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An efficient operation meant I got the legs done for the three new Questoris, with one already with its upper body. The carapace pieces are cleaned up, ready for painting...

Just realised; when the Acastus arrive, we will have just enough for our first Knight-vs-Knight game. It will only be a lance each, but warhound support will fix that...

All about the Cassandora Yellow. It gives a great shade to yellow. I used it over a sunburst yellow base for my Jekub.



And here just on it's own, but the pic is a little dark.

Do we have a general AT thread here somewhere? The rules for the new Acastus knights are really starting to annoy me.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Do we have a general AT thread here somewhere? The rules for the new Acastus knights are really starting to annoy me.

nope, just this hobby thread.

havent realy been a need for one, but i guess nothing prevents you from starting one if you so wish it.

I made one on B&C, not that it helps you here. The Acastus knight weapons do seem pretty cheap pointswise but I’ll enjoy rolling the dice to see how they do swapping spit with titans.

Using contrast paints to create a simple metallic scheme. Still more to go and lots of cleanup.

A quick proxy game tonight, and it was a humilating defeat for me and a hilariously over-the-top victory for my opponent.

Reaver totally annahilated in the second turn, and the hounds didn't make it to turn 5. However, a Hound did take one Acastus with him...

This has been an inspirational thread and I decided that it is my turn to contribute with my recently finished Astorum engines.

Beautiful work Dagany, I really like the snowy bases and black'n'white details.

Cool! I love snowy bases like that.

Thanks! I still have some lancers to paint and maybe some Acastus knights when they come out. Also third warhound wouldn't hurt so I could try a full Regia maniple.

My gold is starting to look stained, still need to shade it black and then highlight.

Which region you at, Dagany? Legio Favilla stands in Helsinki, if you fancy a bash sometime

So... would you say this looks OK, size wise?

I don’t have any of those so I can’t say but your thermal cannon barrel is on upside down. I intentionally assembled mine like that, doesn’t it look better that way?

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I don’t have any of those so I can’t say but your thermal cannon barrel is on upside down. I intentionally assembled mine like that, doesn’t it look better that way?

Is it? Heh

I don't have any regular sized knights so I didn't notice ^^

The little hose bit on the top attaches to the circle on the bottom side of the shield but I think it looks better our way.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Which region you at, Dagany? Legio Favilla stands in Helsinki, if you fancy a bash sometime

Also in Helsinki And yeah, we most certainly could have a game or two sometime.

Good to see an Armiger next to a Questoris. Thought they would be too small but looks just right.

Got 6 Acastus to assemble to tomorrow.

I should get an Acastus set in the post tomorrow morning.

The routine so far is to get a text at around 2pm saying "we'll be delivering your parcel between 10am-12pm"...

Wow, British mail works differently than America. Here we get a tracking number that doesn’t work for two days, it’ll show in transit for a week, then it show as “delivered” when it hasn’t been. Then we call customer disservice, wait on hold for an hour being told our issue is “very important” to them, then get told we need to contact the other post office in another town because that’s where it should be coming from. Another hour on hold being told our issue is “extremely important” to them and we get told it hasn’t reached their facility yet. Then we contact the shipper to put it in as lost begging them to ship another via UPS instead of the post office and then two days later the original package will arrive looking like was air dropped over Somalia instead of a DC suburb then used to level a table leg.

Anyway I was looking over the new build your Legio rules in the WD. I’m going with the Elite Majos and Splinter Legio traits so I get an extra repair dice and have Astorum’s repair dice rerolls. Do I save points for Plasma Fetters too?

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Wow, British mail works differently than America. Here we get a tracking number that doesn’t work for two days, it’ll show in transit for a week, then it show as “delivered” when it hasn’t been. Then we call customer disservice, wait on hold for an hour being told our issue is “very important” to them, then get told we need to contact the other post office in another town because that’s where it should be coming from. Another hour on hold being told our issue is “extremely important” to them and we get told it hasn’t reached their facility yet. Then we contact the shipper to put it in as lost begging them to ship another via UPS instead of the post office and then two days later the original package will arrive looking like was air dropped over Somalia instead of a DC suburb then used to level a table leg.

I hate it when they say "your order is important to us!" but don't step up and deal with it. So annoying!

Reactor Fetters(is that the one you mean?) sounds good for that Titan that keeps getting into trouble with its plasma venting rolls, and 25 points is fair for only one titan.

The new Crusade rules are cool and have gone for Dark Reputation, Loci of the Cause, Crusade Banners and Macro Magazines. I personally feel Titanicus is at its best when its a mix of titans and knights, and now just waiting for a suitable maniple.

What about the trait the shakes any banner of knights that end the movement phase next to your titan? They can still swing in the combat phase if shaken, right?

if you fail the command check then you immediately lose the banner's current order and subtract 3" from movement and have a -1 to hit rolls...

...so yes, you can still attack in the combat phase.

Decals, Shade and Base to follow =]

Lovely work!

I wish the shoulder joint was more posable. Are you gluing that all together before painting?

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I wish the shoulder joint was more posable. Are you gluing that all together before painting?

I glued the main weapons and their armour panels to the torso and that to the hips/legs. I used liquid mask on that assembly after each armour panel colour.
I left all the other armour panels and trim seperate to avoid masking and super glued them on after painting the trim by brush.

The Acastus arrived this morning and it is a quality kit to behold. I only need to assemble one for the current Household so its great to have a spare for when it comes time to start the third battleforce.

If the rest of 2019 is going to be light in AT releases, I might treat myself to some scenery in the mean time.