Nerd Thunder IV - The Guns of Nuvverork

Greetings shipmates! Well, it is that time again. Pirate Viking Painting has joined forces with the Beard Bunker and made the perilous trek all the way to the frigid wastes of Nottinghamshire to partake in battle of epic proportions. To add to the blog confluence even James and Sophie of Battles & Biscuits dropped by. But we know why we are really here, to show some pics of 8000 points of Orks facing four 2000 point armies of Space Marines over a 12'x6' table full of lovely scenery!

The lovely Tau table was our focus for this year's efforts. The large buildings made for excellent objectives.

Setting the battle roughly around the War of Dakka the Orks had made their own modifications too...

Warhammer World's scenery meisters are genuinely inspirational

The Junktown scenery was brought from the Beard Bunker specially.

Mark's Kill Tank rumbling out of the Mek's Workshop

Speed Freaks roar onto the table.

THIS is how Blood Angels deploy... FROM ORBIT

Ork forces mass around the workshop

"Eyup twinkle toes" two dreadnoughts tag team the Orks in the centre.

The Raven Guard desperately try to demolish the Tau railguns being targetted on the flyers.

This is your shokk attack gun and lootas

This is your shokk attack gun and lootas on double 1's...

Things look pretty good right now, unfortunately, things weren't going to stay that way.

The scouts are still trying to demolish those bunkers.

Deathskull lootas colonising the Tau command building.

My dreadnoughts suddenly have a slightly sick feeling

The grots are... largely inconsequential actually.

Noticing impending peril the Ravenwing roar in.

The Furioso pops a warboss like a grape and the regular dread desperately fights off the Deff Dreads.

Sneaky little Dark Angels in the forests.

Less sneaky Dark Angels...

The Space Wolves advance under the watchful eyes of the Long Fangs.

Assault Squads arrive and... scatter badly.

Crank up Ride of the Valkyries, the air support is here!

The war for the centre power station is getting hot.

Ragnar Blackmane and his tactical dreadnought cronies charge in

By this point there aren't many Blood Angels left, in fact there is Lemartes and two Death Company

You've never seen a man happier than when Phil Stutcinskas likes Mark's Orks.

Deathwing reinforcements teleport in.

The Nephilim was ace, zooming around and wrecking Ork vehicles days.

This mosh went on for a while...

Walkers stalk the Dark Angels.

The table as of the end of turn 3.

Charlie and Maisey try to win the battle by poking.

Dark Angels draw a bead on the impending walker-geddon.

Raven Guard dreadnought tries desperately to smack a Kill Tank.

What happens when two assault marine units smack a large ork unit.

The Lootas survey the battlefield.

Like Hamlet the stage is strewn with corpses at the end.

Well, fun was had! The battle ended in a hard fought draw with all my Blood Angels killed except Lemartes! Charlie is going to do a more thorough write up on the Beard Bunker soon but I felt we should see pretty pictures as soon as possible!

TTFN

Knight Paladin Datasheet

Hi folks, in response to a comment on yesterdays post from Mordian7th I had a look around for Knight datasheets. Frankly I was underwhelmed by the offerings that I found immediately so I resolved to create my own! So here it is:

If you prefer a printable pdf you can find it here. Feel free to distribute this as you will but credit the author ok? :)

I've tried to make the datasheet feel right with the backstory. The Knight Paladin was the most obvious candidate for the design of the model hence its designation. The knights didn't have fancy voids so the Ork power fields are being used and the model has that hugenormous shield that I figured was for a purpose! Let me know what you think. I totally guestimated the points so if through playtesting people find the number is wrong let me know and I'll consider adjusting the datasheet. Until then, good hunting, knights!

TTFN

Battle Report: The real story of Nerd Thunder III

Everyone needs to head over to the Beard Bunker and check out Charlie's excellent narrative of our apocalypse battle of awesomeness. Go, now! Nothing more to see here!

Apocalypse! - Nerd Thunder 3

There is a companion article here which tells the whole story!

Every year for the past three years, the Beard Bunker boys (Charlie, Mark, Maisey and I) go up to Warhammer World in Nottingham and have a really BIG game. This isn't your normal Apocalypse either. Every single model has to be painted, the game needs to have a theme and a narrative scenario and the table needs to be one of the best. Hence Warhammer World. Here, for your delification and delight is the 8,500 point a side first battle of Hellsreach Hive:

As my Blood Angels were combat dropping in on the second turn I had the opportunity to take a team photo of the whole 4000 points of them!

To boost the awesome Warhammer World scenery we brought along the beard bunker Mek's Workshop scenery.

A model's eye view of the business end of a Vindicator tank!

Maisey's White Hands marines awaiting deployment

The centre of the awesome 12'x6' Hellsreach Bridge scenery, the cracked river bed is apparantly made by spreading plaster on muslin and then flexing it to create the Wadi

White Hands assault troops

White Hand deployment, we were playing that the Blood Angels were answering an overrun distress call from the White Hands.

The remaining Red Shirts Imperial Guard huddle in the ruins with the last of the air support

The Amaranthean "Red Shirts" taking position. We were delighted how closely our basing matched the table. Really made the game look awesome.

The Deathskulls amass to destroy the Red Shirts

Go, go Lootafex!

Blood Angels reinforcements arrive, on the wrong side of the bridge!

The table in all its glory, it is huge!

Blood Angel reinforcements hammer down to engage the Bad Moons

Blood Angels terminators valiently - but unfortunately unsuccessfully - attempt to stall the Meganobz

Vehicular carnage was very much the order of the day. We envisioned a pall of thick oily smoke hanging over the table.

A devastating wave of Bad Moon reinforcements thunder into the Blood Angels

What happens when the Imperial Guard meet Orks in Close Combat.

DEATH OR GLORY! Sadly... death. A White Hands Dreadnought is smashed by the Battlewagon.

The killing blow for the marines, 2000 points of extra Speed Freaks rumble on to the board.

Speed Freaks battlewagon smashes through the ruins.

There were lots more photos but those were the best ones for general consumption. Charlie will be writing the battle up as a report for the Beard Bunker so I will leave the details to him! I will be doing a Sights of Warhammer World post soon with pictures of some of the best tables at Warhammer World. Until then:

TTFN.