A quest for serenity & The silence below

[Kizzdougs]

How did you do that? If you tell me I will.

I just opened the image in a new tab so that it was full size, copied the URL, and then pasted it into the 'image' box in the reply page.

 

[Dreagher]

For now I call my Veterans finished. (Now with bigger pictures ;) )

I'm curious how they will do.

[Dreagher]

Just a quick Assault Marine I painted for the boxing day bash.

And also the start of my Siegebreaker Kitbash.

[Dreagher]

With the new Siegebreaker my heavy support squad will hopefully be able to do more work (instead of playing targeting practice for my opponent).

Now I just need to figure out what to do with my lone and unbuilt knight, seeing as the new rule book doesn't allow me to take him any more. Atleast not without a second which I originaly didn't plan on buying.

[Dreagher]

Luckily the new faq means that I can play my lancer in the future. Logically this meant that I immediately started putting a Multimelter on a rhino and started working on my second squad of jetbikes. Yes I never keep my plans on what to paint next for very long.

[Dreagher]

Got my Jetbikes finished.

For the next month rl will sadly get in the way of painting much.

[Dreagher]

Found a bit of time to bring a few more guys into my assault squad.

[Dreagher]

And they are finished.

[Dreagher]

And I started with the second half of my veteran squad.

[Dreagher]

And with them finished I can start my praetor kitbash.

[Dreagher]

With the building finished, I can start painting.

[Sagentus]

Very nicely done. I really like the blood splatter. Is the impaled marine detachable? For ease of use

[Dreagher]

Very nicely done. I really like the blood splatter. Is the impaled marine detachable? For ease of use

Thanks, for the first time they didn't turn out too bad.

Yes he is. I magnetised him exaktly for that purpose.

[Sagentus]

Looks really good. The fact it is magnetised is really cool. Look forward to seeing it painted

[Dreagher]

Here it is fully painted.

Now onto his command squad and and apothecary for them.

[Sagentus]

Great work! He looks epic, i really like the weathering on the bike and i still cant get over how good the blood splatter looks

[Dreagher]

Great work! He looks epic, i really like the weathering on the bike and i still cant get over how good the blood splatter looks

Thanks! I am still surprised that the blood splatters worked at all, considering that it was a spontaneous idea.

 

The command squad is already in the work, but as it looks like at the moment without too much blood. ;)

[Dreagher]

I finished building the command squad and their apothecary. Later on they will get a few more weapons etc, aswell as their shields.

If anything looks totaly out of place let me know.

[Dreagher]

The Command squad is finished just in time for their first deployment tomorrow.

Hopefully they won't just die, because of new-modell-syndrom.

[Sagentus]

They look great! The weathering looks awesome! Fingers crossed they didnt suffer from new model syndrome.

[Dreagher]

They look great! The weathering looks awesome! Fingers crossed they didnt suffer from new model syndrome.

Luckily only half of them did, the other half stubornly refused to die so easily.

 

I will post a little summary of the game when I have more time.

[Dreagher]

And because I wanted to use them in the game, here is a nearly finished shot of the destroyers.

[Dreagher]

For the last game, I played the following against a mix of 40k Dark Angels with human support. (maelstrom of war mission)

 

• HQ
  • Praetor, Legion

    Selections: Artificer Armour, Bike with Twin-linked Bolter, Space Marine, Digital Lasers, Iron Halo, Paragon Blade, Thunder Hammer

    • Combi-weapon

      Selections: Combi-weapon: Meltagun

    • Master of the Legion
      • Command Squad, Legion

        Selections: Bike with Twin-linked Bolter, Space Marine

        • Space Marine Chosen, Legion

          Selections: Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade, Combat Shield, Power Weapon

        • Space Marine Chosen, Legion

          Selections: Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade, Combat Shield, Power Fist

        • Space Marine Chosen, Legion

          Selections: Bolt Pistol, Chainsword or Combat Blade

        • Space Marine Chosen, Legion

          Selections: Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade, Combat Shield, Lightning Claw

        • Standard Bearer, Legion

          Selections: Chainsword or Combat Blade, Combat Shield, Power Fist

  • Siege Breaker

    Selections: Artificer Armour, Boarding Shield, Bolt Pistol, Powerfist

• Elites
  • Apothecarion Detachment
    • Apothecary, Legion

      Selections: Augury Scanner, Space Marine Bike

    • Apothecary, Legion

      Selections: Jump Pack, Power Sword

  • Destroyer Squad, Legion

    Selections: Jump Packs

    • Destroyer Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Artificer Armour

    • Destroyer Space Marine W/ Special Weapon, Legion

      Selections: Chainsword or Combat Blade, Missile Launcher with Suspensor Web and Rad Missiles Only

    • Destroyer Space Marine, Legion

      Selections: Chainsword or Combat Blade

    • Destroyer Space Marine, Legion

      Selections: Chainsword or Combat Blade

    • Destroyer Space Marine, Legion

      Selections: Chainsword or Combat Blade

  • Veteran Tactical Squad, Legion
    • Rhino Armoured Carrier, Legion

      Selections: Dozer Blade, Multi Melta

    • Veteran Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Lightning Claw

    • Veteran Space Marines W/ Special Weapon, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Chainsword or Combat Blade, Heavy Bolter and Suspensor Web

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Combi-weapon

      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Sword

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Chainsword or Combat Blade, Combi-weapon

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Bolter

      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Sword

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade

    • Veteran Space Marines, Legion

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Chainsword or Combat Blade

• Troops
  • Assault Squad, Legion

    Selections: 14x Assault Space Marines, Legion

    • Additional Wargear
      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Axe

      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Axe

      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Sword

    • Assault Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Artificer Armour, Melta Bombs, Power Fist

  • Breacher Siege Squad, Legion

    Selections: 9x Breacher Siege Space Marines, Legion

    • Additional Wargear

      Selections: 2x Graviton Gun

    • Breacher Siege Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Artificer Armour, Bolter, Thunder Hammer

  • Tactical Squad, Legion

    Selections: 9x Tactical Space Marines, Legion

    • Additional Wargear

      Selections: Chainswords/Combat Blades, Vexilla, Legion

    • Rhino Armoured Carrier, Legion

      Selections: Dozer Blade

    • Tactical Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Artificer Armour, Power Fist

• Fast Attack
  • Jetbike Sky Hunter Squadron, Legion

    Selections: Multi-melta, 3x Space Marine Sky Hunters

    • Sky Hunter Sergeant Upgrade

      Selections: Bolt Pistol, Melta Bombs

      • Power Weapon

        Selections: Power Axe

• Heavy Support
  • Heavy Support Squad, Legion Lascannon

    Selections: Hardened Armour, Lascannon, 5x Space Marines, Legion

    • Sergeant, Legion

      Selections: Augury Scanner

  • Leviathan Siege Dreadnought Talon

    Selections: Dreadnought Drop Pod, Legion

    • Leviathan Siege Dreadnought

      Selections: Grav-flux Bombard, Heavy Flamer, Heavy Flamer, Leviathan Siege Drill, Phosphex Discharger

• Allegiance
  • and Allegiance, Legion

    Selections: Traitor

    • XII: World Eaters

      Selections: Blood Madness

  • Rite of War

    Selections: Beserker Assault

 

My enemy had lots of razorbacks and gravcannons in the formation that gives him free transports aswell as overwatching on full bs and the imperial guard formation that gives destroyed units the chance to come back (sounds worse that it is considering his ever present bad luck).

 

A quick overview over the battlefield and where everything started.

 

I got first turn and moved everything forward except for the heavy support squad. The breachers occupied the central bunker and a unit of tacticals took control over the macro cannon. It was relativly uneventful except for the leviathan that dropped in the left upper corner and nuked a squad of devestators with grav cannons.

In return he killed half of my command squad because I am unable to roll 2+ saves and his psyker made the entire squad ws/bs 1 for the rest of the game in adition to killing all but one of my destoyers. Due to that what should have been an epic battle between my praetor and his captain turned into a joke, as my guys couldn't hit and his guys didn't have enough ap2 to kill my guys. In my turn my verteran squad came but didn't do very much and I assaulted everything I could. In his turn he shot down my leviathan with most of his army and his captain got killed due to some lucky rolls. one of his deepstriking terminator sqads had to come down too close to the heavy support squad and got shot down to two members. After that the only realy spektakular things where my praetor and the rest of his command squad absolutly obliterating everything they came across including a blob of guardsman with yarrik and a gravcannon devestator squad, aswell as him surviving an entire armies worth of shooting in the last turn we played deniing the enemy several points. Oh and his full terminator squad murdering my breachers, where both sargents took each other out. The other terminator squad was definitly plaged by bad luck as they failed a 3 inch charge and lost a guy in overwatch against the heavy support squad.

Due to us having to end the game early I wonn by points, but had the game gone on for longer he might have tabled me.

 

In conclussion I won't play a lascannon team without a siegebreaker again, as he just makes them way more reliable and they actually get stuff done. The command squad while expensive definitly works as a giant distraction carnifex and drew way more fire than it should have. Also I can't make moral tests with my praetor and my oppont can't roll 5+ (he got one unit back out of 10+, that he could have).

[Dreagher]

After all the parts arrived, I started working on my squad of Devourers.

[Dreagher]

And here is the first one nearly finished.

Now I just have to finish the rest and then I can start with my superheavies.