Toy Soldier '09

Well my frantic painting paid off as I had my 750pts Cryx list ready for the Toy Soldier event. A great weekend event organised by JT of my Gaming Club. 8 Games over 2 days:

350pts vs Mercs (Shae) Pitch Battle. The Coven won the day but I missed the Caster kill.

350pts vs Circle (Baulder) Mosh pit. I took the Coven and although I took out both Wold Wordens I lost the scenario, my pDenny list would have been the better choice here.

500pts vs Khador (Scorsha). The Coven got the Caster kill.

500pts vs Khador (Butcher) Loot. My pDenny list lost out to the Butcher, 2 counter vs his 3 counters.

750pts vs Circle (Kaya) Mosh Pit. The Iron Lich performed very well. Lost Deathjack early in the game, but a counter charge by my trusty McThralls did plenty of damage to the Pure Blood and Warp Wolf. Routed the reeves with a Hellfire from Wrathe and a well placed Arc-node allowed me to unload Hellfire after Hellfire into Kaya for the Caster Kill. Came down to Time and there was no circle models with a CMD in the Mosh pit, so I took the game.

350pts vs Trollbloods (Grim) Pitch Battle. pDenny and the Cankerworm unloaded in to Grim spending 6 focus between them to bring him down.....he was dead already but kept making his tough roll......

500pts vs Trollbloods (Grissel) No Mans Land. pDenny did well and I got the caster kill but did not have enough VPs in the end as I lost Denny. Made a mistake when casting Ghost Walk on Denny to ignore free strikes...forgot that Denny did that already, if the focus had only been used to kill off the remaining Trollbloods Champions things might have been different.

750pts vs Khador (Butcher) Contested Ground. The Iron Lich performs very well, but really the Game was won when the Butcher and a Spriggan charged, but failed to take out Deathjack. It was a bold move and when if failed Deathjack jumped on Butcher's head. The remainder of the games was spend clearing up the field. One particularly pesky Manhunter refused to have the good grace to die, but eventually I managed it to take the game.

After all that I managed to come in at 4th place, happy days.

Coven 750pts Completed

Well, with the aid of the new painting table I've managed to complete my Cryx 750pts painting challenge in time for Toy Soldier '09 at the end of the week. My primary list for the Whoremachine Tournament is as follows:-

Army: Coven 750pts

Faction: Cryx

Army Points: 741/750

Victory Points: 23

Witch Coven of Garlghast

- Deathjack

- Slayer

- Deathripper

- Deathripper

- Nightwretch

- Nightwretch

- Skarlock

Pistol Wraith

Pistol Wraith

Bile Thralls (10)

Mechanithralls (10)

- Brute Thrall

Coven Battle Group

Infantry

Painting Table

Well with all the confusion, and cost, of moving house I managed to fit in a trip to IKEA to pick up a workstation that will take the role of my painting table for all the "little men" as my girlfriend refers to them as.

Gorten gets assembled

When Gorten's Battle box arrived I managed to find a little time to clean Gorten's parts and that was about all I could manage as I wanted to make some more head way on my Deathjack for the Cryx list. As chance would have it I have recently moved house and, even though I have Deathjack and 2 Nightwretches on my "painting table"....I don't actually have a physical painting table at the moment. So I decided I'd grab Gorten, my trusted pin vice, a brass rod and assembled him.

Gorten Parts

Gorten gives it both barrels

Gorten wields Forge Father

Cryx

I mentioned that I was holding work on the Searforge as I am rapidly completing my 750 pts Cryx Coven List for Toy Soldier in July. Thought I'd share in the work in progress.

Witch Coven Battle Group

McThralls

Brute Thrall

Forge Guard

I could resist making a token start on the new project so started by cleaning up the Forge Guard.

Gorten turns up

Well this morning I received my belated Gorten Grundback Mercenary Battle Box. So looks like I have plenty to work on. As this is largely a painting project I'm in no rush to get started, my painting table is currently taken up with my Cryx army that I am trying to finish off for Toy Soilder 09 at the end of July. That being said the I do plan to start building my new selection of toys. Since MKII is due out I figure it my goal will be to have a 35pt Gorten List built, converted and painted for January next year. This means a slight revision to the previous list. I'm currently missing the two Bokurs and Thor, although one of the Bokurs I plan to proxy with Gudrun as he will make an appearance in the list as soon as Hordes MKII arrives. Any comments on the list are more than welcome.

Gorten Grundback

- Ghordson Driller

- Grundback Gunner

- Grundback Gunner

- Grundback Gunner

Ogrun Bokur

Ogrun Bokur

Thor Steinhammer

- Wroughthammer Rockram

Lord Rockbottom

Forge Guard (10)

Total 34pts