As stated in last week's "Weekly Chronicle", Buckeye Battles was happening this past weekend but I had elected to cancel since it was against Ohio's gathering rules, so instead my son and I played a few games here at home to continue preparing for Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition and we broke out a game we have not played in a long time.
Saturday was the day of Warhammer 40,000. Our first game was 1000 points (8th Edition points), I elected to give my new 'Creations of Bile' army a a first time shot vs Dark Angels. The Mission was 'Divide and Conquer'.
This was a pretty close game and as you can see above, the Dark Angels squeaked out a small victory 47-37. I am still getting used to the Chaos army, and not having a Primaris type troop model does really hurt them. I am also still needing to assemble some 'Khorne Berzerkers' for the army, so I think that would help some too.
Our second game on Saturday was roughly 2000 points (new 9th Edition points) of my Imperial Fists vs Dark Angels.... payback is a bitch... We moved over to the larger table for this game, but I forgot to get any pictures of the game. The Mission was Front-Line Warfare.
My Imperial Fists just dominated this game wiping out every last model of the Dark Angels allowing the only points to be scored is for a painted army. My Imperial Fists won 88-10.
With the release of the new Tournament Pack this coming weekend, I heard some rumors that there will be a few changes on some of the lists can be built (mainly Specialist Detachments will not be allowed) so this will effect my Imperial Fists slightly, but it will also save me 1 CP when building my lists.
Sunday was a nice change of gaming. Since more than likely the majority of our gaming after this weekend will lean heavily towards Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition, we decided to break out the gaming mat and models for Arena Rex. It has been a very long time since we played this game (only played it once in all of 2019) so it was a nice change and quite fun. Since I was drawing a blank on the rules while setting up, we decided to keep the battles 3v3, but we did play 2 games.
In both of my games I was playing my 'Ludus Magnus' and my son was playing a bulk of 'Legio XIII', but with a single 'Helleniki' model. Between games we each did swap a model to change things up a bit.
This was the setup for the first battle with three Deadly Pits in the arena, my 'Ludus Magnus' were able to win this battle with 2 remaining models still standing in the arena.
For the second battle, we swapped out one of the Deadly Pits for a Living Hazard, the Lion. It was now payback for 'Legio XIII' as they won this battle with some help from the Lion, Deadly Spikes and a Pit.
So that was 4 games played this past weekend, probably the most since what was suppose to be AdeptiCon weekend.
No painting was done this week, and it does not look too good this coming week, I "may" actually prime an Arena Rex model since it has been a long time since I last painted one of these.
Now comes next weekend which is the releases of Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition aka "Indomitus" boxed set. My son and I each were able to get a pre-order in with our local store out in Kalamazoo, and we wont be picking those up till later in the day (around dinner) so not much will be done that evening. More than likely we will be using the new points book and start updating some of our lists with pen and paper just so we have a few ready to go for when time allows. We shall see what the plan then is for Sunday, probably start assembling some of the models and reading through the new rulebook.
Models Completed: 0
Games Played: 4
It is a little bit later in the day than usual for this post, but I had a busy morning. Unfortunately nothing was painted this week, but I did get a few colors done on an Arena Rex model this past Saturday, hopefully I will have time this week to finish him up.
