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Nice pods Siggy! I am impressed by the way your hazard stripes match up exactly on each fin when viewed from any angle! even when i try that I muck it up royally!

I just got today a package of some of those kits you have :-) and if you want to see what you can do with them go and check out Daves thread here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/12150/399826.page it gets paint on the next page too! I plan on doing something similar with mine so i can use it as both terrain and also a place to photograph mini's in :-)

also looking forward to Zombie vixens! I do love me some hot dead girl! (just please don't ever watch porn of the dead..... EVER)

I've got a bunch of those same zombies to paint as well, mantic and vixens anyway. I plan to use them for Necromunda scenarios, but I think there are also some other skirmish games that use a lot of zombie miniatures. I'd challenge you to a painting race - who can do 60+ zombies quickest, but... I'd lose.

I also used a bunch of those Platformer kits in various bits of scenery, like this one at the bottom of this page: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/270/446278.page

I think they are decent kits, I got mine ready made on eBay, otherwise I would probably use their parts in a more imaginative way than just building what is on the box. But they do work great for Necromunda.

@nerdfest09: Thanks, man. I just print the hazard stripes on paper and glue them to the models. Well, no, I don't. That would be stupid. :p Thanks for the link to Dave's thread! Amazing stuff indeed and I totally need something like that as well for taking pictures!

@Bruticus: Yup, I guess Wargames Factory are the go-to place for inexpensive and frankly pretty cool zombies. Good thing about Zombies is that you can add them to basically ANY tabletop wargaming system. While there are dedicated Zombies systems (All Things Zombies plus supplements, Ambush Z just to name the most popular) and tons of free ones I think that basically all systems are pretty open to have zombies added. My initial plan was to use them in Infinity, 5150, maybe also old Chain Reaction, Stargrunt, ... heck, you can add them to ANYTHING 28mm scale! That terrain you linked to looks really cool. Could it be that some Hexagon kits are in there as well?

Last night I prepared a review for the kit which might be expected to show up soon, depending on wether or not I plan to paint it first.

I wrote a product review of this Platformer Terrain System!! Check it out, i's free*.






* The review that is.

Great review Sigur! How about a pic of the painted model to finish it off?

Haven't painted it yet. :/

Ah... well then. That would be a stumbling block...

Thanks Siggy, great review! and is actually a product i'm looking into getting myself after finding some other similar cheap snap kits online I feel i can use those platformers to a great advantage on a table! I chucked a couple of pics on my blog this morning of the other buildings i built from the 4 kits too :-)

@GItsplitta: Yus, isn't it.

@nerdfest09: Oh, that should be interesting. I'll go right to your blog!


Hello people. Last night I had yet another game of 40k! Again with Sisters of Battle (same list as before), this time versus a really, really pretty 2nd edition based Blood Angels army.



1000pts Blood Angels Tactical Detachment

Captain with Jump Pack, Plasma Pistol, Power Sword

Tactical Squad (missile launcher, flamer) split into two combat squads

Tactical Squad (lascannon, melta) split into two combat squads

10man Assault Squad (2 plasma pistols, Sergeant with melta bombs)

10man Devastator Squad (2 plasma cannons, two heavy bolters, Sergeant with powerfist), split into two combat squads



1000pts Sisters of Battle

Canoness (Power Axe)

Sisters of Battle Squad (Multimelta, Stormbolter, Superior with power axe)

Sister of Battle Squad (Flamer, Melta, Superior with power axe, Rhino)

Sisters of Battle Squad (Flamer, Melta, Superior with power axe, Rhino)

7 Seraphim (2 inferno pistols, superior with power axe and meltabombs)

Retributor Squad (4 heavy bolters)

Exorcist


We played at a local games club which was a first for both of us but it's pretty nicely located and with lots of terrain to choose from. Of course we were a bit timid of taking too much because it was club night and actually the (rather large) place was pretty crowded.

We randomized out commanders' super special trait abilities and curiously enough, we got the same matchup as I had in my last game - Space Marines with +1 on cover saves and move through cover in ruins, my Canoness being an Inspiring Leader which boots the Leadership score of the Sisters around her a little bit. Not too amazing on SoB really but might be handy. Also as last game I rolled well for choosing sides and first turn (deployment was, AGAIN like in last game, the diagonal one). At least it wasn't about Kill Points again but instead there were four mission objectives across the table (rules question - do the rules in 6th edition anywhere point out how to set up objectives? We couldn't find anything about minimum distance or something like that in the rules last night). I think the mission is called Crusade or something like that. Terrain, as I noticed lateron, wasn't quite evenly spread across the table I have to admit. Out of panick that the Blood Angels would take and hold the ruins forever I chose the side of the table with the ruins and the Blood Angels got the less densely overgrown side. Not that Blood Angels mind that too mcouuch of rse, already setting up aggressively and in a wide front with heavy weapons on the flanks, right as in Codex Astartes I imagine while my Sisters took position (got the first turn and KEPT it this time too) in the ruins.

SoB turn1:


BA turn1:


Turn2 or something like that:



This definately was turn #2:


10 Assault Marines plus captain isn't something you'd want in your lines. Not pictured: My Canoness and five Retributors with their backs to the Assault Squad. :(


The enemy Blood Angels army really looked darned good and was all WYSIWYG. Really a very pretty sight:



Halfway through turn 3 we called it a night after the SoB had managed to shoot up the Devastator guys and the Assault Squad (plus Captain). Again, thanks to my opponent (formidable sport and formidable army) for a very interesting game.

What really surprised me about the past two games, this one especially, is how they essentially were decided by large volumes of boltgun fire. There weren't too many cover saves rolled this time, it was all Boltgun versus Power armour. Those Plasmacannons were immensely scary and I basically spent the first turn running out of range of them before the light of dawn would make my mob of sisters very attractive targets (it was 1st turn nightfighting), especially as the Exorcist didn't manage to do anything on his first shooting phase. This, amongst other small things, is what irks me about 40k - everything is so darned killy and it seems to get killier with each edition and each codex released. Anyhow, fun game and the Blood Angels looked great. Put my (half-painted) army to shame really. Anyhow, SoB are such a cool army. I just wonder what the game would have been like if we had played the other way around. With his commander ability it might have become too one-sided but also without it probably would have been much, much closer.


I've been pretty quiet lately (not only because of playing 40k :p ), mostly becasue I've been writing reviews to keep a steady stream of content for the new site.

Oh what the heck, here are some preview pictures of the zombies I painted for the reviews which will be published soon:






Hope you like them.

Hawaiian Shirt guy is my favorite, hands down. They all look good though.

I never understand why zombie minis have such nice hair.

Thanks! I guess with unfortunate skin like that you gotta put extra effort in drawing attention to the hair.

Actually, I just enjoy painting hair.

Awesome Zombies Siggy! yeah I must concur with Moltar, Hawaiian shirt guy is tops! just enough comedy to be awesome! how are you going with the click together sets? I read your review on battle brush and i agree with you about everything, they do provide a heap of possibilities, only thing I didn't like was clipping the millions of parts off the sprues! omg that took a while!

@nerdfest09: Absolutely true. Clipping out tons of the same pieces from the sprue and then cleaning them did take a few hours. Thankfully it was US election night so I had captivating background chatter and amazing music (listened to the whole thing on the radio). My Large Set was sent off yesterday as well so it's not unlikely that I receive it on Monday or Tuesday.



Hello people, it's been a while hasn't it? I STILL got GS curing on the Witch Hunter guy because each time I give him "one last glance before declaring him finished" I think up something I could add. Oh well.

Here's a quick little in-betweener:








Special little commissioned piece that was much fun to do. The base I had to make myself because these lid bases from MAS don't come with any inlays. Oh well. The book quite obviously is for keeping track of rented books. Left: the name, in the right column the date and notes in between. Red notes might mean that some unfortunate student of magic was eaten by the rented book or worse.

The little phrase on the base's lid reads "As I am now so once were You" which is based on a quote from James Joyce's Ulysses (a particular favorite of the person who's to get the mini in the end) and of course a play on the fate of the Librarian, evolution and whatnot. Yes, I am Professor Highbrow there for a bit. :p

Hope you like the fella. As you may have noticed, this is actually the second time I painted this miniature. The MAS Discworld range is one I can wholeheartedly recommend. So excellent miniatures, albeit pricey.

That libby monkey is awesome, Siggy. And if I do say so myself, a bit better than the last one you did that had a little ragtag team of chums, IIRC. Based turned out well and I love the script work on his book. Thanks for sharing.

@Moltar: Glad you like him. Yeah, this one was more of a showcase piece than the former monkey.


Just another quick one - Infinity Haqqislam test mini and unpainted rest of the gang:








Just another side-side-side project...

Nice Sigur.

@Gitsplitta: Thanks.


Sorry, no real update for now either. The past days I mostly basecoated lots of tanks which doesn't really warrant a picture update.


However, I did have two games of toy soldiers. Almost three really but the Infinity one fell flat. Oh well. I did have a game of De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) which was a very nice experience. 2' by 2' board, 12 elements of two to four models each per side, simple system which takes a step back in favor of the players maneuvering their elements. My opponent, who also supplied the board, terrain, miniatures and drinks, played Athenian Hoplites (so mostly hoplites along with a bit of cavalry) while I chose Thracians (mostly lighter infantry and light cavalry). Instead of using terrain to my advantage as I should have I tried attacking one flank, got trashed and then mostly tried to push in the Athenian battle line at a weak-ish spot which worked for some time. Very fast, fun and interesting game which gives you plausible things going on on the table. It's not the "main game" you play I think but more like "I don't have much time this week, let's just have a game of DBA" kind of game. It's quick, doesn't require many models or much space and there are over 300 army lists for all kinds of periods and regions ranging from biblical to medieval ages.

Then last night I finally had that first game of Epic Armageddon. Orks versus Ultramarines "2000pts, no titans" were the rules. We didn't play with any objectives because the game was just there to learn the rules really. That hampered the usefulness of my Scouts and Bikes a little but they did well nevertheless.

The table



Ork deployment, colour coded by general as the Orks were commandeered by three generals


I was lucky on the first roll (SM strategy rating also helped) so the Orks had to deploy first which led to me deploying everything as far away from the Stompas as possible, planning to hit the Orks' light brigade on the left (Stormboys, buggies, deffkoptas) as soon as possible with everything I had so the Orks couldn't bring their vast numerical superiority to bear, otherwise my poor Marines would be ground down to fine, blue dust.



..of course I didn't mark my Rhinos so I always had to keep them apart so I wouldn't get confused as to what Rhino would belong to which Squad (Space Marines get free Rhinos Tacticals, Devastators and Scouts). On top of what I deployed I had a formation of Terminators in orbit who would teleport in lateron. The Orks also had a squadron of Fighta-Bommers which would turn out to be a real nuisance over the course of the game despite the AA tank I had especially converted the night before. :p

So these guys were the first target:


...which went pretty well.

The main force in the middle didn't engage my army directly but only sent Gunwagons to support their light brigade on the left flank so my assault would be stopped while the main force went for an enclosure move to silence the Whirlwinds, attack the Marines from behind which would leave them out in the open, have the army empocketed, the Marines wouldn't be able to make use of their mobility and get wrecked by the Stompas. A sneaky plan in deed.

So the Battle Fortresses and Battle Wagons move around the hill and unload the passengers...


I move away, teleport in the Terminators and set up positions to face the Orks... who very wisely not decided to hit my main force but instead decided to attack my surprisingly isolated artillery. :S A ground attack run from the Fighta-Bommerz along with a salvo from the Stompas' (which had gotten scarily close at this point) big guns later my Land Raiders formation was reduced to just one vehicle which retreated.



So what you can see above is the point at which the Stompas arrived, my army having formed a "defensive crescent" (or "don't run but stay the heck away from them" formation) around them, the single Land Raider having just rallied and the Whirlwinds getting crumped by battlewagons. At this point Tactical Formation #2 had gotten wiped out already.

In the end though, despite Captain Sicarius, the supreme commander, messing up the action roll for his own formation, the Bikes bravely charged at the last remaining Stoma and his dreadnought buddies and with the help of a lot of supportive fire managed to bring them down. Just before the Ork horde with their battle wagons were able to meet up with the Stompas, otherwise it may have ended up a lot less well.

After the dust settled it was a victory for the Ultramarines. Hands were shaken and players agreed that it was a good game, mostly due to how it never looked too clear what the outcome would be. At first it looked very good for my Marines after the first assault against the Orks' right flank went swimmingly but that's what happens if the Marines get to concentrate their forces at one point and against light enemy troops. As soon as the main horde started hitting stuff along with the Stompas arriving things got a bit more scary, especially as during one turn two of the main damage dealers, the Whirlwinds and the Land Raiders, took heavy losses.

All in all Epic seems to be a very fun game. The alternate activation with the additional option of "retaining initiative" makes for very tense battles throughout without much downtime for either side and interesting tactical possibilities based on what units were activated already and which weren't. Adding mission objectives next time surely will add another challenge to the game and will make concentrating forces at one point harder I'm sure.

So yeah, that was that. Real updates again very soon!

I used to play both DBA and Epic. Great to see your report. Looks and sounds like great fun!

Nice to see some Epic. I used to love Space Marine era Epic and haven't played Armageddon but I still plan to get my armies painted up at some point. They just look so cool all lined up with their little tanks, although I think it's just not Epic without a few titans.

@Gitsplitta: Glad you enjoyed it. I most certainly did. The only shame is that all the terrain I brought was a bit for nought as I advanced only on one far end of the table to avoid the Stompas.

@Bruticus: Thanks. It indeed looks great. Also, I find the lack of space to be a real problem with 40k these days so it's pretty refreshing bascially fielding large armies but still having a large space to maneuver in.



Hey people, I'm finally back with a proper update (= a SPACE MARINES update).

First, tiny SM tanks I just haven't shown yet in detail. A formation of Whirlwinds and a Hunter:








Second, back to productive stuff (= Not My Stuff). The first of a number of Blood Angels tanks:




Still WIP but coming along nicely I think.Still needs some more details, maybe additional highlights and of course more weathering. There's also going to be a dozer blade added in the end. Hope you like it so far.


Oh, and there's another thing (again, unproductive and one of the reasons I haven't posted any updates in here for a while):
My second historicals project.. This one came really as a surprise as I never considered myself much of an Ancients kind of wargamer. I did a few commissions for ancient periods but never felt too inclined to join the fun myself. It's not that the period(s) didn't appeal to me, it's just that so many other things were a bit more appealing.



Now two weeks ago I was invited by a guy to play a game of DBA (De Bellis Antiquitatis) with him. Only having heard of DBA as this old, very popular and not too complicated system everybody should give a try once I jumped at the opportunity. He has the figures and the board, all I needed to bring was a tape measure and dice. I have to say that this DBA is an elegant and fun little system. It's not all too deep but instead it's a rather quick game with comparatively small armies on only a 2' by 2' board but it does give you results which seem plausible. Instead of thinking about rules too much you can instead think of maneuvering. The perfect game if one of the players is short on time that evening. I would say that it's possibly the ultimate "entry level" ancient wargame there is.



So I was pleasantly surprised with the rules and on top of that I got a full army from the good fella as well! Granted, the minis aren't the cream of the crop, mostly mono-pose and are just enough to play one list but who am I to complain about free minis! Another thing about this is that I didn't have to choose my "first army" myself because I would have probably gone for some pitifully weirdo-fancy army consisting of an obscure cult of drummer-warrior-monks who only existed for 20 years on some god-forsaken mountain top. So instead I was introduced to the Thebans.



Since I started reading on the topic of Ancient Thebans a few days ago, I found out the following - Ancient Thebes (the one in Greece, not the Egyptian one) was one of the major city-states in Greece, along with Athens and Sparta and those three were constantly at each other's throats.



Thebes specially so with Athens. Out of those three city states, Thebes probably got the worst PR due to being the city state being mostly based on agriculture and of course the "unpatriotic" move of siding with the Persian king Xerxes: However, Thebes was the head of the Boeotian League of several provinces. After the Persians were repelled at Salamis Athens punished Thebes for siding with the invaders by dissolving the league, only to have it reinstated by the Spartans thereafter. From reading about all the back and forth between the three city-states between the 6th and 4th centuries BC I got the impression that it was mostly like this: conflict breaks out between two of the city-states, the third joins the one they like a little bit better at the moment. The one polis that stands alone is beaten but immediately helped to recuperate by one of the victors just so the other victor wouldn't get too powerful.

So basically Athens has all the glory and great reputation for every invention and innovation we owe to ancient greece, Sparta has ...well, Spartans. What does Thebes have. First, they have the least cool looking helmets.



Of course Hoplites were all individually equipped but this one above is the Boeotian Helmet. Not a bad helmet at all, with excellent visual field and unimpaired hearing. Later, in the 4th and 3rd century BC it got really popular with Greek and Makedonian cavalry, less so with infantry, but basically each time you see a model of a Theban Hoplite he'll wear one of those helmets (which in design are based on tied-down sun hats). While wearing sun hats on the battlefield wasn't unheard of and quite common, especially with skirmishers and Psiloi in Ancient Greece, basing your helmet design on them probably also supported the notion that Thebans were quite the "country people". I also read somewhere that in Athens and other places, Thebans were ill-reputed as being simpletons and often the butt-end of jokes. Which of course isn't true but you know how there are regions in each country which have this reputation. However, there is a reference to this even in Shakespeare's King Lear (" I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. " in which "learned Theban" is supposed to mean "someone who does know a lot of things or at least appears as such but only because he read, memorized and replicates them rather than bearing knowledge or wisdom by insight and actual understanding". Of course I just read that somewhere.)

So after all these things let's get to the really cool stuff there is to say about Thebans: For 40 years, after the downfall of Athens, Thebes was the dominant power in Greece. Thebes was home to several mythological figures of ancient Greece and center of the cult of Hercules. Epaminondas, Theban general and stateman, beat the numerically superior Spartans in the battle of Leuctra 371 BC devastatingly (also getting their king killed) by employing a new strategy resulting in the most significant battle amongst Greeks in history, as some historians claimed it was. After this victory, Epaminondas became one of the most revered Greek strategists.


Epaminondas

Not only did it shatter the Spartan predominance on the Greek penninsular and freed the Helots who had been enslaved for the past hundreds of years by the Spartans (and didn't have much fun at all. In one source I read of pretty nasty things the Spartans did to them over a LONG timespan) and established Theban predominance for a while but also, and which probably is part of the reason for Thebes' downfall, it impressed the later king Phillipp II. of Macedonia (father to Alexander the Great)who at the time was a hostage of Thebes' so much that he took many lessons from Theban warfare to introduce to the Macedonian army lateron which in the end cost the Thebans (and Greek overall) their position of power. Well, that and the fact that the Macedonians brought longer sticks.

Also present at this very important battle (as well as many others) was the Sacred Bond of Thebes, a legendary military formation of 150 couples of male lovers who were picked out to form a sort of special shock troops of Thebes. They were chosen men from all social standings and, other than most other hoplites, were professional soldiers paid and housed by the state.



If you're interested to read more about the Sacred Band I suggest this site or of course Wikipedia if you, like me, are too cheap or lazy to buy or rent proper books.

Apart from that the Theban cavalry was also highly regarded across Greece and was employed in Alexander the Great's army later on.

I'm hardly an expert on Ancient Greece and probably got lots of things wrong above but I hope that it gets you a rough overview of what makes Thebans a force to consider aside from the classic armies of Athens or Sparta. And if you're not strangely bemused or interested from the facts above, keep in mind that all these Spartan armies need someone to fight on the tabletop who isn't Spartan for a change.


Now, after the lengthy introduction, here's the actual meat (Warning: may contain lead) of things: I got a full army of Hoplites (10 units including general) with spears along with a unit of cavalry and a unit of Psiloi (lightest infantry imaginable) with slings. 15mm scale, Essex miniatures.

Here are pictures of the current state of affairs. 10 units of unfinished Hoplites along with one finished unit of Psiloi:




Finished Cavalry:



The armour the Hoplites are wearing is linen armour which is a bit of a topic of discussion itself. This army is supposed to be a later Greek hoplite army so this kind of armour was much more popular at the time than the old full metal breastplate. As far as I understod it's not completely clear how linen armour worked but it is mostly assumed to be several layers of linen glued over each other which turned them into a hardy armour. Some linen armour were probably supported by sheets of metal much more like chainmail rather than plate armour though.

The base size is 40mm by 15mm (which I cut from plasticard) on Hoplites, 40mm by 30mm for Cavalry and 40mm by 20mm on the Psiloi. These are standardized by troop types.



...and in completely unrelated news, I got to try out yet another ruleset for historicals!

I got to participate in a game of Die Kriegskunst (which is a variant of General de Brigade for 18th century warfare). The background was of couse the Seven Years' War, the scenario was "English guys hold a small village, French and all kinds of allies attack, at some point in the game a batalion of Hesse-Kassel and a batalion from Braunschweig come to the aid of the English. Whoever holds the town by 10pm wins. (the game started around 7pm. That's all real world time so the players wouldn't get home too late)




I got to comandeer the reinforcements on the English side, rolled horribly and didn't appear for a while. Anyway, these rules are very interesting. Maybe it was the all single pose 18th century metal minis (great sight) but this rules system felt "Old school". There are some very fun mechanics involved, mostly - and this is basically the core of the game - how there is a certain number of orders batalions can get (MOVE, ENGAGE, HOLD, ... with most orders requiring you to specify which unit to engage OR a clearly defined piece of scenery to engage for example) and a certain way these have to be executed AND a list of things units can do following these orders. At the start of the game each batalion commander gets his order along with an instruction (like "ASSAULT- the small forest over the far right flank" in which case ASSAULT means that the units may fire at and even charge enemy units they encounter in or around the woods but at least half the units of the batalion have to move at least half their maximum movement towards the target. As soon as there are no more enemy units directly near the woods the batalion changes orders to "Hold"). This is written on a small sheet of paper in secret, folded and put underneath the batation commander's base. The order may not be changed until it is fulfilled OR the batalion is destroyed or retreating or the commander in chief (or batalion commander) elects to change the order which requires you to roll 10 or more on 2d6. I think if a unit is on Hold it's easier or something like that.

Now that's a rather fun mechanic. Very old-school indeed but I can see that working. As long as you know the orders somewhat. It definately is not a game to just "drop into" like Black Powder and even that requires you to accept a number of very abstract mechanics so I messed up most things I did. There are also some other core mechanics that I liked like rolling for initiative each beginning of the turn, turn sequences being rather "interactive" as well in the way that movement is done by the initiative player first, then by the other player, then both players fire, then you do melee, work out morale effects and then roll for initiative again. I'm still not sure on how the orders system actually works (or in many cases when exactly an order counts as being carried out) but the rulebook looked like high quality, there's a points system in there as well, some fun things like units running low on ammo and having to be resupplied by a munitions wagon (which can not blow up, i asked), officers getting wounded accidently in which case you have to roll on a table with results ranging from the officer dying outright to the shot being cought by the officer's pocket watch and other interesting results. The game took place on a table of 6' by 4' but as the village was almost in the middle at least a foot wasn't really used and was played with 28mm minis and seizable armies and went pretty smoothly so you don't need a huge amount of space to play. Very interesting game I have to say. I probably won't get into it (yet ) but it was an interesting experience and the armies looked stunning.

Nice work on those little Essex miniatures! Your army looks great! I think DBA was the natural response to WRG 7th Edition... which was so convoluted it made 40k look like tiddly-winks. DBA is fun, fast, easy and doesn't require a lot of minis. What's not to like about that?

Quite true, Mr.Splitta! The only problem I see is getting that darned rulebook. (including army lists and campaign rules that is)

That... I could see being a problem. If you don't have any luck drop me a line, I may have my old books in a pile somewhere.

Wowzers Siggy! looking so good! your skills in turning monopose and teeny miniatures into something we all want to look at is incredible! and those epic tanks are...well....Epic!

@Gitsplitta: email sent.

@Nerdfest09: Thanks, glad you like them.



Here's the WIP version of the Baal Predator:


And third Predator:


Hope you like them so far. The blue gems were kicked off the whole colour scheme in favor of green through and through.

Hey guys, as you know I spend most of my days making up excuses for not doing the right thing. This is why I love the concept of the "weekend miniature" - on weekends I sometimes like to paint up one random figure and due to the fact how I started playing Sisters of Battle again I thought it might be a good time to paint St.Celestine after almost 10 years when I got the model when it was released.






On the plus side, I'm also working on the Mantic Zombies review as well.

Beautiful job with that mini Sigur. I wholly endorse the "weekend mini" concept!

Oh she's looking very nice indeed, I wish I could paint flesh tones like that.

@Gitsplitta: External reinforcement for my excuse to be lazy? YES! Thanks, it's a fun mini to do and since the new WD list I don't really know what to do with my regular Canoness. Through the past three editions of 40k she got a jump pack and went off either on her own or along with the Seraphim but now with less powerful acts of faith, the 2+ armour thing gone and the points increase I don't even really dare to build a close combat squad and have them race at a juicy target in a Rhino so St.Celestine is rather welcome.

@GiraffeX: Thanks very much.



Update!



....and now back to BA tanks.

Man that is looking really lovely Siggy! I concur the skin tones are so soft and well blended! and how long has it been since you shaved your avatar? I liked the evil Mo!