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Looks like they painted an eye.
A good and dirty tank!

looks almost scratchbuilt... the weathering and mud and so on is covering the treads so much that you can´t tell if it was made from a kit^^


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hey just read this post in the thread of maxmini...:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/660/284081.page#2676333

this might be something for you after all shaso^^

Nice Scrap tanks!

well i thought you might want some of these to go as sentinels for your khardovians...

Nah! Me Orkses would steal those from 'em!

0h yeah. finally found a Sentinel with the new missile launcher!

do you refer to the slim multilauncher or the one rocketlauncher on the left?

in a battle both weaponloadouts seem to be something of a restriction... at least one energy based weapon would be more realistic to stay in combat for a longer time...

Ah, but rarely does the sentinel last that long!

But the slim multi-launcher was what I as suggesting to emulate on your own sentinels. if you could get your own launcher closer to the body of the machine like that.

now that i understand. yes this would be more fitting looking...seems tho to make an awful lot of effort to field a sentinel if it doesn´t last long enogh to use it´s payload...
do the sentinelpilots know of their short living situation when going into battle fluffwise?

Yes, they do, and they are very bad with insubordinate behavior due to it. But they are allowed some leeway as they are basically going about in tin cans!

I like the missile load as it is flexible, Frag for soldiers and Krak for heavy infantry and medium armor vehicles.

well it is deseved a bit... if you are a daredevil you can act the part^^

missile load as it is flexible, Frag for soldiers and Krak for heavy infantry and medium armor vehicles

is this to be listed before game or do you have the option to express what type of amo you use in midgame?

And those pilots live their own way as such daredevils, like pilots of the ancient Great War and their bi-planes.

Missile launchers are set to be flexible, but when you fire a missile, you simply let your opponent know that you are firing frag if the target is soldiers, or Krak if they are Marines or vehicles as frag is basically worthless against vehicles.

if they are not to be listed before hand then the misslesystem is the best there is as i understand it...cool...this will be remebered...

MissileLauncher=flexibility

if they are not to be listed before hand then the misslesystem is the best there is as i understand it...cool...this will be remebered...

All generic missile launcher systems in the game work the same way, from IG and SM, to Eldar, only specific missile systems like the Hunter Killer missile have listed stats that don't change. It also depends on what you plan to shoot that determines whether a missile system is worth it. IE against a Land Raider w/armor 14, a Krak missile needs a 6 to glance, but against an Ork Trukk w/ armor 10, a Krak missile only needs a 2 to glance, 3+ to penetrate. So if I'm up against the SM army with the Land Raider and I have something else like a Brightlance (which I usually do) to shoot the raider with, I'll use it first and save the missile system for shooting something else like the Devastator marines with the Plasma missile or try to thin out the termies with the Krak missile.

Plasma missile

... man what many a stuff don´t i know off...

So many weapons to learn about and deal with on the 40k battlefield!

yep... i thought i was a bit on top of it concerning the footslagger weapons but it goes literally ballistic when open the tank issue door^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yep... i thought i was a bit on top of it concerning the footslagger weapons but it goes literally ballistic when open the tank issue door^^

Yes, best have a nice mix of weapons, Lascannons for tanks Multi-meltas too. Missiles and plasma for light vehicles and marines. Multi-laser for hordes as well as auto cannons. Armored sentinel units are for flank hunting, depending upon the enemy, choose the weapon loadout carefully!

Viktor von Domm wrote:now that i understand. yes this would be more fitting looking...seems tho to make an awful lot of effort to field a sentinel if it doesn´t last long enogh to use it´s payload...
do the sentinelpilots know of their short living situation when going into battle fluffwise?

In Vietnam US helicopter door gunners had a life expectancy measured in minutes...somewhere around 4 minutes I think it was. Some sources site it as being as short as 20 seconds in a hot LZ.

so much for movies as a precise means of documentation...

Well Vik, you had asked about seeing all the Khadrovian tank fleet arrayed as one. In this picture is the T-440(Akuyaku), T-290, Char-1B Malcador,and the T-350, Then the Sea Dragon, 4 x Leman Russ, LemanAnnihilatorGrizzsly, Exterminator and the double treaded Demolisher.
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Making 12 tanks on first half of wave one.

The second set of wave 1
Punisher, Pz2Hellhound, 2 x Vanquishers, hellhound, Leman Russ, Eradicator, Hydra, Banewolf. Behind are the sentinels, Vasily tank, and Baneblade. That finishes wave 1
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Wave 1 from the front.
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Thus it is time for Wave 2! ^^
Chimeras x 4 in front row, part of the 5th one, Manticore Missile Launcher, Valdor, Basilisk x 2, Thudd gun battery with tractors.
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Chimera 5 and 6, Lancer, S-tank Valdor, Claymore. and the rest was listed above
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The other Lancer, both Dragoons, MBT-90D
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Left side
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Right side
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Still waiting on second Claymore and both Sabre Tanks. but that is the entire IG vehicle pool I have.


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54 pieces.

i was able due to your listing of names to identify all but two, and those two are, the one with the long flat main gun that looks like a Tau rail gun and the one next to it on the left hand side when looking at them from the front. if i had to guess i would name it as a tank hunter.

at any rate that's a buttload of tanks, and here i thought i had a bunch at 13 grav tanks. I bet you have a lot of fun at Apoc games.

SebastionSynn wrote:i was able due to your listing of names to identify all but two, and those two are, the one with the long flat main gun that looks like a Tau rail gun and the one next to it on the left hand side when looking at them from the front. if i had to guess i would name it as a tank hunter.

at any rate that's a buttload of tanks, and here i thought i had a bunch at 13 grav tanks. I bet you have a lot of fun at Apoc games.

The Valdor tankhunter from the Vraks Campaign books. The other one using the railgun is also used as a Valdor stand in. Neutron lasers . they can have feedback problems so most are not too upset about the weapons being used. The Valdor is a FW model. The other you mentioned was a swedish S Tank kit.


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Oh yeah, I have yet to get a good sized Apoc game where all of those get to play at once!


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My Tau hgave 2 x Tetras, 5 x Piranhas, 8 x Devilfish, 2 x Skyrays, one VDR tank hgunter, and about 6-8 Hammerheads

Marines, 4 Landraiders, 1 vindiocator, 2 whirlwinds, 5 x speeders, 1 predator, 5 rhino/razorbacks, 5 drop-pods 6 x Dreadnoughts

Orks 1 Stompa. 2 Battle wagons. 3 Trukks a buggy, skorcha and wartrakk 2 killa kans and a Deffdread.

CSM equiv 1 defiler

lol, that sounds like me, haven't had a good game of Apoc either, have played in Apoc games but when the game ends at turn 2 because thier are so many players, and only so much time in ONE day, kinda sucks.

like i stated before i have 13 grav tanks = 3 Falcons, 3 Nightspinners, 2 Fireprisms, and 5 Wave Serpents, add to that numerous infantry (about 200 or so) 3 vypers, 3 wraithlords, 12 jetbikes, 13 jetlocks(warlocks on jetbike), a jetseer, an autarch biker, all of the phoenix lords, the avatar, 2 support battery platforms, A FW Nightwing Interceptor, A FW Scorpion super heavy, and a FW Revenant Titan. All of that and you still have me beat with your imperial guard.

Nids were supposed to be my second army and traitor sisters my third, but somehow my GorkaMorka boyz took over and became the second big army, with a kustom battlewagon bus, a buggy, 4 kustom trukks, 10 warbikers, 3 deffkoptas, about 40-50 orks (boyz, nobs, and warboss), a fightta, and a WIP fightta bomma. future plans are to do a looted drop pod under the looted wagon rules, and a battlefortess that can be pulled apart to be two battlewagons if needed.

nids are still my third army, as i don't even have a full squad of sisters yet, nor have i even begun their transformation into an all he-man haters Chaos Undivided army. plans are to have seraphims with actual bat wings instead of jumppacks, penitent engines that are a bit more Hellraiser in gory mode, and several modeled up as hellraiser (cybarrites?), and so on, and so on. What with the rumour mill stating sisters having a new codex next march, meaning new models as well, possibly plastic, it means the traitor sisters will be easier to convert and cost WAY less.

Still, as you can see, with my IG alone, so much painting to get done!


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IG the other Horde army

Still, as you can see, with my IG alone, so much painting to get done

that! as i saw that you somehow jumped up to the next projetc before ending the former^^ seems this is a hobby related problem around here^^

that is a massive force...and it screams imperial force with every orifice^^...
as for finding suitable games your tau seem acording to your sig to be a pretty good match for your IGs, so you could have a fitting game all by yourself...bet you haven´t got enough place to put up all of your stuff on one flat space in the whole house^^

thanks mate for showing us all your precious gems^^ having seen all your IG armor now i beg to see some of this stuff up close^^ specialy the warzone sentinel standins...they look really nice.

one thing i came to detect tho was the treads of the T-440...they are a bit compared to the others to colorful...may i suggest using a very light drybrush of boltgun metal ofer them to tone them done a bit? the overall color effect your army creates is somehow canceled by those treads...

4 Landraiders

do you know the term "meschugge"?

and at sebastansynn...
your orctruckbus is lovley, saw that in your gallery^^ very nice indeed!

Yes, I can jump all over the place and then back even in conversation, some folks find my ability to change subjects at such speed exhausting!

I live in a humble apartment, my armies can see massive battles at the game store, but the bigger the forces arrayed the more time need per turn.

Oh I will have to have more threads as each project get's done on each batch of tanks.

Sentinels will have their own thread as well.

Yeah, that T-440 I forgot to muddy those track shoes! But some Bolt gun metal could help a bit and then dirty them up!

LOL! Raised in a Jewish household after adoption, I know the term!
No normal Landraiders for me though! MKI refitted, MKII, MKII"Crusader" and a Redeemer.

i really love the sound of jiddish^^ some of my relatives were of jewish heritage...so some terms made it in my vocabulary^^

the old MKI Landraider is a bit too small and boxy for me but i see why it is such a classical item to most.
if i had sucha collection you could imagine me on my knees in my flat doing little sounds like "BLAMOOO" and "DAKKADAKKA" and rubbing my knees sore while happily playing with my toytanks^^

would probably need to remove the whole furniture of my childrens room and the livingroom together but after that i would have a decent battleground as the two rooms are conected by a winged double door^^ so this would be a nice occasion to not have a easy fireingline at the start^^

Nice.

Mine is a little less so after I added the assault ramp to it.(The MKI)

Yeah, sometimes it slips out during a game.

Nice sized battle-field indeed.