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Ramiel sighed as the still smouldering body of their last remaining astropath was dragged from the command centre. "Well, that settles it, we are truly alone." "Two dozen sub orbital craft, a handful of planet skippers." One of the auxilia officers read off a data slate. "We could make it to a handful of the other worlds or moons in the system." Ramiel snorted. "If any other world had the capability to carry life, we would already be there. A murmur ran through the command post, Astartes officers and the mortals of the 411th Sanguine lifeguard both showing their unease. A figure in black stepped into the corpselight of the tactical display. Chaplain Selephiel his armour painted the sable black with crimson crosses, the ancient Baalite symbol of those who have resigned themselves to death in service. Around him, his followers too wore the black, his great executioners axe glinted in the darkness. "Our hand is forced then, no more thoughts of withdrawal or survival. Only death, ours and theirs." "I see you have already dressed for the occasion." Asbeel the moritat chuckled. "Your levity is unwanted." The chaplain banged the pommle of his axe, the cave floor. "I am not dying on this dustball!" Growled the crimson clad moritat. Two black clad veterans stepped between the moritat and the chaplain, their lightening claws crackled a sickly green. The moritat turned to face them slowly. Ramiels metallic hand pressed against the moritat's breastplate. "Leave them holstered, we have too few brothers remaining to waste on petty infighting." He glared back at the chaplain. "The Night Lords have taken more than enough of our brothers. It is time we repaid the debt." The chaplain turned and left his retinue in tow. "You know the men are starting to see things his way." Asbeel warned, the Praetor nodded. "Deploy the lifeguard, we need to secure a water source as soon as possible." The praetor ordered. "And....find me some of that damned black paint."

Hello everyone! So I have been lurking here for sometime, rarely posting anything. I visit B&C mostly for HH fluff and to see some magnificent work of many of you! Finally I have decided to start my own plog. Its main goal is to force me into somewhat regular painting and to get some C&C from you guys! For start I have some WiPs of my first space marine ever painted and some early conversions of my gorgon terminators: For the Iron Tenth! (If anyone likes to follow people on instagram feel free to follow https://www.instagram.com/companyofthebitteriron )

Hey everyone, welcome to my hobby thread! If you're looking for one of the colour scheme tutorials from my 'March of the Legions' project or one of the basing tutorials, please check the bottom of this post for all of the relevant links. If you can't find what you're looking for or if you have a question that's not answered in the relevant post, please feel free to send me a private message. Regards, Kizzdougs. For more regular updates check out my Instagram account @raptorimperialis I've recently been feeling the urge to start a new 40K project. After much musing and many false starts, i've decided on the Thousand Sons, Pre-heresy. They aren't my favourite legion or chapter but the TS have always be a legion full of character, imagery and conversion opportunities. A perfect combination in my opinion. This project has been at least two years in the planning process. It all started when i converted a PH TS sorcerer for a conversion competition at my local GW (which i was lucky enough to win). After building the Sorcerer i knew i had to make some more TS, they are just so fun and different. Unfortunately it has taken me over two years to finally get here. The Sorcerer who started it all. He is a relatively simple kit bash with minimal GS work. I took inspiration from the Thousand Sons art in 'Collected Vissions', especially that of Ahriman and Uthizarr. http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l522/kizzdougs/photo-3.jpg The test mini. I used bits from several kits to build this terminator, the majority are from the GK terminator kit and the Tomb Guard kit (WHFB). http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l522/kizzdougs/DSCN0290.jpg?t=1313302289 With crest added. I can't decide whether to give all the terminators these crests or just keep them for the squad leaders. Any opinions and suggestions are welcome. http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l522/kizzdougs/DSCN0291.jpg?t=1313302233 http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l522/kizzdougs/DSCN0292.jpg?t=1313302169 A close up of the force weapon. Such a simple conversion but i'm fairly happy with how it turned out. Sorry about the bad lighting. http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l522/kizzdougs/DSCN0289.jpg?t=1313302359 Hopefully this project will develop and progress at a not too slow pace (fingers crossed). I plan on adding some Sisters of Silence and maybe even some Custodes at a later stage. I'm certainly feeling the necessary inspiration at the moment. Any and all suggestions and advice are more than welcome, as are questions and queries. Thanks for looking EDIT: March of the Legions Painting Tutorials: Space Marine eye lenses Legions without tutorials: World Eaters Iron Warriors Sons of Horus The Rout Imperial Fists Night Lords Thousand Sons White Scars Legions with tutorials: Blood Angels Death Guard Emperor's Children - Palatine Breachers tutorial Emperor's Children Metallic (airbrush) Salamanders Ultramarines Raven Guard Word Bearers Alpha Legion (no airbrush) - Alpha Legion (airbrush) Effrit Stealth Scheme Dark Angels Iron Hands Thousand Sons World Eaters Hobby tutorials: Basing - ZM/industrial Greenstuff tutorial Desert/rocky base building Desert/rocky base painting Eye Lens Tutorial

Mission Onslaught, Dawn of War Deployment Forces Alpha legion Army List Emperor's Children - 3k points Maru Skara Praetor - paragon, volkite pistol* Legion Champion - paragon 5 tartaros - mixed loadout in Spartan* Contemptor Talon - 2x with autocannon and fist* 3x10 man tac squads 2x5 man scout squads with rifles 2x quad las preds Fire raptor Leviathan, storm cannon, grav bombard Mission Onslaught (5vp for holding the objective). Deployment was as below. My opponent won the roll for first turn and chose to deploy and go first. I counter deployed to get the gravs near those clumped up preds, my recons on the left flank where I thought my opponent would outflank, as he didn't deploy any units there, lascannons on the higher ground, seekers close to the tacticals with champion, dreads all in the middle to deal with any threats once I seen where the maru skara came on. Effrit are behind the ruin near my onslaught objective marker, out of sight and so 9" away from those sniper scouts. The fire raptor went in reserve and my opponent kept the spartan (praetor and terms inside) and the contemptor talon back for the Maru Skara outflank, and placed the outflank assault token on the back of my table edge - you can see a small token on my edge, just behind the plague furnace. I was caught off guard a bit as I thought it had to be a side edge of the table, however the outflanking assault (or maru skara) rule says any table edge including your opponent's DZ, so I was going to get it in the behind from a spartan. The upshot of this was that key damage dealing component's of my opponent's army were off table in T1, which totalled maybe 1500 of the 3000pts of the army, so turn 1 would essentially be a 3k vs 1.5k battle, which is what the Alpha legion prefer. I'm not a fan of starting off table generally due to having this point defecit - only if it's something you need to protect, so this was only benefitting me. Turn1: I fail to seize, so the EC's go first. To be honest, not much happened. Things moved towards objectives, The preds shot my lascannon dread and managed 1 wound from 8 lascannons - he might have moved 8" so he could only snapshot, the dread returned fire and damaged a pred. Leviathan shot my seekers, killing 2 after some heroic saves from the serge. Snipers went for my delegatus, but failed to do anything due to 2+ save, cover and shrouded from Leviathal. I'd have maybe went after the auguries to limit my interceptors. The lascannons react and kill 3/5 scouts. Their right hand tac marines moved up and bolt pistoled my headhunters, doing nothing. They then charged in. The HH's overwatch fire with 1 combi melta and the multi + bolters and killed two. The EC attack first causing 6 wounds, the 2+ saves needed which are rolled below. I attacked back with daggers but did nothing, but the vexilla means the tacs win by 1. I fail my Ld and they fail to sweep, I run 8 or 9" away. These armour save rolls on my headhunter sergeant were pretty emblematic of my rolling in this game, these AL dice are blessed. Due this this it was pretty one sided, but my opponent soldiered on. Headhunters get assaulted by the tactical squad, the combat is drawn with zero casualties, but the tacs win by 1 due to vexilla. My T1 begins and the Harrowing begins. Effrit pop out and annihilate the left hand scouts with shotguns. Grav cannons drop 3 pie plates onto the preds and finish off the damaged one, my multimelta strips another wound, but not kills the second. Leviathan and lascannon HSS target the leviathan and kill it. Fulmentarus shrapnel missiles, right tactical squad and jetbikes go into the right hand EC tacs and kill all but one who fails Ld and falls back. Seekers kill a tac marine and wound the champion. End of my T1 with those predators covered in grav pulse templates. EC- T2 The Maru Skara arrives behind my lines - 1100 pts or so of my opponent's army appeared behind me, but the grav rapiers intercepted with a reaction point dropping haywire and difficult terrain all over that, the lascannons HSS went into one of the dreads with the augury, and the fulmentarus went into one also using my second movement reaction from Moebius, I think reducing it to 1-2W. I wasn't worried about the spartan as it had to move full distance to get on the table so could only snap fire both ordnance weapons. Augury on seekers killed a termie, snipers couldnt see. No way could the tartaros fail the charge, moving to within 1" of the rapiers, even with the -4" from lies and obfuscation and terrain. The rapiers get wiped. The fire raptor arrives to blast my Lascannon HS squad in T2...which then Smoke and Mirrors's away to underneath the raptor and out of arc for the frontal guns, meaning it got to shoot one autocannon battery at them, and lost the rest of the shooting. The lascannons then killed it with a lucky snapshot in their next shooting phase. After wiping the rapiers, one of my dreads turns right back round and goes Praetor hunting.