BATTLEFOAM!!!

So I open my door this morning and what is sitting on my doorstep? A box the FedEx guy left from Battlefoam! My Pack 720 finally arrived! My wife, Nancy, bought it for me back in May as a birthday gift. First the hold up was that I decided to commission Dave Taylor to build and paint me a Leman Russ Primarch model. So I wanted to have a spot in the case for him. So had to wait for Dave to finish building him so he could give me a pic so I could have a trace to send them. So once I received the pic and sent them my load out, including traces for characters and other models that wouldn't fit in a standard troop slot in the case, I received an email saying they were out of the cases themselves and I would have to wait until November. This was back in September.

So here it is, first weekend in November and I received the case! I'm excited. Just look at all the spots for models! The 720 gives you 12" of foam for your minis. You can either go with their standard foam pieces or do some custom layouts or both. I did both. Now my WHOLE Space Wolves army fits in one case (except for my drop pods, I'll be ordering a GW case custom foam for them.) So now back to painting my Wolves and onto playing more games with them!

Til next time,
Steevo

New 2000 Point List

Most of the games played at my FLGS are averaging 2k nowadays. So I figured I'd try to put a new list together to try to get in some wins. The list is very troop heavy. It fits the fluff for Ragnar's company, as I'm dropping in 3 squads in Drop Pods. I also decided to run 3 rune priests in the army. Well, I only had 2... The actual GW model that I painted last year and the one I made from a chaos warrior using the tutorial on the Space Wolves blog. So I decided to make another for the list.

I used a WHFB Chaos warrior once again. I also used some ideas Dave Taylor did on the Leman Russ model I commissioned him to make. Here are pics of the new Rune Priest. I still have to prime and paint him.

Anyway, on to the new army list:

HQ
Skjold Stormcrusher – (Rune Priest)
Power Armour, Rune Axe, Wolftail Talisman
- Jaws Of The World Wolf
- Living Lightning

Ulrik ThunderBringer – (Rune Priest)
Power Armour, Rune Axe,Wolftail Talisman
- Living Lightning
- Murderous Hurricane

Bolverk Nightclaw – (Rune Priest)
Power Armour, Rune Axe, Wolftail Talisman
- Jaws of the World Wolf
- Murderous Hurricane

ELITES
Wolf Guard Pack
  Burek Fangfist - Power Armor, Combi-Melta, Power Fist
  Hrothgar Longtooth - Power Armor, Combi-Melta, Power Fist
  Jurgen Ironbrow - Power Armor, Combi-Melta, Power Fist
  Ivarr Krakenfist - Term Armor, Stormbolter, Cyclone Missile
  Launcher

Wolf Scout Pack RazorFist (6)
(3)Boltguns, (2) Sniper Rifles, Meltagun

TROOPS
Grey Hunter Pack Stormcrusher (8)
Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, Frag & Krak Grenades, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Mark of the Wulfen, Drop Pod

Grey Hunter Pack Thunderbringer (8)
Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, Frag & Krak Grenades, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Mark of the Wulfen, Drop Pod

Grey Hunter Pack Nightclaw (8)
Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, Frag & Krak Grenades, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Mark of the Wulfen, Drop Pod

Grey Hunter Pack Thunderborn (10)
Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, Frag & Krak Grenades, (2)Meltaguns, Power Fist, Wolf Standard, Mark of the Wulfen, Rhino

Grey Hunter Pack Firebite (10)
Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Chainswords, Frag & Krak Grenades, (2)Meltaguns, Power Fist, Wolf Standard, Mark of the Wulfen, Rhino

HEAVY SUPPORT
Long Fang Squad Krakenfist (6)
(5) Missile Launchers, razorback w/ twin-linked assault cannons

The Storm's Wrath (Vindicator)

The list comes out to 1998 points. I'm gonna play a few games this weekend to test out this list. Hopefully it will bring me a couple victories!

Til next time,
Steevo

More Throne of Skulls

Well, the game against bill's blood angels went very poorly for me. He almost tabled me at the end of turn 5. Ragnar and his wolf guard in their land raider crusader were still alive and that was it. Bill ended up with over 2400 victory points from me. While I ended up with about a thousand or so.

Tomorrow I'll be taking on Charles' great devourer army list. That's right, Space Wolves vs Nids! We'll see how it goes. As most of you on here know, nids are my other army I play for 40k. So hopefully it will give me the insight i need to defeat this xenos threat!

Charles and Jason played in a game for the tournament and charles defeated Jason's chaos army through the luck or should I say bad luck of dice rolling more than anything. Poor Jason was rolling pretty badly. Also Another great battle for the tournament I saw at the store tonight was Jank's necrons vs John's nids. Some very cool stuff there!

We'll see how I do tomorrow. Hopefully much better than the other day!

Til next time,
Steevo

Blood Angels VS Space Wolves

Well, once again Bill has come out victorious. Though this time it was a pretty even fight... just came down to some bad rolls. Each turn one of us was pounding on the other. But in the thick of it all it turns out we missed a few of the rules for the tournament and will have to have a rematch. So this just turned out to be a warm up battle.

It was probably the closest game we've had in over ten years. So sometime within the next week we'll go at it again. Will post the results after it's done.

Other upcoming battles... My wolves vs Rich's Khorne army and a friendly 2k game with Matt's ork horde and possibly Mike's marines.

Til next time,
Steevo

Throne of Skulls List

So the game is on for Sunday! Bill will be bringing his Blood Angels to take on my Space Wolves. It's Rise of the Lycans 2010 lol. I'm sure he'll have plenty of Death Company and dreads, deep striking landraiders, and fast rhino chasis tanks. Not to mention some drop pods and terminators to go along with his special characters (astorath, etc.)

We get to add one extra elite, fast attack, or heavy choice and it's a 3200 point game. So here's what I put together...
HQ
Ragnar Blackmane, Njal Stormcaller, Rune Priest, Wolf Priest

ELITES
10-man Wolf Guard Pack (LR Crusader as a dedicated transport)
Dreadnought

TROOPS
3 10-man Grey hunter packs
15-man Blood Claw pack with Lukas the trickster and led by a wolf priest

HEAVY
2 6-man Long Fang Squads (1 all missile launchers, 1 with plasma cannons, lascannons and a missile launcher)
2 Vindicators

All said and done it came out to 3200 points EXACTLY! I still have to put another vindicator together for the game.

So we'll see how the game goes on Sunday. Hopefully triple ten (10-10-2010) will be a good day for the wolves!

Til next time,
Steevo

And So It Begins!

Halloween is coming up and my local GW store is having a Throne Of Skulls tournament this month. Play 3 games 3200 points each and best score wins the trophy. So this Sunday, in the spirit of the season, I'll be playing against Bill and his Blood Angels with my Space Wolves! It's "Rise of the Lycans" all over again!

Knowing Bill he'll have plenty of Death Company, Dreadnoughts, and Deep Striking Land Raiders. Not to mention his Drop pods, Termies, and fast moving Rhino variants (predator, vindicator, etc.) So I am gonna have to put together a good list to try to take out the blood suckers and get myself closer to that trophy. Will post a list once I get things together.

Til next time,
Steevo

Leman Russ Primarch Model

ok, Dave Taylor is awesome as usual. I commissioned him to build and paint a Leman Russ primarch model for my Space Wolves army. While my conversion skills aren't bad, we all know Dave is the man. Here are a few pics of the model. He's one and a half times as tall as a normal power armored marine! That's a 40mm base he's on!


He gave me all the features I wanted including the tankard on his belt (fits in with the fluff) and he's based the way I'm doing my army (on stone over lava.) So am VERY please with how he came out!


I'm back to working on my Space Wolves army and should have more pics and updates coming soon! Have a game coming up vs my friend, Bill's Blood Angels. Should be fun. Will post pics after the battle. Bill and I are also talkin bout an apoc game (his orks vs my wolves) in the near future... Russ will return from the warp along with some pre-heresy bodyguard and Freki and Geri! It's sure to be cool!