Review - KR Multicase

When we were planning our trip to Freebootaz I realised that I'd got no way of transporting my models to the venue (as normally Matt comes to me). I'd been looking at getting a figure case for a long time and very much liked the look of the KR cases. Whilst Battlefoam's wide range of trays appealed to me I couldn't justify the expense. Battlefoam's website is a little slicker than KR's but the products are comparable.

Originally I'd thought about getting a box with just a few troop trays in it. These are around £22 with a discount if you buy several cases. However, the custom trays caught my eye and I liked the idea of having my entire army in a couple of cases without the need for extra boxes for tanks, dreads, etc. Whilst the aluminium and fabric cases appealed I was trying to keep costs down. I therefore plumped for the standard cardboard case and selected trays to accommodate a land raider, 3 rhinos, a vindicator and 50+ troops. With the custom trays the price rises to £28 but when you consider there's a few hundred pounds worth of models in there then it isn't too much. This would give more than enough space to get about half of my total army in. I'd need another case for the rest which would have similar compartments.

I ordered it on the Monday hoping that it'd arrive before the tournament on the Sunday. To my surprise it had appeared by Wednesday despite postage being included in the price. Since the website is a little clunky it can be difficult to figure out what sizes you need. To help they offer scale drawings of the trays and if you're really stuck you can always email them a list of your models and they'll help you decide what trays to buy. I cheated a little since Matt already has a basic troops case so I knew the size I needed. Incidentally for my troops I've found that F4 is just about perfect. Normal marines will apparently fit in N3 but since our Wolves are a little chunkier with their CC weapons the space is handy.

As you can see from the photo the vehicles fit in snugly. The trays allow for an array of different vehicles. When we went to Warhammer World I removed the vindi and put my dread and land speeder in it's slot. Basically out of my 3000pt army the only things I couldn't fit were the terminators and the other land raider!

In case you're wondering I've had no problems with the card at all. It's pretty durable and provided you don't get it soaked it's fairly water resistant. Overall I'm very impressed with my KR case and I intend to order a second when funds permit.

PS. There's a far more thorough review of KR here.

Counters for 40K (or tools for laziness)

When I first got into 40K the boxed set came with counters/markers to use to represent the status of your units. Things like hidden/detected, broken, wounds etc. I still have these markers from 2nd edition but they're less and less useful. During a battle it'd be really handy to glance across the field and instantly be able to see the status of my units. Whilst most people would simply use dice to represent things like wounds, cover saves, etc. I tend to find that they get picked up by mistake when you need all those dice when Ragnar gets +3 to his squads attacks!

The only markers that were still useful from my original set were the wound markers. The problem is that the old markers all look pretty similar with just a differing number on them. Not really a problem until you're fishing through the pot trying to find the last "1" and you keep turning over "2s" and "3s". This issue was nicely solved by the door prize at Freebootaz which gave us teardrop shaped markers for the wounds as well as some nice objective markers. Gale Force Nine who provided the door prize also make a nice range of other counters and gaming aids. I'm very tempted to get some of their smoke and also the deployment zone markers. They also make tokens for the various states of vehicles and infantry. However, I'm thinking I'd rather spend the cash on plastic crack so I had a bash at making my own.

Ron over at From The Warp had produced some very nice designs to print out and stick on 25mm bases. Whilst I'm impressed by the time and effort he's obviously put in I wanted to make my own so that they'd be unique to me. I came up with these:

I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. Not bad for an hour or so on MS Word! Now I just need to print some out and get cutting and sticking! Think I'll go for 3 of each until I figure out which we seem to use most of.

Feel free to steal them if you like.

Lists for Warhammer World 6K Battle

This is probably a bit backwards since I've already written the battle report but since I didn't have access to everyone's lists when I wrote the report I'll put them in now. Bear in mind Alex's armies didn't need to follow the FOCs because of trying to find 3K with the models available. There were a few last minute changes so things might not add up but here goes:

3000pts of Space Wolves
Logan Grimnar
Ragnar Blackmane
Rune Priest (Living Lightning, Jaws, Chooser)
Rune Priest (Living Lightning, Murderous Hurricane)

Wolf Scouts (Meltagun, Plasma pistol, MotW)
Dreadnought (heavy flamer upgrade), Drop Pod

3 Wolf Guard (combi-melta, power fist)
2x 10 Grey Hunters (plasma gun, meltagun, power fist, MotW, standard)
8 Grey Hunters (meltagun, power weapon, MotW, standard)
5 Wolf Guard Terminators (Arjac Rockfist, 3x Pair of wolf claws, Cyclone & PF), Land Raider Redeemer (multi-melta)

Land Speeder (multi-melta, heavy flamer)

5 Long Fangs (2x lascannon, 2x missile launcher)
Whirlwind
Land Raider

3000pts of Blood Angels
Dante
Honour Guard (Blood champion, power sword)
Librarian (unleash rage, blood lance)

Furioso Librarian (Wings of Sanguinius, blood lance)
7 Assault Terminators (2x TH/SS, 5 lightning claws)
Land Raider Crusader (multi-melta)
3 Sanguinary Priests (Corbulo, power weapon x2, jump pack x2)

9 Assault Marines (Meltagun, power fist)
Land Raider
2x 10 Assault Marines (Meltagun, power sword)
6x Death Company (jump packs, power fist, infernus pistol, power sword)

Predator (TL lascannon, lascannon sponsons)
Devastator squad (3x missiles, 1x lascannon)

3000pts of Daemonhunters
Grand Master (bionics, icon of the just, scourging, master crafted weapon, psychic hood)
Grey Knight Terminators (incinerator)
Father Nicholas
Grey Knight Terminators
Inquisitor Coteaz
Inquistor's Retinue (3 vet guardsmen, 2 grenade launchers, acolyle w/ plasma pistol, lexmechanic)

Vindicare Assassin
Calidus Assassin

8 Grey Knights (justicar, incinerator, psycannon)
Infantry Platoon
2x Inquistorial Stormtroopers Squads
Rhino

5 Grey Knights (justicar, sacred incense, incinerator, psycannon)

Orbital Lance Strike
Vindicator
Dreadnought (TL lascannon)
Dreadnought (multi-melta)
Purgation squad

3,000pts of Imperial Guard
Commisar Yarrick
Company Command Squad (Castellan Creed, lascannon team, master of ordnance, regimental standard, medi-pack)

4 Ogryns
Stormtroopers (meltagun, plasma gun, airborne assault)
Guardsman Marbo

Platoon Command Squad (flamer)
5 Infantry Squads (2 standard, 1 w/ heavy bolter, 2 w/ meltagun)
Chimera
Veteran Guardsmen (plasma gun, meltagun, demolitions)
Chimera
Veteran Guardsmen (plasma gun, meltagun, grenadiers)
Chimera
Heavy weapons team (lascannons)
Heavy weapons team (autocannons)

Sentinels x3 (heavy flamer)
8 Rough riders (flamer)
Hellhound

Basilisk (heavy stubber)
3 Leman Russ (lascannon, 1 with HB sponsons)
LR Vanquisher (lascannon)
LR Exterminator (HB sponsons)

Phew! that took some typing! Was a great battle and I hope these lists made sense, normal service will be resumed once I get home. I've got a lot of content I want to get up. There's at least a dozen posts floating round in my head.