Leagues of Votann

 

Got to take my leagues of Votann out for a battle today.  All my models came to about 45 power level. My friend Matt brought his tau along and as it was my first ever go we just did a straight up kill every thing.  I lost but had much fun getting to grips with the new army. They don't die as easy as my guard which is nice but they are slow. I killed a lot more Tau than I did with my guard (though I haven't tried new guard rules yet so who knows). I got slapped a lot by mortal wound causing sub munitions so didn't get to see my core troops in as much action as I would have liked.  I knew my bikers were weak (from reading the Votann FB group) and the poor guys had to go up against a Ghost Keel and Commander shadows un. They took a hell of a beating but did manage to bring Commander Shadowsun down. Something I have never done before. They were promptly blasted away by the Ghost Keel. My champion failed miserable but that was mainly my use of him, I teleported him into the open and he got blown away. Uther the Destined is bloody awesome! He killed a tank (can't think of the name and I know Matt will tell me in the comments ha ha ha) and then had a good crack at the Ghost keel. He was the last one standing but was brought down by sheer amount of fire power from the Tau troops. Great fun Judgement tokens are absolutley awesome it has to be said!

Uther vs Tank

Uther vs everything! 

Imperium gets a Small Reinforcement

 I've mentioned them before in a previous blog and now I havd my preacher and ratlings all painted!

First up the preacher. Nothing to put together just added a base for him and he was fairly easy to paint. 

He will soon be inspiring the troops of the Imperium to kill the Xenos threat. 

Next up are some sneaky ratlings waiting with their sniper rifles for the next threat. These required some assembly but not to hard to put together. 

Once  again loved using speed paints! I think they turned out really nice. 

Welcome 2023!

 Well it's been a few months I know. The usual Christmas chaos took over the Trials house and with 2 kids under 10 it's been busy busy. Christmas came and went. I was blessed with some models and a rule book.

I hope you guys got some cool stuff also! I got some Artizan commandos for bolt action plus Lord Lovatt and his bagpiper. So that's my officer sorted.  My fried had night me a commando support unit a while back so now with maybe one or two more blister packs I have a small commando platoon.  You'll see some citadel blisters in there. They are a preacher and some ratlings for my Guard army. Now I get to set someone up  outside my deployment zone! (That's a reference to my mate Matt and his pesky Tau setting up all over the damn place 😂). The preacher I need to read the new rules for him see what buffs he gives now. 

Quite excitingly I have Xenos Rampant now. I have had a read through and it seems really good plus I can use all my models for it. I'm still liking the idea of WW2 vs aliens. I would like a Battle for LA style game aswell but don't have many modern soldiers in my collection. 

My son is a big top trumps fan and has many, my wife managed to acquire me a WW2 bolt action top trumps!!  Not played it yet though.  The last thing Wargaming related i had was the kill team counters and templates. My son quite fancies trying kill team so I thought it would be handy to have my own templates and counters. 

Aims for this year. 

I don't like to make to many aims as you never know what life throws at you but here goes. 

1. Try playing smaller point value games 

2. Play Xenos Rampant 

3. Play some more Rumble slam. As that always seem popular. 

I don't have much space left so I can't see me expanding any new armies rapidly so I'm leaving that one open for now. 

Well happy new year to you all and hope you all have a good one!