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No! ME! i would treat it with love! i'd build a shrine in your honour! I'd worship you AS A GOD.

Now honestly, i think the casualty would look great as an objective marker for your gang or something. Have the servo skull whirring round him with a large hyperdirmic needle. As for the equipment carrier, you could maybe snip away the arms holding the equipment, and make him carry a lasgun?

Archibald Jack wrote:

Always take techno skills for van saar, the possibility of 2+ ammo roll for a plasma gun is there.

I don't think this is so true anymore, the updated skills tree moved the armourer skills into a heavy only skillset. Also, Techno is important, but don't overdo it, all you really need is a fixer and medic (and maybe a chemist) then go shooting skill for shizzle, hipshooters in close proxim are kickass, and additionally 6 out of my 12 man squad have "rapid fire" so when those lads dig in they can offer firing solutions of a 12 man squad, it' pretty devastating to go against.

Plasma gun is ammo roll 4+ right?
Armourer gives +1 to ammo rolls.
And so does a weapon reload.
so thats 2+

But my group may be using outdated rules. So :/

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good! Only the med-servitor's apron could do with some more depth, but I love your red; nice grimdark admech red

Why thankyou. The apron is a bit better than the photo, but its been weathered and done so i ain't changing it!!

Regnak wrote:

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

[Not sure what to do with servo-skull, Cherub, DKK equipment carrying servitor and DKK casualty? Ideas?]

Give the DKK stuff to me! I'm always after some!
Really nice idea, will follow your progress and look forward to future pictures!

Thankyou. If you really want it, drop me a PM. Its just the equipment carrier though.

ghosty wrote:No! ME! i would treat it with love! i'd build a shrine in your honour! I'd worship you AS A GOD.

Now honestly, i think the casualty would look great as an objective marker for your gang or something. Have the servo skull whirring round him with a large hyperdirmic needle. As for the equipment carrier, you could maybe snip away the arms holding the equipment, and make him carry a lasgun?

A shrine does sound tempting!! The casualty will eventually become a captured/ injured ganger (when i've finished the main gang!). Unfortunately there's far too much resin to clip away, and then it would require a lot of rebuilding via GS, so not really worth it i'm afraid.

@ everyone else: Thanks for the kind words!

I've painted the canals now. They need a coat of PVA glue on top to give the water/ sludge/ slurry a shine and i still need to paint the 2 barrels but otherwise they're done! Yay!

All the canals, they're 5"x12" with a 1"x1"x1" wall on, meaning there's a gap of 3" so it's not too hard to jump. There's also a 6"x5" section and a corner section to make them more interchangeable.







Thankyou very much for looking,

Vitruvian

Those canals are nice, but i think someones hand sticking out of the gloop would look pretty good. Just a thought

Its a thought!! I'll see.

that looks nice, It would look a bit more lively, imo ,with some small boats docked at the sides

Looking nice, but next time, give the foam a coat of PVA. You'll have it chipping like crazy now. Still, easy to make = easy to replace

very nice!

@ Scrazza: tbh its not really big enough to put boats on, the "water" is only 3" wide... Nice idea for a bigger canal though.

@ CommissarKhaine: Yeh, i did for a couple but what you said is true!! they did recive a coat of blackboard paint as the primer so im hoping that seals them for a while...

@ Sageheart: why thankyou!!


Im going to the club a bit later to play our final practice game before we start the campaign. I'll try and get some pics and do a report, not promising anything though!

You said it now you have to do it! A report would be very cool, hoping it'll work out!

ooooh, that still looks good. even without boats. Big up.

Okay, i've nearly finished the final touches on my starting gang, just got one hood to sculpt and then i'm good! (at least until i have to start getting new models !!)

Can't remember what happened on Wednesday, but as it turned out, only 3 of us were at the club yesterday (friday) so we did 1 final training match. What follows is a rough batrep:

We set up most of the terrain on a 6'x4' table (i wanted to do 4'x4' but was out voted) but some other club members were using some of the CoD stuff. The canal went around a quater of the board (eg. started in the middle of a long edge, went to the centre of the board and then turned to the middle of a short table edge). The rest of the buildings were set up with as many ad-hoc walkways as we could muster.

We rolled off to choose deployment and i came last so had a 10" square in the middle of a long edge, the other two (playing Van Saar [VS] and Redemptionists [R]) had a corner each (on the opposite side). i then had to deploy first, i put all of my gang fairly bunched up out of any heavy stubber sight from VS. The other 2 set up firebases, with R setting the rest of his loonies as far forward as possible. We agreed to use our campaign territories so i put a CC ganger and 2 CC Juves in tunnels, VS put 3 gangers in vents, R put 3 people (dont know what they were) in vents.

First few turns

General manoeuvring takes place, R moves up, VS establishes a firebase (where he'll stay for most of the game, snore!) and i move to flank bothe splitting up my gang. Particular points of interest, i tunnel a Juve to threaten R out of sight, who gets taken out by a cheeky VS lasgunner. I tunnel the cc ganger and other juve about 10" away from VS, he moves up, i charge, cc ganger loses to a lasgun armed ganger and goes out of action. Juve gets locked with a lasgun ganger then combo charged by VS leader and 3 juves, suffice to say my Juve goes out of action. VS is on fire, taking one of R's eviscerator loonies out of action. I pass bottle number 1 on turn 3, fail on turn 4. I HATE BOTTLE TESTS!!

Conclusion

VS and R close on either side of the canal, pretty much the whole of both gangs are about 5" away with only a wall and some waste separating them. A furious fire fight erupts with both sides losing multiple models and passing multiple bottle tests. Game finally ends when R has an incredible turn of shooting with 1-shot flamers from everyone!! VS ends up with 1 heavy (without ammo for the heavy stubber) still cowering behind a building and 2 gangers pinned. As you can well imagine, VS bottle leaving R with about 7 models. Epic game and everyone is glad that wasn't a campaign game. Really would have been a bad start!!

I should have the tin can terrain finished by tomorrow (not painted) so i'll put some pics up then. Might paint another ganger as well. Until next time!!

Vitruvian

Ouch, looks like things could have gone better there - bad luck can turn the tables around very quickly in Necromunda. What mission were you playing? A firebase is only good if you don't have to collect, say, loot counters and such

Ahh hard luck :(

Love the gang, it looks ace!

We were just playing a run-of-the-mill gang fight. We're saving the other missions for when we start the campaign

And yes my luck was terrible (not that i'm making excuses!! ) compounded by the fact tat the person playing the Van Saar gang couldn't stop rolling 6s when he normally rolls 1s. Anyway, it was still a good game!


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Hey guys, the leader has been finished now. He needed a little bit of GS work and some extra gubbinz. Here are a few shots, the first is rubbish but i put it in anyway to give you an idea of the silhouette.





And i've nearly finished the tin can terrain:








I need some feedback on this piece. I think i'm gonna add railings to the most precarious bits, but i want to put some other stuff on it to break up LoS. Got any ideas??

Cheers,

Vitruvian

Looking good, like they way the leader looks! When it come to terrain, additional piping is a classic, as well as loading cranes and ladders. Some kind of control post or a water still could also be added.

Thanks for the good ideas! I'll have a go at some of them later.

I also like the leader (obviously!). He has a very forboding grim-dark profile but also enough flair to stand out from the rest.

Love admech! Your stuff is everything I love about it!
Cool idea with the tin-can terrain! Is that your idea?

love the tin-can terrain. Big up.

Very nice! i'm planning on building a 40k board this summer and i'm now going to have to try out the tin can idea!

Thanks for the comments, guys.

@ Jackanory: Thanks, mate. Admech are at their best when really GRIM-DARK! Hopefully i've conveyed that. Yes the terrain is my idea, it just came to me when i was washing some empty beans cans!

@ Scrazza: Cheers mate!

@ SONS of ORAR: Yo! Good to see you on my humble little log Thankyou, if you do build a board, make sure you post the results here, i'm sure it'lll be breathtaking!! Just out of interest, what exam do you have on Wed?

Awesome Stuff!! i'm far to afraid at the mo to convert forgeworld stuff but anyway you are so keep it up! GL




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umm... i have Decision Maths Retake and Physics 2. wbu?

I find the best thing to do is just dive straight in and start chopping like crazy!! Then again, i've already done a DKoK army (which has been sold ) and Traitor guard straight out of the box so i'm used to resin (also started Elysians, why oh why do i spend so much money on little men! )

As for exams, got Maths Core 4, Biology and Chemistry (all A2). And, Decision....

.... Uggggh. I hate decision. Got an A though so can't complain, it's just soooooooooo boring!

Good luck with them! only a couple left tomorrow for me

as to resin i have a bit of the stuff in the shape of a macharius vulcan.

the price of stuff is annoying! i'm going to have to try and squeeze £260 out of my chaos marine army on ebay to fund the board i'm gonna make!
i so need a job lol!

lol i hear ya', i've been putting off a job for a good couple of years now!

Resin is indeed pricey, but far to awesome to pass up. Oh, and macharius Vulcan...... droool! (you did a great job on it, btw!)

Good luck tomorrow!

Are you going to Games Day this year? (sorry for going completely off topic on your blog :/ lol)

No probs.!

My club went last year so i'll try and get another trip organise. We'll see. You better be entering a kick-ass couple of entries!!

Would be good to meet a few dakka-ites though.

i am my local GW manager keeps saying i have to win one for bristol lol... and yeah i'm planning to do the same but we can arrange where and when and how nearer the time.. have you got a Facebook?

Hi guys, no progress on the P&M front but we started the campaign yesterday so I’ve got a batrep for you.

It was a 3-way between an Orlock gang (played by Darren), a Redemptionist gang (played by Al) and me (playing Van Saar, obviously )

Terrain was a standard affair, we managed to grab together a few ladders and decided that one could move up ladders at normal speed but where there were no ladders one had to move at half speed to climb. (Probably a bad decision, not enough ladders meant it was very hard to manoeuvre, but hey!)

We played a standard gang fight and rolled for deployment. Darren won and chose a big firebase like building, Al got second and went opposite him. This left me in a tight spot, I had a good position but was in between both gangs, so sure for a lot of hurt! We also decided to roll-off for 1st turn every turn, with order of play going clockwise from the winner.

Turns 1-3

Things started off with lots of moving into good positions. Nobody really did anything. I deployed my cc ganger and 2 juves via tunnels in a really stupid place, right in the middle of my opponents. Both Al and Darren had a good Turn 3, leaving me in a somewhat bad position :’( Firstly, Al downed my cc ganger and a juve by my firebase. Then Darren downed the juves that had been deployed by tunnels, forcing me to take a bottle check, which I thankfully passed. In my turn 3 I kept pinning people but unfortunately not wounding. I also hit 2 of Al’s Redemtionists twice with grenades, and failed the partial hit rolls 4 times. Oh well.

Turns 4+

2 of my gangers got downed and I voluntarily bottled, there was no point staying around for more pain! Both Al and Darren flambéed each other a lot, and a furious fire fight erupted. Al’s Priest and a cc loon were taken out of action. 1 of Darren’s heavies was taken out of action, and 2 were downed. Darren bottled and the Redemption emerged victorious!!

Post-game

We rolled for downed gangers, the only result being that one of my juves went out of action. Income as usual. Injuries was fairly amusing. All of my guys recovered fully, as did Darren’s heavy. Al’s cc loon recovered fully, however his leader died!! Much hilarity ensued. Al is now seriously thinking of starting again, as it’s only the first game! I got one roll on rare trade, and bought myself a red-dot sight. Darren put 3 gangers to find trade, his 6 [!!] rolls saw him offered lots of cool stuff. Al got an isotropics fuel rod. Darren found he couldn’t afford the rare trade so offered Al 70 creds for the duel rod. Darren now has 4 settlements, and he gained 2 free Juves!

Lots of people went up levels, thanks to underdog experience. Al got some cool stuff for cc, Darren got stats upgrades, 3 of my Juves “levelled up” giving 1 +1 T, the other 2 got +1 attack. CC ganger got +1 WS, shotty ganger got +1 I.

That’s about it. More news on the campaign as it progresses.

I also ordered some stuff from Micro Art Studios, so the gang will be getting bigger!