Fly swatters, the trials continue!

Last few days were stressful, my wife and I got a bit too drunk and late that night I decided to have another set of trials! This time I also wanted to test Plague Drones for a potential kill teams.

The blood claws and Rignus faced 4 plaguedrones with death heads, lead by a plagueridden! Of all the trials, these were arguably the most boring. Everyone but Rignus needed high rolls, and no one was making any of them. I lost track of the turns pretty quickly as well. I did opt to use the warp storm, just for the sake of forging a narrative. The only notable note, was that the plague drones lost 1 to their invul save for a round, however this did not cost them as much as I thought it would.

Ulkoa: Unable to land any hits or wounds, but also able to take some hits from a plague drone.
Krag: (the stag?): Krag has really come out of his shell! Landing a wound with his bolt pistol (that was saved) taking a hammer of wrath to the chest from the Plagueridden, then exchanging wounds 2 for 2, but no damage done. Then shaving a wound of the plagueridden each turn. Right before the killing blow, the plagueridden landed and wounded with all 4 attacks, but Krag was able to make all his saves and slay the plagueridden in the following phase.
Tunrida: Misses with his bolt pistol, and then takes a death head to the face and goes down.
Surma: Was able to hit and wound, but was unable to cause any damage. He was eventually overcome by the weight of attacks and fell in CC with a drone.
Varvus: was able to land his fair share of blows, causing 2 wounds to a plague drone.
Moordenaar: Was unable to land any hits, and while he survived death heads and hammer of wrath, the onslaught of attacks from the drone was too much to bear and he fell.
Volharding: Unable to hit with his bolt pistol, and was felled by the poisonous death heads.
Aartappel: Managed to land a single hit, but couldn't cause any damage before the plague drone laid him to the ground.

Rignus: Rignus moved from one drone to another, felling all but one, the plagueridden, which Krag was able to finish on his own.


Thoughts:
 Krag has really shown himself to be worthy of being a Grey Hunter. Here are some quick stats from his 5 battles as a blood claw:
1: No kills no death
2: Died to necron
3: Killed 1PB no death
4: Killed cultist with PB, CC, 2 more in CC, no death
5: fought plagueridden 1V1, felled him in CC
He started off poorly, and things didn't get much better against the necrons. In his third battle he started to show some potential, by his 4th battle he was proving what he was capable of, and his 5th really sealed the deal. While his fellow blood claws could barely handle a single plague drone 2V1,Krag was able to slay the Plagueridden in single combat. I noticed that Krag has been doing better when on his own. In the past two battles, he found himself surrounded, or away from the pack fighting a challenge of his own. This may bear the potential of a lone wolf in the future, though that all depends on how he functions as a Grey Hunter. So, should krag be the stag? Or is that too... frat house?

Ulkoa, the other 5 battles blood claw, has done very strangely. His 5 battles have been much less interesting than Krags.
1: no kills, died to CSM
2: no kills, survived 3V1
3: No kills, no death
4: No kills, died to CSM in cc
5: No kills, no death.
Ulkoa just doesnt seem to have the killing power a space wolf needs, however he doesn't do half bad at surviving. Even in battles where Ulkoa fell, they were late in the battle, instead of early. Survivability is obviously important, however you must also be able to kill your foe, or you will be overcome. Ulkoa will remain a blood claw until he learns this.

Rignus continues to prove to be a very worthy leader. As for the rest of the claw, it is too early to tell for them. Their final battle is approaching,

A long awaited update

Due to life issues (cat getting sick, holiday stress and so on) I haven't done much with my wolves. However thanks to a few friendly games with a friend, Aythrea my Space Wolves frenzy was renewed. He showed me the raw power of grey hunters, and the ferocious bloodlust of thunderwolf cavalry. Such awesomeness that even daemons can pale in comparison!

So, tonight I joined my bloodclaws, Ulkoa, Krag, Tunrida, Surma, Varvus, Moorden, Volharding, and Aarteppel along with the ever trustworthy Rignus the wolf priest, in both drink and battle. Enough fire water to drown a horse, and enough blood to drown a daemon of the blood god! This battle was fought against Chaos Space Marines, an ever growing thorn in the side of the imperium! What sort of foul debauchery was taking place before the blood claws intervention?... probably daemon summoning, CSM like to do that, but who knows? So without further delay, the results of the battle!

8 blood claws and Rignus fought against 11 chaos cultists and 5 chaos space marines. This was the first mission that I used modified kill team rules for. Basically every model was its own unit. However the army was treated as using highest leadership, for both CSM and SW (not that it mattered much)

Ulkoa: Missed with his bolt pistol, then overcome with blood lust all too familiar to blood claws, failed to dodge an overwatch from a chaos space marine and fell in battle. Ulkoa's next fall may be too much for even the healing powers of Rignus.
Krag (no relation to the grenade...): Felled a chaos cultist with his bolt pistol, slew another in CC, then with lightning reflexes dodged 3 shots from las pistols. Fought and killed 2 of the cultists in CC, Rignus obliterated the 3rd with his mighty blows. Krag proved himself an asset to the space wolves in this battle.
Tunrida: Tunrida has developed a mighty fellowship with Surma! He failed to gun down a cultist, however with a tag team duo with Sruma, filled 3 cultists.
Surma: Was fired upon and stuck by cultists, but his armor saved him. Fighting alongside Tunrida, he felled 3 cultsists.
Varvus: Had an eventful fight, failing to cause damage with his bolt pistol, Varvus assaulted, he saved against the overwatch and killed the cultist who fired upon him. Another cultist attempted to charge, but with quick reflexes was able to gun him down in overwatch. Afterwards he held his own against a chaos space marine for 3 rounds until Rignus felled the chaos scum with his powerful blows.
Moordenaar: A quick fate for Moordenaar, after failing to land a shot with his bolt pistol, he was shot by 6 cultists, falling to one of the many las shots.
Volharding: Laid a chaos marine to rest with his bolt pistol, then after failing to hit another chaos marine, took to overwatch bolter hits to the face and shrugged them off. After a round of combat with a chaos marine, he found himself facing both a marine and a cultist. The cultist found an opening and felled Volharding in CC while the Chaos marine distracted him.
Aartappel: With his powersword proudly held, he fired his bolt pistol directly at a chaos marine, failing to wound him. He was unphased by the overwatch, and managed to fell the chaos space marine leader in CC, however, the tainted marine took Aartappel with him to ground.

Many blood claws proved their worth, while others came up short handed in this battle. In the following battles we will see which blood claws earn the title of Grey Hunter. Also, I will have some picture soon tomorrow.