Echoes of Eisenstein - upscaling madness with the XIV

[Sherrypie]

More reinforcements inbound, cracking through 10k+ points with these :)

 

[Sherrypie]

Got some gaming in again, 4000 points of Epic Armageddon as my XIV butted heads against an armoured Ork force. Due to unexpectedly light aircover, my two Thunderhawks full of terminators smacked right against the Orks' artillery positions and proceeded to absolutely wreck hordes of buggies and bikers sent against them in countercharge. While this crumbling of their right flank was happening, their gunwagons pushed too eagerly forwards and met a line bristling with lascannons. After even the warlord in his mighty gargant fell down in flames, it was clear this day would go the XIV.

[noigrim]

Mortarion will be slightly less grumpy after this

[Sherrypie]

Mortarion will be slightly less grumpy after this

He should smile a tad more often, can't be healthy to constantly grumble in the corner :D

[Sherrypie]

Started painting a quartet of Fellblades, pretty little things.

 

[Sherrypie]

Painting carries on with the Fellblades, but first more gaming against a fellow club member and their beautiful Krieg army :)

Things got bloody fast on this pretty dense table, as we both garrisoned the craters in the middle, his aircover was stuffing their faces with doughnuts at the aerodome while my terminators were dropping down fists first through his armoured units, titans struggled to find lines of fire and his line could not find the heart to regroup after first attrition started to rain in.

As always, click the pictures to see more than potatoes.
















This game is damn good. I love it.

[noigrim]

I like the stormhammers

[Sherrypie]

Thanks noigrim, they are cute but about to get replaced by proper Fellblades about... now.

Some of the prints had rather visible defects, but I think they worked out pretty well as battle damage. Small things like hulls slashed open have never stopped XIV before either :D

[noigrim]

Which rules do you use, netepic?

 

These are the best epic fellblades since maybe ever

Edited July 23, 2020 by noigrim

[Sherrypie]

Thanks!

 

It's all in the secret recipe... (just lathering Burnt Umber everywhere, basically)

 

Ruleswise I'm running the XIV with EpicAU's Heresy list, I like its style. If it weren't the coolest, I'd probably figure something out from EpicUK's very polished lists. AU, UK, NetEA, they all run on the same core rules so casually playing with various lists is just dandy.

[noigrim]

The new epic seems a bit cluttered with firing all weapons separatelly, do you find that's a problem?

[Sherrypie]

Nah, Armageddon is an intuitive system where it's pretty clear what things do and the number of dice being rolled is pretty low. All similar guns fire at the same time so you just go "first these heavy bolters against infantry, okay, then one lascannon against the tanks" when activating a detachment, which can only fire at one enemy detachment at a time anyway. The assault rules are somewhat clunky oldschool stuff, but they're pretty easy too after a few takes.

[noigrim]

Ok I see

[Sherrypie]

Bweh, got some painting on the way (still have to finish the men and put them into the Basilisks as crew):

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Great job on the Sicaran tanks!

[Sherrypie]

Thanks Bjorn!

 

This time it's time to say hello to my little friends at the Basilisk battery. Everything looks instantly much livelier when the crew is in place.










Also a better look at the Sicarians.




I'll need to play at least 6000 points to get all those Basilisks on the field, one day... :D

[Lexington]

It makes me unfathomably happy to see this much excellent Epic stuff. Bless you.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Great job on the Basilisks!

[Sherrypie]

It makes me unfathomably happy to see this much excellent Epic stuff. Bless you.

 

My pleasure :)

 

Great job on the Basilisks!

Thanks Bjorn! They were fun.

[noigrim]

Are these 3d prints?

[Sherrypie]

Are these 3d prints?

Yes, resin printed 6 mm models from Thingiverse. One bonus over metal third party models is the ease of converting, I'd lose my mind wondering how to remove the bases from metal troopers to get them how I want them :D

[noigrim]

Cool I had some printed in 3mm they whete 20x15mm

[Sherrypie]

With Epic gaining ever more momentum in my repertoire, it seems fitting to have another army at the ready. Something that plays way differently from the XIV but plays nicely along with my existing titans and knights.

Enter the Mechanicum.



Cleaned a few engines today while waiting for the Vanguard Miniatures infantry to arrive along with the priests, should last me a minute to finish :D

Also bashed a fun little Ordinatus together for that sweet sillyness amidst all the boringly effective barrages.



Quick backhand calculation says I've got maybe 11000 or so points of stuff here with the infantry, so in the same ballpark as the marines before their reinforcements get done.

[Sherrypie]

On Epic ffront, I tried to rescue some slightly badly printed Thanatars by swapping in some Leviathan arms (they got robo fists and antipersonnel dakka with belt-feeds, why not). Breaks uniformity in the ranks nicely, too.

[Sherrypie]

Trying out washer bases, the print supports can be handily used to cover the hole as well as provide a nice direction for the basing style :D