Alamo Bound - Work continues

Remember those resin bases? Well they've all been primed, painted, washed, snow-flocked, re-washed and re-flocked. I'm done. I dig the way they look and they'll make the minis on them really stand out.
That being said, I'm on to model assembly. With a near finalized list I've just realized that I have about a month to get these guys assembled and painted. Today's April 14th and the Alamo event starts May 14th. Let's see what we've got so far...

Alamo Bound... A List in Progress

I've put together a 1999 point list and have 1 modification to it in my head.
So, it looks like this is what I'll be running:

#	Unit	Gear/Details
1	Wolf Lord	Thunderwolf Mount, Frag/Krak, Runic Armor, Frost Weapon, Storm Shield, Saga of the Warrior Born
1	Wolf Lord	Frag/Krak, Wolf Claw x2, Belt of Russ, Saga of the Bear
1	Rune Priest	Frag/Krak, Chooser of the Slain, Storm Caller, Living Lightning Master of Runes
2	Thunderwolf Cavalry	Frag/Krak, Storm Shield x2, Frost Axe x1
8	Grey Hunters	Frag/Krak, Meltagun, MotW, Wolf Standard, Power Weapon, Rhino
9	Grey Hunters	Frag/Krak, Meltagun x2, MotW, Wolf Standard, Power Weapon, Rhino
9	Grey Hunters	Frag/Krak, Meltagun x2, MotW, Wolf Standard, Power Weapon, Rhino
*	Mark of the Wulfen	One in each Grey Hunter Squad
*	Rhino	One for each Grey Hunter Squad
6	Long Fangs	Missile Launcher x4, Heavy Bolter x1
1	Dreadnought	TL AC x2
1	Dreadnought	TL Lascannon, Missile Launcher
3	Wolf Guard	(Wolf Claw x2) x2, TH/SS

After I get a couple playtest games in with this list, I'll swap out the Thunderwolf cav and the Wolf Lord's mount for a Land Raider for one of the GH squads. Not sure if I want to go redeemer or Crusader yet, or even original, but we'll play around and get a feel for it.

Alamo Bound - Work begins

It has begun. I've received the first of the items I need to begin building my army for Alamo. While I have a good number of space wolf models and have been play-testing lists already, I want to make some new toy soldiers for this tournament and I want them to stand out.
To that end, I'm shamelessly borrowing from the fellas at the Space Wolves blog and using their idea for pre-heresy grey hunters as shown here.

Alamo Bound... A Work in Progress

I've weighed my options, and thought a good bit about what I want to run.
I've thrown a few lists together and spent a good amount of time coming up with ideas for modeling options and units additions.
But at the end of it all, my wolves won out. I can't wait to see my Thunderwolf cav led across the table by the 2 Lords on Bears. I'll be testing my list out and tweaking it, but this is how it stands currently, without any modifications before we start:

Wolf Lord - 275 pts - Runic Armour; Thunderwolf Mount; Frost Weapon x1; Storm Shield x1; Saga of the Warrior Born
      2 Fenrisian Wolves
Thunderwolf Cavalry x2 - 190 pts - Storm Shield x2; Thunder Hammer x1

Wolf Lord  - 260 pts - Runic Armour; Thunderwolf Mount; Storm Shield x1; Thunder Hammer x1; Saga of the Wolfkin
      2 Fenrisian Wolves
Thunderwolf Cavalry x2 - 185 pts - Storm Shield x2; Frost Weapon x1

Fenrisian Wolves x9 - 80 pts - Cyberwolf x1

Rune Priest - 160 pts - Chooser of the Slain; Master of Runes; Living Lightning; Storm Caller
Long Fangs x6 - 140 pts - Missile Launcher x5

Rune Priest - 110 pts - Chooser of the Slain; Fury of the Wolf Spirits; Storm Caller
Grey Hunters x9 - 190 pts - Meltagun x1; Mark of the Wulfen; Rhino 
Grey Hunters x10 - 205 pts - Meltagun x2; Mark of the Wulfen; Rhino
Grey Hunters x10 - 205 pts - Meltagun x2; Mark of the Wulfen; Rhino
 
Total Roster Cost: 2000

Alamo 40k 2011

So my wife and I have registered and paid for the 40k Alamo tourney this year.
She will be bringing her frothing-at-the-mouth-for-blood-and-skulls Khornate marines.
I've decided to bring....

That's just it. Like a dieter on a cheat day faced with a menu full of goodies, I can't make up my feeble mind. Do I go old-school and bring along my Black Templars, especially now they've received a cool FAQ update?
Do I cry havoc and let loose the wolves of Spaceyness? I've got some Thunderwolf cav foaming at the fang to jump into combat and tear some folks up.
Do I give in to the urge to spread decay and plague and bring along a force of marines devoted to Grandfather Nurgle? My Daemon prince likes that idea.
Or do I try something new and field my counts-as Blood Angels army, the Sons of Saint Arnold. They who thirst for beer, not blood.

All four options should allow for some unique and characterful conversions as I'm not really up to 2000 points with any of them yet. And each one sounds like a lot of fun. To be honest, I hadn't even considered reviving the Templars until just now, but I can picture my land Raiders, driving across the table to disgorge their contents upon my opponents. Jump packing marines, some armed with sword and shield descending to deliver the Emperor's mercy. And let's not forget, the holy hand grenade. 1, 2, 5! 3 sir, 3!
I've put together a 2000 point Nurgle list and it looks so much like my wife's khorne list that I fear we'd be the Christmas pal armies, my green to her red as our choice of chaos power would be the only real difference.
I've attempted to build a wolf list and a blood angel list, but just couldn't quite finish getting it all on paper.
Maybe I'll try my hand at building a Templar list and see if I can finish it. I'll get all 3 together and see which list look likes the most fun.

Happy wargaming.