The Albigensian Crusade

[Marshal_Roujakis]

Skull but add studs... the helmet looks a bit too Chaos-y without either the top vents or the studs... maybe just studs on the brow?

[NoPityNoRemorseNoFear]

Hi Honda, I have used the same Bezerker Skull for my Grimaldus, It works really well, I just added the rosarius and it came out fine.

here's a pic if you need convincing, not a good picture and he's not finished but it may give you an idea of how he will turn out!
 

http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah78/Btemp93/WP_20150110_13_58_07_Pro_zps0d3afbc0.jpg

[Honda]

Hookay, been a pretty busy week, with little cracks of time where I tried to stay as productive as possible, given the time available.

So, continued progress on the Big G.

This was the start of a fairly character building opportunity, i.e. Mk V shoulder pads. They aren't perfect. A lot of the imperfection will be masked by Grimaldus' long purity seals.

Here's the latest construction bits put together on him, primarily the start of the shackles on his forearms so that the plasma pistol and crozius can be chained to him. He also has his pads on, the vent on top of his helmet and...I think that's it for this phase.

I know, the pictures are pants, but I do like how he's coming together, but I can see I still have a way to go, especially since I'm still gathering pieces of the crozius. I will try to get better pics later.

Also, this happened, albeit rather fuzzy.

Brother Markosian, which you can read about in "The Book*". Looking ahead to what might come next, I've decided that there are something like 25 initiates names listed beginning with Part II, so I think to honor them, I'll model each of brother, so that they will be remembered.

Cheers,

* There is only ONE book and I shouldn't have to even speak its holy name. ;)

[Marshal_Roujakis]

Brother Hondam can you detail to me the process on how you made the studs on the Mk. V shoulder Pads? there's only about 1 or 2 available in the upgrade kit and the ones available from FW have studs the size of marbles... I wish to have something similar to yours, but so far all my effort has been in vain.

 

Nicely coming along as well... can't wait to see the finished product.

[Honda]

Brother Hondam can you detail to me the process on how you made the studs on the Mk. V shoulder Pads? there's only about 1 or 2 available in the upgrade kit and the ones available from FW have studs the size of marbles... I wish to have something similar to yours, but so far all my effort has been in vain.

 

 

Absolutely.

 

Note: I used the Mk. V shoulder pad for this exercise. I shaved down the existing knobs to start with a flat surface.

 

Materials used:

 

Thin Super Glue

Pin vise with 0.5 mm bit

Glass beads, approximately 0.5 mm in size

A pin or needle

X-acto knife

 

 

1. Mark where you want the stud to go. It's a good idea to mark (with some sort of marker) out the entire pattern before you begin Step 2.

 

2.  It's easier to drill if you put a mark or pin prick on the location where the stud is supposed to go. So go ahead and puncture each location. If you have a small awl or similar tool, that's perfect for the job, but you can also create a starting point with a sharp X-acto blade.

 

3. Drill a depression into the plastic. I used a 0.5 mm bit. The first time I ever did this, I just drilled a small depression, this time I didn't think it through and drilled all the way through the shoulder pad. I think this is a little more troubling than the slight depression, for reasons I'll explain later.

 

4. Test fit. Always. It's like the old carpenter's adage, "Measure twice, cut once". Always.

 

5. What are you test fitting? Little teeny tiny glass balls. I got a container of 5000 glass beads for just a few dollars off of eBay. They come in different sizes and I went with the smallest I could find, which I think is 0.5 mm.

 

So test fit your little glass balls. There, I said it. :P

 

6. What you will notice is that despite using the same drill bit, the holes are different sizes. What this means is that some holes will have the glass ball sit right where you want, others will allow it to sink too deep. No worries, there's an easy fix.

 

7. First I scooped out six or seven glass balls and put them on a paper napkin so they wouldn't roll all over the place.

 

8. Gluing: I used the thin (i.e. non-gel type) Super Glue. First I put a drop of glue on a pin, then put that drop in a hole Then very quickly, I reached over to where the glass balls were and touched them with the pin and picked up one, I then put the ball into the whole quickly before the glue dried.

 

9. If the glass ball sunk into the hole, then I immediately picked up another glass ball and put another one on top of the first.

 

The process goes pretty quickly.

 

I originally started with putting the glass balls in the hole with tweezers, but the time between picking up one ball, then getting it into the hole just didn't work. And that was if I hit it the right way the first time. So the "glue on pin, pin in hole, pick up ball, ball in hole" technique works pretty well...at least for me.

 

Looking back on this exercise, I would not drill all the way through. Also, I think the last time I did this for my mantlets, I punched a hole in the plastic and it went better. So I need to remember where I put that tool.

 

Anyway, that's how I did it.

 

I hope that helps.

 

Cheers,

 

P.S. Yah, I know, better pics. :)

[Honda]

"Grimaldus, warrior priest of the Eternal Crusade. It was the belief of Reclusiarch Mordred, that upon his death, you would be the worthiest of our Brother Chaplains, to stand in his stead. His final decree before the returning of his gene-seed to the Chapter, was that you, of all your brethren, would be the one to rise to the rank of Reclusiarch."

- High Marshal Helbrecht

Source: Pg. 12, "Helsreach", A. Dembski-Bowden

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This was a good week.

I was able to get some time to gs goodies, figure out in my head how certain features needed to look and I am happy to report that a majority of it came together pretty well...

...and I figured out how I was messing up the pics, so progress won't be so frustrating to share. :)

First off, I pulled out an old tool that I got from out of the family garage. I think it is a leather punch. It turns out that it can punch sheet plastic as well. I'm not sure that the intention was to provide little discs vs. holes, but I was able to produce some of the former and dig them out of the punch itself, which are hollow.

If you are wondering "why" I would do this, I would suggest that you look at the cover of Helsreach and notice the discs with our chapter symbol on them pinning the long purity seals to Grimaldus' armor.

Thusly...

Overall, I'm happy with his general appearance. Except for the helmet details, which we settled on earlier, he seems to be a reasonable facsimile of the character on the cover...except for one thing.

His crozius.

The crozius seems to be the most intimidating aspect of this exercise for me. I've been looking at it, collecting bits, test fitting this and that, trying to get something that looks close...and I haven't even started on the crozius head yet. I suspect that a lot of that will end up being gs'd.

However, that is how we grow, by taking chances and stretching ourselves out of our comfort zone.

Because you are probably wondering so I'll just say "Yes I am".

The question you were all going to ask?

"Honda, are you going to put something on the front, to cover where the wire is crimped together?"

It will be a belt buckle with our chapter symbol on it.

Next up is some better shots of Brother Markosian. More of his story will come out later.

And finally, here are some better shots of Priamus, who I will be painting for the Chaos at the Gates effort.

I think that's about it for now. Thanx for being patient while I sorted out the technical issues.

Cheers,

[Honda]

Only one of the plinths - and in the Temple of Dorn, there were over one hundred occupied displays - bore what Grimaldus had come for. He stood before the short column, reading the silver plaque beneath the pulsing stasis shield.

Mordred

Reclusiarch

"We are judged in life for the evil we destroy"

Beneath the words was a keypad, each key bearing a Gothic sigil in gold leaf. Grimaldus entered the nineteen digit code for this specific column, and the stasis field powered down with a grinding of ancient engines inside the stone plinth.

Source: Pg. 18-19, "Helsreach", A. Dembski-Bowden

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A very busy week doing all that other stuff (i.e. Real Life ), precluded making significant progress.

However, progress was made and sometimes that is enough. You do what you can when you can.

So the rudiments of Mordred's mighty crozius began to come together...

The flat white piece is where I will begin to add on the crozius head adornments. I'm kind of excited and nervous about this at the same time. The white ring on the haft is where I will attach the chain that is currently hanging from his right arm.

The bit at the end will also get some gs treatment so that the butt of the crozius looks more like the weapon on the cover of Helsreach.

I had also intended on using some bits to represent the belt buckle, but it didn't pan out, so I'm guessing that will end up as gs as well.

Priamus looks at me with a sneer, eager to see some paint.

Finally, the rest of the command squad stands ready, resenting the fact that Priamus will get painted before they do because of CatG.

They'll get over it.

Cheers,

[Honda]

Without any ceremony at all, Grimaldus clutched the maul's haft and raised it in his sure grip. The head was a hammer of holy gold and blessed adamantium fashioned into the shape of eagle wings over a stylised Templar cross. The haft was darkened metal as long as the knight's own arm.

The weapon's ornate head caught the dim glow from the lume-globes ensconced in the walls, and was painted briefly in flashes of reflected light as he turned it in his hands.

The warrior priest stood like this for some time.

Source: Pg. 19, "Helsreach", A. Dembski-Bowden

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It is times like these that cause me to appreciate those who are truly capable of sculpting.like Barbarossa.

I got close to what I was striving for and as such, am comfortable with the end result, knowing I will get better with the next effort.

The next few pics detail the progression of effort to reproduce Mordred's maul. Like I said, I got close. Also, in spending a lot of time staring at the pic of Grimaldus and his maul, I kept getting the impression of something that was cast vs. machined. I don't mean the handle and all the other elements, but the head itself. As such, as I was working my way through this I left some...battle damage to the head evident. Some of this was due to my lack of skill, but there were some bits that I purposely made that way.

And "No", I'm not going to tell you which one's are which. ;)

Now that I am almost finished with this part, I am somewhat hesitant to put paint on it as I suspect that additional flaws will be revealed once the gold is on it and it is brought out into the light of day for all to behold its glory.

Or not.

So...once I had the head on there (and you'll notice that it broke off as part of this process), I started applying the gs in layers. I recall Chris Borer relating in an article once that one of the biggest problems people have with their gs work is that they try to accomplish too much too quickly. So I kept reminding myself not to go too fast. I think I probably pushed the envelope a little bit in this regard, attempting to do both sides of the maul for a particular step in the same go.

In hindsight, it probably would have been better to do one side first, then the other, but I felt like I was in the ZEAL zone, so there.

The first pic shows (somewhat fuzzily) the first layer of gs that represents the bottom of the image. I think it was in the same CB article that said, think "bottom up" when it comes to application. So I laid down a not too thick layer of gs and modeled what is supposed to be feathers. As stated above, we'll see what this really looks like once I get paint on it.

Then I let that layer dry overnight.

Next I built a framework around the head that was to represent the edge of the wings. I went back and forth as to whether to use plastic rod or sculpt that with gs. I settled on the plastic rod as I wasn't sure I'd be able to get the hard edges that this part of the head needed and as it turned out, the plastic rod was a whole lot easier to make work.

Also at this stage I decided to put a foundation of plastic rod in the shape of a cross for the gs to attach to. My original thinking was that I could just put some gs on there, then tuck it around the edges of the foundation and be done. That isn't what ended up happening, but it was a nice thought.

These pics then, show the edges and the cross. The cross top extends above the edge of the wings (per the artwork) and provides a bit of an anchor to the head top.

At the same time, I realized that I needed a cross shaped belt buckle for Grimaldus front.

I really, really, really wanted to find a plastic bit that would fit in the available area I had, but I wasn't able to find something with the general detail I needed and the right size...sigh.

So I attempted to sculpt one. Again, I got close, but the exercise went well enough that I'll do it again for other bits and probably some shoulder pads at some point in the future.

The next shot is of the gs'd cross with rivits (those small glass balls used on the shoulder pads). At this step I'm still deciding on whether or not I want to put a skull in the middle of the cross. I sort of feel obligated to do that since it's in the artwork, but I also know that if I had a plastic Grimaldus and war maul, I would consider shaving off the skull because I think GW's obsession with skulls on every visible surface is rather ridiculous.

So I am currently planning on putting one on, but what do you guys think?

Finally, here is Grimaldus with his brand new shiny rodeo belt buckle.

As stated above, the head snapped off of the crozius while I was working, but that ended up being a good thing. I kept having the feeling that the haft was a tad too long, so I trimmed about 2 mm off the length and I think that will look better.

Next steps will be to finish the end of the haft where the censer is.

Anyway, it finally "feels" like I'm getting to the end of this stage so that once the weather cooperates, I could actually primer him and start painting, though I will undoubtedly take my time on him. He has just enough detail on him that I want to make sure I address them appropriately.

Cheers,

[Honda]

And the last, the knight who still wore his helm, carried no blade. The rockcrete beneath their feet shivered slightly under the pounding of his war mace thudding unto the ground. The mace's head, a stylized knightly cross atop Imperial eagle wings, flared in protest, lightning crackling as the metal kissed the ground.

Source: Pg. 31, "Helsreach", A. Dembski-Bowden

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Some of you might notice a slightly improved pic quality. Imagine what kind of macro pictures you can take when you have the macro function enabled.

Who knew?

Anyway, here's Grimaldus, still fairly WIP though I'm getting there. Now that I have the macro function on, I can better humble myself by looking at how many places I've messed up and how far he has to go.

I did some different things this go around, primarily around applying thin washes of complementary colors to certain areas like the red purity seal and on the crozius.

The other thing that I did was use a tip that I got from Augustus regarding painting darker reds. He said, to mix green with your red to get a darker color and as you can see in the below pic, Khorne Red and Snot Green give you are pretty dark brownish red.

So that is the base that I began from.

Mordred's crozius

Since I had been using Flesh Wash to deepen the gold, using multiple highlights, followed by washes, I decided to wash the gold with a very thin green wash (all inks) just to moderate and deepen the tone. The butt of the crozius was painted in Snot Green then painted over with Vallejo Bronze. I do all my bronzes this way as I get a nice green patina to the metal, though it's more prominent in this picture that in real life.

Questions for the brethren: Should the red purity seal/ribbon/whatever have text on it like a regular seal? I'm inclined to say "yes" and that wouldn't be a big deal, but curious if anyone feels strongly against.

And finally, I continue to make progress on Priamus. I spent a TON of time trying to get that cross on his chest and I"m still not happy with it, so probably some touch ups there. Also I haven't done any recess work and I'm not overly enthralled with the edge highlights either. So more to go there.

I think that's it for now.

Cheers,

[Honda]

"Greetings." I breathe the word from my skulled face.

They raise their hideous alien faces, their jaws slack and filled with rows of grinding teeth. One of them hefts a heavy composite of detritus and debris that apparently serves as a weapon.

It fires...something...at me. I do not care what. It's smashed from the air with a single swing of my inactive maul. The clang of metal on metal echoes throughout the corridor, and I thumb the trigger rune on the haft of my crozius. The mace flares into crackling life as I aim it at the aliens.

"You dare exist in humanity's domain? You dare spread your cancerous touch to our worlds?"

They do not answer this challenge with words. Instead, they come at me in a lumbering run, raising cleaver swords; primitive weapons to suit primitive beings.

I am laughing when they reach me.

Source: Pg. 86, "Helsreach", A. Dembski-Bowden

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Grimaldus is done.

This has been quite an exercise for me, inspiring and in some places a little intimidating if I am being honest. I was concerned that I might not honor you with my attempt to immortalize in some small way my favorite character in the 40K universe.

I learned a lot along the way. Inserting spacers into his legs to give him some additional height was the right thing to do, but my execution of that could have been better, particularly on the left leg.

That being said, I like how his pose ended up and that the maul is a fairly decent rendition of Mordred's crozius.

He is not perfect, but I think he will do.

On Friday, he will lead the Templars onto the field of battle as my warlord. I have begun my reciting my Litanies of Hate that I might not be found wanting when my Templars close with the enemy and unleash their ZEAL!

All glory to the Emperor, our Chapter, and to Dorn! May the spirit of Sigismund inspire us to victory.

NO PITY. NO REMORSE. NO FEAR!

And Priamus, who shall be my Emperor's Champion, may his blade drink deeply of the enemy's life blood...

IMPERATOR VULT!

[Acebaur]

Grimaldus is rockin! Great work on your conversion stuff. I know from experience that doing heavy conversions, especially involving greenstuff is intimidating, but rewarding when you are finished with it. 

[nusphigor]

Really cool conversions brother!

[Marshal Mattias]

*standing ovation* really, just fabulous, I'm seriously impressed. Grim has never looked so good, and Priamus is every inch the rash-yet-effective champion he should be. I wanted to do the whole squad too at some point, but honestly I don't think I can make them live up to close what you have achieved! A project for some time in the future, I think ;)

[Honda]

Thank you  brothers, I had hoped you would be pleased. It was quite an interesting journey.

 

Next up will be Nerovar. Also I have an inkling to do something to tie all this together, but more on that later.

 

 

I wanted to do the whole squad too at some point, but honestly I don't think I can make them live up to close what you have achieved! A project for some time in the future, I think

 

 

I think you sell yourself short and are not giving your own abilities enough credit. After all, No Pity, No Remorse, and especially No Fear. ;)

[Marshal_Roujakis]

Excellent work Master Honda, the Priamus and the Grimaldus are gloriously done.

 

I was just going to ask if the lopsided shackle for the Crozius is intentional.

[Honda]

I was just going to ask if the lopsided shackle for the Crozius is intentional.

If you are referring to the encircled area, then I am happy to say "Yes"

This came about for a couple of reasons:

1. In the descriptions of Grimaldus wielding his crozius, there are mentions of him swinging one and two handed. Taking that into account and looking at how the crozius was presented on the cover of Helsreach (primary reference for model), it seemed like the ring/shackle needed to be able to slide, hence I arrived at a slightly loose fit.

2. When I was sculpting the head, I also realized that the haft was just a tad too long (~3 mm) and needed to be reduced.

3. The crozius head also fell off during sculpting, which was convenient, but annoying nonetheless.

So I finished the sculpting, then attached the arm to the torso. Unfortunately, when I got the crozius head in the right position (took a couple of tries) I noticed that the join to the haft wasn't as clean as I would have preferred.

However, it seemed that with the looser fit of the shackle and given the length of the chain in combination with the angle of the held weapon, that a "cocked" angle was appropriate.

Long story short: I messed up during construction and corrected the mistake by covering it up in the name of reality. :)

<cue cackling voice> "Yes my pretties, come into Honda's House of Horrors and all will be revealed!"

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Cheers,

[Honda]

+++ ENGAGE HERETICS WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE +++

+++ COMMENCE BOMBARDMENT +++

+++ IMPERATOR VULT +++

+++ TRANSMISSION END +++

[Marshal_Roujakis]

Honda, what are the big tank looking things?

(obviously haven't been through your entire thread )

 

oh... and thanks for the stud tutorial thing, wanted to do a few Mk. III for the Veteran squads.

 

edit for grammar errors :p

[Marshal Mattias]

@MR - They look like dread-sized drop pods to me, from this angle at least.

 

@Honda - you tease! More pics please ;) does this mean there's another batrep incoming? I haven't had a game in ages so I wish to feel the ZEAL vicariously through yours

[Acebaur]

Honda, what are the big tank looking things?

(obviously haven't been through your entire thread )

 

oh... and thanks for the stud tutorial thing, wanted to do a few Mk. III for the Veteran squads.

 

edit for grammar errors

 

 

Those my friend, are Caestus Assault Rams. A Templar boarding vehicle if there ever was one

 

Or were you referring to the cylindrical objects? Those are home made DP's.  (You said tank, which basically is what the Ram is, a flying tank :lol:)

[Honda]

[Honda]

The Really Black, Black Friday Jamboree

Soooo, Gar, Max (his son), NIX and I got together for a little Apoc action and to laugh and have a good time. Little did we know that "ghosts of GW's Christmas past" would materialize to haunt the battlefields of Christmas present.

First off, I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and avoided the "one tiny wafer" effect.

Unlike a lot of our games, we didn't really have a strong narrative that we were playing to, outside of Mo and I making sure we killed some witches. So everyone brought a fun list that they wanted to play and not surprisingly, we learned that "fun" has many and varied definitions.

What made the game entertaining for everyone was the attitudes of everyone playing. We were able to laugh despite the twists and turns and at the end of the day we were exhausted, but happy. Admittedly, some were a little happier than others, but we ended the day fired up and ready for the next game (December).

Templars

I decided to take some fun, but tough units because I knew our opponents were going to have one or two surprises and that they wouldn't be pleasant surprises.

I settled on 5 Crusader squads each with a Sword Brethren (maul), one special weapon, a powerfist, and bolt pistols and chainswords, though one squad was set up as a shooter with bolters.

I brought 5 squads of terminators, 1 9 man assault (5 TH/4 LC) and four standard each with an assault cannon. Supporting these squads were one unit of Gravturions, two Ironclads, and two landspeeders.

The Crusader squads and Ironclads came in with drop pods, one assault and one standard termie squad were in the Caestus, and the remainder of the termies would either walk or teleport on.

This force was led by Grimaldus, who was accompanied by the Emperor's Champion.

The rest of the forces will have to be described from memory, so details will be a little lacking.

NIX fielded a knight with the magma cannon thingie, an LR Ares, LR Achilles, three Vindicators, a twin armed multi-melta Contemptor, a Deredo with long skinny arms and a missile pod, two rifleman contemptors, a Hyperios rhino chassis, a pred with the super hot flame thrower, a pred with the magma-cannon thingie, three assault squads, and two tactical squads, led by a jump pack captain and his command squad, using Fire Hawks chapter tactics.

Opposing us was Gar, fielding his Silver Skulls with 5 10 man tactical squads in drop pods, 5 dreads (one Ironclad) in drop pods, three squads of assault terminators, a Falchion Heartbreaker (from 30K) and three MM equipped Land Speeders, led by a Chaplain in terminator armor with the Burning Blade.

And last, but certainly not least, Max the Ward showed up with "Bro-crons" whereby Blood Angels and Necrons are blood brothers and Necrons get some boost to their technical witchery. My Xen-o-meter was pegged out as soon as I heard about this abomination, which only fuel my ZEAL.

So Max brought 4-5 groups of #theblackragematters, led by Lemartes, Astorath, and Tycho. These groups were supported by two of the absolutely gross Death Company berzerker dreadnoughts and a ten man terminator squad with lightning claws. Also, there were a couple of small bolter #theblackragematters bolter squads as well. Oh, and a super shooty angry knight.

To complete this Wardian abomination, the Necrons brought a Ghost Ribs barge thingie with partially destroyed warriors in its gut, a squad of warriors, a large swarm of metal cockaroaches, and some dude with serious attitude issues zooming around in a croissant chariot.

After the terrain was set up, both sides deployed and we began to plan...

As the good guys (Templars and Fire Hawks), we had lured the heretics and silver witches (of all varieties) to a location where they could completely surround us, hence the "PIncer" deployment with the good guys as the defenders (Gar rolled a 4 for deployment).

Looking at how a lot of heat was deployed on our right, our plan was to line up heavy on the left side of the board and as quickly as possible, crush those forces so that we could then turn on the deeper threat on our right.

To be continued...

[Honda]

Part II

Turn 1

Well, things started off with a fizzle and then a bang. Although the good guys weren't necessarily positioned all in for an Alpha strike, as things worked out, it would have been extremely beneficial for us to hit first.

Unfortunately, I rolled a 5.

So the Heretics kicked things off with a bang. First they dropped a bunch of pods with dreadnoughts in them and we obliged their indulgence and returned fire using our AA dread assets. To say that I was extremely disappointed about how effective this might be is an understatement.

Based on how we read the rules, the shooting with Interceptor + Skyfire does not take place until the end of the unit's movement, i.e. the drop pod lands. Then the unit immediately disembarks. So it appears that Interceptor doesn't give us a chance to shoot them before they land, only aircraft suffer that indignity.

If I am misinterpreting this, please do let me know.

So all of Gar's dreads got on the ground, we killed three or so drop pods (whoop-de-do) and our center just got a little more interesting. By killing a drop pod we did get first blood, so we had that working for us.

However, big things were about to happen.

The Falchion decided to speak out. I just want to say that this tank is a beast. 180 inch range, 10" pie plate, Strength D. Just ugly.

Well it turns out that one of the windows on the ruins was left open and by the time Gar was done, the condo owners now have a large opening where they can install a land raider sized Bay window.

Unfortunately for us, Gar got a direct hit on our Knight and blew it to pieces, several that were large enough to take out a nearby vindicator and damage another.

This explosive event would become a theme for the rest of the game.

Adding insult to injury, the Ghost Ribs floater did some technical witchery and Tesla'd the bejeebers (Necron technical term) out of the Ares and left it with one hull point.

Some of the drop pod dreads fired their melta and/or multi-melta guns and before we knew it, we were down a knight and three vindicators. Not a good deal

In response, we fired back on the left side with the Ares and Achilles, taking down some bolter death company and a dread, also knocking a hull point off of one of the berzerker DC dreads.

The Caestus came in and melta'd the Falchion and attendant LRC, but only caused a couple Hull points on the Falchion and 1 on the LRC. Not great. I didn't ram with the Caestus. I went back and forth on that, but the circumstances just didn't seem to justify putting it and the termie squad inside at risk whilst hovering.

Note: There is quite a different between a Shadowsword and a Falchion. First off the Falchion has two barrels, so it gets to re-roll drift while it is placing a small sun in your back yard and it has 12 HP vs. the bog standard Baneblade chassis of 40K. That and BS 4 and you have a very nasty piece of kit.

We also brought in the crusader drop pods and landed them in areas that would allow us to grab victory points, punching one of the Silver Skulls squads pretty good with the shooty Crusader squad.

End of Turn 1: Silver witches and really angry Art students 1, Imperials 4

Turn 2

Hated they may be, at least the Heretics were consistent, I'll give them that.

The mighty Falchion fired again and this time it hit the Achilles and trashed it, a Landspeeder Typhoon was not able to dodge the huge template and things were beginning to look pretty bad on our left side. The upside to all this is that a majority of the objectives were on the right side...of course, so were the ugliest parts of their army, but "Hey" this is war.

On the right side, there was a lot of noise and flashes of light, but for the most part, the crusaders made their saves and held onto their objectives. The downside is that the Death Company squads were going to be within charge reach next turn and a number of terminator squads had shown up to challenge our possession of the objectives.

The assault terminators disembarked from their Caestus and assaulted the Falchion, doing another six hull points, but I didn't get a big enough wallop to take it out, which was painful because we had to get rid of the beast because it was killing us.

We brought on assault squads on the left side which took out the silver witch carrying Ghost Ribs and crushed the silver cockaroaches. The crusader squads were firing for effect, but there was a lot of FNP going on.

One shining point of light for us was the Gravturions and a couple of standard terminator squads removing the stain of the Astorath witch and his escort from the battlefield.

So we punched back, but lacked the heavy impact of some of the heavier units of the enemy.

End of Turn 2: Silver witches and really angry Art students 4, Imperials 6

Turn 3

This turn went pretty quick.

For the Heretics, the issue came down to whether or not they could get the Death Company into a charge with our units. If they did, our units died, pure and simple. Tell me again why the BAs think their codex is so bad?

Gar's big assault termie unit and my big termie assault unit got to duke it out. Grimaldus put a wound on himself firing his plasma pistol in overwatch, but then fought the termie sergeant with a TH/SS to a draw. Not too bad. From a combat perspective, we lost about the same number, so it was a push...except for one little thing. Gar's chaplain had the burning blade and he did hit so our WS and something else went down to 1, which was going to make things pretty tough next turn.

Note to Gar: We didn't do the Incandescent rule on you for hitting me, so that's something to remember for next time.

About this time, one of Gar's Storm Raven's shot down one of the Caestus (Rear shot, Pen'd, rolled a six) causing the passengers to receive a S10 AP2 wound.

Priamus, the Emperor's Champion, passed his Invul save, looked at the dead terminators and said, "Slackers".

Then he turned around and started moving toward Lemartes.

Pedro Cantor and his termies took out the Gravturions and knocked down a squad of termies. The Falchion fired again and took out my two Ironclads and on the order of another seven or eight Fire Hawks tacticals.

End of Turn 3: Silver witches and really angry Art students 9, Imperials 7

Epilogue:

Max and Gar really tore us up. There were a number of mistakes that we made just because we hadn't played in around 5 months, but the reality of the situation was, we were only going to be able to hold on to one objective next turn and the Heretics would have five, so we licked our wounds and made our way to our Thunderhawks for pick up.

Well done, Max and Gar!

[Aqui]

It's taken me a while, but I've enjoyed reading this topic. It's given me a few ideas for my (non Templar) armies

 

Good stuff!

[Honda]

It's taken me a while, but I've enjoyed reading this topic. It's given me a few ideas for my (non Templar) armies

 

 

Well, the author has a tendency to ramble on occasion, however every now and then the blind squirrel trips over an acorn.

 

I'm looking forward to being inspired in turn.

 

Cheers,