Four Weeks: 44 models
Ok, so I found another tournament to play in. It is closer and cheaper, so that is a win. I figured out my tourney army, but still need to play it more. The tournament is full ITC load out, including a chess clock set up. it is the
Things I am worried about:
1. Getting my army painted. This is a dozy as my army is approaching 125 models.
2. Transporting my army. Since I have games at my house, I don't move them much, so I am not used to it.
3. Chess clock. I am lucky if I can get a game done in less that four hours, much less three, and I am usually not very lucky.
First, I have the summer off and I am trying to paint about five days a week. I am actually getting in to it a bit. I try to do the drudgery work, like painting shoota and storm boys with the fun stuff like painting the battle wagons or the jets. Also, I am trying out new stuff with the airbrush. For the storm boys I primed black, did a zenithal with white, then sprayed it all with a red ink.
This is the thing with him now, I've reached my painting limit, I think. He looks pretty cool, a bit grungy but still absolutely red, which matches the army, but I am not sure what else I can do. I think I am good with this.
GAMES PLAYED:
I got one game in and I won. What? Yes, I won. I was losing the entire game and by the last two turns, we called it at 5 turns, I started to take the lead. Matrix was playing Death watch and IG, me with my Ork Tourny list. It was the first ITC mission with secondaries. I almost maxed out the secondary missions, and did decent on the primary. He left his deployment open and I Da Jumped 30 boys turn one (I got first turn since I actually had less drops than he did, and I rolled higher) that really messed him up. I targeted his Deredeo Dreadnaught and it took a couple of wounds, but survived. It did distract him enough that I was able to advance on him and start controlling the board. By second turn I got my teleporta battlewagon in and started to mess things up a bunch! By the end, he had his contemptor drednaught and a squad of Death watch boys left. It was a glorious win.
From that one win, I felt really good. I felt I have come into these 8th edition orks with purpose and understanding, and it finally worked out for me. yeah.
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| The tournament list. |
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| 44 models, 4 weeks |
Things I am worried about:
1. Getting my army painted. This is a dozy as my army is approaching 125 models.
2. Transporting my army. Since I have games at my house, I don't move them much, so I am not used to it.
3. Chess clock. I am lucky if I can get a game done in less that four hours, much less three, and I am usually not very lucky.
First, I have the summer off and I am trying to paint about five days a week. I am actually getting in to it a bit. I try to do the drudgery work, like painting shoota and storm boys with the fun stuff like painting the battle wagons or the jets. Also, I am trying out new stuff with the airbrush. For the storm boys I primed black, did a zenithal with white, then sprayed it all with a red ink.
They look pretty amazing, but almost too good, you know. It really does not match the rest of the army. I kinda knew this would happen, but the storm boys are different enough from the rest of the army, I feel all right about it.
Second, Transporting my army. I have an old Army Transporter from Sabol Design, but since I switched over to the 32mm bases, the models don't fit. My buddy Matrix has a Battlefoam box, and I really like it. So, from the other tournament that I didn't get to, I had store credit, so I picked up a nice Battle Foam Box 720. I was unpacking it from the car and waived it to my neighbor, who is law enforcement and a Marine, like me, and he thought it was a gun case... Here's the sad part, I might not fit my tournament army. I need to pluck some more, but I know the jets are not going in that case.
Third, I really have no idea about the chess clock. I am getting better at knowing my army, I made a cheat sheet for profiles, I need to do the same for weapons too. I am also betting the Huffinator to 3D print me up some movement trays. This should all help, but I think in a tournament environment with a time limit, the time for bull shitting and distractions will be null. I play with friends I've know for 15+ years. It is more of a hang out than playing games sometimes, which is perfect, but not tournament play. This has got me a bit worried that I won't like the tournament scene, which is fine as well, but I am going to try this to the fullest extent.
Besides the regular hobby progress and tournament concerns, I have finished my Big Mek in Redder Armor. I primed him white, brushed with gold, sprayed with red ink, for a super bright red, then dulled it a bit with nulin oil, then highlighted up with reds and oranges.
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| just about complete. |
GAMES PLAYED:
I got one game in and I won. What? Yes, I won. I was losing the entire game and by the last two turns, we called it at 5 turns, I started to take the lead. Matrix was playing Death watch and IG, me with my Ork Tourny list. It was the first ITC mission with secondaries. I almost maxed out the secondary missions, and did decent on the primary. He left his deployment open and I Da Jumped 30 boys turn one (I got first turn since I actually had less drops than he did, and I rolled higher) that really messed him up. I targeted his Deredeo Dreadnaught and it took a couple of wounds, but survived. It did distract him enough that I was able to advance on him and start controlling the board. By second turn I got my teleporta battlewagon in and started to mess things up a bunch! By the end, he had his contemptor drednaught and a squad of Death watch boys left. It was a glorious win.
From that one win, I felt really good. I felt I have come into these 8th edition orks with purpose and understanding, and it finally worked out for me. yeah.
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