Final preparations for 40k tournament and Ropecon 2013

Since my workday only lasted 3 minutes today, I was left with plenty of time to go home and finish my SM/TAU. My apartment has been invaded by piles of minis for the last couple of weeks (that's actually a lie, my apartment is always filled with miniatures :D). As often is the case, I've been working hard to get comissions out of the way and was left with little time for my own minis, having to cut some corners. Overall, the army isn't bad. I might come back to some things once the new sm book comes out (or after the etc).

The Broadisde bomb

I'm really looking forward to the weekend. Ropecon is a chance to meet up with a lot of my friends (not only wargamers but other kinds of nerds aswell). The tournament is a last chance to practice with my etc list in a tourney setting (although I think we're having one more training weekend before flying off to Serbia). Ropecon is also a real melting pot for gamers and hobbyists. there are some real eye candy armies in the tournaments. I've heard that Frenzy from over at Warhead has completed his Space Sharks, which will be awesome to see, and a long time FB player who paints really pretty armies has worked up an IG project. I'm sure there'll be lots of other armies to look forward to (sorry Joonas, not yours).

 
Attack bikes, maxed out. Including one that is older than I am.

Everybody have a nice weekend!

Fast n Slow marines for 1st 6th ed tournament

Tomorrow is my first 6th ed tournament and I've decided to break out the Novamarines. It's 1500 points so many have opted not to take any allies, as have I. Psydefense is a problem, but I think this is an ok list. It's also simple enough that I can hopefully finish games on time, as I can focus on playing and remembering a little less new rules.

A couple of swaps. I've ditched the relic blade, going for a power axe instead on the captain. I decided to take a missile for the scouts instead of buying a fist for him. I've also taken meltabombs on the biker sergeants and captain, 'cause they are way better in 6th. Meltaguns got swapped for plasmaguns to better deal with 2+ saves. I think I still have enough melta for 1500 points (2 multimeltas and 3 meltabombs).

PLAYER NAME: Aleksi Lehtiö

ARMY DESCRIPTION: Codex Space Marines

HQ1: Captain (100), storm shield (15), power axe (15), artificer armour (15), meltabombs (5), bike (35) [185pts]

Elite1: Dreadnought (105), twin-linked autocannon (10), twin-linked autocannon (10) [125pts]

Elite2: Dreadnought (105), twin-linked autocannon (10), twin-linked autocannon (10) [125pts]

Elite3: Dreadnought (105), twin-linked autocannon (10), twin-linked autocannon (10) [125pts]

Troop1: Bike Squad (90), 5 additional bikers (5*25), 2 plasmaguns (2*15), attack bike (40), multimelta (10) meltabombs (5) [300pts]

Troop2: Bike Squad (90), 1 additional biker (25), 2 plasmaguns (2*15), attack bike (40), multimelta (10), meltabombs (5) [200pts]

Troop3: Scout Squad (75), missile launcher (10), camocloaks (5*3) [100pts]

HS1: Predator (60), lascannon sponsons (60) [120pts]

HS2: Predator (60), lascannon sponsons (60) [120pts]

HS3: Thunderfire Cannon (100) [100pts]

TOTAL: [1500pts]

Novamarines take to a tournament...

Hi guys,

So I took my Novamarines army to their first tournament. It was pretty fun. 5 games, 2 wins, a draw and 2 losses is not that great, but I admit to having screwed up in some games. Overall I placed 13 out of 29 and got 5 great games in.

The list I took:

Captain with relic blade, storm shield, bike, artificier armour @ 195pts.

Dreadnought with 2x twin-linked autocannons @ 125pts.

Dreadnought with 2x twin-linked autocannons @ 125pts.

Dreadnought with 2x twin-linked autocannons @ 125pts.

8 Bikers with 2 meltaguns, combi-melta, attack bike with multimelta @ 295pts.

4 Bikers with 1 meltagun, attack bike with multimelta @ 175pts.

5 Scouts with missile launcher @ 85pts.

5 Scouts with missile launcher @ 85pts.

Land Speeder with heavy flamer, typhoon missile launcher @ 90pts.

Land Speeder with heavy flamer, typhoon missile launcher @ 90pts.

Predator with lascannon sponsons @ 120pts.

Predator with lascannon sponsons @ 120pts.

Predator with lascannon sponsons @ 120pts.

Total @ 1750pts.

Novamarines progress pictures

Hi guys,
I hope you all had a very nice christmas! I finished 9 of my 10 scouts yesterday. Here are the pics, along with my second auto/las pred that I finished not so long ago.

Novamarines biker command squad

Hi,
here are some pics of my latest painting project. I tried black base rims, I originally painted grey rims for the earlier models, and I'm quite happy with the new rims. Enjoy!

Novamarines painting progress

Hi,
just a couple of bad photos of my Novamarines army, which I'm slowly painting up.
The Predator is missing it's lascannon sponsons. Also for those interested, my 1500 points army will include

Captain on bike

Command Squad on bikes

4 bikes + multimelta attack bike

4 bikes + multimelta attack bike

4 sniper scouts + missile launcher

4 sniper scouts + missile launcher

land speeder storm

land speeder storm

2 MM HF land speeders

autolas predator

autolas predator

The command squad will be kitted with storm shields, lightning claws and a power fist. The captain has the relic blade stormshield combo, and artificier armour. And finally the pics.

Painting Novamarines

Hi,

just stuff I´ve been doing alongside my Tau. I found some old Land Speeder Storm conversions I had done, and decided to paint them up. Also there is a test biker for the army. The armylist is gonna be a hybrid biker list, I will put up the list in another post..

Why Novamarines? Well, I really like the color scheme, and the fluff fitted in pretty nice. They are a chapter that has not fought together for a couple of thousand years, since M37, so each company is very unique and independent of one another. I will be making the sixth company, since they are trained to fight on bikes.