New Warlord

Well first off I would like to apologize for the huge lap in time in which I didn't post. Not that theres many people who I have to apologize to though. But I'll make up for it with something huge...

This Saturday, a local at our game store (well he lives there is more accurate) is throwing a tournament. But this is an Apoclypse tournament. Anything goes (that goes in an Apoclypse game that is) at 3500 points. Mixing armies, no force organization, genestealers in a land raider, 3 Marneus Calgars, whatever. We all get one free asset and can buy any additional one for 250 points (no multiples though). He also intends to throw in a "grudge match" in which one non-vehicle champion is picked and placed 12" onto the board. First one to die, flee, or willingly leave the board edge gets an extra 4 points to their score. Also there will be 6 objectives in each game (each being worth 4 points). For a total of 28 points per game.

My plan is to field 6 squads of cheap infantry (probably ork boys, or gaunts, or possibly Dark Eldar warriors) for each objective, a winged Hive Tyrant with two twin-linked devourers (for the grudge match hehe, 12 shots that hit on 3s and S5? with rerolls on all? and then just run away until he's dead) or I've also considered a Haemonculus with a few gadgets that could make any big man crumble (thought about giving him a Crucible of Malediction, which will make any psyker take a Ld test or get removed from play. Oh you're fearless? Well that's great for morale and pinning tests but it does nothing about leadership tests). And then... (drum roll please) a Warlord Titan. As far as I know nobody else in my group has one and it would be a sight that would make a Carnifex cry out of terror. With two plasma weapons, a double barreled turbo laser destructor (or something similar to that) and a vortex missile (mwahaha!!!). And then grabbing Tunnels as my asset for my chumps to grab the objectives. As far as I know I have it all planned out... except wait... I don't have a warlord...


Or I didn't back then thats for sure. Then is when I started building it, two weeks before the tournament. Now you may think "Two weeks! to build a warlord?!" and to which I would say "that's what it says..." I am not a fan, though, of the Warlord in the Apocylpse book or the epic version so I started looking around for something else to model it off of. I started looking around and found a model made by Dream Forge called the Leviathan Crusader, stands at about 30" and looks like this:

I was thinking that with both arms using that gun instead of a giant hand and a gun, it looks very much like a plama gun. The model itself costs only $550 but I wanted to make one instead of buy one. I looked around a little bit more and found templates and plans to build one out of cardstock! So I downloaded them up and printed them up, bought 6 bottles of Elmer's glue and 5 poster boards and got to work.

I built the legs first, then the core, then the cathedral he's hauling on his back, and then the shoulders. I have no pictures of these but they were quite a hassle, let me tell you. But this is where I'm at now. Just have to do the weapon arms. Now I will blind you with more pictures of my baby.
A Hive Tyrant to scale it up for you.

And there's a picture of the back and top for you.



I'll post about the tournament after Saturday. Wish me luck! and thanks for reading!

Tournament today

Well today is a tournament at my LGS for 1500pts. Now I personally have never been good at small games like that. Especially not with Blood Angels. But this list is deffinately different, it includes 3 Devastator squads (oh yes), Corbulo, and a 10man Death Company (as well as my troops: two 5man assault sqauds in rhinos and a 10man jump squad). The list started as my looking at the Devastator entry and thinking... "I wonder how much 3 Dev squads would cost" so I wrote it up and figured what the heck and threw in an HQ and some troops and a 10man Death Company.

I'm not really a big tournament player unless it's at my LGS ususally. I'm not an extremely good player at tournaments either. The best I've done my entire 40k life was last tournament (for 2500pt I believe) in which I took second (the size difference between first and second is mind-boggling here). And that may have been all from dumb luck, as the one before that I came in 35th place, but then it may have something to do with my army that I played.

It was hard for me to actually try to pick an army to play with for the 1500pt tournament. I have a nice little Tyranid army at around that and Tyranids seem to prefer small games as such. But on the other hand my Blood Angels have been good for me in the past. I decided to go with what (in my opinion) was the best choice of the army I know. In a tournament you need to bring an army you know front to back, all their weaknesses and strengths, all their bells and whistles. I have come to the conclusion that in a tournament the best option for an army is to pick the one you're experienced with, if you have access to multiple armies, like most of us that are addicted do.

Wish me good luck, and stay tuned

Shaper Jhae