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Nice the list is coming along nicely , I still think the army needs an accent color just something with a little contrast . But all in all the army looks great so far .

Armies looking solid, but I would have to agree with slann needs that extra little umph to really make it show.

Rushed through some objectives for the army during paint night:


Nothing too special, but they will do for now They are from the Forgeworld Booby-Traps set. With the idea for the objective being that my Chaos Renegades need to "Set [them] up the bomb."

@slann and Empchild - Yeah I still need to add some Zazz So far, all I can think of to add a little color but still keep in theme is to maybe make the hoods green or red, as suggested much earlier. I am just happy to have a fully painted army finally Now I get to slowly Zazz it up and add some of the more "fun" units, like the Ogryns I have.

Nice to see you've resurfaced. The new additions look awesome as usual, great work and good luck at the tourney

AbsoluteBlue wrote:

I just need to paint up 3 objectives and I am ready for the tournament.

Looking good Absolute!

Do we need three objectives for the tournament? If so i'm gonna be up REAL late tonight!

Cheers
Dave

@davetaylor - I don't think they are needed. I just wanted to do them.

like the overall look. Wish I was going to be at this tourney just to see the awsome armies. As it stands though looks like for me the job will let me go to mechanicon so hopefully I will see a bunch of you there.
P.S: you could have messed with him and told him "ya sure we need 5 objectives and 4 pieces of terrain"...but only if the dark gods were telling you too.

Actually, on the Rules and Guidelines pdf that Jama sent out the last line of WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING is objective markers.

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING
• Your Army
• At least four (4) copies of you army list
• Rulebooks and any other books you need
• Pen and paper
• Dice and templates
• Tape measure
• Super glue (accidents will happen!)
• Objective markers

Objective markers

Do I now rules lawyer and say that this could easily be interpreted as including any objective markers, such as the translucent green flags from GW?

@Empchild - haha, that would be funny.. though I think I best watch out for my sportsman score Next thing you know its payback when/if we play each other and I would deserve it.

lol I know I like to poke fun with people alot...keeps me sane. I had the priviledge of playing against dave years ago at the vancouver GT. Got to play against his origonal Blood Pact force. Was a great game though I threw him for a loop when my gaming club made me wear a tiara....dont ask. Was a good sport I remember bout it all.

Thanks Absolute and Somnicide, I'll make sure I have something packed.

Cheers
Dave

I think that the green GW ones are fine. I'd rather that than dice or coins ;-)

i love those traitors !!!!!
extremely good work

I had a great weekend at the Battlefoam Wild West Shootout. The Chaos Renegades managed to have a good showing, going 3-1-1, with a Round 1 loss against some Space Marines, a Round 2 draw against a fellow traitor guard army, Dave Taylor's Blood Pact, a Round 3 win against Black Templars, a Round 4 win against Chaos Daemons, and a Round 5 win against Eldar.


Round 1 vs Space Marines: Drop Pods rain on my parade.

All of the players were great and fun to play against and all of the armies looked incredible and all in all made for an excellent experience for my first 40K tournament.

If any of you end up reading this, Thanks for the great time!

While the Chaos Renegades are not complete, I have joined a Paint and Play league at an FLGS and have decided to work on a Khorne-themed Chaos Space Marine army. I have 1 week to change my mind, but as it stands I will be working on those, in addition to my Chaos Renegades, but it will be split duty so both will be going slow.

they looked great and glad to hear it was a fun event. Hopefully you will let us see the Khorne as they develope as well.

Had a great time at the tourney, got too meet some fellow dakka-ites. Everyone was real cool, and the scenarios everyone thought were going to be real gay ended up not being too bad.

Good luck with your Khorne CSMs. I look forward to seeing lots of pictures of them.

Thanks for the great game Ken. I'm almost sold on a squadron of three Hydras ; )

Cheers
Dave

Awesome guard, and I'm pleased to hear your tourney went well. I'm also building a renegade guard force, but it aint a scratch on yours

Nothing special, but finally finished the Ogryn and Primaris Psycher:

No new models or paintjobs.. yet, but I bought a new camera and started learning how to use it.

I bought a Canon 50D with a 50mm Macro Lens and the following images are my first test images with the gear. Since taking these test images a few days ago, I have learned a lot more about aperture (for altering the depth of focus) and exposure settings (for capturing more light), so hopefully the next batch of models I paint up will have some good pictures for the next post, but for now here are a few for my own tracking:


Black Legion Rhino


Black Legion Aspiring Champion


Valkyrie


Renegade Primaris Psycher


Necron.. uhh, yeah... This is a Necron Monolith that I own, though this was painted by Shep.

Anyway... this is mostly just for my records in tracking my hobby progress... trying to add miniature photography as part of my hobby set.

Broadside Bash is coming up and I need to adapt my army... I am expecting to paint 3 Vendettas, 2 Manticores, and 2 more Chimeras as part of that effort. Not sure what I will get done though.

The new recruits have started to arrive, but still need to get the appropriate colors:



Still need to build one more Vendetta and two more Chimeras (why couldn't march release of new chimeras been sooner)

Ohhh pretty Manticores. I really like the grim & gritty realistic feel of this army personally I like it without pop which always seems counterintuitive to me. (If I was going into battle I wouldn't want to attract the attention of onlookers!

It looks all good!

I just read the whole blog. Sucks that your friend backed out, but your army looks really great. Keep up the good work and keep posting.

So I brought my army to Broadside Bash and had a good time for the most part.

I didn't have time to paint up a competitive 2000 point list, so I just brought my 1750 point list with some minor additions:

The list was as follows:

CCS (Plasma Pistol, Regimental Standard, 3x Melta, Officer of the Fleet, Astropath, Chimera)
Primaris Psycher

Psycher Battle Squad (9 Psychers)

PCS (4x Flamer, Chimera)
Infantry Squad (1x Plasma Gun, Ministorum Priest, Commissar w/ Power Weapon)
Infantry Squad (1x Plasma Gun)
Infantry Squad (1x Plasma Gun)
HWS (3x Autocannon)

Veteran Squad(2x Shotgun, 3x Melta, Chimera w/ Hull-mounted Heavy Flamer)

Devil Dog
Devil Dog

LR Executioner w/ Plasma Cannon Sponsons
LR Demolisher w/ Plasma Cannon Sponsons
3x Hydra

As you might see from the inclusion of an Astropath, without anything really interesting to reserve, I just put in models that I had painted and didn't worry about being competitive

I knew I was bringing a knife to a gunfight (maybe not a good analogy, given I am playing guard) and my results showed it. I went 2-2-1. 4 out of 5 of my games were fun.

I am not going to do battle reports since I wasn't being competitive and just having fun with my list. However, I did play the following:

Game 1: Imperial Guard w/ WH Allies, Table Corner Objectives. My opponent also had a "fun" IG list that ran two 30 man blobs with Commissars, 2 LRBT, 1 Vanquisher, 1 Valkyries, and a smattering of Witch Hunter. He was very fun to play. The only problem with this game is that when thetime hit 50 minutes, I hear 15 minutes and we stopped with that last turn where we could have easily played another turn. I still managed to get a minor victory and had fun.

Game 2: Dark Eldar. This was my funnest game. Sieze Ground Variant (Cumulative Scoring 3 objectives, middle is worth d3 each turn). I didn't realize it was cumulative scoring until end of turn 1 and I lost this game. It was still my favorite game of the event and I had fun have my hydras light up a raider every turn.... lots of raiders and ravagers here.

Game 3: General Paton's Orks. Variant Annihilation. Was fun themed army. Unfortunately, I play against Orks all the time and I would have prefer to play somethign different, but I still ahd fun. We tied. We had a few rules debates, but this happens and I think we were both ok with how everything went. Regardless, I had fun

Game 4: Catachan IG. Sieze Ground Variant. Played against an army that used a lot of Camo Nettings, Great Themed Army. However, my opponent played incredibly slow... Deployment took forever. He was playing fourth edition line of sight rules for vehicles and I was tired of arguing and was so frustrated that I "gave up." I was so frustrated during turn 1 that I didnt even use half my army and had a horrible experience, by the time we got to the bottom of 3 it was going so slow I just conceded the mission and gave him the major victory. I had NO FUN in this game, I didnt care if I won or not, I just wanted to have fun... I was seriously ready to start throwing my models against the wall and go home Yes... tempter tantrum to the extreme I had better sense than that and just waited until lunch to vent.

Game 5: Tyranids. Almost same as Game 2 for mission. Was really hoping for a good time for my last game and was fortunate to play against an army I usually don't play against and against a fun-spirited player. Learning my lessons from Game 2, I charge forward with my entire oarmy onto the objectives and built up an early lead.. knowing I would soon be crushed by a swarm of monsters. This game went slow, but only because I had so much to shoot and he had so much to move.. I say slow but we both moved fast, so it was still good. End of game, he had some bad dice and could get me of the objectives, so I get a Massacre Win.


Slaughter in Space is next and I want to bring a competitive list next time, so you might actually see some pics of newly painted models soon

Sweet!

Trick for your camera -
Even with a macro lens, you will still get depth of field if you are too close, as can be seen on the tail of the valk shot for example.

I recently went through similar experiments after getting a macro for my Nikon, and like an ordinary lens, if you want to eliminate the depth of field, you have to shoot from further back than you think. Your camera has enough resolution and a good enough sensor that you will get huge shots anyways, even if they look small in the viewfinder. That is of course, only if you don't want depth of field on your shots

@MajorTomm11 - Thanks, this is actually something I have been experimenting with. It funny how one thing then leads to another issue, which actually accelerated my learning. Adjusting the aperature increased the depth of field, but then let in less light, so I then had to learn more about the exposure settings and adjusting lighting. It's been a fun learning experience and still learning more.

Complete Army Profile Available at he following locations:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/AbsoluteBlue%27s_Vraksian_Renegades

http://www.chaoswins.com/2010/05/army-profile-absoluteblues-vraksian.html

Hey, AB.

Congrats on finishing an absolutely awesome army. I've followed this pretty much from the beginning and you're one of the main inspirations for starting my own renegade army, so thankyou!!

I hope you're going to blog you're daemon army here on dakka. Will it be a continuation of the ones you did for ToMG?