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^ one guardsman carry a weapon that looks alot like an original musket. What in the game term is this? a flamethrower?
and what is a headgear that he waers? it doesn't look like a stovepipe shako.

=^.^=

I think surely that is the fabled lasket (or was it las musket) of 2nd...which I think had a higher S but only fired once per turn.

The one your talking about I think is the yellow haired one with a bandana the kits come with one head a sprue, I think its a bandana but could be a bandage, but I like to use him as a special weapon guy as he stands out a bit, just the camera doesnt pick out the detail well. Its a gun from Hassle free, SW51AP I think, I use em as a plasma gun counts as as it has a nice detail running along its side that can be painted like a plasma chamber

The others are all armed with las guns and wearing stovepipes. Tho due to a shortage of heads a few heavy weapon crews got Belgic shako's but not that noticable.

Hmm I like the lasket Idea may have to think about that when I get around to doing fluff!

nah the modern definition of 'musket' is exclusively referred to muzzle loading firearms. (both of smoothbore and rifled versions). this term is never been used for breech loading firearms and repeaters created/converted shortly afterwards.

and since much of your troops already have M41 Pulse Rifle/Autorifle. call it local-variant plasmagun or .. any heavy magnum fusil of some sort.
(Brown bess and Charleville 1777 did indeed uses a very large rounds. .75 and .69 cal respectively.)

Great project really would like to do something like this at some point.

Subbed!

Thanks! The alternative armies are fun, and not to hard to do, finding bits apart! Im a bit behind on the work at the moment, things getting in the way, but im trying my hand at milliput las guns and if they work I may replace the pulserifles, but I havent decided as yet!

Il try and get some pictures up soon!

^ miliput AND you also need white plastic rods too.
white plastic rods that have similar diameter as GW lasgun barrel and its muzzle is recommended. meow

http://www.weloveshopping.com/template/e3/s_product.php?groupproduct=1445618&shopid=118173
this is the white plastic rod sizes that's available in thai hobby e-commerce site. meow..

Well with a bit of practice I think im on the way to acceptable las gun copies!

Il have to give some thought to doing some flags, the bearers poles being bare just doesnt look right!

Well I finally got the chance to give the 51st an outing yesterday, a 1500 game against a randomly chosen apponent. It ended in victory for the plucky 51st over a traitor guard force. Was nice to get lots of positive comments from the group I was playing with and was fun fielding so many guys on one table! Hope to get some pics up later!

1. Did you take a pic of the match?
2. How do the opponent army.. the traitor guard looks like? the FW wasteland militia? or the Republican French? (interestingly. no IG players make any french-based IG army of ANY era, neither Napoleonics (and the Bourbon's worst nightmare), nor the 18th century white coats. and not even the WW1 french army..
aren't french troops so popular in 40k community?

Yup here they are
This one shows some of the regular cadiuan types I also have, painted in the same scheme.




They are all FW siege of vraks types I think, with a few upgraded tanks and chimeras, much added spikeyness. Alas for them they had alot of anti tank fire power, as we didnt know who we would be playing.

I think I have seen someone do French, but yes they don't seem as popular, im tempted to do one some time, a nice attacking style army I think.

1. is the 'french' themed IG player a member of Dakka?
2. Who won the battle??

I think so, but to be honest I can't remember for sure, I just remember seeing a work in progress pic or two a while back!

The 51st were triumphant, we lost about 2 squads worth and a few guys from Platoon command squads and the scout walker squadren but managed tio reduce the enemy down to 1 damaged tank by the end after siezing the objective. The Mortar squads did sterling work on his infantry, whilst the heavy weapons teams provided much useful fire support.

That's quite wonderful. an IG army if line infantry supported by light artillery and sentinels without leman russ can beat an IG army having two Leman Russ MBTs. supported by couple of veterans....

in the new codex. a 500 points army can have two russes and two vets .. the latter becomes troops choice now instead of elites.

My army ( http://www.dakkadakk...ist/408342.page ) was modified from ones written for old codex. so it's impossible to field in any Leman Russes.
i've heard that Leman Russ MBT outranges lascannon emplacement. could you please determine the outcome if my army is to fight another IG having 2 vets and 2 LR MBT?

Hmmm I shall have to look that up when I get home, however to be honest I find that anything with a 36" + range is likely to be able to cover a large enough area even if it is outranged by a tank gun, given terrain etc getting in the way on a 4 x 6 size table. Plus of course even if they are shooting at the gun teams its probably a bit of a waste for them firing Las cannons at a cheap infantry type unit, a standard russ would at least have a blast template, whereas the antitank russes waste a turns fire power on a soft target.

I also find that since people often bring alot of anti tank with them, they have a fair bit of redundant point spend agains a gun line.

The main damage from the game was by a russ punisher and a kamikaze squad of penal troops that got a very good roll for abilities! Fortunately to get close enough to be used they left themselves vunerable to alot of fire power in my turn. He brought a manticore, i love those things but fortunately (although also frustratingly) I kept getting glancing hits, stopping him from firing, although uit took til the end of the game to destroy it!

So i got bored yesterday and decided to get my self going with the making and painting! I had an old 1/35 Katyusha model that my partner accidentally squished a while back before it was fully made, hanging around and decided to see if the parts couldnt be used some how especially all the rockets..

So im currently working on a more sci fi version of congrieve rockets, alas i havent any horse artillery figures, so infantry pressed into service it must be, but I think they could be handy. Im also giving some thought to making the rules/fluff for em. Im thinking of each can fire up to 3 missles a turn, depending on a d3 roll, each making up to 3 scatterable small blast templates. But to reflect the innacuracy even more I may make it 2d6 scatter. Il see if I can get some

This is some neat stuff going on here! Keep it up.

Thanks very much! I will try and upload some more pics when i can!

Im now just keeping an eye open for some reasonably cheap napoleonic cavalry to come on ebay, Im not a huge fan of rough riders, but they do suit the fluff! I havent seen many decent British cavalry, so il probably end up with french dragoons or curassier but they should still look decent painted in british colours!

Hers a last pic of the latest game, i forgot i had it


My congreve rocket project





Work still ongoing on

So of late my painting has slown to a crawl, ive been quite distracted by other things. I have however been grabbed by the converting bug.

My biggest problem is cash, or a lack thereof so im always looking around for useful items for gaming purposes. I came accross a cheap plastic motorized toy tank in poundland which once the oversize gun turret and the battery control wire/controler are removed looks quite similar to the old russian Btr series of wheeled personel carriers. So Ive bought a few to see if they make reasonable chimera proxies. I still intend this regiment to be mostly foot but the odd chimera and/or support varient I think shouldnt go amiss.

So out with the old craft knives and plasticard and lets see what I can do (have already accidently sliced myself lol)

the batrep pics shown me an interesting item.. the triangular foxhole! and it looks like it can houses three men or an HW team.

meow.

what is the rules for congreave rocket battery?? meow.

VERY COOL IDEA

Well I havent fully decided on the rules, but I was thinking of either a d3 number of rockets fired by each when they fire with a small blast marker. Or something along the lines of a d6, a 1 causes a self explosion, 2-03 fires 1 rocket per base,4-5 fires 2 each and 6 fires 3 each.

In the mean time I have a few work in progress pics for you
the basic tank, after the turret and controller has been removed


Hears one that should be a basic chimera type


this ones a lil bit further on


And heres one that may serve as a missle armed chimera or possibly a hydra/manticore type.

Well made sure I dont run out of vehicles I went and bought myself 3 more tanks and 2 for my other half, may as well before they dissappear!

Ive just ordered a few pounds worth of bits, so should be able to make another chimera and mebe a hell hound and devil dog, or possible some variety of griffon (a homemade affair but may be ok!

Ok just a couple of work in progress pics for you. Im awaiting some bits to arrive so I can continue to add to my vehicle fleet!

Ok so this is either a hydra style vehicle with missles, or possibly manticore ish, tho I am preferring the hydra option!

the Manticore thing finished first.
Hows 'Chimaera' things meow?

Alas im pretty much stuck, ive ordered some bits from ebay and bits and kits but neither has arrived yet. Im waiting to see what a hull mounted gun will look like on them before deciding whether to use them or not. So far they just have a turret mounted multilaser and firing ports. If I decide against them I may just reduce the points cost a little due to the lower fire power.

I did however pick up a few more of the tanks, so im hoping to fied a banewolf and hell hound as well!

So heres a few more pics for you, work in progress again at the moment, i have a bit of a start things of then move on thing going on at the moment, must get to finishing something soon!


And heres the start of a hellhound and bane wolf

Im now also trying to scratchbuild some more cannon style lascannons, I have the lascannons but no more artillery mounts, so plasticard and dits of old sprue it is!, have managed one that doesnt look to bad, will have to post some more pics when I can!