Dilemma : 13th Co. Space Wolves

What to do with my 13th Co. Space Wolves? I like the fluff and the codex is strong. But somehow I got bored with them. That's why they don't see much action nor painting love from me. I don't even know why I got bored with them. Maybe it's the grey color or the missiles or the Thunderwolves. I myself am not sure. With so many things to do in life and hobby, it's too easy to forget that I have another army unfinished.

The status of my 13th Co. SW as they are right now:

Painted :
Canis Wolfborn
4 Thunderwolves Cavalry - 1 Thunder Hammer, 3 Strom Shield
1 Rhino
5 Fenrisian Wolves
6 Long Fangs - 5 Missile Launchers
1 Grey Hunters with Meltagun
2 Wulfen

Unpainted/Unfinished :
Wolf Lord - Thunderwolf Mount, Thunder Hammer (swapable to Frost Axe), Storm Shield
8 Grey Hunters - 1 Meltaguns, Power Axe, Standard
9 Grey Hunters - 2 Meltaguns, Power Axe, Standard
10 Grey Hunters - 2 Plasmaguns, Power Axe, Standard, Wulfen
10 Fenrisian Wolves
6 Long Fangs - 5 Missile Launchers
6 Long Fangs - 3 Heavy Bolters, 2 Plasma Cannons
1 Rhino - for weathering

Still a lot to do. What should I do? The best way to go is to play them more often and slowly regain my morale for painting. But the problem is that I wanna play World Eaters more. The CSM codex is still too new and is too much fun! Maybe I should play my 13th Co. using the CSM codex sometimess, as a Renegade Space Wolves (Skyrar's Dark Wolves?). Yup.. that could be a lot of fun :)

Okayh,.. I'd go with that.
I'll make finishing the 13th Co. SW as my 2013 Resolution and have fun while doing it.

I take this opportunity to wish you all a very good luck in the new year. May only the best of things happens to us all.

Happy New Year!

Back from the warp.. AND VERY PISSED OFF!!

I've been away from the Skullthrone far too long already and it was all thanks to the 6th Ed. Reading, playtesting, making list, playtest again, back to reading and then playtesting other armies. These things has been keeping me away from the painting table. That, followed by holy Ramadhan and Aidilfitri further the delay for another month.

 

But now I'm back and to pay back for all the time lost, I've been doing 3 vehicles at the same time since last week.

CHAOS LAND RAIDER

The first one is the World Eaters Land Raider that I assembled some couple months back. The 6th Ed. hurt my Rhino-based WE so badly now I need a LR to help ease the pain. Here is how the thing look right now. The Red colour was Tamiya Italian Red over a Matt Black primer. I think I like the colour enough so the next step is to go into detail and adding some spiky bits here and there.

NECRON ANNIHILATION BARGE

I bought this thing to be a Catacomb Command Barge since it was so cool in 5th. But then again, an Annihilation Barge is also a cool unit to have on table with its twin-linked Tesla Destructor. So I magnetised the cannon and the Command Console so I can change between them whenever I want. As for colour scheme, it was nothing grand like the Necron infantries. Just Tamiya Gunmetal over Matt Black primer followed by Light Gunmetal. It was later weathered with Dark Earth and Orange Rust weathering powder. All I need to do left is finish up the crews, paint all the green glowy bulbs and then it'll be good for gaming.

NECRON TRIARCH STALKER

The Triarch Stalker is one fine looking model. The only problem with this thing is the pointcost and the fact that it only has one weapon to play with. BUt I would still take it to gaming just for fun. It follows the same colour scheme as the Barge.

 

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WHAT'S WITH THE SCENE OVER HERE?!

Me and my brother Dean went to hobby with 1750 points list ready to spent the evening with. But people over here are getting so tourney oriented they no longer play 1750 points game. Everyone has been doing 1500 points since the next tourney (in November) will be set at that point. Come on lah Malaysians!! Why so serious?!? I even saw one guy playing Ork-IG Ally WAAC netlist on Friday. You know, the one with Nobz Bikers troops, and 5-6 Flyers.

 

What the hell.. I wish we were several years back in GC when Nik Kamal was around. Back then we used to play funky builds just for pure fun, trying out some stupid unit doing stupid things and laugh out loud. Nowadays it is all about optimising a list. Bring casual list and you are just asking to be bullied.

 

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MERDEKA!!

Just a couple days back, we celebrate our  MERDEKA!!. I love my country, I love Malaysia, I love my Jalur Gemilang. Our Jalur Gemilang was there right in front of my gate, standing straight against the wind since the 1st of August. I'm very proud of it.

So when the news shows some stupid fellas in yellow shirts holding some red-white flag to replace Jalur Gemilang, my blood boils. It felt like someone just spat over my face. If I ever saw that flag raised anywhere right in front of my eyes, I will take it down and if I have a lighter, burn it right there. If you guys really are Malaysians, I would expect you guys to do the same.

We wargamers knows and understand just how important a flag/banner/standard is. It is our honour. Spitting on it is like spitting on our honour. Our dignity. It isn't funny and very much unacceptable.

Barua betul!!

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SELAMAT HARI KEMERDEKAAN MALAYSIA KE 55

MERDEKA!            
MERDEKA!            
MERDEKA!

Hobby Forge's Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Celebration!

The 6th Edition 40K is just around the corner. Everything I heard about it so far has been to my liking. Damn excited to get my hands on the copy.

Anyway, Hobby forge is having a small event to celebrate the release. Here is the info taken from wargamersmalaysia.com.

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Date : Saturday, 30th of June 2012
Time : 3:36pm
If Hobby Forge receives 33 pre-orders of Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Hardcover Rulebook, the 33 people will receive the Psychic Power Deck worth around RM 50 or so for free!

This event is for those who pre-ordered the new Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Hardcover Rulebook.

What are you supposed to do.
1. Collect your pre-ordered Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook, and study it! (Do come at 12pm to start early.)

2. Exactly at 3:36pm (3+3=6, get it?), I will gather the crowd and ask 6 questions regarding the new rules! They may be easy peasy, or insanely difficult, it's random.
That's why you need to make sure you come early to read up the rules in the book!

3. The first person who answers gets a random gift from the new 6th Ed release (it may be the dice set, the objectives, the tokens, whichever).
One person may only win 1 gift and may not answer further questions. This is to give the others some chance to win too.

4. This short event shouldn't last more than 20 minutes, and it is meant to promote the fun and enthusiasm of the hobby for everyone in Hobby Forge.

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According to Alvin, as of today, he already received 26 preorder. It means that there's only 7 more to go for us to get the psychic power decks for free (it costed around RM40 without tax). That easily equals to about RM1320++ savings for our local gaming community. That's huge if you ask me (especially since my car got involved in an accident just last week!)


So what are you waiting for? Call Alvin and order a copy for yourself!!!

The 3rd

Today at 0045 hour, my wife gave birth to my 3rd child, a baby boy.
I love my wife :)

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Go to Hobbyforge. Was hoping to fight Syamel's Space Wolves. But he cannot make it. So I end up playing my World Eaters against Shaun's Space Marines. Manage to kill everything except the Captain and Cassius (This guy with only one wound left, survived countless lasscannon and Dakkashots. His saves and FnP rolls are damn good!!) Could have win it, but the game goes on to turn seven, in which he manage to pull a draw with his lone Captain.

Bought myself some stuffs -

• The WFB rulebook (It's damn heavy!!);
• Dark Elf Corsairs - now my Corsairs is complete;
• The SW Battleforce - Time to get serious with the Sons of Russ; and
• The Thunderwolf Cavalry set from Philipines - Thank god it finally arrives.

My wife is due to deliver my 3rd child in November. Which means, anyday from now the contraction might suddenly kicks in. So I dont think I'll be able to visit Hobbyforge nor Legio untill everything has settle down here. Hopefully I may be around for Legio Tournament, but who knows kan.

I'll post up some Corsairs that i've been painting soon. Untill then, cheers :)..

Another month passed..

After a month I finally regain access to Blogspot. Yeay!! Not much time so I'll do a simple recap on what happened since my last post.

Legio Birthday Event, 3rd July 2010

Legio Birthday Bash - The Tournament of Skulls (1.5k) is a blast!! It was the very 1st time I entered my Raven Guard for a tourney and I must say, they performed quite well with a draw, a defeat and a lost. But winning is not the most important thing in this tourney, it is the slaughter that counts the most. My Raven Guard able to grab 8 Skull Tokens (lovely counters for my World Eaters - thanks Legio ;) ) even with my sloppy playstyle hahaha.

Best of all, my Raven Guard army won Best Appearance, Raven Guard Command Squad won Silver Medal for Unit Entry and The Master of The Watch --> People's Choice Award. All that extra effort, to be appreciated is a great boost to me. Not to mention even with just one win, my Raven Guard able to reach the 4th place in overall for the Tournament of Skull. It just proved that my decision to let go of my "Overly Competitive" approach and adapt to "Fun Hobby Gaming" as a right choice after all.

3rd Co. Raven Guard - Best Appearance

Shrike vs Defiler --> Shrike win!

The Chaotic Eldar --> Warning! These are not Eldar!

Proud winners of the 2010 Legio Birthday
(Me - the green shirt on the left)

Farseer Oliver - we all bow to your awesomeness!!

The 8th Ed., Warhammer Fantasy Battles

The long awaited "new" game system is finally here. Much changes has been done and I must say, I like them all!! It was a good move by GW after they almost kill the game with the 7th Ed. Too bad coz WFB has always been my favourite (several times more than 40k). And so i decided to put my 13th Co. Space Wolves project on hold and take out my Dark Elves instead. Time to battle with might and magic! Hopefully I can go grab some fantasy games soon.

Home Sweet Home

I will be moving to my new house in Putrajaya in a few days. New and bigger house = new and bigger hobby room for myself! Starting from next month, the new Skullthrone will be ready for action. I wellcome all who comes to Putrajaya to give me a call, and we can have a nice game or two :).

That's all for now guys. Cheers.

A month have passed ..

.. since the last post. The month has not been very productive. I manage to paint several models, sculpt some raven skulls for a yet unnamed RG character, but not as much as I as planned to do.

I bought Din's Iron Warriors consisting of:

• 20 Warriors - 2 Plasmagun, 2 Flamers, 2 PFist
• 15 Havocs - 8 HBolter, 3 Missile Launchers, 1 Lasscannon,

I dont know yet what to do with them.. but the plan is to convert them into The 13th Co. Space Wolves. We'll see.

I am still waiting for my 5 Thunderwolves from Philipine, bought as a batch along with Cookie_Yip and Salleh. The seller has been taking so long to deliver our goods. Luckily, Yip has been able to contact the guy, and all we can do now is wait for it.

I had to put my Venerable RG Dread on hold coz I'm out of Chaos Black already. Need to go get some more paints this week. Will visit Games Castle this weekend.

Talk about GC.. the place will close down soon. I hear by the end of July. It will be one of the saddest moment in my life. I simply love GC very much. My hobby grew with GC. It was like my 2nd home before getting married. I pray Richard all the best with his life.

That's it for now. I'll post up some pic soon. Till then, cheers.

Single Parenting

My life changed so much since the birth of my twins. No more luxury time for painting and gaming. After, 2 months of rest, my wife went back to work some 120 km away up North, taking my twins along with her. Only during weekends, do I have the opportunity to be with my kids. Sometimes, I went there after work to spend the night with them and drove back to work the next morning. It goes on like that for about 5 months.

It was difficult for my wife, taking care of my kids alone. So I've decided to ease her burden a bit by taking my baby girl to live with me. It was difficult at first, but as the time goes by, I'm now used to it.

So now everyday after work I spent my time with my daughter untill around 9 pm, and then try to put her to sleep so that I can do my hobby thing. My schedule was tighter than before, but it was worth it. It was fun in fact.. and I love every second of it :).

Note: Picture is from Google

Plans for this and the next week

Nothing much of a plan actually. Just enough to keep my hobby going.
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Painting :
A drop pod for Brother Kumbang a.k.a. my Dreadnought. Currently at 50%. Next in schedule is a Predator. The progress is slow coz hey.. Family comes 1st :)
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Gaming :
I'll be going back to Tg. Malim this Friday evening. Luckily, Legio is along the route from here to there so i might be able to drop by and roll some dice. I'll bring my Dark Elves for some WFB action. My list as usual will be:
Heroes: Lord on Cold Ones, 3 Assassins
Core: 20 DE Warriors, 10 Dark Riders
Special: 18 Black Guards, 12 Shades, 5 Cold One Knights
Rare: a War Hydra

If there's no WFB player around, I'll play my RG instead :
HQ: Shrike
Elites: a Dreadnought, 5 Terminators
Troops: 20 Marines
Fast: 10 Jumpacks, 2 Attack bikes
Heavy: 3 Predators.

Any takers?

EDIT : Seems like i cannot make it to Legio this week. Got things to do with my wife and kids. Another week without gaming for me. You guys have fun alright..

It is finally here!! The Gathering Storm!!

When Robert Jordan died 2 years back, i thought that was the end of my favourite band of heroes in the Wheel of Time saga. Just yesterday i find out the book 12 is out and kicking all around the globe.

The Gathering Storm, Book 12 of the Wheel of Time series. RM100 + at Kinokuniya. Cant wait to get my own copy :)


I am not a good writer, but i still wanna say a little bit about the story.

It is a story about 3 kampung boy who was destined to lead the world against the shadows. Each of them is like a pillar supporting a pyramid. If any of them die, the pyramid will fall, and so does the world will fall to the darkness. Even with them around, humanity has only a slightest chance at victory, for the situation is very critical, the forces of shadows is overwhelming, and the world is not yet prepared.

Rand Al'Thor

(The Dragon Reborn)

He is the reincarnation of a the mightiest leader of mankind during the Age of Wonders. The prophecy mentioned him as the saviour of the world against the shadows. He will defeat the Dark One, and destroy the world in doing so.

He is the most powerfull user of the One Power (magics) alive. Able to defeat an army of 40,000 strong in a single channeling. But even without the One Power, he was trained in the swordplay to a Swordmaster level. A very dangerous man, especially since his sanity is in questions.

He leads with iron will, almost a tyrant, something that he think is necessary or humanity have no chance at all.

Matrim Cauthon

(The Gambler/Trickster)

This cheerfull, happy go lucky lad is probably the best general alive in the world. He died once, and came back alive with his memory filled with experiences of hundreds of generals who lived and died during the Warring States era.

In battle he rides atop his horse (named Pips), weilding his A'shandarei (a power wrought spear) accompanied by his unending streams of good luck that was his trademark. He is immune to the effect of the One Power and a very skilled fighter with either his spear of dagger, making him a very dangerous fighter.

He leads The Band of Red Hand, named after a legendary warband during the warring era. The Band never suffered any lost, and his followers loved him because of that. "It's time to toss the dice", the tagline of The Band associated to Mat's superbly good luck.

Perrin Aybara

(The Wolf King)

A former Blacksmith, now a King. He is said to be the saviour after the world is destroyed by Rand in the last battle. He is a wolfbrother, able to communicate with the wolves and calls for their aid in battles. He goes to battle with his axe in hand. Cleaving and chopping like madness everything in his path. No special training in combat, his brute strength is what makes him a great fighter.

He leads by his charisma. Whatever he said, people will believe, and people will follow. Loved by all, his charisma is overwhelming even to the leader of another country to kneel before him.

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I dont know if i were able to spark any interest in you guys, i know i'm not a good writer so sorry if i messed up hahaha.

Aniway, update on Raven Guard Project --> nill :)

Too busy taking care of my kids.

That's it for this week. Thank you for reading.

I am a father!!

It was on September 18th, 2009, Friday at 11.03a.m. , my wife gave birth to a girl. Later at 11,28a.m. another baby was born. This time, a boy. The girl was named Alya (Height) Batrisyia (Intelligent/clever) and the boy Ammar (Strength of faith) Bakhtiar (Happiness).

From left - Alya & Ammar

From now on, Lord Aslan is no more. He is now Lord Ammar.

Happy Aidil Fitri!!

Selamat Hari Raya to all!!

For all the mistakes i've done, all the wrongdoings, all the things coming out of mouth which is not nice, all the arguments during games, all the TAs (lol), and everything..

Maaf Zahir & Batin.. My sincere apology from the very bottom of my heart.

Drive safely..

What? The car? Yes.. i painted it myself. Boltgun metal followed by a layer of Tamiya Smoke :lol:

Home Sweet Home

My office was decorated by the supporting staffs for the Merdeka Celebration. There was quite a few leftovers meterials that interest me much. I know i can come up with something using the leftovers.

So last night, after finishing another Firedrakes, i decided to have a break from painting and built this ruin of a house. I am greatly satisfied with the result as you can see below..

The eldar can't help themself to try out the new ruins..

Now what it need is a paintjob. I need to go and buy some spray. Adios.

RISE OF THE DAEMON PRINCES

When i make a WE list, there is always a double (or triple) of a same unit.
A sample list:

2 Khorne Prince
3 x 8 Berserkers with PWeapons, 2 Plasmas (in Rhinoes)
2 x 5 man Raptors with Meltas
2 x Dakka Preds
2 x Dreadnaughts 2DCCW + HFlamer
Total : 1750

My wife is now pregnant.. and is a twin :)
2 x Prince(ss)
.. and a lovely wife
Total : Priceless

Thanks GOD..

"My Worst Enemy Is Myself"

My RG is so lacking in terms of practice. I count around 7-8 games since they were established.

So i came up with this idea. Why not i play by meself. It sounds like crazy but i think it's brilliant. so i set up my table and brought out my World Eaters. Made a list of em and have a go with my RG.

And here is my WE forces:

Daemon Prince - MoKhorne, Wings

Kharn The Betrayer

8 Berserkers - AC with PowerSword, 2 Plasmas (in Rhino)

8 Berserkers - AC with PowerAxe, 2 Plasmas (in Rhino)

8 Berserkers - AC with PowerAxe, 2 Plasmas (in Rhino)

5 Raptors - 2 Meltas

5 Raptors - 2 Meltas

Predator - Autocannon, HBolters, HavocML

Predator - Autocannon, HBolters, HavocML
Predator - TWLasscannon, Lasscannon Sponsons

Captain Amir and his Command Squad

Chaplain - jumpack

5 man Terminators - Missiles

1 Dreadnought

10 man Tactical - Sgt with Combi-Melta, Meltagun, Plasma Cannon (Drop Pod)

10 man Tactical - Sgt with Combi-Melta, Meltagun, Plasma Cannon (Drop Pod)

10 man Assault Squad - Sgt with Pair of Claws, 2 Plasmas

10 man Assault Squad - Sgt with Pair of Claws, 2 Plasmas

The game was Capture and Control with Pitch Battle deployment

Highlights:

1. Capt. Amir shot his melta towards Kharn's Rhino and missed, and so was his veteran retinue. Following that they attempt to destroy it with brute force but failed their charge. Next turn, Kharn walks out of the Rhino and single-handedly wipe out Cpt Amir's Command Squad. They then fought one on one for 4 turns of CC where Cpt Amir came out the victor!!

2. Berserkers are within 2 inches of my objective and they want the skulls of RG troops protecting it. They failed charge with a double one moving through difficult ground. 2 Plasma cannons (at close range!!) incinerate them in an instant.

Result:

RG : Cpt. Amir and a lone marine bearing plasma cannon lives to tell the story - holds 0 objectives

WE : A Dakka-pred, 9 Raptors and a Rhino still hunting for skulls - holds 0 objectives

My RG almost got TAed, but it ended in a draw.

"Good game", i said to my other selves :)

Ancient Chaos Ruin

My 1st ever homemade terrain piece. Thanks to my wife, the ruin has start to grow trees :-)

To paint list

I rarely have time to paint nowadays.
Been too busy with my work and family.
Used to have 3-4 games every Saturday but not anymore.
Lash of Submission hurts bad.. nuff said.

Things to finish within the Ramadhan
i. Grotsnik - for my brother
ii. A BReach Termi - for B&C Contest
iii. Akkarin - final touch up
iv. 3 Kannons and 6 grots - for my brother
iv. Aslan - 2nd DP.

.. and the month afterwards.
World Eaters Legion - continuous.
IyanDean - for my brother.
Dark Elves - on hold to give way to 5th ed.
Necrons - 8 more mummified Immortals and we're finished
Raven Guard - or should i do other chapter instead??
Ultramarines - personal interest

So much to do.. so little time.

The Lady of Slaanesh

WS3 BS6 S2 T2 W3 I3 A3 Ld10 Sv2+ invul

Special rules :

The Grand Pavane of Slaanesh

She may cast up to 6 Lash of Submission per turn. The psychic power is casted automatically without needing any psychic test.

Enrapturing Spasm

All enemy models in base contact must pass leadership test (-6 modifier) to strike her in close combat or do nothing.

"The one that rules my life" - Lord AK