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Really beautiful board set ups and those planets look great.

It's all looking so spectacular. Reminds me to get working on my own table set up for LI

Thanks Tommygun and blockade!

Nice minis deserve nice tables. Gaming company rarely complains about it, either

Cool round up sherrypie, some great looking minis in there. Love the BFG bases on the latest batch, really cool

Love the planets and moons! Makes me really want to do some BFG.

Gorgeous stuff, Pie! BFG rules!!

Cheers Gob, Gwyn and Rags (which totally doesn't sound like a bandit gang from Judge Dredd)!

Apparently I forgot to put up some pics from a fun little four-player participation game I ran at our RPG club for a handful of newbies. Chaos fleet attempts a planetary invasion, but manages to crush the Imperial defence before any boots hit the ground as the defending admiral decides to save their crippled and burning ships and leaves the fearful world to its fate.

Some funkier EA this time, 2v2 custom scenario on a 12'x4' table with umpired NPC forces running in the middle. Fortified forge-fane in the middle, four outer storages outside the walls, two armies closing in in waves to rob and ransack what they can. In the end, no clear victor can be declared, though amidst the burning wreckage and torn down walls, it is clearly not the local administration... poor arch-magos Fönstern-x64 will be left with a long bill to pay after the invaders have taken their fill from their warehouses and disappeared.

Each player had 3000 points split into four waves of reserves, some of which had a long way to walk in order to get into the thick of it. All players had for whatever reason taken plenty of AA guns but nobody had any planes, or much of any other fast units either... oh dear. Plenty of headbutting into solid walls, robot sentries and other defenses in the initial half while the second stretch turned bloody as the overwhelmed locals finally saw their walls breached by force and got squished between the two advancing fronts as they started to properly meet in the middle right before the end of the day.



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Cool urban layout for that battle. Too bad nobody brought stuff fast enough to get to grips right away. Ah well, players, amiright?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Cool urban layout for that battle. Too bad nobody brought stuff fast enough to get to grips right away. Ah well, players, amiright?

On the other hand, everybody decided to start doing warcrimes and antagonised the locals immediately as soon as they got over their first-round fears of sudden diplomatic contact. While it took the two sides a while to get clashing and for their forces to trickle onto the table, there were firefights and explosions on all sides from very early on

Fresh from the void-docks today, painted over two days: cruisers Abyss of Pain, Echoes of Tragedy & Unholy Warcry, light cruisers Crystal Moonlight & Flash of the Blade as well as the escort squadron In Tenebris sail out.

They look great I like the names, too.

 Syro_ wrote:
They look great I like the names, too.

Cheers Syro, only the cheesiest Italo-fantasy on these docks

Incredibly inspiring blog! As someone about to embark on my own conversion-heavy Death Guard army, this has been incredible to see. Lovely conversions and astounding paintwork. Thanks for all your hard effort!

 Tek wrote:
Incredibly inspiring blog! As someone about to embark on my own conversion-heavy Death Guard army, this has been incredible to see. Lovely conversions and astounding paintwork. Thanks for all your hard effort!

Thanks, Tek! Hope you'll stick around, there'll always be more to show. What direction will yours go in?

While I am currently on a bit of a BFG spree, this does remind me that I should probably finish a couple of DG models (like the Destroyers...) one of these days as well to justify the title of the thread

 Sherrypie wrote:

 Tek wrote:
Incredibly inspiring blog! As someone about to embark on my own conversion-heavy Death Guard army, this has been incredible to see. Lovely conversions and astounding paintwork. Thanks for all your hard effort!

Thanks, Tek! Hope you'll stick around, there'll always be more to show. What direction will yours go in?

While I am currently on a bit of a BFG spree, this does remind me that I should probably finish a couple of DG models (like the Destroyers...) one of these days as well to justify the title of the thread

I have no direction except gross, tentacly little stinkers. Pure fun, pure creativity. Just aiming to enjoy the process and see what comes out of it!

1200 points Fleet Engagement, the Imperial wedge smashed into a Chaos pirates' encircling trap but eventually battered their way through with the Dauntless squadrons relentlessly staying in the maneuver game until the very end.

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Finished a couple more tiny tanks for Selen II home army.

So much detail on such tiny minis

Thanks gobert!

Had to test them out, sooo... E:A, 3k GT. The armoured battalion took to the field under their new commander, who immediately sank to the bottom of a toxic swamp under enemy fire. Despite the Dark Mechanicus commander getting unceremoniously crushed under Baneblade treads with their whole terminator retinue, the Guard tanks faltered in their deployment area without proper leadership to drive them onwards and the day was ultimately carried by the machine-beasts of Chaos.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Finished a couple more tiny tanks for Selen II home army.

Painted so well I thought they were 28mm scale...

Wonderful layouts Sherrypie.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Tek and CB!

Putting some stowage on the next superheavies.

That’s some amazing dedication to detail sherrypie, love it!

Found some Eldar in the boxes and wanted to branch out from my regular Zorn palette a bit with some psychedelic thermal synthwave shenanigans. The first attempt on the Aconites failed, as there just was no kick to it. Then I went and bought a couple of Vallejo's fluo paints and most importantly, finally some magenta. With that, the pair of Hellebores got a whole new vibe.

I think the magenta is a nice touch with these. I hadn't thought of it before, but a little magenta like that might be a nice detail on my fire dragons.

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
I think the magenta is a nice touch with these. I hadn't thought of it before, but a little magenta like that might be a nice detail on my fire dragons.

It makes the yellow look warmer, yes. Orange as well.

Two days of tabletop ready painting for tonight's game, SHT's and more Russ turrets. There's still plenty of detailing to go, like the banners on the SHT's. But that's later.




3k NetEA GT. In tonight's heavy metal rumble, the iron tide of Selen II threw the daemonic techmongers out of their idyllic countryside holdings. There was a struggle to win on objectives as the tank companies barreled through the pressure point in the middle, yet were twice foiled by the fearless obliterators standing and rallying nearby. Ultimately, the bodycount was too heavily slanted in favor of the Guard and the hereteks were forced to yield the field.

That magenta really made those Eldar ships sing! Great choice!

Love the new Tanks, already looking splendid and it sounds like they did a good job on the table too. Great battle pics as ever