scottshoemaker

I big stack of nickles would be OK though, about $400 worth ought to do it...

Progress! Check the blog for some more detail:

I just so happen to have a WoC army I'm looking to move along. I'd let it go cheap. I ts built very comp friendly with some monsters. I started in and realized I never have time to play it so there ya go.

Ordo is especially open to counts as and proxying. We're all pretty realistic in the idea that we don't have unlimited funds and time to explore every avenue of possibilities. I'm a big fan of the post it note to avoid confusion. I'd say that once you've made some sort of long term conclusion about a proxy model the most courteous thing to do is go ahead and model it up and add it to your force. Minor things like weapon swaps can be easily sourced in the group. Bigger projects may require the effort of a new build.

Check IA Aeronautica for some things though, I know Flakk Trukks are updated... Just keep in mind the Dreadmob list is only for a dreadmob army. If you want, say, a Big Trakk use the IA8 Bigtrakk entry. The individual entries in IA8 will tell you what the requirements for using them in a Codex:Orks army; ie Grot Tanks require a Big Mek to be taken in the army and count as elites, etc.

Week 3 was against Burk and his "Ad Mech" marines. I think my setup was alright but I got distracted by a small unit of bikes with melta on one flank and committed the sin of losing focus on my assault. I would have been much better off keeping my line and crashing into him in assault. Instead I dumped fire into a few targets hoping to get lucky rather than playing to my strengths. I got too afraid of the Vindicator and whirlwind, I keep forgetting the safest place for me is in assault. The lack in invulnerable saves is telling, but I need to work around that. Ultimately Burk won by 1 point, Linebreaker, so I got that goin for me. Thanks for the game Burk!

Week 2 was against Chappy and his Grey Knights. He was running with 15 terminators, a Term Librarian, an Evesor Assassin and a Dreadknight. I was runnin with trukk boys, shoota boyz in a Wagon, bikers, buggies and tankbustas. I really wasn't aggressive enough and should have gotten in his face sooner. I did manage to pull down his Dreadknight in melee though. Thestar of the game though was the Assassin who survived over 200 shots from various shooting, mostly shootas and rockets. Damn 4++... Still a super fun game with wacky crap happening. Thanks Chap! I shake my green fist at "Da Shiny Boyz"

Prizes are neato, but not why I'm in the league.

Another hotrod Battlewagon WIP:

Waaagh? Why yes, Waaagh!

Base it with a yellowish brown first. Yellow is notorious for being thin.

As it's your only marine force, and I'm assuming you want mostly for fun, I'd avoid too much gimmicky stuff and think of it mostly as standard marine force with some interesting insertion options. Rhinos are fast so I'd take advantage of them.

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Got some Boss Nobz done:

Masters are almost done. No molds yet.

Oi, don't hijack the thread

I personally thinks it's a sad tale.Those poor Orks just wanted to krooz fer chicks. Den all dem shiny boyz ruinz all da fun.

Nurgle has waned this day. I'll be there around 4:15

Fingers crossed my sick kid gets better...Papa Nurgle has blessed her today.

I showed up for the 1/12 league night and was very pleased to see about double the usual turnout. Super great! Lots of new faces too! Bronson's getting folks rollin and games are starting. I scarf a slice of pizza and eventually set up a game with Kris and her Dark Eldar We played on a 4x4 urban table. She brought a solid force of 3 raiders, two units of warriors and wyches, 2 venoms with trueborn (?), and archon with some meatshields. I brought my evil sunz with a warboss, a weirdboy, 2 units of slugga boyz in trukks, a unit of rocket buggies, some bikers, a battlewagon with shootaboyz, and a trukkload of tankbustas. The game went well for me at the beginning and by turn 3 I was fairly confident of my position. I focused on stopping her mobility and was doing ok, but she still had enough mobility to concentrate her fire and smear out units. My lack of anykind or armor save on the boys became telling against her sheer volume of fire. Great placement of her units to gain solid crossfire ate me alive, plus the Archon munched a pretty big unit of boyz for lunch. Eventually my quantity over quality plan went sideways and she quite successfully mopped my, tableing the poor greenskins. A great game with some super fun action. Thanks for the game Kris, hope to see ya Tuesday!

I'm all for commissioned painting. I'm not for winning an award for something someone else did. The example of giving your award to a buddy after you won it is, to me anyway, different then paying someone to play your games for you, then you collecting the reward. It's the "pay to play/win" aspect that I don't like. When I see the "Best Painted" award as a title I assume that the qualifications mean you must have painted the army yourself. Admittedly I don't participate in big tournaments anymore, so my assumptions must be biased. That's my opinion anyway, a strong one, but still just an opinion.

What does that have to do with KAP's question?

Huh? I don't get your point.

Squee!

No distinction, then it's fine.