WEDNESDAY BATTLE REPORT 3

WELCOME TO YET ANOTHER BAT REP WITHOUT A BAT REP (OR PICTURES)
ATTENDANCE
Full turn out this evening (Well nearly) Usual Suspects as follows :
Morph
The Northern Lighter Thief
Sheldon "Not Anal" Cooper
Gruff
Myself
No Shows
FNG(no reason forthcoming, no contact )

BORING   PAPERWORK
Major part of the evening taken up by the administration of a new BLOOD BOWL league.The idea being we all take different teams for a new season of fantasy football mayhem. So we all got allocated races by Sheldon the league`s commissioner (of course).They were as follows :

1. Sheldon = Human, BAD BAY HACKERS
2. The Northern Lighter Thief = Wood Elves, MORNING WOOD
3. Gruff = Necromantic Undead, ALLEN POE RAVENS
4. Morph = Dwarves, DEVITO`S DEVILS
5. Myself = Orcs, DA DEFF SKWAD  

We all had the standard 1,000,000 Gps to spend on our teams.

Before I go into the details of my team list, I do believe we need to resolve this weeks "EXCUSE DICE" roll which is awarded each week to the person who turns up the latest. This weeks recipient is Gruff (I don`t know about you but I feel we have a pattern emerging ) The die was cast, "the kids have chicken-pox at last" came the disgruntled cry.

Anyhoo, back to my Orcses DA DEFF SKWAD .
After reading a tactical article during the week, I set about the task of building a team to bring the hurt, to the likes of softy humans, elves, sssquishy undead and not so soft dwarves.
The first purchase was to max out on BLITZERS so I took the maximum 4 allowed.This was then followed up by the addition of 2 BLACK ORCS, 4 was a little too pricey for my taste. I then decided not to take any throwers as this would only confuse me and stop me sticking to "DA PLAN" running the ball and beating up the opposition.
The rest of the roster was filled with cheap ass LINEMEN, 6 to be exact, to make sure I had at least one substitute, you cannot end up outnumbered from the start of the game, too painful in my experience.
This did not leave me with a lot left in the kitty so instead of the planned apothecary and fan factor, I went with 2 team re-rolls, hopefully to outwit the dice gods.
Now with my cash all gone, I can only offer up sacrifices to Mork and Gork, as I can`t even bribe the Ref !

The organisation of teams did not take all night so we had time for a quick game of ZOMBIES!!!!

A great game ensued, but it was fast and furious as the helipad was shuffled into the top half of the tile deck. Top Zombieslayers were Gruff and Morph, but as the helipad was out early Sheldon took the win because he "GOT TO THE CHOPPER".

MORPH`S  MYSTERIOUS  GARAGE  AN UPDATE
The question was posed yet again to Morph about a possible return date to his garage, the plot it seems has thickened, his wife is using it to store boxes in which cannot be exposed to smoke (cigarette or cannabis) or dust. Upon the suggestion we smoke outside or not at all, Morph then mumbled something about having to move out "fridges and stuff to do with work" which was the original lie excuse. So it would appear that we are no closer to a real (or even believable) answer than we were nearly 18 months ago. Luckily we were not holding our breath.

More tales of heroes and zeroes next week!

                                                                         BTB Out

CRUSADE SQUAD KONRAD 3

                                                     Final shot of Crusade Squad Konrad
                     L to R Brother Darmere, Brother Hunding and Brother Guthorm (with Power Weapon)

CRUSADE SQUAD KONRAD 2

                                                More members of Crusade Squad Konrad
                           L to R Brother Stefan, Brother Nachtigall (with Meltagun) and Brother Ada

CRUSADE SQUAD KONRAD

                                              Introducing members of Crusade Squad Konrad.
                                      L to R Brother Tristan, Brother Konrad and Brother Brunhilt
This squad is also armed with Bolt Pistols and CCW`s and is usually accompanied by a large number of Neophytes to make up a large Crusade Squad.

SIGISMUND`S RETRIBUTION 4

                                                        Rear View of Sigismund`s Retribution
                                    Heavy battle damage to denote length of service with Crusade

SIGISMUND`S RETRIBUTION 3

                                                   LHS View of  Sigismund`s Retribution
                                                     Showing Lascannon sponsoons

SIGISMUND`S RETRIBUTION 2

                                                    RHS View of Sigismund`s Retribution
                                Things of note : Honour Cloth,Stowage and Field Repairs to exhaust.
                                   Sigismund`s Retribution has been with the Crusade a long time.
         Originally an Ebay rescue project (shocking paintjob and damaged) turned out quite well I think.

SIGISMUND`S RETRIBUTION

                                               Front View of Sigismund`s Retribution
                This is an Old Skool Mk 2 Predator armed with turret mounted twin-linked Lascannons
                                                     and Lascannon armed sponsoons
                  Crewed by Brother Radbod (driver), Brother Jurdii and Brother Thorias (gunners)
                                                     

WEDNESDAY NIGHT BAT REP 2

WORST TURNOUT EVER.

Only one person showed last night (Gruff) and he only stayed for 5 minutes to drop off his printout of the Living Rule Book for Blood Bowl.As he was the only one to show up he still had to roll the "excuse dice" with his result being "the wife is having company tomorrow and wants me to help her clean up". What a spineless wuss!

I already knew Sheldon wasn`t showing up because he had to work late.BUT WEDNESDAY IS HALO NIGHT ! Never mind maybe he should terminate his "career" or maybe his boss.

Morph avoiding any human contact sent a text message to say "he was running late so could not make it" as he runs his own business you could take this at face value.HA HA HA face value my ass.

The Northern Lighter Thief didn`t even let anyone know anything so maybe his wife has finally killed him? This would be funny but the bitch is crazy enough to do it!

I think we could have a new recruit for the cult, he shall be known as FNG (F*&£$%g New Guy) until we get someone else.Unfortunately he is not due to be indoctrinated until next week.

Anyhow I think that`s enough ranting rubbish from me , I`ll just have to play with myself. 

Until next time.

                       BTB out.

ENDURING PIETY 4

                                    Side View (LHS) of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Biterolf
                                  Again items of note are : Stowed equipment and Campaign shield.
Thanks for your patience as my posts were a little late this week.Sometimes "real world" stuff get`s in the way.

ENDURING PIETY 3

                                       Front View of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Biterolf
                                        Driven by Brother Hofer guns manned by Brother Loge
                                                  Skull motif denotes a chaplains transport.

ENDURING PIETY 2

                                   Side View (RHS) of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Biterolf
                               Again note Honour cloth, Crusade seals and previous Campaign Shield.

ENDURING PIETY

                                       Rear View of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Biterolf

IMPLACABLE HONOUR 4

                                       Rear View of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Alberich
                                                        (OOPS! Insignia isn`t on straight)

IMPLACABLE HONOUR 3

                                   Side View (LHS) of Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Alberich
                                     (note equipment stowed to denote extended time in the field)

IMPLACABLE HONOUR 2

                 Side View of Rhino (RHS) assigned to Crusade Squad Alberich (note red honour cloth)

IMPLACABLE HONOUR

                                    Front View of the Rhino assigned to Crusade Squad Alberich
                                                   (turret missing,DOH! in getting repaint)
                                  Driver is Brother Thanatos and the Gunner is Brother Nachbaur.

VENERABLE BROTHER ORTZ 4

                                    Front View of Brother Ortz showing Templar Iconography
                                                                     (and his nickname)

VENERABLE BROTHER ORTZ 3

                        Left Side Shot of Brother Ortz showing Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon

VENERABLE BROTHER ORTZ 2

                                                              Rear View of Brother Ortz

VENERABLE BROTHER ORTZ

                                           Side Shot of Brother Ortz showing Assault Cannon

WEDNESDAY BATTLE REPORT (SORRY NO PICS)

OK A FEW EXPLANATIONS.
1.We had a regular battle night on Wednesdays for about 10 years, we played at Morphs garage, we had 2 cool tables set up, an 8 x 4 desert themed and a 5 x 3 grey one for Cityfight and death world theme.About 18 months ago we had to give up this awesome venue. We also stored our terrain collection there (including 12 cityfight buildings).No reasonable explanation has been given.
2.We relocated to my house, and as I have limited space (the dining room table approx 5 x 3) we have been reduced to playing Blood Bowl, Deathwatch RPG, Space Hulk and Zombies!!!
3.No pictures due to a hormonal teenage daughter banning me from her camera.

ATTENDANCE.
All the usual suspects show up.
1.Myself BTB (hard not to as it`s my place)
ARMIES: Black Templars,Tau,Chaos Daemons,Orks,(and my sons Space Wolves).
2.Morph.
ARMIES: Space Wolves and Necrons.
3.Lone Chainy (more affectionately known as Sheldon).
ARMIES: Ultramarines,Tau (and his sons IG).Some Warmachine nonsense.
4.The Northern Lighter Thief .
ARMIES: Orks.
5.Gruff.
ARMIES: Blood Angels

EVENINGS` FESTIVITIES.
SHELDON vs THE NORTHERN LIGHTER THIEF.
FINAL BLOODBOWL LEAGUE GAME.
Sheldons Necromantic Undead The Cleaved and Brown, current league leaders play the final league fixture of the season against The Northern Lighter Thief`s Orks Orkfield,playing for a 2nd place finish.
This turned out to be a tense encounter,(any game against Sheldon usually is,the dude is so ANAL) and a closely fought 1-1 draw being the final score.Not that many hi-lights, although the death of one of The Northern Lighter Thief`s Black Orcs was celebrated with a chorus of BLACK ORC DOWN. This resulted finalised the league table.
WINNER:
SHELDON.THE CLEAVED AND BROWN: W-5 L-0 D-2 = 17 PTS.
RUNNER UP.
THE NORTHERN LIGHTER THIEF.ORKFIELD: W-3 L-3 D-1= 10 PTS
3RD PLACE.
BTB.HUMAN. TSK. THE SERIAL KILLERS: W-3 L-4 D-0= 9 PTS
4TH PLACE.
MORPH.HUMAN.BAD BAY HACKERS: W-2 L-4 D-2= 7 PTS
LAST.
GRUFF.ORCS.GRUFFS ORCS: W-1 L-3 OTHER GAMES VOID.= 3 PTS.

Sheldon is declared LEAGUE CHAMPION and will be presented with his "TROPHY" next week.(Pics to follow.) As Sheldon is also league commissioner he threw Gruff out of the league for not meeting his fixture requirement.(Did I mention he was ANAL).

OTHER GAMES.
A DUNGEONBOWL FRIENDLY.
MORPH vs BTB.
Our first game of Dungeonbowl in many a year so this was a sedate affair with much stopping and starting to check rules etc.Morph takes a well deserved win,by 9 o`clock so we all sit in on the league game, much banter and piss taking ensues.
You may not have noticed that I haven`t mentioned Gruff much,this is because he was late as usual, as being the last to arrive Gruff got to roll the "excuse dice".His result was "I thought I had Man-flu but it turns out it was the wife and kids"

OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST.

1.Sheldon tries once again to sell us on Warmachine, but everybody NFI as usual.

2.We try to find out the likely return date to Morphs Mysterious Garage by asking the man himself , (again), the scoop, and I quote "Don`t know at the moment.Haven`t got a f*&$ing clue" thereby not answering the question yet again.

So there you have it another Wednesday Night Battle Night without a battle, tune in next week to see who turns up, another roll on the "excuse dice",possibly a new season of Bloodbowl, and more lies from Morph about the return to MORPH`S MYSTERIOUS GARAGE. To be fair this was the 1st night in about 2 months that everyone has shown upto which was excellent.More tales of heroic deeds fuelled by Pepsi Max next week.
                                                                               BTB out.

EMPERORS CHAMPION TARNHELM

                        Emperors Champion Tarnhelm assigned to lead Crusade Squad Alberich
These posts have covered my 2 "Core Troops" and HQ slots, both squads are equipped to take the fight to the enemies of mankind, both squads also have Rhino transports (pictures to follow).I hope you have enjoyed my fluff,anyway back to another busy week at the Chapter Keep.Wow his sword needs a repaint!
                                                                                                               BTB out

BROTHER GORTHIS WOUNDED FACE

Close-up of Brother Gorthis (severe facial wound sustained fighting Orks during the heavy actions of

The Armageddon Crusade)Photo not the best,I think I have another,will post that one soon.

SQUAD BITEROLF FINAL

The final 3 members of Crusade Squad Biterolf, L to R Brother Gorthis, Brother  Ulrich (with melta  gun)
and Brother Krug

SQUAD BITEROLF PART 2

Another 3 members of Crusade Squad Biterolf L to R Brother Thunor, Brother Biterolf and Brother Matthias (with Power Weapon).
WAY TOO MUCH FOREGROUND!!!!!!!

SQUAD BITEROLF MEMBERS PART 1

Members of Crusade Squad Biterolf L to R Brother Vogler, Brother Demes and Brother Ortlinde all armed with CCW and Bolt Pistols and Frag Grenades

SQUAD BITEROLF GROUP

CRUSADE SQUAD BITEROLF

BROTHER BITEROLF

 

Brother Biterolf squad banner bearer of Crusade Squad Biterolf

REVERED BROTHER TANNHAUSER

Master of Sanctity Revered Brother Tannhauser

assigned to lead Crusade Squad Biterolf

(his seals are not finished DOH! didn`t notice till took pictures)

BROTHER GORTHIS WITH SQUAD BITEROLF

 Close up of members of Crusade Squad Biterolf

CRUSADE SQUAD ALBERICH FINAL

The remaining 3 members of Crusade Squad Alberich, L to R are Brother Hagen,Brother Cador and finally Brother Welund with some much needed Anti Armour firepower.As you can see from the shots not only am I a very slow painter but I`m not going to win any prizes for my painting either, but I enjoy it and that`s what matters to me.That`s it for this week hope you enjoyed it, (woooooooh hoooooo no longer a blog virgin)     BTB out.

BROTHER DALHAUS

 Close up of Brother Dalhaus showing power weapon detail,(but it`s too shiny to make much out)

CRUSADE SQUAD ALBERICH CONTINUED

Three more members of Crusade Squad Alberich L to R we have Brother Dalhaus,Brother Groma and Brother Liudolf.(I have also found the enlarge function) (and yes I know Brother Dalhaus has a bendy power weapon)

CRUSADE SQUAD ALBERICH PART 1

The above shot is 3 members of Crusade Squad Alberich,as you can see they are equipped with CCW and Bolt pistols,Frag grenades and Crusade seals.From L to R we have Brother Norn, Brother Alberich(with squad banner) and Brother Thalhaiden.The Crusade has a alternate colour scheme, red cloth to honour the blood that has been spilled by their fellow brethren, and black shoulder pauldrons (because the original colour scheme was not black enough)

THE NAMING

This is the name of my Crusade,the above is a shot of the custom sticker I made for my figure case.(Sorry about the flash reflection it does say Templars) The Crusade was named this because the original Templar colour scheme contained far too much white, not nearly black enough, so I reversed the shoulder pauldron and cross colour scheme,much better. I also like to think it implies the carrying of the emperors light to the darkest places of the galaxy.

CHRONICLE CONTINUES

I have wanted to Blog for quite sometime,but negotiating the use of my sons netbook and my daughters camera            (there will be pictures!) has taken an age and no small amount of bribery.The correct use of this esoteric technology is still being tutored so please bear with me.Back to the intro,where were we,post Codex Armageddon.On seeing Matt Hutsons Templars in White Dwarf and dismayed by the shortage of Heavy Support choices I opted to go tank heavy.As I am a really slow painter(and typist) this army was still being painted and developed when lo and behold GW released Codex Black Templars,much to my chagrin. A complete refit ensued,with much purchasing of the upgrade box and new figures,this obviously lead to new paint scheme as well.I am still in the process of completing this refit (told you I was a slow painter)when WTF but I hear rumours of a Codex update AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! This kind of brings me up to date,and hopefully the posting of this blog will serve as inspiration and spur to finish the army.Thanks for taking time to read this.                                                                                                                                                                                   BTB out

CHRONICLE A BEGINNING

wow my 1st post ,um where do I start,I have been in the hobby for 20+ years,starting out with Rogue Trader, Space Hulk and Blood Bowl progressing through various RPGs,D&D,AD&D,Rolemaster,Vampire and Bar Wars to name just a few.After a few years sabbatical I found myself pulled back by the gravity of GW.So I guess that was when the TEMPLAR CHRONICLES really began.You see this was still pre-Armageddon codex,and as such the Black Templars didn`t really exist.So I dragged out my original Space Marines and they needed a new paintjob and as black is my favourite colour that is what they were sprayed.The chapter grew slowly but they were pretty much black codex marines,then came Codex Armageddon and everything changed, out went the devastator squads and the whirlwinds and new tactics had to be refined to better bring the emperors justice and light to the dark corners of the galaxy.