Happy St Patricks Day and a Blog shoutout

Well to be sure, to be sure, or something like that. Happy St Patricks day to everybody. Not much gaming done since the last update thanks to that wonderful day, Mothers Day. Basicly my wife is a florist, so I had a few days off to help her with Mothers Day (Delivery Boy and general help) and then she's moved shop and I've been helping with that! So I'm back at work tomorrow for a break!

Wargaming wise I'm going to Warrington GT again to play WFB and the event is now having a 40K tournament as well. WFB has sold out but if you want to try the 40K one, have a look HERE on The Warhammer Forum. There's also a few of us trying to get into the Open War XIII event at the end of May which should be fun. So with the Dragon Slayer Bash in April, Open War in May, Midlands Open in July and Warrington in September (plus a GW Heat), I've got plenty of events to look forwards to.

Also I want to do a Blog Shout out. As some of you may have been aware, GW held the 40K GT Final last weekend (Mothers Day weekend) and by all accounts it was a fun event. Neil Kerr (AKA Skcuzzlebumm) went and is writing a report on his PINK TYRANIDS Blog. He took 'Nurglisc' Daemons (you can see one of his models above) and did fairly well with them. Go to his blog for a read of how he got on.

Anyway, Guinness and sleep is calling now so until next time!

Soul Hunting and Reporting

Blimey, I seem to be getting more and more 40K orientated recently. It's understandable really as it was my first GW game as I got into the 2nd edition 40K just when it came out. Anyway, I popped into my local GW yesterday with the intent of looking through the Battle Missions book and I noticed Soul Hunter on the shelves.

I had quite enjoyed Lord of the Night and I had heard quite a few people have been rating this book, so I picked it up. And I couldn't put it down! I literally spent a few hours reading it once we popped round my Mother-in-Laws and it only got put down when me and my wife went out. Then it got picked up again and was read into the wee hours. It's a enjoyable book and worth getting.

Another reason I've been getting the 40K bug is seeing the Battle Reports done by the Bell of Lost Souls on Youtube. These aren't full blast battle reports but more a quick rundown about a game, and too be honest I have been enjoying them.

I ATE'NT DEAD

As Granny Weatherwax would say, "I ATE'NT DEAD". I've had a load of fun the last few weeks with my internet providers, Tiscali/Talk Talk. Now working in IT, I had a fairly good idea what the problem was (an issue at the Exchange) and was 100% sure it was nothing my end as my phone and router were working fine. I even said this when I phoned them up. Yet still they seemed to have bodged it up and spent a week raising a call with BT to check my phone line, and the engineer was very surprised when I answered the phone as he thought it wasn't working. So a few days later they've managed to fix it, but it seems only after I raised a complaint.

Anyway, Wargaming stuff now.....

I've played three games of WFB over the last few weeks. First game was against Steyvn and was a 1999 point practise game for the Open War event we both want to go to. He took his Dark Elves and I took my Daemons and the game ended with a draw in my favour. A couple of times, Steyvn was thinking about giving up, but I had to keep on telling him that it was close and it was! Second and Third games were against Chris, with my proxing up a Vampire Count army against a Daemon army he was trying out. I lost both games but that was more down to me not understanding how the vampires work.

For 40K, I've been getting more and more interested in the game again, and debating about painting somethings up. We also seem to have the new Blood Angel codex on the GW website, which is being shown as a White Dwarf cover for next month

Looks alright but I did prefer the mockup one I showed in my last entry. Currently waiting to see the codex before I make any desicions about what things I want to go for.