FTGT Ron back in the (2 part epoxy putty) mix

Hey Guys!

Ron here, back from a somewhat lengthy 40k break.  I hung out with Evan and Chandler last weekend and managed to sneak in a pair of 1850pt Nova style games.  These were my first 40k games in 10 months, and they reminded me that I actually do still enjoy playing the game .  Yes, some rules are creeping more than a guy in a white van with a mustache, but Tyranids are still my first tabletop hobby love.  As Sheryl Crow put it, the first cut is the deepest.

Lictor Pose Conversion #6 - FTGTRon

Hey Everyone, 

Ron here with my sixth, and final, lictor pose conversion.  

Mawloc Conversion #2 - FTGT Ron

Hey Guys,

Ron here, with another picture dump of some recently finished models for the NOVA tournament. This time I have my second converted Mawloc.  

Multiple Lictor Conversions - FTGT Ron

Hey guys,

Here is a pic dump from a fresh batch of three assembly-lined Lictors.  I'm in to the final week before NOVA, so I'm cranking it up to eleven in an effort to be ready in time.

Lictor Pose Conversion #2 - FTGTRon

Hey Everyone!
Ron here with another lictor pose conversion.

Road to NOVA: Tyranid List Building

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, friend of the blog, Phil, has put together a Road to the NOVA Open League. After chatting with him and campaigning for some interest local to me, I got myself a small local bracket to play games in starting this week.

Gaming Weekend

Last weekend I hosted a gaming weekend at my place. We've expanded a bit since our early gaming weekends, and this time I had three tables set up, with the possibility of setting up a fourth, though we never had more than six people playing at a time. I was a terrible blogger and failed to take any pictures except for one of my Vaul's Wrath Battery proxies for the weekend:

Lictor Pose Conversion #1 - FTGTRon

Hey everyone!

Ron here with a lictor pose conversion.  I'm running lictorshame like all the other bandwagoneers these days, and I don't want to settle for 6 with the same identical "I'm hiding in plain sight" stance.   So this is the beginning of my journey to create 6 individualized lictors in all sorts of dynamic, stalkerish poses (lictors in the fluff are big time creepers hiding in the bushes and whatnot, not standing straight up in the open with jazz hands).  I hope these posts inspire some crazy lictor conversions of your own!

Bat Rep: Lictorshame Trial Run

The other night I got a game in with a local friend, Aidan, and broke out the Lictorshame list for the first time (so there were some proxies). My list was nearly a copy/paste of Sean Nayden's LVO list, though I sacrificed 2 spore mines for toxin on the Tyrant guard. Zoanthropes stood in for Mucolids while Warriors stood in for 3 Lictors and Trygon and Dima took on the roles of Mawlocs. Aidan meanwhile brought a Daemon/CSM assault list featuring Abaddon, Cypher, a D-Thirster, and a Fire Raptor.

Facing the Grey Tide Podcast - Episode 20: The King of the Lictors comes to Play

WHAT IS UP EVERYONE?  Was Caps Lock necessary?  For this Podcast, it is absolutely necessary.  The King of the Lictors, The Man with the Hidden Plan, The Terror from the Deep; Sean Nayden joins Evan and Bryan for an incredible talk about the Hidden Path of the Lictors.  They talk shop, roll down through the ideas behind LictorShame, some of the bigger games he has played, and also some of the tournaments he is rolling to this year.

With 75% of the Podcast Crew loving bugs, how can we not have the Hive Mind himself slide in to help us out?

Enjoy the Show.

Facing the Grey Tide Podcast - Episode 19: FTN Seasonal and The Greatness of Lictorshame

What's up everyone?  On this Episode of the Podcast, Chandler and Evan have just gotten back from the FTN Seasonal and are super pumped about the experience.  Ron and Bryan update us on where their Bugs are in terms of Tournaments (Bryan has the Darkstar in under 60 days), and the Three Bug Boys run down the greatness of Lictorshame and things they feel could possibly pose it problems.  Hint:  We haven't found any.

The Full Crew is in, and ready to stomp out so mighty bug lists.