End of of another era....beginning of a new one... oh and Nightlords..

Well, this weekend marked the end of an era at our local FLGS. The manager of the store just let us know that he will be leaving the store for a better job. While I can't blame him for moving on, without a doubt this manager has been one of the better ones we have had at the local store since my buddy Juan. This manager ran campaigns, tournaments, and was just a cool guy to hang out with. I invited him to join us when he can as it would be real shame if we didnt see him again. With him leaving, our April campaign has been cancelled, we did do a single day tourney however as I only had time for one game and only your best scores were taken I dint have a chance. I did tie my game against a Grey Knights player who used some pretty wicked tricks such as giving his dreadknights the scouting ability with his Grand Master, using the ghost terminators with Mordrak, killing my uber wolf lords with his uber paladins, and using the vindicare assassin to take out my invulnerable saves off of my lords. Seems like a fun codex to play and I have been tempted to try my hands on building a Pre-Heresey Thousand Sons army but for now I am content on finishing my dark wolves and playing with finished armies.

I plan on using my Nightlords again but plan on re-doing some of the paint schemes that I had already done. The Nightlords were my first army and as my skill with the brush has improved, whenever I pull them out, I can see the differences between old models and my new ones. I finally am comfortable with painting lightning bolts on their armor and adding in terror markings so I plan on adding these to my army. I am also just like my dark wolves leaving them as specific type of army. What I mean by that, is that they will be my fast attack army (with my dark wolves being a drop pod hero-hammer army)so the theme will follow that with all aspects of the army being able to move quickly, be it by transport, bike, teleport, or jump pack.

I plan on "revealing" a Nightlords list which will utilize a hammer unit in a landraider made of lightning clawed terminators with an icon of Slaanesh. I will post the list up in my next post along with some tactics that I will use in order to run it. During our last campaign, these guys were just fun to use with my Bikes and my Biker lord. Pics are of my newly completed lightning claw termies; I plan on running them as champs so they all have a base of 4 attacks with 2 power fisted termies to act as back up against tougher opponents. I plan on finishing their "ride" this week... A.D.D., here we go again....

My Skyrar's Dark Wolves Campaign List

Hi guys, well for the campaign I am settling on the following list. The list still utilizes my deathstar HQ unit but to a lesser degree, no 2+ saves due to trying to keep the point cost down and getting 2 heavy support choices. In my last couple of games using them, I really liked what drop pods brought to my list, it gave my troops the capability to contest anywhere on the table which is something that was lacking when I ran the pure foot lists. I really do not want to use Rhinos or the dreaded Razorback as then I'm just running a Net list. My list is as follows -

1500 Pts -Initial 1500pts Campaign Skyrar's Dark Wolves

HQ: Wolf Lord in Power Armour (1#, 215 pts)
1 Wolf Lord in Power Armour, 215 pts (Unit Type: Cavalry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Belt of Russ; Wolf Tail Talisman; Thunderwolf Mount; Bolt Pistol; Frost Weapon x1; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Independent Character; Rending in CC only; Saga of Majesty)

HQ: Wolf Lord in Power Armour (1#, 205 pts)
1 Wolf Lord in Power Armour, 205 pts (Unit Type: Cavalry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Thunderwolf Mount; Storm Shield x1; Thunder Hammer x1; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Independent Character; Rending in CC only)

Fast Attack: Thunderwolf Cavalry (1#, 105 pts)
1 Thunderwolf Cavalry, 105 pts (Unit Type: Cavalry; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Rending in CC only; Wolfkin)
1 Thunderwolf Cavalry (Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Thunderwolf Mount; Storm Shield; Frost Weapon)

Fast Attack: Fenrisian Wolf Pack (10#, 80 pts)
10 Fenrisian Wolf Pack, 80 pts (Unit Type: Beasts; Vicious claws and fangs; Counter-attack)

Troops: Grey Hunters Pack (11#, 205 pts)
10 Grey Hunters Pack, 205 pts (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol x10; Bolter x8; Close Combat Weapon x9; Meltagun; Power Weapon; Plasmagun; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack)
1 Drop Pod (Unit Type: Vehicle (Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 10 models; Storm Bolter; Drop Pod Assault; Immobile; Inertial Guidance System)

Troops: Grey Hunters Pack (11#, 205 pts)
10 Grey Hunters Pack, 205 pts (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol x10; Bolter x8; Close Combat Weapon x9; Meltagun; Power Weapon; Plasmagun; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack)
1 Drop Pod (Unit Type: Vehicle (Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 10 models; Storm Bolter; Drop Pod Assault; Immobile; Inertial Guidance System)

Troops: Grey Hunters Pack (11#, 205 pts)
10 Grey Hunters Pack, 205 pts (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol x10; Bolter x8; Close Combat Weapon x9; Meltagun; Power Weapon; Plasmagun; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack)
1 Drop Pod (Unit Type: Vehicle (Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 10 models; Storm Bolter; Drop Pod Assault; Immobile; Inertial Guidance System)

Heavy Support: Long Fangs Pack (5#, 125 pts)
4 Long Fangs Pack, 125 pts (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Close Combat Weapon x4; Missile Launcher x3; Plasma Cannon x1; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Fire Control)
1 Squad Leader (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Fire Control)

Heavy Support: Long Fangs Pack (5#, 155 pts)
4 Long Fangs Pack, 155 pts (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Close Combat Weapon x4; Heavy Bolter x1; Lascannon x3; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Fire Control)
1 Squad Leader (Unit Type: Infantry; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Power Armour; Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Acute Senses; And They Shall Know No Fear; Counter-attack; Fire Control)

Total Roster Cost: 1500

I might change the make up of my Long Fangs maybe adding a 4th missile Launcher or dropping a Lascannon for another Plasma cannon but we shall see. Let me know what you guys think...

A.D.D and 40K

ARRGH, here I go again with trying to start working on another army. As I mentioned in my last post, my local FLGS is planning on running another campaign for April. I plan on joining it but now instead of running my Nightlords or Thousand Sons, I might run the Dark Wolves. Yes, I know, A.D.D. on my part, but after reading some fluff on Skyrar's Dark Wolves on Dakka Dakka as well as finding a pic of them in the Chaos Codex and almost falling out of my chair as the paint scheme I picked for them pretty much matches the pic in the book, I just knew that I wanted to start to use them again.

I also read some fluff pertaining to the Grey Knights in their new codex about them mind-wiping any Space marines that help them out and killing any imperial guard regiments to hide their existance; talk about jerks. In the fluff, they tried to do the same thing to the space wolves who helped on Armageddon and Logan Grimnar told them to F-off. I see my warband as being in the same boat however with Logan Grimnar signing off on them getting mind-wiped as now the Space Wolves are under investigation by the inquisition. My Wolf Lord basically tells the Inquisition to F-off and slaughters the Inquisitorial forces and swears vengeance on Grimnar and the Space Wolves for abandoning him and his company. Of course now with their anger comes the blessings of Khorne which is why I modeled my models with Khrone icons and my wolflords now riding Juggernaunts instead of Thunderwolves. With the predominance of Space Wolves and I'm sure Grey Knights players, I am going to make it my Warbands cause to obliterate these guys as their cause celeb. Attached are some pics of my Dark Wolves, I still need to finish my Long Fangs, a dread, and my rune priest. I have about 5 drop pods as well which I have built and left primed as I dont know for what army I will use them for, be it my Black Templars, the Dark Wolves, or my Nightlords when I want to run them as Blood Angels.

For now, they will go to my dark wolves as I like what they bring to my army. I will post my list in my next update. For now, as I know that the idea of Count As armies has become such a hot issue I would like to pose the question, what do you guys think of count as armies? My opinion, as long as you converted/painted with everything being WYSIWYG, I see no problem with it.