Throne of Skulls March 2016 - Battle 0, Tyranids Vs Tau, Eldar and Orks

For the life of me I can't remember anything about this game and I can;t find my notes either. We'd travelled don on the Friday and arrived to play on the Spyral Prime table, Otty and I using nids, Ben, Scott and Liam with the holy/'unholy' alliance of Tau, Eldar and Orks! 

We were using the City Fight Maelstrom cards I'd got from a couple of White Dwarfs long time back - glad they finally got some use. We also had some sewers we could come out with and the other guys booby trapped a number of buildings. Also, because of the table I didn't take my Skyshield but had Deathleaper instead, a bit more points but he is pants. Ultimately though we never finished the game. Warhammer World closes at 8pm so we had to pack up, which was a shame. Anyway these are just pictures to enjoy mostly, if they sparek any memories I'll drop em in but for the most part just sit back and enjoy the pretty pictures.

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My Genestealer literally got outflanked by these Boyz and slaughtered.

Bring on the big boys!

For the most part the Tau were ignored, Otty concentrating on the Eldar while I dealt with the Orks.

My Purestrains climbed on top of this landing pad, discovered it was booby trapped and then found out it was a dud!

I loaned Otty the Hive Guard as I felt they'd be more effective against the Wave Serpents, which they were. Meanwhile my Purestrains got oblitereated by the Riptides.

'Sons of Anorky'

I think we got beaten in the end, I recall Otty had tried to kill off a Riptide with Devourer gaunts. He had 60 shots and managed to put a few wounds on one. It was the sensible thing to do as anything else wouldn;t have allowed them to utilise they're guns. However, that did mean the Tau held the centre objective for two turns scoring them a VP and ultimately winning the game. At the that stage though we porbably didn't know the game was going to be so short but it was good fun and some nice pictures too

'nids part 192 - Termagants - baker's dozen - TO DONE!

Obviously I got these done, I probably need to start using these as my defacto big brood, they're much nicer than the 30 I first did, then again I can be pretty rough and ready with those. I actually just upended the foam tray they were in at ToS as the quickest way to remove them, then put 6 back in and I was good to go.

Still, I'm pretty impressed with these and it's nice ot have something completed.

It's also nice to mix in the Hormagaunts for a bit of variety.

Here are some comparissons between the three generations of adrenal gaunts, oldest on the left to newest on the right.

There's a marked difference between oldest and 2nd gen, but less noticeable between 2nd and 3rd.

All the gaunts.

"They're flocking this way"

You can at least see the variety the HOrmagaunt bodies bring in this shot.

The Genestealer donor head.

Bounding leap.

Some phone shots too, for comparison.

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So, there we go another big green tick. It may have been off list but they're doneand it's nice to add a bit of quantity [ten is still significant to me] to what I can only say is quality, although the Imperial Knight could be considered volume...