New 7th ed Space Wolf Codex

So after 3 games with the new Space Wolfs this weekend, here is what I think of the new codex-

So HQ first

Wolf Lord/Wolf Guard Battle leader- Still a solid choice, good relics now to help out

Ragnar Blackmane- nice solid HQ choice now, still dies to powerfists and anything that can instant kill him, die to no eternal warrior

Harald Deathwolf/ Canis Wolfborn- Havnt tried these yet, but not to bothered by them!

Rune Priests- as always awesome! Now only 60 points?? yep I will take at least 2 most games

Njal Stormcaller- Just take 3 rune priests for the same cost, still a solid choice though, but no weather changing fun now

Wolf Priest/ Ulrik the slayer- Never use Priests of any kind

Bjorn- Awesome! Better and cheaper then last codex.. I take him near enough every game

Moving on to the troops-

Blood claws- Now cheaper, so finally worth taking! Silly attacks on the charge is just fun

Grey Hunters- Still a solid Troop choice, a bit more expensive now if you want the CC weapons and special weapons

So Elites-

Scouts/Lone Wolfs/Arjac- Havnt used yet

Drednoughts- Still awesome, and cheaper then old codex

Murderfang- well.... 9 possible attacks on the charge.. anything else need to be said?

Wolf Guard- As always a solid choice, no more splitting squads up to lead units now.

Zooming on to the fast attack-

SwiftClaws/Rhino/Razorbacks/Drop Pods/Land Speeders/Skyclaws/Fenrisian Wolfs- not much change

Storm Wolf- Havnt used, but looks a fun flying assault transport

Thunderwolfs- Now cheaper and still as awesome, I reckon I will use these a lot more often now, 10 points cheaper a model soon builds up!

Heavy Support-

Most things have stayed the same, except some tanks had a small point deduction

but..

Long Fangs- Still awesome but now more expensive, missile launchers go up by 5 points each.. so my 15 missile launchers may get dropped to 10

Stormfang- I used this once and well.... it turned up... destroyed a Hammerhead... next turn destroyed a flyer... it really is a flying brick being 12 armour all the way round, and packs a massive punch!

So that is about it :)
I havnt used Logan Grimnar, and I guess I will never get the chance, as most people will not play against Lord of wars.... well he isnt a titan but o well!

40k MK event, Tank battle!

So long time since much has gone on, but anyway! Here is a quick post about a event I went to yesterday!

So you are only allowed tanks, heavy support choices are also troop choices, and all tanks hold objectives (including walkers etc)
You can have only have infantry if they start inside a transport.
I used the Old Space Wolf Codex

My list-

Bjorn
Land Raider
Land Raider, Long Fangs, 5 missile launchers
Predator, with lots of Lascannons
Vindicator
Vindicator
Rhino
Dreadnought, Multi-melta
Dreadnought, lascannon
Dreadnought, lascannon, missile launcher

Game 1 vs Guard

So a squadron of Vanquishers, point and destroy what they like.. I took down 3 battle tanks, but armour 14 on the front everywhere, proved to difficult
Game lost, Got thrashed

Game 2 vs Marines

Now in this game, we both killed 2 bits of armour each, which shows how tough tanks are becoming, he won by 49-33 points, so it was quite close, if my dreadnought was 1 inch closer the score would of been, 43-39 to me, but it wasnt, this must of been the best and closest game of the day!
Game lose, very close

Game 3 vs Guard

So he has tank destroyers, bane wolfs and a land raider, could be fun
Well He has 1 destroyer left at the end of the game, I held all 5 objectives and had only lost a land raider, Bjorn being man of the match, for punching a land raider to nothing and then assault cannoning a banewolf.. into nothing!
Game win, Complete control

Game 4 vs Dark Angels

I cant remember the in and outs of his list, but something list, but something like, 3 dreds, 7 preds and a land raider... everything got lascannons... o no..
Well I go first... unleash everything, (close deployment) and I take out 2 preds, 1 dred, and then my vindicators take out the weapons on 2 more preds... so return fire was minimal, by the end of the game, I had lost Bjorn, and he had lost everything... it was a tank graveyard! Score finished 69-9 to me
Game win, Complete control

So 2 wins, 2 loses, which is always good and a middle of the group finish, with Dark Elder first, and Space Marines 2nd and 3rd

As with 40k, I go to have fun, and I have no chance in keeping up with the power gamers, and the money they spend on a weekly bases, but I did treat myself to the New Space wolf codex, which is awesome for tanks... and a StormFang Gunship.. which after finally seeing one today, it does look awesome!

Anyway :)

Happy Gaming 

40k: MK Kill teams

So today I played in a kill team event at MK.
This is only a quick run down, as I forgot to take pictures or write down lists :(

My list was-
10 Hunters, 1 Flamer, 1 Plasma Gun, 1 Plasma Pistol, 1 Rhino, 200 on the dot

Game 1-
Against, Tzeentch marines

This game involved me hiding in the rhino, as he would be unable to break it without his powers, but second turn his psyker, killed itself meaning, I just picked the marines off one by one
Win

Game 2-
Tau, 3 battlesuits, 4 pathfinders

This game involved his suits dodging out of cover, killing everything, running back to cover.. and then I failed my break test quite quickly
Lose

Game 3-
Eldar, 5 wraithguards

First turn I took out the only model that had a weapon above str 5, meaning once again I hide inside my rhino, and the Hunter with the plasma pistol, took out 3 wraith guards, while the plasma gunner blow himself up!
Win

Game 4-
Imperial Guard, 10 vets, 1 chimera

In the first couple of times, I took out the chimera with bolter fire, and then just sent my hunters out, to take down any guardsmen they could find, to be fair the other player had some terrible cover save rolls.
Win

Game 5-
Daemons, not entirely sure what he had

He wiped me out by turn 2, ap2 flamers and str 9 weapons, I did kill a model though lol
Lose

Game 6-
Elder, 10 Warp spiders

So turn 1 he pinned near enough all my marines when the rhino exploded, and from there he just popped 1 marine by marine, my last standing marine turned around and killed two specialists in close combat, but then I failed a break test
Lose

Game 7-
Marines, 5 stern-guard, rhino

This was very quick, turn 1 I blow up his rhino with a plasma gun, he then lost a marine in the explosion, he quickly starting murdering my marines though, but once he lost 1 more marine, he failed his break test and fled
Win

So 4 wins and 3 loses, and was a very good fun event :)

Also the daemons won the event, by the sounds of it, he wiped most people in 2-3 turns.

Anyway Happy gaming :)

40k: Grey Knights! And Finished Monolith

Yes the title is in correct! I am starting a Grey Knight army, this will only be a small army to use with my Space Wolves and my Necrons, it will consist of all infantry models, so mainly just marines!

Anyway heres my first purchase

3 Boxes of Grey Knight Marines and 1 Box of Grey Knight terminators, also not pictured Grey Knight codex

So as this new army starts, I splashed a bit more then I planned, I was only going to get two boxes for now, but o well, 4 boxes it is!

Anyway in other news..

My Necron Monolith completely finished, including the added green plastic :)

Anyway that is all for now, I am painting up a Grey Knight as a test and hope to have him done soon, will post pictures when he is done!

Also this weekend I am in MK again this time for two different events-

Saturday 3rd of May, X-wing Regional Finals

Monday 5th of May, 40k kill teams!

Now for the x-wing I think I will use this list-

Chewbacca, Draw thier fire

Jan Ors, Squad Leader, Ion Turret

Biggs

Fun list that can put out some hurt with Ors and Chewbacca combining.

As for the 40k event, I have not lost a single game of Kill teams at Game Workshop since the latest campaign as started, so I might play with my current list which is-

3 Wraiths

5 Deathmarks

But I may not! I have not fully decided yet.

Anyway, Thanks for reading and happy gaming :)

40K: Necron Monolith!

So, today I have a morning off work, (I have a poorly dog) but it is a good excuse to get some more painting done, so today's goal a Necron Monolith, I have 3 of these War machines, one is painted in my old scheme of red and silver, this one will be painted up with the new scheme of blue and well... silver! Updates in the next few days when its done :)

Its ready!

Happy Gaming :)

Warhammer 40k Necron Kill Team

So my Necrons came out for a walk today! For some 200 point kill team action, here was my list

7 Immortals
6 Warriors

So won my first game against a new player (Troy, yay :D)  He used the shops 10 Dark Angel Marines, so Plasma gun, Plasma Cannon and a Plasma Pistol.
With all the Plasma lying around I was quite worried, but in the end, I came out with only losing 1 Warrior!

Second game was vs Imperial Guard (Alex) he used 10 geared up storm troopers, now this game didnt take long, his weapons needing 5's to wound really caused him problems and again I lost just 1 Warrior (The same one again)

Last game I had time for was against Chaos
Now he had 5 Marines and as many Cultists as he could field, which meant I didnt have enough fire power to put them all down, but I had a good go. It came down to the wire and it was drawn at the end, I had 2 Immortals and 2 Warriors left, he had 1 Chaos Marine and 4-5 Cultists, so it was close and could of swung either way


But I am glad I have been able to get back into 40k now

I also picked up the Escalation book, which is now completely legal along side the normal rulebook, and apparently GW might start putting super Heavies into the new codex's in the future, so I might have to get myself a Necron super heavy! The only problem is, the other player bet of brought enough anti tank weapons! :)

Anyway happy gaming :)

Warhammer 40k, Arena battle

So today I was involved in a 600 point free for all, there were around 12 of us, and well it was deadly, I brought my Wolves and teams up with a Tau player and another Wolf player, and we lasted to right in till the end, I dropped out on about turn 8 as after playing for 6 hours and I had about 3 marines left, I left it to my allies.

But this is the first time I have played 40k in around 6-8 months, and it was a good way to get back into the game, friendly atmosphere with some random rule added in by the store manager (basically he blows stuff up randomly) and that kept the game moving very well.

Tomorrow I might play a game or two of kill teams, but this time I shall get my Necrons out, and give it a game if I get time :)

Happy Gaming

And here is a picture, again taken randomly from google :)

Space Wolf Marine with a Wolf, by Demewer

Xmas Update

Hello All!

So I reckon this maybe the last update of this year, so I thought I would just say hi to everyone again!

So in my gaming cupboard lately a theme has been around star wars (Thanks to the x-wing mini game)
And my girlfriend noticed this, so look what  she got her parents to buy me-

Yep a lego x-wing, I reckon I might get my favourite ship next.. the A-wing and of course.. in lego! 

More importantly my Spaces wolveswho are already above 13k in points got a some reinforcments-

15 wolves and 6 thunder wolves :)

Overall xmas wasnt very game related this year, as my gaming time has died down, but I am going into Cambridge Monday and might find out what is on up there at the weekends.

Hope everyone got some nice gaming bits for christmas :)

And have a good new year :)

Cya next year, unless inspiration strikes and I post before then :) 

Recommendation

So my best friend from uni, has recommended me on his blog, so its only fair I recommend his back :)
He talks about every day things, such as days out, but does reviews, such as gaming consoles (such as upcoming xbox1, and ps4) an
CLICK HERE FOR BLOG!

The second blog I am going to recommend is another friends blog, but like mine he talks about gaming systems., such as warhammer 40k, he also makes cards for warlord traits and the such, so give it a look!
musingsofawargamer! CLICK HERE

So give these a look if you fancy :)

Happy Gaming

Eldar and x-wing

So a bad night for my gaming

My wolfs got thrashed by eldar... No wonder everyone is saying they are broken!

Took a 1000 points out in 2 turns... Wtf? Deathknight thing is way to powerful!!

And x-wing was a bit closer but lost at that to!  I need more ships I think!  O no money spending time lol!!

Hope everyone else is winning more then me this week!

tale of some random gamers, 500 point lists

So I have all of them now, the lists for this thursday game!
Have a looky, spot any mistakes or point wrong let me know :)

Luke-

Warboss, power claw, twin linked shoota, eavy armour

21 boyz, nob, power klaw, boss pole

21 boyz, nob, power klaw, boss pole

5 storm boyz

487 in total

Colin-

Chaos Lord with power weapon and mark of Slaanesh.

10 man noise marine squad with close combat weapons and 1 blast master.

10 man CSM squad with mark of Slaanesh, 1 meltagun and 1 missile launcher.

Richard-

Illic Nightspear
8 Rangers
3 Jetbikes- Shuriken Cannon
10 Dire Avengers- Exarch, Power Weapon & Shimmershield

John-

Farseer: Jet Bike / Singing Spear.
Windrider Jet Bike Squad x3
Windrider Jet Bike Squad x3
Windrider Jet Bike Squad x3
Fire Prism
Swooping Hawks x6
494 points.

Blood claws

So wolf painting continues!

Just finished 18 blood claws and started on 7 more and 10 jump packs for my wolfs

Still on tablet so no pictures I am sorry to say :(

Done!!!!

Orks are all painted :)

It took 6 weeks to paint 21 models... But today I have sat here for 6 hours, and painted the other 27 models

Woooo I feel like having a party lol

No pictures I am sad to say, as my tablet won't let me upload them and I don't have a phone to currently (its broke)

But another painting day, on Thursday so space wolves get their turn

Motivation...a funny thing!

So... I am meant to be painting orks for the tale of some random gamers but... I have no motivation

But I am painting space wolfs for the first time in 4 years! (Since I have had them)  I really enjoying painting my space wolves currently.... so errr orks are going to be a bit unpainted at this rate! lol

Space Wolves 14 company!

Name- Canis Born (14th company)

So my Wolves are becoming a new company in the Space Wolves Chapter, the idea is basically this-

The Space Wolves have been playing with the Gene seed to try and make a stable successor chapter, so after 13th company went wrong, they now have come up with what they believe a more stable gene seed, and so the 14th company is born!
The great wolf himself has decided to have Space Wolves from the other companies to follow the 14th company on all missions, so they can keep a eye on them and make sure they fight as Russ intended!

So the Canis born, were well born!
They have been kept a secret to now, as the Great Wolf finally believes it is time to let them lose!!

The Inquisition have sent a small squad of grey knights to keep a close eye on the 14th company. (Grey Knights will be used as wolf guard with power weapon and storm bolter for the game I use them)

For Russ!

Fall of the Dark Elder

So my wolves in a 2.5k game played the Dark elder!

It was a interesting game, he quit on my turn 4, ( I was pretty certain he would have only had 8 wyches left and I was about to assault them and a few guardians(or whatever) which were losing against some hunters)

My lossses were around 20 marines (including long fangs and around 40 guardsmen) so not even 700 points?

So good game overall, stand out performers were drop pod squads arriving where I needed them to do the most damage or reinforce my line, thunder wolves did well, just be the amount of fire he wasted into them, and  1 was still standing!

Overall good game, but the amount Dark elder can put on the field is unbelievable, but lucky it is all very squishy!

And due to him taking small squads, over watch hurt him a lot!

Just read a great idea...

Reading through my friends blog-

http://khorneguy.blogspot.co.uk/

He mentions the idea of a ragtag renegades army based of the dead sky, black sun book by G.McNeil, as he says ( I read the book ages ago, so will re-read)

They have been banished by their chapter, but work together to still serve the good guys :), they havnt fallen to chaos, but they raid chaos settlements etc,
I am thinking this is what is going to happen to my space wolves, I get bored of one paint scheme quickly, this will allow me to paint lots of different colour models.

So this is going to be my new project! COLOURFUL MARINES! based of the real chapters of course, I have enough unpainted marines to do it (around 10k points) :)

Thank you Khornguy for this idea ;)

Hate nids...

So another lose to Nids last night!
It was a bit different to normal tho..

The mission meant I could not win straight away, I was not set up to attack and he had 9 points of objectives I had 6, so I was not going to do well..

But if the game continued a 3-5 turns lol, I reckon I would of taken the army down, I had the more stronger remains in my opinion, only losing 11 marines, 3 long fangs, 3 terminators and a lone wolf, while he had lost a hive tyrant, tyrgon prime,l massive unit of hormaguarts and a bucket load of termagants.
 So he won because of the mission, but left on the field was-

His army-
2 zoanthropes
3 Hive Guard
15 Termaguards
and a dried up Tervigon

While I still had
1 wolf guard battle leader, geared up
1 lone wolf, geared up
20 marines
a full squad of long fangs and a half squad
1 rune priest
and 2 battle cannon weapon batteries.

But overall the game wasnt that enjoyable due to the mission, straight away ruin the game in my opinion.

O well, 2.5k game against dark eldar next week, lets see how that goes!

Space Wolves review 6th!

So after my game last night went like this-

Nids come forward
Nids get shoot
Wolves win, with only one unit making it to combat (genestealers) and they got beaten down in combat by wolves!

Only my second ever win against nids to my knowledge, as they always been a bit of a curse to me! but o well

Anyway quick review of wolves (very quick)

Keep Calm
and
Use Wolves!

HQ-

Logan Grimnar
He is a beast, but way to expensive, nice abilities and weaponry, but I you can get a full squad of Grey Hunters AND long fangs for his cost, so 5/10

Njal Stormcaller
Best psychic in the wolves codex, but also expensive, the weather ability is nice but not game changing, can take two normal rune priests for his cost will points left over, but not a bad choice 6/10

Ragnar blackmane,
instant kill, to expensive... he dies used him a few times, never done any good, 2/10

Ulrik the Slayer
One of the special characters I like, against nids and new eldar he is awesome, and is well costed as well, I will use him more, but he is now only ap4 on combat, still good choice against certain armies 7/10

Canis
Why? Just take a lord instead on a thunderwolf.. that way you get a invulnerable save 2/10

Bjorn
6th ed has hurt him with the new glancing rules, but overall still a VERY solid choice, who I like to use often (6/10)

Wolf Lords
are the second best HQ choice in the codex, lots of perfect load outs, but I like thunderwolf, twin claws and a belt of russ (8/10)

Rune priests
Best HQ in the codex, JOTWW is broken and I have always had a lot of success with it, and the living lightning is also a awesome spell. I always take at least one of these, sometimes (like last night) I take 3! 10/10

Wolf Priest
meh, take Ulrik instead 2/10

Battle Leader
Same as lord but slightly worse, still a good choice 6/10

Elites-

Wolf Guard
Can take anything. so yer awesome! normally use them as terminators, which the wolf claw and storm shield load out is expensive but broken in 6th ed cc rules 8/10

Dreadnoughts/ Venerable
Both die to easily, dont use them often, 3/10

Iron priest
nothing needs to be said, never ever use this 0/10

Scouts,
meh okay, but used to be better when they could assault, still might pop a tank or something 4/10

Long Wolf
Basically a mini hive tyrant if you tool him out well, awesome model, that has to die! chuck it at something and look how hard he can be to kill! 7/10

Troops

Grey Hunters
Cheap, awesome, marines, nothing else needs to be said, one of if not the best troop choice in the game 10/10

Blood Claws
Take hunters instead for the same cost 2/10

Fast Attack

Thunderwolf Cavalry
drool, lovely lovely lovely,  they just destroy anything they get near! I going to get another 10 of these now there is plastic options, take often 8/10

Swiftclaw bikers
Own 10, never used them, just so many better options in this codex 2/10

Skyclaws
Same as the bikers but a but less usefull 1/10

Land Speeders
I personally dont like them, but a lot of people do, so I will let you decide 4/10

Fenrisain Wolfs
massive cheap tarpit, add a wolf lord on a thunder wolf and you are set, without a thunder wolf 1/10 with a thunder wolf 8/10

Heavy Support

Long fangs
take missile launchers.. always missiles 10/10 for lots of missiles

Predator
Long fangs are better and dont die as quick as one of these 4/10

Whirlwind
I like them for some long range support , doesnt kill much but can do some damage 6/10

Vindicator
Why? you close combat, you want to kill your own guys? maybe to lead a tank spearhead tho 6/10

Land Raiders (all 3)
Good transport and fire power, I lke the Redeemer the most 8/10 as it  wants to get in combat for its flamers, then the godhammer can offer some nice anti tank support 6/10 and the crusader is only good for its capacity 5/10

Transports

Rhino
Tin death box of doom, could for a quick rush forward in the first turn and second if you are lucky 3/10

Razorbacks
Dont use them to trainsport models, I use them to support my long fangs but offering more range support, good but not great 7/10

Drop pods
9/10 straight off, I know Russ believes we should stay on the group, but how about a way to drop in, open fire, and then next turn charge the remaining lot? awesome


So yer I did say quick review lol, but I might get my wolves back out a bit more!

Make Russ proud! 

Update on everything!

So quick update on my gaming then!

So I have been given a 3000 point daemon army for fantasy... last time I played fantasy I had dwarfs, so least I get to try some magic again, still split if I will continue with them or not, but I thought I would have a go.

Played a game with my wolves vs a Tau player and rushed his lines with 4 land raiders, well he only destroyed 1, the rest of the game was well easy, as Tau cant hold the rush of 30 marines + 8 Terminators in combat!

Last and not least, the tale of 4 gamers (is now 4 of us not 5) has been pushed back a month, it was agreed by all due to one gamer not being able to make it, and some another to sort out money etc.
But on my progress I now have painted 20 orks and my war boss, so I am getting there! Least I have another month to get them painted now :)

Happy gaming :)