Friday, March 23, 2007

Movie thoughts, Army ideas

Curreny hobby: knee deep in Warhammer 40k.

Working 2 jobs, one at Blockbuster video, then the real job at Preferred Care.

Thinking about movies i would show at BB (when i'm not supposed to), i thought i completely agree with George Carlin:
i would rather show an X rated movie to children than a movie full of blood, gore, and violence. a movie of people making love over people killing each other. that said, at work i am more apt to put on "Conan" (1 scene of "sex" where a woman is brought to Conan's cage after he wins a duel to the death) than i am to put on "Emmanuelle in Space" or "The Red Shoe Diaries". Wierd. my conformist is showing. sorry.

this week has been terrible for my 40k army. didn't get any modelling in. but i did come up with my 1500 point army list i will (assuming i can make it) be playing at Marines over Miami (http://www.rudypicardo.com/WH40kRTTforums).
my orks are coming along.
amy has me worried that i "over-modelled" my leman russ tank.

current 1500 point codex orks army list:
Warboss Don Grimdakka- eavy armour, cybork body, iron bonce, PK, choppa
trukk boyz (Grimdakka's ride) 9 boyz - burna; trukk: red paint, rokkit
trukk boyz x10 - burna; nob: pk, choppa; trukk: red paint, rokkit
storm boyz x15
slugga boyz x20 - rokkits x3; nob: pk, choppa, ammo runts x2
slugga boyz x20 - rokkits x3; nob: pk, choppa, ammo runts x2
buggies x2 - skorcha, red paint, spikes n blades, stikkbomb chucka
killa kan - big shoota
killa kan - big shoota
looted leman russ - battle cannon, heavy bolter, grot riggers, armour plates

need to get a couple more nobs and some storm boyz. and 2 trukks. i have one but it's the GW model that looks like trash. i am really excited about some of my ideas for trukks. more conversion work:
one trukk will be an old lowrider cadillac with an ork riding shotgun with a rokkit launcher on his shoulder.
  • need to put together some of my fantasy gobbos so that i can model them into ammo runts.
  • need to put together the stormies i have
  • need to convert the shoota boyz i have into slugga boyz.
  • need to finish converting and paint drivers for the buggies and trukk.
  • need to finish and GS the nob on my computer desk so that he can be primed
  • need to prime one and paint both killa kans


ideas on the tactics of the army: the warboss will be attached to a trukkboyz mob. this way he'll see some fighting. both trukks will roll up supporting eachother with the buggies screening if needed. would like to be able to attack from a flank as there's more opportunity to consolidate into another unit, less chance being shot up on the way in, etc. buggies spout flamey-goodness at anything in range, tank shock if needed. the trukks blow their load onto the battlefield and the orks charge. stormies to be the 2nd wave. then the kan-shielded boyz will make up the third wave.

thoughts on other models, the other "trukk" could be a tracked-catipillar type bulldozer with a towed gas/water/milk tanker with flat tires a la "Tremors". the tanker would be cut in half so that the boyz could fit in.

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