Valkia's Universe of Darkness (Chaos, Inquisition, Necrons, Kill Team and Tyranids)

[Valkia the Bloody]

6 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Ah, so you got both a trick (infection) and treat (Cain audiobooks), then!

Pretty much. 

 

6 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

I do like the very subdued look of your Tyranids

I will let you in on a (not so little) secret- pink and purple are my favorite colors. I even once created a Blood Angels army, which was "The Pink Angels" (and I think I just painted a life's worth of pink models including a land raider).  

However, I prefer my monsters natural and scary. I sadly have trouble taking gaudy pink Tyranids serious. 

With this army, I set out to create a natural looking horde of swamp monsters. 

 

So you know I am not telling tall takes, here is my lucky Pink Angels captain- besides a metal terminator, the only model I kept from that army (I sold them 10 years ago). 

Why is that captain lucky?

Even back then, 5th Edition, I just went with the rule of cool with him and taking this equipment (storm shield and storm bolter) was legal. I have been told time and again that this equipment is not very cost efficient. I insisted to keep him. 

Despite all the nay-sayers, he once managed to kill a Necron monolith in a final act of desperation all by himself and made the whole hall where the tournament happened turn around and applaud, since it was so highly unlikely (I rolled a hand full of sixes and the opponent a handful of ones). I kept him as a good luck charm. 

Edited Monday at 06:43 PM by Valkia the Bloody

[Valkia the Bloody]

I would also like to add-

the Commissar Cain audiobooks are pure gold.

I have read all the books, but recently, I got the audiobooks to listen to it again.

And it is amazingly performed.

They have different voice actors to read out the different "source materials", they have (satirical) propaganda newscasts in there with sound effects, and the reader of the Cain parts is amazing in doing all the voices of the different characters. It nearly feels like an audio drama. It is very ALIVE. 

Very well done. 

[phandaal]

6 hours ago, Valkia the Bloody said:

I would also like to add-

the Commissar Cain audiobooks are pure gold.

I have read all the books, but recently, I got the audiobooks to listen to it again.

And it is amazingly performed.

They have different voice actors to read out the different "source materials", they have (satirical) propaganda newscasts in there with sound effects, and the reader of the Cain parts is amazing in doing all the voices of the different characters. It nearly feels like an audio drama. It is very ALIVE. 

Very well done. 

 

Those audiobooks are very well done. Amberly's voice actor cracked me up several times with how well she nailed Amberly's pedantic need to correct minor details, and her utter disdain for anything written by Jenit Sulla. And the main actor does a great Ciaphas, but also his Jurgen is spot-on.

 

Side note - People talk a lot about Eisenhorn, but if Henry Cavill is going to play a 40k character, it should really be Ciaphas Cain.

 

Edited yesterday at 01:30 AM by phandaal

[Valkia the Bloody]

6 hours ago, phandaal said:

it should really be Ciaphas Cain.

Exactly that.

I did not completely follow the whole Henry Cavill story, only know that there is a series planned / in production.

So the series is Eisenhorn? Interesting choice. The books back in the day were also the jumping-on point for 40k for me, before that, I was a devout Fantasy player. 

Still, I read Eisenhorn so many times and have my own picture of the characters in my head, not sure if a series would spoil it. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Honestly, I quite like that colour - it's not what I'd imagined when you said "pink".  I'm struggling to work out what the colours you used are, though, and it's starting to bug me.  

 

14 hours ago, Valkia the Bloody said:

the Commissar Cain audiobooks are pure gold...And it is amazingly performed.

The execution of them is excellent - some of the best, in my opinion.

Edited yesterday at 09:25 AM by Firedrake Cordova

[Valkia the Bloody]

1 hour ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Honestly, I quite like that colour - it's not what I'd imagined when you said "pink".  I'm struggling to work out what the colours you used are, though, and it's starting to bug me.  

 

The execution of them is excellent - some of the best, in my opinion.

Those were the old cidatel paints, one of the reasons I stopped the army was sourcing the old paints was a pain and the new ones did not quite fit.

Lich purple base, warlock purple on top, wash with Druchi violet,  highlight mix warlock+ white. 

A dream in magenta (for some people this does not count as pink, though).