Orks v. Space Marines

The game shaped up to be a 1,200 point conflict. Orks vs. the Space Marines in Dawn of War with a Kill point Objective. I won the first turn and decided to create a fire Base around the building. The Orks in turn set up out of range of most of my weapons or hid behind the buildings out of my line of sight. I did not have a good feeling about this one from the start...

The game was very intense and allot of fun. Mr. Watson played the orks in excellent orky fashion. The plan was brutally cunning and he pulled it off in spades. By the the mid game I had written this one off. In the Orks 3rd turn, they pulled off 4 charges and completely overrun my both my flanks. More then once did I sit there helpless, as Ork Mobs counted up fists full of dice

The only thing that save me from a complete stomping was a timely charge by one of my combat squads, in the second turn, to tie up the frisky storm-boys. The combat was a draw and blocking off the the Nob bikers from turning the corner and smashing my middle. The battle lasted long enough to grab the shoota mob's attention lessening the attack in the center.

The Ork wave crashed into my defenses and loses started to mount. During the Charge o' Rama Phase of the game. I lost all 5 Terminators and 2 of my combat Squads in the same assault phase. The shining moment, was my command squad decided to be tough and save all the wounds caused by the Nob Squad. While my own power fist scored 2 big wounds. They were able to turn the tide and kill off the last of the bikers. The War-boss took for safety of the cover.

I should have not won this game. It's that simple. I was out-flanked and overwhelmed by the horde. The lack of Power Klaws is what cost Mr. Watson the game. The mobs did not have the hammer to put the nails in the coffin ... so they say. I started the game with 30 Tactical marines... only 13 survived to tell the tale. Unfortunately for the Orks, all my luck came in a single shooting phase after the beating in the 3rd Turn. The fire fight managed to send off the last of the horde.

Dino-Death Star o' Doom

Well, it's done. I pulled a major constuction goof and put the howdah on backwards. After that blunder and some creative clipping... it fits. Oh well, not a whole lot you can do about it after the glue drys. So very excited to put this monster on the table! Chase down and run over some Tree-men or what ever poor Wood Elf that gets in the way. It should act as hammer and take some of the bow-fire off my other Steggie. Now, all I got to do is... fix that shield with some purple wash and make a army list.

Terrodons N' Stuff

Yesterday, finished up the work on the evil Dino-Death Star along with it's crew. The few pics I snapped last night were all blurry... so it will have to wait. I had to go back and do some touch-up work on my Terrodons. One of them had an issue with the floor.

Gravity sucks.Today's bit of work will be finishing the basing on Temple guard and few other units need some work in that department. I just may stick with my lizards till the end of the month. A painted Carnosaur would make me smile. Get some Spiky Lizards and shoot up the Wood Elves for a change.