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That executioner will be tough on KevinNash - it will make him burn through faith points at a fair clip.

Well, it took a while to get the Week 9 games in, since I was traveling for work, but we finally got through them all this weekend:

Shep's Tau v. KevinNash's SoB - Shep's positional relay confuses and befuddles in a game of annihilation. Shep scores early and forces KevinNash to try to get Kill Points. Shep wins, per earlier posted batrep. Shep 3 points, KevinNash 1 point.

AbsoluteBlue Renegade IG v. KevinNash's SoB - another game of annihilation, pitched battle. The guard get a good position vs the SoB but a series of poor damage rolls and scatters, leaves the SoB in great position to lay their flamers down on my troops, while the Exorcists shell my artillery. I concede at the bottom of turn 4. KevinNash 3 points, AbsoluteBlue 1 point.

AbsoluteBlue Renegade IG v. Shep's Tau - Seize Ground with 5 objectives, spearhead. I actually get a chance to rain fire down on the positional relay for 2 whole turns... 2+ saves keep the relay alive. The guard put up a fighting chance, but the Kroot pass a critical morale test and hold strong rolling over my objectives, giving Shep the win. Shep 3 points, Absolute Blue 1 point.

Furthermore, we all finished our painting on time. 5 points each.

Week 9 Totals:
AbsoluteBlue: 21
KevinNash: 29
Shep: 31

Shep takes the lead and they both leave me far behind

9 more weeks to go though, and while I doubt I will win.. the army is shaping up nicely, which was the point Not giving up yet though, I will crush them one day.

Quick update... Week 12 due date is this Wednesday and I actually have a new model (not just more of the same)..

The Valkyrie:

Are those LotR models I see!?!? You know how we feel about those... :-p

you gonna bring that to paint night this week?

@Somnicide - Yes, those are LoTR models. Minas Tirith! and I will be bringing the Valk to paint night, since this Wed is due day and I will show my fully painted 1250 list.

Hey look, Forge World released a new turret... the Modified Ryza Pattern Nova Eradicator, just kidding. This is my simple bash using the Banehammer (Hellhammer?) gun and the Modified Ryza Pattern Battle Cannon turret:



Still WIP, but I think it looks appropriate. Also, the inspiration for doing this actually came from Shep, since he has already done this with his Phaeton pattern turrets and he was the one that showed me that the hellhammer looks like the eradicator.. so all credit goes to him

Great conversion!

Week 12 has come and gone... and we are now at 1250 points.. here's my key additions:

The Valkyrie, if I was paying more attention to the meta-game, I should have immediately converted this to a Vendetta, but this is for fun and I will make the next one a Vendetta:



The Leman Russ Executioner with Plasma Sponsons:



The Leman Russ Battle Cannon with Plasma Sponsons, this is just temporary since I needed the cheapest turrent for other points and this will later become probably either a demolisher, eradicator, or vanquisher:



The Psychic Battle Squad with 8 Psychers, fluff here is that the Overseer is a renegade Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor that rounded up a group of severally warp tainted psychers and has herded them into doing what they doing, weakening the resolve of the enemy as their minds fall prey to the machinations of the warp:



Basic group shot, in the back you might be able to make out the supply pallet I painted as an objective for this round:



List is currently:

CCS (4x Flamers, Chimera)
PBS (8 Psychers, Chimera)
Vets (3x Plasma Guns, Chimera)
Vets (3x Meltaguns)
Valkyrie (MRL)
2x Hydra (Squadron)
LRBT w/ Plasma Sponsons
LR Executions w/ Plasma Sponsons
1 Objective

I would love to do this kind of campaign, but if I appropriated that many funds for the game my wife would probably kill me in my sleep...

I love those psykers absoluteblue

@FoxPhoenix135 - Some options/alternatives to maybe try with some friends is to do a fixed amount to spend per month (to fit within your budget, which is something that FLGS often do with their build and battles from what I have seen), or lower the points per month to something less aggressive. I am a DINK (dual income no kids) and don't spend money on prety much anything else except the basics so I go kinda crazy. However, I am actually going to start up a slower campaign with some friends on tighter budgets. It will progress slower, but any sort of competition/build and battle set up I recommend since it has vastly improved my productivity and focus.

@Somnicide - Thanks, credit goes to Gitsmack for the idea, though I was told it was Gitsmack's idea through Shep. I liked that it was very simple plastic kit with one necromunda model donated to me by Shep. Thanks to both of them... and the rest of Sprue Posse for keeping me motivated.

Looks like this would be a great way to build an army

Love all of the armies keep it up guys

@Absolute Blue: How do you paint your tanks? They look awesome

Keep up the good work

@Vitruvian - Thanks. I am still learning, so compliments really inspire me to get better With regards to paint jobs.. there are two different ways I have been going

1) The Leman Russ Executioner



a) Prime Chaos Block
b) Airbrushed Calthan Brown
c) Applies a liberal coat of Devlan Mud (I tried once with an airbrush and it was too uniform, so I switched to a Brush and it looked "muddier."
d) Drybrush Calthan Brown
e) Drybrush Bestial Brown
f) Edge with Bleached Bone

2) The Leman Russ w/ Battle Cannon



a) Prime Chaos Block
b) Airbrushed Calthan Brown
c) Applies a liberal coat of Devlan Mud (I tried once with an airbrush and it was too uniform, so I switched to a Brush and it looked "muddier."
d) Drybrush Calthan Brown
e) Dryrbush Kemri Brown
f) A couple edge highlights with Dheneb Stone

Tracks for both tanks are:

a) Tin Bitz
b) Drybrush Boltgun Metal
c) Wash with Badab Black

Road dirt at bottom of tanks:

a) Drybrush Scorched Brown
b) Drybrush Dark Flesh
c) Light drybrush of Graveyard Earth



I am actually not totally sold on these steps and I am considering alternative paint schemes for the tanks to give them more "Pop", but I need to learn more and practice more before I bother

Tanks shouldn't pop they should be camouflaged! Kudos to you for keeping up with the deadlines. The Ghouls for Psykers is an interesting choice. Good luck.

Very nice I hope you win your campaign.

Very inspiring work. Loving your heretic scum
I'm about to start up a DKoK army...


A nemesis arises ;P

Fantastic army, with lots of character. And a real gritty, "real" feel to it, too.
As said, I love the idea of using the ghoul models as psykers. Great stuff.

AbsoluteBlue - I think they look great as they are, really nice


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AbsoluteBlue - I think i prefer the Executioner paintjob, although the normal Russ is also great

I have just started a Renegade army because of you, (joke) and its not cheap

Thanks for the inspiration

i agree with vitruvian, i definatly want to start a renegade IG army now, its just to bad no one in m area wants to do a campaign like this, oh well maybe ill start my own campaign with some other people in other areas....

any way loving all this campaign, painting, converting goodness keep it up guys!!!

-SKB

Thanks! The competition has grinded to a halt, thanks to the new codices and upcoming tournaments. However, I am still moving forward as though the competition was active, so I will have my next batch ready to post soon.

Thats a shame that you're stopping the competition, seemed to be giving you a lot of motivation. Anyway, glad you're still going to finish these renegades.

I feel a lot less original now, seeing as how I plan on doing my own Renegades in a similar fashion. Well, this is inspiration, at least.

@Vitruvian XVII - Blame Shep and Kevin Nash Or in a way you can blame the new IG codex Basically, Shep's main army is IG and when the Codex came out he was so distracted by it that he "conceded." Along with that Kevin Nash really wanted to retool his Orks, his main, to be able to handle the new IG. I understand where they were coming from, but its rough when we were only 6 weeks from finishing, with only 500 points more to paint.

@em_en_oh_pee - Well, until I started my renegades I didn't think there were that many. Then after I start this PLOG I noticed there were a lot of folk also doing/done with Renegades, for me it was newer since I only started 40k in 5th edition, but seeing the Codex: Eye of Terror with the Lost and the Damned list, I realized there has been a lot of work around the concept of traitor guard in the past. Personally, I loved the Forgeworld Siege of Vraks books and I am all about the Chaos so it was a great fit for me.

Well, having seen so many and given the "elite" style of my lists, I may just go for Elysians or Cadians. Renegades do look sweet though! I love the Malcador.

Elysians are a blast to play. Expensive though.

For me, I started 40K as a Chaos Space Marines player and after getting introduced to Apocalypse, I felt it would be great to start up a second army but keep it Chaos Themed. I liked the Vraks books and the Forgeworld models so much, I felt this needs to be my second army .. At some point, I will also build a Chaos Daemons army, but first things first

I feel for you [soo close to finishing!], but i know how good it can feel to redo/ update an army thats just got a new codex so Shep's not really to blame (ps his Vostroyans definitley look sweeter with the repaint snow theme, so you've got to let him off)

I did it the other way round, started with daemons for the painting opportunities then went to deathguard then started renegades to get some nice tanks. lol. When are you going to post some more progress? It would be really nice to see your latest models.

Vitruvian

Man this is a great thread. I love your renegades.

@ AbsoluteBlue: Have you done any more models yet? I would love to see them. It would be a real shame if you were to stop halfway through the army!

I wanna see some more Tau, great work guys keep the thread alive!