+ Where the Stone Oxen and Lions Stand +

[apologist]

7 hours ago, Marshal Mittens said:

Playing normal 30k with normal ranges and 10mm models seems fun, and like the terrain would be more epic looking. 

I can confirm! I played a game against @Bob Hunk’s Imperial Fists on Thursday, which you can read about on the +Death of a Rubricist+ blog here:

Battle of the Mirror Plains

 

 

 

[Monstra Sumus]

Positively Lilliputian! 

[apologist]

... and the campaign rolls on, with a new battle report up on +Death of a Rubricist+ here.

Falling back to Gundrun, the Emperor's Children run into some rather unwholesome 'allies', in the shape of @Lucifer216's Night Lords, under the Scythe-smile Lord.

Rebellion being what it is, the two forces don't quite see eye-to-eye, and the Night Lords demur from simply ceding their new-won territory. 

+ Meeting Engagement on Gundrun Prime +

 

Dawn; and the cobwebs stirring in the windows of the long-neglected abbey were all the indication of the former population. Having endured Old Night, the degraded inhabitants clustered in what had once been an important regional centre for the safety it offered. 

 

It had already been proven an empty promise. Over the course of less than a century, the people had been contacted and made Compliant; brought into the light of the Emperor – and then abruptly been informed that the Warmaster Horus was now their liege lord. 

 

If he were even aware of the planet, one wonders at his reaction at finding elements of two Legions supposedly under his command squabbling over the scraps.

 

The locals huddled together as distant gunfire began to be heard...

 

 

• Game rules: Antares 2
• Mission: Meeting Engagement – aiming to degrade the enemy while maintaining their own strength, both sides were attempting to break the spirit of their enemy. The game would last for six turns, or until one side was reduced to half or fewer of their starting Order Dice (achieved by destroying whole units). 
• Combatants: apologist, commanding the Emperor's Children; vs Lucifer216, commanding the Night Lords.
• Battleground: The Feudal World of Gundrun Prime – of little value itself, but a good proxy for control of the Luciferran forges. The victor would be able to throttle control of heavy armour across the region.
• [Link to the battle]

 

Building on the playtesting done for our earlier game, The Mirror Plains, this was a further test of our adaptation of the Gates of Antares 2 rules. It was also Lucife216's first introduction to the rules, so again it was deliberately fairly low-key and simple.

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Edited September 27, 2022 by apologist

[Monstra Sumus]

Oh man, I'm toying with doing an Adeptus Titanicus project based on the Legio Mortis but now I'm tempted to make a traitor Siege of Terra Epic Army thanks to your work on this project. 

 

Dammit, man, you've been inspiring me since 2009! 

[apologist]

Thanks for the kind words, @NomadPainting – always lovely to hear :)

Over the weekend, I met up with my gaming group, the PCRC, and had both a lovely catch-up and some really enjoyable games. The ever-generous @Lucifer216 also came bearing gifts in the form of Mark II marines and some casualty figures (along with some other stuff for a future post). The former – and probably some of the latter – will see the War of the False Primarch (or are they really a missing Legion, and it's HH warfare?) expand into the 15mm realm. The casualties will be a nice opportunity to play around with some other schemes; and perhaps serve double duty as scatter terrain, pin markers and similar in-game tokens. I've always preferred figures to abstract icons.

Stage 1, as usual, is gluing them onto pennies. As Stuntwedge observed, it's weird to be doing this, but you try finding bases for a penny a pop...

Onto this I add acrylic texture gel and sand, as for most basing I do. Here, because the figures were designed for 6mm Epic gaming, they have large integrated bases. To help camouflage this, I added a mix of leftover greenstuff putty, small pieces of gravel, and a mix of the detritus that builds up on a  cutting board: old hardened putty bits, plastic trimmings and sprue offcuts make for decent rubble at this scale, and the acrylic gel holds it all securely.

'One Throne on Terra! Onwards for the Primarch and the Emperor!'

Edited September 30, 2022 by apologist