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2023/10/23 10:01:19
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Had a bit of fun with a two-table megabattle of 30k, with traitors summoning the daemon lord Gra-Bul'Ah (Hung-Ov'Ah for you puntastic anglophones out there) who eventually got banished back into the Empyrean through sheer embarrassment. Fittingly, the player in control of the mighty daemon marshall after it arrived had been similarly hammered a few hours beforehand. Initially my plan was to throw my Death Guard dreadnought-only vanguard into the Blood Angels to die off in the opening moves of the game so I could then concentrate on taking pictures, but as it turned out, my commanding ancient brother was the only remaining traitor model on the ritual table at the end of it all
On the second table, Mechanicum forces struggled over the control of a possessed Warhound titan while astartes forces savaged the Chaos obelisks around the place.
On the ritual table, my dreads took the fight to the Blood Angels while skies rained fire. Ultimately, two chaplains of the Angels united to crack some heads and caused Gra-Bul'Ah to pop back into non-existence not by dying, but rather through combat resolution loss as too many World Eaters died in the same combat for the might daemon to keep up with
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2023/10/23 16:32:57
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Snivelling Workbot
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On the second picture on the Mechanicum table, do some of those Kataphrons not have the torso? If so, I'd love to know how that was accomplished because those look gorgeous. Also, your Death Guard look amazing as always, especially the dreads and the weathering on them. It makes me want to buy another dread, even though I haven't finished building and painting my first
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2023/10/23 17:45:19
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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FoxHybrid wrote:On the second picture on the Mechanicum table, do some of those Kataphrons not have the torso? If so, I'd love to know how that was accomplished because those look gorgeous. Also, your Death Guard look amazing as always, especially the dreads and the weathering on them. It makes me want to buy another dread, even though I haven't finished building and painting my first
Ha, cheers. There's always space for more dreads in the grim darkness of the far future
Yeah, it looks like those servitors are indeed mainly gunmounts without the torso. A tank hatch and a shoulder-mounted weapon, probably of Castellax or Myrmidon provenance, I'd wager?
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2023/10/23 20:41:10
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Fixture of Dakka
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Beautiful terrain and painted armies there Sherrypie.
Exalted.
Cheers,
CB
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2023/10/26 12:04:58
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Fighter Ace
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Gorgeous gorgeous pictures, sir.
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2023/11/02 15:37:33
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Amazing Battle pics sherrypie! Beautiful minis on beautiful boards
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2023/11/03 12:48:49
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (30k megabattle pics 23.10.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Cheers Captain, Ragsta and gobert. Good company putting the effort in always elevates any mini-war and its reporting
Been a bit busy with research, hopefully I'll still find some time to paint this year. A bunch of tiny AdMech are staring at me accusingly from the painting queue...
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2023/11/05 19:26:03
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Epic Mechanicum 5.11.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Tiny AdMech reinforcements inbound!
Anti-air! Expensive, short-ranged and useless!
More Thanatars! Big robos for days!
Ordinatus Minorii! Rescue conversions from DZC stuff thrown in the club's bin!
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2023/11/05 19:26:38
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2023/11/05 21:51:08
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Epic Mechanicum 5.11.)
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Those game shots are nothing short of amazing. Such wonderful toys.
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2023/11/11 09:48:22
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Epic Mechanicum 5.11.)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Nice Ad Mech, love the big robots
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2023/11/13 16:54:49
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (AT battle pics 13.11.)
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2023/11/13 16:55:02
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2023/12/17 14:53:58
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (end of year tallying 17.12.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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2023 hobby tally: less than 50 bases
With all the rest of the year being pretty hectic with other things, I didn't get particularly many new things further but had plenty of fun gaming and photography with the older things already at hand. Also organised the biggest Kriegspielmageddon bohnanza yet, which is only snowballing bigger with our RPG offshoot.
Finished projects:
- 12 stands of XIV legion heavy support (Epic)
- 7 Possessed XIV librarius aspirants (30k)
- 5 Castellax (Epic)
- 5 Techpriests (Epic)
- 6 Revenant Legionaires ( KT)
- 4 Tarantula AA batteries (Epic)
- 4 Thanatars (Epic)
- 3 Ordinatus Minorii (Epic)
Dabbled with but unfinished:
- 5 Destroyers (30k)
- 7 Talons of the Emperor ( KT)
Non-modelling stuff:
- Learning to use and upgrading photography equipment further
Next year: learning to focus stack properly with my fancy new camera and painting a new Auxilia army for Legions Imperialis that can also double as a Guard army for Epic: Armageddon.
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2023/12/31 17:03:16
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (end of year tallying 17.12.)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Love the AT pics, titans running amuck in the suburbs is always cool! The end of year collage is super cool
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/02/05 19:13:50
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (War for the Angel's Grave 5.2)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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gobert wrote:Love the AT pics, titans running amuck in the suburbs is always cool! The end of year collage is super cool
Thank you gobert, you're in for a treat then
Happy new year, everybody. I've been super busy with no time for proper hobbying (except for buying new stuff, I think my pile of unassembled Legions Solar Aux is mysteriously growing every week...), but I did once again organise more Titanicus goodness at the club. This year started with a bang, as our annual-ish AT mega-battle expanded into a two-day narrative event. I wrote custom missions so that we could first play three rounds of 1v1 games on Saturday where the winning side could dictate environmental conditions for the following round as well as earn some neat bonii for Sunday's all-in brawl.
-- War for the Angel's Grave 3.-4.2.2024 --
An ancient repository of knowledge, a forbidden and sealed esoteric weapon best forgotten or a relic of the broken dream now irrepairably lost? No-one knew precisely what the arcology known as the Angel's Grave held within its confines, but when Warmaster Horus decreed it to be taken, neither did his lackeys question the wisdom of such orders. Under the capricious auspices of the dark gods, god-machines marched into their dropships and hurtled through the blazing voids of the war-stricken galaxy with murder in their hearts...
The traitors slam down on the unsuspecting planet in the dark of night and spread out. From the barely habited outskirts, legios Krytos, Omina and Mortis plunge deep into the planet's infrastructure as the surprised loyalists scramble to face the threat. Legios Solaria, Astorum and Magna jump to hold the line and manage to stem the initial tide despite Krytos wreaking havoc on their communication towers. As the loyalist line refuses to crumble, their reserves in space enter the system and carve a bloody swathe through the traitors' fleet. As burning ships, scrap and satellites fall down on the planet in a rain of fire, the loyalist legios sally forth in a counter-attack to drive the traitors back. This seems to work, securing the defenders a decisive advantage in planetside artillery assets, until for the sudden and totally unforeseen betrayal by the Screaming Skulls! Who'd have thought those guys weren't on our side, absolutely shameful. With this stab in the back, both sides are forced to accept that this conflict will go on for a while and stock up on supplies from the available storages and techno-magi. With reserves from legio Favilla stepping onto the field to plug the hole left by Magna's treachery, the loyalists once more secure the continuing support of the Mechanicum and converge on the final showdown.
Four traitor commanders square against three loyalists with some 30 titans and 20 knights stalking the field. Ultramarines and Death Guard models are there to represent area control over various important objectives on the table as well as the critical supply depots no side can wage war without.
Astorum's supreme loyalist command leaves the supply depot lightly guarded, focusing their knightly allies on the right flank.
Traitors, acutely aware of their tenuous grasp on the planet, guard theirs keenly with the newly arrived Tiger Eyes' deployment.
As the fight begins, deafening roar of war-horns fills the centre as Favilla pushes forwards. Fallen knights are vaporised before their volcano cannons, swatted aside like gnats as more worthy foes approach from Krytos' lines.
On all flanks, forces advance into the fire.
In the middle, Excidium Ultimum and Deus Victrix hear the siren song of the Thunderdome. Two god-machines enter, who will leave?
Fighting intensifies on the flanks, as Mortis reaches one of the habitats in force and knights swarm towards Omina's positions.
Sensing an opportunity, one of Omina's Warhounds sneaks to threaten the loyalist supplies as Krytos' devastating volleys savage the Astorum Warmaster guarding them.
Despite losing its fist to Deus Victrix' fire, Excidium Ultimum saws the upstart God-Breaker in half and casts its broken form down in ruin, almost decapitating Ibn Faruq below with its mass. Glory is fleeting, however, as unabated firepower from most of the Tiger Eyes' battleline causes the injured Warmaster to crash down from its throne all the same.
On the left flank, Solaria's brazen charge cuts deep into the lighter Mortis engines as a column of Ultramarines follows in their wake to wipe out the Death Guard attempting to seize the habitat. Yet with their supplies under threat, it is all nearly futile.
Fighting to salvage the situation, Delictor Profectuum ploughs through Krytos' fire and the wrecked corpses of their comrades towards the supply depot with all systems burning. Perhaps they could have made it, if not for the relentless shelling of Quake munitions raining on them, causing the ground under their buckling legs to undulate like tortured jelly with each booming shot. Valiantly, if desperately, later reserve Cerastoi rush to try and relieve the Ultramarines at any price.
The traitors are similarly pressed, now, with Mortis crumbling before Solaria's advance. Favilla's heavy guns blow out one of Fureans' Warlords nearby and seal the deal as the remaining traitorous knights are slaughtered to the last.
Triumphantly, Krytos' sole remaining Warlord Braccus Rex sidesteps the futile knight charge and guns down the immobilised Delictor Profectuum, trumpeting its ownership of the loyalists' supply depot.
With fires burning all over the broken and mangled countryside, it is eventually clear to the loyalist side that their tactical situation is untenable. While the traitors are trapped and caught stranded in the bigger picture, unable to hold the planet and will soon all be hunted down, on this day they have by the barest of margins bought enough time for their techno-magi to complete their dark purpose at the Angel's Grave itself. For the Warmaster, they cry in the all-consuming ritual flames!
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A very slight Traitor victory after six rounds, 225 to 168 points (with one good turn able to swing 50+ points)! Loyalists killed more and took ground more aggressively, but with their supply lines left basically undefended by the supreme command's strategic blunder, they were unable to capitalise on this advantage, scoring no control points for the whole game after the first round. Not that the traitors had much more luck on that front, with loyalists having more men and machines on most strategic zones after the first third of the game, but that early lead let them coast pretty far. That element certainly brought a good dynamic to the match, with everyone involved until the end and multiple possible game-changing maneuvers hanging at singular dice rolls. If Delictor Profectuum hadn't been slowed down by Quake shell and immobilised ½" too far from the supplies, for example, it could have gone very much the other way. Still loving all of that.
Thanks for reading and happy wargaming!
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2024/02/09 15:28:40
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (War for the Angel's Grave 5.2)
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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I love using the Epic scale miniatures to show objective control, it makes the board so narratively interesting!
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2024/02/09 16:03:38
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (War for the Angel's Grave 5.2)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Cheers Gwyn, that it does
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2024/03/15 16:49:09
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (UnificationWar noble 15.3.)
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2024/03/16 14:00:49
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Unification Wars noble 15.3.)
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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God that's gorgeous work!
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2024/03/16 22:18:15
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Unification Wars noble 15.3.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Ha, cheers Gwyn
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2024/03/17 19:42:34
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Legions Imperialis 17.3.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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2024/03/24 13:43:47
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Unification Wars noble 15.3.)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Amazing stuff Sherrypie! The BatRep stuff is super cool, and it looks like everyone had loads of fun too. The noble lady turned out fantastically well too, no way are those the first candles you’d built and painted!
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/03/24 14:00:55
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (Unification Wars noble 15.3.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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gobert wrote:Amazing stuff Sherrypie! The BatRep stuff is super cool, and it looks like everyone had loads of fun too. The noble lady turned out fantastically well too, no way are those the first candles you’d built and painted!
Cheers gobert, yes they were
I've tried painting fire a handful of times before, with mixed success, but not candles in particular. Getting anywhere close to the translucency one would see in a real candle is bloody hard, so I've got to make more candles in the future to try and sort that out through exercise. I also nabbed some antique Roman bodies from a flea market last week, which could work as suitably distinctive cores for building her a retinue in the near future.
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2024/04/21 22:18:28
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny tonks 22.4.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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The first 60 or so tanks of Selen II's 4th Home Army are getting their gear in order to head towards the painting dock... radio aerials get attached after basecoats.
Yes, I will be converting pretty much every one of the upcoming hundreds of vehicles to be at least somewhat unique. Business as usual
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2024/04/22 12:17:27
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny tonks 22.4.)
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Foolproof Falcon Pilot
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I second gobert, great battle report!
Really liked the pictures. The atmosphere was just right!
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2024/04/22 18:23:44
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny tonks 22.4.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Ezki wrote:I second gobert, great battle report!
Really liked the pictures. The atmosphere was just right!
Cheers, reports are half the fun of big fender-benders like that
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2024/05/05 06:07:13
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny cogboys 5.5.)
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2024/05/05 18:48:10
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny cogboys 5.5.)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Some NetEA at the club, my AdMech mauled the greenskins twice over with some dubstep goodness while the Eldar and Tyranids had a go at the demo table.
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2024/05/05 23:06:44
Subject: Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (tiny cogboys 5.5.)
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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Excellent stuff hereespcially that massive game.
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
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2024/05/26 15:18:56
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (DG vs. IW 26.5.)
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4k of EpicAU's Heresy legion lists, Epic: Armageddon. The Death Guard gives the Iron Fourth a solid whooping, though Perturabo's disciples give a grand exit by driving down the XIV command elements with their final titan-assisted charge.
More pics:
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2024/06/16 21:58:38
Subject: Re:Sherrypie's forays to Tall Scaling - Death Guard, Titans and terrain (DG vs. WB 16.6.)
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1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.
Click for pics in spoiler!
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