Weekend Laze

Ok so this time, not so much a weekend laze as more of a summer holiday laze ;)

Tau: How they play - Part Deux

Last Friday was the second battle I played with Tau since I rebooted my army. Last time I wrote a post pondering what I did wrong and/or could do better. So today, let's take a look at the lessons I learned and what can still use some improvement.

Friday Night - Fight Night

Friday night was the second battle fought with my rebooted Tau Empire army.
Compared to last time, I brought along a Fireblade instead of a Crisis Commander as my warlord. This is a difference of about 120 points, which was well spent on extra Troops in the form of Firewarriors.

To accomodate another squad of Firewarriors, I left 3 of the stealth suits at home and as such, only took 3. This allows them to be more stealthy and less of an attention magnet. Apart from some changes in armament, those were the only major changes in my army list. So:
+ 20 Firewarriors and Fireblade
- 3 Stealth suits and Crisis Commander

Read on to find out how my list did against the same Tyranid list as last time... (both lists can be found in this post and its comments)

1500p Casual Tau army

And now for something completely different... (no painting progress this time)

On friday, I've got another battle planned with my Tau army. The usual approach to building an armylist for me is to start off with what I have (if I don't have enough models to fill the points value) and go from there, adding in a few proxies where necessary. (We decided on 1500pts)

This time will be no different...

Weekend Laze: Racing, washers and racing

This seems to be happening a lot lately, so why not make it a recurring item on the blog, right...

Let me introduce:

WEEKEND LAZE

So once again, the weekend was filled with stuff to do, only, not much on the warhammer-side of things...

SmiKroot

So I decided to paint my Kroot Carnivores next and I started experimenting for a color scheme.

Earth Caste BioMech Research: Kroot colonies

Greetings fellow Earth Caste researchers.

This treatise handles the physiological discrepancies of divergent Kroot colonies in relation to Fire Caste applicability of mercenaries.

It was not done... NOW it's done!

It looked done... but it didn't feel done...
And like I said in yesterday's post, I wanted to go back in and add some smaller markings, just to tie it all together. I also said I needed a break from painting... well, here's what I did yesterday...

Devilfish down!

Like usual, the above pic is where I left the model after the previous painting session.

I got a little bit of painting done this weekend, and because I couldn't resist, I also stuck together a pathfinder (of which I don't have picture proof).

The end is nigh!

Apocalypse Then?

Back when the first iteration of Apocalypse was released, I was in a 2 year hobby-void where the only thing I did, related to the hobby, was read codices and novels. I did this just to stay in the hobby mind-set for a bit.

So I bought the book and read it cover to cover. I wasn't very impressed and as I didn't have a big enough army nor a regular opponent, no Apocalypse games were played. The big models were cool, like the Baneblade and Stompa (was that released along with Apoc?), but the release came and went and not much of an F was given.

I read the recent rumors about the new iteration of Apocalypse and had the same thought about it: Meh.
But then...

Devilfish update!

This was the Devilfish before I did what I did last night...

Another weekend without hobbytime

I'm not saying I've been a lazy cat, it was only the hobby side of my life that didn't get any attention these last couple of days...