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The seasons don't fear the reavers, nor do the wind or the sun or the rain, we can be like they are...

 Flinty wrote:
The seasons don't fear the reavers, nor do the wind or the sun or the rain, we can be like they are...

Right on, my friend!

SamusDrake wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
The seasons don't fear the reavers, nor do the wind or the sun or the rain, we can be like they are...

Right on, my friend!

Very much like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, I couldn't help it. It just popped in there

I've been putting some stuff up in the attic, had a bit of rummage about while I was up there and found an original AT vintage Warlord Seeing the old boy next to the new blood in the flesh really brought home the massive size and quality difference. If GW put out a humanoid scout Titan with four weapon hardpoints that stands just under half the height of a Reaver I might have some use for it

GoatboyBeta wrote:
I've been putting some stuff up in the attic, had a bit of rummage about while I was up there and found an original AT vintage Warlord Seeing the old boy next to the new blood in the flesh really brought home the massive size and quality difference. If GW put out a humanoid scout Titan with four weapon hardpoints that stands just under half the height of a Reaver I might have some use for it

Is he painted? Photo perhaps?

SamusDrake wrote:
Is he painted? Photo perhaps?

Here he is, along side two current WiP

Nice bright and cheerful colour schemes!

Ah, the sliding disk in the old Warlord's base. Brings back memories...

Working on this stuff(minus middle warlord that is done)

tneva82, that is hard graft you have done there. The Warlords alone are amazing.

Completed my third Warlord for Xestobiax this weekend - time for more Reavers now, I think!



Put together some quick notes on this model too: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/sunfury-plasma-for-xestobiax/

Not finished but ready for the group photo...



I had regretted purchasing the Reaver as he was a bit of hassle, but this makes it worth it.

Looking ahead I might be purchasing another trio of Questoris...

Legio Praesagius - The True Messengers

A well balanced force you have there, ModernAngel. Also good to see that they are getting out-and-about!

Finally got round to tackling the Cerastus Knights that have been looking at me from their boxes (judging me...) for a couple of months.



Painted them up in House Malinax colours - put together some notes about dealing with them here: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/knight-lancers-of-malinax/

MongooseMatt, I agree that the Lancers are easier to paint than the Questoris. In addition the detail isn't as compact and a little easier to paint, making them the most enjoyable models in the range so far.

Just finished my Warlord which makes my Legio Mortis Axiom Maniple complete! Just 3 more Knights to go and I’ll have all my AT models painted. Probably get another Reaver to max out the Maniple. Anyway...

Another Reaver for the Legio Xestobiax!

Looking good! I’m going to get that kit next. Is that loadout decent in game?

No pictures yet, I've been hella sick the last three weeks.

However, I did pick up a Battle Maniple, the Plasma/Fist Warlord, the Chainfist/Melta Reaver at LVO. I'm planning out how I'm going to build them now, hoping to start construction this weekend on the skeletons. This will be my first attempt at magnetizing models, so I'm a little nervous and excited.

Last weekend I did get to play my first two games using the basic rules and a buddies models. Won both games, the rules seem to be fun, at least at the basic level. I have not yet tried any of the advanced rules, stratagems and so on.

I've been reading lore and I think I'm going with Legio Astorum, I enjoy blue on models, and I'm never going to betray daddy emperor, so watch out heretics!

I'll get some photos of my progress up soon!

MongooseMatt wrote:
Another Reaver for the Legio Xestobiax!

...he screams "purple-ninja-reaver". I see you got the feet mixed like I did - good man!

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Looking good! I’m going to get that kit next. Is that loadout decent in game?

It's...specialized. It shoots shieldless titans like hell(I disagree with his plan of sitting back and just using melta for close defence though. I would try to at least stay around 24" distance) with 3 armour busting weapons. Pretty much screwed against shielded titan though. So you'll definitely need some support from other titans which runs into issue that if enemy can prevent shield stripping titan from performing it's job this titan is fairly toothless as well. Always danger with specialised titans.

But if you get to range vs shieldless titan...

(also as a principle not fan of 2 blast armour busting weapon. Lack of aimed shot ability is bit annoying)

2 warlords and 3 reavers plus weapons from warlord plasma sprues ready for weathering and basing minus few reaver1 arm weapons.


Phew.

Adeptus Titanicus models are all done! Legio Mortis walks with support from House Makabius.

Here's my humble contribution to the thread, bit embarrassed by it after seeing some of the work on here.

Bit of backstory. Got these guys for Christmas, there was an AT tournament in mid-Jan so decided to just blitz these guys and get them to a presentable standard. Didn't manage to get it all done in time hence the unfinished bits, particularly on the Warhounds.

Ended coming up dead last, in 3 1500pt games I managed to only kill a single Warhound, got tabled pretty much in every game, however I managed to win several of the "spot prizes" and earned enough store credit for another box of Knights. My overall luck in the game was horrendous; despite running an Axiom Maniple (whichever one lets you pass certain command checks on 2+), not a single turn in the whole tournament did I manage to get more than one order off at a time. I failed more shield saves than I passed.

After that I decided to take a bit of a step back from it for a while and work on my Custodes. I think the disappointing result of the tournament (I wasn't aiming for 1st or anything, just wanted to try out the Titans), combined with general exhaustion of working non-stop on them for a few weeks, put me off the game for a while.

I saw a recent battle report last night and decided to give it another go, although I'm not 100% happy with my choice of Legio. I already have a 40K Warhound and Reaver in Astorum colours and am thinking of repainting these guys to Astorum as well. Shouldn't be too difficult as I have a decent airbrush and after 2x Titans and 5x Knights in 40k scale, I'm pretty confident with my choice of blue shades to make it work. Although I'm a bit reluctant to change it as I've already put a lot of work into them until now.

Additionally, one thing I'm still not happy with is the yellow. Wherever I stay with Gryphonicus or go for Astorum I'm going to have to paint some yellow. They currently use some old Citadel Iyanden Darksun (very old Foundation colours), shaded with Fleshshade, and while it doesn't look too bad, I think the actual age of the paint has had an effect on the final outcome. Does anyone know of a good way to do an effective yellow, preferably with Vallejo airbrush colours?

Valkyrie, thats a respectable job. Nothing to be embarrissed about.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Ended coming up dead last, in 3 1500pt games I managed to only kill a single Warhound, got tabled pretty much in every game, however I managed to win several of the "spot prizes" and earned enough store credit for another box of Knights. My overall luck in the game was horrendous; despite running an Axiom Maniple (whichever one lets you pass certain command checks on 2+), not a single turn in the whole tournament did I manage to get more than one order off at a time. I failed more shield saves than I passed.

Sheesh if you were getting tabled near every game you must have been running pretty bad luck. Titans take so much punishment generally that as long as you fire back it should be pretty hard to get tabled! Closest we got to tabling was my 2 warlord, 2 reaver, 2 warhounds with all that can have having h2h weapon and then first 2-3 turns going full stride ahead all the time. And that broke the "as long as you fire back" part as I wasn't shooting...And even that wasn't wipe out with titans left. I have yet to see even once being tabled! So getting tabled more than once is pretty impressive feature in my books!

Myrmidon maniple btw. 2+ for first fire. Fairly bad maniple bonus as you won't often even want more than 1 on first fire(or if you do 3 or 5. 2nd and 4th enemy can often move out of arc negating bonus) so main thing is 2-3 warlords. If you want lotsa orders axiom is better as it allows to give orders even when you fail one.

SamusDrake wrote:Valkyrie, thats a respectable job. Nothing to be embarrissed about.

Thanks for the kind words, that really means a lot

tneva82 wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
Ended coming up dead last, in 3 1500pt games I managed to only kill a single Warhound, got tabled pretty much in every game, however I managed to win several of the "spot prizes" and earned enough store credit for another box of Knights. My overall luck in the game was horrendous; despite running an Axiom Maniple (whichever one lets you pass certain command checks on 2+), not a single turn in the whole tournament did I manage to get more than one order off at a time. I failed more shield saves than I passed.

Sheesh if you were getting tabled near every game you must have been running pretty bad luck. Titans take so much punishment generally that as long as you fire back it should be pretty hard to get tabled! Closest we got to tabling was my 2 warlord, 2 reaver, 2 warhounds with all that can have having h2h weapon and then first 2-3 turns going full stride ahead all the time. And that broke the "as long as you fire back" part as I wasn't shooting...And even that wasn't wipe out with titans left. I have yet to see even once being tabled! So getting tabled more than once is pretty impressive feature in my books!

Myrmidon maniple btw. 2+ for first fire. Fairly bad maniple bonus as you won't often even want more than 1 on first fire(or if you do 3 or 5. 2nd and 4th enemy can often move out of arc negating bonus) so main thing is 2-3 warlords. If you want lotsa orders axiom is better as it allows to give orders even when you fail one.

Yeah the luck was horrendous, even when I used the other guy's dice (with his permission) in case I had somehow received a defective die it remained bad. Oh well I can't complain as I learned a great deal about tactics and formations.

Update to my previous post, I've decided to switch to Astorum for a couple of reasons:

1. They fit in nicely with my 40k Titans and Knights.
2. The blue is a nicer contrast to the silver than grey.
3. I just prefer the Astorum aesthetic and themes rather than Gryphonicus.

Here's a snippet of a test run I did on one of the Warlords, before and after shot of the new colours. Didn't take long, only 20 mins or so with an airbrush so it shouldn't be too difficult to change the rest.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Yeah the luck was horrendous, even when I used the other guy's dice (with his permission) in case I had somehow received a defective die it remained bad. Oh well I can't complain as I learned a great deal about tactics and formations.

Yeah well be happy that it was not YOU doing something badly to get that You would really need to do something spectacularly stupid like exposing your rear's just for fun and rushing into h2h range of h2h titan without h2h weapons of your own or something like that to get consistently wiped out by poor playing ;-)

Impressive how you didn't ruin your edges if you airbrushed it. I went for same legion from Victorum and after yellow the edges needed def some touching up.

some smexxy titans in here now.
i took one glare at the warlord kit and just, nope. not this time.
maybe i get the inspiration back to finish my demi axiom clouser to the summer.

Just out of curiosity, is there a Stormspear Pod on the Knight sprue that I've missed? I was thumbing lazily though the rulebook, and on P.20 with the example game the Malinax Knights appear to have Stormspear Pods.