CM1850 list; AV 14 Spam

1850

    * Kharn the Betrayer

    * Warpsmith

* Chaos Space Marines
        4x Chaos Space Marine, Flamer

    * Chaos Space Marines
        4x Chaos Space Marine
        * Aspiring Champion

    * Chaos Space Marines
        4x Chaos Space Marine, Flamer

    * Khorne Berzerkers (Troops)
        Icon of Wrath, 8x Khorne Berzerker
    
    * Khorne Berzerkers (Troops)
        Icon of Wrath, 8x Khorne Berzerker

    * Heldrakex2
        Baleflamer

* Chaos Land Raider
        Dirge caster,Dozer Blade

* Chaos Land Raider
        Dirge caster,Dozer Blade

    * Imperial Bastion
        Gun emplacement with Icarus lascannon

Basic list idea is to be "counter-meta" by bringing three AV14 models. LRs with Zerkers and Kharn move up to midfield and look threatening and/or counter assault as needed. Min size CM squads camp the back field objectives. Warpsmith and CM squad man the Bastion. Drakes just act OP as normal...; )
Thoughts?

Hive Fleet Lemenhead; Hive Guard

Some pics of my Hive Guard I finished as part of the ICs hobby progress challenge.

Initial Daemon Observations

Obviously one game is just one game, but i really enjoyed playing the new book last night. Played against my buddies Eldar last night (lots of dakka) and i did pretty well. A few anecdotal observations:

1. This army is FAST; used a big unit of seekers, screamers and bloodcrushers. Yes, Bloodcrushers got nerfed defensively but the speed bonus is big. Plus its hard to focus on them when Screamers are bearing down.

2. Soul Grinders are tough; kinda remind me a "tank" in an MMO, the enemy cant ignore them and theyre hard to kill. Nurgle marked means its pretty easy to get 4+ cover all the time.

3. The army has a lot of "synergy"; Herald on Disc with Divination giving buffs to Screamers, Masque preventing overwatch on a unit so my Crushers could charge...

4. The warp storm chart is mostly bad for your enemy; we played six turns and he lost 6 models from the storms including his Farseer on the dreaded 9

Space Hulk Preview

Really excited for this

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/01/space-hulk-preview/

Hive Fleet Lemenhead

Working on a Nid army as part of the Hobby Progress Challenge on the Independent Characters. Here's some pics of my gargoyles i just finished.

New Daemon Pics!!!

http://plastickrak.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/new-daemons-pictures.html?m=1

Tournament Recap

Played in the RTT at Dropzone today. I went 1-2. A little disappointed as I could have easily gone 2-1. All my opponents were extremely nice guys and it was a pleasure to meet each of them.

- First game against a mish-mash DE and Eldar list. Plenty of DE skimmers, some D-Cannons, Aegis gun line with quad gun, and Drazar with some Incubi. Won objective game fairly comfortably as I let him come to me and popped a bunch of the skimmers. And no, the Aegis is no protection against 2 Heldrakes...

- Second game, kill points, played a fairly nasty list composed of Necrons and Chaos Marines. A bunch of Wraiths, 2 Tesla destructor skimmers, immortals scarabs, 2 big zombie squads, Typhus and a Heldrake I was completely thrown off by the speed of the wraiths and scarabs. Add on to that the Daemon Prince going down early on some bad dice rolls and Typhus Mind Shackling himself in the face and it was bad...

- Last game, Relic against Typhus/Zombie list. 60 zombies, 5 nurgle spawn, Typhus, some oblits, Heldrake, Plaguebearers and a unit of Flamers and Screamers. Kicking myself for not winning this. I basically tried to hang back and not grab the relic too soon, but it backfired and he was able to just hang onto it with zombies. I killed 3/4 of his army and totally handled the Flamers and Screamers. My fault on this one...

Here was my list along with notes in parentheses:
+ HQ +
    * Daemon Prince (Totally not worth it; too many horde and multi-wound armies out there, need Black Mace if I take him)
        (Daemon, Fearless, Veterans of the Long War) Close Combat Weapon, Gift of mutation ,  Nurgle Power Armour Wings
    * Typhus (Pretty awesome, a lot of utility, may need to do the zombie thing...)
+ Troops +
    * Plague Marinesx3 (Did fine as always; lack of Rhinos hurt against the 2 Heldrakes I played)
        7x Plague Marine 2x Plasma Gun
    * Plague Marines 
        2x Meltagun 5x Plague Marine       
+ Fast Attack +
    * Heldrakex2 (Wow these things are great; even Vector striked another Heldrake to death...)
        Baleflamer
+ Heavy Support +
    * Chaos Predator (Surprise star; did a nice job against DE and against Daemons)
        Autocannon, Dirge Caster , Havoc launcher , Heavy Bolters
    * Obliteratorsx2 (Great as always)
        (Bulky, Daemon, Deep Strike, Obliterator Weapons, Slow and Purposeful)
        Mark of Nurgle , 2x Obliterator , Veteran of The Long War

I think for changes, I'm going to dump the Daemon Prince, add two squads of 25 Plague Zombie, cut down to 2 squads of Plague Marines, and add 5 Nurgle Chaos Spawn (T6, 3 wounds, Beasts, these things seemed pretty good)