Tournaments - Be on time

With so many local players at Hulls Angels spaces playing against York Garrison were limited. I was the last person in, so missed a slot. I am unhappy that I missed out, but best of luck to everyone playing and hope you have a great day.

I will keep honing my lists for next time...

The whole Ultramarines Chapter list

OK, so I don’t have a full roster as yet and I will not be positing individual points values, but earlier this year I played out a Battle for Mcragge using roughly 20,000 points.

All in all the force contained units from 1st Company, 5th Company, 7th Company, 8th Company, 9th Company, 10th Company and support from the armouries. I tried to drop a complete breakdown in here, but it broke blogger, so I will have to spend some time making it more web friendly.
I have cobbled together a summary of all marines and tanks I used from codex Space Marines and the below is what I got. If you read through you might say to yourself, “only one Rhino?” and I thought something was up too until I remembered I was fighting from trenches, so left the blue boxes at home.

Assault Marines	120
Captains	5
Chaplains	2
Chaplin Casuius	1
Command Squad Veterans	25
Devastator Marines	120
Dreadnaughts	13
Drop Pods	11
Ironclad Dreadnaughts	2
Land Raiders	2
Land Raider Crusaders	2
Land Raider Redeemers	2
Predators	6
Rhino	1
Scout Bikes	10
Scouts	90
Sternguard Veterans	20
Storm Raven	1
Storm Talons	2
Tactical Marines	160
Terminator Assault Marines	20
Terminator Captain	1
Terminator Marines	30
Thunderfire Cannons	3
Vanguard Veterans	30
Vindicators	3
Whirlwinds	2
Total miniatures	684

On the way

The bikes are taking me longer than I expected, requiring a lot of momentum to keep them going, but they are on the way! Here is a snapshot of the bikes I am putting together at the moment. Looks like a complete mess, but there is a method in the madness and I have been batch assembling them. After a quick count up it seems that I am still a few short of a company, so I will be back to the hobby store for another couple of boxes. One of the outstanding sections are the command squad veterans, who I am still deciding how to equip. I could go with a lot of combi weapons and that seems to be the prevailing opinion on the internet, but I like the idea of tooling them up with power fists and storm shields, making them a real close combat threat to the monstrous creatures 7th ed seems to be based around. Comments on the subject are welcome.

Tidy up

Like any other gamer I have a heap of sprue in a box which I keep telling myself I will get around to sorting. Some of it is spare parts, some of it is parts that I have bought and deposited there until I get chance to get around to them, some of it is from the periodic clearing of my desk.

My box is a tall plastic container and has been looking rather full of late, so last night I decided to have a crack at tidying up some of this heap.

Clippers in hand and bits box at the ready I dived in and a bin bag full of empty sprues later I had found 15, yes that’s right, 15 space marine bikes and a drop pod!

I honestly did not expect to find a small army when I started on it, especially as I know I have had at least 4 bikes out of there for my tournament forces.

I have started putting all these together so I expect to have an almost complete 6th company when I am done with it. I will get a company picture up here when I am done.

Back to back tournaments

With two tournaments crammed close together it is a bit of a rush to get ready for the next one. I literally got home from one and submitted my list to the organiser of the next. I am really looking forward to trying my list against the guys from York. There are a few combinations that will take me apart, but with a bit of luck I will get opponents I can deal with and give them a good fight.

Tournament roundup

So I came a solid second and I am happy with that, although I think the dice gods were against me in my last game as I failed a lot of saves and couldn't kill a riptide in 6 rounds of combat. It was still really enjoyable and three solid and challenging games.

I think I dodged a bullet by not having to face the tournament winner who was running around with 5 flying monstrous creatures. I had a couple of ideas to try and counter the list, but it would likely be too much all at once.

I need to crack on with painting it all now as I would have lost due to the points I dropped being unpainted even if I had won all three games.

Tournament rush again

It has been a while since I have had much hobby time, but tomorrow Hulls Angels are running a small tournament to raise money for a cancer charity. As well as raising money for a good cause it is also going to give me a chance to sharpen my rusty game play before we take on York. I have been tinkering with a list that is hard hitting but not as resilient as I would like. I will post more details of it after I play York Garrison to avoid too much meta game, but for now I will say that this list was originally written to face down 6 Imperial Knights and has already proven very effective against battle suits.