My new "Babe" Scar-Jo

As I've mentioned before, I also play airsoft. Been playing for the last 12 years. My team's name is Fenris. I've gone through a lot of guns all of them Airsoft Electric Guns though now I mainly stick to my M249 who I named "Lady Gaga".

Recently I finally jumped into the realm of gas guns. Gas guns or Gas Blow Back Rifles as they are known in the airsoft world uses gas (143, green gas or red gas, even CO2) to fire the 6 mm bbs instead of using a combination motor, gears, piston and springs in a gearbox. I got my teammate's FN SCAR Light. You can check the information of the actual real steel gun here at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_SCAR.

Tried her out last Sunday (though not in an actual game) and liked her a lot. I was at a loss on what to name her when I saw a pic of Scarlett Johanssen and so gave me the idea to name her "Scar Jo". And so I present to you, "Scar Jo: Widowmaker":

More WMH Games, Feb. 18 and 19, 2011

Had two games last week, one on Friday and the other last Saturday.

The one on Friday, I played at Bunker and went up against Karl's eKaya. He played beast heavy with 3 Warpwolves and a Satyr along with a Wilder solo. I used Strakhov, Behemoth, Fenris, full Doom Reavers and Escort, full Kayazy and UA, Koldun Lord and War Dog. After the game I realized I played 2 points down because I forgot to bring out the Battle Mechaniks.

I won the roll and so deployed first. Mainly moved my forces forward with Strakhov casting Superiority on the Behemoth and Occultation on himself. Karl moved forward as well. Next turn again, I moved my forces forward using the Kayazy as bait. Karl on his turn took it and killed quite a few of them. He also popped eKaya's feat and so my forces were out of position.

Third turn, i still moved my forces a bit forward to wait for the right moment to counterattack. Karl again charged in slamming my Behemoth back to Strakhov and knocked him down. He ran Laris forward and ended up just within the Dog's countercharge range. Dog countered and though I missed the attack, the dog ran back to protect the knocked down Strakhov by blocking LoS to the only model I know that can hurt him: eKaya herself. eKaya was forced to attack the dog and kill it. The dog managed to eat up her Fury for attacks by surviving once with a Tough check.

Come my turn, shook off Knockdown on Strakhov, upkept Superiority, gave Behemoth 2 focus and had it do a Two-hand Throw Power Attack on eKaya. Boosted the attack and made the roll matching eKaya's high Def. So I throw her to Laris and while I missed Laris, the distance was so small that she was still knocked down. Koldun Lord sprayed and with her lone focus she transferred. However, with 2 Kayazy and Strakhov with 2 focus waiting nearby, it would be a foregone conclusion and Karl conceded the game.

Next day I went against Fred at Fortress this time. He used Prime Asphyxious with Deathjack, Seether, Tartarus, full bane Thralls and UA and Withershadow Combine. I went with Epic Butcher, Beast, Fenris, Dog, Great Bears, Doom Reavers with Escort and full Kayazy with UA.

I won the roll again and deployed first. In the first turn, I ran my models forward. Kayazys to my left and the rest to my right. Fred moved his forces forward. My turn, I moved all my forces to the right a bit with Doomies and GB blocking the lanes to eButch. Fenris and a couple of Doomies attacked and killed some models. Fred moved the DJ forward and pGaspy charged it and did no damage. PGaspy popped his feat and decimated the Kayazy then teleported back safely. The rest of Fred's turn, he charged some of his BTs against the nearest Doomies and Fenris, killing them.

Third turn, I knew I had to do something, preferably killing the BT UA which gives them Tough. So Doomies do some attacks and he moved his BT UA around. GBs run to where the Kayazy were positioned. eButch then pops feat, casts Ravager on himself then charges into the fray. I only managed to kill 3 models and had to move him back a bit though he was very, very exposed. Beast moves forward and Threshers killing 2 more models. eButch then hands out Rage Tokens and Beast moves forward and heavily damages the DJ. one GB adds more damage and another GB kills a BT.

During Fred's turn, he decides to focus his attention on Beast. First he moves the DJ out of the way incurring a Free Strike. Beast finishes the DJ off. Tartarus, BT and Withershadow Combine then hammer beast into scrap with Dark Industries creating a Seether. The Seether charges eButcher, risking a free strike from the GB in melee with it. It did enough damage to take out an arm. When the Seether reached eButcher, the dog countercharges and takes out his other arm. eButcher survives the Seether's attack.

My turn, the dog charges a far BT so that the Doomies can be free to cover eButcher. eButcher activates, casts Ravager on himself again and being immune to Free Strikes because of the Dog proceeds to move around the Seether and Homicidal Maniac clears the opponents near one of the GBs which included the Seether, Tartarus, the BT Officer and BT leader. The GBs then were free to charge Asphyxious and 2 icebreaker attacks later, Asphyxious falls.

I'm really learning the value of patience in WMH. Before I would be itching to get the assassination as quickly as possible. Now, I try to be more prudent with my actions and not panic when half of my army gets killed like the way the Kayazy died.

Looking forward to the next game.

Some WMH Games

Had WMH games this week.

Wed, I had two games, one vs Kim and one vs SJ.

Against Kim, I lost.

He had pIrusk, Behemoth, Kovnik Joe, Great Bears, full Iron Fangs and UA, Widowmakers and full Winterguard.

I used eThagrosh, Typhon, Scythean, Raek, 3 Shredders, 3 Spell Martyrs and 2 Forsaken.

Both Kim and I were cautiously positioning. I did see an opening so I got overeager in my strategy and tried to go for assassination. Not enough support and the second Shredder missed as well as the Raek. So I conceded the game since Thagrosh was in melee range with no Fury on him.

Against SJ it was a brutal attrition match. He used Grissel, Earthborn, the tale spinning solo, Fell Blades, Krielstone Bearers and 2 units of Trollkin Champs.

Star that game was Scythean taking out a unit of Fell Blades and a unit of Trollkin Champs almost all by himself. Though the supporting guys at the other end of the line, Typhon, 2 Shredders and a Forsaken didn't do so bad themselves. Shredder killed a Champ almost singlehandedly. A Forsaken killed off one also. In the end, with no more hard hitting units and Grissel without LoS to eThags, SJ conceded the match.

Yesterday I had a game with EJ. This time I went with Strakhov. Accompanying him was Behemoth, Fenris, Battlemechaniks, Doom Reaver+Escort and Kayazy+Underboss. I lost this one. Unfortunately, I have not had much games vs Retribution and so was unfamiliar with most of the EJ's army. Also I rolled bad on my attack rolls though the targets were higher than usual Def but if half had hit, it would have removed quite a few of his threats. Sadly, the MHA wasn't one of them. It survived 2 Doom Reavers and so got to Strakhov and killed him for the win for EJ.

Anyway, all nice games which I enjoyed playing.

That's a wrap.

My Caster Venny

Showing off my caster Venny. I commissioned someone else to paint it so don't credit me with the excellent paint job. Got Venny because I like the much scarier Skeletor look. His spells and fluff are also ok. Enjoy!

Bummer...

So, I've been a bum for the last month. I quit the family biz last December. It was a case of difference of strategy as well as being tired of the business already. Anyway, I decided to leave and so have been jobless for the month of January.

I do still have my sideline so that's helping me out a bit. It's Feb now and just celebrated the Chinese New Year. So am now looking for something more permanent career-wise.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Bummer.

Macross Cap

New goodie I got thru my bro in law who just came from the US:



Now if only I can get the VT helmet and jumpsuit...

Iron King of the Hill Tourney: The Testing of Absylonia

Here's some of the pics I took for my games in the recent Iron King of the Hill Mini-tournament.

The mini-tourney were 25 point battles. My list is as follows:

Absylonia
Angelius
Scythean
Typhon

Yes, just 4 models.

I wasn't able to take a pic of my first game. As a summary, my opponent was Scriverner and Aurelio and basically out attritioned me, killing all my beasts and leaving me with just my Warlock. I paid dearly in this battle with only 4 models to take on the the attacks of more than 25 models.

In my second game, I managed to take some pics. My opponent was using Epic Asphyxious and Bane Army. I managed to hold my own with Typhon doing the heavy work, surviving the Bane Thralls' assault. In the end I managed to outpoint Fred 10-9 in points cost killed. Here are some pics of my game vs Fred:








In my third game, I went up against Jake. He was using Kraye and Storm Lances army with Centurion and Defender warjacks. I won this one because Jake didn't quite manage to put his caster into the Kill Box zone. We still decided to finish the game to see how things would go. Here are the pics of our battle:





Typhon again was instrumental in tarpit-ting the Storm Lances.

Other pics i took:

Jake's Storm Lances facing Pat's Trolls:



Jake's Kraye Battlegroup facing off against Pat's Trolls:



Karl's Pureblood howling in battle vs Jeff's Cygnar:



Karl's Warpwolf Stalker in an "I'll kill you all" stance: