The Crusade begins! FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR CORAX! (page 8)

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EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
That cloak is awesome. Will he be TSons, or something else?

Raptors SMs. I feel like I've neglected them a little.

**brushcommando**

Wow. That cloak is really impressive.

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Thanks. I really enjoyed painting it and decided to share the love.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/717754.page#9197405

I'm also doing the gold on the thousand sons, so I might post again in a few hours.

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I've done the gold and eyes. I do quite like painting from 1am to 4am. I don't know why, but if I can power through the two hours of lying in bed beforehand I always feel really in the mood during the early morning.

**angelofvengeance**

Some great looking Thousand Sons

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Thanks.
I'm not sure how wide a readership this painting blog has, but for those of you who see this, I want it known that I think Warhammer TV and Duncan Rhodes are the best part of the hobby.

Mostly because of videos like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKF6GUyI8VA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgS_5r7drI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1epu4d7cs

**brushcommando**

Looking good! Those Tsons are shaping up nicely. And I agree about the duncan videos. Some of the first real improvement I'd made in years came after watching his stuff.

**Matthew**

They look great! I really like the brighter red.

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I haven't painted anything, but the raptors fought their first and very noble fight. Expect a battle report soon.

**brushcommando**

Nice. Looking forward to it.

**evildrcheese**

Nice work on the TSons.

That termie cloak for The Raptors captain looks awesome.

EDC

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So as far as painting goes, the Raptors got a few compliments on Saturday. The store manager said I'd really improved since he first met me 4 years ago. Sadly though, not every model I fielded was painted, the lias issodon model and the bikers were gloriously grey.

I don't remember everything, and my picture taking was quite spotty, but hopefully I can form a coherent narrative.

So mission 1, three separate two board battlefields, each representing a path in the webway. You could jump between the battlefields using portals at each end.
On each battlefield 750 points faced off, imperial vs harlequins/craftworld eldar and a member of the imperial and elder triumvirate for each team on each board (the triumvirates didn't count towards points). On the left board, was one leviathan dread (so 315 points vs 750) and crawl vs an assortment of clowns, their skimmers and the visarch. On the middle board, Skitarri and Celestine vs essentially the same thing (Ynnead was in reserves). On the right board, raptors and greyfax (by far the worst of the six characters) vs harlequin jetbikes, a wraithlord, some clowns in a clown skimmer, a shadowseer, and Yvrain.

On the left and right battlefields, the Imperials were going first, the elder went first in the middle. there were two imperial players (me and one other) and one elder player. It got confusing pretty quick, but we managed to finish the game. Each triumvirate member was worth 2 or 3 victory points, and each battlefield was worth 3 vps at the end.

This will mostly focus on the raptors board.
Now I didn't take photos for the first turn, but basically the bikes and assault squad with chaplain surged forwards and got wiped out in assault (The chaplain lived to hold up a skyweaver unit in the left building for thee turns and even killed one.)

Complete with growing dead pile.

Suddenly, due to elder deathmagicbullshit (stormsurge I think it's called),Ynnead turned up once the bikes died.

I decided to pretend Ynnead actually wasn't there, and used the dreads and tactical marines to shoot a clown unit to death, and knocked Yvrain down to one wound, so she ran and hid behind a building. Then it was elder turn two on the raptors board (the mechanicum were busy being murked) and Ynnedad decided to appear on the middle board to murk the mechanicum some more, rather than face the dreads.

Somewhere in all this the venerable dread killed the shadowseer with a shot from the plasma cannon. There was a growing elder dead pile too, thanks to the raptors and leviathan.

An overview shot of all three tables.

On the left board, I took over the leviathan for a bit and charged a skimmer on turn two, killing it. He then turned around on turn three and shot the Visarch with his storm cannon. All the named characterness in the universe couldn't save him from six strength 7 ap 3 shots.

Turn three, the wraithlord (who'd been duelling with the venerable dread for a while at range) decided enough was enough and charged, taking a hull point off brother Augustus, as I'm naming the venerable dread. I imagine what happened next was Augustus just reached out and grabbed the wraithlord's chest, then squeezed until it was dead. Anyway, dice were rolled and the wraithlord kicked the bucket.

Sadly the skyweavers finished off the chaplain. I like to think he was telling them to feth off with his last, angry breath. You may notice a sneaky thousand son standing in as a raptor marine sergeant. Are we sure he isn't alpharius?

The death of the wraithlord meant Ynnead got to turn up again as the skyweavers consolidated into a position where they could say hello to greyfax. Celestine abandoned the middle board (now basically empty of imperial forces) and come to the last important board (the board with the leviathan was fast running out of elder).

Sadly, through a combination of shooting, eldar magiks and assault, the board was very quickly rid of raptors and greyfax, and only the captain was left.

But not all hope was lost. The last Harlequin skimmer on the left board was trying to play ring around the roses (bastion) with the leviathan, who wasn't interested in playing.

HERE'S JOHNNY

And so the left board was made Imperial, the middle board was elder, both triumvirates were a member down, and it was too late for any models not already near a portal to start moving to the right battlefield last fight that would decide the game. Celestine with bodyguards, a dunecrawler who'd ran from the middle board and a captain vs Yvrain on one hp, Ynnead and some skyweavers.

The captain died.

Jain Zar and some banshees turn up.

Throughout the game empiric storm cards had been in effect. Effectively two per turn, and guess which card turns up for this final and most epic of fights.

The Geminae Superia mysteriously disappear, some say due to being shot with no invulnerable saves.

The dunecrawler gets wrecked.

In the end, Celestine gets ganked and dies in assault, deciding the game 2-1 in board control to the elder and 2-1 in triumvirate kills.

The raptors actually performed quite well, but the dreadnoughts did all the heavy lifting. The tac marines and greyfax did nothing, and the assault marines got out initiatived. The loss of the bikes was my fault, I should have held them back for later rather than charging into shuriken cannon fire.

We dispersed for lunch then came back for game two, which I'll upload later.

**brushcommando**

Nice batrep. I think the moment I liked most was the dread killing the wraithlord. Nice duel moment.

**Matthew**

Nice rep. I certainly do think you deserve praise! You've come quite a way from where you started the blog!

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Thanks.

But the real travesty here is that I only get a 9mm.
http://www.waltherarms.com/handguns/creed/

**Matthew**

That's gotta be enough to destroy a wraithknight?

**EmberlordofFire8**

This just makes me more excited for my FLGS's gathering storm "finale", where everyone with Eldar and Imperium (on one side) and Chaos on the other is invited to bring a 1000p list and we'll play an apocalypse battle with everyone's army combined. I'm wondering if I should take my RG (HH actually, but the minis will work as 40k) or my space marine/inquisition army (with Tau allies, don't ask) who are MUCH weaker (lots of stern Guard and vanguard cause I like the minis). Technically I could also bring my Eldar, but then I wouldn't be able to get a good list (I only have a bout 1000p painted).

Love the batrep, can't wait to see more!

Ember

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Matthew wrote:
That's gotta be enough to destroy a wraithknight?

Well I suppose you could shoot the plastic model but if a real wraithknight attacked I'd want something a bit larger.
Thanks Ember.

I finally finished the MKIII marines. I'm happy with how they turned out (even the crest, and I've come to terms with the sword), which is good, because I've probably spend upwards of eight hours on them.
It was hard to get a good photo of them, so like most photos I used Dakka's autofilter. If you go to the image in the gallery and zoom in it's good resolution.

I'll do the second batrep tomorrow, and the captain in terminator armour will be next to grace the desk. (I might finish up the jumppacks first.)

**brushcommando**

Those finished Tsons look great. Nice and clean paintjob. Looking forward to the second batrep.

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So after lunch, we regrouped, added models until we had 13,000 points, and went at it again.
We played a mission in a city (The terrain definitely favoured the assault heavy army of our opponents over our own shooty armies.) Where the imperium got 18" deployment and went second, the chaos side got 12" deployment and went first. Now the attack was supposed to be led by abaddon. But the chaos guy bailed, and a guy who was just there managed to conjure 1,000 points or so of deathwatch to stand in for the chaos side, with a watchmaster as abaddon. And the eldar were there with 1,600 points. As allies to corrupted deathwatch, fighting space marines, guardmen and skitarii on one of the most terrain heavy 40k boards I've ever seen. While both triumvurates appeared for free.
It was a lot of fun.

Each player got a warmaster (normal 1VP), and each side got an overall warmaster, ynnead and Celestine (3VPs).
Each triumvirate member was worth an extra VP. I think it was kill points, I'm not sure.
So here's the Imperial deployment.

Celestine and the bodyguards had to turn up turn three as deepstrike without scattering. We attached the angry chaplain and the assault marines to make a mini death star of turn three doom. You'll see how well that goes later.

Here's the enemy deployment, a lot of deathwatch and a corvus blackstar started in reserve with Ynnead.

So I put Greyfax in a squad of veterans. Then during turn one the elder player asked if she was in the quad. Evil me said no, thinking "ha, now she can use the guardmen as meatshileds' which was tactiucally a poor decision, because he then said, "ok, I'll just shoot her."
Luckily, a guy (More on him at the end) who was there to watch and because for certain people the GW shop is effectively a community centre, leaped to my rescue, "No, say she's in the unit!" And the edar player contested it briefly, before the bystander pointed out she was within an inch of the unit, and as an independent character she had to be in the unit. So the elder player slaughtered most of the vets, but she lived to see another turn.

Super sneaky skyweavers then blew up a basilisk. To save saying "The basilisks did nothing" each turn, they were worthless, they couldn't hit half the board due to terrain denying LoS (which they need within 36") and missing whenever they could shoot. So not a terrible loss.

A bit more shooting left Greyfax a bit on her own, and killed a biker. Something put a hull point on the venerable dread.

Cue Greyfax running behind a building and the venerable dread and bikers covering her retreat and putting wounds on the skyweavers.

The tank commander in his eradicator did nothing, but his accompanying executioner singlehandedly killed 5 deathwatch termies and 4 or 5 deathwatch marines, leaving only three left.

Turn two and the elder trickery gets ridiculous. The bikes run away and the venerable gets compromised.

The venerable dread looses another hull point to the clown skimmer, and clowns and banshees swarm greyfax, 5 tacticals and the captain, who challenges the troupe master.

It doesn't go too well for the imperials, and the enemy get 4VPs.

Brother Augustus is not pleased and using his plasma cannon and heavy flamer kills all the clowns except the troupe master. Who he then charges and kicks so hard in the balls the troupe master dies. (He killed him with a hammer of wrath hit)

Crawl gets charged, and using some special thingy, gets 2d6 hits at initiative step 10. He gets 12 hits.

Of which four wound. Also in this image you can see the ruststalkers who avenge the basilisk and kill the skyweavers. (After my mechanicum ally said repeadedly "There's nothing to protect your basilisks" We had to point out to him that most of his army could very easily help, rather than run to my side of the board.

And only two go through. (DW, he wins later)

Along the way, the three deathwatch marines kill another 5 man tac squad, the watch master and a bunch of deathwatch turn up, and the banshees are joined by the triumvirate and jainzar.

The deathwatch blow up the tank commander. Here he can be seen getting revenge with his 6" blast radius. (It killed a guy with a frag cannon.)

Brother Augustus is killed by a clown skimmer from behind. No honour with these types. Brother Tiberius(the normal dread) was charged earlier by the wraithlord. They both attacked at initiative step , and killed each other. How poetic. (No picture, sorry.)

The elder assault deathstar bullshitimus maximus kills the executioner.

For this whole period, the skitarii have been dying in droves. But don't worry, Imperial turn three is here, and so's Celestine!

She uses her one time orbital strike and kills most of the deathwatch and the watchmaster, yay!

And gets charged next turn by the remains of the deathwatch, the banshees, jainzar, a shadowseer, and the whole elder triumvirate.

The assault marines die before doing anything, as does the chaplain, who gets one hit in. Over the course of a few turns Celestine and her bodyguards get slapped around until they die (Jainzar kept stealing her weapon) and the game ends in a near tabling (We called it once Celestine diesd because it was just the basilisk, Crawl and maybe the ruststalkers left).

Here's one last picture of the corvus hovering over the last mechanicum unit to die.

All in all, a good game with some great moments. The IG performed terribly, partly because there was no synergy between the IG units themselves or with the Raptors who they were allied with. Five man tac squads are worthless. I think I probably split up my power too much. But we weren't there to WAAC, we were there for fun and winning if possible. It'sgood we called it when we did because, to everyone's amazement, there was only ten minutes left until the store's closing time, and as nice as the store manager is, he wanted to go home.

Regarding the bystander mentioned earlier, he spent most of the second half of the game saying "there's no such thing as fairies" and trying to convince the elder player that his units weren't there.
It also turns out that he recently bought 36 vindicators off the webstore, to run in squad of three as three formations of 12. Once we discussed it, we realised how terribly broken it was. And he owns an airbrush, so painting them won't take him too long either. I don't think he intends them to see the light of day except for serious tourneys.

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I know I've been silent for a while, but I'm back. Real life has slowed painting/building down considerably, but I finished building the MKIII marines, and since I don't know the rules regarding special/heavy weapons in 30K, I magnetised two of them.

**EmberlordofFire8**

Veteran squads can take 1 per every 5 marines, and tactical quads cant take any. Unless you take Pride of the Legion (one of the Rites of War) you need tactical marines as you troops. So no heavy weapons.

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EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Veteran squads can take 1 per every 5 marines, and tactical quads cant take any. Unless you take Pride of the Legion (one of the Rites of War) you need tactical marines as you troops. So no heavy weapons.

Good thing they can hold bolters. Then if I ever want something deadlier they can magically become vets.

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I tried my first ever osl with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Im42vmG6zs&list=PLiJtsRTurhod4_XvfuoKEIvvRaYrqdHnn&index=17

I quite like how it turned out.

**brushcommando**

That's pretty sweet looking! Nice job!

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I know I've gone quiet, but I'll be able to paint again soon. In the meantime, I've organised one of my dad's three 6mm WWII forces, a Wehrmacht panzer regiment. Hopefully over the summer I can get all three forces and the scenery painted, he already has an appropriately scaled set of 1x1' boards so I don't have to worry about that.

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I did my first ever chop up conversion with green stuff. I'm very proud of my gak. Also got an old metal deamon hunter with no feet from a friend. I made feet that are different sizes. Because, y'know. This stuff's difficult.

**EmberlordofFire8**

Good luck on your GS. I've found that coconut oil makes great lubricant for sculpting, and an old brush (a small one) with the bristles missing makes a great sculpting tool.

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Here's a shot of all TSons so far (I've decided in future to stick to the flat red rather than the shiny stuff) and the WIPs for the raptor hunting pack. I might even finish the assault marines' jump packs.

**Hanabi**

Looking good! I love the red and gold next to each other. <3