Orks in 6th: Nob bikers

In the transition from 4th edition to early 5th and later on in the same edition we saw Nob Bikers going from good to amazing to meh. Quite the sine graph there! While I never run an army with two Nob Biker Deathstars, I always had a smaller unit of these and it really helped in my games. As long as you kept their point cost low enough so you could  include other needed stuff in your army they were a must have. They were a resilient, hard hitting, scoring and fairly reliable unit. Very useful in any ork army. The only downside is that they always needed a Warboss on a bike to baby sit them because Leadership 7 would see them running off the board more often than not.

In the MSU meta environment of the mid to late 5th edition (after the Imperial Guard codex came out and especially after Grey Knighs) Nob Bikers just didn't cut it any more. Almost everyone was packing enough high Strength weapons to sent them home and even if they reached enemy lines, charging a rhino or a chimera didn't mean much. So let's see how all this changes in 6th edition.

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Orks in 6th : Battlewagons

I want to start talking about the Orks since (at least for me) they seem easier to comprehend how they function in 6th edition. I also want to start from specifics before I move on to any general conclusions.

So, the mighty Battlewagons. They've been a staple for my army for a while now and I've been relying on them to deliver my Boyz in to the enemy lines. They gave me mobility (almost a guaranteed second turn charge) and they were very durable if you tagged along a Mek with a Kustom Force Field for the ride. So how has this changed with 6th edition?

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Long time, no post (6th edition)

Hey guys (and gals?)!

How is it going? I know I haven't posted for a while but this annoying little thing called "the real life" finally caught up with me  these last few months. Been busy with stuff so not much time for Warhammering (on the tabletop and the Internet alike). Furthermore I was really waiting for the new edition before I started playing some games and buying/painting new models for new army lists.

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Old Stuff Day

Wow, it's been a year already? Time flies as they say, I guess. For you who don't know, Old Stuff Day was an idea Rob from the Warhammer 39,999 blog had. It got a lot of support last year and from me also since I thought it is a neat concept. Well, the previous time I went for some of my oldest posts that have largely gone unnoticed at the time of their original publishing.

This year I would like to present again the posts I did for my ongoing blood angels army.

I am talking about my Vanguard Veterans,

my Sanguinary Guard

and a bunch of Assault Marines. 

I am very happy on how these guys turned out and painting them marked a new chapter on my painting paradigm, mainly painting infantry with an airbrush. Haven't done much painting since then unfortunately but I want to start again very soon. Who knows, maybe in 6th edition, Jump Infantry armies could be good. Cheers to another year of blogging too!

Its that time of the year...

With the tournaments going wild worldwide, we should not be surprised that Greece, has too been creeping up in the player base of wargaming. Where as several years ago you might of have never heard of Genocide Chronicles or the ICT, now its a decently common referance among fellow Greek wargamers.

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