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Newsletter November 2000 |
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Newsletter November 2000 |
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Next meeting:
Saturday November 14th 2000, at St. Johns Church Hall, Norrie St., Drury, starting at 9a.m.
Games arranged:
Morning session: 9.30 am to 1.00pm
| Bryan Osbourne v Robert Davies | WHFB | 2000 points |
| Wade Mitchell v Kevin Carberry | W40K | 1500 points |
| Micheal Earley v Peter Colson | W40K | 1500 points |
| Noel Tobin v Damien Neems | WHFB | 2000 points |
| Arthur Young v Ken Snow | Warmaster | 2000 points |
Afternoon session: 1.30pm to 5.00pm
| Bryan Osbourne v Noel Tobin | WHFB | 2000 points |
| Kevin Carberry v Arthur Young | Warmaster | 2000 points |
| Wade Mitchell v Micheal Earley | W40K | 1500 points |
| Damien Neems v Peter Colson | W40K | 1000 points |
Copy for the news letter needs to be to me by the Friday of the week before we meet .- Kevin
See attached sheets
More ramblings! More opinions! Less informative!
Another month gone by and many developments developed, as they do. So many, in fact, that I can’t list them all… that and the fact that I’m invariably behind the times means it’s rather difficult to list them as I don’t know them, BUT these things happen and I never claimed to be good at this. Well now, Warhammer appears to be shaping up to a really, REALLY interesting release now, with a lot of fancy span-dangle, with a liberal coating of eye-candy! With an avalanche of ‘buy-me-now’s, the model designers and miniature painters, and the punter’s pockets, are really being pushed, and the result of this pressure, like intense pressure on coal, has led to the figurative jewels of model collectors around the world, absolutely brilliant models! As seen, the Empire and Orc&Gobbo ranges have been vaguely renovated, with the orcs becoming more hulking and menacing, the gobbos becoming, well, I haven’t really been paying much attention to the gobbos, but I suspect the wolf-riders will be good, and the empire troops becoming cheaper, thank God, especially where cavalry is concerned (THANK YOU SIGMAR!!!). Oh, and by-the-way, doesn’t that new hel-blaster look ABSOLUTELY FECKING BEASTY!!!!! Now looks like it deserves to scare your opponent shiznitless! Basically an improvement to the Empire and the greenskins.
Now the Dark Elves, that’s a different story altogether. These guys have got a COMPLETE overhaul! Besides looking a helluva lot more evil, they also look painful to paint what with all the weird curves and pointy bits. Original looking models, excellent idea! Lets all clap for Games Workshop getting it right!!! It’s "Ooooh, Aaaaaaah" time! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, the South Auckland Miniature Wargames Club proudly present to you the NEW DARK ELVES!!!
Apart from the miniatures, there are the rules.
As yet, I have not had the opportunity to read the new rules in full detail, but in my humble opinion (which, of course, is always the right one) they are a vast improvement on an already good system. The rules allow for a more dynamic game, with less being worried about how you’re going to deal with that INTENSELY cheesy unit, AND that near-imortal character, and more being worried about how to look like you know jack-shite about tactics since before tactics seemed to be ‘give unit such and such this item, and character so and so that’. Games should prove to be more interesting. Now this is all very well, and seems to suggest a lot of GOOD work. It appears that GW has FINALLY found out how to combine the elements of PROGRESS with IMPROVEMENT. The thing that has ME pleased, is the one thing that sets THIS new edition release apart from the last 40K new edition release. Games Workshop have improved a game, and IMPROVED the character! The spell disciplines of shadow and fire and metal and death and so on have all added to more character in the games. The local militiamen, the inadequately skilled yet zealous flagellants, the Emperor’s personal army now being able to carry a magical standard, and the new engineers all add more character than ever into the Empire army, and these sorts of changes will no doubt be prevalent in ALL the new army releases. Excellent job I do believe!
40K seems to be pretty quite lately, but the new releases are still pumping out at a steady pace, and the new armies are still drawing near release dates. The new Space Marine rhino, if my information is to be trusted, looks VERY nice…..it’s almost enough to convince me to collect Space Marines……No, no, WAAAAAAAAGH TUFGITT!!! Stomp da beekeez!!! But it DOES look awfully nice, worth looting if I do say so myself.
And last of all, the 40K tournament next month.
THE BIG CHRISTMAS BASH!!!!!
"Silent night, Holy night, All is quite, All is dead…"
Paint up yer armies, write up yer lists, make sacrifices to the God of your choice and join in the fun! Ivan and I will be there for any queries at this club meeting, if you are confused as to something about the tournament and want to know BEFORE it’s too late, so make it a point to ask Ivan or I if you need to know something. It’s on, it’s this December, and there are fabulous prizes that’ll make the financially deprived such as myself drool. Read the next Newsletter for ABSOLUTELY FINAL information. And don’t forget, it’s for fun! While the umpire is watching at least…
Cheers
Peter.
Reign of Destruction Tournament800pts , three games of knockout selection
Three games at four turns or two hours, start at 9:30 - 11:30 - Lunch - 12:00 - 2:00 - 4:00
standard victory points as per the White Dwarf
| Points | |
| Win | 140 |
| Draw | 100 |
| Loss | 60 |
| Breaking opponents army or five models within | 10 |
| Killing each HQ unit | 10 |
| Killing highest cost unit | 10 |
| If you have units in the enemy deployment zone and they have none in yours | 10 |
| You didn't break an enemy unit, wipe out an enemy unit or take one unit down to half strenght | -10 |
| You have more Elites/Fast attack/Heavy support units than troops | -10 |
Ken Snow will be marking you for painting points. You get between 0 - 10pts.
You also get between 0 - 10pts as decided by your opponent on your standard of sportsmanship. The points you give your opponent is confidential unless you want to tell him/her ie.suck up for more points for yourself. A zero would be for completely unpainted armies or extreme cases of cheesy-ness (No-one I know in the games club unless I am offended by their manner,presence and/or odour).
Rules and Restrictions
- Standard mission chart to be used with night-fight replacing change of orders
- Any arguements to be brought to Peter or me (preferably Peter). Our decisions are final(Other people will ref our games)
- Rules and options in WD may be used (Must declare to your opponent at the start of the game)
- Army break point to be used (ie When you are reduced to 1/4 of your models
- Any codex army or in the 40k rulebook(if the codex is not released eg Tyranids) may be used.
- Standard force organisation chart to be used
- No proxy models to be used unless with prior consultation with me or Peter
- This is set for the December Games club meeting and I currently haveeight competitors.
These are - Dave Kermode, Kevin Carberry, Peter Colson, ArthurYoung, Bryan Orsbourne, Damien Neems, Paul Chaffe, Manoj Parsot and Wade Mitchell.
If you want in and are not on the list see me soon. Oh yeah I almost forgot, there are prizes kindly provided by the games club. First prize is a $50 gift voucher at Games Workshop, second is a $25 gift voucher, and third is the knowledge you just missed out because you're not good enough. Because the prizes are from our cash pool, outside or non-paying members (I know who you are) must pay to enter.
Battle Reports
First off let me start by saying, Bwa hahahahahahahaha!!!! A very, very good game with a
lot of high points, well, high points for me anyway. Noel's force did seem to be larger at
the beginning of the game (50 Gobbo archers with the army standard and general and a
Wyvern being some of that). But by about the third turn his fanatics had hit everything
BUT my units (like his Black Orcs who were making bone dust out of one of my Skeleton
regiments) and every time I attempted to cast Curse of Years Noel managed to dispel it
(and pretty much every second spell after that). And after breaking the army's Troll the
main unit of Goblins (who must have thought that the Troll was coming after them) did the
time honoured Goblin tradition should an event like this arise.....they ran. Right off the
board (with a little help from my Dire Wolves)! With just about everything fleeing or
being spooked by something from the Vampire Counts army and the fact that their almighty
General had chased after his 49 fleeing archers off the board what was left of the Orc and
Goblin horde withdrew (or ran for their insignificant lives as most of us would put it).
Hmmmm, my first game using the new rules and it was against and army nearly exactly
like mine. Well to cut a long story short the battle just turned into a huge free for all
in the centre of the battlefield with my force managing to gain the upper hand right at
the end (its hard fighting an army that won't run away no matter what and isn't effected
by fear). Anyway, as far as the new rules go, they're great! The magic system is good,
except for the fact that every time I cast Vanhels Danse Macabre it got dispelled! Fire
magic is very, very, very powerful. I managed to hold up a unit of Ghouls for most of the
game with Fire wall and Conflagration of Doom is NOT something you want used against you
(especially Vampires, all that fire just isn't good for that "white as a sheet"
complexion that they love).
Da sun woz rizing and da mistz woz fading as da boss ordered da ladz ta get ready ta blitz da sektor and duff over da beekeez, show dem ‘oo da REAL dead ‘ard boyz iz! And dat be da boyz of da renow…reeno….renou….da famous warboss Tuffgit Badskaga! Da Beekeez turned up in dere big trukkz, da Land-raider and da razor-back tankz! And wiff dem woz da bikerz and da land speederz, and too dreadz too!!! Dey wastid no time in shooting down da grotz wot was hiding da big gunz. It woz funny hearing ‘em squeel! Dey’z all naff anywayz. Da ladz immedeyit…imeediyi….before anyfing else dey legged it around da big rockz and advanced on da beekeez! Da bikerz opened up wiff dere big shootaz and after dere gunz blazed DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!!!!! Dere woz no more beekee bikerz left. Da first dreddy woz immow….immobul….stopped from moving again because da buggies and da wartrakk shot da fing with da rokkitz wot hit and broke da dreddy! Da big gun woz also blowed up too. Da landspeederz woz quickly shot and dere gunz got blowed off and da beekez got spooked, HAHA!!! Da beekeez kept shooting at da grotz and da big gunz and soon they woz reju…redus….made inta really little mobz and dey didn’t do much anymore. Soon da ladz was getting close to da beekez! Da shootaz woz hailed wiff lotza beekee dakka dakka dakka, and dey legged it, but dere big shootaz woz still blastin da beekez even when dey woz making wot dey said woz a ‘strategic redeployment’. In uvver wordz, leggin it. Da boss and his boyz all jumped from dere trukk and ran towardz da beekee Razorback tank and da boss blowed it up wiff ‘iz big power claw! Da beekeez inside stumbled out and got bashed by da boss and ‘iz nobz. Den da beekee ‘Chaplain’ walked up to da boss and tried to nock ‘im out wiff hiz power club, but da boss told ‘im ta "ZOG OFF" and cut ‘im up wiff ‘iz power claw, and added a shiny noo beekee ‘elmet to ‘iz warboss banner. Da last beekee Dreddy charged in and wanted ta snik da boss, but da boss bravely beat ‘im up an’ made ‘im dead. At da end of da day da beekeez woz getting scared and dere boyz woz getting beat, and da ladz woz dishing out da boot levva and we wun cuz we’z dead ‘ard!
WAAAGH ORK!!!!! WAAAGH TUFFGIT!!!!!
It had been building up for sme time now. Everyone was getting fed up with the politics. Some were even saying "Just kill that damned Elian kid!" The young spawnling was fleeing to the northern cities on a river raft which sank, and as he was the only survivor, due to a freak accident involving a yawning hippopotamus and the faecal matter of a flock of flamingos flying by at that precise moment, the fate of the young one was in much deliberation. Should he remain with a spawning of about the same time as his in the northern cities, or should he be returned to his own spawning in the south, which were enduring a time of hardship? But the real question was "Who’s got the most authoritaah"??? The northern Slann, or the southern? The case of the south was argued most emphatically by the revered master mage n’Fidel Castro, while the slann lord Jannit Ree-know put forth the argument of the north. Much protesting and uninformed B/S from many evangelistic skink cults had lead to the breakdown of negotiations, and the northern states held little Elian as a hostage. Something must be done at once! Approaching the field the two armies drew together. On the north, two contingents of skinks protesting loudly with signs proclaiming that returning Elian would be an injustice, whilst a salamander, a kroxigor, a stegadon, the slann lord, and 40! of his loyal Temple guard followed. On the south side were some bad-ass gangstaz who’d pop a cap in yo lilly white ace if ya lookit them twice! Respect! One columbian drug lo……uhhhhh, slann mage lord, level 3, two gangs of skinks, one stegadon (chrome stegadon, oooooooh, shiny), and about half the amount of Temple Guard as they were facing from the north. The SouthSide advanced immediately, with Castro and his temple guard racing forth with the swiftness of the jaguar god Huanchi. The skink shaaman sitting atop the immense bulk of the stegadon spied out the potently magical aura of the slann mage lord of the north, and chanting ‘A brim-full of Ashur’ levelled his finger at the venerable slann, and watched in shock as the bloated lord thrashed about violently, rending it’s heart open, and slaying 7 of it’s subjects before slumping to the ground dead. The skink shaaman, Faa’Kyu, sat in a stunned silence as the realisation slowly hit him, and immediately he held his finger as far away from him as humanly…err, skinkingly, possible, dreading he might accidentally set it off and kill himself. Immediately the threat of the intensely powerful wizard was removed, as well as half the northern skinks. Shortly after Castro and his temple guard crashed into the 33 remaining northern temple guards, along with the southern stegadon to lend some weight, and, thanks the efforts of Castro, the saurus hero Quatl, the stegadon, and some skinks and temple guard, the northern temple guard were routed (I won the combat by 20-3, MUAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!). The northern Kroxigor was skewered by a hail of poisoned arrows at about this time also, and the South Side Stegadon pursuing the Northern Temple Guard crashed into the remaining skinks. Needless to say, the skinks ran rather quickly, only to be caught and destroyed by said Stegadon, which then proceeded to munch the Northern Salamander, while the Slann Castro, and his loyal Temple Guard destroyed the Northern Stegadon. Before the end of the day, not a single model from the north remained living, and the South Side returned little Elian to his rightful place in the columbian sweat shops!
My High Elves are really starting to warm up at playing Warmaster. After a slow start to their Warmaster career (being beaten twice by Arthur's Undead) they have now chalked up two wins against Kevin's Dwarfs. Kevin has come a long way since his first defeat at my hands and in this game he was to prove a very tough opponent. The Dwarfs were very aggressive with a brigade of slayers and warriors coming straight for my main line, with another brigade of dwarfs (including the general) chasing after my dragon rider. Unfortunately this split Kevin's army in two and I was able to defeat both parts of his army separately by using most of mine. My dragon rider kept Kevin's general and his associated brigade occupied (even though my dragon did become stranded for a while) whilst the rest of my army destroyed his slayers/warriors brigade. Kev's artillery was a lot less effective as I threw my eagles into it and then afterwards just kept away from his cannons. Finally I was able to gang up on the dwarf general and effectively surround him, to which there was really no reply. Even the excellent save of the dwarfs and the number of hits they can absorb was not enough to see them through the hail of attacks that my Elves threw at them.
All that remains now is to set the record straight against Arthur - I'm coming
to get you!!! :-)
This Game Started with me lining up my marinestrying to train my missile launchers to kill his rhinos with the axe murders in them, next to them a chaplin on a bike and 2 landspeeders lined up looking right at a squad of raptors. I won first turn but the missile launchers did nothing and I handed it over to Micheal. He moved his rhino forward, along with his Jugga and killed my scouts I had in the rocks. Then moved the raptors forwardinto my chaplin on the bike. The rest of his army charged into my impressive line of marines and killed every single one of them. Including my whole command squad. I could have stopped this if it wern't for my dumb missle launchers, and the last Raptor from my chaplin and let the psycos do their dirty work. Wtih only the landspeeder left I speed to the corner of the table and rolled a 3 to end the game.
This newsletter is edited by Kevin Carberry so anything you would like included in the newsletter should be sent to me at 48 Beaumonts way, Manurewa, South Auckland. Phone 2670319, kevin@profax.co.nz
Robert "Dictator" Davies is the Club President so any queries, problems, issues or suggestions about the club should go to him at 14 Grebe Street, Manurewa. Phone 2670899.