The Mists of Beta Decima

Got to play on new Beta Decima terrain a couple weeks back and it was pretty decent. Made some mistakes but to be expected for me on new terrain.

I took my Eldar Voidscarred Corsairs kill team against Thunder's Hierotek Circle. The goal of the misson was to control vantage points by the end of the game, and you could use the middle top terrain feature to remove opponent's vantage tokens.

 I advanced up the middle with some of my best operatives looking to rush and control the slower Necrons.

The Teknomancer ordered the Deathmark sniper to inflitrate the tower from his pocket dimension. 

Then using the vantage points on his side of the board, he spotted and neutralized my Flearch leader and wounded many others with some precision shooting. Reeling in light of my poor positioning, I charged up the tower to knock the Deathmark down... but not out.

The early casualties are hurting the Eldar, especially as the knocked Necron reanimate and start fighting again. Feeling that my early misstep in the middle cost me the game, I charge with abandon to cause as much damage as possible to restore my honour.

The Necrons take full control of the power tower and remove my tokens with ease while my Fatedealer sniper works from safety to shoot as many of those metal heads as possible.

My wounded Kurnathi with his double swords charged the wounded Immortal and dispatched him but soon died in return.

Finally the apprentek cackled in delight and muttered "that is for last game" as the Fatedealer was flanked and easily killed.

Conclusion: I made one early mistake and followed it up with several other smaller missteps. Some lessons about Beta Decima were learned and I promise next time to give those Necrons a run for their money.

The Corsair Voidscarred are Ready for Action!

 I've been working hard on completing my Voidscarred kill team and finally got the bases done last night.

The Felarch with ... neuro pistol? DAMN I forgot to finish the barrel!

Fatedealer sniper here to ruin your day.

Soulweaver is going to make sure your souls get safely into an infinity circuit and not into Slannesh's maw.

Kurnathi Hunter with pet FAOLCHÚ to spot sneaky hiding T'au pathfinders.

I forgot to get a close up of the Shade Runner but you can seem him here in the full team group shot:

Now I have to finish the ork terrain from the Octarius box set!

Kill Team - The Voidscarred Arrive!

 My son Terjoe and I set up for a game of Kill Team letting me use my Eldar Corsairs for the first time, against his Tau Pathfinders which is his second time playing. 

We set up the board with the big ork fortress in the middle, and 5 objectives spread out evenly, one on top of the fortress and the other four around. It takes 1 AP to pick up an objective, and whoever carries the most at the end of the game wins (i.e. 1 VP per objective).

NOTE: we changed the map after the above picture to put the oil tanks equal distant between us.

The Eldar with their agility moved quickly onto the fortress to secure the high ground while the Tau adavanced on the flanks. Everyone was carefully concealed so no shooting early on, but the Eldar controlling the fortress had the Tau worried.

Turning point 2 arrived and the sound of thunder rolled as the Wayseeker called warp lightning to strike out on the right flank from the high ground on the oil rigging, and a brain Tau Grenadier climbed up to whip fusion grenades at the psyker. The wraithbone armour resisted the high energy and only wounded the Wayseeker.

Will the Fatedealer's long rifle keep the Tau at bay?

The Eldar on the fortress threw themselves off to charge at the Tau on the left flank, the Duelist using his fusion pistol to melt the big MB3 Recon drone to slag. Counter fire from multiple carbines missed or rang off his armour until the ion cannon of the Weapons Expert hit true. The weapons expert, now exposed though, wailed in terror as the Heavy Gunner with a Wraithcannon saw the movement and sucked half his body into the warp.

More fire exchanged and slowly the marker lights and accurate combined fire of the Tau pathfinders started to take their toll as corsair after corsair fell. The Felarch on the fortress with one objective fell to a rail gun round as the Soulweaver ran away with another one. 

The Tau gained complete control of the fortress and used the heights to finish off the Soulweaver and the Heavy Gunner. The Eldar Fatedeal, seeing his own fate sealed, did a heroic doomed charge to try and exact a small measure of revenge but the Tau Marksmen was protected enough by his armour to survive and deliver devastating return fire .

As the last Corsair's body tumbled off the edge of the fortress, the Tau cheered in victory.

Voidscarred Heavy Gunner

 No fancy Eldari name for this guy, he's just the heavy gunner.

My choice of weapon is the Wraithcannon, for when you just really can't stand a single target and you want to make it go away. 

With this model complete, that brings the team up to 5. The next five I'm going to paint altogether so might be a while before another model post but I'll get some games in post about those.

If anyone from my old company is reading this, drop me a line and let me know how your painting is going! I miss the channel.

Eldar Corsair Wayseeker

I finally finished my Corsair Voidscarred Wayseeker between leaving one job and starting another with a camping trip thrown in between.

 

Overall I'm pleased with how he turned out, despite some mistakes on the face plate. The gems particularly are coming along well. I do wish I had done more colours on the helmet, maybe making the whole faceplate wraithbone instead of just the mask, like the one from Citadel: 

 

Oh well, I'm still pretty happy. Next up, I need some firepower!

Eldar Corsair Kurnathi

Finished my third Eldar Corsair, this one the Kurnathi blademaster. Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, still getting my feet under me.

I had a lot of trouble deciding on the lizard skin cape. Should I make it green? Should I make it hues of black and green? Or alien like blue? In the end I played it safe with the black templar contrast paint and dry brushing lightly with fang grey.

The swords on the other hand, I did not play it safe and it took two or three tries to get something close to what I wanted. Part of the problem is that I'm really out of practice blending paints and the other part was I used a blue to start that washed the sword out instead of making it vibrant. I'm moderately ok with the end result, but hope the next sword comes out better.

Next up, the wayseeker!