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Games Workshop => Warhammer 40K => Topic started by: Doomscape on February 07, 2011, 11:30:44 AM
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Hi folks, Adam here - we should set up a time to try that Apocalypse game! Let me know how many points you're looking to field and I'll build to match. Would you rather play against Orks or Guard?
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I could be convinced to play in an Apoc game.
Chaos of all flavors and most of it painted too. Shooting Orks is almost as fun as assaulting guard. ;D
Were you thinking thematic sides?
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I see how it is, Rich...
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I'm not sure what the names of the guys I spoke with on Sunday are :( But post here anyhow, when and if you do check these forums - I know you said you weren't on them much!
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Dave Goss accepts this challenge against the orks
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Well alright. Since the boyos I spoke with on Sunday aren't replying, I'll lay out what I CAN do and am WILLING to do (please take these seriously, I have a job that eats up a load of my time so lesiure time is SERIUS BIZNESS) with those of you out there with...shall we say...stones :P
I'm usually available to do this sort of thing on Sunday given enough notice - so the soonest I could do this is three Sundays from now. I'd rather play Apocalypse but I generally stay away from strategems - they're pretty ridiculously OP in a lot of cases and I'm more a fan of getting to use the big tanks/guns rather than "Derp my whole ork army has strategic redeployment lulz" if you know what I mean.
I can currently field over seven thousand points with relative ease. All of it's painted and I prefer to play against stuff that's at least come within several yards of a paint bucket in its life. I also don't really like playing against 5 people who've come together to get to x amount of points unless they're folks I know pretty well.
And titans suck. Do not want!
Whew, that's a lot of ifs, ands, or buts. Afraid that's how I roll gentlemen and ladies. Anyone still interested, feel free to throw down. :P Like I said, I can do orks or guard at that points level.
Cheers!
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Ive got 4000 points mostly painted, unless i get to use titans.
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And titans suck. Do not want!
:( No love, I tell ya.
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I see how it is, Rich...
YOU LEFT THE FARM TO GO TO THE BIG CITY AND GET EDUMACATED!
On topic:
I would be down for something like this if it were x faction vs. x faction.
Since you seem to be swimming in the fungus with guns, if you had a couple relaxed players with Chaos I wouldn't mind bolstering their lines. While I have huge stuff, I have an entire Vraksian renegade army and a death guard one. 200+ renegades (FW) and 100+ death guard ready for the slaughter.
Expectations of limited superheavies and chill players makes for a good day.
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I'd be down with that Trooper (I'm afraid I have no idea who any of you are IRL based solely on these ridiculous handles we've come up with) - we'd need to come up with a neat reason why the Death Guard and orks are up against each other.
Does Sunday the 26th work for you? What sort of list would you prefer to play against in terms of the "fungus with guns" as you put it? ;D
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hi i've got 4000+ Necron's or nids all painted the end of Feb.is fine fore me.
Dave
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Either one would be fine with me Dave - wow, 4000 points of Necrons or Tyranids, don't often see that!
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*grumbles* Man, 4000 points goes fast.
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Hey Adam,
I'd be happy to accommodate, but the soonest I can play will likely be in March. If you want to plan a game for sometime then, I'd be down for a game.
I can play upwards of 8-9000 comfortably. If we play with Super Heavies, then close to 11K.
Talk to you soon.
~Ben
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Hi Ben,
I'd be happy to give that a go - I'd have to total up the points I have and see when works in March. I know that's a bit of a busy month for me.
8000 is a hard limit to reach with orks without resorting to tomfoolery or fifty nobz with power klaws. Let me see where I can land with all that and get back to you.
What dates work with you in March? What army do you play at that level?
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I finally added up my armies/models. I can field with org slots satisfied 16,546 points, another 4755 if i can bring titans.
Do you accept?
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Wharf, how many armies is that Goss? And I'd rather not play against Titans.
I'd have to add up ALL my armies and see where I stand - I don't own a lot of superheavies I'm afraid, just a stompa and a hellhammer. If you don't mind playing against multiple kinds of armies I'd be down with playing against all that at some point. We'd need to take a day, though, definitely!
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Well goddamn, I'd watch out cause Dave goes is a Titan.
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Goss Weapon, do you really have 16000+ points? If so, I DEMAND a picture.
If that's true, I'm very, very impressed.
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Yes, I'm curious as to how he managed that as well!
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Ideally, I would prefer sometime later in the month. The 19th or 26th would probably be best, but I can be pretty flexible if need be.
As far as armies I play, I play Space Marines, Space Marines, and more Space Marines. Yeah... not much to choose from, unfortunately. At least I have a lot of them though. :P
That being said, I'm okay with playing a smaller game than 8K too. I know it can be tricky gearing up so many Orks with lots of Power Weapons/Klaws, etc, so if you want to play a smaller amount, I'm fine with that. Maybe we can re-enact the Assault on Black Reach story. I do have Cato Sicarius, so if you do decide to play Orks instead of IG, we can have a pretty thematic game.
LMK what you think.
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I can field with org slots satisfied 16,546 points, another 4755 if i can bring titans.
Having 8 Doomsday Devices isn't as expansive of a list as you might think, Dave. FYI ::)
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(http://www.gobiel.com/sonsofruss/motiv/images/motivator5822811.jpg)
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Hey Ben,
Yeah, sometime later in the month works best for me as well - need time to get some paint slapped on the Kult of Speed! Can't seem to get the red to look right.
I think reenacting the Assault on Black Reach would be excellent - I'm sure there are loads of neat things we could do with that. I don't mind using superheavies, but all I have is a stompa so I'm not sure it's a huge difference.
And wow, Goss! 8 doomsday devices. Might be seven more than what I'm used to playing against - and isn't that 4000 points right there? *boggles*
The_Chef, bring it on! We'll see how many of your troops fall on my choppaz :P
-Adam
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Awesome, Adam. I'm actually in the middle of finishing a painting project I started awhile ago also. Another month, and I'm 99% it'll be done by then.
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Cool Ben - what are you working on?
I don't know much about the Assault on Black Reach story, any sort of orks I ought to be painting over others?
I've considered using Da Drill (I count it as a submersible that comes in at agreed-upon portions of the board, generally only one place) to bring in some Freebooters. If you're eager to field your superheavies I don't mind, I'll just nab a Stompa from Derek. Not sure if they had those at Black Reach though!
Looking forward to this - let me check my March calendar and get back to you on the dates I've got open.
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I'm actually working on the "Space Marine 1st Company" Formation, which is made up of 10 units of 10 models, chosen from Sternguard Veterans, Vanguard Veterans, and any Terminator type. I'm about half way done with the painting now, so a month will give me plenty of time to finish without feeling the need to rush everything.
And as far as the Black Reach story goes, I haven't read anything that didn't come out of the Space Marine Codex. I know that Sicarius' company was dispatched to fight the Warlord Zanzag, but beyond that I'm not exactly sure of who else was involved. That being said, if we decided just to go with the Battle Company, it would only add up to about 3300 points, and that's with moderate to expensive equipment. For a larger scale game, we could say that Warlord Zanzag's greenskin invaders were reinforced by a Green Tide (along with whatever else you may have) that was on it's way back from pillaging another planet. So, in seeing that his forces were severely outnumbered, Sicarius is forced to call for reinforcements of his own, and thus arrives Ultramarines 1st. Company.
Tell you what, I'll try to find the Assault of Black Reach novel, and read it before our game. It's only about 130 pages, so I'm sure it won't be a long read.
And I'm honestly indifferent to Super Heavies. If you want to play a larger game that includes them, I'm fine with that. I guess the first thing we should probably do is set an amount to play at, and then work towards that. Agreed?
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Oh, wow, wicked cool - will be cool to see it when it's done! I have a love for the Sternguard models especially, though mine are converted I'm afraid.
I feel like, with the newer stuff I've found for the ork army, that I'm near 7000 points of stuff that's pretty much all painted and ready to roll. I do have a Grot Mega Tank that needs finishing up but that's not a superheavy and only 200 points all kitted out. Only superheavy that's liable to make an appearance is my stompa, the only wierd stuff I have is some of the smaller kit from Forgeworld that's caught my eye, and none of that is overpowered from what I've read.
What've you got for superheavies? If we are going to field any, I like to try and keep a 1:1 ratio if possible (been on the receiving end of my brother's three baneblade variants one too many times!).
From what I've been able to Google on Black Reach, it sounds like it was a pretty big ork army that got attacked by the Ultramarines before it could get TOO big - so I'd say we could make it about as large or small as we wanted. I'll have to model up a Warboss Zanzag for the occasion. And put some space marine helmets as trophies on some of his lieutenants :)
Looking forward to this!
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Hi
Are you planing on a one on one battle or are there going to be more on each side?
I'd really like to play to .
Thanks
Dave
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Goss Weapon, do you really have 16000+ points? If so, I DEMAND a picture.
If that's true, I'm very, very impressed.
giving the fact the only army i do not own a single model for is imperial guard, and i made an emperor titan... yes. I carry around 5000+ of CSM in a cardboard box :P
then again most of that is unassembled daemons, dark eldar, eldar in boxes still, and those silly thundersaurus-rexes ::)
since it took me an hour to stumble upon how to get a pic here ill send it via email
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That's great, Adam! I'm looking forward to this as well! And as far as Super Heavies go, I have 2 Warhound Titans and 2 Baneblades. In all likelihood, I will probably play the Warhounds before the Baneblades though.
And seeing that you have at least 7000 points, I think a fair starting point would be 8000. It'll definitely be enough for me to bring both the Battle Company and 1st Company Formations, along with probably a Titan.
Talk to you soon!
Are you planing on a one on one battle or are there going to be more on each side?
Hi Dave. This is more of a themed Apoc game that Adam and I are planning. Adding more players is definitely possible, but depending on the game size, it's likely that it might not get finished in a single day. Also, depending on the army you play, the theme of the game might not be as fitting fluff wise.
I'd be more than happy to oblige with another game if you're free though. How many points do you have available? Otherwise I think our only other option would be to keep the set amount of points we agree on, and just divide the point allotment between all the players. And then somehow explain that another army quite possibly got involved at Black Reach. ::)
Let me know what you think. Thanks!
then again most of that is unassembled daemons, dark eldar, eldar in boxes still, and those silly thundersaurus-rexes ::)
Wow... You know, I thought you were only kidding when you mentioned how much stuff you have from each army, but I never thought you were serious... :D
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ten doomsday devices made from $7 clay = 4000 points of chaos.
a box of about 6000 codex chaos if i gave marks which i can if i had more points than the megabattle.
this is 10,000.
1455 of blood angels remaining unsold
the space wolves is ~2000
dark eldar im working on assembling is 1250-1500
1250-1400 daemons I inhereted from friend(s)
then random here and there purchases from before i actually started playing
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ten doomsday devices made from $7 clay = 4000 points of chaos.
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Hey Ben,
Sorry, was gone all weekend. I'm going to have to take a look at the superheavy situation - I only have one for the orks, which was why I was originally going to try guard in an apoc game. Might make more sense if I play them, given that they're a.) finished and b.) I can borrow some of my brother's bigger stuff if necessary. I certainly don't have anything that can go up against a warhound, unless the Hellhammer is somehow a decent Baneblade variant suddenly.
How does fighting Guard sound against you?
Cheers,
Adam
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Hey Adam,
That's perfectly fine. I'm just glad we're getting a chance to play a game of this size. :)