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Just make sure he's got a frickin laser beam on his head...

That would be *really* funny.


Well, I won't see SL until tomorrow morning, still worked on the house though and am managing to make progress on the troops. They're dark green. Next up... more house cleaning and then the next shade up!


Update (4 PM): Greens are done! Metallics next!

Further update (9 PM): Steel is done, they looked flat so I'm lining with Thraka green... helps a little bit but man what a pain in the butt. 6 done, 4 more to go and I'm bored out of my wits! Think I'll work on getting some color on the bases next... that usually drastically helps the appearance. Then back to the details. Will check back in later. Will post a pic tonight too of where ever they're at when I go to bed.

cant wait to see the tacticals finished Gits just the HQ then?and you've nearly got 2 weeks left, what were you worried about?

Just make sure he's got a frickin laser beam on his head...

now theres an idea....

Did you know you managed to break my email with all the thread update notices...
Other than that your chimney needs cleaning.

Silly Moose, you should know better than to have e-mail notices for this chatty thread!

Well, here's progress for tonight. Still very WIP but presentable. Accelerated certain things (like the bases) just because they make such a big difference in the way the figures look. I'll wish the bases tomorrow morning before heading out and let them dry on the way in. They seem so plain compaired with the tranquility snipers, but the eyes, insignia, buckes and campaign studs have yet to be painted... and I wont' add the purity seals and such until the very end. So I think once all that's done they'll be presentable. But for tomorrow, they're well beyond a 3-color standard (there's more than 3 colors of green amongst them) and should suffice without costing our team too many points.

Looking nice. Good luck!

You really do set the standard Gits. Best of luck tomorrow, can't wait to hear how you do.

Looking great gits. Gratz to both yourself and Whale music for making such interesting marines, an thats before the painting. Good luck working with SL tomorrow. i hope you get the mind link your looking for

Damn.... I thought my marines were presentable... but wow! mine are just basecoated and still look like salamanders though....

Oh my! You seem to be making progress quickly.

OK folks... the first joint strike force of the Western Contingent of the Wardens of the Maelstrom is here!!



W:1, L: 2

We faced foot marines, foot/pod marines & pseudo kan wall orks... pretty much worst case scenario for our combined armies. However... we managed a decent victory in the first game (battle report will happen), and might have been able to win the third game IF either of us actually had a brain... or bothered to use the ones we have. OH, and we came in second in the painting competition which was pretty good considering neither of our armies was completely finished & we both had proxies out (painted proxies, but not to standard).

Typical battle strategy:

Solar_lion: Hey Gits! Look at that shiny thing! I want to go get the shiny thing!
Gits: Hmmm... the rules say that the shiny thing isn't worth any victory points. The dull brown thing over there is what we need to win.
SL: But, I wants it! I wants the precious!
Gits: I do too, but we need to get that dull brown thing over there.
SL: OK.... (scuffs toe in dirt)

This new resolve lasts exactly one turn, in which neither SL or I actually *commit* to going to get the dull brown thing. At the beginning of turn two... we both dash for the shiny thing, abandoning all pretense of pursuing the convoluted objectives laid out in the instructions.


We had a great time however... fun opponents, nicely painted armies to fight against, stupid Adepticon scenarios to ignore... it was a blast. I want to remind you that these were the first games that SL had played since 1989.... you do the math.

We did however... win the "head hunter" award for killing the most enemy commanders. Basically Mephiston killed everything he came near.... Ouch.


And perhaps most importantly of all... I now have a Confirmed Kill for my Iron Clad vs. another dreadnought (ork Deff Dread)... and the little grenade packs were instrumental in keeping me alive and in fighting trim! Here's the proof!


Seismic Hammer baby! It's NOT just for breakfast anymore!


I'm also proposing we re-name our team from "Wardens of the Maelstrom" to "No Impulse Control".

Gits & Solar_lion

That may have been the best post ever!

Oh man!

Good job with the victories both in painting and in battle, the armies look great side by side.

Sounds like you had fun. I'm glad you pulled out a win.

Nice one chief

Glad you had a good time mate. Must have been a nice relief from painting!

Nice job!
I justt have one question...if your army came second in paintjob, I wanna see the winner!

Sounds like you had a good time!

Thanks all! Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the winner as it's a local force that I'm used to seeing so I didn't think to photograph it. It was combined marine army with bifurcated colors on both chapters. Their vehicles were nicely weathered and there was a fair amount of painted on detail to boot.

They got my #1 vote anyway. But apparently it was very close, we only lost by 2 points.

You'll definitely win best paintjob when your armies are complete.

Just got to do the head, weapon and backpack for your Son of Medusa.

Go Gits and Solar_lion!!!
congrats on the win and the second place in painting (the winner really must have been something special! but i bet the Guardians of the Malstrom will blow them out of the water come April )
The armies really do look amazing side-by-side

You'll definitely win best paintjob when your armies are complete.

agreed

Great to hear you guys had a blast, the armies look really good next to each other as well.

here is a WIP pic of my mantis warriors captain. He will either be a counts-as shrike or calgar, but I have not decided yet? any ideas to improve/who he should be???

i thoughed calgar has terminator armor

he can have power armour too.
if he is shrike I will obviously give him a jump pack

I'm not sure how well Calgar fits into the army... legal of course, just not very fluffy.



Well, we played a game vs. the boys this morning. Table quarters with bonus points for headhunting and objectives. The old men eked out a minor victory 28 to 24. (just our own point assignments for the various battle goals). Boys did well but no pictures unfortunately. Doom eagles hid in their little metal boxes until the last turn when they emerged and wiped out the Lamenters. Luckily, as long range fire support, the Mantis warriors had only taken two casualties so we just chilled on the objectives. Our brothers sacrifice was noble and we appreciate their willingness to feed themselves to the tyranids so that we can have our tea & crumpets in comfort without undue inconvenience.

Highlight for me was the appearance of the Trygon Prime in my backfield... didn't come in until turn 5 and did all he could to contest one of our quarters. Unfortunately he kind of scattered right into the middle of my forces and after killing a couple of my sternguard with his super shooty attack.. everything I had turned and fired. Poor Trygon Prime, nothing like 5 plasma shots, two las cannons 5 meltas and a rifleman dread to ruin your day. Mephiston chewed through a pile of Warriors and a nid prime as well as a couple of zoey's and a librarian. In a further modification of my list since yesterday I dropped the servitor (I couldn't use him the way I wanted to), so I put the homing beacon back on the (usually empty) rifleman dread pod. This allowed the two storm ravens to deep strike in with pin-point accuracy and greatly facilitated the Lamenter's assault. It was ridiculous how many close range multi-melta and las cannon shots Thing 1's land raider absorbed before finally blowing up in turn 5.... I think the 15th shot finally killed it (it did spend most of the game stunned or shaken however... as did the storm ravens.

no... i made homebrew rules, but i am wondering how I should use him in tourneys and such.

great report!

fatty wrote:i thoughed calgar has terminator armor

Nope, you pay points for his Armour of Antilochus otherwise he is a Power Armour Captain. Same thing goes for Njal Stormcaller, you pay for his Runic Terminator Armour.

Congrats to the old school!
Mephiston is nasty tho, i should know, i run him too lol