Tau vs Ravenwing

Alrighty, I was supposed to post a battle report over xmas break, we took photos of it and everything. I totally thought I was toast going up against an all Ravenwing super bike army. I played against my friend (whom I will call Graydoom). The reason I ended up not posting it, is because Graydoom has a supernatural ability to roll ones. I will wish i had a digital camera so I could have recorded it because that game was not statistically possible.

He had meltas that failed to hit tanks and he failed more than half of his cover saves. His army was completely wiped off of the board by turn 4, not a sinlge model left. I would like to say it was because my awesome tactics or sweet tau firepower, but in reality, it was my friend's inhuman knack of rolling 1's. I ended up not posting it, but I am putting up this comment just so you know.

However I WILL be posting battle reports and photos of all of my games that happen at the upcoming tournament on the 30th.

Painting can be BORING and fun, but when you are painting Firewarriors it is boring.

Anyone who has tips on painting fire warriors, let me know, because I would like some.
I am going with a little variation on the standard Tau paint scheme, nothing too fancy.

In that picture they are all base coated up and I have the backs of them painted a dark red color.







There is a shot of the armor. I am pretty sure I will have to do a couple of passes to get a more even coat. Then it will be on to highlighting. He is not even close to being done, because all that black (or most of it anyways) is going to be the Tau brown color.

I like having painted armies (my lizardmen army is fun.) But painting the same basic model over and over gets boring. Maybe I just need to throw a painting party or something.

Army Transportation

In order to safely get my army and their tiny breakable pieces to the event I will need to figure out a way to build something that will protect them. I went to the fabric store and got some green foam. To cut the foam I am just going to use a box cutter and then using the magic marker to make sure I have the right sizes. This is more frustrating than I originally thought.

I figured I would just cut out the square and POOF! yay done. Nope.



So there are my 5 tanks and two piranhas that I am taking in my list. Got them neatly sorted out and now to draw the lines. Basically I just traced around each tank, and made sure that the walls separating the tanks still had enough structural integrity to function and also so they did not just fall off.






I was still pretty happy at this point. It looks like it will be pretty nice. In my head I said, "sweet now i will take the box cutter and cut on the lines and bravo! I have nice little rectangles for each of my tanks to sit in." Except for the fact that I originally imagined that i would not cut all the way through the foam, but then I did. I got frustrated and had an expert come in to try to help.





My wife is a lot more patient than I am with this stuff and I am glad she was there to help. Basically we decided that, "yeah it would have been better had I not cut all the way through, but it is still salvageable."

Next stop is to get a container from Target to put the foam block in, I have another foam block for the crisis suits, and all the drones and infantry will fit in my tackle box.

To anyone who has more patience than a preschooler this is definitely a good way to go, it was a good way for me too, I just got frustrated initially which will happen a lot on projects.

Upcoming Tournament!

There is an upcoming tournament here in Minneapolis that I am going to which should be pretty fun. It's the first time for me in a 40K tournament so I'll have to see if I even know what I am doing.

I have gotten pretty distracted in the last couple of months with the whole Thanksgiving, Christmas, holiday bonanza, but the tournament is on the 30th of this month so I gotta hunker down, and by hunker down I mean procrastinate painting my army by making posts on my blog.

Luckily the army does not have to be painted to play, but if it is not painted you cannot win overall.

New Gue'la Device shatters minds of the Ethereal Council

"Shas'O!! We have finally gained access to the central compound, soon we will know why we lost contact!" The cadre of Tau had been out of contact with HQ for weeks, ever since they started their journey home, there has been no signal from their homeworld.

When the Cadre had arrived planet-side they had found not a single living creature, everything had been a desolate un-kept wasteland.

When the doors finally opened a holo-screen was flickering random images, attached to that holo-screen was this:

"We found that and a bunch of vid logs sir. No bodies though, and the audio on the vid logs are easy to hear, however the visual connection was damaged." The Shas'O popped one of the vid logs into his data terminal. Amid the screams he heard one phrase repeated over and over... "Uncharted 2!"



-Seriously, that is a very fun game