Nerd Thunder IV - The Guns of Nuvverork

Greetings shipmates! Well, it is that time again. Pirate Viking Painting has joined forces with the Beard Bunker and made the perilous trek all the way to the frigid wastes of Nottinghamshire to partake in battle of epic proportions. To add to the blog confluence even James and Sophie of Battles & Biscuits dropped by. But we know why we are really here, to show some pics of 8000 points of Orks facing four 2000 point armies of Space Marines over a 12'x6' table full of lovely scenery!

The lovely Tau table was our focus for this year's efforts. The large buildings made for excellent objectives.

Setting the battle roughly around the War of Dakka the Orks had made their own modifications too...

Warhammer World's scenery meisters are genuinely inspirational

The Junktown scenery was brought from the Beard Bunker specially.

Mark's Kill Tank rumbling out of the Mek's Workshop

Speed Freaks roar onto the table.

THIS is how Blood Angels deploy... FROM ORBIT

Ork forces mass around the workshop

"Eyup twinkle toes" two dreadnoughts tag team the Orks in the centre.

The Raven Guard desperately try to demolish the Tau railguns being targetted on the flyers.

This is your shokk attack gun and lootas

This is your shokk attack gun and lootas on double 1's...

Things look pretty good right now, unfortunately, things weren't going to stay that way.

The scouts are still trying to demolish those bunkers.

Deathskull lootas colonising the Tau command building.

My dreadnoughts suddenly have a slightly sick feeling

The grots are... largely inconsequential actually.

Noticing impending peril the Ravenwing roar in.

The Furioso pops a warboss like a grape and the regular dread desperately fights off the Deff Dreads.

Sneaky little Dark Angels in the forests.

Less sneaky Dark Angels...

The Space Wolves advance under the watchful eyes of the Long Fangs.

Assault Squads arrive and... scatter badly.

Crank up Ride of the Valkyries, the air support is here!

The war for the centre power station is getting hot.

Ragnar Blackmane and his tactical dreadnought cronies charge in

By this point there aren't many Blood Angels left, in fact there is Lemartes and two Death Company

You've never seen a man happier than when Phil Stutcinskas likes Mark's Orks.

Deathwing reinforcements teleport in.

The Nephilim was ace, zooming around and wrecking Ork vehicles days.

This mosh went on for a while...

Walkers stalk the Dark Angels.

The table as of the end of turn 3.

Charlie and Maisey try to win the battle by poking.

Dark Angels draw a bead on the impending walker-geddon.

Raven Guard dreadnought tries desperately to smack a Kill Tank.

What happens when two assault marine units smack a large ork unit.

The Lootas survey the battlefield.

Like Hamlet the stage is strewn with corpses at the end.

Well, fun was had! The battle ended in a hard fought draw with all my Blood Angels killed except Lemartes! Charlie is going to do a more thorough write up on the Beard Bunker soon but I felt we should see pretty pictures as soon as possible!

TTFN