tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81407261607121615822024-03-12T19:57:10.061-07:00De Bellis FuturisA (mostly science fiction) wargaming & model crafting blog.Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-28898409049591809532023-10-08T09:15:00.004-07:002023-10-08T09:15:17.319-07:002023.10.08 part 2: Shieldbash!<p> I had initially planned to tack this onto the end of the workbench update, but I realized that the girls (& critters) deserved their own post. I worked on these in a couple of waves:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpd-hjQf4pYwToGsL6Xhmq2Zg9M0NGmHk6edE03EQ0ijSBiN3C694QJMaLHfp8QkZRaWwbp5WpVZ8gIZvzlp6ug-nT-eZGQUyKc8pg6L1ZUzUhnpi6z1Ys_51IQY24UeJWKtWHKVYpLTCewpL9-Xn5WDpmtY5c0Ri26IuteTyZk4jr2od5rJUZp8dE3PU/s2016/IMG_5985.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpd-hjQf4pYwToGsL6Xhmq2Zg9M0NGmHk6edE03EQ0ijSBiN3C694QJMaLHfp8QkZRaWwbp5WpVZ8gIZvzlp6ug-nT-eZGQUyKc8pg6L1ZUzUhnpi6z1Ys_51IQY24UeJWKtWHKVYpLTCewpL9-Xn5WDpmtY5c0Ri26IuteTyZk4jr2od5rJUZp8dE3PU/s320/IMG_5985.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>First off, I wanted a second archer and a bunch of wild animals for scenario play, and while I was at it, it was time to paint up the Flalhund. So in this little scene, you can see the new archer and her trusty Flalhund, facing off against a pack of wild Kanids (I added the grey and black squirrel-wolves to the red I'd already painted), while in the background, some Uhyre leave their cave at sunset... with a Mundicus lurking in the shadows.</p><p>After that, it was onto some objective markers, a VIP, and some long-awaited expansions for the cavalry:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIvimQpjDxSZUpDKQBhvwiL6A0VkZfk2hTbO-m2r9eujvdv_iL90aSuSCBVVapfLo_c1ZlTkzrs2AYs8y4WBqHOwlv2lYQrG2L9qAqFeXTvTg8xBoJft7x4jnr8ltLap_5u_YTHjc7QYCVnCoFZmBmbMtQb0ApdW-HYk2TbyBPic44HWarCslRfteCYM/s2016/IMG_5990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIvimQpjDxSZUpDKQBhvwiL6A0VkZfk2hTbO-m2r9eujvdv_iL90aSuSCBVVapfLo_c1ZlTkzrs2AYs8y4WBqHOwlv2lYQrG2L9qAqFeXTvTg8xBoJft7x4jnr8ltLap_5u_YTHjc7QYCVnCoFZmBmbMtQb0ApdW-HYk2TbyBPic44HWarCslRfteCYM/s320/IMG_5990.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5wzOr-37phzxPzhP-hfUvWYmkvEx84YcuUU2UHdr1pcpNGWX4nasfVpLNT6CyBXqYaV-x58BZ4ZhJ39vy-sMmQu5Cc44gCL_P4EWD9us4D1yW2RlrVLHjuzMzyJ5tck_BXoPS-8EEUt72Mh8-Wyzld6sv8LE69qErldjR0QiLyrnzT2mvlI4GaamSXA/s2016/IMG_5989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5wzOr-37phzxPzhP-hfUvWYmkvEx84YcuUU2UHdr1pcpNGWX4nasfVpLNT6CyBXqYaV-x58BZ4ZhJ39vy-sMmQu5Cc44gCL_P4EWD9us4D1yW2RlrVLHjuzMzyJ5tck_BXoPS-8EEUt72Mh8-Wyzld6sv8LE69qErldjR0QiLyrnzT2mvlI4GaamSXA/s320/IMG_5989.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7teksqliWaJVDnGy9ozJcSHEPVoa7m3rWpa-r86eVbh4_5DVgnCVHRkN8z3042nOZ8wYEpUw20pDhFPsTd5zilDxdRwTI3dBxrKqu6mGR1MLok7Sz2gL8hqCAha0MzEKHJZLWVb_zSRGrEbrdus7vW7NKgQkwouMDXSK1D-lXfyuaqcoNs-lePlcAMI/s2016/IMG_5987.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7teksqliWaJVDnGy9ozJcSHEPVoa7m3rWpa-r86eVbh4_5DVgnCVHRkN8z3042nOZ8wYEpUw20pDhFPsTd5zilDxdRwTI3dBxrKqu6mGR1MLok7Sz2gL8hqCAha0MzEKHJZLWVb_zSRGrEbrdus7vW7NKgQkwouMDXSK1D-lXfyuaqcoNs-lePlcAMI/s320/IMG_5987.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The chests were from Spellcrow, but feel right for the fantasy theme of Shieldbash, and I'm happy with how they turned out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The VIP is from the War of Ashes RPG miniature set, but I think she makes a pretty good senator or noblewoman for my fighters to rescue (seen here with her Fyrd escorts).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last in this set, I have a Huscaree and a Wilddoe on Snegilback. The Huscaree will be handy for a higher-skill Leader model, and in theory I can fix two 'Vorix on a single Snegil so the skirmisher can take a rider, although how she'll drop off that person... is a little sketchy in the game rules. Saving that for a low-stakes playtest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These were all painted last September / October I think, about a year ago. Finally, last NovemberI came back around to painting a handful of additional cavalrywomen for my Atronians:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJoXARcqW9P_N2rB5upKYGgDOolbA9zcNn_GTBozN30_rVVjpsKqwYKRxMFhdtLqdhG_qmfj6zeCJByYYhHUnzrNqrqjPx8E7rTNIU1wDiKD8ES0F-HAorJF4xJ_XSGkiH4Lf1Gk6JWXTYSZK_G53ZJoHn-9DzmXJmrmSmYKzZ6Szeeyc6jf6OjbRnkk/s2016/IMG_6111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJoXARcqW9P_N2rB5upKYGgDOolbA9zcNn_GTBozN30_rVVjpsKqwYKRxMFhdtLqdhG_qmfj6zeCJByYYhHUnzrNqrqjPx8E7rTNIU1wDiKD8ES0F-HAorJF4xJ_XSGkiH4Lf1Gk6JWXTYSZK_G53ZJoHn-9DzmXJmrmSmYKzZ6Szeeyc6jf6OjbRnkk/s320/IMG_6111.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was while I was breaking down my office to make room for a nursery, so they were a very hurried paint job and I didn't really have a whole lot of room to set up another diorama. Here you have a mounted Glaive Guard, Virian Mother, and a mounted Priestess, in case I really want to powergame ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also did another pair of grey Kanid with that wave, because why not?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This reminds me, I need to build up a pair of lists for myself & Ben for next weekend, and I should probably roll some cavalry back into the list plan so Ben has a little muscle if I'm stealing the Avatar of Atronia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Photos to follow after the Shieldbash Invitational Tournament 4!</div>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-1502142407462697632023-10-08T09:01:00.006-07:002023-10-08T09:01:52.528-07:002023.10.08 part 1: More Titans!<p> Yep, more Titans, Dave. 6mm infantry & armor are probably ~2024, once I finish working through my primed minis backlog ;)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9EgyfmoQZNexA6vmNmNRgpt3R_UyIYgC76GvEMgcvsQoizyPnTolaSrEXSdj9m1SIlty5iGyn8o8sMHHiDWENAGkNMVNLfceACFYA3bKwM3AdtwPI8P3ivvdd3gxQ3tMyFBnbZIksONAee75q4NuZ57q-x0k5vp1NxBRlCB1BupQ6-79_dkDtnKFxA9M/s2016/IMG_1828.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9EgyfmoQZNexA6vmNmNRgpt3R_UyIYgC76GvEMgcvsQoizyPnTolaSrEXSdj9m1SIlty5iGyn8o8sMHHiDWENAGkNMVNLfceACFYA3bKwM3AdtwPI8P3ivvdd3gxQ3tMyFBnbZIksONAee75q4NuZ57q-x0k5vp1NxBRlCB1BupQ6-79_dkDtnKFxA9M/s320/IMG_1828.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>So first off, here's a painting table update. I finished up the Warbringer conversion beamer. Happy with how it shook out in the end, and I'm hoping I can get this monstrosity onto a table sometime this month :)</p><p>Here's the full photo set for the big guy:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwnj1aLCk-CamyAiMkflOhAESCZZmHwTZxZg3VDk4DRugRUx73m98T1N088fHgHEEJi-EBABgQ4BvVKxVPT44pTIGz9CVicDC9K0PRI7Cd5SgZvk8sC7DNKMgLkimbcUGcqs80mT7OgnQp4fA1a2kbkdeARBLP2jvj66eRgWXqKtyHLVD8ha0HKUY00dM/s2016/IMG_1827.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwnj1aLCk-CamyAiMkflOhAESCZZmHwTZxZg3VDk4DRugRUx73m98T1N088fHgHEEJi-EBABgQ4BvVKxVPT44pTIGz9CVicDC9K0PRI7Cd5SgZvk8sC7DNKMgLkimbcUGcqs80mT7OgnQp4fA1a2kbkdeARBLP2jvj66eRgWXqKtyHLVD8ha0HKUY00dM/s320/IMG_1827.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwlc8E8e-W1gAk6sDYF84mMHm4A5sYc_dO1ONvzGnLHxsWVqHnJEJ_42vPKYGMwhoAupYljSMQxyyEKteHos65ZkB1li-v86EtSE8X1mJd-nNiBASVONX9Yo0uV99F0RYDOht5mvm_A9zR0XC-xBUdu0qaXmB63ejosV23Y8lylSjimNCYh-6lgRUyJE/s2016/IMG_1829.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwlc8E8e-W1gAk6sDYF84mMHm4A5sYc_dO1ONvzGnLHxsWVqHnJEJ_42vPKYGMwhoAupYljSMQxyyEKteHos65ZkB1li-v86EtSE8X1mJd-nNiBASVONX9Yo0uV99F0RYDOht5mvm_A9zR0XC-xBUdu0qaXmB63ejosV23Y8lylSjimNCYh-6lgRUyJE/s320/IMG_1829.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjI3FJzxYcdV5UKaqwiihJu4LYVhv0FTvwIw506m-UMIvJIDiIYYegJoT4GUX_e6cbcMrgSRBnJjSdoWFs9emTdzTjdle88VSDMYekakx-vWvEv-8KkGiHZgAs0H1CTe5BdJE8tQSVBU8SrYJfMe8pzZwUs-TLfAtTbtZVVlZ86oyvPMTu4FqxzdeLCO0/s2016/IMG_1830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjI3FJzxYcdV5UKaqwiihJu4LYVhv0FTvwIw506m-UMIvJIDiIYYegJoT4GUX_e6cbcMrgSRBnJjSdoWFs9emTdzTjdle88VSDMYekakx-vWvEv-8KkGiHZgAs0H1CTe5BdJE8tQSVBU8SrYJfMe8pzZwUs-TLfAtTbtZVVlZ86oyvPMTu4FqxzdeLCO0/s320/IMG_1830.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Will it see much use? Good lord no, but it was worth the conversion project! While I was at it, I also knocked out a twin gatling blaster for a Warbringer-as-proto-Warlord concept, too:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SWl60uwcreRVe0Zi6997-iK7wyaIjHU6gm8ePsOzK1ueaEE01yxYlOPKowAESg50nQ4NLXP4IGqIrCLM1xSJeSX6kWMxg-d_RAHnzsA7Hdnrd0AyrCWirA8LbqBxEe8kdZBegADaCcw8yn5eDrm_iBWyIexR9WmBlsEDrl-kk1HsTV9DHF4yy-LHq3E/s2016/IMG_1831.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SWl60uwcreRVe0Zi6997-iK7wyaIjHU6gm8ePsOzK1ueaEE01yxYlOPKowAESg50nQ4NLXP4IGqIrCLM1xSJeSX6kWMxg-d_RAHnzsA7Hdnrd0AyrCWirA8LbqBxEe8kdZBegADaCcw8yn5eDrm_iBWyIexR9WmBlsEDrl-kk1HsTV9DHF4yy-LHq3E/s320/IMG_1831.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-nt0dHoHwi-2nz6sYDUnN9yphm90ZARpXFtmBEDzqkLcEPoye-YBKTQfL37rg5hMlCzt4Gl2bVL9Z_9VUGy7R5ZvAMG9YSo8hS1-JNxYkGkVPYAJfH9_d-dLE2FD3N9XNdkUAr6MemOE_e_G6YBNllqV7slqb9kihBgQcBoa9L1V9Xc-qF2VTJxftp4/s2016/IMG_1832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-nt0dHoHwi-2nz6sYDUnN9yphm90ZARpXFtmBEDzqkLcEPoye-YBKTQfL37rg5hMlCzt4Gl2bVL9Z_9VUGy7R5ZvAMG9YSo8hS1-JNxYkGkVPYAJfH9_d-dLE2FD3N9XNdkUAr6MemOE_e_G6YBNllqV7slqb9kihBgQcBoa9L1V9Xc-qF2VTJxftp4/s320/IMG_1832.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjttV_fhndGLYFzphCoE9n-riExIwg2-iJwE2-bfUeWsng890cpCK0-nl3rdiJcn9cpzb0KS26rop6unC6deIHHrHDxIXnKPxgRuHNkUfn3BtO8CmNKzlaqB5xP-zcT89hiFKfZjyRFkSBT55Bx8UFW-Q8wbiy9fkaOZwJeZT8JfCaQIuP1Lf6a2cPVAUw/s2016/IMG_1833.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjttV_fhndGLYFzphCoE9n-riExIwg2-iJwE2-bfUeWsng890cpCK0-nl3rdiJcn9cpzb0KS26rop6unC6deIHHrHDxIXnKPxgRuHNkUfn3BtO8CmNKzlaqB5xP-zcT89hiFKfZjyRFkSBT55Bx8UFW-Q8wbiy9fkaOZwJeZT8JfCaQIuP1Lf6a2cPVAUw/s320/IMG_1833.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This also falls into the "it might hit the tabletop once in a while for fun games" category, but I'm surprised at how well it fits the model, honestly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, I've been working on the second Forgeworld Dire Wolf I picked up a year or so back, getting it ready for the table:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7PVAFMiF_fHd8P6QiHHoL3jCCyA4kQoJHm_yirLIw0EgQOow9ZhMH9XhCYFl6IFKDCYCftXDyQ4RNyaJ1Zk7waML2TF3mQYl_Dv291HQqxdgU6_2OSBqokIYjjN0g3oAjFFFcJC_O9KkPk91cbN0GPaDazeLsn8KFYs6ReEi8Ri91r8jvimzVEHSmlQ/s2016/IMG_2032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7PVAFMiF_fHd8P6QiHHoL3jCCyA4kQoJHm_yirLIw0EgQOow9ZhMH9XhCYFl6IFKDCYCftXDyQ4RNyaJ1Zk7waML2TF3mQYl_Dv291HQqxdgU6_2OSBqokIYjjN0g3oAjFFFcJC_O9KkPk91cbN0GPaDazeLsn8KFYs6ReEi8Ri91r8jvimzVEHSmlQ/s320/IMG_2032.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfUVikygCaKR67r_gxaP34wWQRLFvSsIwnlAp2ktaoeJLxtXSXZGTIOj2Te07mfMXSLVuA5dduA8NME-iPTqVhm-mu1MUX3rOQU8DtLG1DoJZOH5afmhA6LnIjEKUZwjoEI03hOwgyD8k2taK_xy5eZBjKuTnq-73JrNaTxnyR0XP7iQ8qcomHayItAQ/s2016/IMG_2033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfUVikygCaKR67r_gxaP34wWQRLFvSsIwnlAp2ktaoeJLxtXSXZGTIOj2Te07mfMXSLVuA5dduA8NME-iPTqVhm-mu1MUX3rOQU8DtLG1DoJZOH5afmhA6LnIjEKUZwjoEI03hOwgyD8k2taK_xy5eZBjKuTnq-73JrNaTxnyR0XP7iQ8qcomHayItAQ/s320/IMG_2033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYKFBynU_Z4I9guOxJNbFwzTp7c8j8UlhpjBG_DRTDhwI501PEnsvlYnhXds8y5DLubxT-x0OUABfW6N3UJeXaSUWC_t85AfjpKnRu6-m0CyGNf_wYBlP7Xf2JVtEbutOou_AIOUbvuyHgA0nwJRYasJl6gbb9A0Svj9885Wzu7wlXpqbTyw8psqwWtI/s2016/IMG_2031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYKFBynU_Z4I9guOxJNbFwzTp7c8j8UlhpjBG_DRTDhwI501PEnsvlYnhXds8y5DLubxT-x0OUABfW6N3UJeXaSUWC_t85AfjpKnRu6-m0CyGNf_wYBlP7Xf2JVtEbutOou_AIOUbvuyHgA0nwJRYasJl6gbb9A0Svj9885Wzu7wlXpqbTyw8psqwWtI/s320/IMG_2031.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Decals have since gone down & I'm working on the base, but those update photos will come later. I'm happy; I didn't like having the guns for two titans sitting in storage without getting the second chassis painted up. Now, if I really want to, I could run a maniple with an optional Warhound swapped out and take a reinforcement Dire Wolf too, and mess around with the volcano cannon (not pictured). Hoping to finish that up this week and get back to the Malinax Knights I started.</div><p><br /></p>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-47004969743228233742023-09-14T12:16:00.004-07:002023-09-14T12:16:45.294-07:002023.09.14 More hobby progress: House Malinax & Legio Gryphonicus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv2tZpQun0TMi1UcZVd5_d4R872U2S1CSD_Syp2RjNLCgB-deyjOZEraZi08LuCqtgntKeRn5bh47-6OuTCFsPN_CX5hfc0xX8LD0l-6X95uJS7tFVu0JfeCh_ZGX6TNgeNcqu78zZvZX8Ry558szkkeHECvWd9jFPcHfckeqJPckhKu4mFvIyaYcvRA/s1922/IMG_5368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1922" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv2tZpQun0TMi1UcZVd5_d4R872U2S1CSD_Syp2RjNLCgB-deyjOZEraZi08LuCqtgntKeRn5bh47-6OuTCFsPN_CX5hfc0xX8LD0l-6X95uJS7tFVu0JfeCh_ZGX6TNgeNcqu78zZvZX8Ry558szkkeHECvWd9jFPcHfckeqJPckhKu4mFvIyaYcvRA/s320/IMG_5368.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>It's been a busy couple of weeks, so I'll pick up where I left off on the last post with the Knights I painted for Adeptus Titanicus & Legions Imperialis over the past month, and then resume my recap of my 2022 hobby work :)</p><p>I painted up three more Questoris chassis for myself, as well as some paired battlecannon arms for them, and a quartet of Acastus Atropos chassis. These guys will get a hit of weathering powder & seal coated a little later, but otherwise they're ready for table! <i>(hopefully tonight...)</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwlj3P4nKYF6hD9phXtYCTbNI7dZOhOffOY9A1X6TJomEmbWB9v2pMPy1hUO9Fn9yc0n4J-md0756G3fLWEmfofZxvedbDsu8_MWtonSJX4oJaURkhn0hVQke5FFO2MDUM1G3HResZfQsiPjaUOUmiVkASGTSpjahqJebwbiUXXotvdev-5NWSVfsPzss/s4032/IMG_1399.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwlj3P4nKYF6hD9phXtYCTbNI7dZOhOffOY9A1X6TJomEmbWB9v2pMPy1hUO9Fn9yc0n4J-md0756G3fLWEmfofZxvedbDsu8_MWtonSJX4oJaURkhn0hVQke5FFO2MDUM1G3HResZfQsiPjaUOUmiVkASGTSpjahqJebwbiUXXotvdev-5NWSVfsPzss/s320/IMG_1399.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a shot of the questoris pre-decals with the battle cannon; Danny van Dijk did a good job of designing his own hardware that still visually reads close enough to the stock plastics; I was quite impressed with how they turned out from BattleBling.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZrOy0Dh9ZJQFlNU9NBkrjTPEXnuEK6vJ0uIzuwwKOtOStrBCHvsXnQCSAErq-upbMYNhYAkKMaO2uWmf-HCqRFirR8Mb1xu7agoVOmnSE4URbYlBqxjsIP3xyQKmGHH-JTNBPtkVO7mLHQuVjhvriBetBkzHAbfemz28CKzZ9DUVpjddShl4AuOB-_0/s4032/IMG_1279.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZrOy0Dh9ZJQFlNU9NBkrjTPEXnuEK6vJ0uIzuwwKOtOStrBCHvsXnQCSAErq-upbMYNhYAkKMaO2uWmf-HCqRFirR8Mb1xu7agoVOmnSE4URbYlBqxjsIP3xyQKmGHH-JTNBPtkVO7mLHQuVjhvriBetBkzHAbfemz28CKzZ9DUVpjddShl4AuOB-_0/s320/IMG_1279.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Definitely getting a few more of those to use for House Cadmus when I finally get around to painting Knight support for my Loyalist titans; Gryphonicus can really benefit from non-Titan high volume support fire ;)</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, this has been a huge project over the past couple of months, but I managed to cut down, fit, re-fill with putty, and otherwise mount a Warlord conversion beamer onto a Warbringer carapace gun carriage. Currently sculpting the trim back on through a combination of styrene & greenstuff. Once the putty cures I'll be giving this a light sand & a hit with liquid greenstuff, and then it's time for N-scale rivet decals. Hoping I'll get a chance to prime this over the weekend and start painting it up.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPBGTETge62RgwxhyHLM9-LjhRNZe0i6_yfKuDYtM1b8Wrh1WxFpC32J-mrNSlqOKNNsz4dRfmxplYKS4ElOfZ7vSwoKtzQjo5vfrPWesIkcIJ9jN-LeNEDSw_PwozmnkKUnaYGq62MvZlyx6VoBRRiELtTfvO1ZJG6780q8jt0nJRdwrtPYubNzr3ng/s4032/IMG_1449.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPBGTETge62RgwxhyHLM9-LjhRNZe0i6_yfKuDYtM1b8Wrh1WxFpC32J-mrNSlqOKNNsz4dRfmxplYKS4ElOfZ7vSwoKtzQjo5vfrPWesIkcIJ9jN-LeNEDSw_PwozmnkKUnaYGq62MvZlyx6VoBRRiELtTfvO1ZJG6780q8jt0nJRdwrtPYubNzr3ng/s320/IMG_1449.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I have 8 more Knights for AT that I've been working on... but they might temporarily get back-burnered until I've had a chance to knock out a few more guns for AT.<br /><p><br /></p><p>Ok, got the update out of the way, what about the hobby backlog from 2022 (which I still haven't finished posting about? Since I'm on Adeptus Titanicus, here's everything I painted for Legio Gryphonicus last March/April & September:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_XsLviDLS7-Ipu-4OnnSnmk5PacsNZMF8Uhjhv5ME8YHoN6UsecGr_5g6DWVvf83A9wdORvbkjaQCOLz-QZ6YU6MM5wPeu-r_wp759EcqKo2cnKpqOgwnlsXN8WubZRwkEMb6zLUZZi2ujJeBFJaAU0MVQoVt1NF__ZmeWI7Yw46B1PanCegLG_hXoU/s1900/IMG_5363.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="1900" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_XsLviDLS7-Ipu-4OnnSnmk5PacsNZMF8Uhjhv5ME8YHoN6UsecGr_5g6DWVvf83A9wdORvbkjaQCOLz-QZ6YU6MM5wPeu-r_wp759EcqKo2cnKpqOgwnlsXN8WubZRwkEMb6zLUZZi2ujJeBFJaAU0MVQoVt1NF__ZmeWI7Yw46B1PanCegLG_hXoU/s320/IMG_5363.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My current War Griffons battlegroup in all their glory. This all started off with me wanting to change things up a little, and diving into a pair of Warhounds last March.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxM3jZ6JSoCXLSl1tlSE5zA_m29FcCkJ4jkFTNZ1tMGQX7CJkAEQymFENKtkbTn87QAiML6cHUwE1_6kk6EQfpiiwPFxUr56322q2tw1f3yG-6AMXJdVVgPsm0jwHylcV5uytgx16pKpOPhrs4R923zSzuAVgoQQ7exDcaEtllma9-L0qXnjXzJU9Ddo/s2016/IMG_4346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxM3jZ6JSoCXLSl1tlSE5zA_m29FcCkJ4jkFTNZ1tMGQX7CJkAEQymFENKtkbTn87QAiML6cHUwE1_6kk6EQfpiiwPFxUr56322q2tw1f3yG-6AMXJdVVgPsm0jwHylcV5uytgx16pKpOPhrs4R923zSzuAVgoQQ7exDcaEtllma9-L0qXnjXzJU9Ddo/s320/IMG_4346.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><i>Nobilis </i>and <i>Venator Lux </i>were a chance to paint something new, attempt a sponge dappling effect to reproduce the OLD old Adeptus Titanicus War Griffons scheme, and a chance to really test out painting weathering & battle damage, which you can see on the close-ups below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlaLp2fS7zwidUNmU_HdFMijjmhP72lxYhpda8ciZZ1VD0ssVaT_7vFY3CPw-nNujCgxm6RbsSckaROXj0OgghH8jH3zwDhOoDnnWJfjo7AiXDacmn7lv5htRF1SlrHCJHKIO17b4I-5-1KRiiCrVieDJlJpAY0L6Lzr9XqS3aEpImvzHvTH2TyPi9XOU/s2016/IMG_4347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlaLp2fS7zwidUNmU_HdFMijjmhP72lxYhpda8ciZZ1VD0ssVaT_7vFY3CPw-nNujCgxm6RbsSckaROXj0OgghH8jH3zwDhOoDnnWJfjo7AiXDacmn7lv5htRF1SlrHCJHKIO17b4I-5-1KRiiCrVieDJlJpAY0L6Lzr9XqS3aEpImvzHvTH2TyPi9XOU/s320/IMG_4347.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4GDERaHH8bQrkm9ZKggJeDw0Ku9-fevWUJdYjWXS3OG2H3Qm7DcIADIwmmsQ8O7aixSqJdQowpbMkxh0LScRIndz1lxHQQ8NYHSMQG4buF-5LOuDQ-xvjJYAdQdOyeUFX8V55KrRwhKBOlNVJUf5FDc2BI7xq-C1-fdUGxc2Nf7jScQKl3OujlPtMPo/s2016/IMG_4349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4GDERaHH8bQrkm9ZKggJeDw0Ku9-fevWUJdYjWXS3OG2H3Qm7DcIADIwmmsQ8O7aixSqJdQowpbMkxh0LScRIndz1lxHQQ8NYHSMQG4buF-5LOuDQ-xvjJYAdQdOyeUFX8V55KrRwhKBOlNVJUf5FDc2BI7xq-C1-fdUGxc2Nf7jScQKl3OujlPtMPo/s320/IMG_4349.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>After a short vacation, I let my enthusiasm for the new scheme carry me forward and started working on a Reaver for the force as well. I decided to use the less streamlined Reaver head design, coupled with BattleBling's retro Reaver shoulder pad design, to represent the up-armored Reaver option available to the War Griffons. <i>Aeterno Rex</i> was the first of five planned Reavers to walk out of the Titan factory for Gryphonicus.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FSVW3dZPUUdJX9mufYGswCixcPkaX2Ts36AdTXv6HIpV0zXQM1J_on_pChV0nueej5tu6Wt5r0UROAHq7KEyPhYeuJBWRvdSSnK2yD6eM4aNuZfnqnoFkxpK3PjCiE2kezrT02p_MCp5dvl5U0mCkiXMOUbar00SNBFO0bfZv2f3wYz468ey9GG0WEU/s1440/35FC7D3E-A0BA-4878-BD64-2CF0D93D7194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="1440" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FSVW3dZPUUdJX9mufYGswCixcPkaX2Ts36AdTXv6HIpV0zXQM1J_on_pChV0nueej5tu6Wt5r0UROAHq7KEyPhYeuJBWRvdSSnK2yD6eM4aNuZfnqnoFkxpK3PjCiE2kezrT02p_MCp5dvl5U0mCkiXMOUbar00SNBFO0bfZv2f3wYz468ey9GG0WEU/s320/35FC7D3E-A0BA-4878-BD64-2CF0D93D7194.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitY7Sw5Qr4ctFAwlOQffsEVspN7eU3lZ2Wf1RKe-ffPVvFR1rdMR_Jjv-LItVx9EVmUaJN1u2IMbkh0bncpI5Owl7eexg1Y2VtkBT2Kj0RUc6QFvYHDogkkXNZ2ylEPMPQyj2rDlsA6TKA47sPK8m12cllXnIrg1GPZ-rmA1nX0n11e1NbEr8y-N0QiyI/s1440/F43C9C50-86DA-44F7-9DA3-12A9807C3714.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="1440" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitY7Sw5Qr4ctFAwlOQffsEVspN7eU3lZ2Wf1RKe-ffPVvFR1rdMR_Jjv-LItVx9EVmUaJN1u2IMbkh0bncpI5Owl7eexg1Y2VtkBT2Kj0RUc6QFvYHDogkkXNZ2ylEPMPQyj2rDlsA6TKA47sPK8m12cllXnIrg1GPZ-rmA1nX0n11e1NbEr8y-N0QiyI/s320/F43C9C50-86DA-44F7-9DA3-12A9807C3714.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I went with relatively minimal battle damage on my first serious Reaver outing... which changed when I got to the second engine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, I got a wonderful idea I'm shamelessly stealing from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw5HiMoNDy4/" target="_blank">AnyReasonToRollDice</a> over on Instagram - using Warmaster titan toe armor to up-armor the Reaver's thighs. I'll be doing this once I can source some spares, retrofitting this engine and integrating them into future up-armored Reaver builds ;)</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLl1oh6RzLE4konK6MpuDxNsr_saW-QXalRr3Qx3hQ3kcpIP-lSaoNcEWs92tBPxlo7Sc7H4LmMvILjRaS0U22OyVPRg-YsthjRcV0rTVYy99Dfto6Q_7vYvBfudyNeALoMogmF4Gs5vGDA-ptQMDBLpT3CTIegYJAuajpVo-p0H5w03qYoYFYBHXbcf0/s1566/IMG_5350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1511" data-original-width="1566" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLl1oh6RzLE4konK6MpuDxNsr_saW-QXalRr3Qx3hQ3kcpIP-lSaoNcEWs92tBPxlo7Sc7H4LmMvILjRaS0U22OyVPRg-YsthjRcV0rTVYy99Dfto6Q_7vYvBfudyNeALoMogmF4Gs5vGDA-ptQMDBLpT3CTIegYJAuajpVo-p0H5w03qYoYFYBHXbcf0/s320/IMG_5350.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-sklOcvTZOSiUVAO9ofB3Zlr0bEKRA4lYEi-8WS0j1t6RCW7k3PypQQLch-dpJnrRZFsGiv3SjJzvOSPWjzmTBB-bUYV66XoTJ3XB_kiJxV80-3gnJdE05KWt3s_5RO18MyD9b60xuFHPCeP2-lVsOrfhYwyemSzJKqmrk7ro2LLyV_KnhkbPF0EDrc/s2016/IMG_5354.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-sklOcvTZOSiUVAO9ofB3Zlr0bEKRA4lYEi-8WS0j1t6RCW7k3PypQQLch-dpJnrRZFsGiv3SjJzvOSPWjzmTBB-bUYV66XoTJ3XB_kiJxV80-3gnJdE05KWt3s_5RO18MyD9b60xuFHPCeP2-lVsOrfhYwyemSzJKqmrk7ro2LLyV_KnhkbPF0EDrc/s320/IMG_5354.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unlike <i>Aeterno Rex</i>, <i>Fidelis Natus</i> is equipped with motive sub-reactors to make him run faster. I didn't bother tweaking the design for that; it'll be easy enough to tell the difference between the up-armored engines (converted) and the faster ones (everyone else), at a glance, especially if I build them all in action poses. Fidelis Natus got heavier battle damage as a close combat Reaver - narratively I figured he's wading oncoming fire, voids burnt out but still charging forward.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, I worked on a trio of battlefield asset markers for Titan Hunter Infantry & Forward Observers for my Loyalists, using Imperial Fists as a generic Loyalist Legion. Ironically enough, GW basically leaned into the same pairing with Horus Heresy 2.0 as I did with my support units.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAp5qp8KQbVxF2PyNZiQYxV7WgGEJdWOzHWjBl0DGPiIyRlaEQ14IK5rJZFtCb081hlAviUmarOvDOSqtjmGmaaB1gr4Z5E3JMp4yyNA2Qr-s4kvSPCNusD474d1g5zYsabmtUUK6yPGG9fgwnEjnMr_GUdA85IUFxzzXcHGj18QHCdSJGIf2PhZ8ngos/s2016/IMG_5360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAp5qp8KQbVxF2PyNZiQYxV7WgGEJdWOzHWjBl0DGPiIyRlaEQ14IK5rJZFtCb081hlAviUmarOvDOSqtjmGmaaB1gr4Z5E3JMp4yyNA2Qr-s4kvSPCNusD474d1g5zYsabmtUUK6yPGG9fgwnEjnMr_GUdA85IUFxzzXcHGj18QHCdSJGIf2PhZ8ngos/s320/IMG_5360.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wrapped this one up around September of 2022... and with four engines and ~1000 points painted, that was kind of it for Gryphonicus for a few months, until all the new titan weapons dropped. After knocking out my Tempestus weapons, I transitioned over to painting up grav cannon and conversion beamers for my War Gryphons to keep them in parity.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNVsQxyZl-gAXWqKv7p5Qc24IdJUn325vHVd_Cs2DvOlw3U4D6VBRd1Kd6Eev07Q-QNRW1DNrp8Vujk_t20uOZ8--key6PkWGMoktDM7qBDlsZiImNdXTX7y6Bus0RrUnG4lGT2AZA1EjkQL9RM7dJbXdzI3wlP--NBkSRqXseGAoHSwSP47eh73bTWVE/s2016/IMG_0436.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNVsQxyZl-gAXWqKv7p5Qc24IdJUn325vHVd_Cs2DvOlw3U4D6VBRd1Kd6Eev07Q-QNRW1DNrp8Vujk_t20uOZ8--key6PkWGMoktDM7qBDlsZiImNdXTX7y6Bus0RrUnG4lGT2AZA1EjkQL9RM7dJbXdzI3wlP--NBkSRqXseGAoHSwSP47eh73bTWVE/s320/IMG_0436.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And to wrap this up, here's everyone showing off their new zap guns :)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBTo6EIo1AMD0pZH5QubpKd6XFJSrzShbTvpZfJyoFrWoFa40Ggk6MOYwx3EH25MJtDlBNozv7CdHo7Z0FExDhus-qFVBQTgy0BKkIMNewNwfnainpWN5jqgW8wD-FdWWdbonGdQorbq_GGTNvOY3I3sY_rOG3ChIulNILnAFyzOPm-VIucMmXlOsb48M/s2016/IMG_0437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBTo6EIo1AMD0pZH5QubpKd6XFJSrzShbTvpZfJyoFrWoFa40Ggk6MOYwx3EH25MJtDlBNozv7CdHo7Z0FExDhus-qFVBQTgy0BKkIMNewNwfnainpWN5jqgW8wD-FdWWdbonGdQorbq_GGTNvOY3I3sY_rOG3ChIulNILnAFyzOPm-VIucMmXlOsb48M/s320/IMG_0437.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_sx2w6g9Zff8KBKndpv_Hb1_cfU1OpSo4wXvf6gc2WMKFQoGIUd3iLg97r4hu6iUJagUuLz1d5UV3JasEhl8ptCF8s0vJsIRSFdL-ymhaXWePpHalAVmvFnCOQg52WyjvNE6Eg3ZfyG_hGNyh6gYmVnbTqOq27czpJE1SDyg_5TlxrEm437MrGcr0QUo/s2016/IMG_0444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_sx2w6g9Zff8KBKndpv_Hb1_cfU1OpSo4wXvf6gc2WMKFQoGIUd3iLg97r4hu6iUJagUuLz1d5UV3JasEhl8ptCF8s0vJsIRSFdL-ymhaXWePpHalAVmvFnCOQg52WyjvNE6Eg3ZfyG_hGNyh6gYmVnbTqOq27czpJE1SDyg_5TlxrEm437MrGcr0QUo/s320/IMG_0444.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjFCX7S5KS-GxH3L8y2zj6UkMaI3dtVqwG_KYIkoHM7C92zXg68kEpsxtWlncGinyAUoqLRg7lXlwcDD7JpPkZydk7H97dNFI8svZ8aOgnbcnG46ABEuc8IuNyBI-z-30KC3JN1RTk-_waKDFw3pcTB3ymwloiih__p3L8EI7jGOLdm2xyXGCkYMWzZk/s2016/IMG_0445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjFCX7S5KS-GxH3L8y2zj6UkMaI3dtVqwG_KYIkoHM7C92zXg68kEpsxtWlncGinyAUoqLRg7lXlwcDD7JpPkZydk7H97dNFI8svZ8aOgnbcnG46ABEuc8IuNyBI-z-30KC3JN1RTk-_waKDFw3pcTB3ymwloiih__p3L8EI7jGOLdm2xyXGCkYMWzZk/s320/IMG_0445.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So that's that. Next blog post will probably show my progress on the conversion beamer...conversion..., as well as anything else I work on over the next few days, and then I'll update this blog with everything I painted for Shieldbash in late 2022!</div>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-70595958587451968442023-08-15T07:59:00.002-07:002023-08-15T07:59:48.775-07:002023.08.15 Yep, still here.<p> So I let this go for a while, mostly because I lost access to my Photobucket account and it was too much of a hassle to bother trying to get it back, and I didn't realize I could upload photos to Blogger directly rather than having to host images elsewhere. In the meantime, I more or less moved entirely to Instagram for a few years... but I'd like to be able to funnel some WIP & painting shots to the Tactical Command forums, so let's see if I can get this blog back off the ground & use it as an image host for Taccoms...</p><p>So what've I been up to? A whole lot of work for Tempestus, a little bit of work for my Iron Warriors, a whole new Loyalist Legio in Gryphonicus, and I finished off my True Atronians for Shieldbash.</p><p>For this post, I'll go through the Tempestus updates.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I finished up the two Warlords and the Reaver in the previous post, I spend a while working on the Warmaster (February/March 2022), and later in the fall added a Dire Wolf (August/September 2022):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Ultima Ratio Regum (The Final Argument of Kings)</i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_ONjDHQNKZT44A2qXKQlnmK9kUKF17wZukKKMujanCUHqViPsIBV4gbS5GKaR8AZd_MjQRk0yBHfyEQZc9o-KtBmLUc-7LVqULVO_fC9782fXj48LgnQZR4flEzRy7ROmFEODCPIwaqoGyTd7ZOp1HXQOI4vGxD8y5czyaRjbOA8aA-q8uyP9HV-Rzc/s2016/IMG_3990.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_ONjDHQNKZT44A2qXKQlnmK9kUKF17wZukKKMujanCUHqViPsIBV4gbS5GKaR8AZd_MjQRk0yBHfyEQZc9o-KtBmLUc-7LVqULVO_fC9782fXj48LgnQZR4flEzRy7ROmFEODCPIwaqoGyTd7ZOp1HXQOI4vGxD8y5czyaRjbOA8aA-q8uyP9HV-Rzc/s320/IMG_3990.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1i5r0h2wDcDithYCgPDndrnIzh6Uxv7inOABwipyrFXTjtncJfqxYNjkl5irLJIKBjEo5IXyXGbnaiPkBQsLtWL6_R7zDWP7TWJQQdyUcQFquZ_izaYuMzol8d_ANN0bPm-ESZGlupw5aXsWBLn60QEdrET944UWQAy9v3kAb6sPg-c0VDntgQ2kszI/s2016/IMG_3993.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1i5r0h2wDcDithYCgPDndrnIzh6Uxv7inOABwipyrFXTjtncJfqxYNjkl5irLJIKBjEo5IXyXGbnaiPkBQsLtWL6_R7zDWP7TWJQQdyUcQFquZ_izaYuMzol8d_ANN0bPm-ESZGlupw5aXsWBLn60QEdrET944UWQAy9v3kAb6sPg-c0VDntgQ2kszI/s320/IMG_3993.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2rHCwFaFlfZhbIQXyBYZPg5LueKPT0B3dCtUl0jyRrjx1AiMtOAhx2Ab-pmdRMNgU_qTOAYumMJHOWjMkE0FgyHKyOH5UGk9uLztKwO_4fRRgHnjZBCUaDaLodgMnbfDFtGzy_8BM4kixn1eHwd9pzkRRtiYZxKRt11wYo71TjG0RC7teixwakuGql8/s2016/IMG_5636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2rHCwFaFlfZhbIQXyBYZPg5LueKPT0B3dCtUl0jyRrjx1AiMtOAhx2Ab-pmdRMNgU_qTOAYumMJHOWjMkE0FgyHKyOH5UGk9uLztKwO_4fRRgHnjZBCUaDaLodgMnbfDFtGzy_8BM4kixn1eHwd9pzkRRtiYZxKRt11wYo71TjG0RC7teixwakuGql8/s320/IMG_5636.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqsrTeBRUt2VWGnTQPZS_AXqpEZsprLztXkwodgiX57asWkn75w9Me_toku-ByaY5ySkpm8ZSWiYxZGtcTT4IetScO4Gc-WVVXE4gbKyyjl5pO8K8cKXJUZ8ts0m8dClK43NbfC5YqLSeNcD3zl3y4rlS_6MD-w0VILp4pY7Aiyef_yUD2-G33NDkjAo/s2016/IMG_5637.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqsrTeBRUt2VWGnTQPZS_AXqpEZsprLztXkwodgiX57asWkn75w9Me_toku-ByaY5ySkpm8ZSWiYxZGtcTT4IetScO4Gc-WVVXE4gbKyyjl5pO8K8cKXJUZ8ts0m8dClK43NbfC5YqLSeNcD3zl3y4rlS_6MD-w0VILp4pY7Aiyef_yUD2-G33NDkjAo/s320/IMG_5637.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_omPPjhA_xBIJp7fouxnlP5o_eVfVU8wVLQ_8jkuhq0AEPZUXUltvWemR3_gxmbQA2h3D6df0Xqj_CxyQsQuo2n2u8bjoNreT9KIh2Bd9VPRRt_0LTtPv26nuScb2RQFZPKvl8n211h8s9Rzr1Ii4cUdLOL5Q7pcIxsXolVYzWUe14NezVtgCPeCRO4/s2016/IMG_5638.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_omPPjhA_xBIJp7fouxnlP5o_eVfVU8wVLQ_8jkuhq0AEPZUXUltvWemR3_gxmbQA2h3D6df0Xqj_CxyQsQuo2n2u8bjoNreT9KIh2Bd9VPRRt_0LTtPv26nuScb2RQFZPKvl8n211h8s9Rzr1Ii4cUdLOL5Q7pcIxsXolVYzWUe14NezVtgCPeCRO4/s320/IMG_5638.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>After that, I bounced through a handful of fun weapons additions in late Autumn, none of which have any in-game rules (and two of which have since been obsoleted by GW adding their own versions):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Warlord Rad Cannon (thinking of using this as an Experimental Weapon Volkite Eradicator):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqBtHBfGuepSAJ1ASVmk4hNe0w_GNJ2K-xdhxDmiEQIqf8C5-MV6ti0LI8A9aYa2coTHB2EeKvDNmlndDpdze4nsiOjCAZ_Ah5fD1ck-mFhHI_2nQw8FEmp-9ZcNDIrTR2i_xQr_FHsjoYxyVfMUed3IEnD4guboEY2-aPoM_2jyz3RxhId3wqJYm0YE/s1440/15D9F26C-0AC2-4834-B366-70B0C47967F2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqBtHBfGuepSAJ1ASVmk4hNe0w_GNJ2K-xdhxDmiEQIqf8C5-MV6ti0LI8A9aYa2coTHB2EeKvDNmlndDpdze4nsiOjCAZ_Ah5fD1ck-mFhHI_2nQw8FEmp-9ZcNDIrTR2i_xQr_FHsjoYxyVfMUed3IEnD4guboEY2-aPoM_2jyz3RxhId3wqJYm0YE/s320/15D9F26C-0AC2-4834-B366-70B0C47967F2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Reaver graviton cannon:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqAObX-sRQJ5Q7mvQiveElUC5F-6IWoyOzk2iKdwTtDLop5yVN1K2wLZqVfdiMIQy_uqL3_05W1AFWNIQDQiGabHfoIDPFfNIFMrAvdHmDc3EPhsZIWS1iqPpjd5SOVAB4C_QA4A1xMPVwbkDu0BRfyLBwFWAV0fsFs4Ws8ac1JmnicLLuoYJuVvGQmE/s2016/IMG_5423.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqAObX-sRQJ5Q7mvQiveElUC5F-6IWoyOzk2iKdwTtDLop5yVN1K2wLZqVfdiMIQy_uqL3_05W1AFWNIQDQiGabHfoIDPFfNIFMrAvdHmDc3EPhsZIWS1iqPpjd5SOVAB4C_QA4A1xMPVwbkDu0BRfyLBwFWAV0fsFs4Ws8ac1JmnicLLuoYJuVvGQmE/s320/IMG_5423.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Reaver conversion beamer:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdblO35Yq7yjypn0hcjRGtGSxYnh8T_eUxCwVqYRf_1QCd4aLwfhWQdRn-g0-uN4aJV48Q3kX5rHm-V-c_rBww1vDpzCoykCX-hRrNWAJ8na3IgyhMKCszw_12g5mIhQajfOzr6O8HBI0PPgBz-WuYkjZwaQojvedf2pmHX93pF96ApQ_zBn8Seh1uWDI/s2016/IMG_5431.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdblO35Yq7yjypn0hcjRGtGSxYnh8T_eUxCwVqYRf_1QCd4aLwfhWQdRn-g0-uN4aJV48Q3kX5rHm-V-c_rBww1vDpzCoykCX-hRrNWAJ8na3IgyhMKCszw_12g5mIhQajfOzr6O8HBI0PPgBz-WuYkjZwaQojvedf2pmHX93pF96ApQ_zBn8Seh1uWDI/s320/IMG_5431.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>So yeah, clearly someone at Forgeworld is watching BattleBling and taking notes, because in late, late 2022 and mid 2023, FW released graviton cannons and conversion beamers ;)</p><p>I didn't get a chance to work on these until May/June 2023, but I'm a sucker for new weapons options:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Warlord Graviton Ruinators and Conversion Beam Extirpators:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVvaCnoDqZp5z3VvL-lkgbUGM3sPNGDwoXAy94CkJQ_heV_6lXU8C-u-wlNm8FWwRdujNFKYUuFtHD0W_RA-nFeqwAkGsvDNHpg8iGvwqOnEWDTvkwW90ommwv5rC8m2ciPe2ANqpr-sgVhp_XDSg30T5QhCqWyLCn-XWnn5MckBsWwvR1z34QTGgEwC8/s2016/IMG_9924.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVvaCnoDqZp5z3VvL-lkgbUGM3sPNGDwoXAy94CkJQ_heV_6lXU8C-u-wlNm8FWwRdujNFKYUuFtHD0W_RA-nFeqwAkGsvDNHpg8iGvwqOnEWDTvkwW90ommwv5rC8m2ciPe2ANqpr-sgVhp_XDSg30T5QhCqWyLCn-XWnn5MckBsWwvR1z34QTGgEwC8/s320/IMG_9924.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVlWi_h2ZtCeNBERXPVch9ueS8bkv8wVYIPywrkyhVjqXKQSDgyF8GSVeX1LVM0q_RVcM-dtGLz8UlSxAmQoRibdRBa1Z6W72-ypDSgSEna7DamqGHrcdTd1SdMgbxy4wnPduezgBov-itHYsTznuwggKznVWEBOGss1spLljNB9oUO6ajaWYaLypUI0/s2016/IMG_9934.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Reaver & Warhound Graviton Destructors and Conversion Beam Dissolutors</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUnPYklk6xd8yrmEgOr5Wfo-n8Rhqp2CJ_WwKoMN9Yx2iTvarzAQ3dMHYigkG524yyCHPtWh0PFYAiVJ4QRK5wRHXnE_CuFmXtunBKIbY5ncl_W5pvT2bNhoHFGHTwtispErdFLGjNbDk2oW8-w3u1KXLum2onYRyKqDiOBE0LEdzyS2YCLcPlPoIxrw/s2016/IMG_9926.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUnPYklk6xd8yrmEgOr5Wfo-n8Rhqp2CJ_WwKoMN9Yx2iTvarzAQ3dMHYigkG524yyCHPtWh0PFYAiVJ4QRK5wRHXnE_CuFmXtunBKIbY5ncl_W5pvT2bNhoHFGHTwtispErdFLGjNbDk2oW8-w3u1KXLum2onYRyKqDiOBE0LEdzyS2YCLcPlPoIxrw/s320/IMG_9926.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKoiovzvF8Pt0Z1WyxlVnyHvPPlwbCg03-fFmXsWymxumLxBQ5UlZoaFZj0IqVdbaEMM4-43Elmdl5rcLTBi6GZ77eymU0m888qWyt5q5oZwZk0LuUJb-tSuAUNhhpGueyR2rQIfE_hrekvv-XR0vi2BWNysIG80KSNgv5WZJmFhP8mEJGcWvkaIB-9M/s2016/IMG_9927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYH2Osa4DBUUTd6WcFF3Uu8kOnOmrpwDcBU_54YIGk-eLfFCSiMyQlPoUrty1R_ePWoR91fRA3PUb8AC1vPRO0gNhS0SxW6oXh-8GxFdAAlNgwp1YvAu_Xr01GsTm_SWF9Y2pnqR57cwi-qilCfjKg7UwApakgut4r9v_YrvaQ4UlP5ryXB-fk1vihh4/s320/IMG_9932.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>There's some design elements I liked a little better about the BattleBling designs (the grav cannon having an "open petals" and all the fuses on the conversion beamer especially), but overall I'm much happier with the weapons cards for these guns than I was for the Acastus Asterius. </p><p>I'm really pleased with the Warlord Graviton and the Reaver Conversion Beamer in particular. Warhound Grav might see more use once the Warhound missile pods come out though. Conversion Beamers are interesting, given the hot/cold firing modes based on range, and the Warlord version really relies on you keeping your opponent across the table. Single shot gravs don't impress me much, about as much as the Neutron Laser is a similarly unreliable weapon on the Warhound, but reliable ranged concussive is a <i>nice</i> little threat to bring when your opponent is going heavy on Knights.</p><p>Most recently, I spent July 2023 working on a conversion that got a good hit of paint in August 2023, a Warbringer carapace Graviton Ruinator:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsa4YIDQ4mgHPvEgdtX7V_NdSwjL9HstqAWxaviRWqVqV1WCu0_sHsM9RLzEgkys93DLBxqQGp3X79v75K_rDXEOaRNysibdsiLYz8-9G2y8vEYr3cu-SCNf9jO7VNHNCu8O1PiS17TRd1WEs_qifCQyksNEd2bQC4OX3CxuVFl7YZ82TT-6_mUXg_HI/s2016/IMG_0763.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsa4YIDQ4mgHPvEgdtX7V_NdSwjL9HstqAWxaviRWqVqV1WCu0_sHsM9RLzEgkys93DLBxqQGp3X79v75K_rDXEOaRNysibdsiLYz8-9G2y8vEYr3cu-SCNf9jO7VNHNCu8O1PiS17TRd1WEs_qifCQyksNEd2bQC4OX3CxuVFl7YZ82TT-6_mUXg_HI/s320/IMG_0763.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6IAvxyjb1pVI7JrtS6faumNolp0-rm9f6QsJlbKQwBPSWrZQbpZz5tw_Hw-U9VFgon_jWeznmg5vAkcDcVbKnV--U3wiyW3TWfwew6Q1lMy2-m3VRDx0FZGo0CWdxK1cDEgurKWIKbvldKXK7mUeG7VsDWDbEY2euNxboG22wWDeBthpShhKYPtmm1Y/s1280/IMG_0010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6IAvxyjb1pVI7JrtS6faumNolp0-rm9f6QsJlbKQwBPSWrZQbpZz5tw_Hw-U9VFgon_jWeznmg5vAkcDcVbKnV--U3wiyW3TWfwew6Q1lMy2-m3VRDx0FZGo0CWdxK1cDEgurKWIKbvldKXK7mUeG7VsDWDbEY2euNxboG22wWDeBthpShhKYPtmm1Y/s320/IMG_0010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>So that gets me up to date on Legio Tempestus over the past year. Next post will cover the Legio Gryphonicus force I started, and then I'll show off all the Shieldbash work I did in Fall of 2022 to round out my True Atronians.</p><p>Now, I can finally update my Taccoms hobby log too! ;)</p>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-55933282470726694432021-06-22T11:50:00.001-07:002021-06-22T11:50:09.277-07:002021.06.22 Busy is as busy does...<p> Yeah, ok, so I missed my Titan update. So here's a bit of a catch-up. Warlord #3 and Reaver #5 are finished, woo On top of that, I've built - and now need to prime (please, NYC in June, could we stop raining on the weekends for five minutes?) - a wargaming city table scaled appropriately for Epic, and am currently juggling expanding that alongside painting more Knights for Malinax.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Adeptus Titanicus Update</span></u></b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213778110_98c47ea222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213778110_98c47ea222.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Tonitrum Varico</i> (Rolling Thunder) and <i>Spectatus Speculator</i> (Vigilant Watchman) join their sister engines on the battlefield, along with a whole bunch of third party plasma weapons I picked up because plasma is fun :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm pretty happy with the running pose on <i>Spectatus</i>; it's meant to represent a "Power to Locomotors!" reactor push or even "Full Stride" order, and I wanted you to feel like it's a heavy machine powering forward. I also wanted to put some sway in it, and emphasize the stomping, predatory nature of the engine. Reavers aren't small; they just look it next to Warlords.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213479209_5d9cb5cf74.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213479209_5d9cb5cf74.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As for the Warlord, he was always meant to be more of a gunslinger, so I built him in the midst of a torso twist, turning to get a bead on someone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213479324_b319bed4e8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51213479324_b319bed4e8.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think I OD'd a little on the heraldry shields, but I've been pushing myself to keep each titan unique, and the complexity has only been increasing. I finished up the Lucius-pattern Warlord heads I had while I was at it; that gets me enough variety to, well, use whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51164224498_748930e8d3_z.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51164224498_748930e8d3_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">Here's everybody to-date: three Warlords, two Warbringers, five Reavers, and five Warhounds. That gives me enough to field any maniple in full, other than the Extergimus. So what's left? One Warlord (Extergimus), and a Warbringer, eventually. I want to finish the table, and some Knights first before I go back to Tempestus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">They'll probably be getting some weathering eventually, too, I just haven't quite settled on how, and how much. Do I want to add rust? paint chipping? dust collection? I'm thinking dust around the legs, at the very least, but not sure how much wear & tear I want to put on the torso and upper carapaces. I also think I need to revisit older titans and work on enhancing some of my pin washing and edge highlighting, especially on some of the later engine designs with armor panel gaps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><u><b>City Board</b> </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51263583852_756b650c05_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51263583852_756b650c05_z.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Heck yeah. I'll let that speak for itself for a hot minute.</p><p>So yeah, Craig Birks, <a href="https://uncertainscenery.com/" target="_blank">Uncertain Scenery</a>, makes an "8/10mm" modular city board. Each tile is 12x12x2" and is scale-agnostic enough to work just fine from a Grimdark 6mm all the way up through Drop Zone Commander. The key element is the 2" deep tile design - they don't pack nearly as tightly as a smaller tile system, but the added height lets you go down as well as up - adding in recessed highways, shopping mall courtyards, parking garage entrances, etc. It also lets you go up, adding terraced hills, ramps, and bridges between elevated regions.</p><p>I still have a lot left to build, almost enough for two full 4x6' boards - just to have a wide range of options for a single 4x6' :D - when I'm done, but I like the potential it offers. I've already broken the boards out for one game, and I'm hoping to get it fully painted & distressed by Historicon this fall (along with buildings to fill the city blocks).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228892120_cc8691383a_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228892120_cc8691383a_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228892070_316bf8ef2c_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228892070_316bf8ef2c_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228033538_aafe1f28d6_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228033538_aafe1f28d6_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228033478_ee59fe8c77_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51228033478_ee59fe8c77_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264504683_a0509e0324_z.jpg%5B/img%5D" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264504683_a0509e0324_z.jpg%5B/img%5D" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264313896_1cd981be77_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264313896_1cd981be77_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51263583702_d3647eb145_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51263583702_d3647eb145_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264504608_7fe3e9933b_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51264504608_7fe3e9933b_z.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-65428349931041370382021-05-12T21:02:00.004-07:002021-05-12T21:02:39.868-07:002021.05.12 Hey look, signs of life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Ooph. So yeah, lost access to my Flickr account sometime after my last blog post (thanks, Yahoo), shifted gears into preparing for a move out of state, executed that move, dealt with dog health issues, and oh yeah, the year of COVID.</p><p>Well, I managed to get a dozen or so models painted for Shieldbash in the second half of 2020, and built and primed a whole bunch of stuff for Necromunda, magnetize tanks for Epic... and that was it.</p><p>Things picked back up in early 2021. I finished the other half of said Shieldbash warband (pictures here), polished off a few titan weapons, and dove into painting a Reaver and a Warlord for Tempestus in Adeptus Titanicus, and that's just my start for the year. Oh yeah, and I set up a new Flickr account so I can actually support the blog with pictures again ;)</p><p>Hoping to work on the following during the remainder of the year:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Finish
off a bunch of Dark Mechanicum Skitarii (Epic)</span></li><li>Build
and paint a Siegelord and a Banelord (Epic)</li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Build
& paint a Warmaster for my Tempestus force (AT18)</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Paint
up a Van Saar gang (Necromunda)</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Paint
up Jaarl for (Shieldbash)</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Get
started on a Legio Astorum force (AT18)</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">Maybe
get to my Orlocks as a stretch goal (NM17)</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 107%;">And
dear god I need to paint some terrain for Epic/AT18 and Necromunda already</span></li></ol>Rea<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">listically, even if I finish these two titans before we get too deep into June, I'll probably knock 2-3 projects off that list before the year's out, 4-5 if I'm strategic about painting Van Saars and Jaarl. Still, that'll be pretty good for me, for the kind of year it's been since last March.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">So yeah, onto the newly painted minis, then!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51164953959_a4fb5bf0d5_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="800" height="365" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51164953959_a4fb5bf0d5_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Here's everything I've painted up for Shieldbash since August of 2020. 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I've learned a lot about shading and how to paint fur compared to when I painted up my initial Jaarl force back in 2017-2018.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wanted a simple, uniform palette for the force - bronze armor & white chitons, and purple-dyed leather armor made sense to contrast with the bronze and the browns. Between "skin tone" fur, hair, leather kit & wooden weapon hafts, I think I ended up with at least six different brown shades (counting the kanids) in this army. Pretty happy that I managed to keep them all distinct enough that you can tell what you're looking at on the individual models, even when multiple browns end up occupying the same general real estate, like on the spear levies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So yeah, these girls are properly seal-coated, and should be getting plenty of table time in the months and years to come. Next post will probably be an Adeptus Titanicus update, and then hopefully some WIP shots on the next engines for Suturvora...</div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-53180890684037934582020-04-15T08:08:00.000-07:002020-04-15T08:08:07.599-07:002020.04.15 [Quarantine] Hobby Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, obviously I haven't gotten a whole lot of gaming in over the past few weeks. After coming back from a short vacation and a business trip right before the world shut down... well yeah. Passed on Cold Wars, and generally hunkered down working from home and painting when I could.<br />
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So along the way I finally got myself back onto the Bolter & Chainsword forums, and committed to their Titans of the Heresy II panting challenge. With that, I committed myself to finishing two Reavers (one of which I shared in the last blog post) and a Warbringer. Well, fast-forward a few weeks of feverish work e-mails and being busier than ever, here's the remaining fruits of my labor:<br />
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Nearly 800 points of carnage, I now have two CQB Reavers and the first of two walking artillery platforms ready to go ;)</div>
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The Warbringer was a ridiculous amount of work, even compared to a Warlord, with all of the fiddly armor plates they loaded onto that thing. You can really tell what was CAD-designed from the ground up vs. adapted from a hand-sculpted 28mm model (Reaver, Warhound). I still have two more volcano cannon, a gatling blaster, a laser blaster, and a melta to paint for my mid-height battle titans, plus another volcano cannon and laser blaster coming with the next Warbringer... so this arsenal isn't finished by a long shot yet.</div>
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Seriously considering going back to all of my Reavers and repainting their hip actuator caps bronze alongside the Warbringer, but I haven't quite committed to it yet. Also, as it gets warmer this Spring, I plan on seal-coating everything I've painted so far, adding some scrub to the bases, and working on adding some desert dust weathering to the Titans as well. Less certain about rain streaking, but that has more to do with keeping them thematically consistent with their environment.</div>
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With the Reaver's heraldry and battle honors I really wanted to tell a story. Specifically, the lack of kill markings and relatively simplistic personal heraldry, combined with the massive, showy allegiance markings... between the right shoulder split between Mars & Legio Tempestus, and that massive Eye of Horus on the carapace, is the princeps in charge of this engine overcompensating a little? Getting a little too showy in his declarations of allegiance to perhaps cover some closely-held misgivings?</div>
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This guy was a beast. The flack turrets are magnetized, the ammo panniers are magnetized, and the Quake cannon's turret has enough contact friction from the wash and paint to hold itself stiffly in place (gun is also magnetized so I can set my elevation). I wanted a bracing fire pose, although the one thing I really screwed up was mounting the power transfers backwards. So I trimmed the cables and modeled them retracted. You probably wouldn't even notice unless I'd pointed it out, anyway.<br />
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So here's the full B&C pledge all aligned. Note the combat weapons, and then go check that initial blog post banner - I've magnetized both Reavers at the wrist to swap between power and chainfists ;)</div>
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So what's next? Well, I have enough titans now to run an Arcus, most of a Lupercal (4/5), and most of a Corsair (4/5). I'd like to get a second Warbringer, fifth Reaver, third Warlord going, and then of course there's this little guy...</div>
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That'll let me run a full force for any one single Maniple in the game currently, as well as have a custom Warhound for my Legio's "named character." I may not be able to play games safely outside of Tabletop Simulator, but at least I can paint. More to come! :)</div>
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Yeah, way overdue for this. I've completed a lot since my last hobby update in November, I just didn't finish everything I wanted to before I posted, so I kept putting it off. Blame myself for being unnecessarily perfectionist about hobby goals.<br />
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Anyhow, in chronological order, here's what I've completed, and roughly when:<br />
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<b>I. Legio Tempestus Warhound #4 - ~Mid-November</b><br />
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This guy was completed just in case I had to play a 1250 point game at PAX Unplugged - I could run a full Venator maniple and at least get 3 activations out of it (and believe me, Warhound packs live much longer than solos). Probably should re-shade those toes a little; will do that when I hit Reaver #3 again (see below).<br />
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<b>II. Legio Tempestus Warlord Carapace Weaponry - ~Mid-December(?)</b><br />
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I knocked these guys out before Christmas, and the gatling blasters, at least, got their first game right around New Year's. I know the world swears by gatling blasters for their brawler Warlords, but I think I might still be happier running either Apocalypse Launchers, or going to Chasmata Laser Blasters, when it comes to range vs. number of shots. As for the Turbolasers, those might legitimately see the most play given their long range accuracy and my desire to get a Myrmidon maniple onto the table at some point in a competitive game.<br />
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<b>III. Legio Tempestus Warlord #2 - 2020.02.05</b><br />
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Oh I am very happy with this guy (the lightbox not so much, but the Titan yes). When I finally get my nameplates going this will be <i>Cataegis Irae/</i>"Stormwrath," my overall battlegroup commander's engine. The leg post did not come out as "Captain Morgan/Hero Pose" as I wanted it to - posing seems to be overall much more subtle than I expected on the Titans - but he's quite deliberately crushing a fallen statue of a Mechanicum worthy underfoot.<br />
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As with all of my other Titans, everyone's part of the same battlegroup (identified by the left leg split checkering and right leg split camo), but identifiable by Axiom maniples (either split carapace between checkering and camo, or a full camo carapace with a white cockpit). It's a subtle distinction; curious how many folks will figure that out without reading this here. The idea was that I could at least host intro games between the two Maniples when I'm done and still easily be able to tell which force is which in an internal Legio training wargame.<br />
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<b>IV. Legio Tempestus Reaver #3 - 2020.02.14</b><br />
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The newest of my action figures, this guy has a magnetized chainfist (in case I ever want to swap it to a power fist) in addition to my usual magnet treatment. With four Reavers total planned, I figured I could build two dedicated gun platforms and two dedicated close combat platforms and still have full flexibility of force choice in most games. By this guy I really think I'm getting the hang of the checkering, and I'm happy with how well my armor panel pin washes are going. I've decided I need to touch up that central white stripe though. It needs a dark edge and some shaded blending in toward the center, probably only about 1-2mm per side, but that'll help it pop and feel less flat (also an opportunity to straighten the lines a tiny bit more). Otherwise, he's tabletop ready.<br />
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This guy missed the photo up top by about 24 hours, unfortunately, but he'll make it into the "final" Titan force shot in another couple of weeks.<br />
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Well, I have one more Reaver in the queue (right-handed power fist), and a Warbringer kit on the way, as well as a whole bunch of Knight weapons primed. After that, there's another sprue of Questoris I want to assemble, a pair of Acastus I want to convert into Asterius-pattern (w. conversion beamers), and I want to see if I can't get myself conversion bits for a pair of Cerastus Acherons. If I do that, I'll have enough Knights for 1250-1500 points worth of a Household force, and pretty much everything I'd want to paint or play for Tempestus, so I'll probably consider starting a (smaller) loyalist force, or a maniple or two of Legio Krytos (Honestly, 4 Warlords + 1 Reaver (Myrmidon) , backed up by 2 Warbringers + 3 Reavers (Ruptura) sounds way too much fun). I'll probably get a couple of natrix shock lances when they come out for my Warhounds, but I'm probably passing on ursus claws for a bit; forced shutdowns are good, but ursus claws can only do so much against a hostile Warlord.<br />
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I really need to step back from titans for a bit and focus on terrain. Those wooden tiles have been sitting untouched for way too long, and I have a *lot* of buildings to construct and paint. That might really be my next big project after the upcoming Reaver, Warbringer, and Questoris weapons.<br />
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I also have an active Necromunda campaign going on right now, so I need to get those guys painted - expect to see more of them in the near future. Also coming soon, another Iron Warriors playtest battle report needs writing finally.<br />
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Lord, 8 Dreadclaw Drop Pod<o:p></o:p></div>
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OBLITERATOR CULT [350]<o:p></o:p></div>
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HAVOC COMPANY [375]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stalker<o:p></o:p></div>
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ARTILLERY BATTERY [375]<o:p></o:p></div>
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HELLBLADE FLIGHT [200]<o:p></o:p></div>
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DEVASTATION CLASS CRUISER [150]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Minervan Tank Legion (NetEA Tournament Pack 2014), 2900
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ARTILLERY COMPANY [600]<o:p></o:p></div>
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TANK COMPANY [650]<o:p></o:p></div>
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TANK COMPANY [425]<o:p></o:p></div>
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SALAMANDER SCOUT PLATOON [100]<o:p></o:p></div>
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STORM TROOPER PLATOON [350]<o:p></o:p></div>
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MECHANIZED PLATOON [300]<o:p></o:p></div>
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WARHOUND [275]<o:p></o:p></div>
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ORBITAL SUPPORT [200]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since my opponent took a Battleship, I knew he wasn’t coming in with Orbital
Support until Turn 3, which was good insofar as it let me get my drop in Turn 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I placed my objectives toward midfield on
either side of a large crater so that my dropping infantry would have some
cover to fall back into, while my opponent spread his out on either side of a
mesa so I wouldn’t be able to effectively cover both with midfield forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plotted my orbital barrage to land behind
the mesa on his side of the table, assuming something would be hiding there to
avoid first-turn direct fire, and plotted both of my drops (IW Siege Hammer
Company, Dreadnought Assault Pack) to land on top of each other, midway between
my central T&H objective and his back line, with plenty of room to shift behind
the mesa or into the crater to threaten formations in their starting positions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After setup, it was apparent that I was going to glance his
Warhound, at best, with the orbital barrage from my Devastation (which is about
par for the course for me in pre-plotting barrages), and my drop forces were
going to have a good line of engagement to his BTS, the Leman Russ
company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, pretty much have to go
all or nothing with an immediate drop there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>TURN ONE</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Imperial Guard won the initiative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Minervans’ Basilisk company immediately sustained fire
on the Defilers, scoring 4 hits, all of which were saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no retain, the momentum passed to the Iron
Warriors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Iron Warriors’ cruiser in
orbit came through overhead, dropping its orbital barrage and missing its
pinpoint attack on the Warhound, ablating one shield(!) and putting a blast
marker n the Salamander scouts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also par
for the course for me and orbital barrages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dreadclaws rained down from above, course-correcting into the crater in
front of the Leman Russ company and unloading their cargo of Siegehammer
assault infantry and Dreadnoughts.</div>
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The Siegehammer company retained, pulling the Dreadnoughts
along with them into an assault on the Leman Russes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three tanks went down to the initial assault,
another 4 fell to hack-downs, and because my attack line had spread out so widely,
the remaining tanks couldn’t retain coherency and still move more than 30cm
away from the attackers, wiping out the company and netting the Iron Warriors
BTS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Minervans reacted by doubling the Thunderer company over
and firing on the Dreadnoughts, to no result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Iron Warriors responded with a Hellblade ground attack against the
Valkyries, inflicting 1 blast marker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Iron Warriors’ Basilisk battery then retained, sustaining fire and
placing their barrage on the intermingled Stormtrooper Valkyries and Mechanized
Company’s Chimaeras, but all hits were saved and each formation took a blast
marker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since both formations’ infantry
started in their transports, a couple of vehicle kills here could have had much
more significant consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chimeras
then advanced, disgorging their troops and firing on the Siege Hammer Company
and killing two.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Iron Warriors then took and held the initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Defilers doubled and fired on the
Basilisk company with their battle cannon, knocking out two from 4 shots (after
suppression).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the Havoc Company
doubled up, firing on the Mechanized Company and knocking out 3 guard squads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In response, the Valkyries advanced and deployed their
Stormtroopers, dropping half of their rocket pod barrage on the Havocs and
wiping out three Havoc squads to break the formation (BTS).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After this, the left flank Iron Warriors
Vindicator formation marched up to support the Dreadnoughts and Siege Hammer Company,
while the Minervan Salamanders failed to activate and took their move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second Vindicator formation doubled up
and fired on the Salamanders from extreme range, inflicting one blast marker
and breaking them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, the
Warhound finally ground to life, engaging the Dreadnoughts in the crater, only
to be broken after two rounds of assault, losing two damage capacity and taking
down all but one Dreadnought (who promptly broke and fled in the direction of
the Minervans’ Blitz).<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of the turn, all formations rallied on both
sides, and the Obliterators and Terminators came down intermingled behind the Minervan
Mechanized Company (Terminators took 2 blast markers from the teleport).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>TURN TWO<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Iron Warriors won the initiative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The turn began with the Obliterators sustaining fire on the
Mechanized Company, catching them in a crossfire with the Siege Hammer Company
across the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This wiped out all
remaining guard squads, leaving the Chimeras bereft and broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that force eliminated, the Terminators
retained and engaged the Basilisks, wiping them out at the cost of one Terminator
squad (breaking them).<o:p></o:p></div>
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In response, the Warhound advanced, firing with its plasma
blastgun on the midfield Vindicators and killing 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The midfield Vindicators repositioned and
fired on the Stormtroopers, killing two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then the Defilers retained for a double, bracketing the Stormtrooper
company, wiping out two more squads and downing 3 Valkyries, breaking the
formation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Minervans’ Thunderers then failed their activation, firing on the Siege Hammers as well, killing two more and breaking them.In turn, the Iron Warriors’ Basilisks sustained and took
direct-fire shots at the Salamander Scouts, killing two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that, the Minervans were out of unbroken
formations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The midfield Vindicators marshalled and fired on the Warhound,
inflicting 1 blast marker and clearing their own blast markers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hellblades made a ground attack on the
broken Stormtroopers, killing one more with the blast marker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rallied Dreadnought moved onto the Minervans’
Blitz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Havocs doubled and fired on
the Warhound, knocking off a void shield and piling on another blast marker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of the turn, the Minervans’ Mechanized Company and
Warhound rallied, while the Thunderers, Stormtroopers, and Salamanders failed
their rolls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>TURN THREE<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Imperial Guard won the initiative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Mechanized Company’s Chimaeras started off the turn by
failing their activation and repositioning across the midline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In response, the Defilers repositioned, fired
on the Chimaeras, killing 3 and breaking them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The midfield Vindicators then retained and sustained fire on
the Warhound, scoring the final necessary hit, critting it, and it staggered to
the ground dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Thunderers retaliated
by advancing and firing on the Dreadnought holding the Blitz, taking it down in
a hail of high explosive shells.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Obliterators moved to occupy the Iron Warriors’ lefthand
T&H objective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, the Battleship
in orbit came past overhead, pouring fire onto the battlefield and overlapping
both T&H objectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 Defilers and 2
Vindicators go down to the orbital bombardment, breaking both formations and
ending the Minervans’ activations.</div>
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The
Hellblades make a ground attack against the Salamander formation, knocking it
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Siegehammer company moves to
occupy the T&H objective vacated by the Defilers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Basilisks sustain fire, but only manage
to kill 1 broken Chimaera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, the
Havocs march and stretch out to occupy the third DTF objective.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the game’s end, the Iron Warriors came out ahead 3-0 with
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So it wasn’t until I went to write up this battle report that I realized my opponent had shorted himself 100 points when building his list, which could have bulked up his Thunderers with a few Leman Russes, Salamander Command vehicles, or maybe taken another Salamander Company entirely. Oops. I’m not entirely convinced it would have made too much of a difference though, as the units I dropped on were pretty handily wiped out when I hit them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some thoughts:<br />
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Havocs are a small and relatively fragile BTS, but at least Land Raiders are hard to kill.<br />
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Not sure yet whether the Siege Hammer company is too powerful at 8 infantry. There's no macro in there, but the added bodies do help contribute to potential outnumbering. I think I like "more bodies" over "more special rules" though. We'll see. They did hold ground in cover and distract my opponent pretty effectively once they'd dropped though, so the 15cm move and no ranged weapons weren't really as much of a disadvantage as most people probably think.<br />
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Being able to take three core units and let that unlock Obliterators, Dreadnoughts, Siege Hammer, and Terminators is powerful. It's expensive and you can't then take an Ordinatus or multiple artillery batteries, and you're relying on Vindicators to do a lot of work for you, but that's a LOT of drop assault power for a Chaos Marine army. Being able to spread the full assault out over two turns helped as well. I'm not sure this army would survive waiting until turn two to drop everything.<br />
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I don't think the points reductions to Defilers or Vindicators are really that significant for their formations (strips out some of the points tax that was initially built into them), but unlocking ~75 points' worth in the Core section does unlock an extra activation for Iron Warriors. Typically I find myself around 8-9 activations with spare points, but not enough list flexibility or enough points to take another. Reducing overpriced core formations' cost and reorganizing the force org chart (Havocs and Obliterators to Siege Support where they probably belong) definitely unlocks more options and more potential list variety.<br />
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These two combinations (Obliterators in Support, room in the list for an additional activation due to points costs), are what I'll probably want the most testing from the community on - have I unintentionally turned the Siege Assault Chaos list into an extremely hard-hitting and durable ground-holding drop assault list? If so, is that ok?<br />
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Honestly, Minervans are particularly vulnerable to a heavy drop assault list like this. I got pretty lucky in my targets, and the Stormtroopers might have been able to do more damage if they'd been given freer reign, or if he'd taken a second formation instead of the Mechanized Platoon (and used up the last 100 points). Chances are I could have won 2-0, after getting most of the forces I'd sent over the midline mulched and maneuvering to claim objectives with Vindicators. Would have been a different game, but possibly not that much.<br />
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- Full mechanized ground assault with Titan support<br />
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- Durable Ordinatus (this one was suggested to me; not my idea originally)<br />
- More of this drop-heavy list; see if it's too broken against other opponents<br />
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Ooph. Well, that was a marathon couple of months. The draft for this post was originally titled "11.15-11.16 Fall In! After-Action Report" but then things got a wee bit crazy over here. Fall In! became Thanksgiving became a quick prep for PAX Unplugged (12.08 for me) led into holiday party season led into Christmas & New Years, oh, and we wrapped up audit corrective actions while down an average of 3-4 people in the department for end of year "use it or lose it" vacation dumps... so yeah that happened. I did manage to get up to CT one last time for a couple of games before the New Year, so that was good.<br />
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Workbench updates will probably follow sometime later next week, along with a proper battle report for the Iron Warriors playtest later today/this weekend. For now, here's a shorter recap of how I rounded out the year, interspersed with a few photos where I remembered to take them ;)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2019.11.15 - Fall In! - Warmaster Tournament</span></b><br />
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So yeah, I got barely any painting done before Fall In! - something about a government audit eating up all my free time for a few months? Oops. Well anyway. I borrowed pretty much an entire army from one of the guys (huge thanks, Matt!), and got two of my three games in. Both games were against great guys, one with a Dogs of War army and the other an Ogre Kingdoms army. Won one, lost one, and damn were both fun to play.<br />
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I (re)learned a LOT of how to play Warmaster over the course of those games, as well as important stuff like paying attention to unit rules (note: Dragon Ogres are monsters and not cavalry - the only move 20cm, genius!), as well as just how nasty certain units can be when properly buffed with spells and supported by a character (note: Dragon Ogres... and I thought Chaos Knights were nasty!).<br />
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Finishing painting my Warmaster Chaos army is definitely a project for 2020. Not sure I'll get it done in time for Cold Wars, but I definitely want to have it ready for Fall In! this year.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2019.11.15 - Fall In! - Adeptus Titanicus Event</span></b><br />
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This event was run by the Mechanicon guys. As far as I can tell, they've largely rolled their tournament events into HMGS' Fall In!, and even then they've stepped things down a bit. This was... frustrating. We had 4 players show up including the event organizer and each player was limited to 1000 points, which pretty much meant everything was a bare-bones Axiom maniple. It took some effort on my part convincing to get the TO to even permit Legio rules and Princeps Senioris abilities, but Stratagems were out of the question.<br />
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I walked away from this game with the impression that I was the only person at the table with a really solid grasp of the rules. Honestly, I wish I'd stuck around the Warmaster Tournament for a third game. PAX Unplugged really made up for this. I like playing against my regular AT18 gaming bud, but we both need variety in our opponents to help improve our games, IMO.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2019.11.16 - Fall In! - Epic: Armageddon Tournament</span></b><br />
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My reason for going to Fall In! every year! When the dust settled, I came in fifth overall, 1-1-1 (last tie was a win on points), and I think we had ~18-20 players or so in attendance? Definitely one of our best-attended tournaments yet! I took another Legio Suturvora force, this time dropping the Warlord for a second Warhound and third Reaver.<br />
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REAVER TITAN [800]<br />
Legate, Carapace Landing Pad, 2 Quake Cannon, Carapace Multi-Lasers<br />
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REAVER TITAN [725]<br />
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REAVER TITAN [725]<br />
Apocalypse Missile Launcher, Veteran Princeps, Laser Blaster, Close Combat Weapon, Carapace Multi-Lasers<br />
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Inferno Gun, Vulcan Megabolter<br />
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WARHOUND TITAN [275]<br />
Inferno Gun, Vulcan Megabolter<br />
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SKITARII DEMI-CENTURY [200]<br />
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Yes, it's only six activations. From experience, the carapace multilasers are worth more than a flight of Thunderbolts and a seventh activation. Do I think the Reaver CCW was a crutch? No; for the same reason the CCW on the Warlord was worth it at PAX. You don't assault EA (+3), TK (D3). You don't end your move anywhere within 20cm of it either. You eyeball the objective it's sitting on and weigh your odds of shooting it off said objective, if you're lucky. Again, it's not an army where you go flying across the board and try to outmaneuver your opponent or threaten their Blitz; you play for TSNP & either T&H or DTF and deny your opponent the other one, while trying not to give up BTS. If you're lucky, you can grab BTS along the way.<br />
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<b>Game One: Shaun's Minervan Tank Legion (Win).</b><br />
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This was a brawl, but it made up for the Mechanicon event the previous day. When the smoke cleared I'd won 2-0 (BTS, T&H).<br />
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The shooting did exactly what it needed to. I pounded away at his SHT company and managed to pop the Shadowsword on turn one, which was absurdly lucky. After that, it was a fire & maneuver game, moving up the board and lighting up his Leman Russ company to keep it suppressed / shoot it off the board. Dual quake cannons did a lot of work for me in this game and sort of made up for not taking a volcano cannon.<br />
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The best moment of the game was definitely Shaun parking his Warhound within charge range of my Reaver. Remember, titans can step over anything <u><</u>2cm wide and up to their knees! Just because there's a building I can step over in the way, that doesn't mean I can't reach you at the maximum end of my charge range :D<br />
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<b>Game Two: Dave's Iyanden Ghost Warriors (Loss).</b><br />
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Yeah, this was rough. My Iron Warriors don't have a good answer to the magical flying 4+ RA / MW circus, and Legio Suturvora sure as heck doesn't either. When your opponent massively out-activates, out-manuevers, and outshoots you in engagements, there isn't a whole lot you can do to counter it. Pretty sure this one ended 0-4.<br />
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Spending most of the game rallying broken units doesn't make for engaging gameplay. Losing a Reaver on turn one to critical hit effects certainly didn't help either. It happens though. Take a list with pronounced strengths and weaknesses, expect to lose when you run up against your hard counter.<br />
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<b>Game Three I played Kal's Sisters of Battle (Tie - Won on VP).</b><br />
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Damn was this a fun game. Kal's good. His Sisters list had 12-13 activations, BUT most of the list relies on short-ranged firefight and/or assault to win, and a lot of it was either on foot or rocking up in Rhinos, the 40K universe's purple heart box. Lightning Strike fighters are nasty for their barrage of AT missiles and lascannon, but that and his Exorcist formation were really his only reliable antitank firepower.<br />
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I spent most of this game shooting up garrisoned Penitent Engine formations, bouncing off his assaults, and maneuvering for position. Apocalypse Launchers and Quake Cannon did a lot of work for me in this game, loading smaller units up with blast markers and ensuring they'd break.<br />
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Still, this was where the activation count bit me in the butt. It doesn't matter if you break their BTS - you need to annihilate it to keep it from rallying at the end of turn three. If you only have 5-6 activations a turn, you probably have more immediate threats to deal with than lobbing some long-range shots at a distant potential victory condition you might not even be able to reach after it broke & fell back. Plus, when you're out-activated 2:1, it's really hard to hold objective uncontested, or to ensure there's *nothing* unbroken at the end of turn four on your side of the board. And yeah, he had a couple of good rallies at the end of turn four, otherwise I might have won 2-0 for TSNP & T&H.<br />
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That was a great game though, honestly the most challenging and enjoyable game I've played in a long time, and Kal is a great guy to throw down against with a great attitude even late in the day after 10+ hours of wargaming ;)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2019.12.08 - PAX Unplugged - Betrayer (Adeptus Titanicus Narrative Event)</span></b><br />
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So this was apparently year three for PAX Unplugged and the first time the local wargaming group (HAWC) decided applied to host an event. They ran a three day Horus Heresy narrative campaign - Friday/Saturday were large force battles, while Sunday was a smaller Zone Mortalis event paired with Adeptus Titanicus. The broader narrative was that the forces of the Warmaster held a major sub-sector base at a warp route conjunction, and Dorn's forces opted to strike back and attempt to take it / delay the assault on Terra a little longer. Over the course of the three days, ultimately the Loyalists came out on top by quite a bit (boo!), but I walked away with the second place painting award for my battleforce, and a medal for the highest bodycount overall amongst the AT18 players (and by a good margin; 8 engine kills and 4 knights over 2 games!).<br />
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The Adeptus Titanicus event took place on the final days of the siege as Loyalist forces advanced on the final holdout cities. The TO set things up with 1750 point games and gave us the nastiest weather conditions from the back of the Titandeath campaign book - the first two turns of game one were night fighting in a radiation storm (weakened shields), and the second two turns were in the middle of an electrical storm with limited visibility (reverse the order for game two) to represent all of the atmospheric disturbance from days heavy planetary bombardment. It was a bit of extra bookkeeping, but the the radiation storms and lightning strikes helped speed up gameplay as shields dropped very rapidly on all sides.<br />
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In game one I squared off against a beautifully painted Legio Solaria force, and game two I threw down against Shaun's Legio Atarus. Both games' bodycounts were high, but while I was able to box out Legio Solaria, poor dice rolls prevented me from killing Atarus' Warhound while it fled off the board with their rescued titan crew.<br />
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Overall it was a fun event. We had a very broad mix of skill levels and experience, ranging from psychos like me who play way too much to guys getting their second or third game in at the event... which is something I probably should expect for what's more of a niche game compared to GW's more marquee 40K, Age of Sigmar, and 30K. My only major criticism is that throwing in all of the weather conditions might have been a little much for some of the newer players. I'm not sure everybody actually played with them, so I may have been handicapping myself. Some of the more experienced players were really bad about remembering to roll for weapon ranges, too.<br />
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The narrative nature of the event helped though - largely, nobody brought an abusive list (aside from the one guy with a Lupercal backed up by a Banner or two of Acastus - although apparently he wasn't a great player, and he did leave early). I took the opportunity to mount a power fist on my Warlord (along with carapace gatling blasters and a sunfury plasma annihilator), and man was that entertaining. I never once actually swung with it, but man, it really dictated the flow of the game. The one thing I could count on during both games - anywhere that Warlord stood was the center of a 16" diameter bubble completely devoid of enemy Titans and Knights! Nobody wanted to even consider risking letting me get the charge off ;)<br />
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All in all, it was a fun day. Our tournament tables were set up at an intersection of two major walking arteries within the convention center on the way to the GW store & painting station, and we got a LOT of attention for the fully-painted titans and terrain setups. We all got a lot of attention for our games, and apparently HAWC already knows we'll be invited back for PAX Unplugged again next year, so I'll call that a win!Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-51898906137236462372019-10-10T07:59:00.001-07:002019-10-10T07:59:38.614-07:002019.10.10 Workbench UpdateSo the past week has been project cleanup to get (most of) the little held-over side projects cleaned up before I pack up my Warmaster Chaos force and paints and take it up to CT for 2 weeks of final audit prep and full-on USG audit, because when I finally get home and back from the gym, I'd rather spend two hours painting than watching TV or getting mad at the internet. Plus, at least it'll feel like I'm accomplishing SOMETHING during that time.<br />
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So yeah, I'll be packing about a gallon of paint up to CT with me in order to do all the red-laquered armor, bronze trim, chainmail & blades, skin tones, bone horns, etc., and leave finishing off all the bases until I'm back down for 2 weeks before Fall In! (fingers crossed that works out as intended...).<br />
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After Fall In!, I'm going to finish the other four primed Titans for Tempestus, and then seriously knock out a pair of warbands for Shieldbash. It's about time I did that. May also do a small force for Legio Krytos as an OpFor/training demo force (instead of Fortidus... for now). After that, it'll be demons for my Epic CSMs, and then either a Traitor LatD force or Imperial Guard. It's about time someone fought something other than Iron Warriors and AMTL in Epic. Have to check with Dave on how some of my custom/alternate pieces are coming for Suturvora though - there's always the chance I might be dropping everything to paint another 4 Warlords for Suturvora, so... you know... yeah...<br />
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Anyhow, enough forward-looking statements, on to what I've actually completed, in order of progression:<br />
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<b>I. Stratagems for Adeptus Titanicus</b><br />
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So there's three stratagems from the Doom of Molech supplement that I like but which don't have tokens or markers (yet...). Arguably Strafing Run could count as a fourth, but between old Epic/Forgeworld and new Aeronautica Imperialis models, it shouldn't be hard to get a pair of Thunderbolts. So I dug into my forumware stash and pulled out a bunch of MkIII heavy weapons and some MkIV recon legionnaires to cover the Titan Hunter Infantry and Forward Observers Stratagems respectively. As for the last, Scatterable Mines, I threw that one together using some styrene dowel. I mean, 8mm scale anti-vehicle mines are pretty much hockey pucks at that scale anyway.<br />
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As for the Scatterable Mines marker, I opted to go slightly larger on this one as you (arguably) measure from the center on this one (conveniently, there's a mine right in the middle of the base), so it made more sense to use more space to better represent the template. Once I dullcote these guys I'll add some static grass, but this is good enough for now.</div>
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So my Questoris Knight chassis are done! Just finished slapping decals on before work this morning. These guys are fully magnetized, including small 1/16" neodymiums sunk into the socket where the missile pod upgrades will eventually sit, assuming that sprue EVER goes to market...<br />
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A sharp-eyed viewer will immediately make that assumption that three more Questoris chassis are on their way, and you wouldn't be wrong... although I'm not bothering with those until probably early next year at this point. I have two more Acastus (going to try for Asterius conversions) and two more Cerastus Lancers to do as well, but there really isn't a reason to paint all of that unless I really want to play a 1750 point Knight Household game. I'll reevaluate if the Questoris upgrade sprue comes out sometime sooner. Until then, here's a mini gallery of the various House Malinax Knights I've painted:<br />
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So that's that, ~1000 points of House Malinax. I have a pair of 3D-printed gatling blasters as a placeholder for my Tempestus Warlord, and a Reaver vulcan megabolter that I'm going to try to squeeze in fast, but the next big project is to see how fast I can paint Warmaster Chaos, around a USG audit ;)<br />
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Terrain tiles, if I have a chance, too.Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-63650071528488710892019-10-01T13:16:00.001-07:002019-10-01T13:16:55.712-07:002019.10.01 New Terrain ProjectFirst, a little background. I got into Warhammer 40,000 in junior high. A friend had just come back from visiting relatives in England and brought back the Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition box with him, courtesy of his uncle. So if my wife is looking for someone to blame, it's Jeevun's British uncle; a man I've never even met ;)<br />
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This was probably 1996, and GW was only months away from re-releasing Space Marine as (the widely-panned) Epic 40,000. From that first White Dwarf image with a horde of Orks rolling hot toward Imperial fist armor and a Lucius-pattern Warlord Titan, I was hooked. Titans were bought, boards were built out of felt-wrapped plywood, and my brother and I fought "Titan Rumbles" between our massed Ork and Imperial forces across some extremely basic terrain. Eventually those plywood panels were draped in white fleece for a 3rd edition 40K snow battlefield, later paint-flecked black felt for Battlefleet Gothic, and finally ignominiously retired to serve as laundry room equipment for my mother when I went off to college, but I never shed my dreams of a massive urban tabletop for Epic.<br />
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I'd always wanted something I could roll columns of tanks down - a wartorn urban landscape full of demolished buildings, sprawling rubble piles, and shattered statues, where the next city block could hide a lurking Warhound, or a dug-in line of vindicators awaiting foes to wander into their killbox. But that wasn't enough - I'd dreamt of taking the battle into three dimensions, adding a sewer system for Genestealers to infiltrate through, and massive elevated highways for jump troops to perch on, staging the next assault. I wanted pitched battles around a monolithic statue of the Emperor, and Eldar grav tanks skimming up an aqueduct to outflank dug-in positions. I spent many bored hours in lecture halls over the college years, sketching out what I'd want this city grid to look like. But honestly, was I ever going to be able to build this dream tabletop?<br />
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Fast-forward 20+ years, another edition of Epic, and the re-release of Adeptus Titanicus. I'm now 35, surprisingly financially stable, married with one dog, no kids, and still playing 6mm wargames... so why haven't I built a dedicated wargaming table yet? Hey, what's this <a href="https://uncertainscenery.com/collections/10mm-scale-boards" target="_blank">shop</a> I found while skimming around looking at Necromunda terrain?<br />
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It took some negotiation to allow my hobby stuff to colonize my office as it was. Yeah. My wife's gonna kill me. So assuming I survive the week, this is going to be my off-and-on hobby project for the next few months:<br />
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Say hello to a 4x4' city table intended initially for Adeptus Titanicus, and eventually to be expanded into a 4x6'+ table for Epic: Armageddon with the addition of sunken roadway and elevated hill sections. <a href="https://uncertainscenery.com/collections/10mm-scale-boards" target="_blank">Craig Birks</a> deserves the shout-out too (I mean, how often does anyone reading my blog see me do product placement? I haven't even opted in for Google's AdSense). He's taken the detail all the way down, going as far as carving out the security grates on the sunken garage entrances.<br />
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So yeah, the tiles fit together snugly, and the 2" deep, battened panels hold up just fine. No complaints at all so far with my test tile, and I can safely say that the ~10mm board panels work just fine with 8mm & 6mm models (more pictures later).<br />
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So I spent last week fighting off a head cold and racing a deadline at work, and man did that suck. It's probably a good thing I didn't put myself forward for the US team for the Epic: Armageddon World Championship, because with both of those things happening there's no way I would have made the trip. But kharma has a way of re-balancing, and I managed to get three (3!) games of Adeptus Titanicus in this weekend. Only have photos for two of them, but in my defense, game #2 was a 750 slugfest that we knocked out in an hour and a half before I had to run home and let the dog out.<div>
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After completing the Warlord and its initial weapons loadout, I managed to knock out another volcano cannon, the gatling blaster, a pair of plasma annihilators, and a pair of turbolaser destructors too (Reaver carapace turbos, with the mounting cavities filled in with greenstuff and magnets sunk in).<br />
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So at this point I have enough firepower for three different Warlords, although I'm not in a rush to get that many built up and painted just yet. After getting those painted up, I knocked out another 50 command terminal tokens, since you pretty much need 5 per titan, which means if I want to host a full game for two players, I'd need at least two sets painted up to cover core status trackers, crits, and potential Knight support, etc.<br />
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That gets me a second Warlord so I can run Myrmidon and Regia maniples, two close combat Reavers so I can try out the Corsair maniple and start body-slamming my opponents, and a fourth Waround so I can break them down into two squadrons, or run a trio and take the fourth as <i>Mantellum Fulmen</i> in bigger games. This batch will see a second Apocalypse Missile battery for the Warlords (the best shield-stripping option I have if I want to go WYSIWYG until Gatling Blasters come out), as well as the second Mori & Macro for the Warlords, and another set of mid/long-range engagement weapons for the Reavers (not really sure I need a third volcano cannon or melta cannon just yet...).</div>
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That's my 6 Questoris Knights for Malinax, for now, and then I need to switch over and get some serious work done on my Warmaster Chaos horde for Fall In! this November. I have ~2 months - hopefully that'll be enough to paint 2000 points worth of Warmaster.</div>
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I was feeling like I needed a break from all the blue - be careful what you wish for - so let's see if I can knock out half a dozen knights real quick... and then it's all the flesh tones, crimson armor, and brass trim I can paint until I go crazy. Hoping contrast paints might make that go a little faster.</div>
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This guy walks off the production line with a Belicosa Volcano Cannon, a Mori Quake Cannon, and a pair of Apocalypse Missile Launchers, as well as a pair of Laser Blasters and a couple of alternative heads for variety (see below).<br />
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I managed to paint a bunch of Reaver weapons last week/over the weekend, knocking out a second carapace turbolaser, volcano cannon, and melta cannon, as well as my first warp missile rack(!). So that's going to be fun to mess around with (particularly to snipe off Knights...).<br />
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I'm also making steady progress on the Warlord (background), although it won't be done in time for my last two league games - I have a double-header lined up on Sunday. I had some fun with the warp missile:<br />
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It's fully magnetized, so I can remove it from the launch rail after it's been expended. I couldn't resist giving it a V2-style checkered warhead either - carapace-mounted ICBMs need to be painted up to be just as over-the-top as they sound!<br />
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I used these guys as a test run for my planned building paint scheme as well (broadly - celestra grey, washed with nuln oil & agrax earthshade, drybrushed with ulthuan grey), and I'm pretty happy with how they came out. Coming soon, hopefully, I'll have a couple markers as well for the new Doom of Molech battlefield assets - Forward Observers & Titan Hunter Infantry. I'll be painting up a trio of MkIV infantry squads in Sons of Horus colors - 1x recon squad and 2x lascannon heavy support squads respectively. Those probably won't see the table outside of really big battles, but they could be fun little obnoxious things to play with.<br />
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I will also be putting together a small "landmines" marker to represent the "Scatterable Mines" / "Haywire Barrage" / "Static Rain" Ranged Support Stratagems, since they all require a marker to be placed before measuring range and checking effects. Yeah, they're all "one and done" activations, but I'm more than happy to be That Guy when painting stuff up for a wargame I enjoy.<br />
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So I've been on a bit of a roll lately when it comes to painting...<br />
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This brings me up to 2 Reavers, 3 Warhounds, 4 Cerastus Lancers, and 2 Acastus Porphyrion. While I was at it, I also painted up another Gatling Blaster, Apocalypse Missile Launcher, and my Warhounds' 3 Inferno Guns to round out their arsenal. Next up are my Battlefield Assets (finally), another Melta Cannon, Volcano Cannon, Carapace Turbolaser, and a Warp Missile Rack (excited for this one!).<br />
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After that I have my first Warlord to paint, as well as 6 more Questoris Knights. They might get split up into two batches to fit in a second Warlord and a fourth Warhound though. I'd like to be able to field literally any maniple, if not any two maniples...<br />
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After that I'll need to take a break from Tempestus for a while. I have more Shieldbash on the way; Josh Qualtieri / "<a href="https://www.zombiesmith.com/" target="_blank">ZombieSmith</a>" just released a few new model packs for all six factions and I picked up some stuff for three of them. I also need to get my Warmaster Chaos army painted for Fall In! in November. 1500-2000 points of skin is going to wear on me a little, but after spending so much time on big models (big yes, though 8mm scale), it might be fun to be able to break out the drybrush for the 10mm scale stuff for a bit.<br />
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Some critiques - the camo feels a little thinner than intended on the carapace, and checkers are still a bear, and the thigh armor isn't quite aligned as nicely as I'd want (it may not look it, but I really pushed the limits of what the kit's poseability permits), but for tabletop gaming it'll do. Left pauldron feels a little plain, mostly because the "T" doesn't take up as much real estate as the Eye of Horus on the other Reaver, so it might get an extra decal in the front corner, maybe. Definitely learning a lot as I go though.</div>
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At this point I have 4 heads painted up for the Reavers - two of the more ornate designs (those have been up in past photos), and two of the more traditional design (ref: 28mm kit). The more ornate designs "feel" more heavily armored, so I might use them on the Reaver(s) in each maniple meant to close with the enemy, and use the more traditional head on the stand-off platforms where the more exposed targeting arrays are less of a liability. It makes sense, trust me.<br />
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I'm happy with how these guys came out - the brown's a little dark compared to the Forgeworld scheme in 28mm, but I think I got the trim spot-on, and once I got the decals on (see below) they're totally set to go. Here's a few pre-decal close-ups of individual Knight banners:<br />
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More to come ;)Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-34584316800621824392019-08-09T19:45:00.003-07:002019-08-09T19:50:15.663-07:002019.07.30 Iron Warriors vs. Codex AstartesWork took me back up to CT last week, so I took advantage of that to get a game of Epic: Armageddon in with a couple of the guys up north. Rob and I got a 3000 point game in around mouthfuls of barbecue. We probably *should* have gone to round four, but due to time we called it at the end of 3 and totaled up kill points. At the end, Iron Warriors came out slightly ahead, 913 points to 828, so we called it a draw (but I still claim the moral victory!).<br />
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I like the Obliterator formation as a "distraction carnifex" - I'm not sure I used it as effectively as I could, plus I lost the initiative roll-off (or things would have been different), but they aren't a bad shooting-heavy alternative to a Terminator teleport.<br />
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6 Chaos Space Marines and 2 Havocs, Warsmith (Supreme Commander), Stalker, 4 Chaos Rhino<br />
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IRON WARRIORS COMPANY [425]<br />
6 Chaos Space Marines and 2 Havocs, Iron Warriors Lord, Stalker, 4 Chaos Rhino, Chaos Vindicator<br />
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6 Defilers<br />
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ARTILLERY BATTERY [400]<br />
4 Chaos Basilisks, Stalker, Emplacements<br />
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ARTILLERY BATTERY [400]<br />
4 Chaos Basilisks, Stalker, Emplacements<br />
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5 Chaos Dreadnoughts, 5 Dreadclaw Drop Pod<br />
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4 Chaos Space Marine Scouts, 4 Dreadclaw Drop Pod<br />
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OBLITERATOR CULT [350]<br />
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DEVASTATION CLASS CRUISER [150]<br />
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6 Tacticals, Hunter, Rhinos<br />
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SCOUT [150]<br />
4 Scouts, Rhinos<br />
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SCOUT [150]<br />
4 Scouts, Rhinos<br />
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4 Terminators<br />
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4 Whirlwinds<br />
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The Iron Warriors reserved their Chosen and Dreadnought formations off-board on their Cruiser, which held off on entering low orbit until Turn Two. Likewise, the Obliterator formation stood down for Turn One. On the Space Marines' side, both Terminator formations remained off-board, loaded on Thunderhawk Gunships.<br />
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The Iron Warriors concentrated their deployment hard on their right flank, overlapping AA bubbles from various integrated Stalker tanks and holding the center with the Defiler formation (with clear lines of fire up the middle of the board). If the Space Marines wanted to air assault the Iron Warriors, it would be a very rough exercise. On the Space Marines' side, the force was largely concentrated on their right flank as well, with Scouts garrisoned forward off of the midfield objectives.<br />
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The Iron Warriors won the initiative (although I would have happily gone second, given the activation disparity on this turn).<br />
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With the Marines' Land Speeders the biggest potential threat to tie up a formation or open a hole for an air assault, the right flank Basilisk battery poured on fire, only for the Marines to jink out of the way / save everything. Setting up for future moves, the Marines then marched a Tactical formation up the left board edge, piling into a tower complex and setting up on the Iron Warriors' extreme left flank. Retaining the initiative, the empty Thunderhawk came in for a ground attack, dumping a long range battle cannon shot into the Iron Warriors' left flank Basilisk battery but only inflicting a blast marker. In response, the Iron Warriors' right flank Infantry Company (with the Warsmith) went on Overwatch. The Marines' BTS Tactical formation doubled up toward the middle of the board. After that, the Iron Warriors' left Basilisk battery poured fire into the Scouts occupying the hillside objective, knocking out a Rhino and one squad. That Scout formation immediately rallied, digging in deeper and clearing their blast markers. After that, the left flank Iron Warriors Company put themselves on Overwatch. The Marine Whirlwinds doubled up toward the hillside objective to put themselves in a better firing position. The Iron Warriors' Defilers overwatched to cover the middle of the board, and the Marine Land Speeders doubled up the left side of the board, preparing to support an assault on the Iron Warriors' left flank the next turn.<br />
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Finally, the two Thunderhawks with Terminators onboard came in on Ground Attack missions, one putting a blast marker on the Defilers, and the other knocking out a Basilisk in the left flank battery. Seeing the AA coverage bubble, the Marines' Thunderbolt support stood down.<br />
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At the end of the turn, the Defilers cleared blast markers, the left Basilisk battery shook two, and the Marine Land Speeders cleared blast markers as well. The Obliterators teleported down onto the central wooded hill, preparing for Turn Two engagements and/or locking down air assets over the board.<br />
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The Space Marines won the initiative. (curses! so much for a prepped assault...)<br />
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The Scouts on the wooded hill moved in to lock the Obliterators in their zone oc control, and fired on them killing one (seriously, dice?). Retaining the initiative, the nearby BTS tactical formation advanced into range and poured more fire into the Obliterators, breaking them. The Obliterators, being Fearless demon-cyborg monstrosities, stayed put.<br />
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Looking at their enemies' positions and knowing where their Dreadclaws would be coming down, the Iron Warriors retained the initiative and dialed in a pair of fire missions. The right-hand Basilisk battery poured its full 4 BP into the BTS Tactical formation, killing four. The left-hand Basilisk batter dumped significantly less firepower into the Whirlwinds, prepping them with a blast marker. The Tactical formation on the Iron Warriors' far left flank advanced and weathered the Overwatch fire, losing one squad but pouring shots into the waiting Iron Warriors company and taking out two squads.<br />
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After that, the Marine Whirlwinds poured fire into the reeling Iron Warriors company, wiping out four more squads and breaking the company. Stalling and hoping to draw a formation back into the pre-plotted orbital barrage's killbox, the Defilers advanced toward the left flank and took the scouts on the wooded hill under fire, killing one. After that, the Marines continued to capitalize on the damage they'd wrought on the Iron Warriors' broken left flank, sending in the Thunderbolts and wiping out another squad. In response, the Warsmith's Company doubled forward and toward the left, reinforcing the now-exposed right flank Basilisk battery. Hammering on the broken Iron Warriors company, the Marine Land Speeder formation doubled over and poured on fire, wiping out another squad.<br />
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Running out of options, the Iron Warriors called in their Cruiser in low orbit. While the orbital strikes failed to connect, the Dreadclaws came down to disgorge the Dreadnought pack and the Chosen force right on target, deploying behind the Whirlwinds and threatening the BTS Tactical formation as well. While the Whirlwinds might have seemed like the most obvious target, the Dreadnoughts were much more interested in the BTS Tactical company next to them, and the fight went about as well as you'd expect, the raging Dreadnoughts wiping out the Tactical marines to a man (scored 12-5! after landing quite a few macro kills).<br />
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At this point, the Scouts holding the far right T&H objective mounted up to shore up their now-battered center, doubling over to contest the Blitz and taking the Chosen under fire for a blast marker. The Chosen promptly engaged the Whirlwinds, killing one and knocking out another through hackdowns, breaking them. Responding to the developing shitstorm in the middle of their lines, the Marines dropped their first Terminator formation, air assaulting the Chosen and wiping them out to a man.<br />
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Finally, the empty Thunderhawk landed and fired on the Dreadnoughts (just a blast marker), while the second Thunderhawk loaded with Terminators stood down.<br />
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At the end of the turn, the Obliterators rallied and the Dreadnoughts shed their blast marker, while the victorious Terminators changed rides and took off in the previously-empty Thunderhawk. One Thunderbolt was knocked out by AA fire on its way off the board, and the Whirlwinds (sitting on the Marines' Blitz) failed to rally.<br />
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The Iron Warriors retook the initiative. Forgive me, but it was getting late and I forgot to take a photo of the board at the start of Turn Three.<br />
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The third turn kicked off with a bang, both Iron Warriors Basilisk batteries pouring fire into the Scouts on the Blitz - the first battery claiming 2 squads and a rhino, and the second battery claiming 2 more squads, breaking the formation. In retaliation, the Land Speeders advanced and poured fire into the Defilers, killing three(!) and breaking them, sending them scurrying onto the abandoned right-hand T&H objective. My vote for game MVP there.<br />
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The Obliterators went over the top of the wooded hill to engage the Scouts pinning them down, killing two in the firefight and breaking them.<br />
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The Iron Warriors responded with two redeployments, the mauled Infantry Company doubling up to take the left-hand T&H objective, and the Warsmith's Company doubling up to stretch out and reinforce both T&H objectives (no, I didn't trust the Defilers to rally). After that, all remaining activations belonged to the Space Marines.<br />
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First, the empty Thunderhawk made a ground attack against the Warsmith's Company, inflicting a blast marker. While the remaining Thunderbolt failed to activate, the second Terminator formation made a crushing air assault, wiping out 10 Iron Warriors Squads and Rhinos and breaking the Warsmith's Company (BTS).<br />
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At the end of the game, both Iron Warriors and Marines had BTS, and nothing else. We called it after Turn Three due to time and went to points. After tallying the carnage, the Iron Warriors came out ahead 913 - 828 in kill points. Given how close the score was, we called it a draw.</div>
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Brutal, bloody, and savage, Rob and I threw some nasty engagements at each other. Had it gone to a fourth turn, I think the Marines probably would have won on account of Thunderhawk mobility and the largely untouched Terminator formations, which probably would have cleaned up whatever I had left holding objectives. Still, not bad for some Tuesday night Epic!</div>
Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-16080877186537726452019-07-28T09:17:00.001-07:002019-07-28T09:17:33.851-07:002019.07.28 Legio Tempestus & House Malinax UpdateA quick workbench update - I finished a second Reaver head, as well as carapace turbolasers, a gatling blaster, a melta cannon, another Warhound turbolaser (not pictured), and two more Warhound plasma blastguns (also not pictured), to give myself a little more list flexibility when playing in the local AT18 League.<br />
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I think the bronze might be a little too bright for the rest of the paint scheme, so I might try knocking it down with another Agrax wash and then maybe just redo the edges in Sycorax. I finished up the Knights this past Thursday, and thank god too, because we adopted our new dog on Friday night.</div>
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As you might expect, painting has come to a crashing halt. This will probably persist for another week, because I'm headed out of town for work through Wednesday (great timing, right?), but TBH, the Malinax paint scheme isn't all that complicated, and I can probably knock out another 2 Cerastus and 2 Acastus over the next week or two if things aren't too crazy. That'll at least let me finish out the league with 1500 point games, push up to 1750 with little creativity and another Reaver hull (sitting next to me as I type this, and all of the gunmetal at least is down!). Holding off on bases until I can justify knocking a whole bunch out at once.</div>
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<br />Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-61907931186820643382019-07-25T05:35:00.004-07:002019-07-25T05:36:47.883-07:002019.07.0 Iron Warriors v3.1 vs. Scions of IronSo I made it up to CT this past weekend to hang out with the gaming group and get a couple of games in. Matt and I got in a long, high-points value Adeptus Titanicus game that ran us most of the morning and early afternoon, after which I heckled Karl & Chris playing "What a Tanker!" and got a playtest in for the Iron Warriors against Jimmy's Scions of Iron list.<br />
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Scions were interesting to fight against. Ground-pounding marines with lots of durable armor but more prosaic means of getting across the board (i.e. not air assault) are a bit easier to manage than most traditional marine lists. Early game I singled out his bike formations to absorb serious artillery, and then did what I could to roll his flanks. It largely worked, and my drop pod coordinates worked out well, but I still suck at placing cruiser barrages. I have to stop targeting obvious locations and start aiming for likely places where deployment will limit people's options. Maybe I'll do better at it next game.<br />
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The artillery is there for reach and threat. The drops are sacrificial - I expect the dreadnought formation to come in, kill something, and get obliterated in retaliation (mostly because fearless dreadnoughts in your backfield *must* be dealt with, otherwise I'm just going to run amok).</div>
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I tried something different with the Chosen this time - which I'd wanted to test, frankly. Marines are hard to break, with ATSKNF. Rather than try to break them and drive them off, I tried to use the Chosen to set up crossfires with the Infantry Companies - reduce those armor saves and see if I can claim more casualties. It didn't work perfectly, but it worked well on the Tactical formation in the middle of the board.</div>
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ARMIES<br />
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IRON WARRIORS [2990]<br />
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IRON WARRIORS COMPANY [440]<br />
6 Chaos Space Marines and 2 Havocs, 4 Chaos Rhino, Stalker, Warsmith (Supreme Commander)<br />
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IRON WARRIORS COMPANY [390]<br />
6 Chaos Space Marines and 2 Havocs, Iron Warriors Lord, 4 Chaos Rhino, Stalker<br />
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ARMOURED ASSAULT COMPANY [285]<br />
6 Chaos Vindicators, Chaos Vindicator<br />
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ARTILLERY BATTERY [400]<br />
4 Chaos Basilisks, Stalker, Emplacements<br />
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ARTILLERY BATTERY [400]<br />
4 Chaos Basilisks, Stalker, Emplacements<br />
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IRON WARRIOR TERMINATORS [275]<br />
Iron Warriors Lord, 4 Iron Warrior Terminator<br />
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DREADNOUGHT ASSAULT PACK [250]<br />
5 Chaos Dreadnoughts, 5 Dreadclaw Drop Pod<br />
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CHOSEN [200]<br />
4 Chaos Space Marine Scouts, Chaos Dreadnought, 5 Dreadclaw Drop Pod<br />
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HELLBLADE FLIGHT [200]<br />
3 Fighters<br />
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DEVASTATION CLASS CRUISER [150]<br />
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SCIONS OF IRON [2990]<br />
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HEAVY TACTICAL [500]<br />
4 Tactical units, Land Raider, Hunter, Supreme Commander in Land Raider<br />
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HEAVY TACTICAL [400]<br />
4 Tactical units, 2 Land Raider, Hunter<br />
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I dropped my objectives to favor my left flank since that side offered little to no cover for any defending Scions of Iron formations and reasonable approach lanes for my mechanized infantry companies. Jimmy followed suit, placing his objectives on the same flank but out in the open where a creative player could spread out and hold 2-3 objectives if they needed to.<br />
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Standard Iron Warriors anti- air/drop assault deployment - bubble wrap the fortified artillery in Infantry Companies with organic AAA, use the Vindicators to bait an airstrike away from the formations that actually do the heavy lifting. Largely unnecessary against Scions of Iron, but it's pretty much force of habit at this point. I lined up a mechanized company and the Vindicators to push up my left flank and onto the objectives, while my Supreme Commander company was set up as bait / for a push into the middle of the board where it would hopefully draw some attention and position my opponent advantageously for my drop pods. I opted for a turn one drop from the Cruiser in an effort to keep the orbital bombardment meaningful, and saved the Terminators for a turn two teleport to clean up other ground forces. A gamble that paid off more than it should have this game.<br />
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Across from me, Jimmy anchored his flanks with his Heavy Tactical formations, trusting in the Hunters to keep me off his ground forces, with his Supreme Commander on his left flank along with the reinforced Predator Annihilator company, a Warhound reinforcing his right flank, bike formations occupying the next spots in, and the basic Tactical formation and second Warhound holding the middle.<br />
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The Scions of Iron won the initiative.<br />
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The tactical formation holding their center doubled up out of my pre-plotted orbital barrage (sigh), and toward their T&H objective toward my right flank. The Iron Warriors largely ignored this opening feint and plugged in a fire mission on the right flank artillery battery, lighting up the right flank bike formation and killing 3. The Scions' Heavy Tactical formation on my left flank doubled up past the Warhound onto my leftmost T&H objective. Again, the Iron Warriors ignored the bait and punched in a fire mission for the left flank artillery battery, dropping rounds on the left flank bike formation and killing 3 as well. With both assault formations effectively neutered, I could focus on shooting up Tacticals. The Scions marshalled the left flank Bikes formation, advancing toward midfield and clearing all 4 blast markers. The Iron Warriors' Vindicators then doubled up along my left flank, taking the Heavy Tactical formation under fire, killing one tactical marine stand and prepping them for an eventual assault from the left flank IW infantry company. The left flank Warhound advancedup behind the Heavy Tacticals, dumping all of its fire into the Vindicators and killing three, breaking them. The left flank Iron Warriors infantry company, undeterred by the carnage suffered by the Vindicators, doubled up and also took the Heavy Tactical formation under fire, killing another tactical marine and ensuring they had more than enough blast markers to suppress the Hunter. The Scions then marshalled the right flank Bike formation, but a snake eyes roll only resulted in the removal of one blast marker.<br />
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It was time to change up the tempo. The Iron Warriors called in their Cruiser, the barrage landing just shy of the marshalled Bike formation (sigh), but with the landing sites for the two Dreadclaw formations wide open! The Dreadnoughts came down within striking distance of the central Warhound, and the Chosen disembarked into a building behind the central Tactical formation, setting up a potential crossfire threat. Finally, the Cruiser's lance strike came down hard on the central Warhound, bursting its void shields and scoring a solid hit. Retaining the initiative, the Dreadnoughts piled into the Warhound, with predictable results.<br />
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When the dust cleared, my Dreadnoughts were picking trophies from the wreckage and preparing for the inevitable counterstrike to land on them. Predictably, the Scions advanced their Predator company, taking the Dreadnoughts under fire and killing four. Between six twin-linked lascannon and another 12 lascannon, I think I was rolling 3 saves per dreadnought. I'm lucky I even made two. Regardless, the remaining pair broke, moved to hug a building and awaited a further beating next turn. However, this distraction had served its purpose, and my Chosen were in position to support a crossfire.<br />
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The Iron Warriors' right flank infantry company doubled up into the middle of the board, claiming one objective and taking the Scions' Tactical formation under fire. I managed two infantry kills from the weakened armor saves, lining up an obvious engagement for turn two. Seeing the threat, the Scions attempted to call in their Marauders... only to fail the activation and stand down the squadron. The Iron Warriors took advantage of the reprieve and the Chosen continued the crossfire, failing to pop any tanks but putting another blast marker on the Tactical formation. The Scions doubled up their Supreme Commander's Heavy Tactical formation onto the Iron Warriors' midfield infantry company, pouring in fire but failing to score any kills. Finally, the Iron Warriors called in their Hell Talons on the suppressed left flank Heavy Tactical formation, killing another infantry squad and escaping without taking retaliatory fire.<br />
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The Iron Warriors' terminators made an appearance, dropping to the rear of the Predator Annihilator company, out of immediate line of fire from the Scions' Supreme Commander Heavy Tactical formation (not pictured above).<br />
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Seeing the obvious threat from the Terminators, the Predators doubled out of reach and went full disco on the Dreadnoughts - killing the last two. Fine, we'll cycle away from the Terminators for a few activations then - the Iron Warriors Chosen sustained fire on the Scions tactical formation stuck in a crossfire, adding another blast marker, and then the Warsmith's Infantry Company retained the initiative, engaging the same.<br />
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After the dust settled and hack-downs were sorted, two Predators and a Rhino broke loose, falling back toward the Scion's right flank and the Heavy Tactical & Warhound formations still standing there. After the Warsmith's formation consolidated, the Scions Supreme Commander's Heavy Tactical formation sustained fire, killing one Iron Warriors squad. Knowing the Marauders were still out there orbiting the battlefield, and with the initial assault cleared, the Warsmith ordered the Hell Talons onto CAP, and then retained the initiative with the left flank Basilisk battery pouring fire into the Heavy Tactical formation sitting on the T&H objectives, killing one more tactical marine squad and breaking it. With that, the way was open for the left flank Infantry Company to assault the Warhound... but first those Marauders came screaming in on a ground attack on the Warsmith's formation. The Hell Talons knifed in on intercept, shredding the Marauders and downing both planes.<br />
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Time to prep a few more assaults. The Iron Warriors' right flank Basilisk battery punched in a fire mission on the Scions' Supreme Commander's Heavy Tactical formation, killing a tactical marine squad and the Hunter. Retaining the initiative, the Terminators advanced into an overwatch position in a building overlooking the same Scions formation, pouring autocannon and heavy flamer fire into them but failing to inflict lasting casualties. Seeing what was coming, the lone Warhound holding the Scions' right flank advanced and poured its vulcan megabolter into the opposing Iron Warriors infantry company, killing one squad of marines... only for the same formation to retaliate and engage, wiping out the Warhound and critting it twice in the process (where it thankfully failed to stagger onto them!). The turn ended with the two Scions bikes formations activating, one advancing to occupy a T&H objective, the other failing and removing blast markers - and the Chaos Vindicator formation rolling up to put more fire into the broken Tactical formation (but not scoring enough blast markers to kill anything).<br />
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As the turn ended, the Iron Warriors were sitting in a good position to hold DTF objectives and assault their own T&H, with Terminators threatening the Scions' Supreme Commander/BTS and the Chosen positioned to potentially move on the Scions' Blitz. In the Rally phase, all affected Iron Warriors formations freshened up, while the left flank Heavy Tactical formation stayed broken (keeping those land raiders out of the fight!), and the Scions' Supreme Commander's formation came away with one blast marker left. The Tactical formation's Predators and the bikes rallied.<br />
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The Iron Warriors' right flank artillery battery opened up on the bikes & land speeder sitting on my second T&H objective, killing two and breaking them (leaving the left flank battery with its open fire lane to the Predators fresh). Looking to trim down the Scions' options and finish rolling the flank, the Iron Warriors Terminators retained the initiative and engaged the Supreme Commander.<br />
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The engagement claimed one squad of Terminators, but between combat kills and overwhelming hack-downs (I went into the dice roll up by 7!), the Scions' command structure was wiped out, claiming BTS. The remaining unbroken Scions bike formation activated and fell back onto their BTS, plainly worried about getting outmaneuvered. The Vindicators remained sitting on a DTF objective marker, sustaining fire on the remains of the Scions' Tactical formation and killing a Predator, breaking them before they could marshal. Retaining the initiative, the left flank Basilisk battery levelled tubes and punched rounds downrange on the Predator Annihilator formation. Unfortunately, the Predators' armor held and the tanks escaped with a single blast marker. The Predators failed to activate (Jimmy had some bad rolls this game), and on their holding action advanced to contest T&H.<br />
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This triggered a cascade of attacks on that Predator Annihilator formation (despite the fact that I already had BTS, DTF, and TSNP (arguably) - I mean, I had fresh formations in the area, right?). This kept me from threatening the Scions' Blitz, but still played out pretty well. First the Warsmith's Infantry Company sustained fire on the Annihilators, killing one. Then the Chosen formation engaged, taking the Annihilators into a Firefight that killed one Predator but cost me two Chosen in the assault and another in the hackdown when they bounced. The left flank Iron Warriors infantry company advanced to hold one T&H objective and contest the other, firing on the Annihilators and putting another blast marker on them. Finally the Hell Talons came in on a ground attack and poured more fire into the Annihilators, adding the last blast marker to break them.<br />
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Scions had a couple of key rally and activation failures throughout the game, and splashing the Marauders early on turn two really limited their long-range striking power. Playing marines who couldn't air assault allowed me to set and maintain the tempo across all three turns, and gave me the freedom to move up aggressively to support my early game Dreadclaw assault drops. I still noob out when plotting my orbital barrage, and I probably could have just gone for the Scions' Supreme Commander with the Terminators rather than threatening his Predators, but nothing was unsalvageable. </div>
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After the game, Jimmy wanted to debate my decision for a turn one drop rather than holding my forces for turn two (or likewise, why I didn't bring the Terminators in turn one as well). While delaying has merit - I'm starting off the game with 4 activations on the table, and two of them are basically tacticals in rhinos. Dropping hard with CC macro on turn one allowed me to eliminate and/or pin down key enemy formations and kept him reactive rather than letting my opponent have free rein to maneuver for a turn. Likewise, saving the Terminators for turn two allowed me to reapply pressure where needed. If they'd come in on turn one, it would have been a largely unsupported assault on the Scions' Supreme Commander, and it would have been a much more even fight. The one advantage I had was that his army played very similarly to mine (mobile shooting), which (a) isn't necessarily a Marine strength, and (b) allowed me to easily focus on and eliminate his best engagement troops (the bike/land speeder formations) on turn one.<br />
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The game went well, and highlighted what a drop/artillery Iron Warriors list can do against a more conventional opponent - it was nice to fight something other than drop assaults, skimmers, and war engines for a change!Armiger84http://www.blogger.com/profile/17273870723563529288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8140726160712161582.post-622471457769351492019-07-17T13:29:00.001-07:002019-07-17T13:29:12.594-07:002019.07.17 Legio Tempestus? Where'd they come from???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yeah, so this happened over the past two weeks. My FLGS is running an Adeptus Titanicus escalation league starting this week and running through August, so I decided I should participate.<br />
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I didn't feel like painting Suturvora in two close-but-different scales, so I opted for Tempestus for a challenge (clean whites, checkering, shard camo). I went for a blend of 90's era GW painting styles (bright bold colors) and Forgeworld's updated paint scheme (blued steel, heavier shard camo & checkers, generally cold paint scheme). At this scale, I wanted colors to be bold so they'd be more visible.<br />
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I'm pretty happy with them for now, might add some decals, and some grass tufts after I seal coat them. More weapons and a Warlord to come, eventually another 1-2 Reavers & another Warlord.<br />
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One last NEAT-related post, I promise. I took some time at the end of NEAT while Dave was working out the final standings to borrow some of his arid scrubland terrain and lay out everything I'd painted for Suturvora as one large battlegroup.</div>
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And so, I give you Legio Suturvora's combat strength as of NEAT XII:</div>
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I went through and took some close-ups of various portions of the overall battlegroup as well.</div>
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The turbolaser/plasma blastgun warhounds who hunt solo as "Mastiffs":</div>
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All three Reavers, from left to right my second, third, and first-assembled. I've definitely gotten progressively more ambitious.</div>
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I love how the pose on this Reaver came out, as well as the kit-bashed chaos-style melta cannon I made (mostly for him, or the eventual other close combat-specialized Reaver).</div>
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The Warlord was almost as intimidating to build and paint as it's been on the table so far.</div>
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Finally, my infantry support formation (another is on the way, along with aircraft and cybernetica).</div>
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All told, this army has come a long way from last November, and I'm pretty pleased with how they're turning out. I still have two more Reavers, two more Warhounds (possibly more...), and four more Warlords to paint. This has only begun!</div>
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I am not Sun Tzu. I have a lot to learn about grand strategy, and 7 (?) years into regularly playing Epic: Armageddon (read: ~ once a month-ish?), there's still nuances of pre-battle planning, objective placement, and deployment, as well as late-game positioning, strategy, and playing to the scenario objectives that I'm learning. Those lessons are often humbling, but painful lessons are the ones you remember and learn from best, right?</div>
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So, NEAT XII. I decided to take my Chaos-themed AMTL force, Legio Suturvora, after not having played them since Fall In! last November. In retrospect, only playing an army for tournament games isn't all that smart, or that fair to my opponents, but I've been working to get Iron Warriors playtests in for a while, and I'd recently painted four more titans for Suturvora, so...</div>
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Here's the list I took to NEAT XII:</div>
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NEAT XII - Legio Suturvora, 3000 POINTS </div>
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Legio Gryphonicus (NetEA v3.24 *APPROVED*) </div>
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WARLORD TITAN [950] </div>
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2 Apocalypse Missile Launcher, Volcano Cannon, Plasma Destructor, Carapace Multi-Lasers, Legate</div>
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REAVER TITAN [775] </div>
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Laser Burner, 2 Quake Cannon, Carapace Multi-Lasers, Veteran Princeps</div>
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REAVER TITAN [750] </div>
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Apocalypse Missile Launcher, 2 Laser Blaster, Carapace Multi-Lasers, Veteran Princeps</div>
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WARHOUND TITAN [325] </div>
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Turbo-laser Destructor, Vulcan Megabolter, Veteran Princeps</div>
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SKITARII DEMI-CENTURY [200] </div>
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2 Secutor, 8 Hypaspists</div>
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Some immediate observations:</div>
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<b>Five activations.</b> Yup! Not nearly as bad as you'd think, frankly. Yeah, turn one you spend more time maneuvering than shooting, but there's enough firepower there to batter your opponent down on turns two & three. No, you're probably not going to wipe anybody's BTS out unless it's a smaller, more elite formation, but if you can draw a bead on it, you'll be able to at least break it.</div>
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<b>"Warlords are overcosted and underpowered."</b> Yes, conventional wisdom says Warlords suck, but most of the people playing with Warlords are using them as support in a Codex Space Marines or Imperial Guard list where it doesn't do anything the army can't do better elsewhere, and nine times out of ten they should have taken two Warhounds anyway. On the other hand, a big beefy BTS with unsuppressable AA and the ability to lock down fire lanes shouldn't be underestimated. My one caveat is that you absolutely have to give it at least 2 weapons with a range <u>></u>75 cm. You move slowly, assuming you even have a reason to get out of your deployment zone, so the reach is vital.</div>
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<b>"No aircraft?!"</b> Again, not as much of a drawback as it sounds on paper. I kept the three battle titans within 30-45cm of each other until late in turn three for all three games, with the Warhound hiding within the protective AA triangle for most of that time. Ground attacks, other than long-range Thunderhawk sniping, typically had to take flak on the way in and out, and over the course of three games, I managed to bag four Thunderbolts, two Marauders, and almost got a Thunderhawk too. For 150 points, a single squadron of Thunderbolts wouldn't have accomplished half that.</div>
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<b>Enemy Target Priority.</b> See that one Reaver with two laser blasters? Yeah. People facing AMTL are typically -cynically- going to assume they can only kill one titan. The Warlord is too intimidating for all but a dedicated drop assault list, especially with the Demi-Century lurking nearby. The dual quake Reaver can throw 10 attacks back in close combat with that laser burner. By process of elimination, that makes the laser blaster Reaver (with 12x AT3+ shots, too!) the highest kill priority for most opponents.</div>
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So how did I do? 1-2 on the day.</div>
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<b><u>Game One: AMTL vs. Minervans</u></b></div>
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I probably could have won Game One on points in turn four, but I threw it away late on turn three due to bad generalship. Dino loaded up on Thunderers to keep his activation count high, which worked out well for him and helped him keep the pressure up. I smelled blood in turn three and tried to wipe out his BTS... but I pulled a unit off my Blitz to do it, which gave him the 2 victory conditions (Blitz, DTF) to win it. If we'd gone to turn four, I definitely would have won on kill points, if not managed T&H & BTS.</div>
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<b><u>Game Two: AMTL vs. Codex Space Marines</u></b></div>
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So this was fun. I castled up turn one on my BTS with everything on Overwatch, and my opponent wound up playing against himself in his own head. Rob did manage to break the laser blaster Reaver on turn two, but pursuit would have been suicidal. Instead, my Warhound outperformed expectations and bounced a Terminator assault, and then my Reavers succeeded in shooting things to death in turn three.</div>
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Don't underestimate the power of 6 BP barrage - everything counts in large amounts. Those two blast markers for coming under fire really make a difference both for prepping targets and wiping out broken formations. People feared the laser blaster Reaver more, but the dual quakes Reaver wiped out two formations in a single salvo on turn three (Scouts, BTS Terminators) and cleared an objective for me. IIRC this game ended 2-0 AMTL - I couldn't claim TSNP, but I managed T&H off of doubling the dual quake Reaver, and BTS off of the failed air assault & cleanup.</div>
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<b><u>Game Three: AMTL vs. AMTL</u></b></div>
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*SIGH* It's becoming a thing - if I take titans to a tournament, I end up playing another AMTL list on turn three. At Fall In! it was Karl, and at NEAT I squared off against Tim. Not quite a mirror match - Tim's dual quake Reaver sports a carapace landing pad, his dual laser blasters Reaver carries a laser burner, and he replaced the Warlord with two more "Mastiff" Warhounds and a Forge Knight formation, but close enough.</div>
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The difference here was Tim had more discreet shots per Titan, and my barrage-heavy list was geared toward engaging large formations of infantry and/or armor. We nearly wound up playing corners, just from deployment. Tim made the right move - pouring everything into my laser blaster Reaver on turn one and wiping it out in early turn two. I got close to returning the favor on his when it advanced out to the hilltop, but he took full advantage of it breaking under blast markers to drop it back to safety. What really turned the tide was Tim getting THREE lucky reactor crits on me - two on the Warlord in close combat from his Forge Knights, and one from a Warhound shooting my dual quake Reaver in the back while it was trying to contest/claim objectives.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Things you never want to see... (my reactor critical tokens)</span></i></div>
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My Warlord managed to shake off the crits and stabilize its reactor... but my dual quake Reaver lost containment and went sky high. Oh well. We ended it on kill points on turn four, and Tim definitely had me there, knocking out two Reavers. Needless to say, I have a pair of primed carapace laser blasters on my painting table as I write this.</div>
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<b>Tournament Post-Mortem</b></div>
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So I'm going to continue painting Titans for Suturvora over the Summer/Fall, but I don't think I'll be taking AMTL to Fall In! I'll probably get a couple of fun games in with them this year around Iron Warriors approval playtests to refine some lists and strategies, but I know people don't really like playing against them.</div>
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They are definitely a challenge, however. Every activation matters, and you WILL always be out-activated, so turn one stalling by your opponent is pretty much a given.</div>
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Camp your Blitz. You can't afford to move off of it. A Titan on its own can't quite hold it, but a long ranged fire support Titan in firefight range of a Skitarii Demi-Century'll do the trick. Of course, that also guarantees that whatever's advancing up to the midline to engage the opponent is going to carry the world's biggest bullseye, too, so be prepared for that.</div>
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Karl and I spent a while breaking down what worked and what didn't on Sunday afterward. We'd come into the tournament assuming Warlords were a waste, and that we were pretty much throwing away our chances at winning. Karl, however, took home the trophy, and aside from a really noob move and poor luck, I should have performed better overall.</div>
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Warlords are a rock, and as long as they have adequate range (don't go putting vulcan megabolters on your Warlord!), they can really dominate the battlefield / lock down travel lanes. My Warlord sat on Overwatch in games two and three, and people busted their butts to stay out of reach. Split-fire would be an excellent option, but sheer firepower can carry a decent amount of weight. Is it worth putting 1/3 of your army in a single model? Debatable, but that comes down to how you employ it.</div>
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The plasma destructor is worth 75 points. I'm not convinced the plasma cannon is worth 25 points, but that has more to do with slow fire and the limited shots. If I could get 2 shots a turn out of a plasma cannon (4 shots, slow fire), alternating cooldowns, and 3 a turn out of a plasma destructor (6 shots, slow fire), I'd use them a lot more heavily, but going 2/1/2/(1) on a plasma cannon is tough. I'm considering putting together a pair of carapace plasma cannon for a Warlord though, as 3/3/3/(3) paired with something else (dual quake cannon?) should do some serious work on the battlefield.</div>
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Also, turbo/vulcan Warhounds are the way to go, if you're going to go light on Warhounds. 4xAP3+ & 4xAT3+ shots per turn makes it a fragile turret, but it's a fragile fast-moving, void shield-protected turret :D. Inferno/vulcan Warhounds have their place too, particularly as a pack replacing an artillery Reaver, but you need the pack to dodge the single weapon surcharge and stiffen them up enough so they can survive a few turns of fire.</div>
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Someday I really want to throw down for a big mega-battle game with a few players on each side and ~4K per player so I can lay out Legio Suturvora in force, and give people enough points to account for & reasonably handle them too.</div>
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Between Karl's War Gryphons, Tim's Morningstars, and a handful of other truescale titans in the group, I'm pretty sure people could scrape together enough competition for me ;)</div>
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