Stormtalon Update

So, I've been hard at work on the Stormtalon for my Imperial Fists. The vehicle itself is now finished, with the metal areas tidied up and given a black wash (and some brown round the engine area). I also used pale yellow drybrushing paint for the edge highlights, which I am very pleased with. Here is the finished result:

Also, some of the internal details / work done on the pilot.

As usual, comments welcome! That's all for now,

Prospero

Sternguard WIP

So, here are the new Sternguard I've been working on for my Imperial Fists. They are intended as extra to increase an existing squad to 10 men. As such, there are no combi-weapons on any of these - however, I couldn't resist doing something special for their guns.

Forge World all the way! It was important that these looked different to the bulk of my army, which is why I used the Mk4 armour set, along with the special bolters.

 

I'm currently undecided about whether to add all the ammo pouches, grenades and holstered bolt pistols to these models, though I did do this to the other Sternguard I built - this may be the deciding factor - Let me know in the comments whether you think this would be a good idea.

 

Well, that's it for now - please feel free to leave a comment below - the feedback is always appreciated! Check out our Facebook page for a few extra pictures I couldn't fit in here.

 

 

Prospero

 



Stormtalon WIP

Just a quick update today with a couple of WIP images of my Imperial Fists Stormtalon. All the major work is done now, and its time for tidying up and small details.

 

As always, comments are welcome. I'm hoping to be back soon with another update, and some other interesting stuff I'm currently working on. Stay tuned...

 

Prospero

11th Legion Presents: Road to Blog Wars, episode #4 The end of the road

Yes, it is the end of the road, I have managed to complete the army, with time to spare...

So what follows is a bit of a showcase of my army and my thoughts on my choices.
Hopefully there should be a tournament report of my performance some time next week.

Another thing to look forward to is a battle report between myself and TotalTyke some time after the tournament (if work and life can allow). This will be using our tournament armies. So that is something else to look forward to.

So here is the last part in my Road to blog wars series:


Thanks for watching 

Dispatches from the front: week 5 - Delayed by Chaos

Hello all,

Creidhnan has been waylaid by the powers of chaos, so I have chipped in to collate the progress of the 11th Legion this week (Hence why its late).

I have completed another episode in VLOG Road to Blog Wars, this time with a basing tutorial (if you can call it that) for my now completed (spoilers) WraithGuard:

TotalTyke hosted games night last week and it was Creidhnan to play Wazdak in preparation for blog wars.

So it was 1850 points a side below is a brief Battle Report by Creidhnan:

Creidhnan: This week I had a quick game using the new Space Marine Codex, against Wazdak and his Nurgle Chaos.

Rough lists!

Space Marines (Imperial/Crimson Fists)

Pedro Kantor

4 Tactical squads: Missile Launchers (Flakk missiles)

2 demi-tac squads with Las-Cannons

Bike squadron: 2 Flamers

3 attack bikes with MM (squad of two and a squad of one)

Thunderfire cannon

Full Devastator squad with Plasma cannons

Full Devastator squad with Heavy Bolters.

Chaos Space Marines (with Chaos Daemon allies)

Chaos Lord (Nurgle)

20 cultists

Nurgle sorcerer

2x 6 Plague marines in rhinos

2x Predator with Heavy Bolter sponsons

2x Helldrakes with Baleflamer (ulp!)

Daemon prince, wings, Psyker (level 2?)

Great unclean one, psyker (level 2?)

Nurglings

We played Kill points, Hammer & Anvil. No night fight. I took first deployment/turn.

High(/low?)lights:

Thunderfire cannon eats squads - especially when you finally figure out how the barrage rules work!

The Daemon Prince made himself toughness 8 (immune to my puny guns) and chomped on a bike squad that had carelessly wandered too close. Before they even got to attack. Then survived 4 missiles and 2 Las-Cannons to the face.....

To go down to a Heavy Bolter. Oh, the ignominy....

On the bright side, Helldrakes still eat squads (in two phases - curse you vector strike!)

After seeing four AA missiles bounce off a passing Helldrake, the tactical squad meltagunner decides to show them how it is done... 6 by 6 by 6! Scratch one HellDrake.

The next turn, the missile gunners were obviously impressed, because they repeated the trick..

Enfeeble + Haemorrhage = A big mess of the Emperors finest..

We called the game after Chaos turn three, Wazdak feeling he was no longer in position to contest the game. He still had his plague marines, sorcerer and Great Unclean One in the fight and the lord, lone cultist and Nurglings milled about in his back field. Unfortunately I still had the majority of my firepower, having only really lost the bikes and 3 of the 4 special weapon squads. 

However, when we totaled it up it came to 6 all! I think the game would have rested in my next shooting phase. If I could have taken off the Great Unclean One and the cultist, I think I had the win, so it was probably a fair call. 

Overall, I had some good luck with damage results on the HellDrakes - I don't really have an answer to them, and they're so devastating. The new space marine book seems fairly solid - you can certainly fit a lot more in. And re-rolling 1's always helps!

Prospero: He's arrived! Ahriman has at last joined the ranks of my Thousand Sons.

As befits someone of his stature, I decided to mount him on a bit of wrecked dreadnought for a bit of extra height. Should hopefully have started painting during the next week.

Totaltyke: My hopes of having 5 Terminators finished this weekend have been severely hampered as Grandfather Nurgle has gifted me with one of his poxes. I did manage 1.... Perhaps he has mistaken the Deathwing for Deathguard? More pics next week.

Road to Blog Wars Episode #2

Hello wargamers,

Here is the overdue Episode #2 of Road to Blog Wars where I continue my progress update on my 1850 point Eldar army.



You can find information on Blog Wars here:
http://fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-wars-6.html

Road to Blog Wars: Episode 1

Hi all,

This is the first episode in what I hope will be a regular series with updates at least once a week. These will be in more of a Vlogging style.

In this episode:
Planning the army building/painting
Sneak Peak on up coming Dropzone Commander series.
Progress on my 1850 point army for Blog Wars
And Ideas needed for an Exarch conversion.
You can find out more about Blog Wars here:
http://fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-wars-6.html

Thanks for watching

Dan (DeathBringa) Cain