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Please excuse me, I am a long time lurker here, such brilliant work.

On the Nids, you know all the Metalic colours we don't use on metalic things anymore, try them.

Really sorry for posting my rubbish in your blog but have a look here..


More beetle like than anything.

I'll go back to lurking now.

Fair enough. thanks again guys. @Camkierhi Stop lurking, post more metallic beetle things! Thanks for your comments.

@Gitsplitta - I would say Tyranids are closer to exotic birds and psycho frogs, wouldn't you?

In other news, my guard now have wings!
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I have some script to write on and after much internal debate, I will be painting the loin cloth on the center guy a different color. Your welcome Solar. OH, I still need a banner topper. Not sure what to do for that one, perhaps a chain sword?

The wings look great Ice!

Just trying to help a brother out! Came out very nice. Now use them to kill something!!!

Sunday, they will be tested.

The Emperor expects to hear and see news of you're victory report.

This Sunday there will be a battle at my house. A rare occurrence that involves two splinter tyranid fleets. The pair met by coincidence but instead of converging their mental powers to overtake the system, they found themselves fighting one another over the meager biomass in the area. On the moon of Sisxip, an elite unit of marines was sent on a vital and urgent mission, but when their transport failed to arrive they found themselves stranded between the two xenos forces.


In our little game on Sunday, the point will be to see who can have more total wounds of Tyranids near the space marine firebase at the end of the game. The Tyranid forces will not be able to damage the building or the marines during the game, but the marines will be firing at the closest enemy unit every turn. In case of a tie, a roll off will occur. To keep it simple, we are using a small 5 man team. Regardless of model they will all be equipped with bolters and one plasma cannon, just to make things easy. AND, because I rarely get to use them, I am using marine swaps as the tasty biomass the nids are trying to consume. To make things even more fun, I am going to let you guys pick the unit that will be on the base.

One vote each everybody.

Fire Team Mortifex, which consists of XII, Jaska, Deklyn, Mortifex, Bonamire


Fire Team Aquilum, which consists of Jaska, Aquilum, Walters, Inushi, Reven


Fire Team Tek'Ar, which consists of Tek'Ar, THE Celestial Unicorn, Micus, Saddicus, Xerin


Fire Team Nefas, which consists of Desai, Evrard, Inigo, Nefas, Kvothe

Aquillum.

Or The Celestial Unicorn.

I'm going to go for squad Tek'Ar

Totally squad Tek'Ar, they look like hard men, ready to take on the xenos scum

Is this where everyone votes for their own mini?? OK, I'm in ... Aquilum. Tek Ar is my second choice.

Aquilum...Nefas my 2nd. ( cause I like the gun on brother Kvothe)

Aquilum. Really digging that particular group

Alternate choice- Tek'Ar, because CELESTIAL UNICORN

Wow.

4 for Aquilum
2 for Tek'Ar

No votes for the others. I find that surprising.

Guess thats just the power of moonpie's pink and yellow

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Guess thats just the power of moonpie's pink and yellow

^ this.

I am also throwing my vote in for Aquilum

Hey, long time since I came here !

1. Love the SG "with wings", but a chainsword would be a bit large on top, uh ?
2. I liked the Blue/Orange scheme of the Nids, but I would suggest not to feel trapped by the former models... Do what appeals to you ! I did change my scheme for the Night Stalkers (Dark Angels), from "total camouflage" to "black & a few camouflaged parts", and... I'm happy I made that choice !!!

Good luck on your game, I would have liked to see Mortifex see some action, but hey

Yggs! Welcome back.

Thanks to everyone for voting. The battle was great but we didn't get to finish it. We started a little late and were very distracted by family and miscellaneous things. Not a big deal though, we had a blast. We did, as a gaming pair, have some miss plays but no matter, it was fun. I will give some serious credit to Fire Team Aquilum. Nearly every turn they killed a half dozen or more tyranids. Jaska even wounded my Hive Tyrant on turn three.

Of course, for those of you who aren't even reading this. Here are the pictures.

My Army.


Buddies Army


Here are Reven and Aquilum back to back, facing the hordes of Nids surrounding their firebase.



Deployment

Over to the left are my opponents Zoanthropes, Warriors, and Venomthrope. Due to some terrain and a poor decision on his part, his zoanthroapes were left out of the battle until turn three.

Turn 1: My opponent managed to fit a large unit of genestealers along with a broodlord near by on my right flank. I was planning on taking care of them with some shooting and a hopeful round of overwatch but it didn't work out. First, I managed to save every cover save from my venomthrope from my opponent but I then botched my overwatch, terribly. I hit with five devourers and then only wounded one of them. He of course failed his save. Had a killed two more he would have failed his charge and it would have been a whole different game. At any rate, he charged in and took out about 20 gants in the first round of attacks.

Turn 2


I keep my carnifexes in cover waiting for them to get closer. I charged into the genestealers with my haruspex and a large unit of rippers hoping to tie them up. My psychic phase was dismal, as it was all three turns. Shooting goes fairly well. My Trygon Prime comes in and nearly takes out an entire unit of warriors in the shooting phase. I assault into his genestealers but forget to challenge the broodlord. He proceeds to eat the haruspex before i even get to attack. The rippers and gants to take out some stealers but not enough. On his turn he continues moving up, taking pot shots and spawing more gants from his tervigon that is chilling in the back field. He did peril of the warp and wound his Tyrant. He charges his remaining warrior into my prime, the warrior doesn't survive.

Turn 3

On my left flank my carnifexes move out of their cover and tear through his warriors. My Tyrant takes out a unit of gargoyles. My Prime assaults his Tyrant, I wound him several times. He brought a bonesword and lash whip but fails any wound rolls of 6. Whew. In the genestealer combat my rippers survive yet another round while taking out a couple more. Thankfully. On his turn he has dismal shooting. I pass all of my invulnerable saves on my zoanthropes. He fails to wound my carnifexes and overall little happens, up until the assault phase. I survive yet another round of combat with his tyrant before my Prime takes him out. He finishes off my rippers in a glorious display of overkill.


We end the game with him currently winning the objective but I was in a position to lay down some serious hurt. He did still have a tervigon waiting to come in, that could have also made a big difference. Still any ones game. The marines were fully surrounded with no where to run, that is for sure.

It looked fun !

Did I get something wrong, or did the Stealers get to assault on Turn 1 ? Can they do that ?

HA! Yes they did charge and no they can't, but I sort of forgot that part of the infiltrating rule.

Nice battle report Ice, thanks for posting. Looks like a lot of fun!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
It looked fun !

Did I get something wrong, or did the Stealers get to assault on Turn 1 ? Can they do that ?

What .. that's probably in the new codex somewhere . as well as gaunts shoot D weapons now

 Solar_lion wrote:

 Yggdrasil wrote:
It looked fun !

Did I get something wrong, or did the Stealers get to assault on Turn 1 ? Can they do that ?

What .. that's probably in the new codex somewhere . as well as gaunts shoot D weapons now

Oh yeah sure, how have I missed that part ?!?

Thanks guys. The game was a blast. I can't wait to play again. As often as I talk about and work on this stuff it is a shame how little I actually get to play. I am sure that is the case for most of you guys too.

After sifting through my bits box I found a suitable banner topper. A lovely little winged icon. I would appreciate some feedback on this one.

Should the banner topper be in the same gray shade as the rest of the banner, or should it be blue like their armor, or should it be red like the blades and blood?

DISCUSS!

Blue

Blue

Pink.

Red like how you did the powersword handles.

My second vote is for pink or are they not manly enough

Okay, I went with blue. Originally I thought red but I think the blue ties the banner to the squad a little more then it would have had it been red. I think I can finally stamp these guys completed. I still have some Ice Angels to pick at but I think my next target will be some of these genestealers.