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My, my, how time truly does fly....

I'd like to give y'all a small, wordy update on my general disposition and and where i'm going to be taking the thread in the near future, so, here we go!

As some of y'all probably already know, i've been kinda busy prepping for several things, My yearly trip to wonderfest just ended, and man, i had a lot of fun!!!

I don't want to come across as a guy who likes to brag, and i know it may seem like it, but i'd like to tell everybody how i did anyway, so please don't take it the wrong way.... biggrin.png

What i entered, and what they got:

-the good captain Sveratel Kostin, along with the assault marine i'd finished waay back when, they earned a bronze

-the trio of Terminators from space hulk that were fully completed, also brought home a bronze

-a gaggle of genestealers, bronze

-a team of tau pathfinders, bronze

-a riptide that i'd spent a whole day painting, non stop! bronze

-three of the sternguard veterans with magnetized parts, the HB marine, and a pair with standard running poses, also bronze.

-lastly, and this one was a doozy, was my scratch build, which got cut significantly shorter for various reasons...... it brought home a silver, and also several sponsored awards!

Starship modellers' best starship- teens award, (which made NO sense, it wasn't even a starship tongue.png )

and a pair of Iwata* sponsored awards, best teens, and best airbrushed teens', in addition i got a new airbrush, a micro air compressor, and an airbrush cleaning pot.

I'd just like to throw in a shoutout to the guys at Wonderfest for putting together such a terrific event, (not that they'll ever see this anyway. happy.png)

I took a couple of crappy photos... but i'm not entirely sure they're regulation, so i think i won't bother posting them..... don't wanna cause any trouble for the mods!

anyways, as far as this thread goes, it'll be getting a lot more of my attention once school lets out for summer vacation, i have the rest of this week to worry about for finals, and then i have an SAT test on saturday, then i should be home free!!! just got to buckle down to finish these damn finals. CAN'T WAIT TO BE DONE WITH SCHOOL!

First thing i may try to do is get together with some of my buddies and play a game or 3 or four of 40K with my buddies, that riptide paired with a couple of drop pod dreads will take a notch or two out of all those Eldar and Nids for sure.... devil.gif

building wise, i plan on hitting the Iron harbingers with a bucket load of paint, i'm really excited to see where i can take them as far as a story goes.... But i'm also planning on getting my claws further into the Imperial Knight, seeing some of the Mecha in the contest i'd gotten a bunch of concept ideas that i want to try out, i'll get sketching while i'm on the plane home.

Assuming the Knight will be an ongoing project for at least a month, i'd like to throw in some work on the Tundaran Knights, the terminators come to mind, as i have a hand full that are nearly done already, and then i want to try out the traditional scheme on the assault marines, because i may repaint Kostin and the in progress assault marines to match the termies.... i'll get y'alls' opinions on that later.

Not to mention the command squad and dread.... i have sooo much started and too little done!

Anyways, i've talked y'alls eyes out long wnough (HUH?) so i'll be going.

Looking forward to getting y'alls' input on a crap-load of my stuff, my head's been spinning with all these concepts and ideas and my hands can't keep up!

Have a good one! thanks.gif

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CONGRATS !!!!!!

Thanks a ton!

progress has finally been made! Boy howdy, have i missed doing this stuff! happy.png

Time for a quick Pic dump...

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lined up shots:

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Individual shots:

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And lastly, a teaser for the WIP Rhino: ( that bottom shot of the body reminded me of a river first time i saw it.... neat!)

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Rest of the squad to come after i get out of school for summer. The rhino too!

Alrighty, now my favorite part (no joke!), self evaluation:

-not too unhappy with the edge highlights, coulda been more right on some spots, little sloppy here and there

-BIG issue--- mold lines. definitely don't want to forget clean up in the future!

-pleased with the lenses and lights, found a good trick for making the eyes look nice, put the glaze on over white scar, then gently pull off some of the glaze from the front of the eye with your finger or a tissue, leaving the color in the back, and white in the front.

- very pleased with the primary armor color, it came out just how i'd hoped!

-like the HB marines' blue, but may not work with the eye color... happy with the assaults' red, and the regular green too.

After i finish these guys, what should i do? got a couple of options...

-Imperial Knight conversions (sorely under completed, looking around the net for inspiration on a design i like that is doable heavily inspired by mecha ATM...)

-Terminators (not too many left! can get some face painted too!)

-Command squad and dread and assault marines/raptors in trees (need to reset up air-booth to prime, then they're good to go)

-combat familiars (repainting and re approaching how i do them from the bottom up)

Okay, i gotta get to school. LAST DAY OF JUNIOR YEAR!!!!

More to come later today! Thanks for lookin', and i look forward to seeing y'all again! biggrin.png

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DUDE! That Rhino is looking awesome! The bare metal look is fantastic. Your eye lenses are looking pretty cool too. IDK about anyone else, but I'm excited to see what you come up with for that knigget! 

 

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DANG !!!! Looking Solid nice OSL.

Thank ya! i plan on doing some on the rhinos' floodlights too.

DUDE! That Rhino is looking awesome! The bare metal look is fantastic. Your eye lenses are looking pretty cool too. IDK about anyone else, but I'm excited to see what you come up with for that knigget!

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Haha, thanks a bunch!

I take it that you want me to work on the knight next then? tongue.png I still need to plan a bunch!

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3 new tacticals, making 9 and leaving the sergeant, ole' one arm over here took quite a hit and i can't seem to find his missing appendage anywhere...

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individuals:

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and now, the rhino:

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If i were to guess, i'd say he's half way done, needs lots of tidying up on the green, highlights, toning down of the watermarks, finishing the exhausts and treads, so one, and so forth.

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To do tomorrow:

finish rhino

finish tactical cleanup, then sergeant

start drawing Knight designs.

Speaking of knight designs, i have some ideas as far as weapons go, i;d like to start out with making the regular loadout, but also want to make some custom weapons, and a chainfist/super-duper-flamer for a counts as Acheron... the knight will be a 'little' taller than the paladin/errant, but shorter than the Cerastus family, background ideas will come with the drawings tomorrow, or whenever they get done.

'till then, thanks for lookin'!!! laugh.png

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next update!

finished the rhino, save the interior, which i was like, meh.

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also slapped together a dread to paint, got an ironclad that i'm planning some custom weapons for as a warm up for the Knight, gonna be fun!

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and the bases for the tacticals, can;t paint them as of yet because my airbooth still isn't set up, as my dad's out with a cold and can't quite help yet. will do tomorrow!

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speaking of tomorrow, my next set of games with some friends will possibly be tomorrow evenin', we never schedule these things ahead of time, so maybe not.... but if i do, i'll keep y'all updated on the in and out and whatnot. it'll be fun!

next job is priming and painting as much as possible after i finish the squad sergeant, then to start drafting the knights' project outlook, and possibly hit a couple assault marine/raptors with paint, we'll have to see.

that's it from me, hope y'all are liking the daily uploads, i LOVE this momentum i have going for me...

see y'all later, thanks for looking! smile.png

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Brothers lost in a sea of whispers and gore

Those of the Tundaran Knights chosen sent to the assault squads were known to be ferocious killers, driven to the brink of madness by the gene-curse afflicting the chapter.

First into the action, the quintet from squad 3 of the 3rd assault company, the "Bloodied dracken", were exceptionally experienced in search and destroy missions, well known among their peers for their swift and ruthless hunting of targets across planets throughout the segmentum.

After seeing their chapter torn apart, the Bloodied Dracken saw to it personally that those responsible payed for their transgressions against such a fiercely loyal chapter of space marines, and personally executed dozens of conspirators and Inquisitorial agents who had collaborated in their excommunication form the Imperium. Currently, the brothers of the Bloodied Dracken take direct orders from Vrah Kostin, working as a kill team to take out enemy leadership to break the chain of command.

"Sergeant" Kepell Hrana

Eldest of the squad, Hrana was moved to the position of temporary squad lead after the death of the squads' previous sergeant, who'd given his life to destroy the nurgle infested compound on the moon Mex-al III a decade prior to the chapters' excommunication. Hrana still holds the honorific, despite the squads' unspoken agreement against leadership amongst the 5 brothers.

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Of note:

-the green markings on the left pauldron are campaign markings, a tradition amongst the 6th company.

-Arsenia patter hand flamer, made in the factorums of the Veriah mechanicus

- the recently severed head of a militarum section commander, who must have triggered the gene-curse with exceptional strength upon meetin his demise.

-the baroque pattern of power armor donned by the assault marines, hand crafted by members of the mechanicus based on the planet Veriah, who maintain close relations with the chapter to this day.

-the talismans and fetishes adorning his armor are a reflection of hispersonal heritage, in remembrance of the chapters' home planet of Tundara, a common sight throughout the chapter.

zatrail jehnek

A lost lamb among the Bloodied Dracken, Jehnek has suffered dearly after suffering significant head trauma incurred during a boarding action against a xenos battlecruiser mid warp jump several years before the chapters' excommunication. Since then, the state of his gene-curse worsened, amplifying the voices ringing in his mind, and almost driving him to the brink of madness.

His designation to the squad was in the hopes that the other four members of the Dracken could contain his current state, and turn his anger and frustration into fuel to fight the chapters' many enemies, to which they not only succeeded, but surpassed their expected results. On the battlefield, Jehnek is amonstrosity to behold, bearing down on his prey with an unmatched pair of lightning claws crafted to match the missing digit on his right hand. The helm he wears has been significantly modified, soundproofed and visually enhanced so as to lower the interference in his state of mind. Furthermore, enhanced subliminal audio speakers run the length of the interior of the helm, which clearly convey orders given to him by his brothers while maintaining a low pitched drone that further dampens the ringing of voices in his broken mind.


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Of note-

-the unmatched pair of lightning claws, which match his 5 fingered left hand, and four fingered right.

the marking of the Bloodied Dracken on the right paulrdron, a claw dubbed in the blood of the Tundaran Knights' prisoners.

-the campaign markings on the left pauldron are shown twisted and deformed, a side effect of modifications made to the armor just prior to the squads' deployment by chapter serfs.

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Had a helluva lot of fun painting these guys, gonna skip my pros and cons for now, just cuz i want to get back out there ASAP and paint some more....

gonna finish up those terminators i'd been trying ot finish for a while now, then i have no clue, more to come soon.

Thanks for lookin' y'all! laugh.png


oh yeah, and i plan on redoing the others that i'd painted in the bone and black-green scheme earlier, including Kostin, so that's gona happen, soon..... [/url]">http://http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/158023-image-14/'>gallery_77140_10004_31633.jpeg

there's a comparison, tell me which y'all like more....

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Definitely the newer guys!

Can't wait to get the others redone and finally finish the assault squad! They'll be really fun!

thanks for the input! laugh.png

So, sorry for a lack of stuff, between xenos, summer ACT testing, gaming with friends, and my internet being down for the past 3 days, it's been tough getting to an update!

General update time, so, i'll start with what's new, of course! Ranting, initiated!

I spent the night at a friends' house Thursday, and together, the 5 of us played ALOT of games. I myself stuck with my Marines every time, and had... 1 win against DE (a pair of loaded raiders, drazhar, and some jetbikes) 3 or 4 losses (tabled by grey knights, torn apart by an older marine player, and a near loss against Eldar) and a tie in what has to be the most strange game i've ever even seen played...

~750 points, my tank heavy marines vs a nidzilla list, started out normal, 2 mysterious objectives in deployment area, each of us with an air unit for spice, flyrant and stormraven fully loaded.

Turn one went normally, i sniped a lictor off the table with a whirlwind, somehow, and promptly lost both my razorbacks to the other 2 lictors that infiltrated as well. Turn 2, one of the guys walks over, plops down a SHADOWSWORD on the table, claiming it's "terrain"... then, puts Khârn on the tank, says if he rolls a 6, Khârn becomes active and a killpoint objective... rolls 2 dice,they're both 6... CRAP.

Khârn instakills a 3 man unit of nid warriors right then and there, and, with a bonus eternal warrior rule, makes back the one wound he'd taken... Promptly proceeds to rampage the rest of the game through the tyranid half of the table.

But it gets better, 2 more guys walk in, with varying numbers of Apocalypse/high cost models, and start throwing dice left and right saying they get on the table on a 6. after 10 minutes of bickering, what had been a completely normal 2 player 750 point game, turned into a 4 player game with:

a Shadowsword, Khârn, a las-vendetta, a knight crusader, a pair of empty stormravens, and a necron obelisk...

that goes to say, nothing survived the next 6 turns from either myself, nor the tyranids sides. (on the upside, my own stormraven insta-killed his flyrant with the assault cannon turret and a missile, before being ripped from the sky immediately after by an assortment of knight turret and vendetta.) happy.png

We plan on remaking the battle for maccrage this thursday (the part where the entire first company gets eaten) we've amassed some 60-70 terminators and a crap load of hormagaunts and warriors... it'll be fun! i'll take pics if y'all want.

on the modelling side, several of the guys came to me offering money to paint their stuff, which is cool! i'm starting to paint a crimson fist rhino as we speak, plans for a heldrake in the colors of either "the cleaved" or "the purge" are also on the table... if i do start doing this kinda thing, i may post some pictures of whatever is appropriate, just for fun, lemme know if that peaks anybody's interest.

Lastly, i got tired of all the fliers crowding the airspace around my friends' gaming tables, so i decided to push something up the queue to put together and paint... devil.gif

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The airways WILL belong to the Emperor. PERIOD.

gonna start priming the command squad and dreadnought fo rthe Knights now, i'll post later what i get done, maybe a couple will be finished??

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Have a good one! biggrin.png

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Ran out of likes the new stuff is AWESOME!!!!

thank ya bunches!

little later than i'd like but got some stuff cleared off my to do list.

first off, Terminators. Don;t have a back story for them just yet, but they are officially done, which is nice! that leaves like 5 more to do! biggrin.png

crappy pics are crappy.....

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*sighs* i REALLY want a new phone...

Movin' on!

bases for the command squad and extras for the Knights, including the dreads' on the left

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slapped some paint on a friends' Crimson Fist rhino, which, for whatever reason, has a Blood angel gunner....? it was a quick job, as he requested, but hey, 10 bucks is 10 bucks! Ya get whatchya pay fer!

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WIP btw

lastly, the dread is nearly done, but i didn't wanna take pictures at this point because of how close to completion it is. so the full pictures will come tomorrow!

in the mean time, teasers!

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yes, that'll be a crimson fist helmet. wonder why..... msn-wink.gif

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most favorite trophy to paint, EVER! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD B****ES!!!

(couldn't help myself tongue.png )

happy livin'! thanks fer lookin'! laugh.png

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These guys are great, great use of bits and a very nice paint job. Also loving the story. Keep up the great work!

biggrin.png thank ya much!

So, i spent literally all day working on this guy, and i'm REALLY happy with how he looks... his sloppily written back story is in the bottom 3rd of page 3, for those interested.

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starovehk Rizene Porozky " the contained slaughterer"

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"My brothers march to war, desperate to avenge our slain kin... my lone beating heart yearns to sing out my hatred for those who would see us dead, after we dedicated and sacrificed so much for them.

But i cannot.

My voice has long since been stolen by the dredge speak of xenos and heretics most foul,

I can no longer sing the hyms of war that honor my forebears.

I can no longer sound the dirges that mourn our home, lost to the voids of space and the annals of time.

I can no longer bring courage to my dearest kin in their darkest hour.... No matter how i call out to them, my words never make it past my lips.

Thus, it is through my actions shall i make my intentions known.

I will bring vengeance upon the wicked, and abstain my brothers the pain of our gene curse. I have born my burdens for eons, and i will do so a thousand times more if it will see the future of my chapter secured and our names remembered.

My claws of adamantium will tear apart our foes,the fire i bring will be pure in its' burning hatred.

I shall be the blazing sun that wipes away the black stains that lie upon our name.

We are the Knights of Tundara. Before our wrath, all is forfeit."

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*of note*

-the deer symbol on the right armor plate is a personal heraldry, a harkening to the royal houses of the ancient planet Tundara

-chapter symbol and company designation on the left leg plate

-ancient rune patterns throughout the armor plates were a symbolic ward against evil in the old religion of Tundara, a faith still practiced in moderation by the chaplaincy to this day.

-the trophies of many slain foes are attached to the armor of the dreadnought, among them, the carcass of a Khornate Berserker, a crimson fists' helm, and various human and animal skulls, talons, and claws.

- tally marks on the armor surrounding the personal symbol are a form of service marking, notating either one, 2, or 5 decades of service.

-a defaced aquila on the sarcophagus, a common sight throughout the chapters' survivors...

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Wow, that was a lot of fun to do!

pros

happy with the overall conversion

base looks good

osl was good for a first time attempt (with airbrush)

overall appeal of the model being done laugh.png

cons

the runes started looking a little like camo.... sweat.gif

my picture quality!!!

free hand wasn't the best, but also not bad for another first

white trim could be much cleaner

first time trying fire too, putting it down as negative because it could use some real work

oh, and a fun little perspective shot too:

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since i'm thinking about it, i'll also mention that i'm getting 10 bucks for that rhino, and a request for more marines, 100 bucks worth! I won't be letting this get to my head, but i do admit i feel a little special getting a request for a commission from my friends.

G'night y'all! thanks fer lookin'!!

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NEXT UP!!

gotta LOVE the smell of simple green just overloading your schnoz with minty freshness.

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i was gettin' dizzy.....

started painting a vanguard demis squad, dreadnought, a pair of devastators, and a coupla tacticals in the Harbingers' scheme.

oh yeah, and somethin' else too....devil.gif

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(between me and my friends, that's the 3rd raven we have, i'm going to be that guy who drops 3 stormravens in a 1500 point game.....with dreadnoughts, of course. thumbsup.gif )

also, got itching to do some custom builds, so i made an insert to create a whirlwind from the hunter/stalker body, original idea (albeit on a rhino chassis) was stolen from somebody, not sure who.... But i put my own little twist into 'em anyway, so thanks to whoever did it first!

started with a box insert

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used tank pistons and plane landing gear to make an arm to open the doors

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and then build out the interior frame and added the payload, 4 verticals, and 3 high speed, low altitude warheads.

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Looking at it, i may have been better off using larger missiles as the payload, but i'm still happy with the way it came out. Nids can kiss their tails goodbye!

I'm also thinking about making some sort of ammo tractor or trailer that'd follow around the tank... just for eye candy and practicality. Main issue is i'm kinda outta missiles of that shape and description, and it takes effort to do. tongue.png

that's all i got, thanks fer lookin'! laugh.png

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Thanks a ton, sergeant!

another quick update, been out and about all day with family stuff, so not a ton:

basecoats on an assault marine, my summoner librarian, and my smoke wreathed chaplain in all his aquila covered glory

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also, i started painting up the librarians' base... i'm not too sure about the ghost/familiars' paintjob, what do y'all think? i may redo it.

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anyways, that's it! thanks a bunch for takin' a look! happy.png

EDIT:: MAN do my pictures suck!

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Looking great! haven't been on in a while but its great to see this coming along nicely. Also, why haven't I seen any paint on the knight yet? tongue.png

(Also the picture quality isn't that bad)

haha, is a dreadnought and a bunch of marines not good enough?! happy.png

he still needs to be built before i can paint him, and that's going to be a journey in its' own right, because i'm planning on so many big conversions and scratch built add-ons without ever even handling the kit before! sweat.gif (gotta really start practicing my sculpting!)

i know the pictures' quality isn't always the worst, but i just wish that i had a dlr camera or something, the current quality just ain't cuttin' it for me...

thanks for takin' a look invictus!

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got an unrelated update today folks. hope for making a good change of pace.



So, my friends and i got together again to play around with a custom scenario recreating the battle for Maccrage, and to put it simply, it was a bloodbath. sweat.gif

i played the stoic poster boys of 40k, gathering about 50-60 terminators (ranging from assault on black reach termies without their heads, to grey knight paladins and Logan Grimnar) along with 10 vanguard veterans, and 15 sternguard, and tacked on 5 dreadnoughts (a contemptor mortis among them) for good measure.

Then, we took out EVERY SINGLE TYRANID in the house, and poured them down on the other half of the table. including a flyrant, a hive crone, a carnifex, tyrrannofex, a pair of trygons, 6 warriors, 23 genestealers, and approximately 150 horgaunts/termagaunts/gargoyles. To simulate an unending horde, the warriors and gaunts could "respawn" after a sufficient number of casualties were suffered to create a new unit.

In addition, we created a sufficient stand in for the fortress of Hera, and setup the rules for the end game. After the end of 7 turns, a space marine unit must have at least one member of the squad within the teleport radius (5 inches of the fortress courtyard), then the surviving members of the squad get pulled. Additionally, a pair of objectives in the middle of the table provide a 3 inch radius as a teleporter relay, for the assault oriented units.
For the second game, the plan is to use the Space Hulk board pieces and recreate a fortress layout to play on. Being a much smaller game, we forbade dreadnoughts and large bio creatures.
Dreadnoughts would have their points cost taken and given to the marines player to replenish ranks, and the tyranid player would take the total points value of the marines' survivors and add 500 points to create an army centered around infiltration units (stealers, gaunts, and lictors).


so, for the game we played itself, i'll put here if y'all are interested, along with some pics!

here's the layout of my half the board, the fortress of Hera looks a bit ancient..... and unarmed.... hmm

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From the get go, the tyranids were on the heavy offensive, they took the initiative, and helped themselves to both of the midfield objectives, which i'd never claim for the rest of the game.
the fliers proved to be WAY too overpowered in the list, tearing apart terminators and my dreadnoughts with ease. and the trygons refused to die, glutting themselves on vanguard veterans and assault terminators left and right.
my only response early game was to back up and pull towards the fortress while laying down a hellstorm of bolter rounds and assault cannon shots....
too little too late in the center and right side of the field, which were smashed into by a wall of scything talons and crushing claws.

the squads holding the center of the field were reduced to bloody pulps from carnifex and tyrannofex fire..... then charged by

gaunts and the burly 'fex:

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there's a terminator with an assault cannon in there, somewhere..... (and yes, that pile of nids is a common theme throughout the game.)

later, i'd managed to gat a pair of assault terminators to the tyrannofex, surviving the wrath of a trygon and smashing its' head in...

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only to die horribly, leaving the tyrannofex with a single wound, which i promptly stole with 3 squads worth of stormbolters and a hevay flamer.

luckily, my left flank was able to take care of the hive crone that harried their flanks, a dreadnought putting it out of the sky turn 4.

But the real problem came when a horde of 70 some-odd hormagaunts and termagaunts with devourers poured over a hilly outcropping. the only things stopping them were 3 assault terminators, and a sturdy line of guns.

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at the end of the 7th turn, i'd pulled as many of my men back to the fortress walls as possible, leaving the dreadnought shone above to face the horde in close combat, (lucky me)

after the dust settled, and the last game turn ended, the survivors numbered....

6. and a dreadnought.

taking the points, and asking a favor of my opponent, i bought a pair of assault cannon terminators, and received a chaplain in terminator armor, for free (out of pity, most likely!)

and so, the fortress awaits.

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(i've been told that the tyranid army will be made of approximately 10 lictors and a deathleaper... oh crap!)




If y'all'd like, i can take better notes of what happens in this next game, whenever it happens....?



Alright, that's all from me for now, i plan on finishing up the stuff i started painting and then i'll see if i can work up the courage to look at the Imperial Knight.... I may need to back-scale the conversions i'm planning to a simple repose, new weapon arms, and an attempted new faceplate piece.
For the first knight, that is. msn-wink.gif


Thanks for takin' a look y'all! happy.png

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Looked like fun. I always enjoy playing against Nids & Orks.

I just wish i had a stormraven! the flyrant and crone were absolute MURDER, especially stacked up with the big monsters like the trygons.....

actually, a whirlwind or two woulda been great too. (my opponent was very much against it though, wonder why tongue.png )

Holy! All those bugs!

that big blob of termagants all had devourers... completely wiped out a unit of 5 terminators in one round of shooting. (the ones behind the 3 hammernators, to be specific)

129 dice all at once, and yet still only 5 failed wounds. i wish i'd had the termies in units of 10!

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short update, for now. I plan on adding another one later today. Fun stuff!

oh, and before i start, i wanted to change the silver lads' names from something pretty lame like Iron Harbingers, to something better, like.....

The Lucens Equo, or, The Fire Stallions

I'm at the end of my rope for names, so if there are any better ideas, feel free to drop 'em below! msn-wink.gif

(this also means that i'll be making chapter symbols for them soon, and updating the "finished" models with them as well.)

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Brother ancient Jyu-Viole-Grace

(joo, vee-ol, grass)

The Lucens Equo are often well known for their fiery attitudes and angst ridden strategies on the battlefield. But it is even more so apparent of the 3rd company primaries than any other.

The quick to anger attitude and sharp tongue of many in the company have earned them a reputation even among the the rest of the chapter, and brought about many a fallout between allies serving with the sons of the 3rd. Because of their temperance, it is often wondered by many as to why the honored brother Grace continues to willingly serve with such a hot-headed group of demi-gods.

Solemn and oft silent when not addressing his brothers, Brother Grace is something of an enigma to the 3rd company primary, his cold, sharp words can cut into a Space Marines' angered retorts as a power sword through tyranid chitin, often capable of quelling an issue before it can even begin.

The occupation of abating the raucous tempers of his brothers is an activity that takes up much of his time, whether or not they are in the midst of battle, and as such, it is no surprise that the dreadnought has been noted as the most active ancient of the chapter when not deployed, walking the large, open halls of the strike cruiser Achelex in silence, awaiting the call to cut an argument between kin before it comes to blows.

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when the 3rd primary deployed to the planet of Roshen to defend the military installations came under siege from the Tau advance vanguard, it was brother Grace, Chaplain Thirick, and 5 brothers from veteran squad Ithiad, who arrived to turn the tide of battle, and save the survivors of squad Xederic. Currently, brother Grace was left behind with the sorely damaged tactical squad to rally the defenders of Cur point, as the cursed chaplain and his cohort of veterens were sent in search of the tau leadership down the slopes of the burning mountainside. Little did they know that a far more dangerous foe had made planetfall. One hungry for retribution...

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hope y'all liked it, put in a little recap from way back in page 2 so that i can lead into the next coupla updates. I plan on starting a Hall Of Honor thread someday to put into measure all of the story work and finished pieces, when i do, i'll let y'all know!

Also

bonus devastator squad members who are about done, save bases.

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next update involves a certain Epistolary, one with quite interesting talents... Then, i move the plot along!

Thanks fer takin' a look! See y'all in a bit! biggrin.png

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