My Terminators' Well-Earned Nickname

The Assault Terminator is widely believed to be one of the best Close Combat units in the game, and the Charges that they deliver are absolutely devastating to practically everything in the 40k model range.

Mine, 35% of the time, can be said to live up to the hype. Other times they charge out of their Faildozer(read: Land Raider) and get their Tactical Dreadnought Armored-Asses handed to them by 14 Shoota Boyz. Or, for example, lose three of their battle brothers to 5 long range Pulse Rifle shots. /facepalm Basically, my hammer unit failed me at every opportunity, therefore losing me some games. Which I suppose is the best argument against using a "Death Star" reliant army. Oh well. I have some thinking to do for next year!

The GT that I attended was a lot of fun and it was great to meet some more gamers in the area. The tables could have used some more terrain(what else is new?) but other than that was well-run and everyone seemed to be there to play some competitive games while behaving in a sporting manner. I was unfortunately unable to attend the second day due to the fact that upon returning home on Saturday night my wife and I were treated to giving my children and ourselves a good Lice-icidal Shampooing and washing all of our bedding and vacuuming all of our furniture for the better part of the night and the wee hours of the following morning. No one in the house woke up on Sunday morning until well after the second round had started. Ahh, back to school season is such a treat, n'cest pas?

Army on display board.

On this day, the enemy shall know fear.

My latest Battle Report.

I'm going to link to the one on dakka http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/314948.page

and also try this...

Which doesn't work. Growing pains, bear with me.

End of turn 5

End of turn 4

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End of turn 1

My deployment

Doug's Deployment

The Hands of Vengeance showing off the fall line of shoulder pads.

My pretty Rhino

Heh. I need to be more attentive to this...

I went up to Adventurer's Guild in Riverside and it's a very cool store. I met 3 guys named Jason, Jason... and Jason(?) and had a very good game. I lost with seven kill points to Jason's eight, and I realized that not only do I need to step up my game from a tactical standpoint but also in regard to painting.

It gave me a good incentive to haul my paints out and give my Marines a much needed highlighting and I'm pretty pleased with the result. We'll see what the judges at the SoCal Smackdown think.

Deployment

End of 5

I knew things were going well when I had put a serious hurt on all three Hammerheads.  Good game, Ian!

End of 4

I am absolutely not getting out of that Rhino. Not now, not ever.