Its far too early to be up on a sunday morning...especially when i dont have to go to work - booked 2 weeks off work. This time next week i'll have seen Dragonforce again, and on the tuesday after i'll have seen Motorhead as well, which makes it all the more better.

I've had a good weekend so far, went out friday night, had fun, stayed out later than anticipated, (but not bothered by that) and managed to damage my throat somehow and now i'm croaking. As i say, it was fun.

As for yesterday, i had a set of 40k battles, my 4th in the week. My first battle was on Thursday and it was me against my friend Scott. He had the first turn, destroyed my Leman Russ exterminator in the first turn, and the normal leman russ in the 2nd turn...because they were put together on the field. Not much went right for me and i ended up losing the battle, i was annihilated. Thankfully, i didnt have to play on that battle ground yesterday.

Yesterday, i had 3 battles...All against Marines, one was a rematch against Scott (Ultramarines), one was against someone called James...Ultramarines...and the last was against Chaos Marines and a teenager called Jack- who im not sure was completely confident of the rules.

First battle i managed to scrape through by the skin of my teeth. I wasnt stupid enough to put the 2 leman russ' together, but did put the manticore near to the exterminator. Nothing *really* takes the most importance of the battle other than the exterminator. Having been unable to fire in the 2nd turn, i decided to try and ram the dreadnought coming up to him, got melta'd close to him. and he then took out the manticore. It really was a case of killing troops as it was an objective fight. All my veteran squads were reduced to non scoring points, and effectively my last turn of firing was all aimed at Marneus + tactical squad who were sitting ontop of one of the objectives, and for once, my Master of Ordanances barrage came down, almost right on top of where it was needed (Uses the scatter dice, always scatters on at least 2 dice, 2 if you get the hit on the scatter, but still goes 2d6 in the direction of the arrow on there, 3 if you get a scatter dice, but if you can see the target you can subtract the ballistic skill) because i rolled a 4 it stayed put and wiped the squad out.

The 2nd battle was alot easier for me. Had the first turn and had a siren going off in my head as a target for my manticore. 1 vindicator, 1 dreadnaught and 2 razorbacks in close formation. Unfortunately, it only took the vindicator out, but he did do more damage to the razorbacks which were hidden in cover - was an annihilate mission. I should have done alot better but i slightly hampered it. My Exterminator had taken the assault cannon off the Dreadnaught, and he went to go to close combat my banewolf...but before he moved it i said how he'd have to hit on 6's. So he went to close combat the Exterminator D'oh. He ripped it apart and then went on to try to kill my manticore, before getting killed by one of my veteran squads. I got lucky in the fact that his terminators + chaplains came down turn 3. My shooting over a few turns did take him down to 2 men, at the cost of a chimaira, the manticore (rear armour) and the command squad. The battle had ended in turn 5, with me 2-1 up kill points. Because some battles were still going on we thought we'd have a bit of fun and see what would happen. His Chaplain in terminator armour, and a single terminator charged one of my veteran squads, but failed miserably and didnt kill, got counter charged in the next turn by my veteran squad, but with some ridiculously poor rolling (2 to hit with re-rolls) i think i lost 2 men from one squad which ran then got back into the fight. Basically speaking, we carried onto about turn 10 - but the result wouldnt matter as it had already been declared. It was a case of working out the result of the chaplain + terminator v the veterans (do have a picture, will be up soon). In the end, the veterans won.

The 3rd battle was very one sided. He had first turn, but had started in cover and the only shooting was obliterators against my leman russ, but failed to damage it. My manticore came down and all but wiped out a chaos squad leading to the survivor (w. chaos icon) running off the field losing a squad of bloodletters. The Manticore + Exterminator did alot of damage to my opponent. The battle was extremely one sided, the only losses i had were a veteran squad and the sanctioned psykers, killed by Abbadon and a terminator squad - who in turn destroyed by a mixture of the manticore's heavy bolter, the exterminator and the bane wolf. Despite being very one sided, the guy i played wasnt too dejected, and maybe i should have been easier on him...but it was part of a league, and i did want to win.

All in all i came 4th, There was armies that won all 3 games, some that didnt win any, and a few draws. There was alot of Imperial Guard armies, i think about 5 in all, 2 UltraMarine armies and one Space Wolf, 3 Chaos armies, Nids, Tau, Chaos Daemons and a Dark Eldar armies as well. (And im glad i didnt face the nids/tau/Daemon or dark Eldar armies)