2016 painting goals

The popular 40k weblog 40k Addict just announced the upcoming 2016⁄17 hobby season, where players can set their goals for the upcoming year. I’ve kept to calendar years when making my to-do lists, but that won’t stop me from listing my (remaining) goals for this year. I basically have one primary goal, and several secondary […]

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August 15, 2016 – 07:51 | By Itsacon | Posted in Warhammer | Comments (0)

Combat patrol tournament: Evaluation.

I won’t be posting a report of the last game. My opponent had brought an Eldar army that had pretty much maxed out the cheese available within the restrictions of the tournament: 4 scatter bikes 3 scatter bikes 5 Warp Spiders with Exarch 5 Warp Spiders with Exarch Even he agreed it was a bit […]

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August 12, 2016 – 13:30 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Tyranids

To re-cap: Last weekend I played had a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the fourth game, against a Tyranid army I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three Whirlwinds Game […]

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August 11, 2016 – 13:35 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Sisters of Battle

To re-cap: Last weekend I played had a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the third game, against a Sisters of Battle army I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three […]

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August 10, 2016 – 09:23 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Dark Angels

To re-cap: Last weekend I played a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the second game, against a Dark Angels Successor Chapter. I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three Whirlwinds […]

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August 9, 2016 – 11:54 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Eldar

Last weekend we had a 40k Combat Patrol tournament at my gaming group. Over the following days I’ll post a battle report for each of the five games I played. The rules for army selection were: 400 points, with a single detachment consisting of:  0–1 HQ 1–6 Troops 0–2 FA 0–2 HS 0–2 Elite Furthermore, […]

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August 8, 2016 – 13:48 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (1)

Upgrading Samba 3 to 4 on FreeBSD

Since Samba 3.6 finally became end-of-life on FreeBSD, I’ve been forced to upgrade to Samba 4 on my servers. Luckily, it was a relatively painless update. # portmaster ‑o net/samba43 samba36‑3.6.25_1 # mv /usr/local/etc/smb.conf /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf # mv /usr/local/etc/samba/* /var/db/samba4/private/ Finally, in /etc/rc.conf replace samba_enable=“YES” with samba_server_enable=“YES”. You can now restart Samba with the command: # […]

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April 25, 2016 – 10:38 | By Itsacon | Posted in Unix | Comments (0)

Reducing the number of disks in a ZFS pool

In the past I’ve shown how easy it is to expand a ZFS pool by adding extra disks. While this is the easiest way of expanding your storage capacity, it does come with a downside: From that moment on, you’re stuck with the larger number of disks, as ZFS does not have an easy way of […]

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October 14, 2015 – 14:51 | By Itsacon | Posted in Unix | Comments (1)

Van Saar Necromunda gang

I finished another set of models, namely my old Van Saar Necromunda gang. Two leaders, six gangers, four juves and four heavies/specialists. It only took me about 13 years! Again, old metal models. I kinda like them, although they are eminently unsuitable for a game like Necromunda. With a gang, equipment changes constantly, and the only […]

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March 30, 2015 – 10:27 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k, Necromunda | Comments (3)

Deathwing Librarian

When the new seventh edition rules for Warhammer 40k came out, with its renewed psychic face (welcome back, second edition!), I decided my Terminator Librarian would be a good choice as a first HQ unit to finish. It’s the old 1995 metal model, sculpted by Jes Goodwin. No conversions this time, just the original model, […]

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June 3, 2014 – 11:48 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)