for the UKTC - so I'll probably make a start on the Catachans once those tournaments are done. It's going to be a busy 2019 for my hobby this year but it should be fun!<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-1701204069106454502018-11-26T00:03:00.000+00:002018-11-27T00:12:54.728+00:00Cambridge Double Trouble VI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My final tournament of the year took place this weekend - the Cambridge Double Trouble VI. CamDub as it's affectionately known is run by current NAF tournament director Purplegoo and his buddy Schemee (Phil and Michael) and it's always been one of my favourite tourneys. Being at the end of the year, it's normally the last tournament I get to go to. As it's held in a room above a pub, there's nice food and beer so it's quite a chilled out event. Lots of good coaches do take part though including some of the guys who came all the way down from Newcastle for it.<br />
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It's a doubles tournament so you team up with someone else and as an additional switch, you can only allocate doubles skills to your players. I thought it might be good to bring Norse as they all start (mostly) with the Block skill and my team rating was sitting at under 150 from the first time I used them way back in 2014 when I first painted them. I was teamed up with my friend Mr Frodo who had a bit of a busy week and decided at the last minute to bring Goblins.<br />
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1 x Catcher<br />
1 x Yhetee<br />
10 x Linemen (3 with Guard)<br />
3 x rerolls<br />
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For our first game, we were up against Purplegoo himself and his team mate Wotfudboy - who was my team mate and the EuroBowl! I was playing against Gary's Chaos Pact team and Andrew was facing Phil's Skaven. I forgot to mention it to Gary when we were playing but this match was my 200th NAF ranked tournament game. Everything went okay for me in this one and Gary had some really rough luck so it ended 2-0 to me and 3-1 on casualties.<br />
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For game two I was playing against SimonSpank who was playing Ogres. He went 1-0 up on me pretty early on after throwing his star player Scrappa Sorehead with an ogre. I hadn't realised that Scrappa had Right Stuff so I hadn't set up to defend against that. It was a really close game - I'd pulled back two touchdowns and it was down to Simon to try another thrown TD - all Scrappa needed to do was make a GFI to get an equaliser but he fell over when he tried it. That game ended 2-1 to me and a punishing 4-4 on casualties.<br />
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Final game of the day and I was taking on Gorgoroth and his Halflings which featured Zara the Slayer. We had a real battle on this one with my team taking out halflings all over the place. I did manage to do some decent work on this one and the game ended 2-0 and 5-1 on casualties.<br />
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For day two, my first game was against BillyDee who's been someone I've met lots of times from local tournaments - Geoff is a great guy who's been working his way through all the NAF teams one at a time. When he was at the STABB Cup in September he completed his 24 - so for CamDub his was using team 25 with Bretonnians. I'd never played against Brets in a tournament before so it was and interesting game but I managed to keep taking out his linemen. The game ended 2-0 to me and 4-0 on casualties.<br />
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After four wins I knew I was pushing my luck and unfortunately luck decided to push back as I was drawn against Besters in game 5. I've played more games against Jim that any other coach and I've only managed to beat him twice! Today wasn't the day to make it a third though as he was using Lizardmen and I just couldn't break skink armour which was a shame as they were the players capable of scoring. Jim went 1-0 up after turning me over and I was close to making it a draw but Jim got another touchdown despite my best endeavours. The game ended a 0-2 loss and I also lost 2-4 on casualties.<br />
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For the final game of the weekend I was playing against one of the guys who'd come down from Newcastle - Warka who was using Undead. We had a really good scrap in this game and it was the closest game of the whole tournament. We finished 1-1 for the score and 1-1 on casualties.<br />
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With a final tally of 4-1-1 this was actually my best ever tournament weekend as the only other time I've managed to get four wins saw me lose the other two. I think I will have easily gone back over the 150 with Norse now. I'd scored 19 casualties so I managed to get the Most Casualties award for that (a copy of Spike Magazine 2). Andrew and I finished joint 5th out of the 11 teams and I finished 4th in the individual standard. A cracking weekend to end my 2018 Blood Bowl season for sure. Here's hoping that the Blood Bowl games I play in 2019 will be as fun as the games I played at CamDub!<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Way back in October 2017, everyone in the BB community had just come back from the EuroBowl in Portugal and were saying how fantastic it was. I really didn't want to miss out again so my friend Andrew (Mr_Frodo) and I started making plans on attending this year's tournament in Cardiff, Wales. Our friend Gary (Wotfudboy), who is another BB tournament regular that we've know for a few years, agreed to join our team so we could enter the EurOpen.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Just to backtrack a little, the EuroBowl is a national team tournament where teams of eight coaches from different nations play against each other. Running alongside this is an open tournament where teams of three coaches join together by nationality or just friendship and have their own tournament at the same venue.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">As it was my idea to enter the tournament, I was team captain - but we needed a suitable team name. Gary lives quite a way from Andrew and I so it didn't feel right calling the team after a town or our local leagues. In the end we agreed that as we all like Star Trek and we didn't really fancy our chances, we'd be the guys who turned up at the tournament and get killed each round. Team Red Shirts it is then!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">We all had to use different teams so I opted for Wood Elves, Andrew had Dwarfs and Gary used Necromantic.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Wardancer (Strip Ball)</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">3 x Catchers (Block)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">Thrower (Leader</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">4 x Linemen</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">1 x Reroll</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">Apothecary</span><br />
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We had new red polo shirts with our NAF names made, got some Star Trek badges to pin on and headed to Cardiff with our families in tow. The hotel we were in had some wall art that really cemented the fact that we were in Wales! I put my new lucky Star Trek socks on and we got stuck in.<br />
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For Round 1 we were drawn against a team called Warriors Southern Chapter. One of their members had dropped out the Thursday before but thanks to social media and the help of the NAF, they found a replacement. I brought along my Lizardman team for him to borrow for the weekend. We did okay in this round - I won 3-0 against a Human team, Andrew won 1-0 against Wood Elves and Gary lost 2-1 vs the Lizardmen. As we had two wins and a loss, we counted as having won the round.<br />
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For Round 2, we were playing The Looping Loons who'd driven all the way from Aberdeen the day before. These were really great guys to play against and chat with. I managed to win my game against Chaos Dwarfs 1-0, Andrew lost 2-1 against Dark Elves and Gary got a 1-0 win against Lizardmen. This meant another team win - awesome!<br />
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For Round 3 were were up on Table 5 as we were in 10th place at this time (out of 70 teams). We were drawn against Danelaw who were all unsurprisingly Danish. I managed to pull of a couple of 1 turn touchdowns in this game - and I won against Dark Elves with a 3-2 score. Andrew got a 0-0 draw against Undead and Gary lost 2-1 against Wood Elves. So with a win, a draw and a loss it meant we're drawn this round. We were in 9th place overall and, somehow, after three wins I was in 2nd place in the EurOpen individual standings (out of 210!) Unbelievable!<br />
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The next day we found we were facing a very strong French team called Pilous. I ran out of luck this game and I lost against Lizardmen 2-1. I'd set up for a final 1 turn attempt and my opponent got a Perfect Defence kick off so he just moved all his players out of the way to deny my chance at a one-turn. A very close game though! Andrew got a 1-1 draw against Undead and Gary saved the day by winning 2-1 against Dark Elves after an amazing 1 turn touchdown scored by his werewolf. Thanks to him we got another drawn round!<br />
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Game 5 and we were playing against another French team Men's in Block who were really great guys. I fought out a 2-2 draw against Amazons, Andrew lost 2-0 vs Undead and Gary lost 1-0 vs Wood Elves. We finally lost a round - but not a bad showing against some really great coaches.<br />
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For our final game we couldn't believe who our opponents were - Team Unicorn who was made up of the guys running the HEBBL league that Andrew and I played in this year! All the way to Cardiff and we end up playing our league mates! I fought out a tough 3-3 draw against Wood Elves, Andrew won 2-0 against Dark Elves and Gary won 1-0 vs yet more Lizardmen.<br />
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Having won the final round it meant our tally for the weekend was three wins, two draws and just one loss. Individually, I got three wins, two draws and one loss. Andrew got two wins, two draws and two losses and Gary got three wins and three losses. I finished 32nd, Gary 107th and Andrew 110th.<br />
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It was a really good weekend and I think we did ourselves proud.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess we're in Cardiff then!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucky Star Trek socks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Euroball?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Team Red Shirts in all their glory!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EuroBowl special vinyl pitch - we all took one home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Pedda in Germany sorted me out some Berlin Open tokens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Wood Elf team</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gortexgunnerson's Human team - Round 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gortexgunnerson's Human team - Round 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goldeneye's Chaos Dwarfs - Round 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goldeneye's Chaos Dwarfs - Round 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Table 5! Nosebleed time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucky socks, day 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Bouzzy think hard - Round 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One turn touchdown hero! Gary - Round 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bucks Amazons - Round 5</td></tr>
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Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-5466586138982443292018-10-08T13:44:00.001+01:002018-10-08T13:44:33.067+01:00STABB Cup VII - 29th/30th September 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My mate Wil runs the STABB Cup which is always a fantastic tournament. Unfortunately I had to work on the Saturday so I could only attend on the Sunday. As I was only going to be playing three games I thought I'd just take a team where I could induce a chainsaw as that's something that's encouraged at STABB. As my Orc team was one that was rated under 150 I thought they'd be great especially as they have the cheapest chainsaw star player in the game.<br /><br />My first game on the Sunday morning was against Raging82's Underworld team which featured Glart Smashrip and Nobbla Blackwart. Glart was an absolute nightmare as he's so strong and he's got claw. In the end we had a chainsaw battle in the middle of the field. Ulgroth KO'd Nobbla and then dissected Glart - what a hero! With his players disappearing I managed to end the game 3-0 to me and 6-1 on casualties.<br /><br />After lunch I was playing against Firebreather's Goblins. Goblins! I thought I would be having an easy game! But with three trolls and two ball and chain players, I was getting smashed around all over the place. I finally managed to get some lucky breaks though after some 1 dice blocks on the ball and chain players. It really was a cracking game which ended 2-1 to me.<br /><br />For the final game I was taking on Barney the Lurker and his Khemri - he'd induced the star player Ithica Benoin who's a skeleton Dark Elf. He's AG3 and had Sure Hands so I was desperate to try to keep him out of the way of the ball. We had a really, really close game which finished a 0-0 draw.<br /><br />So - two wins and a draw and I was pretty happy with that. I even got awarded the trophy for the most casualties caused by a chainsaw player - fantastic! Hopefully next year I might be able to go to both days.<br /><br />The next tournament for me is the big one - the EuroBowl taking place in Cardiff. I'm teaming up with my mates Andrew and Gary - we're part of a EurOpen team. We've got team shirts and everything. Should be good fun!<br /><br />
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<br />Darren Wadlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607152484896083044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598564776242967154.post-14357067703721109072018-10-08T12:36:00.001+01:002018-10-08T12:36:36.646+01:00Weagle Bowl 2018 - 22nd September 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Weagle Bowl is a one-day, four game Blood Bowl tournament in Ipswich. I've missed the first two tournaments they ran but I finally manged to get to this year's one. It's run by the guys from the White Eagle Wargames Club.<br />
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The skills package for this was quite limited as it only allowed for a single normal skill to be added after each game - so just three skills by the last game. It also allows bonus points for touchdowns and casualties so it heavily favoured Tier 1 bash teams. That being said, I decided to take my Wood Elves just to give me some practice for the EurOpen.<br />
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My first game was against Nippy Longskar's Dwarfs so it was the worst possible matchup for me! Mark is in Team England with his Dwarfs so I wasn't expecting too much from the game. I managed to worry at his team with some Wardancer leaping blitzes but I ran out of players in the end and the game finished 2-1.<br />
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Second game and I was facing Dwarfs again - this time against one of the local guys. He was a good player but he had some bad rolls - I managed to win this 2-1.<br />
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Third game and I was playing against my mate Hawk. Andy was using his Undead team which he's pretty handy with. I pulled off some ely bullshit to go 2-1 up, then snatched a third TD on the final turn. 3-1 win for me.<br />
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For my last game I was facing Chaos Dwarfs played by Steve (dontcallmeflossy). The whole game the weather was raining so I was hoping for some luck - but everything I did failed and everything Steve tried works. He won 3-0 in the end which really put a downer on a pretty good day up until then.<br />
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So two wins and two losses against Tier 1 teams which was OK I guess. I didn't get a lot of bonus points though - despite taking a treeman I only caused 1 casualty in all four games. As such, I finshed in 10th place which was disappointing. Ah well...<br />
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