Something to think about: Night Spinner

I don't think there has been enough talk about the new Eldar tank. I was reading C Swizzy's post about the Night Spinner when this idea struck me...

The Night Spinner brings the Eldar a strong long range tank without need for LOS. Not to mention that it's a fast tank so you can move from cover to cover if the enemy gets too close and shoot them too!!!

Now the part I haven't seen anybody mention: Night Spinners can damage Land Raiders! It's true. S6 with Rending allows for a maximum strength of 15. Now, while it isn't reliable it is something to consider especially if you have three. Imagine the surprise on your opponents face when you pull that little trick. You place your templates right in the middl and they think you're crazy until you roll those rends and you end up penetrating and blowing up their 250 point unit! As improbable as it is, the threat you can pose to any armor makes them worth taking.

Also I'm not too familiar with the Necron Living Metal rule on the monolith but if you can rend that too that just poses another threat to that player. Granted, why are you shooting at the monolith but hey it's your game...

Just something to think about.

-Matt

Autarchs, Books, Apocalypse... OH MY it's been a while

Well I know I haven't made good on my promise to update more regularly but that isn't for lack of progress. I will be including pictures of my converted Autarch as promised, but first a hobby update. I have been working on my army and I have decided to change the theme of my army. I am going to change the color scheme to Alaitoc, blue and yellow.

This occurred to me after reading Gav Thorpe's latest book, The Path of the Warrior. To anyone out there who hasn't read it or is on the fence... get it...now. It is a fantastic book by one of Black Libraries best authors, in my humble opinion. His venture into the Eldar psyche is great and brings the xenos into a life of their own outside the game. His characters feel incredibly real although notably not human. I was a bit worried that it would feel like any other sci-fi book but I was dead wrong. This is a definite must read for any player, Eldar or otherwise.

On a separate note, I have been working with a few other guys at my FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) to organize an Apocalypse game this weekend. We will have anywhere from 6 to 10 people coming to play with each player allowed 4000 points! Talk about apocalyptic! We could have a 40k point 40k game!!! Needless to say I am excited. This will be my first Apocalypse game and I will be taking pistures of the action and hope to do a battle report on it. So keep an eye out for that.

So finally here are the pictures of my converted Autarch. Shoot me any comments you have. Talk to you in a little bit! Enjoy!

Happy Belated 4th everybody!

Happy 4th of July. I know it's a little late but I took a quick vacation and went to visit my parents over the long weekend. I didn't get any hobbying done, naturally, but I finished up my final HQ slot, the Autarch mounted on a Jetbike. I will follow with a full post tomorrow along with a pic or two of all of my HQ's. 'Til then I hope everyone had a good weekend. Talk to you soon.

-Matt