Re - Renamed - Warhead01 vs the Horus Heresy 2.0 AoD

[Warhead01]

5 hours ago, Pearson73 said:

Great to see you back and to hear that you enjoyed HH2.0! 

 

I also agree that plasma feels nice now, still dangerous, but not an auto-delete unit.

It's wild. The group is humming with life again we're all very excited.
It's early days still but I am really impresses with 2.0 so far.  

I guess my only gripe is needing to know more than I wanted to just to put my army on the table. I didn't try very hard on the army building. 
Having to pick which wing each unit would belong to for example. I thought it was odd to field fire wing, storm wing and Iron wing all in the same little list. 
It seemed like the long way around to get some where to me.  Early days. 

 

[Warhead01]

Quick progress picture. Just some detail stuff left to do. ( and some color checking.)  
It's coming along quickly. 

[Warhead01]

Update.

We have another game set up for this Saturday the 28th of December. 
Not sure if all of us will be there but I hope so. 

4000 points per player.  After the 1500 point game we last played we're excited to step it up some more , really push down on the gas if you will. 

I've struggled to build this list. I have a fair sized collection but I still have a few units I "need" to one day buy. Specifically Rhinos.  I have none. 
I've moved away from what I think of as how I usually build an army to focus on what I want to bring to bring a good showing if not a victory. The last game was fairly casual as far as how competitively we played and I enjoyed that. We moved the models and let the dice do the talking.  Well, we were trash talking but ya know. 

I'll post a picture of this army before Saturday. It's so small. 8 vehicles 5 squads and two HQ. A Pride of the Legion meets the Dreadwing/Ironwing mash up. 
as far as my models it looks like I need a new Cataphractii Hero with a really big shward.. er..  Sword.  
A real Sledgehammer, I hope. 

Pictures in the next post. 

[Rayray]

Seeing your army this past weekend was awesome! Frikkin destroyers were cool and scary, definitely a good showing!!!!

[Warhead01]

Dude1 

They were just way meaner than I expected.  We'll have to team next time.  I only got 18 pictures from the game doesn't really tell the whole story. Hope you took some. 
I couldn't remember the name of my blog because it's bee so long but I have it now. And for a laugh I forgot it was in my signature block here on the B&C.
The good IG posts start December 2020 and on even pictures of the first Legion.  Big full army pictures. 
I hope to find the motivation to set all the IG up for another full army pictures set because old pictures feel incomplete to me now. 

 

Edited December 29, 2024 by Warhead01

[Warhead01]

So far this is the best I can do for army pictures. The second one was provided by Rayray.

I don't recall the mission name but each player, and in this case team, chose a unit type to target for more victory points. we chose infantry they chose vehicles. 
The First legion lead the Sons of Horus to a victory. All Glory to the first Legion isn't  moto it's apparently a life style.  I joke of course. I was struggling to keep up with what was going on and what my own units would do. The Plasma Predator squadron. My lord! way better than I had realized. I hadn't even looked at their stats until I was ready to shoot with them on turn two of this last game. They managed to collect a big chunk of an Imperial Fists squad and their warlord due to him having taken a wound and some failed INV saves.  

I gave up next to nothing which felt super weird. The Glaive was destroyed on turn 3 if I recall. It had  decent showing.  if it just made the other side give pause then that was a very good bonus. 

We're still learning rules and it's been fun and fairly casual. Good times. 

I've just put the rule book on order this morning. I have it on pdf but that's just a pain. I prefer hard copy. Now that we're playing I see buying the book as the best call. Hurray ebay!

We're planning one game a month as best we can. Noting has been set up for next month yet but I'm sure it's in the works soon. 


Until next time . 


All Glory to the first legion! 

[Pearson73]

Sounds pretty cool, a pretty rapid escalation in points since your last game! 30k does really feel much more cinematic on that larger scale though.

[Warhead01]

7 hours ago, Pearson73 said:

Sounds pretty cool, a pretty rapid escalation in points since your last game! 30k does really feel much more cinematic on that larger scale though.

We saw how fast units were being picked up off the table so we figured heck why not! 
It's all about who you play with I guess.
I kept my list fairly small for 4000 points, which I did intentionally as I have a must leave to drive home time.  I honestly thought my army would seem OP as it's not a build I would usually want to field. I really enjoyed it though. Right now I'm thinking about how to recycle the 705 points the super Heavy costs back into Terminators and a Spartan transport. though I could easily find the points for 3 leviathans.  One though I have is that 3 predator's so armed are just one tank too many.  

I'm planning to bash up a Cataphractii praetor or rather recycle the one with the chain fist slightly. He needs a really big sword more than I need that chain fist I think. 


We're discovering all the rules we got wrong now too. And it's more than a few. 
I'm finally motivated enough to read the rules and work on models a gain.  

[Warhead01]

Finally got around to adding the huge sword to this guy. Kinda fiddly but it works. 

[Pearson73]

Looks cracking! Ace basing and dust on that guy too.

[TheArtilleryman]

Really nice thread. Everything heresy just has a nice vibe to me right now and these are just right. Very earthy and gritty.

[Warhead01]

8 hours ago, Pearson73 said:

Looks cracking! Ace basing and dust on that guy too.

Thank you. He was painted several years back. I'm having some difficulty getting back into painting after my long time away. I was intimidated at the process of swapping the chain fist he came with out for that sword. The sword was on a different model as well. it all worked out nicely. 

7 minutes ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Really nice thread. Everything heresy just has a nice vibe to me right now and these are just right. Very earthy and gritty.

I was always a big fan of the gritty pictures forge World used in their books so it seem like the right way to go about painting my stuff. I prefer a gritty look. 
It's honestly like a cheat mode for me as far as painting goes. 

And I finished this guy up in the early hours this morning.

Chooom!