And now to the Fighting!

It was still dark as the forces became aware of each other. Reacting to the presence, both deployed into their battle lines

 

 Setting their lines predawn, the armies began their movements.

As dawn broke, the Tyranids had suffered very light casualties, the horde continuing to roll forward. The Eldar had suffered no wounds as of yet.

On their left flank, the Tyranid force ran into a heavy weight of fire and were vastly reduced, but the did manage to pin the jet bikes and remove one of them, a strange organism growing into the engine, causing it to explode underneath it's pilot.

Although the Guardians were successful in shooting all of the Hormagaunts, the Genestealers rolled into them and destroyed almost the whole unit. The casualties were too much for them and they fled, only to be cut down by the scything talons of the Genestealers.

The remaining Eldar destroyed the few remaining Tyranids, although the last several Genestealers ran and hid amongst the terrain.

Well, the first battle is was played yesterday. The Eldar came away with a win, although they did lose more than half their force in doing so. The table did not have enough terrain, so I will have to add in more for the next game. The size of the battle did show the quality of the Eldar troops, as they were very effective with their shooting. The Genestealers wiping out the whole guardian squad was the height of the game for the Tyranids, as they had quite an uphill battle running into the guns. Overall I am quite happy with the miniatures and they did do well. I was hoping that the forces were going to be a little more balanced, but it seems that I managed to pick a fairly strong Eldar force and only a moderate Tyranid force.

Another battle will be fought where the sides will be swapped while I paint up some more miniatures for both sides.

Overall the game went reasonably slowly as both my opponent were basically learning the game as we played. My experience with 7th edition is quite limited and it was their first game. It did feel a little like a return to 2nd edition though, as the Tyranids were a psyker-less force in a world of stomping psykers. I will have to do something about that when I increase them to 1000pts.

Cheers.

And in the White and Green corner

Following from Monday's post,

Older than the bagged lunch in a High Schooler's locker. Throwing more shuriken than the average Ninja convention. Bringing some grace to the battlefields of the 41st Millenium.

I give you the ELDAR!

In the second appearance of a small force on the blue cloth, the completed 550 points of Eldar consist of:

• 1 Farseer
• 1 Warlock Council
• 10 Guardian Defenders with Scatter Laser platform
• 3 Guardian Jetbikes
• 5 Wraithguard
• 3 Dark Reapers.

Next up... FIGHT!

Cheers.

In the White and Blue Corner

In preparation for a battle report, I am pleased to introduce:

From outside the known Galaxy, coming to consume it all. Small though the horde is, a horde it is still. Warriors to the left of me, termagaunts to my right...

I give you the TYRANIDS!

And the first showing of my new backdrop cloth for my light box. And yes, I do need to work on my photography for larger groups of models...

So what does my mighty 550pt horde consist of?

• 1 Prime with Lash Whip and Bone Sword and Scything Talons
• 8 Genestealers with Scything Talons and Rending Claws
• 16 Termagaunts
• 16 Hormagaunts
• 3 Warriors - 2 with Deathspitters and 1 with Barbed Strangler.

Cheers

Largest miniature to date

Well, some good progress on the Carnifex so far.

I also decided to paint the ripper swarms that I assembled a while ago. So those will properly complete the first Tyranid battleforce box that I purchased.

My goal for the first expansion to the campaign is to increase both armies to 680 points. For the 'nids that is pretty easy - 1 Carnifex.

The Eldar will gain a few more models in their 130 point increase. I am thinking some Dire Avengers and 3 more jet bikes, 2 with Shuriken Cannon. That will bring that squad up to 6 bikes and give them some slightly higher strength guns.

Still on track to play the first game this weekend.

Next week I hope to have posts displaying both complete forces and also a small battle report.

Until then, enjoy the last day of the working week.

Cheers.

A bunch of completed Eldar

A few good, really good, days of painting and I have quite a but of progress.

So with the Wraithguard complete;

And the Dark Reapers complete, that means that I have now finished 550 points of Eldar.

Tomorrow I will return to the carnifex assembly that I started a while ago.

With both 550 points of Eldar and Tyranids complete, I can start my small campaign.

Hopefully this coming weekend. But for now, with dreams of completed miniatures dancing in my head, I think that I will take the rest of the afternoon and evening off from all things miniature related.

Cheers.

A good start to a small holiday

With a good day of painting done, the wraithguard are looking pretty good.

Only the gems, silver bits and then heads to go. I did make a small diversion from the Wraithguard to prepare the last 3 models for the small force I am now almost finished.

A trio of Dark Reapers joins the painting line-up. Or at least they will once the few final details of the Wraithguard are completed. Which will hopefully be tomorrow.

So with the last three models now prepared and the previous 5 very close to completion, the end of this is in sight.

Then, hopefully in the next few weeks I can get the first game in with both armies. The potential date for the first game in my small escalation campaign is 31 May, but we will see what happens. I didn't think that I would be painting both forces in my small campaign when it was suggested three years or so ago. But that is not too bad I guess.

Yikes, three years... Guess that is what happens when you are an easily distracted slow painter...

Cheers.

A little white wash...

Over the weekend left the Wraithguard in a more proper work in progress state than their first appearance.

Hmm, not much more to say really about the painting, but onwards towards the rest of the week and a few days off later in the week and early next week.

I also managed to submit my wishlist for the Gencon events that I want to go to this year. Although that did involve getting up at quarter to 2 this morning... I pressed the button as soon as it was green to let me register and I was number 2257 in line to have my wishlist processed. This took around an hour to count down until I could see what events I managed to successfully gain access to for Gencon.

Out of 8 events that I had on my wishlist I got into 7 of them. The only one I missed out on was the Angel Giraldez painting tutorial.

So I will be:

• Attending a highlighting and shading painting tutorial
• Playing some Ticket to Ride: Europe
• Attending the Baen Books Fantasy Adventure Awards
• Seeing if I can help develop Pathfinder
• Doing yoga for gaming enthusiasts
• Viewing the ENnies
• Attending a 3DS streetpass meet up.

And spending a fair amount of money at vendors I am sure. There are a few other things that I might like to attend, but I will see how I go and / or feel like seeing them. Most of them relate to work, which might be interesting, but then again I will be on holidays, so avoiding all references to work as much as I can is probably a good thing.

Catch you next update...