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Jeez, I will, you go and finish that daemonprince yggs!

On a side note I might be cancelling the tactical support squad with plasmaguns, I have been trying to clobber together a playable 2000pts list and while cool, the plasmasquad just eats too many points for little tactical gain concidering it rocks off at 330pts and will with all due probability win the trophy for most irresistable firemagnet ever. Still, it has a charm, 10 infiltrating marines that also are troops with PG's can be slightly silly.

I am for now pondering to replace them with a squad rocking Volkite Calivers, nifty rayguns with R30" S6 AP5 Heavy 2, Deflagrate (Target squad suffer additional hits at weapon S & AP equal to the number of unsaved wounds taken) and since the Tactical Support is troops you can infiltrate them on a strategicly placed objective (prefferably in cover) and let them stay there. also they are a tad cheaper at a mere 230pts.
Points of both squads calculated with addition of an auguery scanner, preventing infiltrators or scouts from deploying within 18" and giving the squad Interceptor vs. deep striking units within weapon range with Heavy and Rapid Fire weapons.
I think that hail of fire, with the added benefit of a 30"-radius interceptorbubble, (just imagine adding a master of signals for bs5! ) will add flexible firesupport capable of handling both hordes, high-toughness MC's (like castellax robots), and smaller elite units lacking a 2+ save. Terminators we'll kill with Boltguns, after all, infiltrating 20-man tacticals can reliably use their Fury of the Legion in round 2 and that means 80 bolter shots on targets within 12".

Lol deal !

As much as I love plasma weaponry, I have to admit a whole squad might be a bit OTT... Can't remember though, do they also "Get Hot" in 30k ? If so, you can expect at least a casualty on your squad per shooting phase, so going away from them might be the wisest choice...

As for Volkite weapons, I'm not so fond of their rules (never played them, so I might be proven wrong), but their looks is awesome !

So I'd say go with that !!!

Yeah, plasma weapons are still Gets Hot!, well, besides the vehicle-mounted ones, but the regular plasmaguns/cannons/blastguns/fusils lumbered around by infantry does.
I would not call it OTT, this is 30K after all and you have to expect things like that, I mean if you could bring havocsquads with 10 heavy bolters or heavy flamers for 235points a squad (AC and ML at +5 pts per model and so on) would you not?
Have you seen the Iron Warrior Tyrant Siege Terminators? Cataphractii armor, combibolters, omniscope, powerfists and cyclone missilelaunchers at 295pts for 5, +50 per additional terminator for a max squad of 10, and oh, yes.. everything in terminator armour has the Implaceble Advance! Rule wich means that as long as troops are scoring in the mission played, units with this rule score just as troops do.

It's a whole new millenium out there you know? Yeeeeehaw!

I didn't mean OTT as "overpowered", just "ridiculously powerful, even highly costed" !
I am well aware that most squads have different restrictions than the 40k ones... I'll have to try and build a 30k army one day... Looks so fun !!!

It is! You should totaly abandon those silly 40k armies and come join the heresy. The Posessed are more posessed (Gal Vorbak ftw!), The terminators more terminating, the tanks more tanky (will that be flareshields and armoured ceramite for your spartan sir? why my dear fellow I think I most certainly will!), the psykers more psycotic, the AdMech.. well feth, we acctually HAVE an admech armylist! The basic armylist allows more or less any niched style of play but then comes with demands, you can't have tak cake and eat it too wich makes things more challenging.

Terminators as troops? sure! dont get them all killed because they will give extra vp's to the enemy, Drop-play? Sure, but if it can't deepstrike or take a droppod you can't use it (no tank-drop play!), and every legion comes with a special tactical pattern you can use if you want.

Yeah I got the bookS (and the inspiration), just lacking on time...

Sadly...



Oh, and I don't know which Legion to choose !!! (Night Lords ? Word Bearers ? Alpha Legion ? Ultramarines ? Iron Hands ? ... )

I have always entertained a soft spot for the iron 4th, they really eptomise the idea of 'the poor bloody infantry', no flash or glory, just a stalwart advance into enemy fire, tearing enemy positions apart with infantrywaves and the biggest guns in the greatest quantity they can lay their hands on. No honour (feth, honour gets you killed in the trenches fool! stab them in the foot and smash their head in with that shovel.) to speak of, at least in the glorified sense championed by the XIIIth and the IXth.

Also, under the current rules I feel that the Word Bearers probably has one of the most characterful armies in regards to rules and uniqe units as well as potential for a high-impact paintjob with colourful conversions, then there is the fething Gal Vorbak... hawt daymn, those groxfondlers and their awsome, awsome models has me keen for a small word bearer allied detatchment.

You rarely get to go apefeth flamboyant with the Legion, got to keep it subtle and understated and it gets frustrating at times.

Also, the Legion is a harsh mistress to latsh yourself to, it has such a rich nuance to it's background that.. well.. the rules and units rarely live up to the hype if you know what I mean? They are, almost a little too much at times, while the world eaters (as an example) are quite straight forward and ''easy'', kill gak with chainaxes/fists/your enemies legs followed by lots of [ULTRAVIOLENCE!] and leave nothing alive. They are quite mapped out and have a nice labeled and quantified box they inhabit and fill with gleeful ultraviolent murder, the Legion on the other hand is a swarm of fething greased, cinnoving, mercury-weasels that have run away from the box-storage and left a micro-nuke in their box (maybe, or they might have been hiding in it all along,..laughing) with an organisation and a master plan that would make Tzeentch himself grow a migrane and say "wait.. wha.. no, wasnt? huh?!" a lot.

So yeah.. Gal Vorbak allies perhaps..

I'm a big Alpha Legion fan.

I know - a shock, right?

But when Perturabo is finally released, along with his Iron Circle bodyguard?

Yeah...

Also, remember, whatever Legion you choose, in the end, they really are...the Legion.

Ha!

What are you yammering about Alpharius? Are you a secret Legion fanboy?! *Gasp*

I had no idea...

I quite enjoy the models but I honestly has been looking forward more to the special legion units and suchlike than the Primarchs.. well.. perhaps besides the XXth Primarch..
Ferrus and (ofc) Horus are personal favourites so far, just stunning, but I am probably never going to buy them unless it is as a present to a friend or something like that.

Back to writing an army list and drawing hydra-designs for my legionaires and vehicles.. *sigh*

Can't wait to see the AL Primarch(s)...

And your rendition of them

I wants Alpharius and Exodus stat, that sniper is serious trouble to pretty much anything, pretty much a 115pts mini-primarch rocking 3W and IWND.

Almost done with one MK2b landraider sponson now, will post pics when I am.

And Moritat & Apothecary !!!

Yes, yes, of course Yggs.

+++ 5th Battallion advance! 4th and 19th Chapters form up after 6th's Spearhead and push through their lines! Get that Fellblade moving Sergeant Xiros, I don't care if you have to jump out and push!+++
+++ Predators at 313 degrees, fire and manuvre damn you! Do Not Stop untill you reach waypoint marker IX. Make these red-clad traitors bleed! For Corax and the Emperor!+++
-Vox-capture fragment; XIX Battalion HQ-Net, Lerghan ridge line, Urgall depression: Primary encirclement breakthrough.
Day 0, circa 567.006.M31, Isstvan V





Acting-Sergeant Makoor Vhen, 1st Tactical, 6th Chapter, 5th Batallion - XIXth Legion. Sgt. Vhen led the remnants of his formation in the spearhead together with the 6th's remaining heavy armour in the breakthrough towards the Lerghan ridges through the Word Bearers encirclement force; the action cost the 6th 56.3% of its remaining forces, seriously depleting the chapter to only 337 legionaires.





Yes, I am making a few ravens, what can I say? I wanted to paint something black and well.. I like the sons of Corax.
Also, I wanted to give heavy weathering a try so I thought: -what can be more weathered than someone having av very bad day on Isstvan V? So off we went. I do confess it was a bit nervewhracking to sit there with a model you have lovingly blended into a nice and clean black, crisp metallics shining and the pristine white transfers carefully applied and now you are mixing up som Agrax Eathshade, water and a drib of Valejo Beastly Brown to give it a nice mudsplashed look, then chip it up with the extreme detail brush and watered down mithril silver to finally splatter the darn thing with a watered-up mix of gloss varnish and mephiston red.
It turned out quite nicely but I had a few close calls with the washes.



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Enjoy! Want more? Comments motivates painting!

Enjoy? Yes. Want to see more? Hell Yes! Very nicely done.

Ace looking as always!

It is strange indeed that:

1) My two favorite Legions have always been the Raven Guard and the Alpha Legion...

2) Well after that was established, BL/GW decided to tie the two together so closely!

3) Apparently, they're your two favorites as well!

Really, I just enjoy the style of your marines. They are very tactical and action-y.

Thanks guys!

Really, I just enjoy the style of your marines. They are very tactical and action-y.

Yay! I try to make each model as dynamic and interisting a I can, after all I up-scale all marines to give them better proportions and put in a lot of time painting each so.. yeah.. besides, modelling is the most fun part.

Alpharius: Great minds think alike!

I have a couple of almost done ones from the XXth Legion comming up next but I am modelling another raven too, right now I am scratch-building a boarding shield for that one.

Stay tuned for more shenanigans.

Always look forward to your updates - it is why I'm subscribed!

I love what you've done with the RG mate, with one caveat. The blood is too cartoonish, in some parts it looks like worn red paint.
Unless you're going for a "300" or "graphic novel" art style i think it needs to be changed. The new blood for the blood god paint from GW over the top of the existing red would add another layer of realism I think.

Feel free to ignore me, cause the model, and weathering looks great, just a personal preference

To be brutally honest:
The model & pose are awesome, so is the black armour. But the red is really too red on the black to be perceived as blood by the brain. The brightness of it on such a dark under layer makes it to be seen as red paint.

I love your painting do more now !!!!!!

Love your work man, this army is going to be amazing when you finish it

Ooooh, a bit of actual CnC!


psnmario:

this army is going to be amazing when you finish it

*Giggle* Finish? Army? Oh you do not know me well do you? I'm aiming at 2020, a frivoltious estimate by my standards too!

Meph

But the red is really too red on the black to be perceived as blood by the brain

Sheep

The blood is too cartoonish, in some parts it looks like worn red paint.

Yeah, I know.. It looked good while wet and to be honest it looks a little better in reality than in the photo, only a little mind you, so I will not be using that formula again. I'll try to make time to swing by a local store for some of that GW-blood thing, see if it's any good. Gotta be better than what I cooked up at least.

Say Sheep, when are you planning on producing some more Sons of Horus eh eh?



To everyone's delight (I like to think so at least) I have assembled another one and will be flicking some paint on it once the primer dries. Mind you, I am going to the annual Beer & Wiskey Fair (someone scored brewery-tickets and are drinking for free!) on thursday around 11:00 so according to the laws of cause and effect I will probably not get any painting done until saturday evening, mostly because 1.) the Champagne exhibitors got it in for me I tell you, How can I say no when they smile that evil smile and ask if you want to taste everything?! Ofcourse I will... 2.) I am putting up new wallpaper in the hallway on saturday morning.

Finally found the boarding shield that I built aswell, it's not going on this one, perhaps the next one though. I would like some rivets but I don't have anything suitable so yeah.. frak it.

PIC!

oooh! Say, what thickness were the spacers you added to the legs and hips?

2.5mm styrene sheet. no idea what that translates to in that whacky imperial system though.

so 2.5mm total? Gotcha; I may have to give it a shot!

Each spacer is 2.5mm, I cut them from a single 2.5 mm thick sheet but I guess you could use thinner sheet and go for a "laminate" style but I think it will be a lot messier with all the glue.

Glad to be of service with the CnC

And I'll be back on the tools in a couple of weeks mate, just got to knock over some pesky uni exams before holidays!!

Ah, so 5mm total? Dang! Well, guess I'll find out when I try! XD

Also, what kind of saw do you use?