The Infection progresses: NMTBWs Tournament Talk

Hi Everyone!

It's been, a bit since my last article about modelling, and there has been a considerable increase in progress in relation to my burgeoning Death Guard/Nurgle Daemons army that I will taking to my next upcoming tournament in November, Never Mind the Blog Wars, run by our good friend Alex over at fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk

With this being my first event of the new edition, this will be quite the learning curve, not counting the fact I have yet to play a test run with my list! To anyone that ends up playing against me I hope I don't make the day less enjoyable for you! For now all I can do is try to brain-damaged the codex to make sure this game don't go too slow.

So what have I decided to take I hear you ask? Well, read on for the list!

Nevermind the Blog Wars - Death Guard/Nurgle - Jonathan Lyness

Patrol Detachment (Chaos - Daemons)

HQ
Herald of Nurgle [70pts] X1 Psychic power

Troops
3x Nurgling Swarms [60pts]

Plaguebearers [115pts]: Daemonic Icon, Instrument of Chaos, x9 Plaguebearers, x1 Plagueridden

Fast Attack
Plague Drones [167pts]: Daemonic Icon, Instrument of Chaos, x2 Plague Drone, x1 Plaguebringer

Battalion Detachment +3CP (Death Guard)

HQ
Daemon Prince of Nurgle [156pts]: Hellforged sword, X1 psychic power, Relic: The Suppurating Plate

Lord of Contagion [137pts]: Manreaper

Malignant Plaguecaster [110pts]: x2 psychic powers

Troops
Chaos Cultists 109pts]
x23Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
X1 Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Flamer
X1 Cultist Champion: Shotgun

Chaos Cultists [100pts]: x24 Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
x1 Cultist Champion: Brutal assault weapon and Autopistol

Plague Marines [158pts]
x1 Plague Champion: Boltgun, Plague knife, Power fist
x5 Plague Marine w/ boltgun
x1 Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Plasma gun

Poxwalkers [60pts]: 10x Poxwalker

Poxwalkers [60pts]: 10x Poxwalker

Elites
Noxious Blightbringer [70pts]: Plasma pistol

Fast Attack
Foetid Bloat-drone [158pts]: x2 Plaguespitters, x1 Plague probe

Super-Heavy Auxiliary Detachment (Death Guard)
Mortarion [470pts] x3 psychic powers

Total: [2000pts]

I originally had the plan to include a foul blightspawn, however, as I am sure everyone here is aware, the units' popularity has made getting a hold of one on time difficult, so I've bulked up the cultist squads in place of it. You'll notice in the images above (such as the title image) the cultists aren't present, this came about from the fact that battlescribe (the version I had been using) was incorrectly costed for most of the units. Alex before the list submission highlighted the issue and I found I had a lot of points to work with, so for the event no lists would be submitted via battlescribe files and would be built directly for the sourcebooks either index or codex. I've managed to get everything table ready for the tournament, but there are a lot of small details that really need looking into after the event, so we'll see how that goes moving forwards.

Some here may worry about posting my list before the event takes place, but fear not! List submissions for checking have begun, so this won't be a problem, and as Alex's events are normally on the fun side of the meta-spectrum for competitiveness, people seeing my list isn't an issue.

More foetid bloat drones will come in the future as well as more plague marines and possibly some plague burst crawlers, so next tournament I may be taking a death guard single list.

Hopefully everything goes great at the event, and I'm sure I'll have a great time, win or lose!

Check back next time when I'll be highlighting/reviewing my thoughts from the pre event breakdowns Alex will be sure to find put up soon. Amy thoughts you have on the list, please feel free to chime in below.

Until then, take it easy
Jonathan

Magnus the Red, Daemon Primarch of the Thousand Sons

Hello Again Everyone,

Welcome to the New Year! I hope you all had a happy responsible holidays with much hobby fun had! I myself have been beavering away on my latest project: Magnus the Red! But before we move on I just wanted to apologise for the way the first battle report ended...  In that it kind of didn't... Basically upon getting my phone looked at for a minor repair, it got reset to factory settings and I lost all of the photos of the actual battle,  so there was little point I felt in writing an article without any images. For those of you that want to know how it finished up, The Grey Knights won,  12-8 with both Renegade knights being destroyed and only a unit of blood crushers and a unit of Paladins with Draigo at the end (really need to focus more on getting rid of Draigo as soon as possible). It was an intense battle,  and hopefully I'll have much better luck with getting it posted up next time!

Anyways without further ado onto Magnus!

Magnus the Red,  Daemon Primarch of Tzeentch,  Games Workshop 2016© 

Magnus the Red,  BY ME!!! 

This bad boy has been my Christmas project, and while progressing well (and tabletop ready, sans-basing) I still have to finish off some of the fiddly bits like tipping all the wings with ceramite white.

I cannot espouse the use of the painting tutorial over at Warhammer TV by Duncan and has really helped pulling everything to a level even I am impressed with! I didn't quite follow the paint scheme Duncan used but I am quite happy with it (if you want further details just ask in the comments). Also I suffered from "MUST BUILD IT ALL" syndrome and didn't make any sub assemblies. It speaks to how well this model is designed that this didn't cause too many issues.

For now,  a little rest is needed to avoid burning out on one model (I find this works only if you have one other model to paint not "all the models" as I usually do), so I'll be putting some time into Cannoness Veridyan.  I'll update on her progress as it continues.

I can't wait to finish off Magnus and hopefully in the future get him fielded alongside some thousand sons (Ian over at krakaddict.blogspot.co.uk is building himself some Space Wolves I'll need to attempt to stomp),  until next time,  have a great year!

Jonathan