Echoes of Eisenstein - upscaling madness with the XIV

[Sherrypie]

14 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

I like the narrative style of the battle report  It looks like it was a lot of fun

 

Did you check any of the boxes included a tiny recruiting sergeant? Maybe one or two sneaked in at the factory ...  

 

Sneaky buggers, holding boot camps in the boxes when I'm not looking :D

 

12 hours ago, Rusted Boltgun said:

AT isn't my game but the table looked great and your telling of the story of the battle was brilliant. It sounds like is was great fun for all involved.

 

Cheers, that it was. Glad you folks like my AAR ramblings, too.

[Sherrypie]

Finally got some paints back on the table this year :D

 

Heel, cur.

 

An (imperial?) noble of Old Earth for my Unification Wars project. Trying to convert some regular humans from various things in the bitz box, in this case a hideously soft-detailed Reaper witch. A one-day job to test how to sculpt and paint candles.

 

 

Gamewise she might end up leading a counts-as Starstriders team down the line when her court retinue gets in line.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks great - I love the candles and highlights on the robe

[Brother Christopher]

Cool new models, you have a very distinct style.

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @Firedrake Cordova and @Brother Christopher, happy to hear that :)

[Wormwoods]

Incredible colour work, warm and richwithout actually looking like she's meant to be on fire.

[Terminatorinhell]

That noble model is so dang cool

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @Wormwoods and @Terminatorinhell, too.

 

On the topic of things on fire,

3000 points of Legiones Imperialis.

 

My Death Guard gave the Iron Warriors a thorough trouncing, trampling them into the dust of the city crumbling around them. As is a time-honoured tradition in Epic, things are getting wild when the skies start raining Thunderhawks full of terminators :D

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Nice!  

 

That's a lot of tiny Predators! 

[Sherrypie]

The first 60 or so tanks of Selen II's 4th Home Army are getting their gear in order to head towards the painting dock... radio aerials get attached after basecoats.

 

 

Yes, I will be converting pretty much every one of the upcoming hundreds of vehicles to be at least somewhat unique. Business as usual :D

[Firedrake Cordova]

I admire your commitment to the tiny tanks

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @Firedrake Cordova, have some more then :D

 

Speedpainted a handful of Mechanicum yesterday for today's Epic games.

 

[Sherrypie]

Some NetEA at the club, my AdMech mauled the greenskins twice over with some dubstep goodness while the Eldar and Tyranids had a go at the demo table.

 

 

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[Sherrypie]

4k of EpicAU's Heresy legion lists, Epic: Armageddon. The Death Guard gives the Iron Fourth a solid whooping, though Perturabo's disciples give a grand exit by driving down the XIV command elements with their final titan-assisted charge.

 

 

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[Firedrake Cordova]

What a great looking board! I bet it was really fun to play on!  

[Sherrypie]

15 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

What a great looking board! I bet it was really fun to play on!  

Cheers Cordova, that it was. Variety and some sense of place in the tables makes for enjoyable gaming :)

[Sherrypie]

1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.

 

 

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[Dr_Ruminahui]

That's one gorgeous table.

[Sherrypie]

Cheers @Dr_Ruminahui, it goes a long way to elevate the game as well.

[Stef Coudou]

Gorgeous ! I love it... That shore line is amazing...

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @Stef Coudou!

 

Tonks everywhere! Getting somewhere with the first 30+ ol' smokers of the Selenite 4th Home Army. Commissar tanks' flagpoles will get their attachments post-painting.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

I love the little details you've added to them!

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @Firedrake Cordova, small scale ain't an excuse to stop converting everything :D

 

5.5k of EpicAU, IW vs. Mech, 10'x4' table. The IV legion pushed aggressively forwards into the robotic boogaloo, perhaps too deep and too greedily even, as their frontline was raked by endless rain of plasma mortars and their Mortis Warhounds blown apart by the massed Ordinatii beams. After four rounds of white-bled attrition, both sides were in broken tatters but the Mechanicum had held firmer. They had won the skies and retained their biggest guns, leaving the Iron Warriors little choice but to eventually concede the field.

 

 

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Also painted a happy little Minotaur battery for the game.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks like great fun

[Sherrypie]

I just multiplied my yearly total of painted minis :D

 

WIP, all painted to tabletop condition within three days. I wanted to have a LI / EA compatible force for demonstration games at Ropecon last weekend (ended up running some 20 hours of demos, great time). Very tight schedule, had to cut corners a lot. No flags, decals, proper damage, good NMM and so forth yet and the field guns are missing their whole crews. Still pretty happy with the general outlook.

 

 

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