Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Itzacon for the blog!

Finally, after far too many months of saying I'll do this, I'm actually starting work on a blog!

Itzacon is FanSci's (NUI Galway) very own games convention that every year grows larger to entertain us with gimmicks... and plenty of cheap beer!

Normally I'd bring my double land raider Space Wolves list, that I've been using for the last 2 years nearly, but this year I decided to throw a spanner in the mix! Chatting with one of the local wargamers (some of you may know of Stormy) the idea of using what is the most unseen army in the country came to mind. "What's that army?" you might be asking, well that army is... Sisters of Battle! After their revamp as a White Dwarf codex they've not been seen in any tournament I've been to/kept track of.

The list I brought was

Celestine
Kyrinov

10 Sisters - 2 Melta
-Rhino - Extra Armour
10 Sisters - 2 Melta
-Rhino - Extra Armour
10 Sisters - 2 Melta
-Immolator - Multi Melta
10 Sisters - 2 Melta
-Immolator - Multi Melta

5 Dominions - 2 Melta, Combi-Melta
-Immolator - Heavy Flamer, Dozer, Searchlight
5 Dominions - 2 Melta, Combi-Melta
-Immolator - Heavy Flamer, Dozer, Searchlight
5 Dominions - 2 Melta, Combi-Melta
-Immolator - Multi-Melta, Dozer, Searchlight

6 Retributors - 4 Heavy Bolters, Extra Girl, Storm Bolter
6 Retributors - 4 Heavy Bolters, Extra Girl, Storm Bolter
6 Retributors - 4 Heavy Bolters, Extra Girl

No Jacobus!... No Exorscist's!... What’s going on here!?
Well I know Jacobus is in another league compared to Kyrinov and that Exorcists are the only long range unit that can hurt mech, but I wanted to use the weight of fire that the Rets bring to the game and Kyrinov is very useful for making sure that they won’t panic at a broken nail and run to the salon!

Another reason I wanted to do this was (well after being reminded by one of the wargamers who was down from a fantasy event 2 weeks ago) I was going to take up the challenge of a certain Mr. Paul Quigley who announced on the Irish Wargaming Podcast, which can be found spread down long the page here, that he (or in this case I) will attend a convention during the season and come in the top 10 with Sisters.

I'll be posting up the Battle Reports for my games from over the weekend at a later point. Let’s see if I can make a regular thing of these posts!