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 AndrewGPaul wrote:

(a nitpick about those card buildings, Matt - the flaps should fold down so there's a lip round the top of each building).

Yes! Are you trying to trigger my OCD, MongooseMatt??!

In all seroiusness, though, those buildings do look good, and appear to offer a lot of good LOS-blocking terrain: even the smallet look like that can give a Warlord some cover.

Thanks for posting the picture!

Regis_sotum wrote:
And so it begins. Tommorow we start a campaign based early in the Heresy, 006M31. The first chapter will include enforcing Compliance on some unlucky xeno-human state and the betrayal itself; combat roster is made of Atarus, Xestobiax, two supporting knight houses and Sons of Horus - though not everyone has decided their allegiance at the moment.
As for the tanks and infantry - we have created a bunch of terminals for regular troops, just to provide some... let's call it target-rich enviroment. It includes non-compliant humans (count as guard) and space marines. We have taken an idea of "Unit Strength", that reflects an actual number of smaller vehicles/infantry squads, represented by a single base, to keep the movement and activation swift - otherwise they act like knight banners.

Very cool. Will you share the terminals you've developed for regular forces once you've tested them a bit?

 Yodhrin wrote:

Regis_sotum wrote:
And so it begins. Tommorow we start a campaign based early in the Heresy, 006M31. The first chapter will include enforcing Compliance on some unlucky xeno-human state and the betrayal itself; combat roster is made of Atarus, Xestobiax, two supporting knight houses and Sons of Horus - though not everyone has decided their allegiance at the moment.
As for the tanks and infantry - we have created a bunch of terminals for regular troops, just to provide some... let's call it target-rich enviroment. It includes non-compliant humans (count as guard) and space marines. We have taken an idea of "Unit Strength", that reflects an actual number of smaller vehicles/infantry squads, represented by a single base, to keep the movement and activation swift - otherwise they act like knight banners.

Very cool. Will you share the terminals you've developed for regular forces once you've tested them a bit?

No problem. You may expect first ones in a few days after the tommorow - and, it seems, in addition to the guard and Sons of Horus, we will also be joined by Salamanders armor battlegroup. That makes it three detachment terminals.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Dropzone Commander, or other 10mm buildings look excellent for AT. We've been using the MDF models from 4Ground for our games.

(a nitpick about those card buildings, Matt - the flaps should fold down so there's a lip round the top of each building).

This is what I am using with normal AT18 terrain. Works great and all the big buildings are big enough to disrupt los for a Warlord which is important I think.

Man, I had actually forgotten how fun painting can be with the right models. I suspect because I chose to abandon attempts to go with the "popular" style of hyper-smooth gradients in favour of a more "painterly" effect.

ye, i severly loose inntrest after painting the same model more then 2-3 times cuz i put so mutch effort in neatness on the first model, so this game is just lovely.

Any thoughts on converting thunderstrike gauntlets? I'm trying to build a mini version of my knight army.
I tried a cut down marine powerfist but it was much too large.

 Plant wrote:
Any thoughts on converting thunderstrike gauntlets? I'm trying to build a mini version of my knight army.
I tried a cut down marine powerfist but it was much too large.

rumor has it the knight weapons sprue upgrade pack'll be out in december, might be worth just waiting

Hmm delayed gratification. I may just build one without an arm, untill I see what happens in December. Are the upgrades in plastic or resin?

Thoughts on running 2x Knight banners 3-strong vs. 1x banner 6-strong?

Got my Legio Mortis Axiom Maniple all built with Knight support, just waiting on Warhounds!

 Plant wrote:
Hmm delayed gratification. I may just build one without an arm, untill I see what happens in December. Are the upgrades in plastic or resin?

haven't a clue sadly.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Thoughts on running 2x Knight banners 3-strong vs. 1x banner 6-strong?

as i see it, 6 knights has more staying power, aka they can keep a titan bugged down in cqc for longer.
2x3 is better for flanking tactics.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Thoughts on running 2x Knight banners 3-strong vs. 1x banner 6-strong?

as i see it, 6 knights has more staying power, aka they can keep a titan bugged down in cqc for longer.
2x3 is better for flanking tactics.

Can't titans just walk out of combat though?

I would see a unit of 6 knights as a good target for template weapons first and foremost.

2x3 makes more targets and forces your opponent to make target priority decisions.

I'm currently building my first reaver and almost messed up bad on the legs. I didn't even pose it that differently. Just a slightly one foot forward pose. But the larger leg plates on the shins barely fit on the inward facing part. Maybe I made the stance too wide. I barely pulled it off, might still have to cut or find a way to work battle damage into it. This is the most challenging individual model I have built this year, no doubt.

I assume the top carapace weapon takes a 5x1mm magnet? And which size magnets would you guys suggest using if I magnetize the arms where the ball joint goes into the shoulder?

ye carpace is 5x1mm.

i dunno about the shoulder yet, cuz the gun arms and fist arms have different shoulder mount design, the gun arms are ball pegs while the fist is just a peg.
you could use the same 5mm and stuff it up the shoulder socket, but then you have to cut/file off moust likely half of the balljoint/peg.

my reaver will(if everything goes according to plan) have a little cinematic pose for guns so fist is not a wep option for that reaver.
as sutch i plan to glue the arm in place in the shoulder and instead put 5mm mags on the weps and arms, countersunk the mags into the plastic as mutch as i can to not make it look odd.

 Thargrim wrote:
I'm currently building my first reaver and almost messed up bad on the legs. I didn't even pose it that differently. Just a slightly one foot forward pose. But the larger leg plates on the shins barely fit on the inward facing part. Maybe I made the stance too wide. I barely pulled it off, might still have to cut or find a way to work battle damage into it. This is the most challenging individual model I have built this year, no doubt.

I assume the top carapace weapon takes a 5x1mm magnet? And which size magnets would you guys suggest using if I magnetize the arms where the ball joint goes into the shoulder?

One single piece of advice there: dry fit before gluing, constantly dry fit, I mean really constantly.

For the legs, I did steps 1 to 9, then skipped 10, 11, 12, before doing step 13. From step 13 I only glued the front and back pistons so as to have somewhat better access for painting. Basically the front piston is the longest so it allows to determine the maximum "compression" you can have positioning the lower leg leaning forward. Don't go further than that otherwise you run into trouble as you can't fit the piston and the legs' plates will go lower than the foot. The plating on the back piston is slightly different from the plating on the lateral ones, so if in doubt check how they look like. I also watched a couple of YouTube videos showing the movement of the foot while walking to have a better view of how best to position it.

For the magnets for the ball joint, I'm thinking about using 3x1mm magnets or ones with a 3mm diameter. The reasoning being a ball magnet might allow for even more flexibility in posing the arm. Not sure how this would work in practice. Does anyone have some experience with some ball magnets?

Ball magnets suck. It’s not possible to make a spherical magnetic field so they end up with poles which, in turn, means they have a preferred alignment, destroying poseability. You’d be better off with a countersunk or ring magnet in the socket and a ferromagnetic (steel) ball.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Ball magnets suck. It’s not possible to make a spherical magnetic field so they end up with poles which, in turn, means they have a preferred alignment, destroying poseability. You’d be better off with a countersunk or ring magnet in the socket and a ferromagnetic (steel) ball.

Forgetting about ball magnets then, there is no point if they self-defeat the poseability potential. Thanks for the advice.

I envisaged ferromagnetic balls, most seem to have 5mm or larger diameters though and I read a few comments about some being not too reactive to magnets. Any good source? Also looking at 1mm steel sheet but I lack the proper tools to work with that.

In the meantime, as I eventually got my pre-ordered reavers, I started assembling them (3 separate sub-assemblies: legs, torsos, missile launchers, they are not glued to the bases).

I've been all over the place this past month - magnetising, converting and half-painting my Knights, magnetising and converting my Reaver, and putting paint and decals on my Warlord in between. It all got a bit confused so this weekend I sat down to actually get something finished. Meet Imber Cruor, the Blood Rain! As the "flag Titan" of Legio Rictus, Imber Cruor leads from the front. It is escorted by Legio infantry. Due to their distinctive helmet covers, they are affectionately referred to as "little boneheads".

So, the first chapter is finished. Xeno sympathizers have been pacified, even if accidentally - their protective shield generator have been exploded by Traitor Warlord fire directed at the Xestobiax Warhoud, hiding inside the generator complex.

Oh, as for the treachery. In the beginning of the final assault on the generator (second battle at the day), a message have been recived from Horus about the Emperor, betraying the humanity. Princepc Senoris Shevchuk of Legio Atarus immediately declared for the Warmaster, stating that he better belive his respected commander and almost a century of battles, rather than some distant and never met Emperor. Horrified with this, Salamanders, Xestobiax maniple and Zhao-Akhad knight banners refused Shevchuk commands, and the fire was opened.

Poor space marines, as well as unfortunate xeno scum had been all but exterminated by the close-range Titan engagment, that quickly dissolved into point-blank duels with a lot of melta fire. In the end, Traitors emerged victorious, with a badly damaged Warhound and a slightly scarred Warlord of Princeps Senoris himself. Of the loyalist only the support group survived, the last arriving on the field already after the Horus message; though they still suffered some serious damage, especially Taranis knights.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

(a nitpick about those card buildings, Matt - the flaps should fold down so there's a lip round the top of each building).

I did see that, but did not want the blank white card visible

Finally I've finished everything!
The grand Master Edition in its entirety:


Warlord titans:


Reaver titans:


Knights:


Stratagems:

Over at AMGAS we are building our forces but it's slow going... such a lovely model!

So I've nearly got my first Reaver done in what I thought were the Lego Ignatum(Fire Wasps) colours of black and red with silver trim and hazard stripes. But it seems that apart from the two engines in the August WD, the only other source of the mostly black scheme are a couple of old epic era pics of a pair of Warhounds and a Reaver. The problem is that everything else(including recent HH book covers) shows Ignatum sporting a predominantly red with gold trim and hazard stripe scheme

GoatboyBeta wrote:
So I've nearly got my first Reaver done in what I thought were the Lego Ignatum(Fire Wasps) colours of black and red with silver trim and hazard stripes. But it seems that apart from the two engines in the August WD, the only other source of the mostly black scheme are a couple of old epic era pics of a pair of Warhounds and a Reaver. The problem is that everything else(including recent HH book covers) shows Ignatum sporting a predominantly red with gold trim and hazard stripe scheme

I'm definitely going with gold trim for the Fire Wasps even if it isn't the latest official scheme. I don't think silver trim looks particularly good with red, although it seems silver is now in so you are fine for canon purposes!

Gold trim also allows them to seamlessly mix in with my Deaths Heads (heresy!) if I want to play combined against someone with their own set of models.

One completed army (at least for the time being!)


Now to start on the huge pile of buildings & ruins I have...

EDIT 3: OK, I REALLY think I've got the images working now. Thanks!

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To everyone above: Awe-inspiring work.

Against my better judgment I've braved the ludicrous Australian prices and am currently working on my first Reaver. Armour plates just blu-tacked on for the moment.



I tried to give it the classic splay-legged stance, rather than the more upright pose of the new models. I was worried I might have to give it a Warlord-sized base, but the base it came with proved just wide enough.

I did make a mistake with the feet, though. I didn't realise they needed to face forward so the shin connectors would fit properly. Had to twist the foot around after it had already semi-glued itself to the base. Narrow escape!

Also had to trim the inner armour plates on the shins so they didn't cut into the base, but I should be able to hide that with some battle damage.

Am thinking of painting it as Legio Praetor--the Legion that (ten thousand years later) fought the Tyranids on the icefields at Maccrage. There doesn't seem to be any info out there about their colour scheme, heraldry or history, though. Which I guess means I get to make it up.

Meanwhile here's some terrain I'm working on. I don't have any of the new GW stuff, but I did have some MDF building prototypes lying around from Aussie company BPLaser that I reckon are the perfect size:










Plus the centrepiece, a 3D foamboard puzzle kit of St Paul's Cathedral that I found in an op shop for $2



Also got some Knights on the way. Affording a Warlord is unpossible, but I might just have a cunning plan to do a pair of proxies on the cheap...

Sweet Mother Mechanicus, Xttz! Well done!

Breaking up the blue on the Titan's carapaces like that is particularly effective.


Zenithfleet: Unfortunately, I can't see your pics. Anyone else likewise?

Oh my, you people are really getting stuff done fast! I told myself I would wait painting anything until I have a few more (or everything ) but seeing all those beautiful titans above just makes it itch to get started!

I've noticed several pictures here - and in the rulebook of knights with missile pods on their carapace. Are those included with the knights?

I already threw out the remainders of my sprues and didn't notice them on there, nor were they in the instruction book. I'm really hoping I didn't toss them out.