ill have to pick your brain in a fortnight on what happened. I'm away till then

come on mr 0.5, whats with 0-3!

awesome battle report, love the recent warmahordes stuff.. especially legion
bad luck on that stinger kill!

I disagree babelfisk... about if i made a model then the new one would be conciderably larger. What if i made entire squads of TWC using the plastic chaos warhounds and marines on their backs, so that they can be hidden behind rhino's completly blocking BLOS. my excuse at the time is that canis was supposedby SOOO much larger than a normal TWC so i can justify it reasonably well... and now would your opinion change? Should i still not have to change my model so that you can now see it and so you can actually shoot my TWC or can i just continue to hide them completely. Its the same argument with the new models and the inherent danger of the conversions for models that dont exist

Aussies dont care about the GW stores to be honest.
GW Australia dont run any good tournaments to increase or invest in the Australian gaming level... so saying that those Aussie gamers that dont want to spend a massive amount extra for each purchase for some non-existent benefits that GW give is is a joke.

The only benefit any Australians get from GW stores is the initial painting and modeling tutorials that they do with you when you first splash out on a tonne of models. We dont get any of the benefits that GW stores provide in other countries, such as grand tournaments and good GW run events.

I just checked, and GW Australia has 0 upcoming tournaments this year and dont expect that to change anytime soon.

If GW wants Aussie gamers to come and support their product not just feel ripped off and like they dont care about us, they actually need to provide the support that we are paying a premium for. In other countries (such as US) there are many GW run tournaments and events to build the game and keep us interested and loyal as opposed to going out of our way to order from places like Wayland to get our plastic crack fix.

Before anyone gets to saying that we dont have access to the tournaments and events in the same way because we have a much smaller player base... How would the US or other countries grow their player base to those sizes without the GW support that they continually have, and then to come and say that the price rises and shipping embargo's are justified when Aussies never had those opportunities.

I say shove that

order is in, get them in time for EH? :)

very nice, i would defiantly be keen on getting some!

With this variation i found that the plazma command evaporated things with nullzone support ( usually overkill) but i still struggeled to threaten/surpress transports and drop wounds on MC's etc. I did find fthat the predators soaked up a good ammount of antitank that would have otherwise ripped my command to pieces. So i thought another variation on chat last night, that sparked vinsanity & taak's musings.

capt'n (relic, SS, bike)
plazma command squad (2xLC's,3xSS,TH&4xplazmaguns)
2x Riflemen
2xFullbike squads 2xmelta & MM AB (1 w'Fist)
1x5man bike squads w'2xmelta & MM AB
2 xDakka pred's
1750 total

This list loses the librarian support but it still capitolises on the smashy command squad, and maintains my good selection of troops w' melta whilst adding 2 riflemen for greatly increased supression and ability to throw down wounds on MC and surpress from range allowing the bike squads to close in to deliver the final blow.

hehe glad to see that I shook up your Scars list abit.
Originally when i thought of my army I did honestly think of taking an army like you have just written then, with the supporting lots of MM AB's to really reach out and touch the enemy while the other bikes zoomed up close. But what i have found is that with only 1 command squad and no AV on the table, all your opponents antitank goes straight into your command squad (and even though command squad's are strong, they still hate that kind of shooting and you will lose them fast at that rate, even with turboboost).

So after seeing what was happening with that I swapped that around for:
capt'n (relic, SS, MB, bike)
plazma command squad (2xLC's,3xSS,TH&4xplazmaguns)
Libby (bike, avenger, nullzone)
2xFullbike squads w'Fist,2xmelta & MM AB
1x5man bike squads w'2xmelta & MM AB
3xDakka pred's
1750 total

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Great article Taak,

You make some great points about the weakness of TWC, which people do need to think about when building a list.
Now i just need too find a nice balance between overwhelming shooting power and TWC hammer for my Event horizon list..... hehe