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I was more meaning if you used smoke clouds and fire markers for.damaged or destroyed machines.

 Flinty wrote:
I was more meaning if you used smoke clouds and fire markers for.damaged or destroyed machines.

Nah just the warlord cuz it rolled the result when it got killed.

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing!

CorwinB wrote:
Awesome pics, thanks for sharing!

Thanks guy







Got another aquarium castle, wanted to make use of some of the bits I had left over. Pretty happy with how it turned out, I've always like the retrofit look and this is basically knight world terrain more or less. Still gotta get it primed. I put some random guns on it to make it match with the previous conversions, also put a vulcan megabolter turret for good meassure. The bridge part sort of stopped abruptly so I put something that would look like a crane. Also there was a gap in the bottom so installed a gate of sorts so it looks like foot access to the fortress.

Very nice conversion!

CorwinB wrote:
Very nice conversion!

Thanks Corwin





Arachnus spider, legio venator hunted these megafauna into extinction and I'm bringin'm back. I basically just re-based a leng spider from some cthulhu game.

Love the spider and the castle!

 Mr Morden wrote:
Love the spider and the castle!

Thanks mr morden




My buddy's warlord "the king in yellow"

Took a frame from the end of the movie enemy mine and photoshoped in some titans.

We've been anxiously awaiting corrupted/chaos titan rules but as they have yet to come out we plan on running a psi-titan vs psi-titan battle where one of them is basically counting as a corrupted titan, in this case my buddy's warlord. Fluff I wrote has it basically striding out of the sea and attacking coastal imperial outposts in a form of ritual slaughter, always returning into the sea and stalked by thousands of birds who conceal of from air attack and fly in the pattern of a chaos rune.

This is more of an origin picture, prelude to a chaos cults ritual sacrifice before the corrupted titan's princeps embarks to war.

That's glorious

Now do Saving Private Ryan

 Flinty wrote:
That's glorious

Now do Saving Private Ryan

Don't think there's anything wide enough or still enough but I'll take a look, maybe the end fight in he city could work if I can get a wide enough frame. What's nice about the older movies like star wars is the nice establishing shots with mat paintings, makes it easier to grab a still frame that doesn't have any motion blur.

Fair point... what about a.scene from the end of the second episode of Band of Brothers with the invasion fleet set out below the C47s

Or, you know, Anything you like

 Flinty wrote:
Fair point... what about a.scene from the end of the second episode of Band of Brothers with the invasion fleet set out below the C47s

Or, you know, Anything you like

I'll take a look




Lucius reaver is magnetized and ready for priming. This thing is amazing, had a friend print up 2 of most arm weapons too for as much versatility loadout wise. Stoked that it will be easier to tell my reavers apart on the battleflied now. I love the more angular and armoured look, matches well with my either lucius pattern titans.

Got bored and made a little trailer for an upcoming game. Clips from soldier, event horizon and enemy mine, As well as some of my own. Audio is from blade runner 2036.


"The King in Yellow"

Wrote some fluff to better flesh things out, tl;dr a princeps convinces local savages to sacrifice themselves, promising them eternal access to the "palace of the gods". He's tricking them into a chaos ritual that will corrupt him and his warlord titan.






lil teaser trailer





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“The palace of the gods awaits the faithful”

The princeps declared in high gothic, a self assured smile broke as the chorus of chanting built to fever pitch.
The assembled council of tribal elders greeted the princeps with a bow, five of them, their black sheer masks concealing their ritually tattoo’d faces.

The savages of Humardu we’re a deeply spiritual people, reverence for the gods and all manner of rituals worship taking up much of their society and daily lives. Their inability to distinguish technology from magic had been historically exploited for recruitment and replenishment of labour by the machanicum and imperium. Humardu’s hardy populace made ideal stock for soldiering or manufacturing.

Their gods were not his gods. The princeps didn’t care, their blood would soon fill the sea and the prophecy would be fulfilled. Their destruction would birth something new.
Deception was not unknown to him, but the legio’s combat doctrine was as direct and aggressive as their princeps and this subterfuge and attention to ritual was always a tiring affair, some part of the manifold in him stirred with impatience. He reassured himself he had not fully concealed the truth from these poor souls as they may yet still find themselves in the palace of some god, just not one of their own.

A guttural series of deep throat singing and distant unseen drumming grew steadily in intensity, the princeps could sense it would not be much longer, even across the vast sunlit bay the stars began to pulsate, the void quaked in recognition of what was to come. A strange sense he had been here before fell over the princeps as if remembering some half forgotten dream.

All five elders reached their arms to the heavens, the throat singing ceasing and the unseen drummers falling silent. They reached for a small pouch in their robes containing a flask of sacred oils. In unison they emptied the small flask of yellow liquid over their heads and proceeded to prostrate themselves before the princeps.

A small robed figure strode out from the mass of bodies and presented the princeps with a torch, the head of which had been fashioned to resemble the skull of some local predator. The robed figure spoke, it’s voice was young, sounding like a child.

“Ashgkar! Feysho! Kah-nashi ermasa otosh!”

“They impend, you must light the fire.”

The princeps had understood the tribal utterances, but pointed all the same to the prostrate and oil soaked elders arrayed before him and looked back to the short robed figure, as if unsure of his part in all of this.
The princeps stepped forward, his ceremonial white body glove backlit by the setting sun and he touched the torch to the oil at their feet.

“The palace of the gods” He declared mockingly as the he lit the last of the elders aflame.

The five men made no sound as their flesh burned. The princeps was genuinely impressed by this display, the pain must have been unimaginable he thought.
He lost himself in the flame, the elders bodies toppled over, he hadn’t even noticed crowd assembled around him had produced ceremonial blades and had slit their wrists. He only wrenched himself back into the moment when the masked crowd turned from their gaze on the pyre to look back towards the coast.

They had followed the specifications he had passed on to them perfectly, the edifice they stood on was built with a purpose and the blood running down from their wrists collected into the super structure and streamed down stone channels directly disgorging into the sea.
The water in the bay turned crimson, steadily reaching the the feet of the princeps warlord titan, the “King in Yellow” which stood like a silent guardian in the middle of the bay.

The princeps began to weep, the smile never leaving his face as he proceeded down the steps of the vast stone temple. Looking out at the bay he could see the silhouette of his engine, it’s white helm’s targeting optics were glowing with an unnatural red hue. He could somehow commune with the engine and this connection grew stronger.

The moment the princeps stepped into the frothing crimson sea, the king in yellow let out an ear splitting bellow of its war horns sending thousands of local avians flying into the air from coastal tree tops. The princeps strode out through the shallow water, his white bodyglove now thoroughly stained red. He reached out for the great engine, placing his hand firmly on its cold ceramite hull. The princeps could see the first of the crane ships coming in along the coast. In amazement, some of the cultists were still standing in their seemingly endless observance of the king in yellow.

He could see one of the crane ships securing its fasteners around a reaver titan back on land. The princeps personal shuttle now crept down the shoreline, halting in front of him and extended its boarding ramp into the water. A familiar face greeted him from the head of the ramp. It pointed to the princeps and back to the water.

“The prophecy said total immersion; I won’t remind you of the importance of this.”

The princeps rolled his eyes at the scolding and immersed himself entirely in the sea of red frothing liquid. Emerging once more totally stained he walked up the ramp, the front of which was already beginning to retract.

“Is it done?”

He walked past the familiar face without making eye contact. A noticeable silence was his reply.

“Well?” The princeps inquired again.

The scolding voice canted something in binary and plugged an unseen mechandrite from its robe into a port on the wall.

“The pattern is incomplete, pict data shows one star remains” It replied.

The princeps barked back “I’ve seen them with my own eyes, they’re pulsating, I can feel the king’s machine spirit from here, like I could interface with the manifold without hard plugs”

“That’s impossible!” The voice shriekd back.

The last cultist looked on in amazement as the vast crane ship swept in and started to cradle the warlord in its rigging. Its aspect being lifted out of the water and into the heavens was the last thing his eyes would ever see. A single tear ran down the cultists tattooed face, his frame toppling over on to the bodies a level below, his blade still firmly clutched in his hand.

The shape of a coffin ship was now visible on the horizon through the shuttle's main viewport. The princeps glanced back at the source of the scolding voice as if to predict the words it was about to speak.

“The last star is pulsating, the ritual is complete.”

The king in yellow’s war horns began to blare again as it was swallowed by the vast hold of the coffin ship.

The princeps turned and looked at the crane ship ahead of him disappear into the cavernous gantry of the coffin ships open hold, an excited grin filling his face.

“The Warmaster will be pleased.”

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New board setup for tonight's AT game. Badlands always reminds me of tarsonis from starcraft. Added some train cars to the heresy train. Unified a few terrain pieces by painting all the oil barrels red. Really liking the shanty's on the hill. Only thing the imperium cares about out here is promethium and its transportation.

Woooo, wooooo.

jprp wrote:
Woooo, wooooo.

1650pts game, 4 objectives, Engine war scenario ( https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/787202.page#10920502 ). We didn't play with legio rules because it was a friends first game so we wanted to keep it simple. Both side still chose a maniple and princeps seniores/trait.

I love to see themed tables that are laid out to actually look like something viable, i hate to see 2 nice armies sat on a farmers field with a few randomly placed high rises and no roads to connect them.

Yup, having a believable setup for the place being fought over makes the game so much more enjoyable. It's the little things in life.

jprp wrote:
I love to see themed tables that are laid out to actually look like something viable, i hate to see 2 nice armies sat on a farmers field with a few randomly placed high rises and no roads to connect them.

Agreed, I think that's what killed 40k for me, all the tables turned into like a speedball court from competitive paintball. Planet giant L shape.


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 Sherrypie wrote:
Yup, having a believable setup for the place being fought over makes the game so much more enjoyable. It's the little things in life.

100% gotta be invested in one's little world, this gives me nostalgia for building maps in starcraft.

So got some work in progress stuff, finally making good progress on the lucious pattern reaver. Still ways to go, gonna add some decals towards the end. Not quite sure what I'm doin with the marines on its base yet.




Also almost done my arachnus spiders. Tried some new stuff out on this one, basically that cool new necron paint, made it like some industrial ooze coming out of the pipes. Also added a little car and oil drum for scale. Still gotta clean it up a bit and do some more basing stuff.

 Crablezworth wrote:



Arachnus spider, legio venator hunted these megafauna into extinction and I'm bringin'm back. I basically just re-based a leng spider from some cthulhu game.

"Dr Grant. My dear Dr Saddler...Welcome...to Giant-Arachnus-Cthulhu-Spider Park!"

SamusDrake wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:



Arachnus spider, legio venator hunted these megafauna into extinction and I'm bringin'm back. I basically just re-based a leng spider from some cthulhu game.

"Dr Grant. My dear Dr Saddler...Welcome...to Giant-Arachnus-Cthulhu-Spider Park!"

lol





I wanna do a slurm factory now after seeing how the necron paint works.

I thought you'd get a giggle out of that.

Slurm factory concept

original file by wargameforge, really great terrain files for AT and epic https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/WargameForge?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=934673773

Printable Slurms Mckenzie FTW

Back to the beach. Painted up a bunch of little vehicles.

Now I'm just imagining a warlord suntan sun-tanning with a warhound serving it drinks.

Racerguy180 wrote:
Now I'm just imagining a warlord suntan sun-tanning with a warhound serving it drinks.

Scary things lurk in them waters

Absolutely love the civvie vehicles. They should totally be a distraction during a game. Every turn they each move along the road a certain distance toward the nearest table exit, and can be a trip hazard