Update delay

Can't find my camera to usb connector cord so no pictures yet. Am working on it.

Imperial Guard (updated forces)

I think out of all my forces over the last year, the Imperial Guard have changed the most. Partly due to the wonderful birthday gift of a Valkyrie from my brother, but also finding an older 20 man box of catachans at a local hobby store, I've changed it to a more unified looking army.

Right now the Valk has only been base coated and the new guard haven't even gotten that far, but as it stands I now have 2x 3 squad platoons of catachans plus a mortar squad, missile launcher squad and a melta squad.

Wow, that's a lot of catachans to paint.

I'll post a pic either later today or tomorrow of some of my more "finished" units--which ain't much. I think the lesson of getting your troops together before painting them was a failed ploy. Better to do it in small bites.

Either way, here's a grand list of everything I have for the IG (its a long list):

@2900 pts

HQ:

company hq

(medic, vox, standard, sniper, Chimera)

Advisors:

Master of Ordinance

Officer of the fleet

Primaris Psyker

Lord Commissar

Special Characters:

Lord Creed

Color Sgt. Kell

Colonel Straken

ELITE:

Stormtrooper squad

(10 troopers, melta, plasma gun, Valkyrie Assault Carrier)

Guardsman Marbo

TROOPS:

5x commissars

1st Platoon (Catachan)

Platoon HQ

(plasma pistol + powerfist, vox, sniper, medic, standard)

1st squad

(vox, grenade launcher, hvy bolter)

2nd squad

(vox, plasma gun, lascannon)

3rd squad

(vox, flamer, autocannon)

2nd Platoon (Catachan)

Platoon HQ

(bolt pistol + powerfist, vox, medic, standard, sniper)

4th squad

(vox, plasma gun, lascannon)

5th squad

(vox, grenade launcher, lascannon)

6th squad

(vox, flamer, autocannon)

Special Weapons squad

(melta guns)

Heavy Weapons squad

(missile launchers)

Heavy Weapons squad

(mortars)

3rd Platoon (Valhallan)

Platoon HQ

(plasma pistol, vox, melta, las cannon team)

7th squad

(bolt pistol, vox, flamer, hvy bolter)

8th squad

(vox, grenade launcher, auto cannon)

Veteran squad 1

(vox, plasma gun, melta, hvy flamer, demo charge, chimera)

Veteran squad 2

(vox, grenade launcher, melta, hvy flamer, demo charge, chimera)

FAST ATTACK:

Armored Sentinel Squadron

(lascannon, plasma cannon, hvy flamer)

Scout Sentinel Squadron

(autocannon, multi-laser, hvy flamer)

HEAVY SUPPORT:

Leman Russ Battletank

(battlecannon, lascannon, hvy bolter sponsons)

Leman Russ Demolisher

(demolisher, lascannon, multi-melta sponsons)

See told ya...

New update is here. No pics though although I'm gonna work on it. In the last year I've made many changes to my lists for all my armies and will be updating each in the next week.

To be honest this year was a bad year for me when it comes to wargaming. Barely played anything. Been too busy with work. My fault. But my wife and I are trying hard to get out of debt so I'm working as much as possible.

I'm hoping to get gaming more and next week is a biggie. At Gajo games in Sandy, UT there's going to be a game for Flames of War with the Bridge Too Far armies. My British Airborne are gonna get a workout. I'm gonna take pictures so I'll have a small battle report. But its going to be a game stretched out over several tables with about 15-20 players so it'll just be about my part.

UPDATE COMING

I think....

Christmas break is here...

And that means free time which I can only hope means WARGAMING! I've made a tentative plan to play the following with Mark, my brother:

Space Hulk

Battletech (using the intro rules and plastic minis)

Future War Commander

That's all so far, but I'm hoping for more time permitting!

Space Marine Epic Army

I've decided to sell my Epic space marine force so I'm posting a pic so people can see it...

Battle Report! B5 clash!

So Dave and I decided to have a friendly B5 game since during the summer I also have off during the day. I didn't realize it would be a 12 battle level free-for-all cage match in hell!!!!

Dave wanted to play all his fleet and I wanted to play just a few but it was so tempting to field everything so I went for it. The fleet was arranged in more or less 3 sections as can be seen in the first picture. On the left front (second picture) I had 3 raid level up against 3 battle points (boy was I thinking) and it as you might expect would eventually end up with the massacre of my ships.

On the right front it was my Victory, Marathon, Warlock and one of my Omegas up against the Mothership, a cruiser and the numerous ships disgourged from the mothership (it's soooo fraking huge!). The Victory and the Omega would eventually get it (third picture) but the Mothership and cruiser wouldn't last but 1 turn more. What's sad is the Victory got one shot of it's lightning cannon and that was really about it. And it was a pathetic dice roll too.

In the center mele an Omega, Delphi and 4 Chronos frigates went up against his carrier and it's contents (fourth picture). The Chronos frigates were the stars here as they acted in Squadron formation and were doing pretty good in AD.

In the end Dave had to call it quits and head on home so we counted up the dead and I won by like 1 battle point! (7 to 6). The end of the field viewed in the last picture shows how it was when we left. If the game had gone 1 more turn it would've been a decisive win for Dave so I lucked out.

In retrospect I learned many lessons:

1. Learn the rules better. nuff said.

2. don't pit small ships up against big ships unless I really don't expect them to do anything other than hold off the enemy.

3. AD. AD. AD. The more you roll, the better the odds of scoring a critical. And with the Drakh it's all about critical hits.

4. Don't use the lightning cannon on the Victory unless you have plenty of room to drift the next turn. (ie: don't do it if you're surrounded)

5. fighters are good... use them.

6. Gravitic Energy Grid is the Devil!!!

We plan on fighting again next wednesday. An 8 battle point scenario from the rulebook called "Carrier Clash". Should be interesting. More next week.