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300 Spartan( tank)s could probably hold a valley quite fine on their own

Treated myself to a Cerberus this afternoon.

Probably picking up a Vindicator and the book on Saturday.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Treated myself to a Cerberus this afternoon.

Probably picking up a Vindicator and the book on Saturday.

Is the book out on saturday aswell? because locally it isn't announced to be showing up on saturday.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Me, i did some artillery.

And then i will do a sentinel and some cav. And after that... probably another squad of HWT for more or i run my cavalry as dragoons and give them Lascarbines and meltas. Shame is that i only get 1 melta in 5-15 which makes that ehh..

Probably another 2 sentinels with las cannons or multi meltas, but that is a hard sale with regards to points.. but i am at an impassee for Anti-Tank, rapiers being the obvious choice but would cost me unreasonable ammounts.
There's also the issue for anti terminator armaments, somehow this list is even more ridicoulously restrictive than SA, which already was overly restrictive in regards to their special weapons..

I agree - while the lack of decent weapons is fluffy, it's a bit too restrictive. Like Command Cadres (which have BS4) only having 1 special weapon.

I have now assembled what I need for my Militia Grenadiers - Krieg legs, Cadian body armour and Skitarii Vanguard helmets, plus lots of grenades and gear. But I only have enough bits for 2 squads. They will probably have Rhinos, which will have smaller hatches etc and lots of gear.

I also have a Force Commander cobbled together from similar bits, and wearing that nice Tempestus Scions greatcoat. He'll have a dog but not much gear - he's really just there for looks. I will also do a small unit of Discipline Masters (such a dumb name).

The rest of the infantry will be unmodified Krieg. I will have at least one Recon squad with longlas/sniper rifles, and maybe even a Beastmasters unit (so I can field some Orlock Cyber-mastiffs). The Krieg are really nice models to work with, but the details seem tiny after building Marines. I guess I need better glasses...

I was going to try and convert Rough Riders into something Krieg-like (there's no way I'm buying the resin ones from FW), but I think it'll be too much work for too little result. I did a unit of 6 Ogryn instead - the Boss has a thunder hammer (converted from an Orlock weapon - looks perfect).

In terms of support units, I have done 3 Sentinels armed with Heresy-era autocannon, but these models need an additional 'something' to backdate them some more - maybe round top hatches? I have 3 field artillery pieces so far (I'm going with heavy lascannon, despite the brutal points cost, as I need something to deal with enemy armour).

And there is the Rogal Dorn, which I am converting into a battle-worn Russ 'variant'. If this conversion works, I'll do 1-2 more. At present it has a Vanquisher cannon (justifying the larger turret) and a multi-laser in the hull. If the conversion is a dud, I may get a couple of Russ kits and try to improve them. But that is not something that fills me with any joy.

You could still always run the heavy lascannons as rapiers. Which are the only really reasonable anti tank and terminator weapons in the army.....

I think gw missed on the command squad the 1 special that doesn't scale. I can understand the limits to a degree on militia squads or even grenadiers, but the command squad beeing what it is?

Sounds like you got a plan.

Anyone here built the "real" Warlord? Any tips/warnings?

Not Online!!! wrote:
You could still always run the heavy lascannons as rapiers. Which are the only really reasonable anti tank and terminator weapons in the army.....

I would really like to include some Rapiers, but again I'm not going to FW for them. I've seen some decent Rapier conversions, mostly using the tracks from the AdMech Breachers, but they are too small. I though of flipping some Taurox track units upside down, but I think they are too small as well. So the search goes on. Hopefully GW is planning to do them in plastic - I think they'd be a popular kit.

Got myself a new showcase for my armies, and started concretising my army list.

list planning and organisation.
Total my Militia is with what i have at 1867/1862pts

now finalising the list and what i need to buy.

Painting my Typhon. Takes a lot of time to properly grime up, but it'll be worth it!

Spartan, well the first of them, now at circa 50% completed

I've been cramming stuff in before a trip to WHW and before I finally get into my new job.
Finished off my converted Justaerin, coming close to finishing my Iron Hands bikes, and built a heavy Volkite unit for the Hands as well.

Been another productive ban, I'm now 5 assault marines away from 2000 pts of Death Guard built, and I have a game on Saturday.



I swear I'll paint all of this but I'm having too much fun kitbashing right now.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Been another productive ban, I'm now 5 assault marines away from 2000 pts of Death Guard built, and I have a game on Saturday.

I swear I'll paint all of this but I'm having too much fun kitbashing right now.

that is one snazy nemisis you got there.

Now i am curious on how'd you make Kraken Boltguns for seekers. Because all i see sofar is either for the older smaller marines on that front or upgrades for MK Vi marines which is fine but seems to be missing kinda the more chonky look / switch mags required for the differing ammo types. Or seekers in general.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Now i am curious on how'd you make Kraken Boltguns for seekers. Because all i see sofar is either for the older smaller marines on that front or upgrades for MK Vi marines which is fine but seems to be missing kinda the more chonky look / switch mags required for the differing ammo types. Or seekers in general.

Haven't looked at what they're supposed to be like in the lore, but I know there's double barreled (vertically) Kraken bolters in the Tigris pattern style floating around.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Now i am curious on how'd you make Kraken Boltguns for seekers. Because all i see sofar is either for the older smaller marines on that front or upgrades for MK Vi marines which is fine but seems to be missing kinda the more chonky look / switch mags required for the differing ammo types. Or seekers in general.

Haven't looked at what they're supposed to be like in the lore, but I know there's double barreled (vertically) Kraken bolters in the Tigris pattern style floating around.

Yeah, there's the tigris, which isn't produced anymore, the headhunters have the combibolter version of it.

That said i prefer the pattern of boltgun that comes with the MK VI marines not least of which because i also like the AL headupgrade sprue which i intend to use for distinguisihng my seekers squads. Were i talented enough i'd give it a scope an elongated barrel and a jungle style taped on mag.

Alas. Wishfull thinking.

Ah, a pretty good match for those then https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/coniunctis-telum

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Ah, a pretty good match for those then https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/coniunctis-telum

Aye, shame that they are for the older marines though.

Evening all I currently have 6 outriders I am working on but before I utterly commit them to White Scars, if I ran them as Iron Hands, can they swap out the twin linked plasma for a grav gun?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Been another productive ban, I'm now 5 assault marines away from 2000 pts of Death Guard built, and I have a game on Saturday

I really like those printed Rapiers!

Debating if i should use Intercessor bits to create MK VI Seekers.
I already used an Intercessor boltrifle with and some plastic tubeing to create a vigilator.

For those curious:



So i am toying around with either:
A. grabbing a single set of intercessors to get the scopes of the stalker and rifle variant to slap on the normal umbra pattern.
B. Buying 2 sets of intercessors and getting the ammount of rifles to equipe 2 full stalker squads.
C. Attempting to design an STL file to either upgrade the umbra pattern in a way i above described or outright creating a file for a Krakenboltgun that tickles my fancy.. (unlikely seeing as my test passes already collapsed due to my incompetence.)
D. Waiting till GW finally get's off it's ass again and stops ruining 40k with bad decisions (cough decimator is now HH legends, despite being M35 and the oldest developped daemonengine that got just legended) and hope for them to deliver us an handcrafted seeker upgrade kit,.

Why grab the whole kit when you can get the guns separate from eBay or bitz sellers?

 Gert wrote:
Why grab the whole kit when you can get the guns separate from eBay or bitz sellers?

Not many of them deliver reasonably into my country, or demand reasonable prices to beginn with.

Also as AL i can use quite a bit of the kit, daggers mostly, and afaik it's the only source for a combi -nadelauncher.

Who's that Centurion!

Been working on this guy recently, a little worried about readability. Like, is it obvious what he's meant to be at a glance?

Looks like an EC chaplain?

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We do not build
We do not liberate
We are but ghosts
Memories of the Old Night

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Kill Team M29, Revenant Legion done! Let loose the angelic cannibals of the IX!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Looks like an EC chaplain?

Yup, pushing him down the chaos corruption path. Though I'm wondering if his chest needs a little something. Wires? Necklace maybe?

After my first game I suppose I should power my list down somewhat so here's (mk2) tacticals printing today



And a mk4 apotechary to baby sit the Assault Squad

Working on Enforcers... sorry wrong book, "Discipline Masters". After my last 2 matches with my militia i have come to the realisation, that yes, spending the points of a squad on a single mini HQ is worth it, when the squad decides to hold it's ground due to LD 9. Also "instill order" seems to not be removing Armor and FNP save throws.
That leads to a bit of an absurd headcinema on my side going along the way of : "the beatings will continue until morale improves! BUT you get healthcare." Since i expanded my medicae ammount, to 7. Just as i did with my discipline officers.

The world's cheekiest Vigilator