Armoured Support

Hey guys,

as promised earlier today here's the update with my two Salamander vehicles:
-Black Reach Dread and
-Vindicator
Here are some more pics of those and the vindicator can be seen with and without the removable dozerblade.



And the remaining Dreadnought pictures:


That's pretty much it for today. As you might have realized the Dreadmought is still missing a base. That's true and i promise to build it during the next few days and blog about the Dreadnought standing on the finished base ;)
Maybe I'll be able to take a photo of the interior of the Vindicator, because I left the door open and painted it from the inside but forgot to take a picture of that.
So the next days another update of these vehicles will follow and maybe I even manage to paint one or two further Tactical Marines to finish at least the first 10 man squad.

Cheers Cleutin

Small Interlude

Hey guys,

I've been busy the last days with learning for exams and funny things like that. But now that all exams are taken and I only have to do two readings and prepare a term paper, I found some time to return to my painting station.
I finally managed to finish the first two of my Salamander's vehicles and will post some pictures later this day (the varnish has to dry neforehand and I need to fetch my father's cam, 'cause mine is damn crap).

So stay tuned for another post to come later this day.

Cheers Cleutin

BattleReport - 1.5k Orkz vs. Tyranids

Finally I forced myself to write the latest battle report and here it comes, hope you enjoy it.

Again we played 1.5k points and I faced a slightly different Tyranid list than last time. This time I went with my Ork army with the following list.

HQ:

Warboss

-big choppa

-cybork body

-'eavy armour

Big Mek

-KFF

Elites:

12 Burna Boyz

9 Tankbustaz

-2 Tankhammers

-Boss with PK

Standard:

3 Meganobz

-shoota-skorcha

-shoota-rokkit launcha

-Battlewaggon (Grot riggers, boarding plank, 3x big shoota)

18 Boyz

-Boss with PK&Pole

12 Boyz

-Boss with PK&Pole

-Trukk (ram, shoota, plank)

10 Boyz

-Trukk (ram, shoota, plank)

10 Gretchin

Storm

2 Warbuggies

-rokkits

Heavy Support:

Battlewaggon (Grot riggers, boarding plank, 3x big shoota)

Battlewaggon (3x big shoota)

The Tyranids played something like:

Alphawarrior

2 Zoas in Spore

2x2 Hive Guards

4 CC-Warriors

4x8 Genestealers (twice with Broodlord)

4 Raveners

Alphatrygon

Mission and deployment were Seize Ground with Dawn of War.

I won the roll to deploy and decided to go first, only setting up an empty trukk and the MANZ behind a large building. He deployed his Alphawarrior and the Tyranid Warriors in the cover of a ruin. His two objectives were in the center of his zone and on my far right, while i kept both of mine in the middle of my zone, to keep my forces together.

I decided to keep my 10 Boyz and the Gretchins in reserve and he outflanked with all of his Genestealers. Trying to seize the initiative he rolled a 6 and went first.

Turn 1

His Hive Guards looked for as much cover as possible and tried to stay out of any LOS, while the Trygon, the Ravagers and the Warrior brood advanced to my side of the table.

On my turn the Orks arrived on the battlefield and I build up a solid wall of Battlewaggons to cover the trukks behind their AV14. The buggies got a few shots on one of the Hive Guards that was just to big to hide itself, but with the BS2 they had no chance of hitting it.

Turn 2-5

The next few turns a lot of things happened and I am unsure in which order or on which turn the events took place, so I am just going to give you a rough idea of how the battle continued.

Two Genestealer broods entered play on the side of my table that was near to my army in two turns in a row. The Zoas wrecked the trukk with the MANZ inside and the first Genestealer squad charged the Orks that scrambled out of the wreck, but only able to kill one of them with their rending attacks the combat was tied and after two more rounds the orks were able to finish the Genestealers off with their Pks. The Trygon crashed into the BW with the big Boy suad accompanied by the Warboss and destroyed the vehicle but was charged by what came out of it. Together with the second Genestealer squad the Trygon killed the 19 Orks, but died in the fight as well.

The Burnaz in their BW made a drive-by with the Raveners and smoked them with 24 Hits and enough wounds to leave none alive. Heading back to the Warboss they saw him dying and took cruel revenge on the Genestealers by hitting them 60 times and scoring 25 wounds!!

But when the Zoas cracked their BW open the Burnaz were combi-charged by another Genestealer unit and the Warrior brood … no need to talk about the outcome of this fight … not a single ork survived the massacre. At the same time the Tankbustaz got beaten up by the last Genestealer unit because they failed their terrain test to attack the Hive Guards. After this quick fight the Genestealers fell back to secure one of his objectives. The other one was guarded by 2 HiveGuards and two Warriors (the other two Warriors had been victims to a PK that was hidden in the trukk boyz).

When my Gretchin and Boyz arrived on the battlefield the Gretchin took cover in a ruin and secured the objective there, while the Boyz charged a squad of Genestealers (with the help of the remaining two MANZ) and killed them, securing my second objective.

In a heroical move my last living BW and the last buggy speeded towards one of his objectives and contested it, so that I won the game after five turns with 2-1 objectives.

After the battle I had on the table:

2 MANZ

10 Gretchin

10 Boyz

1 Buggy

1 BW

and he was left with:

2 Hive Guards

2 Zoas

2 Warriors

8 Genestealers

1 Alphawarrior

1 Mycetic Spore (I didn't even shot at this once ...)

Hope you enjoyed reading this battle report as well. I am going back to bed now and will try to get fit again ;)

Cheers Cleutin

La Cave à Fromage

Hey there,

directly another post behind. I figured out that I should explain the blog's new subtitle to those that do not know my friends and me ;)
"(to) fromage oneself" or in German "sich fromagieren" means something like epic failing. If you fromage yourself in a WH40K game you shouldn't be able to win this game unless your opponents fromages him/herself as well.When my brother and me spotted "La Cave à Fromage" in London he had the idea to name my blog after this cheese-shop and we took a photo of the sign you can see right below the header.
Alternativly you can also be "fromaged" by your opponent, then he just outplayed you with a nice move and you have no possibility to counter that.
In either case You are the one who has a disadvantage to overcome.
Now all of you should know what I mean when I'm talking of "fromaging" in one of my battle reports.
But this should be enough for tonight. Let me end with the words of my Burnaz in the upcoming battle report:"I love the smell of roasted Genestealers in the evening" :-P

Cheers Cleutin

Influenzal Infection

Went to the doctor today and was told that I have an influenzal infection and have to stay at home for about three days. Feeling not all to well to write the battle report today, but hope to do so finally tomorrow (have to force me to do so).As an apology I'll show you some pics of the second Space Hulk Terminator I am currently working on, the one with the LCs. Already finished the claws and now I have to start with all those Crux, sigils etc.
I'll take better pictures once the model is finished.

Cheers Cleutin

New Layout, new HeaderPicture

Hey guys,

long time since I posted, sorry for this but I was very busy and recently went to London for a full week.
Now I am back on and brought a cold with me ... trying to get fit again I found some time to get a decent subtitle for my blog and a matching picture.
On Monday I'll post my last recent battle report with Orks against my friends Tyranids (still struggling to find a decent list that fits his style of play, responses and ideas for 1.5k Tyranid lists are appreciated ;) ).
So stay tuned for Monday, as there is more to come.

Cheers Cleutin

First BattleReport - 1.5k Salamanders vs. Tyranids

Hey there!

A friend of mine asked me to play his Tyranids in a 1.5k battle after he got the new codex into his hands and wanted to try it out immediatley.
Before writing my list, I knew that he would play somethinhg like a Tyrant, a Trygon, some Genestealers, Warriors, Hive Guards etc. This in mind and trying not to write a cheesy, but more a style list I came up with this:

Captain
-Combi-Melter
-Lightning Claw

5 man Tac Squad
-Powerfist
-Razorback

10 man Tac Squad
-Melter
-Missilelauncher
-Combi-Melter
-Powerfist
-Rhino

10 man Tac Squad
-Melter
-Missilelauncher
-Combi-Melter
-Powerfist
-Rhino

6 man Terminator Assault Squad
-4x TH/SS

Dreadnaught
-MM
-HF
-Extra Armor


Dreadnaught
-MM
-HF
-Extra Armor

Vindicator

Vindicator

My friend's list was in the end something like (sorry, do not remember all of it correctly):

Hive Tyrant + 1 Tyrant Guard
2 Hive Guards
2 Zoanthropes in a Pod
3 squads of Genestealers (2 of them containing a Brood Lord)
3 Warriors
3 Ravener
Alphatrygon

We rolled for mission and got Capture and Control with Spearhead Deployment. I won the roll off and decided to go first, placing my objective in a ruin protected by two Combatsquad Marines with MLs. The rest of my army deployed to the center of the board to get in contact with the Tyranids early, only holding back a rhino (with a Combatsquad) and the Terminators to handle with outflanking Genestealers or deepstriking shit.
He placed his objective in his corner far away from me and only deployed his HQ and the Hive Guards, letting the rest of his army outflanking or deepstriking (the Warriors were able to outflank due to his Hive Tyrant).

Turn 1
My first turn was not verys spectacular, I just moved most of my army towards the middle of the board to stop the Tyranids and shooting a bit at the Tyrant without dealing any damage to him.

In his turn he Hive Guards wrecked my Razorback and all of his units (erhm ... his two units ...) moved into cover.

Turn 2
On my second turn I still didn't have a lot of targets to fire at and spread my army a bit to be able to react into every direction. One of my rhinos circled a large building where his Hive Guards had taken cover to get rid of them.

Turn 2 gave the Tyranids some of their reserves. A group of Genestealers entered the game on his own short side of the table and moved on his own objective. The Warrior brood entered the game on my short table side and both the Trygon and the Ravener deepstriked ahead of my army.
The Hive Guards stunned one of my Vindicators, the Tyrant immobilised one of the Dreadnaughts and the Warriors moved near my objective. The rest of the bugs mostly stayed in cover.

Turn 3
On turn 3 battle became much more intensive. My Vindicator blasted a shot towards the Raveners and eliminated the whole group. The Warriors got a lot of boltgun shots into their direction, which killed one of them, and were finally charged by my Terminators. They weren't able to even harm the Marines before they were blown apart.
On of my Dreads shot at the Trygon and gave him a wound with his MM (which was of course recovered by Regeneration the next turn...).

In the third turn the Tyranids got even more reserves in form of a Genestealer mob that came in on my side and immediatley charged my Terminators and the Pod with the Zoanthropes that blew off the cannon of one of my Vindicators.
The Trygon advanced onto my army and the Hive Tyrant wandered also in this direction.
Due to my nearly perfect Armour Saves none of my Terminators survived the Genestealer attack (failed 3 out of 4 Inv. saves for the Shields and 3 out of 4 normal saves ... love this).

Turn 4
My lonely rhino let out the Combat Squad that attacked those annoying Hive Guards.
The second rhino (with the next Combat Squad inside) and the other two Combat Squads fired at those Terminator-killing-Genestealers and killed all but three of them. The other CombatSquad killed one of the Hive Guards in CC.
The five man TacSquad with the Captain shot their Combi-Melters at the Zoas, killed one of them and charged the remaining one, finishing it finally of in CC.

The last missing Genestealer squad entered the board on my side once more and destroyed the rhino there, while the remaining three of the other squad struggled to finish of the weaponless Vindicator. The Hive Tyrant charged the Combat Squad in CC with the Hive Guard and killed those five Marines, while the Trygon ate one of the Dreads without any problems.

Turn 5
Thinking that this could be the final turn I concentrated at killing those damn Genestealers threatening my obejective. With 20 Marines fireing at them on short distance none of the bugs remained living. The Vindicator fired at the Trygon but wasn't able to hurt the monster. In the hope of another turn i speeded my last empty rhino towards the other objective to contest it on the next turn.

The Trygon killed the other Dread and moved towards my lines to contest my objective if there would be a sixth turn.
The Hive Tyrant and Hive Guard were both unable to stop my lonely rhino.

Turn 6
We rolled a six and so moved on to the next turn. I moved most of my Marines towards the Trygon to stop it from reaching my objective and was able to block its way. My rhino moved 12" onto the objective and hoped to remain unharmed.

The Trygon ignored my Marines and tried to run around them onto my objective, but it was to slow due to several terrain and could not reach it. None of the Tyranids was able to damage my rhino more than just stunning it.

After turn 6 the game ended 1-0 for me. We counted killpoints afterwards and it was a draw with 6 KPs on both sides (Zoanthropes+DropPod, Raveners, Warriors, 2x Genestealers - Rhino, Razorback, Terminators, Combat Squad, 2x Dreadnaughts).

Next time I'll make pictures or short videos of the battle and post them here as well, but forgot to take my cam with me this time, sorry guys. Hope you still enjoyed reading this battlereport.

Cheers Cleutin