Kaoshin

Carcharodons. They're an FW chapter from the Badab War that uses the space marine codex, and of course I'm running their chaptermaster character cause his model is effing amazing :)

Whelp I'm fairly certain you all are tired of seeing little blue aliens inside of mechanized suits on my side of the table, so you all have graduated to phase two! Blood's in the water, boys. A fleet of dull gray ships have emerged from the warp, their vox relays silent as their massive engines direct them into a low orbit slowly circling the planet. What is this sound? This pulsing bass tone slowly increasing tempo. The sharks have arrived, drawn by the blood spilt in droves and gallons upon the soil of this world. The sharks are here, xenos scum and false defenders of the Imperium...and they are hungry.

The Carcharodons make planetfall.

Total Points - 1848

Carcharodons CAD - 1211

HQ

Tyberos the Red Wake, Captain of the Nicor, Lord Reaper of the Void, Commander of the Carcharodons - 190

Damocles Command Rhino - 76

Searchlight

Troops

Tactical Marines (10) - 205

Flamer, Extra CC Weapons, Vet Sergeant, Sgt Lightning Claw, Powerfist

Rhino - 35

Tactical Marines (10) - 205

Flamer, Extra CC Weapons, Vet Sergeant, Sgt. Lightning Claw, Sgt. Powerfist

Rhino - 35

Elites

Ironclad Dreadnought - 145

Heavy Flamer (meltagun), Chainfist, Ironclad Assault Launchers

Fast Attack

Stormtalon Gunship - 115

Skyhammer Missile Launcher

Heavy Support

Stormraven Gunship - 205

Multi-Melta, Extra Armor

1st Company Task Force - 637

Terminator Assault Squad - 205

Storm Shields and Thunder Hammers (3)

Terminator Squad - 190

Chainfist (1), Heavy Flamer

Drop Pod - 35

Sternguard Veterans (6) - 172

Combi-Melta (4)

Drop Pod - 35

Wish I could but as things stand I'm probably going to be kept late at work through the week =\

Okeydokey. We don't have any assembled cents but broadsides are a good physical analogy so you can use those :)

You may flood my poor tau with greenskins certainly. I'm still working on understand O'Shovah's Book of the Beast as it applies to you heheh. For anyone else also wanting to play I'll likely hang out at the store most of the day and work on other projects if no games take place.

I unfortunately did not manage to pick up any games over the weekend, but have Wednesday as a half day this week work-wise. Anybody wanna throw down at the Phoenix Nest?

I'll bring my stoof. I do not have a drop pod unfortunately. I'll see if Sean does. If not we may need to proxy with something of approximate size

I can swing by too :)

The three of us were going to be showing up at the store tomorrow to play games since it's a holiday and I imagine a lot of us have some time off. Anybody else gonna show or want to show and get some games in? :)

the woman is doing the toys for tots this again and its this saturday.  I wont be able to make it down to the store to my knowlege.  Ill see if maybe i can come down again this sunday but depending on her alch. consumption i might be on baby detail for a couple of days.

I'm available today if you wanna get in some of your league games ahead of time. Just a thought!

Llllllllightning rod!

I have tomorrow off and presently have no plans beyond working on building a Y'vahra. Anybody have league games they want to make up? :)

Yeah we can either get you that stoof or at least good proxies for it :)

Sounds good to me. I'll be there in the afternoon, and I'll stick around for the party. I don't know if I'll have 1250pts ready, but I should be able to proxy some stuff. See you guys then

I'll bring some space marine stoof. Feel free to borrow to fill out the points :)

What Xavier said!

I will of course be there :)

I will be at the shop sunday from about 1400 for RJ's Pokemon group. If anyone needs a 1250 pt game I will have my stuff with me.

If nobody else shows I'll make sure to come by. I might anyway even if you get a game just to see if any other games crop up :)

I will ask him, As for tuesday I will be there around 1445 (2:45 PM for normal people time). If you have the table down and ready to go there should be enough time for me to get a game in with someone before class at 1800.

 

Craeat

All righty I'll get the table ready

This is notification for pretty much everyone, both those who were present for this initial idea and those that aren't. There was talk of meeting on Tuesday to play 40k league games. The store will not be able to open early at noon like we had hoped. Just schedules being schedules, but James was fairly certain he would be able to open at 2 and will txt me just to be sure come that day. So I'd say right now for everyone who is planning on attending, lets shoot for 2:30 as our start time to give him a little leeway. That should still be more than enough time to get a game or two of 40k in before any schedule conflicts after 6 :)

I'm gonna assume he meant saturday. If we got stuff goin on today/Friday this is news to me!

Have a half day today. Anybody need or want a game? :) any points value is fine.

Thanks for the suggestions. Yeah I definitely see the ion accelerater getting converted into the right arm. For the flamer I definitely have spare plasma rifle bits but they seem kinda small. Thinking maybe green stuff some larger tubes to bulk up the actual weapon if I can't find some suitable bits. Any suggestions on how to handle that giant jet pack? I don't really have anything that bulky so was pondering doing something with spare devilfish engines between the jet packs

Heyo, everyone. I was given a Riptide today with the condition that I convert it into an Y'vahra battlesuit. I've fallen in love with said suit as far as it's rules go but I've been proxying it with just a regular riptide. As crafting goes some of you may remember I'm not a huge customizer. I model, paint when I must and then play play play, so this is a little intimidating for me. Do any of you have some suggestion for how I could turn this:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tau-Empire-XV104-Riptide-Battlesuit

into this?:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Tau-XV109-Y-Vahra-Battlesuit

Thanks!

Next list for you all to enjoy. Thoughts are welcome. Questions. Concerns. Hateful glares? I AM the lightening rod afterall!

Total Points: 1000

HQ

Ethereal [50] - 50

Commander 'Arcfist' Lite [85] - 162

+Fusion Blaster [15]

+Cyclic Ion Blaster [15]

+Neuroweb System Jammer [2]

+Onager Gauntlet [5]

+Puretide Engram Neurochip [15]

+XV9-02 Iridium 'Crisis' Suit [25]

Troops

Breach Team [45] - 90

+Breachers (5) [45]

Devilfish [80] - 95

+Disruption Pod [15]

Kroot Carnivore Squad [60] - 60

Elites

XV95 Ghostkeel [130] - 150

+Stimulant Injector [15]

+Vectored Retro-thrusters [5]

XV104 Riptide [180] - 190

+Ion Accelerator [5]

+Early Warning Override [5]

XV9 Crisis Team [22] - 52

+Fusion Blasters (2) [30]

Fast Attack

Tetra [35] - 35

Heavy Support

Skyray Missile Defense Gunship [115] - 116

+Blacksun Filter [1]

You all will come to know my personal crisis commander Shas'O 'Arcfist' with time. This is his lite version due to point constraints. For now he'll be running with the crisis suit as a two-man MC and and vehicle wrecking crew, though in a pinch he can join up with the Breach Team to accomplish similar tasks.

A couple of you have been on the recieving end of the Breach Team already but for those of you who haven't they are the latest release for Tau through White Dwarf, a close range heavy fire element. The field-testing of them so far has been fairly successful though it is highly subject to change as I'm presently (and admittedly) fudging the rules a little bit with them. Their unit entry states a specific type of devilfish they may take and as things are right now there only exists one devilfish. So doin the best I can and I will be very interested to see what this 'TY7 Devilfish' brings to the table for them.

The Ghostkeel is an interesting model and I haven't had much opportunity yet to see what it's capable of. The only game I put it on the table it ended up in assault after turn 1, but I can see a lot of potential as a mid-range skirmisher and target of opportunity seeker. Basically the role the stealth suits fill too, but I have a feeling I'm going to like the ghostkeel more at 30-50 points cheaper (with current book) with 6-shot autocannon or an AP 4 battlecanon, really strong cover saves, mobility, and some OK melee ability with 3 AP2 swings.

The skyray and tetra are a staple, and work as well as always, and a Riptide is a Riptide. For those of you that don't know what a Riptide is...YOU GONNA LEARN TODAY.

Hi All -

Both Tuesday oct 13th and Thursday oct 15th will be open on my side for a game, so if any of you is free and wants to play, I'm in.

I plan on being at the Phoenix Nest around 4:30pm with my 750pts of Ravenwing.

 

Let me know if that works with your schedule.

I was actually about to ask the board if anybody would be interested in playing a game or two tomorrow (13th).  I've been wanting to field test the new Ghostkeel.  So I'll definitely swing by the 'nest.  Probably even early if anybody else wants to play 750 or try their hand at 1000 even though we don't have the mission yet.  All takers welcome!