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650 points on the Vulture, that's pretty impressive. TL Punisher cannons are pretty deadly against daemons though - not a lot of vehicles protecting them. I might have to get my hands on that bad boy for some friendly games - not that my opponents would be friends with me any more!

Here is the terrain board that I am currently working on, with a close up of the infantry.

it looks awesome

That is beautiful! Very nicely done

Here's a picture of a dead Renegade Guardsman, with a handheld machine of some sort.

I'll try to get more Elysian pictures up soon. (I was studying for quarter finals for the past week.)

well done lad. i like it

Hey good work....

Always glad to see a fellow elysian player......you tend to lose big but when victory comes its all the sweeter.

Here's my models, I have expanded it further and will be doing some in depth battle reports soon...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/482268.page

Will keep my eyes on this thread, it reads well

That's a good idea; I'll try to do some battle reports on my upcoming games.

First Report: Vulture Gunship killed 650 points of Daemons; If you are an Elysian and don't have a Vulture Gunship, get one! (with twin linked punisher cannons, of course)

I'll try to have some more pictures up soon.

P.S.-What do you guys/girls think of painting the Company Commander's visor red, instead of blue, to make him stand out?

I completely agree about the TLPC vulture. It's never failed to kick some serious ass for me either. Though its chin HB always seems to fail horribly, even with strafing run making it BS4.

My allstar unit always seems to be the bog standard infantry squads with gl, auxiliary gl, & demo charge. 3 of these have been incredibly lethal for their points costs.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
That's a good idea; I'll try to do some battle reports on my upcoming games.

First Report: Vulture Gunship killed 650 points of Daemons; If you are an Elysian and don't have a Vulture Gunship, get one! (with twin linked punisher cannons, of course)

I'll try to have some more pictures up soon.

P.S.-What do you guys/girls think of painting the Company Commander's visor red, instead of blue, to make him stand out?

it would be cool, but perhaps do something with the helmet rather then the eyes?

Cormadepanda, what would you recommend I do to his helmet?

Red_Starrise,do you normally deep strike in the squad, or deploy it normally?

Man I wish I had the money to do this army

I'll admit I wasn't a fan of the splotch pattern camo at first, but now that you've weathered it, toning down the contrast, it looks much better.

Brother maximus- I barely had enough money to get two troops choices and two aircraft! I know that this type of army is really expensive, but to me its worth it rather than using Cadians, because I personally like the way that the Elysians look, and I always have been a fan of aircraft.

Nowlan- When I fist did the camo on the aircraft, I kind of liked the way that it turned out, but I was trying to think of a way to make it look better. Then sports/school got in the way, and I stopped for about a month there. Thanks for the encouragement!

All- I'm going on vacation for the next week (for thanksgiving, for any non-Americans), and I won't be able to paint or assemble anything else (Airplane regulations), but I will have access to this blog, and I hope that anyone who has ideas/comments will post them while I'm gone! Veteran Sniper Squad should be finished by the 14th (hopefully a Vendetta and a CCS too),and on the 15th or 16th I will be posting an in-depth battle report on a 5k game!

P.S.-I lost the paper clip for the camera that I was using, and haven't been able to find a replacement. Until then, I won't have any more pictures of Elysians or Grey Knight friends.

Do we need to buy you a box of paperclips?

lets get a fund for it.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Cormadepanda, what would you recommend I do to his helmet?

Red_Starrise,do you normally deep strike in the squad, or deploy it normally?

Typically the only things I deploy normally are my forward observer vets, ccs, ground scanner & if I take a venator

I then try to maximize the homing beacons in my forward observers & ccs. I also utilize the homing beacon in my valk mounted pcs. Basically I play aggressive "go big or go home" & deep strike everything else. I drop the squads separately where they can do the most good/damage.

I find that aggressive is the most effective way to run Elysians. Defensive can work too aggressively but conservative or safe always fails me because we don't have access to the ungodly amounts of cheap hordes with ~20 heavy weapons in a platoon like our ground-pounding brothers.

Our strengths lie in mobility & unpredictability.

Oh & my thoughts on the helmet: paint the plates a different color. I have a color assigned to each of my squads- the plates on the helmets are painted that color & they have a corresponding stripe on their right shoulder, save for the snipers who either have ghillies or no shoulder pads to look lighter with greater range of arm/shoulder movement.

No, I don't need money for paper clips! I just need to find one that is the right size...

Red Starrise- I found this on the Internet, so I thought that everyone reading this blog would who plays elysians could use it. I was thinking about making the platoon commander a lieutenant, and my company commander a captain. Then, on a longer term, if I ever do another company command squad, I can make him a colonel. (Which I'm sure will be easy to paint ) As for the front, I was thinking about black for the panel for all commanders.

All- I am taking part in a 3.5-4k game on dec. 14-15 (we are pulling an all-nighter!), and I will be proxying my cadians and marines for elysian drop troops. Can't wait to have an open-topped Leman Russ with av10 that has a grenade launcher on steroids (tauros), or a scout sentinel that has a heavy bolter camouflages as an autocannon (drop sentinel), or a Land Raider that can ignore intervening terrain (vendetta)... Battle report time!

Earlier today, I was looking at the IG codex update, and for the Grav Chute Insertion, it says what is red in the picture.

Does this mean that when the Valkyrie/Vendetta is in flyer mode, the infantry can use Grav Chute Insertion to deploy? That would be great!

It is my understanding that as long as you moved more than 6 inches, you use grav chute insertion. Boo-yah.

I wonder what my local club will think of this... Normally my valk gets shot down when it goes to skimmer mode to deploy the vets . Now, it may survive to do a few strafing runs!

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a regimental stanard for the Elysian CCS?

Small flag attached to backpack, similar to how samurais would wear them on their back for easy identification on the battlefield.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a regimental stanard for the Elysian CCS?

I see a Elysian standard as having something more suttle. For my tanith i used the Piper model (Milo) as a CCS standards because the Tanith had the bagpipes to inspire them onwards.

Elysians, i see having something like a Elysian regimental flag that a officer or a Vet would carry on them like the marines wading ashore on Iwo or the airborne troopers at Bastonge. Some way to ID the Unit and the regiment being in friendly hands. you could have a folded flag Green stuffed on to the bottom of their grav chutes or backpacks, hell they could even be unfolding the flag if you think you could make it look right.

make a disco rave? ido regimental standard. Typically is show them the colors, but it could be something more interesting. I say make a collapsible flag pole and such.

It just came to me, back in the 4th Ed codex I ran a drop troops army with doctrines. For the standard back then I used a brettonian men at arms banner. For the folded version I used the old stormtrooper backpack with the junk & power supply cut off leaving just the tube & large square pouch to represent the holder for the folded flag & for the collapsed pole.

Those are some pretty good ideas.

I will probably make a small flag with a pole, and drill a small hole in the thing in one of their backs, so I can stick it in. I will probably not glue the flag in, as I will want to transport the flag separately to avoid breaking it.

Does anyone think that Elysians are OP? My friend does.


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I'll try to have more pics soon.

Great looking models and terrain.

Though I assume that Valkyrie landed because the pilot had a nervous breakdown trying to land between those trees?

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:


Though I assume that Valkyrie landed because the pilot had a nervous breakdown trying to land between those trees?

Yes, but if you take the verbs and stuff out of that, it says "The Valkyrie landed because it was trying to land"

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:


Great looking models and terrain.

Thanks!

Okay, I have some pictures for you all, that were taken with my phone. One of these days I'll find a paper clip, and I will have better pictures!

Okay, here are some pictures of stuff I have been working on recently.