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That's a good-looking Bobby G! The time spent on the sword definitely paid off, it looks glorious! I also like the white helmet, I don't think I've seen that before.

Cheers Dude; the flaming sword was really an exercise in testing my warm palette highlights, glad you like it man!


the white helmet is just the heraldry I use on my company; non canon of course, shamelessly stolen from Winters SEO, the inspiration for my return to the hobby

Got a 500pts doubles night coming up; patrol detachments and bonus CP for being fully painted and based...

I'm Running:

Capt
combi-melta
Teeth of Terra

Tactical squad
combi-plasma
plsmagun

razorback
storm bolter
twin assasult cannon

stormtalon gunship
twin assault cannon
twin lascannons

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Whatcha think guys? with the ultramrines trait, 2 bonus CP for built and painted, and a 1/3 change of regening the command point on 3 dice.... I've got a free chapter master to re-roll bubble on the two workhorses... should do okay I reckon


GamerGuy

Hey guys; blog updates in the morning!!

Spent yesterday getting in 2 games at Warhammer World vs Blood Angels and Harlequins; and mono quins!

Had a game in a gw against eldar late last week
got a set up in the kitchen for ~1880pts vs Nids w a superheavy!

Pics inbound!
GamerGuy

Nice! Always good to see some well painted Ultras dispensing the Emperor’s Wrath to the foes of Mankind.

sooo I think i'mma just do a pic dump. I've got so much backlog now that organising is gonna be difficult. bare with guys; here's some of my ultras exploits!

Hello Internet!!

I present to you, for your viewing pleasure, the pics I took from my last 3 games. 2 were played at forge world against flesh tearers and harlequins, and then solo quins later that day... the last was vs death korps and quinns… but my boys in blue have been performing lately!


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well sh*t... turns out I still can't use a computer



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brb

Attempt 2 internet!

these are the few pics I took of my first game at Warhammer world!!!

The mrs dismissed me for the weekend as she was (mistakenly) worrying about her uni submission... it would later be revealed to be due in a further week.


not one to miss an opportunity I seized the day and made the pilgrimage to Warhammer world!


my opponent Nathan was a good sport; despite getting thouroughly spanked.



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Game 2 was on a feature table!

It's been a subject of controversy lately, so I thought I'd make my views known here instead of entering the dick swinging contests in threads elsewhere. well painted models, on well painted terrain; keeps me buying this expensive heckin plastic. I never refuse a game based on painting quality/quantity, instead preferring to lead by example. Nathan, my regular opponent, has even started painting his dirty dirty xenos.

hope you enjoy the pics. it was in this game; that chief librarian tigurius (evidently sick of Nathan chatting sh*t,) proceeded to beat the snot out of his blitzing solitare in hand to hand combat.... turns out that the shiny golden wanna-be assassins creed guy was no match for a stubborn white man with a large stick.

much to the amusement of the tactical squad watching from the sidelines...

edit: complete pics from game 1


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its worth noting that all 3 of my last games have been tablings; the 13th suffer not their enemies to live

Here's the pics from game 2!!

A few pics from the 3rd and final recent game


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In the final game the solitare killed my captain; but a well placed strategem allowed him to fight on in death, wounding the shiny gold guy.... reducing him to a single wound... which would later be removed by.... the dishonour... tigurius' bolt pistol!

take it easy y'all
GamerGuy

well clearly my method of emailing myself the images to fix them doesn't work if they're compressed and extracted from a zipped folder... but yeah thats the backlog of photots…

gonna really try and start uploading more frequently, have had a few good games lately, and with my opponents starting to get some paint on their figures maybe i'll remember to take mre pics, maybe even cobble together a few battlereports

also worth noting; I'm now officially taking commissions if anyone would be interested in having their army painted; pls pm me



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Just a quick shameless brag; but i've just now realised i've killed most of the named blood angels HQs so far in 8th...

Mephiston
Sanguinor
Seth
Tycho
Astorath
……………

Just need to find anyone running Corbulo and get a re-match against Nathan w Dante... he escaped my headhunting party just barely a few months back...

++ Sir, long range communication interceptions … reveal heretic astartes facing heavy resistance from isolated astartes bearing XIII legion heraldry... Shipping yard.... unsanctioned STC deviancy... Emperor guide us++

Sooo…. This happened. story-time to follow...

Nice to see your army on the table, where they belong!

Still not a fan of the new dread, good luck with him.

Nev why the hate on the new dread man? I would've thought with your growing acceptance of the primaris; a dread to fit their scale would've been one of the first units you'd come round to? I mean yes; the miniature is almost too big to call a mini- it's almost action figure proportions... but I had to have one to complete my set and I got him for a fiver


hopefully posting a game vs my brothers blood angels this week; fighting sat so maybe something resembling a battlereport in the pipeline!

He looks... Tubby? Something about the proportions seems off. He seems both front and top heavy. He skipped leg day. And overgunned. It’s not nipple cannons, but those front mounted weapons don’t need to be there. That’s a growing problem with the primaris range, and not exclusive to him. Just slapping a ton of extra firepower on things. The repulsor is the worst for this, but the frag launchers on the aggressors also click that button.

I love the basic intercessor, and similar models. Clean lines, good proportions, normal level of gear for a marine. But the farther you get from that, the weirder they get. That dread looks like he’d fit in just fine on a cheezy ’80s Saturday morning cartoon/toy advertisement. That’s not what I’m looking for in my 40k aesthetic.

That said, if I could grab one for a fiver, he’d join the pile of shame.

He does look a lil chubby; but when you're done fat-shaming him; I prefer to think of him as a toddler.... sorta chunky, low dexterity, waddling "Nappynought" as my friend calls him... he has since stopped laughing due to heavy flamers being really good at toasting elves


GamerGuy

 GamerGuy wrote:
Honey; i'm hooooome.

Wow it's been a while since I last updated my blog, my sincere apologies all, I'm not a great example if you're looking for consistent workflow

MORE COMING

(P.S. Smurfmaster that effect was some old railway rust effect powder, and a blend I make myself for dirt that helps the rust blend in easier... if you like I could write down the recipe next time I'm weathering?)

GamerGuy

Don't worry -I'm here on&off too.
I for one would love a tutorial on the dust/mud effect whenever you get around to it.
Thank you for replying

2 games with the kid brother over the weekend... neither of which were aesthetically nor tactically pleasing....

the first was played 1500pts on a large cardboard box... battlefield was poor even with my attempts to cover 75% in terrain... game wasn't even close, I tabled him with an end score of 11-5....

the second was a narrative mission on the same table, with a different set up... the mission revolved around a downed stormraven gunship... he had to defend the shipping yard while his stormraven re-fuelled... in hindsight I shouldn't have allowed him to fire its weapons, but its a new toy and he's a child... I brought a weak, fluffy recon force and due to exceptional rolling on his part, and my poor poor dice... the 13th were killed to a man... who technically won me the game 3-2, but it sure as hell didn't feel like a win with the sgt of the 5th taking cover in a building to survive the end of the game.


i'll try for a battlereport again soon, maybe this week sometime!


in other news; an expensive impulse purchase has kicked my my hobby motivation into overdrive... i've pretty much finished my 13th and felt I needed a change... and then I saw the blackstone fortress traitor guard... and I knew I had to rekindle my long lost love with guard armies... but this time I wanted to be the villain of the piece.


infuriatingly; the datasheet ofr the squad of 7 is limited to 2 per army, and theres no way of building a battalion with the servants of abyss... so instead I ordered 3 7man squads, and 3 sprues of the beastmen... i'll be making up the numbers with our brayherd allies, though this is fluffy and I enjoy the concept anyway. the force will be headed up by cult leader techvar from dark vengeance, a renegade lord commissar. for now i'm not too worried about the loyal 32 build... I just wanna play something fluffy and fun for small point encounters against Nathan's krieg… pics inbound when they reach argos!

Some nice looking ultramarines here. Really like those white helmets and Guilliman looks awesome too. Looking forward to what you do with the traitor guard, and welcome to the right side of the long war!

The heresy begins...

Hey Guys 3 small updates for you all

Number 1; a kill team/skirmish board I'm working on

Number 2; a sniper rifle WIP

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Attempt 2

Playing an 800 point skirmish in a few days with Nathan, guard civil war... we're presently deciding whether or not utilising an alternating activation system would enhance the experience... both running the krieg dex, should be an interesting lil fight... my guard will be running:


2 Tank Commanders
(1 Executioner with 3 extra plasmas) & (1 Punisher with all the heavy bolters)
4 5 man storm squads, each with a Grenade launcher
2 Storm Chimeras, Heavy Bolter & Autocannon

Aux. Tallarn Armoured Sentinel, Missile Launcher, Sentinel Chainsaw and Hunter Killer Missile

Will let you all know how it goes!

Despite some of the photo orientations being all over the place, I like the battle report pictures. There is nothing better than seeing painted armies on nice, finished tables with good terrain. That urban battlefield looks quite nice and the Ultramarines look great on it and really pop. That’s a good looking army.

I hope you try the alternate activation and let us know how it goes. I’ve thought about it for a while and I think it could be implemented without changing much about the rules and keeping the same feel of the game but making it more interesting and realistic rather than the armies trading giant haymakers with huge momentum swings each turn. I might try it in my campaign soon as well (with old hammer Horus Heresy rules anyway).

-Rids

I'm back baby...

guys n galls I typed out a huge explanantion for my long time absence, but the synopsis boils down to: real life sucks

nobody is here to read about the depressing reality of the present, we spend our precious hobby time looking for an escape into a dystopian future, and so with that in mind, i'll spare you the biograghy.

Here's what to expect:

Death Guard

Daemons

Battle Reports? Pic format, hopefully right side up

Take it easy,
GamerGuy

Good to see you back. Life has a habit of sucking, just got to keep at it. Painting helps. Hang in there.