A Small matter of Honour 2013

I recently attended the Sad Muppets Society a Small matter of Honour tournament at triple helix wargames in Westbury. The tournament consisted of 4 games during the day two games at 1250 points with a raid force and a further 2 games at 1750 points. 

I had decided to take my Tyranids along for the day, the few games of sixth edition I have had with them so far proving to be the most successful army I have. Not to mention one of the best painted (even if they weren't completed). My 1250 point list consisted of the following:

• Flyrant 2x TL brainleech  devourers
• 2x 2x Hive guard
• 2x 12x Devilgaunts in Spore pods
• 2x Tervigons with catalyst toxin sacs and adrenal glands
• 11x termagants

It was only the night before the tournament that my colleague pointed out that I had taken 1 too many troops choices, so I had to drop the 11 termagants from the 1250 point list and add them back in at the 1750 point games. For the 1750 point games I added the following:

• Swarmlord with single tyrant guard
• Basic Tervigon

The idea of the single tyrant guard being that if the Swarmlord got Iron arm off then the entire units toughness would go up.

First off, the venue, Triple helix games was a great venue to play at there was plenty of space, lots of tables quite a bit of varied terrain. the shop had quite a bit of variety of stock. There were also plenty of shelving in the gaming area where player resources were stocked, magazines, rulebooks and boxed games all seemed to be available for you to use. The only slightly disappointing thing was the price of a cup of tea (£1) when a can of coke is a quid, a cup of tea should cost far less. But as a complaint that's pretty minor. Overall a very good venue and I wish there was a similar one closer to me. 

Overall the tournament went really well, being as I hadn't played that many games of sixth I was quite nervous going into the tournament. However there was no need to be, every opponent I faced was a brilliant guy to play against and I would happily play any of them again.

At the end of the tournament I am happy to report that I finished in third place after 3 wins and a narrow draw on the last game. I'll post on some of the games over the next couple of days.

Tau codex: first impressions

After a few reads through the new Tau codex one of the things I have to say is... Wow.
Hats off to Jeremy Vetock for creating, what in my opinion, has got to be one off the most flexible, yet balanced codexes to date. Almost every entry in the army list is viable in one way or another with no obviously lacklustre units. Each entry would be marked on it's own merits within your preferred army list and tailored to your playstyle.
Upon first impressions it seems you could create a Tau army in the way you feel and still make it a fun yet competitive list to play, without sacrificing too much effectiveness on the field.
Nothing appears to be particularly broken either. A few nasty combos that could be effective though these will be limited in their application and in many respects not spammable.
Overall on really looking forward to using this codex and seeing how it performs on the field. The Tau are back!

Tau stuff arrives!

Well it's been a long long wait, but finally my Tau army has received reinforcements and a new codex. So to celebrate, I decided to go out and spend my savings on plastic crack (seemed like the only sensible option). The new models have grown on me and I think with a little bit of manipulation could get some interesting poses. Also be nice to see who models their riptides as short as possible in order to get a cover saver easier (the tying his shoelace pose).
The codex looks awesome as well. I can't wait to start seeing how the new army works on the table top.

Tau sold out

Just been having a look at the new flyers on white dwarf daily and it seems as though they under estimated the demand for Tau products. There is a footnote in the daily staying that they will be unable to fulfil preorders placed from this morning until after the general release date. Could this possibly make Tau one of the fastest selling armies that gw have released recently?

In other news sucks that on gonna be out the country on this date anyway. Ah well.

Tau advanced order

So much to the dismay of my wife, I have placed a preorder for some of the Tau stuff. Despite being slightly pessimistic about the look of some of the models from the leaked pictures. Much like the stormtalon I've actually grown quite fond of them. The preview video also helped a lot.
My preorder consists of the following:
Farsight
Crisis enforcer commander
Fireblade
2x riptide battleships
2x flyers
Broadside
Pathfinders

I do fear that the codex is not going to do these units justice though, having been written by Jeremy vetock who wrote the dark angels codex. Unfortunately some of the new units in that codex are overcosted, especially the flyers. Yet the rest of the codex is relatively well balanced.

Guess we will find out next week. 

Tau shopping list

So far rumours are pointing at a 6th of April Release for the Tau models. So far on the ohhh shiny. Shopping list is:
2x riptide
2x flyers
Codex
3x broadside
Pathfinders
Farsight
Divorce.

Looks like it's going to be an expensive month for me, although the unfortunate thing is that on meant to be in Ireland for a wedding that weekend. Do you think it would be ride to ask them to put the wedding back for a week or so?

Tau incoming

So it seems a long updated Tau codex is one the way with a few new goodies. I'm hugely excited that one of my armies is getting an update, with it being a few years since the Tyranid update (disaster). My Tau and templars were starting to feel a little left out in the cold.

I think April might see a wallet taking a considerable hammering.