Legio Praesagius - completed models of mine (finally)

[Captain Idaho]

I gave up waiting for Legio Praesagius transfers and bought some customs which are marvellous. I've also used some Ultramarines transfers (only twice) which were appropriate since they fought together and had some close associations.

 

Pics could be better as I'm a total Ork when it comes to photography. Anyway...

 

The Warlord Titan, Dominus Victorum.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm happy with my work and will upload my 2 Warhounds soon.

 

Hopefully I'll finish a Reaver by this weekend too.

[Wormwoods]

Green cooling(?) coils and checkerboard heraldry? What's not to love!

[Shard of Magnus]

Mind sharing where the custom decals are from?  I’m getting started on a Praesagius force for LI and absolutely cannot freehand the logo.

 

The warlord looks good.  The green plasma is distinctive and really pops with the white.  You used a lot more white than I was thinking about.  Might need to reconsider some of my paneling based on this.  Or not.  A good white is my nemesis.

[Captain Idaho]

I'm glad you guys liked the green on the guns! I like the contrast too and red seemed stark. And not plasma'y!

 

Thank you.

 

There is a lot of white on this Titan, probably too much. Most of blue is lower than the topside carapace and future Titans might be less dedicated!

 

I'm sure you'll do a better job than me but my method of getting crisp and clean white was to really water down each coat. We're talking 4-5 super duper thin layers for any time you'd normally add white.

 

It was laborious but I don't know a better method I could pull off, so that kind of caution would be necessary for me. Maybe an airbrush would help?

 

Anyway, lastly here is the link to the guy I got the Legio Praesagius transfers. He had loads of types too.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Scumb4g.Kustoms

Edited September 23, 2023 by Captain Idaho

[Gillyfish]

Gorgeous stuff, Idaho. I really like the pallette of colours you have gone for there.

[Captain Idaho]

Thanks.

 

I do agree with the above posters that perhaps more blue would be cool too.

 

Got a battle tomorrow, start of a Campaign. 

 

I've got 1K teaming up with a friend's 1K to take on @battle captain corpus 2.5K on their home facilities.

 

I'm taking the Warlord above, The Dominus Victorum and leading the engagement with a pair of Warhounds in support.

 

My friend is bringing 3 Warhounds and some Knights for the raid.

 

Hopefully we can do enough damage in crossfire to weather the storm of more Battle Titans. 

 

(Very fluffy)

[Captain Idaho]

Typically I didn't get a group photo but that's because I had to travel home late at night after the game, but the first game of the campaign started and it was phenomenal!

 

What a great narrative we're having. A small crusading force of Legio Praesagius have joined with the Legio Astraman, the Morning Stars, to assault the traitor Forge World of the Legio Damicium, the Unbroken Lords. The aim is to bring the traitor Legio to its knees and eliminate them as a threat to the Emperor's sovereignty. 

 

The first scenario was a beach head, with 1K each of the Loyalists landing planet side and to be assaulted by 2.5K of the Unbroken Lords, with unlimited reinforcements as any Titans are destroyed.

 

The aim was for 666pts of Loyalists (poetic) surviving 5 turns. The table was smaller as it would enable quicker action as time in real life was an issue!

 

Our deployment amongst the power stations of the planet:

 

 

Note the True Messengers sent the mighty Dominus Victorum to the vanguard, supported by Warhounds from both Legios and Knight Banner of Cerastus Knights.

 

Initially a pair of Reavers attacked, with one being intercepted by the Knights after ineffective exchanges of fire initially. It was destroyed quickly. The other Reaver had a dangerous Warp Missile so the Morning Stars assaulted it with pre-emptive charges immediately, protecting the Warlord with their own bodies.

 

Thus battle was joined! Over the next 2 turns the full might of the Legion Damicium was brought to bear, inflicting massive damage on the Warlord but Against the Impossible and plenty of emergency repairs, including dice rolls like the following, kept it fighting fit.

 

 

That's plenty of Shields being reignited!

 

However, the Loyalists were savvy in fearsome onslaught of the traitors. The experienced Legio Astraman Warhounds set about interference right amongst the lines of their quarry, getting within Shields and blasting larger Titans fearlessly. Causing plenty of damage, this limited the effectiveness of the traitors and meant they couldn't coordinate attacks on single targets.

 

 

Crucially, a series of 6s from a Shock Lance saw the fell Warlord leading the attack, which had caused great harm to the Dominus Victorum, completely shutdown! This was the time for the mighty Loyalist titan to strike back, striking back hard!

 

Deliberately spreading fire around the engine to cripple as much of it as possible now its shields were down, the Dominus Victorum crippled a plasma incinerator, wounded a moderati and caused a plasma leak, which in particular caused the problems of not allowing an easy reactivation of the Titan.

 

 

To add insult to injury, hiding behind cover saw the Warbringer fail to make an impact in retaliation, before it was also shutdown by the same First Firing Warhound after its Shields were stripped and damage done to the leg by the Legion Praesagius to assist in scoring that shock Lance damage.

 

The Warbringer was then subject to the same treatment as the Warlord before it, with the rerolls of hit location Dominus Victorum crippling this mighty engine of the traitors.

 

After a crazy banner charge seeing a series of exploding scout Titans and a Reaver in the centre of the table which were threatening the Dominus Victorum, the game ended as a victory for the Loyalists!

 

 

Heavier battle Titans have made planet fall and an attacking force is being mustered for outright warfare in the next battle. 

 

Ave Imperator.

Edited September 26, 2023 by Captain Idaho

[Captain Idaho]

Here's my Reaver:

 

 

 

White is not an easy colour to paint or photograph I've learnt 

 

And to provide a bit of contrast, here is an Acastus Porphyrion I finished up last night. I deliberately make my smaller titans and Knights a little gritter as they are doing the grunt work, whilst the noble battle titans are more shining beacons of nobility that sucked the resources. The Warhounds are definitely a little more worn in appearance.

 

 

 

Yellow isn't fun to paint either!

 

Both look better in person and the photographs aren't too shabby so I'm happy.

 

Well now I need to add some Knights to accompany the Acastus Porphyrion..  but also another Warlord.

[DuskRaider]

Wow, now that is a contrast. I love the Knight color scheme and it goes a long way towards making them stand out amongst Praesagius. Great job!

Edited August 5 by DuskRaider

[Captain Idaho]

I did consider griming up the Legio Praesagius titans, but white looks rough as anything when I tried.

[Captain Idaho]

Warhounds, or are still pretty white and not as gritty as I remember 

 

Here they are:

 

 

 

And here's a family photo for gaming next week:

 

 

Note the 3D printed Turbo Lasers on the Warlord! My friend printed horizontal styled as they're more to my liking.

[DuskRaider]

Some Agrax and Sepia would dirty them up a bit. I build my white up with a layer of white, washed with Seraphim Sepia, another layer of white, another of Sepia, another white, a bright white and then Agrax for lining. 

[Captain Idaho]

I think if I started again I would totally as I've come a long way regarding skill painting and could totally do that. I've used satin varnish spray on them so I imagine it would be a nightmare working them now.

 

Maybe I'll paint another Maniple up like that 

[DuskRaider]

Yeah, if you look at my thread in the WIP section I go over how I did the white on my Death Guard. That’s how I basically did the white on my Legio Mortis as well as my LI Death Guard as well, skipping maybe a step or two due to the size of the models. 

[vadersson]

Man, I have to find time to read the rules to this.  As an old BattleTech player, I was not really interested in another stumpy robot game, but since I started LI I have a few titans and the newer AT starter.  I should learn to play.  And get some bigger titans…

[Captain Idaho]

Do it! Adeptus titanicus is an amazing game, easily one of GW's best.

[calgar101]

I've yet to build my AT box and my legio of choice is Praesagius too. It's great to see yours! Very well done on the paint job, I'll definitely use your thread as a resource for when I get around to mine.

Beautiful God machines. 

[Captain Idaho]

That's very generous of you to say! Thank you so much.

 

I must recommend getting them done in that case, as it is very rewarding having them arrayed together especially in a game.

 

Plus the more in the Legio Praesagius family the better.

[calgar101]

59 minutes ago, Captain Idaho said:

That's very generous of you to say! Thank you so much.

 

I must recommend getting them done in that case, as it is very rewarding having them arrayed together especially in a game.

 

Plus the more in the Legio Praesagius family the better.

 

I know, they have been sat idle for a few years now! 

[Gillyfish]

On 10/12/2024 at 10:39 PM, vadersson said:

Man, I have to find time to read the rules to this.  As an old BattleTech player, I was not really interested in another stumpy robot game, but since I started LI I have a few titans and the newer AT starter.  I should learn to play.  And get some bigger titans…

 I have played a couple of games of both. They are both different (although there are some obvious similarities, given the theme!). One of the big differences is the ability to take knights as well as titans (although I never played battletechs with anything other than mechs, so I am not sure how similar elementals/tanks etc would be).

 

AT, I would say, is less simulationist and probably plays a bit faster once you have a sense of the core mechanics. The grouping by maniple(s) and command system adds a nice extra layer to the game as does the shield mechanic and the need to have different weapons to tackle these vs. armour and knight ion shields.