Slow Grow Week 8 Vs. Renegades and Heretics

This ended bing one of the most fluffy games I have yet played. My opponent used the Renegades and Heretics rules from the Siege of Vraks. Clearly they needed to be show the error of their ways by the Grey Knights before their heretical ways could attract the attention of the denizens of the warp.

My 1000 point list has a total of nine models (my count-as-Draigo model (in my fluff he is a radical Inquisitor who has used all sorts of Warp magik to boost his power - more on that another day), a Librarian, two Dreadknights, and 5 Terminators). My opponent had 108 models, leaving my Grey Knights outnumbered 12/1! My opponent had loads of cultists and a horde of zombies.

The heretic hordes are massing:

The heretics go first, and their Warlord, being a Level 1 Psyker casts Iron Arm using three dice: 466. Oops, perils. Rolls on Perils table: 1 - Dragged into the warp, oh no. Heretics have 4+D6 Leadership. Rolls D6: 5, nice Leadership 9! Rolls leadership: 11 - oh crap - Warlord removed as casualty, and D6 other models suffer S6, AP1 hits. Rolls D6: 6. argh. After to wound roll four further dead, including some key Champion/enforcer models. No doubt the most painful perils I have seen in any game so far.

Also, Slay the Warlord and First Blood to me - ouch:

A tense game follows with neither side having much of an advantage. One Dreadknight is tied down all game by Zombies:

The Turn after this picture was taken...:

That Dreadknight (on two wounds) survives a total of 48 close combat attacks!

The game ends with an 8/7 victory to the Grey Knights. A very close game, and one that showed the tenacity of Zombies...

...still bloody locked on combat...

Slow Grow Week 7 Vs. Eldar

Eldar are definitely slippery little bastards. Their ability to move, shoot and move is really powerful. My own tactical mistakes in this game did not help me either.

The deployment was down the length of the table, as shown here.

The Eldar army is deployed around the two building at the top of the picture (Warpspiders and Swooping Hawks in reserve). My mistake was then to send my army straight down the middle towards the gap between the buildings.

That area around the shrine became a killing ground, especially when the Warpspiders and Swooping hawks were added to the mix. Got tabled and deservedly so. 

Slow Grow Week 6 Vs. Tyranids

For some reason I did not get a lot of pictures from this game, which is shame. It was a hard fought and tight game. In then end my lone Dreadknight was hunting down a single Ripper Swarm base. However, before I could kill it the game ended and I lost on points. The game was a reminder to focus more on points than table'ing my opponent. Sure, I game close to table'ing him, but all it takes is one model left to lose the game.

A picture from a mid game brawl.

Slow Grow Week 5 Vs. Awesome Chaos Noise Marines

In week five of the slow grow (tecnically week 6 but I am currently a week behind so for me game 5) I was up against a fantastically painted and magificantly themed Chaos Space Marine Army.
It pretty quickly decended into a close combat brawl, so again I will just put up some pictures of the action, mainly to show off my opponent's superb models.
Noise Marines dialing in up to 11!!

Then the game. Whilst the Noise Marines were beautiful, it was a list dsigned to look good, rather than maximising power. Hence, the Grey Knighs won - which is a shame as this army deserves to rule!
Set up:

Turn 2:

Turn 3:

Turn 4:

The End:

Next week I will catch up on the week I was abroad. This will be 750p against Nids. Not had a lot of luck against Nids, so we shall see...

Slow Grow Week 4 vs. Space Wolves

My 4th game (the first at 750p) was against Space Wolves. I seem to have managed to delete the pictures from that match, so nothing to upload. This was another defeat.

Slow Grow Game 3 vs. Skitarii

So, I have not kept a detailed log of the last few games (too much else going on). But, I though I would at least keep a picturial record of the games. The last 400p game was against Skitarii, which I lost. Here a few pictures of the action.