First Iron Hands squad complete!

So I have finished painting my first squad of Iron Hands. It is just a basic 20 man tactical squad. Only 70-odd infantry to go!

Old stuff is good

I find as I do more work on weathering, that I really do love old decrepid decaying buildings.  I also love rust, seeing how it forms, what it does, and the fantastic range of colours.

But that aside, more work on the Rhino, yes.  Completed work on rust, smoke damage, lenses (first for me), and base coat on the tracks.  Yes, the tracks are bone coloured, as my army is based on limestone/sand, and as such the tracks have been discoloured.

Weathering powders up next. 

 

Vehicle weathering

These are my first attempts at weathering a vehicle.  Thus far I done rust with some water marks, mainly on rivets and as of last night chipping.

WD40, Stat!

Wraithguard - First Eldar Unit Finished

Iron Hands infantry.

So after starting work on my hobby project I was enjoying it so much I started assembling some of my Iron Hands. Well. All of my Iron Hands infantry. I am looking at starting to paint this weekend. Hopefully the weather is amazing.

HAMMERTIME ESCALATION LEAGUE - SEASON ONE

Below is my suggested set up for our escalation league. Please comment to help refine it.

HAMMERTIME ESCALATION LEAGUE - SEASON ONE

The goal of the league for our small group is to finally gain a decent grasp on the rules and also to build up themed non power armies. The objective is to play to games a month (at least initially) with an ascending points level. This will be reviewed as we move in to higher points value as geographic and other considerations come into play.

ARMY BUILDING

The initial points limit for each army is 500 points. This will increase by 250 points each month. There are a number of guidelines that must be followed in army creation:

• All armies must be Battle Forged

• Any number of detachments may be used to create an army

• Allies of any type may be used as per the BRB rules. (19/4/15)

• Games of 500/750 points only require 1 Troops choice

• Forge World army lists and rules are allowed

• Removed Super Heavy rule. List ranking should punish cheese. (19/4/15)

• Games 1000 points or less will be played in 4 by 4 tables

• Games 1250 or higher will be played on 6 by 4 tables unless a smaller tables is agreed upon by both players

• Whilst the Main army choice (ie base codex) may not change over the league the army list does not have to always include the same units. This means the units in the 500 point army list do not have to be auto included in the 750 point list.

LIST SUBMISSION

Each round will have a due date for draft and final list submission. Lists need to be posted to the blog for peer review. Each other player in the league is required to post a comment with a rating (1 - 5)  in the comments section of the list. Foe example a rating of 3 would have a comment "Draft 3".  An extremely unbalanced power list would be given a rating of 1. A well balanced list with a few nasties may be given a rating of 3. A fluffy as all hell probably going to lose list would be given a rating of 5.After draft ratings have been applied the player then has until the closing date for final lists to tweet and resubmit their list. Comments and ratings then need to reapplied in the form of "Final 3".The total for the final ratings will be added up and this becomes a players final rating. When a game is played two players compare ratings and the difference becomes the number of rerolls the player with the highest average gets over the course of the game. Rounding is done as per normal maths.For example: Rob has an average of 3.75 (3, 3, 4, 5) and Paul has a rating of 4.25. There is a different of 0.5. This is rounded up to 1. Therefore Paul will have a single dice reroll during the game.

Players should aim for the total points value for the round however, generally speaking, 1 or 2 points over should not be a concern. 

TIMETABLE

Round One - 

24th May - List Submission - Draft

31st May -  List Submission - Final

1st - 30th June - Round One Games

Round Two - 

23rd June - List Submission - Draft

30th June - List Submission - Final

1st - 31st July - Round Two Games

Each round for the league has a mini timetable attached to it to ensure "cool runnings"

RANDOM DRAW

Each player is assigned a number from 1 - 5 each month and that determines who they play according to a pre determined table

.For example 1 - rob 2 = josh  3 = andy 4 = paul 5= aaron

Each month the play number will be rerolled to create a random draw.The Vs tables is however static.

1v2

3v4

5V1

2v3

4v5