This and that and a lesson about Krylon

Nice productive couple days off. Got a game in with a friend of mine, finished a few build projects, got some terrain glued to bases, and finally painted some shoulder pads..

First off- Played a 2k point game with Matt. He played new Chaos. His list was Typhus with a wad of ablative zombies, a three man unit of Obliterators, two 10 man plague marine squads in rhinos, a 10 man squad with no vehicle, a maulerfiend with whip coils and finally a forgefiend with hades autocannons. I played Orks with 3 trukks full of boyz (one with Warboss), a trukk full of tricked out nobs, a battlewagon with a big squad of lootas/ meks, 20 man grot squad, 3 deffkoptas, a 5 man squad of stormboyz, a deffdread with a few skorchas and finally a 3 man killa kan squad with grotzookas.

This is the biggest game we have played in 6th ed. but due to the low model count it didn't really seem like it. Got lucky and got first turn but because all of his stuff was really far away, placed in cover well, or in armor it was remarkably ineffective. His first turn, however, ended with me trukk-less (or maybe one left) and a with a bunch of dead boyz (explosions were ridiculously deadly early game for me) Although, to be honest, no trukks at the end of turn one is pretty much par for the course hahaha
2nd turn my reserves came in. The Koptas put the hurt on his forgefiend (it wouldn't recover before getting axed) and I dropped my stormboyz in the middle so they could partake of the action as soon as possible. Got some decent shooting in with a few units and positioned my walkers well. The ork boy shooting was overall really ineffective the whole game, Plague Marines are brutal. They are just so hard to shift or kill with fearless, T5, and 2 saves. His 2nd turn he decided to backtrack with one of the rhino plague marine squads to deal with the koptas while running his nurgle marked spawn forward. He also ran his maulerfiend up (it got take out by lootas and CC with the nob/ Warboss) The spawn's charge was one of the highlights of the game for me, a butt-load of wounds on them between 2nd round shooting with the grotzookas and overwatch with the boyz squad. Though, that was balanced by failing x3 4" charges in 3rd turn (one of which he let me have because of the vagaries of the terrain and where models were positioned.

With my vehicles gone and his troops being pretty slow, the rest of the game came down to just shooting and slugging it out without a lot of movement.  Lots of crazy rolls and some epic moments (especially loved the obligatory chaos champion challenge ending in a Superman/ Doomsday style dead power klaw nob and plague champion) All in all extra fun game and can't wait to play many more permutations of the new Chaos Dex.

Build projects- finished up my second unit of 3 killa kans, got 5 more stormboyz put together, and finally cleaned up the filthy chaos bits off of some Sanguinary Guard Matt gave me. The Stormboyz has got to be one of my favorite plastic kits at this point. The heads and bodies are just so awesomely sculpted and covered in gubbins. Hope to get a few more boxes of them! The Sanguinary Guard were Matt's old Slaanesh Jump marines that he decided he no longer wanted. Being the resident Blood Angel player (well, one of them at this point) he decided that they should go to me. That brings me up to 15 of them...makes me want to play Emo-Wing (Dante and all Sanguinary Guard)

The terrain gluing was pretty simple. Just more GW terrain gorilla glued onto MDF. I think I need to watch it in the first half hour after gluing it and be a bit more attentive to getting the extra mopped up. I am going to be gluing sand and debris to the terrain pieces so it won't be too bad but there are some marshmallowy looking bits where the terrain meets the board from where the glue expanded up and out. They aren't lying when they say you only need a little of it.

Finally, the painting. I did up the company (right) shoulder pad for the 5 man BA Tac. squad. Red and a green blood drop (for 4th company) for the regular marines and black with red trim and green blood drop for the sergeant. Here are some pictures (I finished up their bases and got them glued down the other day) The blood drops are green stuff from moulds taken from DC shoulder pads. My lovely wife helped me make 5 of them. Be careful when super gluing painted models. That shit clouds up paint and you have to redo it...

 The Green is kind of washed out because of the brightness of the photo but it is pretty electric!

 The sergeants have black shoulder pads in the most recent dex.

And on a final note-when it says to shake Krylon Spray paint for 1-2 minutes before use. Do it. If not it just sprays out liquid paint and kills your mini. Simple Green to the rescue!