Faster than a Knife Fight in a phone booth...

Lately at the Murder Factory we have been building and painting reinforcements for other projects - on the back table we have been scratching that new army itch since sometime in March with the newly dropped Dark Angels Codex.

The New Army is a lumbering Work In Progress, with some of the initial 'meat and potatoes' nearing the final stages - ready for markings and other fun upgrades.

Getting back into power armor has been great fun and challenging in all directions. The main goal for the Paint on this army is to meet the minimum paint requirements for any competitive event while being quick and easy to add to. 

Learning to play the Dark Angels has been a treat. Whipping them into a real MURDER force on the battlefield  has been quite the journey on several levels. I have a new appreciation for my super scary Dark Eldar sDm Kabal as well as various types Space Marine Armies. 

Dreadnoughts, Librarians, Scouts and Tacticals - meat and potatoes for a Space Marine chapter, right?

Dark Angels Command Squad.  They can afford to strike a pose as they will spend the rest of their time almost exclusively inside the Land Raider.

The Banner of Pew Pew Pew. 

Always new models and units ready to be 'painted in.' Here our Interrogator-Chaplain with jump pack and Apothecary for the Command squad. 

After the meat and potatoes wave, we will have the... vegetables?

For The Joy Of The Hunt! HOWL!!!

Enter The Inquisitor

Inquisitor Rex has arrived to spearhead the next wave of reinforcements for the Army of General Oadius. 

We are up to our necks in the Wild Wild West of 40k. General Oadius is going about his usual shenanigans and has recruited ole Doc Holiday for the occasion. Just the first of a few new friends and upgrades for the upcoming MURDER season!

Double Edged Victory! Murderwing first amongst equals(?).

That's right bitches....The dynamic duo of General Oadius and ShotDownMind have prevailed again!  A chaplain amongst our numbers decided to hold a sweet little teams tournament for 2 x 1000 point lists and the hardcore to baby seals showed up for the Murdermake.  Thanks be to Travis and Heroes Games & Hobbies for letting us have some fun on a Saturday.


General Oadius Grey Knights = 1000 points "snooker"

Coteaz

5x Terminators
2x Halberds, 2x Hammers, 1x Psycannon

10x Grey Strikes
3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 2x Psycannon
Psybolt ammunition

3x Henchmen
Warrior Acolytes

10x Purgation
2x Halberds, 2x Hammer, 4x Psycannon
Psybolt and Teleport Homer

Imperial Bastion


Shotdownmind Dark Angels = 1000 points "Ravenwing lite"

Librarian with Jump Pack
Power Field Generator

Command Squad
Banner of Devastation
3xFlamers

10 x Bolter Scouts

6x Ravenwing Bikers

6x Ravenwing Bikers

Land Raider Crusader
Multi-Melta
Dozerblade

So if you can read a list or know anything about Warhammer 40k then you'll see we have an ass load of anti-infantry.  No flyers, very little armor and not a huge body count.  How did we win you ask...we cheated!  No, not really but we did feel a certain guilty glee when we were using astral aim and prescience to light up anything that got within reach of the Bastion and the guns therein.  Meanwhile the Landraider and it's Salvo madness fired so much Dakka at anything that wasn't in range of the Bastion that the enemy generals had a hard time dealing with it.  The bottom line is that we never gave up and always got first blood and slay the Warlord and that was usually the only margin of victory that we managed.  The truth is that we had 3 incredibly close games and really played well.  I'll toot my own horn whenever I fucking feel like it and especially after a great victory such as this.  For those of you who know...team tournaments, are by far the most competitive format you'll find yourself engaged in.  SDM and I have had our share of experience in them and that was probably the difference there at Heroes.  We truly feel like we played "fun" lists instead of the 4 flyers, 150 body count competitive lists that we toyed with the idea of bringing. 

We played against:

1st game
Tau Character madness and Eldar runes of warding round 1.  We killed the runes farseer by turn 2 and the game was ours to lose at that point. 

2nd game
Tau suits, firewarriors and 2 hammerheads and Nid Paper.  They never had a chance. 

3rd game
Chaos mean = 4 Maulerfiends, 2 Heldrakes, a blog of cultists, Nurgle Sorcerer and Necrons with 2x Doomscythe, Immortals, royal court and some lords....  The difference here was the 4+ invulnerable that Coteaz got on the Divination table and the PFG on the Librarian.  We shot off a baleflamer with I've been expecting you and it was all down hill for the chaos/cron team from there.  

UNTIL NEXT TIME BITCHES....PLAY WELL & ROLL BETTER! 

Dark Eldar Wracks finished.

Yeah they need bases but I like to do them in groups of ten or more, so there!. Hope you guys like what you see.

BAO GT 2013: Meaner than a sack full of Hellturkeys

Last month the Wolfbrothers descended quietly in great numbers from various directions to the Bay Area Open GT 2013 in Antioch California. The Hunt was plentiful and the competition brutal and amazing. At the end of the Big Fight, Liz Foster of the Sac City Punishers was undefeated and took the Big Prize - HOWL!!!

Multiple great companies went on the Hunt. Our local stomping grounds, Heroes Games and Hobbies outfitted the entire pack with Heroes gear and even sponsored more than a few of these mangy dogs. 

The Event overall is was great in most ways. The Murder on the tabletop was not disappointing - you can start here for all the post-GT interwebz breakdown.

The "MURDER Machine" General Andrew greasing the wheels the night before the big action started!

General Andrew finished 5th and took home the Renaissance man award!

Caleb Wissenback won the Crystal Brush Paint Event and also fielded his award winning Dark Angels with Blood Angel allies!

Even though we stop to Howl - for the Wolf, there is nothing but the Joy of the Hunt!

PEACE?

"I hate the word.....

As I hate the warp, xenos and ALL traitors"


Reclusiarch Oadius
March 22, 2013

Quick announcement

Hey guys, Makooma here. I just wanted to let you all know that if you missed the February twinlnked tournament then you missed a really good turnout. I teamed up with a new guy to the hobby, Kevin. He is the man who is paying me to paint his Dark Eldar. We did not do very well over all. (even though we lost to our last opponent despite the fact that they only had one model left on the table...) But when they announced the winner for favorite army, Kevin's Dark Eldar won by almost double the points of the next runner up. Needless to say this is good news for Warpsons gaming and I am looking forward to the next batch of horrors I finish for Kevin.

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269th Final Pre-Deployment Inspection

The 269th gathered today for inspection before heading out to the MurderFields of 40k here in the heart of Wolfbrother Territory and next weekend at the 2013 Bay Area Open GT!!!

The Main Elements of the 269th Death Korps of Krieg

Co Cmd Sq and a few Veterans of the 88th Army

First Platoon

Artillery Crew

Command Vehicle

Leman Russ

Ace Vendetta

 

Dark Eldar overview.

An overview of what I have done so far.