Prot's Iron Warriors.... are back.

[Prot]

The Iron Background:

 

I need to start with a bit of history. Maybe it's just me, but I don't want history lost on this, and we have tons of new players around the world that may find some of this interesting.

 

So a little about me; for those that don't know my first real army was Iron Warriors. Back before the Eye of Terror days (one of my favorite eras in playing 40k) I had a giant IW army that lead a few gigantic Mega battles. I'm talking gym floor kind of stuff. (Pictures of these battles from the early 2000's exist on the old "Canadian GW" website... before they combined everything.)

 

This could get very long, so I'll try really hard to compress this.... Storm of Iron (the book) and Pete Haines were a big part of my being entrenched in the army (pun intended!) Further to that Perturabo was one of the very few 'chaos' Primarch's I could respect or even mildly understand way back then.

 

Eye of Terror, Pete Haines:

 

I want to mention something in the beginning of this; when EoT came out I started something... wow this is going back... I started something we called back in the day a "Yahoo Group". This was my way of getting REAL iron warrior players in talk group where we could plan our attacks in the campaign as all results were recorded and GW did write results down, and play with fiction/cannon around the event to reflect results! 

 

Anyway, the point was spies were everywhere and this was a way to get things controlled. One day, low and behold guess who joins my Yahoo Group? None other than Pete Haines. Pete, I thought, was an amazing guy and hobbiest. He literally brought life to the legion on the table with the once famous "Chapter Approved" articles giving actual siege presence to Iron Warriors and a metal kit would follow.

 

Pete Haines was a little controversial. He had a large say in the state of the core 40K game back then. He was a champion of Chaos, and a fine one at that, but some of his changes to the core game became something that a few people took issue with. Eventually rumour has it he was let go, and his severance was a garage full of Rhinos (since they couldn't sell any due to the "Entanglement" rule.

 

The Agripinaa Sector, and other fallen Forgeworlds:

 

 

Anyway, there's so much here to talk about, but I MUST keep this brief or I risk losing the crowd here... So one more thing about the EoT and Chaos thing. We DID win Agripinaa (a forgeworld) and we did it with another private group of Deathguard. It was glorious! We had more help too, but we were the two main forces that coordinated this whole thing. 

 

And another Iron Warrior dude was quite prominent here as we combined our groups into a powerful, cohesive force. You may know him as "InsanePsychopath" or simply "IP" as I knew him, but he would change his user name to Iron-Daemon Forge.  His real name is Jamie Farquhar. He passed away far too young in 2024. He was someone I wanted to see become a Mod here at the BnC and he did in stellar fashion. Rest in peace my fellow Warsmith. Jaimie was a real warrior with these guys and stuck them out through thick and thin.

 

Modern Siegery:

 

Fast forward and I sold approximately 3 Iron Warrior armies fully painted which ranged from 3000 pts to 10000 points of models each! The army got largely ignored, no rules really existed and even the "Warsmith" model lost all identity and everyone ignored Obliterators and their deathmetal "kiss" style hair band look and rules.

 

But we've come full circle. Kravek Morne is here! A named Warsmith that seems to have got his proper hammer fitted during the 13th Black Crusade for excellence at Agripinaa itself! 

 

 

So here we are. Iron Warriors wise a new detachment has been announced,  there is an upgrade sprue (sorely lacking in vehicle doors?) and Kravek. It's not a lot, and sure the Defiler, and Mutliators are cool, but certainly not locked into IW, but I will take it! This is the first bone thrown to the IW crowd for... too many years!

 

So with this I launch into a new IW effort. All I have is my test Warpsmith to start me off.

 

My last IW army (probably my 4th or 5th full army of IW) sold in 2023. So this is all I have. And that army was a terrible mess to paint with too many weathering processes that I want to simplify and reduce the materials: IE: oils, solutions, powers, etc.

 

Trust me when I say this was super tough to keep short. But suffice to say we are back. Iron Within. Iron Without.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Welcome back to the Iron Warriors, Prot!  Looking forward to seeing your army progress - your warpsmith is fantastic.

[W.A.Rorie]

Even tho I am Fan of Dorn and Fig IW alot...and dislike them. Yours look good. 

[Prot]

Thank you both!

 

This is more than the army for me though. In fact I debated doing this at all, and it isn't the new model. It's the history I have with this game.

 

I just recently lost someone close to me, and the last 12 months have been a lot of that for me, but through all of that I've had friends and this game as an incredible distraction. 

 

I've always loved painting, and the game itself has been up and down, but it's the friends, the armies, the hobby.... that's what it's all about. 

 

For me I've been know as the "Iron Warrior guy" around here for a very long time. I never really got into loyalists until my Ultra's years ago. It just always seemed at the GW store, and all the events there was NEVER enough bad guys.

 

Another thing: A very good friend started his first ever loyalist marine army (we've been playing for about the same amount of time)! And he started Imperial Fists!!! So he's been pushing me too. This is about the journey. A VERY expensive journey, but hopefully it's fun nonetheless. I look forward to sharing it here. 

[BadgersinHills]

Warpsmith looks amazing. Excited to see more! 

 

I'm sorry for your loss. The hobby, in all facets including the community, has helped me a lot over the years. 

Edited 3 hours ago by BadgersinHills