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2020/07/11 02:03:23
Subject: Psykorps. Psykers and Scions and Cadians, oh my.
So the Army I have is mostly scions in bat A, but bat B has always been a psyker hangout with mostly psyker and a few troop scion choices. Bat C was always a cadian support artillery group that "held the base" while A and B went on offense.
With nine ED coming, I am going to roll cadian artillery and psykers together to trim down to 2 battalions, and paint all of the psykorps the same color scheme so that it is obvious when someone looks which scions are NOT benefiting from batallion A doctrines.
Step one is to make (rather than using unpainted sisters or admechs) actual plastic (I try very, very hard to work ONLY in plastic) conversions for the wyrdvanes.
This will be done by taking AoS eternal gaurd, and basically losing the shields they carry (which gives me a ready source of gaurd sized shields), swapping them with cadian heads or catachan heads or scion heads (a nice mix cause they are wyrdvanes and they get to be wyrd) and then painting them up in the harsh black and highlights colors of the artillery and psykorps mixed battalion.
I have put three together so far, and they look .. ok. Soon as I get my little camera set up, I will post pictures, but basically, you have a lightly armored body with a funny looking staff (I trimmed the spears down) and a cadian head, in sort of a cape or trenchcoat. Looks wyrdvane to me!
The larger project includes a bunch of stuff. At its very smallest, psykorps battalion will be
Spoiler:
kommand units
done. 3 psyker primaris (already done and painted to match the 3 major battalions I own, resulting in a thematically consistantly varied color scheme for the psykers primariis of psykorps)
up to 2 extra command can be in play here (both done) -- one would be lord commisar yarrik (black and highlights) and one would be lady aradia madellan. If I ever manage to make psykorps into a brigade).
elite units
3 astropaths. Two I have are "good" and also follow the convention of varied colors. Both were made by converting lord commsiar models from the scion kits with a few parts to have staves, magic rods, and laspistols. As high ranking psykers, they too get the raw privilage of dressing for whimsy in psykorps. One is work in progress (wip).
wip 1 x 6 wyrdvanes. All black with highlights, conversion project A from the eternal gaurd AoS.
supernumerrary units
1 x inquisitor. He is basically a scion body with no jump pack, armed with a melta gun and a chainsword. Order Malleus, if that matters, so that he can carry 2 psyker powers and denials per turn.
transports
wip 1 x valkyrie with all the trimmings. This bird is not yet assembled but will also be painted in black with highlights, matching the armor and the troops and wyrds. Full loadout includes a lascannon, 2 heavy bolters, and 2 multirocket pods, and it can carry MOST of the psykers as a strike force, meaning hover forward and drop them as a mortal wounds and smite version of a counterncahrge.
troops
wip 3 x 5 man troop choices .. all scions, all black with highlights. I will probably use one as "blank troop", one as melta/melta, and one as dual hotshotvolleyguns, to avoid the issue of dying on rerolls.
... someday, if I get to brigade, 3 x 10 regular gaurd as well. not yet.
heavy
done two griffin mortar carrier (black and highlighted in psykorps line troop colors)
done 1 manticore (same color scheme)
fast attack
done 1 armored sentinal with missle launcher in psykorps line troop colors.
not yet 2 more armored sentinals with 2 more missle launchers in psykorps line troop colors.
931 points so far, and another 280 to roudn out the brigade (will be 3 x 10 gaurd cadians with a missle launcher each, and 2 more fast attack scout sentinals with missle launchers), and a platoon commander and a master of ordinance to allow for the whole effect. Its light on commanders, sure, but will be able to borrow some orders from the nearby scion battalion.) So 1211 points total, is the current plan. The other side scions come in at 840 points as currently configured, so I predictably will have to trim something back to make this all work, as I am 51 points over, I could get there by trimming down to 3 wyrdvanes from 6, and swaping my manticore for a third griffin mortar carrier. (As improbable as that sounds in modern astra lists, I just like them).
When done, this should give a little strike pack with all the colors of a flying circus, surrounded by the gravely dressed and almost priestlike coloration of the main Psykorps battalion troops and vehicles.
The whole shooting match is made to be used in conjunction with a big scion battalion, making a very light and drop detachment capable force.
Anyway. Just got a working cell phone again, so I will try posting a few pics of the done bits tomorrow.
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