New Black Templar List Battle Reports

This weekend I took a little break from revising for my final exam (medieval primary sources on Thursday morning) to travel down to Nottingham for Josh Roberts's birthday. Then since I was going to be in Nottingham I thought it would be rude not to bring my new Black Templar list down and get some games in at Warhammer World with a few of the guys.

Yes for those who know me, the fact I have managed to find time to play some games of 40K outside of a tournament is shocking! So it is time for some (briefer than normal) batreps...

6th Edition 40K - What I Would Like To See

There have been increasingly more and more rumours flying around the interwebs regarding the imminent release of 6th Edition 40K. Some read as total jokes, others plausible, some would seem to change the game for the worse, others read as improvements. The problem as ever these days with GW been so tight lipped (gone are the days of Codex leaks over 6 months before release) is you just really never know.

I am not going to go over all these rumours and try to pick out what I think is the good, bad and ugly, there is just no point second guessing GW these days. However, I have played 40K since the mythic days of Rogue Trader and so would like to think I know a thing or two about what could help improved our much loved game. 

Pyrrhic 40K Army List

For the past 6 years I have established and ran an event for my 'home' gaming club, Flame On, called 'Battle of the Chumps' or BotC for short (or BotCh for those who can't abbreviate properly). It began as, and has largely remained a fun tournament which is more about serious gamers 'letting their hair down' and taking a break from playing super competitively. This year I have handed over the running of the event to others so that it may continue into the future once I have moved to Sweden.

What is the relevance to BotC and the post title? Well Gaz 'Fat Thor' Jones has always approached army list building for BotC in a haphazard way - it was here that he first perfected the 'roll a D6 to pick an Eldar army' technique to army building. 

Team Scotland Sponsor & 6NC Debrief pt.1

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As Team Scotland Captain I would like to introduce and thank our new ETC Sponsors; KR Multicase, who will be providing both the Scottish 40K and WFB teams with a bespoke case to fit each players ETC army list!

Now I would like to take the credit for this, but it was in fact Dave Fraser, the Scottish WFB ETC Team Captain who organised this. So hats off to Mr Fraser! Cheers dude, the 40k lads are very appreciative of what you've done for us all.

40K 6 Nations 2012: Game 5 vs Northern Ireland

4 games down, and Scotland had only scored a single point from it's draw against Belgium, with defeats been suffered at the hands of England, Wales and Ireland. This put us in 5th place with only Northern Ireland left to play, if we could get a big win against them we could push ourselves past the Belgians and take 4th. 

However, if we loose to Northern Ireland and give them their first ever 6 Nations or ETC win (proper win lads not a by-game) then we will be languishing in last place and I will probably get the sack as Captain...

Nothing like a little extra pressure to focus the team, and definitely myself, going into a final round.

40K 6 Nations 2012: Game 4 vs Ireland

Day 1 of the 2012 6 Nations had come to a close and Scotland were on 1 draw and 2 losses. We retired to the Maelstrom bar and later chez Timmaaaa to drink plenty of beers, have a laugh with all the other teams (we introduced some of the Belgians to chariot racing and even discuss the finer points of 80s cartoons). All too soon though it was Sunday morning and we returned to the Eye of the Storm to face down our 4th round opponents; Ireland.

The Irish are another Home Nations heavy weight team, regular top 10 ETC finishers and winners of the inaugural Home Nations Cup (what the 6 Nations used to be called) so it was going to be another trail by fire for Team Scotland and it's green players.

40K 6 Nations 2012: Game 3 vs Belgium

After our defeats at the hands of England and Wales Team Scotland were eyeing up their third round opponents, Belgium, as a serious chance for us to score a win - Scotland faced them at the 2010 ETC and drew the match, this time we were looking for the win.

Going into the pairings there were a lot of good match ups for me, but I deferred a few times in order to allow other Scotland players more favourable match ups, whilst also not wanting to put myself forward due to the Dark Eldar army lurking in Belgium's ranks (never pretty for my Terminators). The pairings worked their way down and I was the last to get paired...  against their Dark Eldar... OH BUGGER!

40K 6 Nations 2012: Game 2 vs Wales

Following on from yesterday's battle report versus England I move onto Game 2 of the 6 Nations. Scotland was scheduled to play Wales. Wales were the highest ranked Home Nation at last years ETC, facing down heavy weights including Germany and America to take 7th place. It was going to be a tough match.

During the pairings, and as with England, Wales put forward Space Wolves and I jumped at the chance to take them on. Especially as it was Wales's own Captain Mike Collins using them. Me and Mike have known each other for a good while but I have never had the pleasure of playing him. Given that I was relishing the forthcoming Captain vs Captain battle.