Nottingham Doubles Tourney Highlights

A bit late to the party, but I promised some colleagues i'd post something about the awesomeness of the Doubles Tourney at Warhammer World last month. 750 points per teammate, 6 games, 2 days at the home of Warhammer itself. What a blast!

Last minute issues meant my original matchup of Double Dark Eldar wasn't to be, I ended up going with Eldar while my teammate caste his Tau in the role of Iggy's partner - see what I did there? :p

Opting for fun and insanity over anything else, I included a 459 point Seer Council in my 750 point list, forcing the opponent to deal with it while a whole host of Battlesuits, Broadsides and Firewarriors blasted holes into the enemy. Good times :)

Highlights included 9 Sanctioned Psykers led by a Primaris Psyker all having their heads explode inside their transport thanks to some Runes of Warding.
Belial passing 40 armor saves - yes 40 in a single turn.
Our armies ending up as the sacrificial lambs to a double Orc list that landed a devastating turn 2 charge, when a host of Stormboyz land right into our lines, and an exploded result on a trukk causes it to hurtle towards our deployment zone, giving a large Nob unit the distance they needed to charge next turn.

And now, some pretty pics of the event, enjoy!

Yriel Ebay

Normally, I'd be opposed to buying prepainted Warhammer figurines from Ebay, but the ungodly purple mess of my own Yriel model had me frankly embarrassed to use him of late. It's a tough call when you really pride yourself on your own craftsmanship, and I was always reluctant to ever consider using models painted by anyone other than myself.

Until I saw this...

Maugan Ra

Fresh from the oven, a little something I baked earlier...

"Death is a debt we all must pay."

Probably the coolest Eldar model ever created and certainly my favourite in the entire range. And he's not too shabby on the tabletop either, with 5 str 6 attacks on the charge that ignore armour saves from his Maugetar, that can puncture transports with 4 str 6 Pinning and Rending Shots - Maugan Ra is death incarnate!

The model is easy enough to paint, I did mine above in under 4 hours:

• Base-coated white, two watered-down coats of bleached bone then a quick wash of Gryphonne Sepia.
• The details were then done with chaos black, red gore and blood red for the eyes, dark angels green and wash for the banner hair
• Final touchups with codex grey on the gun and a mixture of bleached bone and skull white for the raised areas.

Hey presto! A Phoenix Lord ready for the tabletop in a matter of hours!

Monday Night gaming

So this week, I took on Keith's Wreckin' Ball, and elsewhere Gredus of Combined Arms took on Dan's Space Wolves painted ala Blood Angels. Pics ahoy!

Pat's Nids facing off against the Ork tide.

Iggy's Eldar Gallery

Legs of Doom!

The first pic taken from a recent Capture & Control 1750pts game. My Chaos opponent could only wonder what tricks I had up my sleeve... "My Lord, I don't know if it's the combat drugs, but I think there are legs coming straight for us!"