Ive been really busy lately with photoshoots and getting ready to move, but I wanted to write about the new Codex Space Marines. I havent gotten a really good chance to fully take it in but I've able to get a few glances in.
To start lets with the new kits. I have to start with the two kits that floored me, Sternguard and Vanguard. I was amazed by these two kits, the amount of bits in them is crazy with close to 200 bits between them. A kitbashers dream. Combi-bolters, lightning claws, thunder hammers, and so many heads and shoulder pads. The only thing I dont like is only four of everything, not enough for a full squad.
Um, the Crusaders.... they look dumb. Big and bulky, and strapped with weapons. And thats them in a nut shell.
As for the new tanks, Im interested to see if they're any good.
Now lets get in to the codex itself. The first thing, Marine Chapters. I love this idea. It makes for fun fluffy armies. Im interested in Raven Guard myself, I've always liked Shrike. But this mean that you can't mix characters into other chapters anymore, like Telion (scout sniper) can only be in a Ultramarines and not a Raven Guard. Each army has its own skills that change the army; for example Iron Hands get 'Feel no Pain' and characters get 'It will not Die', or Salamanders get Flamer rerolls and characters get 'master crafted' weapons.
Some new gear they got is the Grav Weapons. The thing about them is the wound on whatever the targets armour is; Terminators are on a 2+ Space Marines 3+. Interesting but if your facing a army with 6+ armour or vehicles, close to useless.
Once I get a chance to actual read the codex I will try to do a good review.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Gen Con Indy 2013
This year I was finally able to make it out to Gen Con Indy, and I had a blast. So much I can talk about. First off I got to finally meet the Cosplay Deviants con team. I've been apart of Cosdev for a few years now and have never gotten to talk to them outside of chat. Such great girls, I love them. I went into Gen Con on a mission to demo several games I've seen around and found interesting, one those is Malifaux. To my disadvantage the Wyrd Miniatures team had such amazing week at Gen Con by the time I got to demo both Malifaux and Puppet Wars the team was drained and exhausted. While I enjoyed the games I feel I didnt get a true demo, but I will get one soon. Another game I was looking forward to was Deep Wars, but yet again I was at a disadvantage. After a few days the Antimatter team packed up to relax and I was unable to demo :( I still look forward to learning this game. Cool mini or Not was there with great games like Anima Tactics and amazing models from Raging Heroes, and spent the whole con packed giving demos. Impact miniatures premiered their new chibi adventures line. They were so cute :) I had to have their Chibi Cthulhu. Speaking of Cthulhu I got a glimpse at a brand new game called Cthulhu Wars, which will be on sale next spring. The miniatures were so beautiful and amazing, I was sold on it without a demo. I can not wait to get my hands on this game. My time there was great and I cant wait till 2014.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Necron review
So this blog I will be reviewing my favorite army Necrons.
HQ:
In the HQ section there are so many good choices in both named characters and generic characters. Szeras is one of my favorites with his eldrich lance and his special ability to augment either Warriors or Immortals. But the real highlight of this section is the Royal Court. For every Necron Overlord you get up to five Necron Lords and five Crypteks, to either be apart of one unit or split off into other units. With Lords you get a wide variety of great hand weapons but most importantly a resurrection orb. With a resurrection orb both Reanimation Protocols and Ever Living rolls go from a 5+ to a 4+, this is probably one of the most important piece of wargear in the book. Crypteks give you a wide choice of supporting and ranged gear, just too many epic weapons and combinations to talk about.
Troop:
In the Troops section we have Necron Warriors and Necron Immortals. Both have there places and roles in armies. If you want a lot of foot soliders Warriors are your choice, but if you want fire power you want Immortals. They are just awesome. They can switch their Guass Cannons for Tesla Carbines for free, which Teslas are great against swarms of enemies but not good against armour. If you want a unit to sit and hold objectives go with Tesla Immortals, for everything else Guass Immortals.
Elites:
Time for the heavy hitters section; and damn is there a lot of them. At the top of the list is the C'Tan Shard. Holy crap are these powerful. Ignore difficult and dangerous terrain? Hell yes! They will kill what ever you need them to kill, and if they die they still kill everyone. Because they explode when they die lol You have to customize their powers which gives you a lot of options, from blow up flame weapons to "Gaze of Death" (the name is all you need to know about that power). Flayed Ones are my favorite fluff wise, I just wish I could use them. In all my games they have never made it to combat, but still they're robots that try to eat people. Still epic lol On my list of "can't wait to try" Lynch Guard and Triarch Stalker, the Triach's gun (with two shooting types) makes me happy.
Fast Attack:
Oh My God! I love this section. Destroyers, Canoptek Scarabs, and Canoptek Wraiths; best section in the book! So good. Destroyers, are as some of my friends call them, Necrons that suffer from "emodom" lol They hate everything and they kill everything (Preferred Enemy Everything!). Scarabs go nom nom with tanks, yes they eat tanks. You can tell I like Scarabs, maybe love is a better term to use. And finally there are Wraiths. Don't know where to begin with them. They move fast and hit hard.
Heavy Support:
Normally someone would write about Monoliths, not me. My choice with this section is the Doom Scythe. A fighter jet with a epic cannon on it. My first game I used with it I hit 2 predator tanks and a dreadnought. A lot of BOOMS! Now the cannon can't have skyfire, but the death ray isn't the only gun this fighter has, so in a dog fight it can hold its own. My second pick for this section is Canoptek Spyder. Its a big tough monstrous creature that makes Scarabs every turn. More nom noms. Every turn each Spyder you have (up to three per unit) will make a new Scarab base. I think I've gotten the Scarab unit up to 12 bases, I think my opponent's soul broke when I multi-charged his tanks, I smiled.
Ok so that's all today. There are plenty of more units to talk about but these are all my top choices. Please feel free to chime in if you feel other Necron units that need mentioning. Thanks for reading.
HQ:
In the HQ section there are so many good choices in both named characters and generic characters. Szeras is one of my favorites with his eldrich lance and his special ability to augment either Warriors or Immortals. But the real highlight of this section is the Royal Court. For every Necron Overlord you get up to five Necron Lords and five Crypteks, to either be apart of one unit or split off into other units. With Lords you get a wide variety of great hand weapons but most importantly a resurrection orb. With a resurrection orb both Reanimation Protocols and Ever Living rolls go from a 5+ to a 4+, this is probably one of the most important piece of wargear in the book. Crypteks give you a wide choice of supporting and ranged gear, just too many epic weapons and combinations to talk about.
Troop:
In the Troops section we have Necron Warriors and Necron Immortals. Both have there places and roles in armies. If you want a lot of foot soliders Warriors are your choice, but if you want fire power you want Immortals. They are just awesome. They can switch their Guass Cannons for Tesla Carbines for free, which Teslas are great against swarms of enemies but not good against armour. If you want a unit to sit and hold objectives go with Tesla Immortals, for everything else Guass Immortals.
Elites:
Time for the heavy hitters section; and damn is there a lot of them. At the top of the list is the C'Tan Shard. Holy crap are these powerful. Ignore difficult and dangerous terrain? Hell yes! They will kill what ever you need them to kill, and if they die they still kill everyone. Because they explode when they die lol You have to customize their powers which gives you a lot of options, from blow up flame weapons to "Gaze of Death" (the name is all you need to know about that power). Flayed Ones are my favorite fluff wise, I just wish I could use them. In all my games they have never made it to combat, but still they're robots that try to eat people. Still epic lol On my list of "can't wait to try" Lynch Guard and Triarch Stalker, the Triach's gun (with two shooting types) makes me happy.
Fast Attack:
Oh My God! I love this section. Destroyers, Canoptek Scarabs, and Canoptek Wraiths; best section in the book! So good. Destroyers, are as some of my friends call them, Necrons that suffer from "emodom" lol They hate everything and they kill everything (Preferred Enemy Everything!). Scarabs go nom nom with tanks, yes they eat tanks. You can tell I like Scarabs, maybe love is a better term to use. And finally there are Wraiths. Don't know where to begin with them. They move fast and hit hard.
Heavy Support:
Normally someone would write about Monoliths, not me. My choice with this section is the Doom Scythe. A fighter jet with a epic cannon on it. My first game I used with it I hit 2 predator tanks and a dreadnought. A lot of BOOMS! Now the cannon can't have skyfire, but the death ray isn't the only gun this fighter has, so in a dog fight it can hold its own. My second pick for this section is Canoptek Spyder. Its a big tough monstrous creature that makes Scarabs every turn. More nom noms. Every turn each Spyder you have (up to three per unit) will make a new Scarab base. I think I've gotten the Scarab unit up to 12 bases, I think my opponent's soul broke when I multi-charged his tanks, I smiled.
Ok so that's all today. There are plenty of more units to talk about but these are all my top choices. Please feel free to chime in if you feel other Necron units that need mentioning. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
games day
Hey guys for the very first blog I wanted to talk about Games Day North America 2013. This was my second Games Day, and it was even more fun this time around. This year it was in Memphis Tennessee, a few miles away from Games Workshop North America HQ, and it was very different from last year in Chicago. To start only 1000 were aloud to attend this year due to over crowding of last year. Games Day 2012 was packed in every area; lines were up to two hour waits, every build in take was running out of pieces every hour, and it was fun but most people could not experience everything.
This Games Day, in my view, was 100 times better. To start this years guest list including the crew to work on the brand new Lizard Men army book, but my favorite guest Mr. Dan Abnett. The High Lord of Terra himself, it was awesome to meet him. He's a funny humble guy, unfortunately I forgot my copy of Ultramarines the Movie and instead had him sign my badge, thou it turns out he loves signing badges because it makes him feel "like a sports star". Awesome guy. I wish I could have stepped into his panel, but I was hungry and it was packed.
The build and take areas were fun and much more organized then last year. I picked up a Ork Biker Boy (with Power Klaw) and a Bretonnia Knight on a Pegasus, great models. I might have took some extra Ork pieces for myself, maybe ;). The con exclusive stuff this year was a great Mechanicum t shirt, which is epic for me since I went as a Tech Priestess this year, and a figure of what I was told was a Warhammer Fantasy character that ties into the new Lizard Men Army Book. Wasn't really interested in the figure, it was disappointing, but I jumped on the chance to get the shirt which all XL Larges and Mediums sold out within a hour (thank god I'm tiny).
I want to talk about the Golden Daemon but I could write a book about the entrys I loved, this year the modelers really stepped up. So amazing, makes me jealous, and want to step up and compete in 2014. Some people I talked to thought last year was much better, but I'm saying Games Day 2013 was the best and I can't wait for next years. If you want to see all the best entrys for both Golden Daemon and Monster/Vehicle Conversion go check out my Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/ToxicTechnoModel
This Games Day, in my view, was 100 times better. To start this years guest list including the crew to work on the brand new Lizard Men army book, but my favorite guest Mr. Dan Abnett. The High Lord of Terra himself, it was awesome to meet him. He's a funny humble guy, unfortunately I forgot my copy of Ultramarines the Movie and instead had him sign my badge, thou it turns out he loves signing badges because it makes him feel "like a sports star". Awesome guy. I wish I could have stepped into his panel, but I was hungry and it was packed.
The build and take areas were fun and much more organized then last year. I picked up a Ork Biker Boy (with Power Klaw) and a Bretonnia Knight on a Pegasus, great models. I might have took some extra Ork pieces for myself, maybe ;). The con exclusive stuff this year was a great Mechanicum t shirt, which is epic for me since I went as a Tech Priestess this year, and a figure of what I was told was a Warhammer Fantasy character that ties into the new Lizard Men Army Book. Wasn't really interested in the figure, it was disappointing, but I jumped on the chance to get the shirt which all XL Larges and Mediums sold out within a hour (thank god I'm tiny).
I want to talk about the Golden Daemon but I could write a book about the entrys I loved, this year the modelers really stepped up. So amazing, makes me jealous, and want to step up and compete in 2014. Some people I talked to thought last year was much better, but I'm saying Games Day 2013 was the best and I can't wait for next years. If you want to see all the best entrys for both Golden Daemon and Monster/Vehicle Conversion go check out my Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/ToxicTechnoModel
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