Vespera Strikes Back - Dark Eldar vs Blood Angels 2000 pts

Heya all, its been a while since I did anything resembling a 40k battle, and in the past few days I managed to get some games! There are some seal-clubbing as sometimes there are kids who want to learn about the game, but this battle report is done with one of the stronger opponents that I have not fought for a long time. So without further ado, here's the batrep!

Beckjann

Some pics from an old battle from before.

Heya all, 

I have a battle report planned for this bunch of pics, but nonetheless I am unable to remember much about the details of this battle. The few things I could remember are;

1) The Marine player is playing an entire company of Marines.

2) This is a killpoint mission and the Marine player decided to combat squad everything.

3) My list does not have enough firepower, and my confidence sank when he combat squad everything.

4) I did a lot of mistakes, and I was slaughtered badly, though was not tabled.

5) This battle assured me that I needed a Razorwing for this kind of nonsense, hence my purchase of my flying duck.

6) I need a better list with the Duke if I ever used him again.

Without further ado, here are some of the pics. I must also say sorry to the Space Marine player for not remembering much about this battle report as I was busy with life, but my kudos for him for bringing a chapter and pawning me cinematically.

Mustering of the Kabal - Full Army pic (of everything so far)

Heya all and welcome back!

After a year of nonsense, I managed to get my army up and running (or at least the components that I would be playing the most often with). Without further ado here are the stuff.

Mustering of the Kabal - WIP Baron

Heya all, it's been a while since I am in the webway.

I can safely say that from yesterday onwards, I have painted 2000+ points worth of Dark Eldar, and this in itself is an amazing achievement. And to reward myself for it, I decided to make this bad boy;

He will be my Baron, and with the exception of the glaive, head and some green stuff filling and a cape, he is quite done. I used some of the old Dark Eldar parts to make him unique, and since I friggin love metal, I decided to convert the baron's hoverboard from the metal Beastmaster's board.

I may use him, and in extension Hellions, but I will see how it goes.

And now I will be going back to studying for my philosophy final for next week. See ya soon enough once all this nonsense is done.

Mustering of the Kabal - Old School Rakarth and Razorwing

Heya all, its been a while since I posted in this blog. Life is really brutal these days (so much assignments and other considerations of real-life) and the small amount of time I have alone tends to go into very minuscule painting sessions or getting cheap entertainment (internet and hanging out with friends). Nonetheless those small painting sessions will bulk themselves up in the end, and I managed to get almost all the infantry done (just 4 more Trueborns and a Haemonculus).

I managed to get my hands on an old school Rakarth a few months back, and this model ranks highly on things I am most fond of painting (The worst thing to paint in a DE army are the Ravagers in my opinion) and thus I paind quite a lot of attention to this fellow. There are several more models that I would like to show but as of this moment, I only got so much time to show these guys off.

On the odd end of things, while painting my infantry and waiting for the paint to dry on the blending that I did on so many of my models, I managed to get my Razorwing up and running somehow. I painted this aircraft as a way to wait for the paint to dry up on my infantry models. As I am nearing the completion of my little sadist bondage space elves, I managed to finally finished painting this beast. Compared with all the other vehicles, I almost felt that this vehicle just came to existence without me doing anything.

Without further ado, I am now going back to realspace. I will try to update if I could.

P.S: For some reason I tend to envision my Razorwing as a duck. If you guys could tell me why, I would he happy to listen to it. Lol.

The Mustering of the Kabal

Hello all, I am back in the Webway after so bloody long, and the summer is here. And with my ass back into the hobby I went on a rather mad frenzy of building my army and painting it. But with that I need to prioritize a few things in order for me to get the gist of how best I can bring the army in full force and in technicolor....

Thus withy that in mind I lay out the few things that would be the basis of what I need to bring a force of my own on the table;

1) Repaint - I realized that solid colors of yellow takes too much time, and somewhat cartoonish at the same time. Thus I decided to try something that would fit the equation of being sinister and also easy to paint at the same time. I lused one of my converted Archons as a labrat to see what suits my tastes and also need best. The results?

This is the high-end of the color scheme that fits with my original idea of using Yellow and black. The methods for the normal grunts and vehicles will be much simpler than the color scheme that I used for this guy, but enough to make it above tabletop-standard.

2)Rethink Theme - Fluffwise, nothing changed for the Kabal of the Rapturous Venom, and I still like the Trojan/Egyptian eye hieroglyphs so I kept them. The majority of my army is Kabal-based, so that was also taken into account. 

3) Paint the Vehicles first - These will be the things that I will deploy and therefore the units that will be seen by all. Therefore, the vehicles should be the first things painted in my army. With that in mind, I went on a painting frenzy. The pics will tell what I did whenever I got free time for the past two weeks;

Right now I am doing several things at once and thanks to the weird process of painting that I use, I managed to complete 3 Raiders and a Ravager, 80% done with the Venoms and second ravager, and 50% done with the last Ravager. There are more vehicles to paint, but those vehicles will only be used in much larger games, so I do not see the need to paint the other two converted old-school raiders and a converted Venom from a Vyper.

Some interesting effects I managed to create using the most basic of techniques. Drastic layering, washing and highlighting all come into play to make everything pop up.

First time painting cockpits, so I was a little intimidated, but in the end I guess I did well enough. I would love to blend it, but I realized that it will really burn me away if I do so. So with that some simple layering did the job.

4) Play games to see if I am painting the right things - It is always a bummer when you painted something so welll but it never gets on the table. With that I tried to get as much games as possible. Last Wednesday I managed to get two games (and those are my first games in ages) against a Nidzilla army (3 Trygons, Swarmlord, stuff like that). For the first game I managed to make the Nid player concede within two turns, and for the second game, it was won by the nid player, but just barely (this is due to me intentionally taking the bait and wanting to see my army perform under adversity).

Suffice to say, I am quite pleased with the list I build and I will continue on painting the vehicles (especially the Venoms, they make me a happy bastard).

So far everything works according to plan, but that's when #5 comes into play;

5) Real-life situations-  I will be going back to my home country for at least 1 1/2 months. So right now, I will try to paint as much as I could before I go back. Not sure if I should bring my Dark Eldar with me or not for  I do not want to carry so much luggage and I may be following my sister to the US as a chaperon of sorts, so bringing an army is kinda impractical.

SO with that, that's the progress of my life and my Kabal. Will be coming back with more stuff.