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Hello gents, thought I’d post up my grey knight army seeing as it’s almost finished. my goal this last year, for 2022, was to finally finish my grey knights collection and move onto something else. I’ve done that to a point, just need to finish painting a scratch built tech marine and I’ll be done. My goal over the Christmas holidays was to finish my imperial knight, which I bought… I wanna say 7-8 years ago, whenever the imperial knights were first released. he largely remained unpainted and un-used, but I set a goal this Christmas to finish him. He’s got decals and stuff as well. Once I get kills with him, I’ll start recording it on his should pad. He’s a freelance knight who the Grey Knights saved, and has vowed to assist them and repay the debt. Draigo was the first model I ever bought back in 5th edition. And he’s horribly painted compared to rest, I tried to touch him up over Christmas. None the less, he’s that garbage finecast crap, and his sword kept falling over limp… so I chopped it off and put a boss looking custodes sword on there. this Christmas I also finished my kit bashed chaplain. And my last squad of terminators. Over the years my bases have progressed from real sand to the new texture paints from GW. I’m ok with that though. there’s a few un finished rhinos/ razorbacks but I don’t think I’ll ever be using them again. anyway enjoy, I suck at taking pics, should I do some close ups of the characters? now that I’ve pretty much done them, I’ve got my mrs working on my small army of tyrannids and I should help finish that off. my goal for 2023 is my new 1500pts worth of custodes I got for Christmas. (the Christmas box set) I plan to get an airbrush and do simpler marble style bases to resemble a palace floor.

So I was taking some pictures of my army, wanting to collect it in one spot and thought with the amount of time I have put into playing, building and painting this army, it seemed only right to do a blog. +++++++++++ Prot's Everything Dark Angels +++++++++++++++ "Fear not the heretic, nor the xenos for the Lion walks with us." Droxus Attalium - Dark Angels Librarian.. Contents: Notes: Most games are 1850 unless otherwise noted. Most games are played with a traditional force org, using the Maelstrom mission with various set ups all using the main rulebook unless otherwise noted. The "Green Room": Strategies and Tactica of the Dark Angels: + Prot's Az'Eke Bomb Drop Pod Tactica + >Link to Article and Batreps< This is a hot link to my Tactica on using the Az'eke Bomb strategy in 7th edition 40k. it includes Batreps using variations of this list. + Ravenwing Tactica in 7th Edition + >Link to Article< I attempt to stat a Ravenwing Tactica discussion. There's quite a breakdown here of things to consider, but it could still use a bit of help from the forum. I played Ravenwing almost exclusively in 6th, and still do so in 7th but not as often as I prefer mixing it up now. + A Logical Discussion Comparing the Dark Angels Codex Vs. the Space Marine Codex in 7th edition+ >Link to Discussion< This thread could have went either way, but I found it to be a great resource when all was said and done. It goes to show the different experiences brought to the table when discussing our shortcomings and advantages compared to our Astartes Brothers. Batreps (usually includes photos): + Three for One! Three Az'eke Bomb Batreps (relisted from the strategy Tactica Above)+ >Link< These are the three batreps used for the article in the Az'eke bomb post. All at 1850, vs different opponents, in Maelstrom with pictures. + Belial Based Foot List Vs. Nids + >Link to Batrep< An incredibly close game. Belial is challenged like never before in a deathmatch with the omnipotent Swarmlord! + Belial Leads a Multi-wing Force Against a Misguided Astra Militarum + >Link to Batrep< A difficult match up for heavy infantry based lists, but the Emperor favours the bold. + Deathwing w/Dual Landraiders Vs. Tau + >Link to Batrep< A very difficult army to beat in 7th. NOTE: No pictures (sorry!). This is one of my first attempts at dual LR in Dark Angels. + Az'eke Bomb 2.0 vs Bugtown+ >Link to Batrep< Yet another Az'eke Bomb based batrep Vs the dirty bugs with pics as usual. Pictures, Fiction, WIP's,etc. + Dark Shroud + Complete + >Link to Pictures< + Deathwing Terminators: Squad1 + Complete + >Link to Pictures< + Dark Angels Veteran Squad1 + Complete + >Link to Pictures< + Balthasar (Counts as Azrael) + Complete + <Link to Pictures< + Turmeil (Counts as Ezekeil) +Complete+ <Link to Pictures> Misc Articles and Reviews + A new chapter in 7th edition+: A quick shot of my LE Codex: +Link+

So as some of you may or may not know I paint a lot of armies. I pride myself on completing armies, not just models. And this has lead to a lot of 'painting fatigue' but fun moments in tournaments or otherwise where it can be great to have a lot of choices. (I'm working on Eldar right now) Most of this stuff is from the past year til the present. It might be in 'wip' form at my blog, but I'll put a fair amount of completed pictures here. I'd like to start off with one of the funnest projects I had this year from Chaos which was the Chaos Knights codex and kits. Love this "Tyrant" in game. He's not the most competitive option but can't be ignored. He's basically a giant Wal-mart from hell with a Harpoon! I got to move away from doing very clean models and getting back to a lot of old weathering techniques which seems to really suit this army. .... These boots were made for stompin'.... And Next up I did a pair of "Helverins" or Wardogs with Autocannons. Simple design, but they fit in with the big guy. The family together for their first game. Here is my Loyalist version of the Helverins and a Preceptor wailing away on fish people! As I post this I am working on a Chaos version of the Preceptor model pictured above. Interestingly enough their main weapons are quite different. The Chaos variant is only D3 shots which makes him a terrible competitive choice, but I'm looking forward to painting him anyway, just the complete the set. Thanks for looking. More to come.