Some Random Musings

So as I sit here not achieving much on a lazy Friday I thought I'd post a few lazy thoughts on a mish-mash of various thoughts and topics that have bouncing around lately.

Firstly, the Cricket

After a surprisingly successful first innings in the Dunedin Test, the Black Caps and England seem to have remembered their respective status in world cricket, and are finally playing as such. Our team of hard working but generally average bowlers are currently toiling away on a seemingly dead pitch in Wellington, while the English score runs at will. I feel the world is right again.

Here in Australia, the once mighty, overly arrogant and obnoxious Australian cricket team is collapsing in a heap in India, with players thrown out for not doing their homework and packing tantrums. Its really quite joyous to see! Come on, India!!!

Meanwhile in other sports news, I'm trying to get my head around this game they call Australian Footy without much success... All I can tell is that apparently you have to be injected with drugs to play??

Also F1 Weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VICC Team Tournament

Oh yes, the shirts are coming off!

For the past week or two I've been getting stuck into catch up painting my High Elves in preparation for the upcoming VICCs team tournament. Basically its the tournament for all the local gaming clubs to prove they collectively have a bigger cock than everyone else. It sounds like its gonna be interesting, based on the stories I've heard from the Hampton guys. Apparently the scenarios are awful and completely messed up, but I'll just aim for a bit of a laugh at the end of the day.

I got roped in to play by Ben (found at: http://shirtsoffwarhammer.blogspot.com.au/) and his mates, to form Team Shirts Off Warhammer, so the elves are coming out to drop big rocks on gunlines, and generally hide in a corner. After a couple of practice games, I'm pretty happy with my list (I won't share it yet as its all very serious business ;-)) and Chaffmasters may now be my favourite unit in Warhammer after one unit destroyed a unit of 8TK Chariots and most of a horde of Bloodletters singlehandley in consecutive games. Seriously, they are 100 odd points on OMG WTF Choppiness. Glad no one takes BS shooting these days!

My teammates are taking the following:

Ben - his trusty Doom Divers plus some other O&G
Nick - one last run with Billy and his friendly Letter horde
Greg - Dwarves (for the doubles Day 2 with my Elves, we aim to ruin hobbies quite spectacularly) and his back up, TKs for the singles

I think we have a good strong mix of army types, but unfortunately I have to spend the weekend writing some kind of fluff justification for this mix of armies, cause you get points for your team for it. (they seriously seem to have an unhealthy obsession with it over here). Any ideas on how the 5 most unlikely armies to ever hold hands would join together to kill the world will be greatly welcomed!

Tournaments in a couple of weeks so I may give a rundown of what happens, if I feel excited.

Daemons

Apparently this happened...

After much pondering, I think I've come up with a list I'll enjoy playing. Idea behind the list is Twin Sisters, the Slaanesh Prnice is Little Miss Perfect but utterly callous and cruel (think Sarah Michelle Gellar from Cruel Intentions) and the other is jealous and angry of all the attention she gets and turned to Khorne in order to outdo her sister.

See I have fluff justification for the Cannon, honest!

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh, Greater Gift (aiming for the Whip so she can sit back and smash stuff at range with 2d6 S6 shots)

Daemon Prince of Khorne, Chaos Armour, Lesser Gift (I'll take what ever, opponent dependant, but ASF or some S8 KB for armour smashing will be preferred I think)

Herald of Slaanesh,  on Steed, Beguiling, 2 Lesser Gifts (Assassin herald ftw?)

Herald of Khorne, BSB, Greater Gift (ideally 2+ armour, but +3 attacks works alright I think)

28 Bloodletters, Full Command

13 Daemonettes, Standard, Muso (mainly to satisfy Watch Tower/B&G requirements)

6 Seekers (for the Herald)

2 Seeker Chariots

4 Crushers (hide the DPs a little and good fast support for them too)

Skull Cannon (because... well... Cannon!)

Pretty smash-tastic. No magic, no shooting, just get stuck in fast and hurt stuff. Something about 2 Princes and 2 Chariots and Crushers hitting a unit at once sounds appealing!

Thoughts are welcome.

Other Warhammer News

In other news, Equinox is on this weekend in Auckland, and the Twitterati have been discussing it loud and long. 

The long promised lists have finally arrived, but from what I'm reading half of them are wrong, including 1 WoC army using the old book (seriously???) and 1 army with 3 Manglers. This makes me wonder why? Its really not that hard to write a correct list, is it? 

I honestly feel for Phil (and all TO's) having this sort of crap dumped on him, when there's so much other stuff to sort out. I really think TO's need to take a hard line on this sort of stuff (and for the record I will happily accept the punishments if I receive them) or it just gets out of hand. It came to the fore in the UK last year, and seems to have been accepted by the community with, last I heard, lists being much better than 6 months ago. I realise how hard it is to make that decision, given the negative connotations it brings, but surely players can see how much extra time and effort it places on the TO, when an extra 5 minutes spent on their list to check it twice could save all the hassle.

Guess this brings into question how seriously we are taking things, but having to deal with some guy and his illegal list 3 rounds into a tournament isn't exactly fun either imo.

Anyway, I look forward to hearing the results and hope everyone has fun. Should be interesting to see how the new Warriors go with all their fancy toys.

Well that's my random thoughts for the week. Have a good weekend everybody, I shall be getting horribly sunburnt on the hill at the Melbourne F! Grand Prix :-D