=] Call to Arms 2025 - HERESY STRONGHOLD [=

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

7 hours ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

@GodEmperorOfMankind, something kind of humourous about the God Emperor making his vow for the Warmaster.   And yes, if you complete your first vow you can make another - in fact, each member can make 3 "normal vows" plus one "Job's  Big One" vow which is for a larger model (10+ pnts) that you can paint alongside your other vows (and is the only way to be working on two vows at once in the same stronghold).

 

You can do that in every stronghold, so in theory you could have 20 vows over the course of CtA, though that seems a bit... ambitious... especially given the scale of your starting vow. 

 

@librisrouge, I'm not sure how you get 54 points - my total is 13x1 pnts for the custodes (13) and 1x3 pnts for the dread (3) for a total of 16.

What can I say, Horus is my favoured son :') 

I figure this way keeps the traitors and loyalists a bit more evenly matched, if I pledged loyalists then thats a big slant for them with myself and sgtsharp, and i want to encourage people to sign up

[SgtSharp]

I do enjoy that I forced the Emperor to turn against the Imperium

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

1 hour ago, SgtSharp said:

I do enjoy that I forced the Emperor to turn against the Imperium

I do enjoy being called the Emperor 

I also look forward to taking your heresy champion crown 

[librisrouge]

I was painting away on my vow and it occurred to me that I have a thunderhawk waiting for the Salamanders I plan to make after I’ve got my custodes done.

 

How many points is a thunderhawk worth? I’d guess reaver level but it might be warhound.

[kabaakaba]

3 hours ago, GodEmperorOfMankind said:

I do enjoy being called the Emperor 

I also look forward to taking your heresy champion crown 

For the first, and may be last time I can't choose to call it heresy or not

[Dr_Ruminahui]

2 hours ago, librisrouge said:

How many points is a thunderhawk worth? I’d guess reaver level but it might be warhound.

 

Assuming its a 40K/30K scale thunderhawk, 20 points.  If it is epic scale, it is 4.

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

10 hours ago, librisrouge said:

I was painting away on my vow and it occurred to me that I have a thunderhawk waiting for the Salamanders I plan to make after I’ve got my custodes done.

 

How many points is a thunderhawk worth? I’d guess reaver level but it might be warhound.

 

You should definitely vow that after you're done, Would love to see the Thawk in Sallies colours

[Dwango]

On 6/16/2025 at 12:27 AM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

@Dwango, do you want the display board to be a seperate "Job's a Big One Vow" or part of your 109 point vow?  Vowing it seperately as a "Job's a Big One" means you don't need to finish the display board before you start on another vow, but it does mean you can't later vow something else later as a JaBO.  Anyway, I've lumped them together for now - let me know if that is wrong.

 

@SgtSharp - got it, I've included them in your insane 30K vow.

Ah, separate vow please. Sorry, never thought when I vowed. 

[Iron Father Ferrum]

I, Iron Father Ferrum, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 10 Immortals and a Cataphractii Praetor for 15 pts for the Glory of the Iron Tenth and He On Earth, and the Heresy Stronghold on or before September 15th, or bear the badge of failure until year's end.

 

[SvenIronhand]

I, Sven Ironhand, heed the call to arms and pledge to paint 3 Indomitus Terminators for 3 pts for the glory of the Iron Tenth and the Emperor of Man, and the Heresy Stronghold on or before September 15th or bear the badge of failure until year’s end.

Edited June 21 by SvenIronhand

[Lautrec the Embraced]

On 6/20/2025 at 4:08 PM, SvenIronhand said:

3 Indomitus Terminators for 6 pts

Hmmm, aren't they for 1 point each? Though don't get me wrong:  

Spoiler

I'd be partial to 2pts each ^^

Edited June 21 by Lautrec the Embraced

[SvenIronhand]

29 minutes ago, Lautrec the Embraced said:

Hmmm, aren't they for 1 point each? Though don't get me wrong:  

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I'd be partial to 2pts each ^^

D’oh! Correcting the total!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Reporting Page updated - please review to ensure your entry is correct (subfaction, link, models vowed, point value).

 

 

@Dwango - no problem, fixed.

Edited June 23 by Dr_Ruminahui

[richmarine]

"I, Richmarine, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint

• 10 X Assualt Marines (Ravenguard) (10)
• 5 X Lascannon Marines (Ravenguard) (5)
• 5 X Mor Deythan (5)
• 10 X Dark Fury's (10)
• 9 X Despoilers (Salamanders) (9)
• 5 X Tactical Marines (Iron Hands) (5)
• 1 X Iron Father (5)
• 1 X Iron Hand Contemptor (3)
• 10 X Despoilers (Iron Hands) (10)

for {62 pts}

for the Glory of the Emperor and the Heresy Stronghold on or before 15th September 2025, or bear the badge of failure until year's end."

edit. Now with picture. Can’t seem to find the assault marines or 5 iron hands. Off to a good start. And I already painted a test model hence only 9 Sallys. 

 

final edit* found the assault marines and remaining 5 iron hands which are going to be hacked apart, upgraded and repainted. 

Edited June 23 by richmarine

[SvenIronhand]

 

This isn’t so much a WIP shot as a “models done, just need to repaint the bases black” shot.

[SvenIronhand]

Vow completed.

[librisrouge]

In the Emperor's name and by his will, the ten thousand stand ready for battle, their vow fulfilled.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Reporting Page updated - please review to ensure your entry is correct (subfaction, link, models vowed, point value, entry into Master of the Forge).

Edited July 15 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

-  STATE OF THE EVENT -

 

I've decided rather than doing reports on the event at the end of every month into the event, to instead do them at the end of every calendar month - so, 2 weeks in, 1/2 way through, 2 weeks left, as I feel that better replicates the flow of the event.  I will still be posting reminders at the 1 and 2 months marks, but with no type of reporting or recap at those times.

 

So, 2 weeks into the event we have 60 individual participants with 71 vows, for a total of 3,091.5 vowed points.  We have 5 entries into the Master of the Forge category, and zero for Young Bloods.  If anyone else has a Master of the Forge entry, or wants to participate as a Young Blood, please let me know.  Or, if you told me and I missed recording it, please let me know again. 

 

The Stronghold leading in vowed points is the Heresy stronghold, with an insane 1167 points vowed.  Not surprisingly, the largest vow of 410 points by @SgtSharp is also in that Stronghold, as is the most points vowed for a subfaction - in this case, the "For the Emperor" subfaction with 616.  The second highest subfaction is also from this stronghold - "For the Warmaster" has 572 points vowed.  Finally, it is tied for the most completed vows - 2, worth 19 points.

 

Although its way too early for this to be determinative (or even particularly meaningful), the Imperium Stronghold has the highest completion rate (based points of complete vows versus those of uncompleted vows) of 43%.  It is also the Stronghold with the lowest points vowed at 104, and the only Stronghold with a subfaction with a 100% completion rate - Deathwatch.

 

Between those two are Xenos with vows of 769 points, Astartes of 549.5 and Chaos with 502.  Xenos has the highest points in completed vows - 69, and is tied for the most completed vows (with Heresy) with 2.

 

Most completed vows are by @Antarius, who has completed 2 worth 113 points.

 

Highest individually pointed model vowed is worth 20 points, in the form of a Revenant Titan - our only full sized titan so far.

 

Finally, in a very humourous turn, according to Bolter & Chainsword the Horus Heresy was an inside job, with the highest vow for the Warmaster (at 365 points) being from the @GodEmperorOfMankind himself. 

 

Anyway, great to see all the participants and their enthusiasm.  Happy painting and I look forward to many more completed vows and beautiful models.

Edited July 7 by Dr_Ruminahui

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

appreciate the hard work @Dr_Ruminahui

Hopefully by the next update we'll be smashing the vows! 

 

Well done everyone in the Heresy Stronghold, if this keeps up, we'll be winning this!

[WrathOfTheLion]

Looking great so far! I'm back home finally, so I'll join in once I organize what I want to do.

[W.A.Rorie]

I, W.A.Rorie, heed the call to arms and pledge to paint 30 Assault Marines (3 10 man squads), 10 Dark Furies, 10 Destroyers, Custom Chaplain, Custom Mortiat, and Legion Champion, for the glory of the XIXth and the Emperor of Man, and the Heresy Stronghold on or before September 15th or bear the badge of failure until year’s end. Should be 65 points....

 

Spoiler

Dark Furies 

 

Assault squad 2 studded shoulder pads and jump packs

 

Assault squad 2 bases and sgt

 

Moritat and champion

 

Assault Squad 1 of 3

 

Destroyers

 

I'll need to post pics of the 2 other Assault squads and custom chaplain.

 

Edited July 7 by W.A.Rorie

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Reporting Page updated - please review to ensure your entry is correct (subfaction, link, models vowed, point value, entry into Master of the Forge).

 

@W.A.Rorie - that's a lot of jumpy dudes.  Do you want to enter one of your custom characters for Master of the Forge?  If so, let me know which one.

Edited July 7 by Dr_Ruminahui

[W.A.Rorie]

@Dr_Ruminahui A Ravenguard speciality

 

No...I have another model that will be for Master of the Forge Character , once he gets here

 

Edited July 7 by W.A.Rorie

[Dwango]

@Dr_Ruminahui can I add my techmarine to the master of the forge? Completely forgot when I vowed it originally. 

 

Pic for reference. Can I also make multiple entries? I have an Infernus abomination I might add in to another vow. 

 

Thanks.