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The Memoria Crusade (ETL Vow 1 complete)


mytimeprez

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I have amassed a fairly large collection of the zealous brothers in black over the years. I have a fair amount painted, some that need touch ups because of age, and some that are unpainted. My goal is to be 100% painted over the next few months and will post pics as I finish.

 

Current army stands at:

 

100 initiates

20 neophytes

30 sword brethren

High command

Marshal

Castelian

3 chaplains

Command squad

 

2 LRC

Storm Raven

2 storm talons

Vindicator

Predator

3 rhinos

2 dreadnoughts

 

Hope to have more pictures of what's already completed up today.

Here's a few pictures of some infantry that was previously completed sorry for the poor picture quality.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/7B00A5E7-707F-451E-BAAC-A0F06D4FDB27.jpg

 

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A bit of fluff:

 

 

Sweat is beading on my fore head; my hands are shaking. I told them I was just a remembrancer. I have worked hard and been loyal to the cause my entire career. Thirty five years of unquestioning service to the imperium and now they ask this of me. I cannot do it, but if I don't they brand me a traitor and my fate is worse than death. Now, I sit in this dark chamber known as The Memoriam aboard a massive battle barge trying to find what they are looking for. I just need to find the right tome. The book of Godfried, the book of Marius, the book of Adonis, no, no, no these are not the right ones. Ah, there it is, and a massive tome bound in leather with the pages edged in gold. The cover reads The Book of Ricard: Marshal of the Memoria crusade.

 

I start reading, not entirely sure what I am expected to find: " I Ricard, now Marshal of the Memoria Crusade, will uphold the honor of the emperor, the eternal crusade, my primarch, and my high marshal. I will compete the task given unto me no matter the costs. With over a hundred and fifty brothers of the eternal crusade under my command, the weight of this crusade is apparent and I will not fail."

Over a hundred and fifty astartes cannot be correct I think to myself. That's more than a full battle company and I know there are more forces scattered elsewhere in the galaxy. This Ricard must be exaggerating. I continue: " We attacked just before dawn. The Xenos filth hoped to stand firm against the might of the emperor. They were mistaken. This was our world, and we mean to take it back. Before all the history of this planet are lost. Here lie the next clue to unraveling the mysteries of our chapter."

 

I read for hours, other serfs do not even notice me. They do not even look up from their writing. I cannot understand what they expect me to find. Are there some mysteries here that they think are useful? Do they doubt Ricard? Why him specifically? I am sure I will never know. I will just keep reading and report my findings as if my life depended on it. Well, sadly it does.

Here is a couple of army shots I took tonight, a few units didn't mak it into the picture do to where they are assembly wise (venerable dread, terminator squad, devastater squad). And there are quite a few here that need paint work done. Anyways, this is the army for the most part where it sits today.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/426925AD-BF0D-4085-A115-CF61E910F2EC.jpg

 

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/62A18517-415B-4454-AC76-5F4A153A830F.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/5F421510-4336-430C-8C7B-90718857600C.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/30FDA749-D248-4FB4-8075-C8B79DA2B779.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/6ACF7CD0-C08C-4788-968C-F23CD2A5C73C.jpg

 

Again sorry for poor picture quality.

The quality of the photos as well as that of the miniatures is great. Army shots, and in particular as impressive as yours, are something special (they show like nothing else the result of all the hard work and time invested into developing an army) and always make me feel a little bit of envy and motivation. It seems that I have to browse through your thread, as (if I'm not mistaken) there are close-ups of the rhino hatches and the LRC's top panels somewhere and I'd like to take a closer look at those.

  • 2 weeks later...

Got to work last night on some terminators. These are a mix of dark vengeance and black reach termies, so there was some chopping and hacking envolved. Now, I just have to sculpt the tabard and then they will be ready for paint.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/F3CA8BC7-3154-4BAE-8C8D-CE785FB679FF.jpg

  • 3 weeks later...

Through much battle and extermination of Xenos and heretic alike the Memoria Crusade have reclaimed a sacred relic dating back to the Battle of Terra.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/8346FD4B-5E84-4B69-B7AE-4E2CA192F435.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/F11991AE-FCE3-45A4-904D-AD3C4BAE029B.jpg

 

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http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/37895D5F-0110-4394-A80A-27390A17201B.jpg

 

 

Spent a good deal of time last night cleaning up some nasty mold lines and trying to get the fit right. There is still a lot to do. I will still have to do some gap filling and add details.

  • 2 weeks later...

Tonight the Memoria Crusade went to war.

 

It was a 2v2 game. My Templars allied with Blood Angels against Eldar and Tau.

 

Here's what I was running

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/D0F95942-D7E8-4531-95AA-80A9368A726B.jpg

 

The Blood Angels had a LRR, big termie squad, sternguard, assault marines, furioso dread, and more termies. It was so special 1st company detachment so most of his stuff started in reserve.

 

The opponents had Eldar wind rider and wraith hosts and Tau cadre armies.

 

Ran a male storm mission with imperium having 1st turn.

 

Deployment

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/6E22AA7F-45BF-4D87-BD7A-53AD12AA51A5.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/48B6ED67-0214-4DDA-A855-5BE559BB6056.jpg

 

Turn one saw the centurions kill a wraith lord, sicarian took some wound off the wraith night, and other miscalanious shooting. Xenos killed the centurions in their turn, and really couldn't do much to the armor wall they were looking at.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/684F9187-18FE-4593-93F6-F906043FF621.jpg

 

Turn two talons come on and finish off the wraith knight and all BA reserves come in.

 

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By turn three the imperial forces had secured the center of the board but there were still tau reserves to come in and the Eldar was attempting to flank us.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/E9923F71-E6E3-432D-AC28-C1143F10650C.jpg

 

Turn 4 was rough for the Templars, lost both LRC and vindicator couldn't shoot, one talon stuck moving straight forward. However, sicarian did down some flyin tau suit.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/B8F8C87D-BFB4-43D8-B769-8B5112C67C15.jpg

 

End of turn 5, ⎌Templars had secured another 5 VP to brin the total for the imperium to 13 versus the Xenos 8 so we called the game at that point. Victory for the Templars.

 

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/FF9EB109-D9A7-4E62-9A32-21F8C0AD4A75.jpg

Good work brother - the Xenos cannot stand before the armoured might of the Black Templars!

 

Any tactica feedback for us? How did your new Sicaran perform in your eyes? And which foul creatures ended the LRCs? (I have rarely played against tau/eldar so it helps to know what to watch out for!)

Well, the first LRC was glanced to death by one lonely wraith guard with a strength D flamer. The major issue there was I had to sit on an objective for two consecutive turns or I would've just moved out of his range.

 

The second LRC exploded due to fusion gun shots by the tau commander shadowsun. And let's be honest we all know that tau are cheaters.

 

The sicarian did well, a good fire support unit. Think of a bigger angrier and more effective predator. It took several wounds off the wraith knight, took down I flying creature battle suit from the tau, and even in the final turn slayed the Eldar warlord and his squad. However, they didn't shoot at it much so I will have to play it more to see how survivable it is.

 

The two storm talons also performed well. Overall I was pretty happy with the way the list performed. It was not as CC oriented as I normally run, but the survivability of all those tanks was nice.

Interesting stuff! I'm feeling like I really need to work on a second stormtalon soon... I'm impressed by the Sicarian actually - I was never a fan of the Predator but this thing just looks so awesome. Maybe if I clear my backlog I can treat myself ;)
  • 2 weeks later...

Finished up assembly for this guy tonight. I'm going to add a couple more details before priming and will be ready for ETL.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/A07132C1-3A36-46C0-BC5A-05333BCCDF96.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/5458B4BB-9A84-4596-AC30-D82630FCDFDC.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/E81C3E2B-25AA-4F32-B7FF-3764ADAF5402.jpg

Got these two primed today and now they will await painting until the gates open for ETL.

You might need to check with your techmarines, they might be gett'in into old man Helbrecht's hooch stash, that Predator has smoke launchers pointing in a peculiar position. tongue.png

 

Got these two primed today and now they will await painting until the gates open for ETL.

 

 

You might need to check with your techmarines, they might be gett'in into old man Helbrecht's hooch stash, that Predator has smoke launchers pointing in a peculiar position. :P

Yeah I figured firing backwards then the smoke would actually cover the vehicle.

So, part of the theme of my army is carrying the banners of other crusades and recording their great deeds. I decided it was time to come up with my own banner for the Memoria Crusade.

 

Let me know what you all think, the picture is kinda rough. I did it in an app on my iPad.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/f65cfbbd721e436592e971a12140acd1.jpg

 

Here is a 2nd option, just end added

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee474/mytimeprez/103e931593017650d969391d9b65ff12.jpg

Looks cool! The only thing I would add is a book or rools of parchment, as those really ties in the theme of your crusade

That's supposed to be a book below the knight's left arm. I was hoping for a better way to tie that in, but couldn't think of anything else. I'm open to suggestions.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

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