WarlordGhrom

And he is bringing me kicking and screaming into the abyss.

Got to agree with this. Gets really wonky if you can kill your own troops for victory conditions.

Let's hope you are right.

Congrats on getting her to join your OFCC team.

NOoooo! I want to hear the cries of your opponents back here in Pdx.

Post it Dave. I want to see proof.

What's the Swedish comp on that? I bet its low, but I find it very amusing list :)

Always knew a planet based off my best friend would need purging at some point...

I would love to see a 20 for Chaos Warriors, Dark Elves, Skaven (I'm going to try to pull this one off), Wood Elves, or Daemons. Consider this the gauntlet thrown down!

Thanquol makes me hot and bothered. Other than being a level 4 (expected) with 4+ ward (thank gawds) and nice profile, his best feature is how many friggin' warp tokens he starts with...D6+2 tokens!!!! Damn that is going to cause some problems for an opponent during a magic phase, especially with no negative on using them. @ Rudra - try them both/all - mix and matching the unit is where the strength truly is. Get one tunneler with some shooters and fighters. And let the pain train begin.

Update from Week 1 Escalation League (last night). So I brought the following army (from memory) which I thought would give me a chance to use different units and be pretty soft: Farseer w/ Rune of Witnessing 10 Dire Avengers including Exarch with PW/Shimmershield riding a Wave Serpent with BrightLance and Cannon 10 Guardians with Scatter Laser platform 5 Howling Banshees 5 Swooping Hawks 10 Warp Spiders Wraithlord with BrightLance I played against Jeffrey and his Ghazghull(sp?) TRUCK OF DOOM. As I had 6 units I had a fairly easy time to take objectives and at the end I had blown up the truck (turn 2) and about half the Ghazghull retinue. I lost the Guardians, my Farseer and the Wraithlord. But from a Maelstrom mission point I won 15-5 which is all that matters in this league. Next week I think I'll mix up the unit types again and try some new stuff out. Maybe Harlequins, FireDragons, an Autaurch, Vyper, or a Fire Prism will make it into the 1100 points.

@ IK - yeah a lot of escalation leagues run out of stores are setup so you buy product to compete. As Ordo is not a store we don't really have product to sell. Though you can always buy a little time with Raindog or Burk if you ask nice (and have the dollars).

Love the new Rat Ogres and rules. Seems like I can finally do something with my 20 ROs with some modding perhaps.

Nice to see the round basers play and play with them. Thank you Jeffrey for my second game of 40k in the last 10 years. Was fun and damn scary to stare down that wartruck of DOOM!

@ IK - It's Ordo baby, we allow you to do whatever you want unless it makes Burk cry.

Here is the first post in my blog as I try to step back into the Abyss of 40k after 10+ years away. To facilitate that long step I'll be taking part in the Ordo Escalation League starting next week. As has been my tradition since Rogue Trader days (over 20 years ago), I will only be playing Eldar. No allies, nothing but Eldar. Pre-Step - Get an Army Book To push me into the abyss Bronson (AgentP) got me an Eldar Army book last year... Step 1 - Find the Eldar! So to start off this quest a couple weeks ago I dug through the shed of too much [big bad swear word] and found my Eldar. Or at least I think I found all the Eldar, or at least a good fraction of them. Here is what I was able to find: Army Box 1 - Vehicles - A couple wave serpents with magnetized weapons - A fire prism - A falcon - possibly a couple vypers, but need to figure out the bits Army Box 2 - A ton of painted and unpainted models - from quick glances I have the following aspects: Hawks, Banshees, FireDragons, Scorpions, Reapers, Harlequins - looks like some Warlocks, Farseers and some of the big guys (Fuegan, etc) Army Box 3 - Lots of grunts - normal Eldar guys with weapon platforms - More aspect warriors, harlequins Army Box 3 - Found some jetbikes. Need to inventory exactly how many put looks like 1 or 2 units And that was the initial review of stuff. From glancing at it and talking with Bronson, I am probably looking at 5-8k points of models. So I should be good for the league. More to come...

Depends on monster. Some are totally fine, some are considered a bit unbalanced.

3 flamethrower templates :)

I'm nearly bouncing with anticipation of the book...

Very curious to see the different rules for each version.

YAY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rQqwG_rQx7A#t=73

Second on the grats. Looking forward to another great OFCC.

have they posted how big of a hit the new Maelkith is on the swedish comp? Im curious.

My bet for next books are as follows: Underground (next book) - Skaven, Dwarves, Goblins Human after - Humans, Bretts, Ogres Final - Lizardmen/9th Edition

All my term models are on 25. Though that is because they are all Rogue Trader and 1st edition...