Raak

I'm looking to trade/buy any Chaos bitz that anyone out there has. I'm doing a bit of greenstuff work on my Daemon army and need some Chaos/Daemon bitz!

Hmmm....I'd say 1850 because I'm trying to prep for an tournament. You know...one where I show up AND play. It's 1850. Missions are up to you. At the moment I'm not a huge fan of the Tactical Objectives but I'm just happy to be playing. Hell - I'd play unbound 2k at this poing. <*show voice* I just wanna dance!>

Done Deal. 1850 or 2k?

Sold! What time?

I think Don just upped the bar for BatReps around here in a big way. Man, I need to step it up!

... ... ... Damn! Now THAT'S a Battle Report! Well done. I enjoyed reading that and I'm sure it was a good play!

Anyone want to play some 40k 7e? 1850pts. ... and in a perfect world an Infinity Demo and some kind of sweet filler like Hive, Duke, Pixel Tactics, Indines. *stares at pigman*

completely agree with this. I still think having to sacrifice the (presumably) Tzeench Herald (and side question - is it the psyker manifesting the power not one in his unit?eg could a tzeench herald summon a greater daemon and sacrifice any regular horror in his unit?) - either way - is not too bad. I'll take 3 plague drones or an extra KoS any day but you're right - they're just daemons and as you aptly noted - WC spam has the severe disadvantage of forcing the Daemon General to decide - am I Shooting or Summoning this turn? I mean, my shooting phase is the quickest ever! (I refuse to say "EVAR"...oh damn I just did). I do see advantages in lists that have moderate WCs (like my new 11 WC list <cough cough/> and don't rely on Malefic but roll on it after they have accomplished something more important to their army's purpose (ie the way Jetseer Councils roll on Forewarning first, until they get it and then move on to Biomancy or Divination, or whatevs). I've played 2 games like that now and it's worked out well. the summoned daemons weren't game winning but had I not cluster-screwed myself into corners tactically beforehand the game with 20 horrors and 3 Plague Drones and the game with 3 Tzeralds, a Great Unclean One and 20 Horrors could have been brutal for my oponent but were ultimately satisfying for both players - them because they won and me in a kid in a candy store kind of way, but even then all 4 of my 7e games have yet to see summoning be a determining force. You know what has been? <earmuffs ya'll/> The TACTICAL OBJECTIVES!! Man! They can make it a simple objective based game or a complete and utter crap-shoot. In the end I think they favor experienced generals (duh) but I like them for the flavor that they add and can't wait to see what the Frontline, NOVA, Adepticon and FoB T.O.s come up with for mission combinations. I think that the mission packs will almost be material for mini-narratives to be forged in FLGS and Garages everywhere! TL;DR <cue the Blue Oyster Cult> "....Don't fear the Daemons" "Who cares if GW made a buck" <guitar riff/>

Thanks!! Adding the change

I dunno - I got what what you were after there... #win

Consider us in - both my wife and myself! Anyone else? Intrizic? Fix? JMGraham? Android? Hobitron, anyone in? This is a great opportunity. Just FYI a 2 day course like this run by private contractors usually starts at $450 and goes up from there. Not blowing smoke up anyone's a$$ nor trying to convince anyone to do something they don't want/need to do but I wanted to make clear what a great opportunity this is.

Thanks! good catch! I'll do a final 1.0 after all the errs have been corrected.

This is my Version 0.1 - Please correct any mistakes you might see. The Warhammer 40,000 7th Edition Game Sequence V0.1 by Raak 1. Select Armies 2. Roll for Warlord Traits & Generate Psychic Powers then Declare your # of Warp Charge dice 3. Roll up / Agree Upon a Mission & Tactical Objective(s), if called for. 4. Agree on Deployment or Roll D3 for: Dawn of War, Vanguard or Hammer & Anvil (p.131) 5.Deploymet Roll off – Winner Decides who will Deploy 1st and 2nd 5a) Side Deploying 1st (Player A), Sets Up 5b) Player B Deploys 5c) Player A Chooses to take 1st or 2nd turn. 5d) Player B may attempt to seize the initiative with a 6 on a d6 roll 6. Choose/Agree on Mission(s) (p. 129) 7. Place Objective Markers 7a) Roll of to see who places the 1st marker 8. Mission Specific NightFight Roll on a 4+ 9. Player A Begins Turn 1 10. Resolve any rule that states “resolve at start of turn” 11. Movement Phase (p. 19) 12.Psychic Phase (p. 22) 12a)Select Psyker and Psychic Power 12b)Declare Target 12c) Psychic Test i.e. Roll your WarpCharge Dice and resolve any perils 12d) Deny The Witch 12e) Resolve the Psychic Power if not denied 13. Shooting Phase (P. 30) 13a) Nominate Unit to shoot 13b) Select a Weapon 13c) Choose a target 13d) Roll to Hit (BS on rule of 7’s to hit) 13e) Roll to wound (Weapon Strength vs. Majority Target Toughness to Wound) 13f) Allocate wounds and remove casualties if saving throw (if available) not made 13g) Select another weapon and repeat 13b-13g 14.Assault Phase (p. 44) 14a) Charge Sub-Phase -1Declare Charge -2 Resolve OverWatch -3 Roll Charge Range (2D6) -4 Charge Move (p.46) -5 Declare next charge or Finish Charge Sub-Phase 14b) Fight SubPhase (p. 48) -1 Choose a combat -2 Fight Close Combat -3 Determine Assault results -4 Choose next Combat or Finish Assault Phase 14c) Morale Check (p.57) -1 Determine who won or lost combat -2 Falling Back /Regrouping Test (p.59)/ Sweeping Advance (p.53) 14d) End of Combat Pile In (p.55) 14e) Consolidation (1D6) 15. Player A Ends their Turn 1 – Player B now begins their Turn 1

Still shopping for 40k 7e around 5ish @ DTG. If not 40k then something!! Can't make an early game but can make it by 5 for something substantial.

O.K. so as it stands: North is looking like he might have to reschedule 40k so: General - Early LoTR or BattleTech - you pick. 40k 7e@ 5pm (Daemons w/ 11 Base Warp Charge) - Who's in? Andy? TW?

Lotr early sounds good. I think North and I have 40k game for the main but not sure on time.

my new mascot!

solid copy.

Kursk, eh? Germans or Reds?

So this is interesting.... Credit: Chip Boyd, ToF, (used with permission)

So I played my second game of 7e 40k yesterday. Game Impressions: Psychic is a sticky wicket. It can be really difficult to get stuff to go off; especially reliably. I had 19-21 Warp Charges (with a daemon farm/4 herald list) and it was still hard to get Invisibility, Summoning and Hallucination off together in one turn (It happened…turn 2 - It was glorious) much less try any of the other cool powers I had but couldn’t afford the Warp Charge Dice for. My opponent had 21-23 Warp Charges (Grey Knights) for the game so we were fairly evenly matched on Warp Charges and I was able to use my 19-21 Charges to shut down many key casting attempts. The Tactical Objectives were awesome and personally I think that mixing them with Narrative Based or BAO style missions will make for some of the most dynamic (or insane) game play ever. I'm excited. Question: What will the 7e strategy be then for facing an opponent with 20+ WCs when you have a more moderate (though still powerful, albeit just not psychically) list with something in the neighborhood of 10+ Warp Charges? I think Invisibility is so powerful that it might not matter, al least until it’s nerfed or FAQ’d, In some rolling I did I seem to come up O.K. rolling 4 dice with minimal perils and successfully getting invisibility’s 2 WC’s off. But this excellent article from ToF : http://www.torrentoffire.com/4776/the-math-of-the-new-psychic-phase has a much more detailed and different picture of what me may be dealing with in the Psychic phase…. <- I’m not sure what that last part really means. I have pretty bad jet lag. EDIT: a word about Summoning here. I managed to successfully summon 10 Pink horrors twice and then Incursion went off I successfully summoned 3 Plague Drones. So I brought 306 points onto the board Via the Malefic Powers but of those 3 units, 2 units of horrors perils'd and while one perils wasn't so bad the other neutered the horrors rendering them cannon fodder. Point being - hot dice or not - starting with 17 Base WC is not a guaranteed Psychic Spam win. ...I'd start with 30ish. Now that's spam

Open game or is the campaign started and sealed

When you start looking for games to practice what Corey has imparted, I'm happy to serve as a punching dummy [ entirely metaphorically though mind you ;) ]. I'm not good enough to teach but I can play.

North - lets play some 7e!

PM me for times but I have a light week coming up so lets game sometime. I can come to Skagit if that helps.