I realized I never posted a picture of my own army for the Combat Patrol tournament. I didn’t even take one, even though I displayed it for the best painted army vote. So here it is: For the close-combat scouts, I painted up an alternative sergeant to the one shown earlier, since a power sword is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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: # […]
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 […]
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 […]