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Title: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 17, 2015, 03:20:08 AM
So my brother has convinced me to start a 40k force so I can join him in some double's tournaments. He's long had a force of space marines and tau but never really played. Now that we live a bit closer we looked at the local clubs and found that two of them regularly run doubles tournaments. With him focusing on space marines, and me being primarily interested in the fluff and background, I decided I'm going to run Imperial Guard.

Now I only played warhammer 40k once before, and all I used was two basic squads of space marines in a 4V4 player battle so it wasn't exactly the best learning experience. Ton's of fun! But not really great for learning the rules. Because of the fluff I've started building, (and my budget) so far it's primarily an infantry army.

There's a campaign starting in about a month that we're joining. It's geared towards beginners and teaching the game. At the start your forces start off with just an HQ and 1 troop choice. I've bought some models on ebay and off friends, so I''ll post up the quick list I made. All the models were prebuilt and I have no bitz so far to convert or change many models. I'm positive it's a horrible list, especially because squads were picked based on what models are armed with. I was hoping the wonderful people here on the forum could rip it apart, tell me what I need to add/change/scrap, and suggest some tips for fighting with the Imperial Guard.

So far I have the following, roughly organised into these groups.

    1st command squad.
- 1 Leader.
- 1 Standard.
- 1 Vox
- 1 Plasma
- 1 Veteran

2nd Command Squad.
-   Leader
-   Vox
-   Flag
-   1 close combat
-   Flame

1st company
-   Sarge.
-   Rocket heavy weapon.
-   Medic (Counts as normal trooper but fun for fluff)
-   1 Flame.
-   1 Vox
-   4 Troops

2nd Company.
-   Sarge.
-   Rocket heavy weapon
-   Flame
-   6 Troops

3rd Company
-   Sarge
-   Vox
-   Flamer
-   7 Guns

12 Last Chancers

5 Storm Troopers

1 Heavy Bolter

3 spare troops.

I know the heavy weapon squad especially isn't big enough, I'm hoping to kitbash some more guns once I get spare bitz. Points wise it's not legal yet either I don't think, but because of the campaign that's not a huge priority. It depends a bit on the condition stuff arrives from Ebay. I don't have the codex yet, I'm planning to pick it up this coming weekend. I'm a total 40k newb here, but I have to admit it looks nice using one command squad as the HQ, the second as the platoon HQ, then having three company/squads (Don't know the proper terminology.). I'll post up my fluff as I gradually develop it here as well.

So where's a good place for me to start turning this into an effective army? How do the squads look? I'm aiming for a legal, semi effective 2000 point army. The fluff is pretty early in development so it's not really pushing the army one way or another.


Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on November 17, 2015, 06:55:45 PM
Your list looks good. You'll need more heavy armour, at least 3 Leman Russes in different configs. A Vendetta or a Valkyrie, depends on your choice of prefference towards anti infantry or anti armour. Chimeras, lots of Chimeras. Have a Chimera for each squad in your army. Artillery as well, Medua is the best gun the IG have (altough it's using Forge World rules). For a standard option go either for Manticore MRL and/or Wyvern Suppression Tank for glorious infantry slaughter. You can invest in some HWT, mainly Autocannons and Mortars. With orders from your officers they can be really nasty against almost everything. Your command squads should have advisors, mainly Officers of the Fleet, who can help your reserves or disrupt enemy's reserves.

In general - get more dudes. Have at least two full platoons of men, and then some more for additional Veteran and Specialist squads. Good luck from a fellow IG player mate. ;)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 18, 2015, 02:53:15 AM
Thanks! I'm planning to build up the platoons first then get a few leman Russ to support. Because the upcoming campaign is doubles my brother is starting with space marines and his army is a bit more tank heavy. I get to be the expendable meat shields for the almighty space marines.

What's a good load out for the platoon commands? I keep reading that flags arnt really worth it and to instead just take 4 special weapons, usually the same thing.

So far most of the squads have heavy weapon rockets embedded in them, although I'm not sure I like that. It's mostly because the models have been put on separate bases and without them I don't have nice round numbers for the squads.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on November 18, 2015, 02:59:37 AM
Go get 'em Gankom! :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 18, 2015, 03:46:19 AM
Lol Thanks GP. With the whole Age of Sigmar thing everyones been talking about so many different games I've found I've started lots of new things. My brothers been bugging me for awhile to join the future with him, so here we go eh?

Plus who doesn't want to join the space Empire? I'm sure it'll be simple enough to model a Captain Karl Franz and give all the troops cod pieces. It'll be just like home. But with lazers and stuff.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on November 18, 2015, 08:38:57 AM
Thanks! I'm planning to build up the platoons first then get a few leman Russ to support. Because the upcoming campaign is doubles my brother is starting with space marines and his army is a bit more tank heavy. I get to be the expendable meat shields for the almighty space marines.

What's a good load out for the platoon commands? I keep reading that flags arnt really worth it and to instead just take 4 special weapons, usually the same thing.

So far most of the squads have heavy weapon rockets embedded in them, although I'm not sure I like that. It's mostly because the models have been put on separate bases and without them I don't have nice round numbers for the squads.

Drop the flags, get an Autocannon HWT and some flamers or GL's. Most of your guys are BS 3 so remember to stick with template weaons for them. Leave single shot weapons like Meltas and Lascannons for your Veterans who have BS4. Plasmaguns are cool, but only when you face against SM/CSM, Necrons and Tau. Remember to have a Vox caster in every, single infantry unit, as they will greatly help in issuing orders and you will issue a lot of orders, since Platoon Commands can do that as well.

Also you will need flyers, as 7th edition is THE flyer edition. At least two Valkyries/Vendettas (magnetize them). Maybe grab a trio of Sentinels for a nice flank Autocannon/ML strike.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 18, 2015, 09:06:23 PM
Excellent info, thanks!

I really like the Order system so it's definatly going to get a lot of use. I especially like the idea of heavy weapons moving and shooting. My fantasy armies tend to be either defensive or mobile. Always with lots of infantry. I think I'm going to go for a bit more of a jack of all trades here. Plenty of infantry platoons, some tanks for support, a sentinel squad for scout/flank (And I like the fluff reasons for it) and a few heavy weapon squads. I was told that the main local club around here flyers generally aren't used, at least in campaigns. Although I'll see how true that turns out to be.

The campaign that's coming up is looking like some interesting teams. So far its;

Space Marine/Guard team (Myself and my brother)
Eldar/Dark Eldar team
Tau/Eldar Team
Necron/Necron Team
Chaos Marine/Traitor Guard Team
Space Marine/Space Marine Team
Tyranid/Tau Team
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on November 19, 2015, 07:41:36 AM
The new Tau are intense. However you don't need to worry about Nids, they have the weakest codex right now.

Also remember that you can issue orders to tanks as well, but only if you have a tank commander (worth it). Oh and barrage weapons, like Mortars and artilery can't fire after movement.

Check out the Red WAAAGH! supplement, as it includes an incredibly useful formation called Steel Host. Theoretically it allows you to take 12 Leman Russ Battle Tanks. I use it often, but usually take only 5 - 6.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 19, 2015, 11:17:57 PM
I spent some time this afternoon working on some of the front line grunts. I'm thinking the uniform is going to be a basic green kind of camo. The picture doesn't show any of the shading done on the uniform, alas crappy phone camera seems to do that.

But at least the army is starting!

(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/70155d1b-00d4-4901-a66c-81325329c0b4_zps2pdjwk2q.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/70155d1b-00d4-4901-a66c-81325329c0b4_zps2pdjwk2q.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on November 20, 2015, 02:13:22 PM
It's a start and a good one. You make the Emperor proud brother. :)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 23, 2015, 04:57:50 AM
So I have a fluff related question now. I'm working through planning out my forces and I get the general company lay out. 5 squads in a platoon, 5 platoons in a company etc etc. My question is where do veterans fit into a regiment? Are they a separate attached unit? Would they be organised into their own platoons? How would they be organised?

Picked up an ebay order from the post office. Got roughly 30 more Cadians to get working on. The models need some repair work, and their armed rather weirdly but I'm sure I'll make do. 5 of them are all put together as Vox caster AND the special weapons, which looks kinda weird. Probably going to change that.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on November 23, 2015, 01:51:19 PM
Veterans come in squads of 10, who generally work independently from normal platoons. They are often considered loose cannons, men who work best on their own. That's why you can't normally buy them Commissars, altough they can be added manually. Paint them differently, give them cusom weapons, maybe some trinkets, like an Ork skull or a fragment of Tyranids Carapace. Alternatively you can use Kasrkins as Vets and Tempestus Scions as Stormtroopers. ;)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 27, 2015, 12:56:14 AM
So here's the first little bit of fluff for the system my guards are from:

The Void Storm Anomaly. Ringed by dead systems blasted by war and natural disasters. Only two systems are still occupied, their wardens fighting to contain the evil xeno that spill from the storm. The Warden’s supplies are stretched and their forces ragged and worn down. Still they hold.

One of the occupied zone’s is the Mahigan system. An ordinary system with four planets orbiting a yellow star, this little sun has seen war and blood shed for centuries.

The first planet is known as Ahsin, and it is a scorched world. It’s orbit brings it dangerously close to the suns fiery visage. As is remarkably common in the imperium of man worlds such as this boast significant mineral wealth. Ahsin is no exception. Mining camps dot the planets surface, it’s workers slaving under a burning sun to extract the mineral blood of the planet.

The second planet is Volundr. A Mechanicum Forgeworld, it’s almost to small to be considered a proper forgeworld. It’s factories none the less consume the vast majority of Ahsins exported minerals and spew out all the resources of life and war that the Mahigan system contains.

The third, and by far most important, world is Canadiana. Classified as a civilised world, and the only one for many light years. This is where the Governor-General rules over the system, and oversees the blockade of the Void Storm. The majority of it’s tithe is generally put right back into defending the system. This is where the Imperial Guard regiment known as the 1st Canadiana is raised and based from. Canadiana is also orbited by a small, heavily forested moon known as Taiga and contains the fortress of the DoomSeeker Space Marines. The current Governor-General and Warden of Mahigan is John Simcoe.

The fourth and final planet in the system is Autolycus. Little more then a blasted and war torn ruin, once it was a civilised jewel in the Imperium's crown. When the Void Storm underwent rapid expansion, hordes of foul Xeno brought war to the Mahigan system. It was on Autolycus that armies clashed and the wars were fought. The Imperium has pushed the majority of the xeno out, but their hold on this ruined world is still tenuous.

Despite it’s location on the frontier of Imperial space, and it’s relative small size, the Mahigan system is considered vital. This probably has far more to do with the general stubbornness of humans refusing to give anything up willingly, then actual strategic value. So while supplies are frequently stretched thin, reinforcements are regular. Frequently this takes the form of other Imperial guard forces being seconded or attached to the local defences.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 09, 2015, 08:42:35 PM
I had my first game with the guard yesterday and it went pretty well! It wasn't really the full rules, but it was designed to give us newbies an idea of the rules. It was 2V2, Space Marine and my guard Vs Chaos Marine & Tau. The two marine players had 2500 points, and the Tau player and myself just used an HQ and some troops. It wasn't incredibly balanced but the two marine players spent most of the game letting the rest of us do most of the fun, rather then just focus on a game between themselves.

I had a company HQ, a platoon of 20 men with various upgrades and a 10 man veteran squad. I deployed on one side of the table, the tau on the opposite, and my forces still got shelled first turn by the Xeno scum. Despite some problems with my plasma weapons getting hot I managed to claim the objective on my side of the field, and remarkably held it against chaos close combat madness.

My side won the game, despite suffering 80%+ casualties, but I think I got a good handle on the rules from it. There will be a lot less pausing to look up rules next time. The campaign starts on Saturday and my starting forces are a Company command squad and the ten man veterans who did all the work in this practice game.

So experienced guard generals, what's the best load out for a company command squad in a campaign with many different armies? I can't switch load outs between games, only at certain points in the campaign, and I can't take advisors. All other upgrades are possible however. I'm thinking give the officer shotgun and Powerfist, 2 veteran with melta, veteran with plasma and a veteran with heavy flamer. All upgraded with Carapace.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on December 12, 2015, 07:29:20 AM
Only 80%? Then it was a decisive victory for the Guard. :D I'm impressed that you've managed to brave BOTH the Fire Caste's fire and CSM assault prowess. Your Guard makes the Emperor proud. Also your fluff rocks, I forgot to write that earlier, for which I am sorry.

Is your group allowing FW rules and models? If so then your life will become a lot easier with Imperial Armour supplements.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 27, 2015, 02:59:51 AM
Sadly no forgeworld stuff in the campaign. Most people in the store seem pretty okay with it but the campaign is just core basic stuff.

My campaign force has changed a bit. Models have to be WYSIWYG, so I'm using stuff as it is. Seeing as stuff from ebay is rather random it's going to be interesting. Luckily thanks to Christmas and further ebay my forces are expanding greatly! Huzzah for the guard. Forces for the campaign start out very basic, and it's become a bit more of a fluffy campaign. My original plan was company HQ, and a platoon squad. However after talking with the other people in the campaign and my partner for it I'm changing it a bit.

My campaign force is the following:

1st Canadiana, 1st Company Command Squad
- Captain Hawkwood. Powerfist, carapace armor.
- Veteran with flag. Carapace armor.
- Veteran with plasma gun. Carapace armor.
- Veteran Vox Caster. Carapace armor.
- Veteran with close combat weapon and pistol. Carapace Armor.

1st Company Veterans
- Sergeant with powersword and plasma pistol.
- Vox caster.
- Heavy flamer.
- Sniper.
- Melta Gun.
- Rocket launcher heavy weapon.
- 3 troopers.

Once I get a few points in the campaign I'm thinking of taking grenades and giving the veteran's the Forward Sentries doctrine. The veteran load out doesn't seem the best but I like the way it looks and how I built them so I'm rolling with it. My partner in the campaign is playing Salamander space marines and plans to use a good number of tanks. The plan is for my troops to either baby sit objectives or be the meatshield, while his troops smash the enemies up.

Ah the life of a guardsman.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on December 27, 2015, 02:02:58 PM
Without carapace on those vets, they're deader than dead. Also I understand that WSYIWG is in play, but be sure to invest in some Meltaguns and Sergeants with Bolt Pistols/CCW. Plasma Pistol and PW on Serges are a huge waste of points, since with I3 and rather poor BS/WS they'll won't do much and with one measly wound a Plasma overheat can be nasty. Remember that if you'll walk with thesee guys your ML's will be able to only fire Krak Missiles and on BS1 no less. Heavy Weapons are good for camping HWT's.

Other than that, it's good and Emperor be with you.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 27, 2015, 06:39:00 PM
Yeah there's going to be a lot of melta guns, I'm a big fan of them. I can't get the veterans carapace armor till later in the campaign so sadly deader then dead is probably a good description of what's going to happen.

I'll see if I can't switch the plasma pistol to a bolt pistol. If their camping the objective or dying for the space marines it might not be to important.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on December 27, 2015, 06:41:28 PM
Yeah there's going to be a lot of melta guns, I'm a big fan of them. I can't get the veterans carapace armor till later in the campaign so sadly deader then dead is probably a good description of what's going to happen.

I'll see if I can't switch the plasma pistol to a bolt pistol. If their camping the objective or dying for the space marines it might not be to important.

If you can't take carapace, take camo cloaks and camp in ruins or behind some cover. If you're camping, maybe try to cram a few sniper rifles. They'r enot pinning anymore, but other than that are pretty decent. Good luck!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 28, 2015, 02:31:35 AM
Camo cloaks are the current plan before I can upgrade to carapace. It's probably going to be two or three games first. First game is next weekend. After each game all players get to upgrade their force by a specific thing, like adding a troop choice or something. Winners get bonus points to spend, and there's also bonus points for completing goals and objectives.

So hopefully if the Emperors smiling on us I'll get a ton of bonus points and upgrade everyone right up AND add some additional forces.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: TexasYankee on December 29, 2015, 05:19:38 PM
The third, and by far most important, world is Canadiana.

I have several friends and family from the Great White North, so I smiled when I read this. How soon before you have the Albertanian 1st, led by their company commander Bret Von Hart?

I currently play Daemons (leftover from Fantasy, so all still on square bases) and Orks, but already have a Cadian Defence Force box put together, and look forward to putting them on the table. Best of luck to you, brother, and roll them dice!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on December 29, 2015, 07:04:36 PM
Gankhom ... hope your effort goes well with your Guard! :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 29, 2015, 07:22:51 PM
Thanks guys! I'm currently working on the idea that each company in the regiment is from what is essentially a different province. I've lived in just about every province or territory up here and like the idea of an all Canadian regiment.

The 1st platoon lieutenant is named after the first Canadian Prime Minister and the idea is every time he dies in battle (Which will be a lot. This is guard afterall), he's replaced by the next one.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 09, 2016, 08:36:35 PM
Well the 1st game of the campaign was a victory for the 1st Canadiana! and in true style the guard did all the work only for the space marines to swoop in and steal all the glory. We rolled poorly on our reserve rolls so my partner and his space marines didn't show up till turn 3, leaving my Guard to fight off Tau and Tyranid on their own. It was really weird fighting Tyranid and Tau together. the Tau force (Which my autocorrect keeps changing to tao farce for some reason) was 10 fire warriors and an ethereal. The Tyranid force was a Hive tyrant, which was freaking terrifying for 15 guard grunts to be facing, and a group of gaunts. I don't know the difference between the tyranid units, but these ones were more combat oriented.

No pictures unfortunately. One of the other players didn't seem to like the idea so we did without.

My 10 veterans and 5 HQ squad bunkered down in a building on the objective and fully expected to die. Luckily the emperor was with us occasionally. Without the space marines support I expected to get overrun, but the enemy was worried about getting flanked by arrive marines so actually held back longer then they should have. The veterans and fire warriors exchanged fire back and forth for 3 turns, resulting in the death of most of the veterans and the total death of the fire warriors. Finally they worked up the nerve to overrun my remaining troops and charged in with the hive tyrant, the gaunts and the ethereal for the lols.

The marines were coming, but all I had to hold them back was the veteran sergeant, the heavy flamer, the sniper, my HQ officer and HQ Vox caster. True to all the warnings I was given beforehand the veteran sergeant promptly fried himself shooting off the plasma pistol. The battle was bloody but the emperor protects (And the enemy couldn't roll above a 2) leaving just the sniper and the HQ officer alive at the start of turn 5. Thinking I'd at least go out with a bang I focused all my attacks on the hive tyrant but it survived with 1 wound.

Then the space marines swarmed in with the captain slaying the hive tyrant almost laughably easy and the tactical marines kicking the gaunts out like ten day old garbage.

Captain Hawkwood and the Veteran sniper were the only survivors of the first battle, but victory was ours and we'd secured our landing zone. This will give us a pretty good bonus in our next couple of games.

It was a real good learning experience. It was a crazy game, mostly because of some rather pitiful rolls on all sides. Our reserve rolls meant the space marines were no where to be seen. My sergeant killed himself with the plasma pistol, and the plasma gunner in the HQ did the same. The enemy played really cautiously and I'm sure that's the only reason things went well for us. If they'd piled in on me right away they would have slaughtered everyone and held the objective against the space marines. Tyranid close combat backed up by Tau fire support wasn't to bad this game, but again I think it's because of how cautious they played. I'm expecting that team to get a lot harder to beat. The load out of my veteran squad didn't really effect this game to much. The heavy flamer would have been good against the gaunts but it got killed shortly before the charge. The melta and the rocket were both pretty much useless with nothing big in range or bad rolls. The sniper actually ended up with the most kills which I wasn't really expecting but was rather nice.

So all in all it was a fun game and we're off to a good start.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 11, 2016, 12:47:42 AM
Woot so I went on a bit of a painting binge today and actually got some work done on the latest recruits to the 1st Canadiana regiment. Thanks to Christmas I got the old Cadian battleforce and a set of paints and brushes. Stuff far better then I was using before. I started off today mostly just base coating things and testing the paints, but actually ended up getting some work done!

This is far from the finished project. A fair bit of it is still experimental. I was particularly curious how the armor on the guards would turn out. I’m not actually that fond of everyone having the same uniform, so I thought I’d try something different. The plan is for each platoon to have a different armor color. The 1st Platoon is red, the second platoon will be white. I’m thinking I’ll use roman numerals to mark the platoon number on the right shoulder. Sadly I’m not very neat even with the smallest brush so that could be a bit hit or miss.

C&C is always welcome, let it rip and let me know what you think.

Here’s a portion of what I was able to do today. I base coated several dozen but figured they didn’t need a picture yet.
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185723_zpseewdx2kn.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185723_zpseewdx2kn.jpg.html)

Commisar Alfred Pyke is front and center. I’m planning on a lot more detail, but I think a commissar would look better with black clothing and black great coat.
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185832_zps8aoznmyi.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185832_zps8aoznmyi.jpg.html)
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185826_zpsswlrp6fk.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185826_zpsswlrp6fk.jpg.html)

Lieutenant Uhtred of the 1st Platoon and a rocket loader. Picture turned out pretty blurry compared to the rest. Stormcast photobombing in the background.
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185814_zpskesoh8en.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185814_zpskesoh8en.jpg.html)

 Lieutenant Alexander Mackenzie of the 2nd platoon. I like the storm trooper look he has going, but I can’t decide if I want to add camo splotches on the cloth.
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185838_zpsf8oym0ih.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185838_zpsf8oym0ih.jpg.html)

A trooper in the second platoon fleeing from some chaos marauders!
(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/20160110_185832_zps8aoznmyi.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/20160110_185832_zps8aoznmyi.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on January 11, 2016, 08:54:20 AM
The battle seemed really epic and tense. I liked that the last survivors were a sniper and a vox guy. Very movie-like, very cool. Your army is beggining to look really nice. Will you stick with the red camo scheme?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 11, 2016, 05:06:10 PM
I'm not sure actually. I liked how it turned out more then I thought I would, but I think I'm going to try a few different schemes on some other guys then compare them all together.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on January 12, 2016, 08:34:24 AM
I'm not sure actually. I liked how it turned out more then I thought I would, but I think I'm going to try a few different schemes on some other guys then compare them all together.

Good call. ;)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 19, 2016, 01:22:03 AM
Second game of the campaign happened on Saturday and this one went... less well.

Game 2 was the 1st Canadiana Imperial Guard and their Salamander allies VS The Eldar of Craftword Caedmon and their allied Tau of name undecided. (as their listed on the fluff sheet).

This time the brave Guard were able to deploy shoulder to shoulder (Mid chest actually probably) with their space marine allies. Our mission was to assassinate the enemy Farseer, but unbeknownst to us the foul xeno need to secure vital intelligence located in the center of the battlefield.

My guard had the first turn and laid down a withering hail of firepower that slew 3 Eldar warriors and lightly wounded the Tau leader. No one blew themselves up this time with fiery plasma, which was nice. The space marines trundled forward into the ruins but alas, they didn't have a shot.

On the enemies first turn they moved forward and returned fire against the stalwart guard. After rolling a ridiculous, and frankly unbelievable, amount of sixes, they butchered almost the entire veteran and command squad.

All the glorious guardsmen were dead or wounded by the end of turn two. The game ended in a draw after a full six turns, with the last 3 being pretty much no action. The space marines ended up camping on the objective the enemies needed without knowing it. (For this game neither side knew the others objective. My partner ended up sitting on the objective because he thought the ruins in the center of the board would be more defensible.) The enemy teams got whittled down to much to nothing, but kept their Farseer alive and denied us the victory points.

Everyone involved has had a weird time adjusting to having a game that's usually just 1 unit and 1 HQ per player. There's so few troops that a good turn of shooting can pretty much knock a player out. We all knew this going in, and starting next week we start getting more troops. The next game is actually more kill team style and should be an even more different change. Even getting knocked out in turn 2 it was really fun. Finding out we'd accidently denied the enemy the objective was hilarious. We thought their goal was to kill the space marine commander because of how worked up they were getting whenever the space marine player had his turn.

The next game, kill team style, is going to be 1vs1 with each player playing against the referee/game master and trying to complete their objective. We pick our kill team the day of he match from our current forces AFTER we find out what our objective us. I'm feeling pretty confident purely because my veteran squad has a little bit of everything in it. Not to mention the HQ squad.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on January 19, 2016, 09:01:02 AM
"We do and wie die, that is the way of the Imperial Guard". That's all. A very good game, but an Eldar and Tau combo is truly horryfing when it comes to shooting. You did good, given the circumstances.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 19, 2016, 05:05:47 PM
I'm certainly looking forward to getting revenge when I've got more then 1 squad I can say that.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 28, 2016, 01:13:51 AM
There's been a couple of games in the campaign since my last post, but I'm still writing them up. Overall it's been going pretty well for our team.

Quick fluff question. I know there's a few BFG players floating around. Does anyone know if Imperial Ships use any kind of prefix? Like HMS kind of thing. I've looked into it but havn't found anything concrete.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: red shift on February 28, 2016, 08:35:25 AM
Not as far as I know, I am fairly well versed with bfg as well.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 28, 2016, 11:30:37 PM
That what it looked like from my search, I just wanted to double check with people. The few times I've seen it used seems to be just people's personnel take on the fluff.

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on February 29, 2016, 10:27:26 AM
Well you could use His Imperial Majesty's prefix, since it goes well with the Emperor. ;) Remember that 40K fluff is much more open to interpretation, than, for example, WFB's. ;)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on March 01, 2016, 09:19:36 PM
Yeah that's certainly one of the nice things about 40k, you can base your army on pretty much anything. Both my Grandfathers where in the navy so it feels a bit weird writing about ships without a prefix, just force of habit, but I think I'm going to do without. I kind of like the thought of them not needing a prefix because as far as their concerned the only ships worth knowing are friends, who get names, and enemies. Who get blasted.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on March 11, 2016, 12:30:28 AM
There’s been a few games since the last update and for the most the campaign is going well for my team. We hold the space port, we’ve fortified it against attacks, and we’ve kept the other teams from getting a foot hold near us. We’re behind a bit in points because we’re pretty far away from some of the big objectives on the map. The campaign is fighting over a map, kind of like the old border prince maps, and several spots have bonus points or special abilities. The space port gives bonus to our reinforcements roll, but the double necron team currently controls three special spots, and they’ve just demolished everyone they’ve gone against.

Currently my campaign army is much bigger then the two squads it was last time. It’s still no where near legal but that’s because of the fluff building aspect of the campaign. The 1st Canadiana Regiment currently consists of:

Company Command Squad
-   Captain Hawkwood, Powerfist
-   Lieutenant 1st Class
-   Color Sergeant with Flag
-   Vox Trooper
-   Plasma Veteran
-   All have Carapace armor.
1st Platoon.
Command Squad-
-   Commander with power sword, Vox, Flag, Close Combat, Plasma. Frag grenade.
1st Squad
-   Sarge.
-   Rocket heavy weapon.
-   1 Flame.
-   1 Vox
-   5 Troops

2nd Squad.
-   Sarge.
-   Rocket heavy weapon
-   Flame
-   6 Troops

5 Storm troopers
1st Company Veterans (Starting squad)
- Sergeant with powersword and plasma pistol.
- Vox caster.
- Heavy flamer.
- Sniper.
- Melta Gun.
- Rocket launcher heavy weapon.
- 3 troopers.

728Th Cadian Veterans
- Sergeant with powersword and Bolt pistol.
- Vox caster.
- Heavy flamer.
- Melta Gun.
- Autocannon heavy weapon.
- 6 Troops
- Carapace armor.

And 1 solitary armored sentinel with autocannon.

It’s a strange build, partly because of how the points have to be spent now and again. My partner in the campaign is space marines and is looking more and more like a beast. He’s got a land raider and 2 rhinoes. Plows forward and unleashes close combat and tactical squads right in someone’s face. Like a true guardsman I’m just there to hold the objectives long enough for him to slaughter everything.

This coming weekend we have our next battle and we’re against a Eldar & Dark Eldar player. I havn’t seen their army lists but I know they beat a chaos space marine/traitor guard team with a very similar build to ours.

So who wants to be the first to point out the terrible parts of my list? I’ve had no real regrets and I’ve gotten real lucky with some things like the sniper and multiple melta guns. I’ve even had pretty good mileage out of the heavy weapons embedded in squads rather then separate, but that’s been because of well placed orders. Flags have been just about pointless so far, and the plasma pistol on the 1st veteran sarg has been used exactly once each game and has a 50% success or death rate.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on March 11, 2016, 08:39:00 AM
As a fellow Guard player I must say that this list is rather good. I don't know your points and FOC limit, so I'll just add my two cents, based on what I've read - never give a Plasma weapon to a single wound character. Drop the banners. With such a small force they're nigh on useless. Equip all your guys with Vox-casters. Powerfist is a nice weapon, but consider the following: you'll strike last and you won't instant kill most enemies that PF is designed to drop. Why? Because while PF on Space Marines boosts their strength to 8, meaning they'll one-shit Tyranid Warriors, other Marines and Ork Nobz, your PF boosts your strength to 6. And PF's are expensive. My advice is to give all your guys, or at least as many as possible, Carapace Armour. You're runnning Vets, so just take the Grenadier Doctrine. Maybe invest in some HWT's with Autocannons and SWS with Flamers. Sniper Rifles in 7th suck, because they no longer pin your enemies.

As soon as possible grab a Chimera or two, kit out your vets with 3 Meltaguns and unleash the Emperor's fury upon your enemies. Alternatively you can try deploying a Vendetta with the Fighter Ace upgrade. It'll annihilate any armour with extreme prejudice. Oh and of course, Leman Russess are your friends.

Keep on fighting. I'll keep my fingers crossed. :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on March 12, 2016, 08:51:06 PM
Thanks! Heavy weapon teams and chimera's are top of my wish list right now. The plasma weapons have been very hit or miss, literally with a side bonus of cooking my own people now and then. The powerfist has actually earned it's fair share of kills so far but mostly against tau and Eldar.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 18, 2016, 10:03:08 PM
I had a bunch of pictures to post but first I have to fight with photobucket to make the sizes right. This the first one I got working. (I hope it's not gigantic.)

This is a shot of what I have painted so far. There's a few odd guys out fell of the bases, but this is the bulk.

(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Painted%20Guard_zpshiqlcyu6.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Painted%20Guard_zpshiqlcyu6.jpg.html)

The White mass at the top left is a platoon command and 1 squad. In the middle is a group of veterans (Painted by someone off ebay), then the red platoon is two squads with a platoon command. With the regiment being the 1st Canadiana, the colors or going to be red and white in different measures.

The lovely powder blue group is another veteran squad, currently my MVP's with both lots of kills, lots of objectives held and uncountable screw ups. They have an incredibly habit of ignoring orders, missing all their shots, then winning the day in the last turn or two.

Finally in the front row we have a lord commissar (Far left), the company Command squad in the middle, then the 1st storm trooper on the right.

Hopefully I'll get other pictures working. it's amazing the difference washes can make on the cloth parts. I'm also rather proud/happy with how the camo cloaks turned out.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 18, 2016, 10:04:39 PM
This is a work in progress on the camo cloaks.


(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Camo_zpsvgu77mss.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Camo_zpsvgu77mss.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 19, 2016, 10:44:05 AM
They look really good! You're going places with that infantry. :) What about vehicles? Planning to get any in the future?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 19, 2016, 03:32:57 PM
I'm debating vehicles. They would supremely useful, especially in the meta by me. However I'm pretty cheap so I'm looking at converting some first. On top of that I've never been a fan of big models, even in fantasy my armies are generally infantry all the way.

That said how can I say no to tanks. I have some ideas for a kitbash russ that looks a bit more like a Sherman Tank.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 20, 2016, 07:56:24 AM
Good thing with the guard is that you don't need a lot of tanks. Two LR's are optimal. Then 2-3 Chimeras and some artillery. Depending on your tastes, you can go full squadron or single units. I'm running a competitive list with 3 x Wyverns and a single Manticore, supported by 2 x LR's Demolishers and 2 x Chimeras for my Vets. You will need a flyer, without a shadow of a doubt. I suggest Vendetta. 3 x TL Lascannons are scary as hell.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Demonslayer on September 20, 2016, 08:45:27 AM
This is a work in progress on the camo cloaks.


(http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Camo_zpsvgu77mss.jpg) (http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Camo_zpsvgu77mss.jpg.html)

Where are the models? All I see is a big green backgr- ohhhhh   :icon_wink:.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 20, 2016, 10:43:53 AM
I played a tank heavy army build.  Had quite a lot of fun.  The flaw with my set up was when I had to deal with lots of monstrous creatures.  Those battle cannons just didn't get it done!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 20, 2016, 11:01:03 AM
Were you using normal Russes? For MC's a maxed out tank army is a good idea, stationary tank bunkers with sponsons, pintle-mounted weapons and Hunter Killer missiles everywhere. Of course IG = artillery and a couple of Bassilisk or Manticores never hurt anyone. If you're going for the cheese factor then take the Armoured Company Battlegroup from Forgeworld's Imperial Armour and field a bunch of BS5 Leman Russes, armed with a Poison 2+, AP2 or 3, INSTANT DEATH shells for those pesky MC's. ;)

I did it. Took out about 3 MC's per turn with them. By the end of turn 3 there were no more MC's on the table. :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 20, 2016, 01:31:46 PM
I ran the gattling gun LEman, a full plasma tank, 3 basilisks, and a handful of battle cannon leman russ if points allowed.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on September 20, 2016, 03:19:55 PM
How was the gattling gun unit? I like be the idea of 20 H dice to roll on a unit. I just never see them so I thought they weren't that good. It's the punisher LR right? To
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 20, 2016, 03:23:48 PM
Right.  You NEED to put Pask in it (thats the hero guy right?).  His BS4 is huge for that.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 20, 2016, 04:11:50 PM
This is a work in progress on the camo cloaks.



Where are the models? All I see is a big green backgr- ohhhhh   :icon_wink:.

That just shows how good the painting was.  :::cheers::: My cunning plan was a success...


I've got a basilisk coming at some point through Reaper's Bones 3 kickstarter that will be some nice artillery. Chimera's, especially for my veteran units are on the priority list.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 21, 2016, 08:16:12 AM
I ran the gattling gun LEman, a full plasma tank, 3 basilisks, and a handful of battle cannon leman russ if points allowed.

Punisher is great, but only with Pask. Skip the Executioner. It's expensive and a couple of 1's mean that you're toast. Battle Cannons are always nice.

When it comes to transports, Chimeras are your friends. Screw the Tauroxes.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 21, 2016, 08:54:07 AM
I used the executioner because it looked so damn hot.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 21, 2016, 09:50:36 AM
It looks good on paper with all the AP 2 small blasts, but the current ammount of other AP2 weaponry, as well as the Gets Hot! rule, really makes it an iffy tank in my opinion. Not to mention the attrocious point cost.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 21, 2016, 02:31:07 PM
Yeah, but it looks so cool!

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on September 21, 2016, 02:44:44 PM
Yeah, but it looks so cool!

That it is, and no doubt about it. ;)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on September 21, 2016, 03:41:13 PM
I'll have to order the parts for the Punisher then. I have a Valhallen army with one LR and I have a spare kit that is begging for this. And Pask too but he's not Valhallen lol. I had the 3 LR kit but 2 went into an ork battle wagon that my son built.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 21, 2016, 09:16:22 PM
Just make an appropriately impressive looking Valhallan poking out the top of the tank and you're good.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: FR1DAY on September 21, 2016, 09:52:58 PM
vehicles only take damage on a get hot roll on a 1-3 on a D6. 4+ avoid it. that is one hull point every 4 turns, if you survive that long.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gneisenau on September 21, 2016, 09:55:44 PM
Just make an appropriately impressive looking Valhallan poking out the top of the tank and you're good.

You could use a head from the Empire Huntsmen kit for that purpose.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: phillyt on September 21, 2016, 10:42:21 PM
vehicles only take damage on a get hot roll on a 1-3 on a D6. 4+ avoid it. that is one hull point every 4 turns, if you survive that long.

Well it shoots 5 times per turn.  So over a 6 turn game, thats thirty shots.  If you are shooting all of the plasma available, its likely to take 3 hull points by the end of the game.  I always put those plasma cannon sponsons on.  MOAR PLASMA!!!!!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on September 21, 2016, 11:10:36 PM
Just make an appropriately impressive looking Valhallan poking out the top of the tank and you're good.

You could use a head from the Empire Huntsmen kit for that purpose.

and I have 7 huntsmen roving around the spare bits. Nice idea!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 17, 2016, 05:13:10 PM
I'd happily use some tanks if I could afford to buy them, then had the patience to actually paint them. Sadly I'm stuck with lots of squishy infantry until I find some cheap tanks.

I have added 3 more squads of SRS Storm troopers. SRS A, posted back away's, has been bumped up to platoon command squad. I then added:

SRS B (5 men, 2 of them with plasma guns. Anti big stuff),

SRS C (10 men, 1 with anti tank melta, 1 with flamer, sarg with close combat. Their all from EBay so the load out is weird, but they'll be flexible response.)

&

SRS D (8 Metal Stormtroopers. 1 with plasma gun, 1 with melta.)

So all my stormtroopers have accidently ended up as anti-tank. If I built them myself I would have preferred one of the squads to be anti infantry, but alas when you get them cheap off the electronic bay you don't get to pick loadout.

I also have more plasma guns then is probably smart. I'm a big fan of them normally, I think they look awesome, but the sheer number of them in my army is getting ridiculous.

It's also more stormtroopers then I originally planned to actually have in my army, so I can swap as need be. I'm just the kinda guy who likes to have all my units organised in one big master list when I'm not gearing up for a specific game.

How do you guys prefer using stormtroopers? Do you use a full platoon with command squad and everything, or prefer 1 or 2 small squads?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on October 18, 2016, 08:40:02 AM
First of all you can never have enough Stormies. They're kickass. Now that being said, it's hard to use them correctly. Don't worry about having a lot of anti-tank, since AT works really well against hard infantry, like SM, Necrons and Tau suits.

You need to know how to efficently deploy them - footslogging Stormies are not a good idea, and it's not suggested to camp them on objectives, since they're an elite infantry and need to kill stuff. Either put them in Chimeras and ride around, melting fools or deploy them via deep strike as a suicidal, anti everything unit (lots of Meltas and Plasmas) or send them in support of your main forces, ideally on the flanks, kitted out with a Hot Shot Volleygun. S4 AP3 Salvo is sweet and spicy. However bear in mind that their default weapons have a short range so it might take a while before they'll be able to engage the enemy full on. That's why I like two 5-man suicide squads, dropped behind enemy lines to sow as much chaos and mayhem as possible.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 18, 2016, 10:00:39 PM
Welp until I can get my hands on a few chimera's suicidal storm trooper squads it is. I'll probably use the bigger 10 man squad to hold one flank, and the two five man squads can deep strike and try and mess my opponents plans up. I enjoy the thought of multiple plasma guns appearing behind enemy lines and shredding anything that looks important.

For the Emperor of course.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on October 19, 2016, 08:46:44 AM
A 10 man squad is nice, but be sure to hug cover as much as possible and space your guys accordingly. 4+ is not much, especially in the current meta. Deepstriking with a Plasma gun, Plasma pistol and maybe a Melta can be utterly devastating, but this unit will survive a turn, no more. So ideally bring two and drop them far apart of each other, for maximum confusion. ;)

Hydra Dom... errr, I meant - for the Emperor!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 19, 2016, 04:32:39 PM
Oh yes, I've discovered just how important cover is in 40k. One of the reasons I got into fantasy in the first place was the tactics around moving regimental BLOCKS around the field. Cover was always nice but generally wasn't a huge part of the game. Unless you faced siege machines, but then cover is more like hiding behind an entire house or hill. 40k of course has a lot more emphasis on getting your squad into some bushes, or ruins or a crater. Cover saves are the sole reason my army survives after a few turns.

I have a 2000 pt game coming up on the weekend, so I'll get to try experimenting a bit with some suicidal stormtroopers.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on October 21, 2016, 11:12:19 AM
Oh yes, I've discovered just how important cover is in 40k. One of the reasons I got into fantasy in the first place was the tactics around moving regimental BLOCKS around the field. Cover was always nice but generally wasn't a huge part of the game. Unless you faced siege machines, but then cover is more like hiding behind an entire house or hill. 40k of course has a lot more emphasis on getting your squad into some bushes, or ruins or a crater. Cover saves are the sole reason my army survives after a few turns.

I have a 2000 pt game coming up on the weekend, so I'll get to try experimenting a bit with some suicidal stormtroopers.

Good luck and tell us how it went. :)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 08, 2017, 01:39:04 AM
I wasn't sure which thread to put this question in, so I'm just posting it here. It can muddle up my own thread.

The new deathwatch squad kits come with 18 specific chapter shoulder pads. What chapters are included? Anyone know?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: FR1DAY on January 08, 2017, 10:09:48 AM
The main 9, brazen claws, minotaurs, raptors, howling griffons, silver skulls, novamarines, flesh tearers, black shield and black templars
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 08, 2017, 03:53:00 PM
Perfect, thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on July 14, 2017, 07:06:15 PM
Redoing some pictures after photobucket demanded $400. This post is mostly going to be older pictures and some painting from several months ago.

So lets start off with some heretical xeno scum. An Eldar warlock!

(http://i.imgur.com/qyq68Qwl.jpg)

One of the early pictures of the 1st Canadiana, A Company. Led by brave Captain Hawkwood, the company has since expanded drastically.

(http://i.imgur.com/DhEaIeLl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/wl5Vuibl.jpg)

Captain Hawkwood himself, from the front.

(http://i.imgur.com/mRARuWRl.jpg)

and from the side. Take a gander at the attempt at painting the Canadian flag on his shoulder. Yes, that blip in the middle is suppose to be a maple leaf.

(http://i.imgur.com/BNggOvPl.jpg)

The company banner bearer.

(http://i.imgur.com/n57SNWMl.jpg)

1st Platoon HQ Squad. Led by Lt Uhtred the 1st. For my own enjoyment I've decided that everytime the platoon squad is killed in a battle, the previous Lt (and occasionally squaddies) I mark that their killed in battle. Then the next one's promoted. Hence the 1st.

(http://i.imgur.com/33wpzxVl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZvYEwVZl.jpg)

Lynx Squad. The premier group of veterans attached to A Company.

(http://i.imgur.com/9NjIE9Kl.jpg)

The camo on the back of the sniper.

(http://i.imgur.com/CvJhU3pl.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on July 15, 2017, 03:20:12 AM
Yes! :icon_biggrin: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on July 17, 2017, 04:05:18 AM
Glory to the Guard! Good stuff there Gankom. :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 09, 2017, 07:11:21 PM
We're back with another update! Brought to you courtesy of the astronomican, directly from the far galactic North!

Firstly we have a new addition to the Commissarat out here on the edge of space. Cadet-Commissar Mikael Valstoya and his totally reliable plasma pistol. On his first showing he managed to cut down 4 warp talons before... uh, having his pieces picked up and stitched back together.

(https://i.imgur.com/VWo99jX.jpg)

Next up the local space marine chapter, the DoomSeekers, get's a bit of nightmare fuel themselves. A trio of reapers!

(https://i.imgur.com/QoIkHZI.jpg)

The four of them together. No doubt an awkward meeting.

(https://i.imgur.com/YGGtFtS.jpg)

And finally one of the next things on the painting desk. The guard has called for assistance, and their getting one BFG...

(https://i.imgur.com/CLe32vB.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on December 09, 2017, 07:32:29 PM
 Very cool! I like the gun and crew. I don’t think I need to ask what BFG stands for 😸
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 09, 2017, 07:43:46 PM
 :::cheers:::

Ya it's going to be a bit of a bugger to paint. I'm more of an infantry guy and painting the big machines gets a bet tedious.

But that babies going to be worth it.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on December 10, 2017, 05:59:19 AM
Definitely a multiple table cannon there!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on December 11, 2017, 02:15:51 PM
Whoa, now THAT'S a gun! :ph34r:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 11, 2017, 05:08:08 PM
Delivering the fury of the Emperor directly to the foreheads of unbelievers. And all those around them. Possibly even at a different table.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on December 13, 2017, 12:04:22 PM
Basilisks could deliver imperial justice to other tabels, in 7th edition. :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 30, 2018, 10:07:53 PM
I had some boxes out to repack stuff and figured I'd take some pictures as I do! Excuse the general shoddy quality of the pictures themselves, and avert your eyes at so many unpainted models. (I know we all have such a back log but still, it's the thought that counts.)

First, just a sampling of the boxes I'm going through. Trying to repack and reorganize stuff so I'm not pulling out ten boxes to make an army.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4722/39992314721_67faabdab5.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23VZ4RB)

Next we have a group shot of my guard army. The brave 1st Canadiana, A Company. Guardians of the Void Storm and the great North Galactic Rim.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4620/26120069458_a88177702c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FN9bD9)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4760/39094391885_1777824edc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22yCYFp)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4748/39282468284_1c51eacf6e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22RfVeW)

Then a few close ups. Starting on the right flank; 11st Platoon, some veterans at the back, some big guns and a tech priest with her servitors at the front.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4723/25121886907_5c928a9508_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EgWeKa)

Central section with the men of 2nd Platoon, some command squads and specialist squads.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4627/26120014468_acc162730e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FN8Ui3)

and finally the left flank. Filled with Storm troopers, commissars and some other odds and ends.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4612/25121852397_7a79fbdaee_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EgW4ua)

And one last picture just because I'm actually quite happy with how they look. Corporal Rob Furlongs Sniper squad. I still need to green stuff some camo cloaks, but the hot shot las looks pretty spiffy. They've proven surprisingly effective, and have been the death of a great number of chaos marines and even Ahriman! (Although he came back. Cursed warp powers.)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4754/39282393294_b21db0b121_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22RfwX1)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 30, 2018, 10:15:38 PM
Turns out I had a few more pictures on my phone. Some Death watch I've been working on. I've a squad f ten built, with some more tactical marines coming soon that are going to be converted into more deathwatch. I really like the idea of having a group that represents as many different chapters as possible on the table.

Currently they frequently assist my guard as allies, although despite being Alien hunters they instead mostly face chaos. Don't want those filthy heretics getting their paws on to much xeno technology.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4621/39094631705_12fa8334ed_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22yEcYe)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4767/39961127042_36396c039d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23TedR1)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4657/39282720174_c72cdbaeb2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22Rhd7S)

Still a bit of a work in progress but I'm happy how they're turning out. Having a majority black body always looks kind of unfinished to me, and I need to buy some better brushes before I try highlighting edges and stuff.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on January 31, 2018, 12:41:19 AM
That trim I find is really hard for me to achieve. Just can’t seem to find a comfort spot with it.
Nice deathwatch though. I like that tech priest and servitor group! And what can I say about the Canadiana’s 😺
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Post by: GamesPoet on January 31, 2018, 02:04:15 AM
I like your mixed guard unit.  And evidently the space marines are seen protecting a granary.
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Post by: Xathrodox86 on February 02, 2018, 02:19:06 PM
I like your mixed guard unit.  And evidently the space marines are seen protecting a granary.

Yeah, that's a nice mixed force of IG right here. Great looking stuff and those SM are a treat to look upon. :happy:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 02, 2018, 04:21:36 PM
Woot! Thanks guys!  :::cheers:::

Now I just have to build up the momentum to paint some of the bigger tanks and stuff. Considering I plan to make it mostly one color (Green) with highlights and details, I just can't get in the mood for that much work.
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Post by: Gankom on February 13, 2018, 06:37:48 PM
Just a quickie. Some kitbashed Deathwatch I put together using spare parts.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4629/39536726024_486c826988_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23eJ4d5)

* From Left to right we have a Howling Griffon, a Flesh Tearer, a Brazen Claw Sergeant, a Black Templar with classic sword and board, and a Novamarine with a big ass frag cannon.

I'm really not a big marine fan, but there's something about the Deathwatch I just love. Not even the style or colors, more the lore. I like the Spartans in Halo, and the thought of marines who are dedicated and specialize in messing up the dastardly aliens is just great. Especially squads made up of a few marines from different chapters working together. Humanity Fuck Yeah!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on February 14, 2018, 01:43:28 PM
I'd love to see them in a better light, as their poses look lit. I'm also a huge fan of Deathwatch, so your project is really inspirational for me. :eusa_clap:
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Post by: Gankom on March 06, 2018, 09:31:24 PM
++Dreadnaught Operational++[/I]

Got a bit of painting done earlier. Helps that with the Death Watch the vast majority I can just spray black and add details. All finished and ready to wreck some xeno's day is Ancient Finian, a black shield who's been stationed at Watch Station Winter for an unknown number of centuries. He has a reputation as a tank wrecker, although in my last came he charged into a squad of rubric marines and ruined their day just as badly.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4785/25789609117_1390365784.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FhWui4)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4780/39765386145_fc292bac5e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23zVZTX)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4702/26789215298_4fc0c5b270_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GPgJoo)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4747/39950475184_211c6d3143.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23ShCqh)

Then, just for Xath, here's a better picture of my kitbashed deathwatch. I took it almost a month ago just for you, but finally got around to uploading it.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4709/38850165540_088f8f4b48_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22c4fGm)

They'll get painted at somepoint. Designated Squad Curtana I used them in my last game. (Alongside Ancient Finian and another two 5 men squads plus a captain.) They deployed, ran into a building, and promptly got vaporized by four tricksy psykers all targeting them.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on March 06, 2018, 10:58:12 PM
That dread is awesome! Very menacing. Love the inquisition markings. That’s a bad end for that squad unfortunately 😸
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on March 07, 2018, 01:27:06 AM
Thanks! I'm happy with how it turned out, and I'm glad I painted a bunch of it's weapons all at once to keep the colors similar. It's so nice being able to switch the arms out easily.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on March 07, 2018, 01:29:18 PM
Thanks' Gankom, they look great. Cool, dynamic poses and I adore that Dread. Awesome stuff! :blush:
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Post by: GamesPoet on March 07, 2018, 01:54:38 PM
I'm like the dreadnaught! :icon_cool: :eusa_clap:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on April 08, 2018, 10:59:29 PM
Woo painting update! A bit of cheating first off. To start us are some pictures of two models I use as Astropaths. They also show up in my fantasy army as witches and other magic users. Soooo, you'll also seem them in my other painting plog!

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/887/26456629697_16f054d0fa.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GiT9gT)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/891/27456263098_ce61153c6a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HQdwsw)

Next I've completed a squad of Intercessor Primaris marines. My homebrew chapter, The DoomSeekers, are usually a real rag tag group. A formerly fleet based chapter that's only recently settled on a planet. They've been tasked with guarding the far northern rim of the galaxy so very rarely get resupplied. Older models were the same colors, but with a bit more rust or more beat up weapons. However, with the events of Dark Imperium they've been reinforced with Primaris marines. I wanted to paint these guys up cleaner, to show that their recent reinforcements. They've got shiny new equipment, and havn't yet been thrown into the losing war that is defending the rim.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/40432576325_370fa56bd1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24ATwhV)

Edit; Bah! I changed something in editing and the picture is blurry. I'll see about fixing it at some point and getting a different one.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on April 08, 2018, 11:38:10 PM
Quote Gankom: They've got shiny new equipment, and havn't yet been thrown into the losing war that is defending the rim

There’s a taste of grimdark for you. Nice addition! Saw the witches in the other thread and I’ll say it again - awesome!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on April 08, 2018, 11:39:45 PM
Where'd the two witches come from? :::cheers:::
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Post by: Gankom on April 08, 2018, 11:50:55 PM
Thanks AG!

@GP, they're reaper models. As per the usual for me. I forget what the pack is called, probably just 'three witches', but it's a pack of 3 metal witches and a metal cauldron. Very clearly inspired by Macbeths witches.
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Post by: GamesPoet on April 09, 2018, 12:21:04 AM
Cool, and if ya know where to find them link wise, please do!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on April 09, 2018, 01:09:10 AM
Here we go. The Reaper Witch Coven: https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/witch/latest/02904
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on April 11, 2018, 12:23:58 PM
Reaper has a fantastic range of models. I love their fantasy stuff.
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Post by: Gankom on April 12, 2018, 08:20:02 PM
Fully agree Xath. Cheap as well!

I have some more pictures! Some are same dudes showing up again, other stuff is new. First, some (Hopefully) better pictures of the Primaris Intercessors.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/784/41373565202_5f100c21bc.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2633kv5)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/812/40520569155_9ab47591e8.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24JEvuF)

Next up we have Captain Artemis, and the current leader of my Deathwatch forces. On the tabletop he's also packing a stasis bomb that has been the bane of my opponents characters for quite some time.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/884/39607279740_5261ff2b9a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23kXEns)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/867/40520661105_08d9126717.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24JEYQ2)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/900/41373638362_40b4b51313.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2633Hfs)

Finally I finished my main Kill Team, Squad Durandal. Generally they either get played as one big squad or two smaller fire teams. They've racked up some impressive victories over the past year, along with some rather embarrassing defeats. Including one time the entire group of ten got overwhelmed by a group of grots... but we don't talk about that.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/784/40520643965_6d5181fe7e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24JETJv)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/893/39607254960_1feaf8dcbe.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23kXx1d)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/880/27544809338_56ce62da71.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HY3maQ)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/888/26544787977_5455c80f13.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GrEYEe)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/784/27544791858_e6fc86b9b2.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HY3fYs)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/890/26544766137_568024b683.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GrESaF)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/806/40701570564_4224452182.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/251EbUC)

Deathwatch are easily some of my favorite to paint. So much of it is basic and black, but it means I can easily pump out the majority of it and then spend plenty of time on small details to really bring it to life. Doing different chapter shoulder pads is absolutely great and looks nice. I already have plans to make multiple squads and have everyone of them come from a different chapter.

I have nothing but respected for people who can paint solid white or yellow well. I had trouble just getting it to look decent on the shoulder pad. The Imperial Fist one in particular took forever and I'm still not super happy with it.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on April 12, 2018, 08:23:24 PM
and finally for now, a picture of this rad dude. He's in the queue, but probably going to be there awhile. Still can't wait to use him in battle.

Inquisitor Eisenhorn. The special limited edition Black Library Anniversary model.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/897/41373543522_debc1aee59.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2633e4h)
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Post by: Artobans Ghost on April 12, 2018, 09:32:27 PM
That deathwatch is awesome. I like the idea of all the chapters for sure. The captain is a great figure. I wouldn’t worry about the fist emblem. Looks fantastic. And that Eisenhorn!!!!! What a model. What are those little things on the power pack. Personal teleporters ?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on April 12, 2018, 11:50:07 PM
Is the Eisenhorn figure still available?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on April 13, 2018, 12:06:23 AM
Thanks!

@AG, I think the things on the backpacks are suppose to be more like lamps and radio antenna then teleporters. Although the squad can take a terminator upgrade, and if you do they get the ability to teleport back to a teleport homer you can place in your deployment zone.

@GP, it depends. When I check online it say's temporarily out of stock. Most of the shops around me still have some. When it first game out it was one of those "While stocks last" kind of deals but I'm almost positive they've restocked since then anyway.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on April 13, 2018, 10:38:48 AM
The Deathwatch look excellent! I can't wait to see Gregor run alongside them to battle! :ph34r:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 01, 2018, 09:45:30 PM
I'm finishing my Death Watch just in time it seems. Next week the Death Watch Codex goes up for pre order. The early look at the book makes it look very promising. Especially for me to take them as a small allied detachment instead of as a full army.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/01/may-1st-codex-deathwatch-preview-focused-adaptable-deadlygw-homepage-post-1/

Mission tactics that make my units better against certain types of units. Primaris squads and special issue ammunition. If I hadn't just painted my Primaris forces in my homebrew chapter colors I'd seriously consider painting them as more death watch.

The mixed primaris squads looks interesting as well from early rumours. For those who don't know, the deathwatch can build a squad out of different space marine types. My common squad loadout is often 5 veteran marines, a vanguard jump pack and a terminator, all in the same squad. Now you can do the same kind of think with primaris. Put Intercessors, the flying dudes and hellblasters all in the same squad, and each one gives the whole squad special rules.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on May 04, 2018, 12:19:07 PM
I've managed to snatch a Gregor figurine for myself. Shame that he's in Finecast, but what can you do?

With new Deathwatch codex on the horizon, your boys in black will see some action, no doubt. They're a great looking bunch and I bet that they'll be kicking a great ammount of xeno ass. :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 04, 2018, 02:51:09 PM
Oh I'm pumped for sure. I've been hearing good rumours about the new codex as well. Probably not a top tier army, but still going to be real fun to play. I've got a battle planned against a friends combined chaos forces and he wants to try fighting Imperial Soup, so I'm all set up to use my glorious guard bois, a small force of space marines, and a good 50 power of death watch. It's not the usual xeno killing time, but it'll be good none the less.

I'm with you on Gregor. I don't hugely mind finecast anymore. They've at least stabilized the quality or whatever, but it's not my favorite. Still, I think the model is sweet and I love the thought of an inquisitor running around with my forces.

I do enjoy the fact that the bulk of my forces are all anti-xeno, yet by far my most common opponents are chaos. I just love the Ordo Xeno far more then any other Inquisitors and I'm not a huge fan of grey knights.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on May 04, 2018, 06:23:01 PM
I love all the Ordos, but Xenos is a favorite as well. I love Eisenhorn and Ravenor books and Gregor is one of my fav 40K characters of all time.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 20, 2018, 06:54:06 PM
Had a 200 power game yesterday, but due to too much casual chatting and drinking we only got 1 and a half turns down in six hours. It got messy when my opponent dropped down multiple terminator units right in front of my battleline and roasted a significant number of brave guardsmen.

I had an Imperial Soup army to try out. Just over 100 power of guard, 50 power of deathwatch and 25ish power of space marines. We spent a fair bit of time talking about the FAQ rules but ultimately decided not to use them. It was my opponents first real game of 8th and he doesn't really like it. Mostly because he doesn't like having to learn a whole new edition, but he also thinks the lack of charts make it to easy.

It didn't help matter whens I dropped multiple squads of scions, a deathwatch dread and kill team, and a handful of reivers behind his battleline after he was nice enough to surge everything forward. I only got one full turn the whole game but I managed to eviscerate several tanks, heavy weapon squads, assassinate a few characters and just generally cause havoc.

We called it and said I won when I managed to kill his lord with Captain Artemis of the deathwatch in turn 2, but it would have gotten ugly has we continued. I had scrapped ahead on victory points with some tactical objectives, first blood and slaying the warlord, but if we'd continued he was about to overrun my left flank and center, take multiple objectives and turn around to pound my deep striking mini army.

I myself really enjoy 8th. I like the detachment system and the command points, but I need to spend more time memorizing stratagems. It eats up to much time trying to shuffle through them and see if anything would help at a given time.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on May 20, 2018, 09:56:59 PM
That sounds like it could have been a challenge. I keep thinking I should have a banner bearer where I can add marks for wins but that will probably not happen. I like the soup mix army’s myself. A bit of everything for everything 😸
Good report.
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Post by: Gankom on May 20, 2018, 11:12:56 PM
I've had the same thought about the banner.

We started taking pictures to make a full report, but when we realized it had been five hours, only one turn, and that we had to leave in an hour we stopped. So I have a grand totally of four pictures, none of them impressive.

Still it was a good game and a chance to catch up with a friend I havn't seen in awhile.
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Post by: Xathrodox86 on May 25, 2018, 01:12:12 PM
Sounds like you had lots of fun. That's what's important!

I like the sneaky-beaky tactics of dropping behind someone and shooting the crap out of them. Great stuff.

Pictures would be awesome to see. :blush:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 25, 2018, 07:17:46 PM
I'll see if either of us saved the few pictures we took. I liked the surprise drop tactic, my opponent less so. We both like using Deep Striking stuff, but we use it very differently. He tends to drop stop right in front of my battle line and try and wreak havoc. In this case a squad of terminators and warp talons that proceeded to roasts, slice and dice some unlucky guardsmen. I never like being that forward, so to speak, because all it means is that the next turn results in the entire battleline firing on and slaughtering whatever dropped in.

I much prefer to drop in some units for a last ditch assault on an objective or character assassination. This game just happened to have a great deal of such deep striking. A stormtrooper command squad. 3 squads of stormtroopers, a squad of Deathwatch, a Deathwatch dread and Captain Artemis. It pretty much singlehandedly destroyed his entire backline of heavy weapons and tanks.

(The two deathwatch units were able to deepstrike thanks to a DW stratagem. Artemis joined in because my opponent still thinks it's stupid that characters don't join units and wanted to do it with his guys, so I did it with mine!)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 05, 2018, 05:32:59 PM
So I came across this quote below from Aaron Dembski-Bowden. He's on reddit, and answering some questions in a thread asking for more Necron books. I thought this particular little blurb was a very interesting insight into the writing industry, especially for warhammer. It's mostly 40k, but does touch briefly on fantasy. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share, but didn't want to clutter up other threads and wasn't sure if it was worth a separate thread so I'm posting it here.

Specifically, the quote is dealing with the fact that xeno books don't sell as well as other books. That's obviously why there's fewer of them. On top of that, because they don't sell as well they're deemed much 'riskier' in that authors wont get much money back from them and if they take to much time it actually works out to a loss instead of getting paid.

Quote
I think it due to a mix of experience (and experienced friends and colleagues) with the book industry, and having discussed Black Library's sales figures with editors and authors (and seeing mine and other authors' figures), too.

A (very!) rough breakdown of the book trade runs as follows:

1.Books don't sell well. At least, not in the numbers people tend to assume. Almost all authors also have full-time jobs as well. The ones that don't are arguably the luckiest, and either the richest 0.01% (King, Rowling, etc.) or comfortable earning less money than most regular jobs because they're happier as writers.


2.Sci-Fi and Fantasy books sell even less well. It's not uncommon at all for a Sci-Fi novel to sell a few thousand copies, even with publisher promotion. Plenty of authors don't even earn out their advances, which means no royalties. The smoothest way to make money as an author (as in, pretty much any money at all) is to have lots of books out there earning royalties. That's how you sustain yourself professionally. (And, incidentally, is also the bane of slow-arse authors like me.)


3.As it happens, 40K novels do sell extremely well (for Sci-Fi books). Plenty of them are bought by people that have nothing to do with the game or the hobby at all. You get a fair few novelists who deride licensed fiction rethinking that approach when they see just how well 40K novels sell, in fact. I'm a full-time novelist based on my 40K royalties. I hope to always be writing it one way or another. Just not exclusively it, and nothing else.


4.But the flip side of that is what sells is The Big Stuff. Major Horus Heresy moments, for example. And the next tier down is Blood Angels, Ultramarines, Dark Angels, and - oh, boy - Space Wolves. The classic, famous Chapters, and the great stuff for beginners. They make bank (relatively speaking), especially Space Wolves. The tier below that would probably be Chaos Marines and the Inquisition. But the tiers keep going down, and down, and down. There are Warhammer Fantasy novels, f'rex, that according to their authors in interviews and stuff, never earned out their advance. So zero royalties.


Xenos novels totally sell. They just don't sell ultra-well, relative to other stuff, and it's hard to gamble that much time and money on something that's such a risk financially and professionally. I'd love to read more of them, too! But I completely understand why someone in their 30s might not, say, take 6-18 months effectively off-work, since it'd earn them very little money.

Again, it's not all about money. If it was, you'd see literally nothing but series after series about the Big Four Chapters. So obviously we all bounce around and do other stuff. And a decent xenos book will totally sell. A very fast author could ride the risk with no trouble. Like I said above, some authors can do a novel in 3-4 months. That's insane to me, but they could do it.

If it'd sell enough to make it worthwhile for a slower author, though? Dunno about that.

Edit: A link to the rest of the thread if anyones interested in the follow up questions and responses. https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/8omj9g/would_you_want_to_read_a_3book_necron_series/e04u19c/?context=3
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on June 05, 2018, 06:48:01 PM
Yet another thing I love that exists balanced on a knife edge 👆
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on June 06, 2018, 11:40:30 AM
It's depressing to know that the WFB books never sold well. I love the setting and I love the stories about it, but it's just... sad.

By the way, ADB is great. I love how he finds time and makes an effort to interact with fans.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 07, 2018, 04:18:00 PM
I always knew the fantasy stuff didn't sell as well as 40k, but it's sobering to see just how bad at times. You'd think with LOTR and stuff that fantasy would be way more popular, but apparently not for warhammer.

Anyway, on to happier stuff. Pictures for the Picture Gods!

These are from last month, some Neophyte Hybrids. I use the whole squad as veterans in my Imperial Guard army. Lore wise one of the planets they recruit from has an underground, but weak and scattered genestealer cult. The cults trying to infiltrate the local guard regiment, hoping to get some agents promoted higher up the chain and into influential places. Little do they realise that the upper command has no intention of promoting some low class former miner to anything above a sergeant. Class discrimination is alive and well in my little corner of 40k. At least when it comes to alien infected cultists.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1739/41929520664_c9d29cf668_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26TaKG5)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1735/42597232042_31d870f827_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/27UaX2d)

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on June 12, 2018, 10:31:57 AM
Summon the Ordo Xenos! I love the hybrids. What a fantastic, well-made kit. I've been using a lot of bits from them for various projects.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on June 12, 2018, 10:49:48 AM
They guys are looking really good Gankom
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 12, 2018, 04:27:35 PM
Thanks guys!

The bits from the kit are fantastic, and I have a bunch saved up for future veteran projects. The autoguns and shotguns are fantastic and don't take a great deal of work to use with regular bodies. Just have to keep an eye on the mutations so you don't give your guardsmen to many fingers or something.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on June 14, 2018, 12:37:09 PM
Yeah, I especially like their weapons. They're easier to obtain than buying a set of stand-alone weapons from Kromlech or Maxmini.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 15, 2018, 07:52:45 PM
Bit of a switch today. My buddy has gotten REALLY into Death guard recent. Like 200 power worth of stuff in a handful of months, after spending almost a decade buying nothing. I have the Know No Fear kit and he was asking me to paint up some of the death guard my style to compare to his. Especially after I was telling him how great washes can work. So here's two handsome young marines off to spread disease, rot and ruin joy and happiness to the universe.

Well, except they wont really. My buddy has based his Deathguard around Mortarion and his inner circle, so I wanted to do something different. My Dudes (TM) are a warband calling themselves the Dusk Weepers. Renegades and traitors even amongst traitors and renegades. They hate Mortarion for what he did to their once proud legion, and hate him for succumbing when he should have fought and died instead. The Dusk Weepers are still slaves to Nurgle (Like they have a choice), but instead of the usual happy and joyful Nurgle followers they are bitter, depressed, and want nothing more then to make everyone else suffer before purging the galaxy of all life.

At only a handful of members that seems unlikely. So at the moment they just tool around making quick alliances with other renegades to survive.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1732/41918098565_d8493f44b8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26Sadik)

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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1741/42770280902_392de06ab9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28asSqf)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on June 15, 2018, 08:44:05 PM
Never seen death guard in theses colours. Love em!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 15, 2018, 10:41:17 PM
I wanted to try keeping it a very dull green with some dull metal colors, and only a little bit of silver and bronze here and there. The white on the shoulders is suppose to be a bit of a call back to their loyalist colors, but in the wrong place and dirtied up to show how they've still ended up on the wrong side and dirtied up as well.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on June 16, 2018, 04:31:19 PM
Interesting back story.

Couldn't tell from the pictures that their armor was green, and it seemed more gray in color.  No compliant here though.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 16, 2018, 05:00:41 PM
It might just be the light in the photo's. In person it's a real drab green. The paint was even called Sherman Drab, so more or less the same color as a Sherman tank.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 19, 2018, 10:18:08 PM
So wanted to get your guys opinion on something. I'm thinking of getting some of the Easy to Build primaris kits to convert into Deathwatch. The question is, should I put a lot of work in to cutting off the existing right shoulder pad to replace it with a deathwatch one, or should I just paint the existing one silver and go with it?

Sort of like the difference between these two;

(https://i.imgur.com/xFtZZEG.jpg)

(https://cdnazure-socialannexinc.netdna-ssl.com/8485861/848586120180774_218932035300067_2016213564645179392_n.jpg)

Is there that noticeable a difference do you think between the shoulder pads? I do like the look of the traditional DW one, but I think it might take quite a bit of cutting on the easy build kits.

hmm... The more I look at it, the more I might actually spring for the 5 man combat squad and build some of those as deathwatch instead, and then use the rest to bulk my existing reiver squad.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on June 20, 2018, 08:24:22 AM
The second one is darker and more contrasted. I like it more. :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on June 21, 2018, 04:58:28 PM
Good to know! They're not my models, but the two of them are the different styles I'm going to try on mine. I like the specialized death watch shoulder pad, but I'm thinking for the Reivers especially I might try to keep it a simpler silver shoulder. So their still death watch, but they look more like stealth troops.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on July 10, 2018, 12:05:05 PM
I'd definitely go with the second style.

Also - it was too long for me not to post here. :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on July 10, 2018, 02:55:04 PM
Good to have you back!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on July 12, 2018, 11:58:51 AM
It's good to be back among you guys. :smile2:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on July 27, 2018, 12:27:26 AM
Woo so now here's the 40k part of my recent painting binge. It's a real mix of stuff. I figured I was having such trouble getting motivated to paint things because I was getting to railroaded into trying to paint a unit then moving on. So instead I grabbed some things that looked interesting and worked on them. Well except for the Hallblasters, those are the last unit from the 'finish a unit then move on' slog.

So first off, we have Captain Germanicus of the DoomSeekers.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1821/42758544445_e712caa792_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/289qHzx)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/849/42945109704_708bc325a7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28qUUVW)

Then the aforementioned Hellblaster unit.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/936/43661471751_7789e99025_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29wdspH)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/922/28773381167_9e50633c9e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KQB6LK)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/933/43661469521_e4a2969d9d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29wdrKg)

Here's a glory shot of them all riding on a previous painted rhino. Shame Primaris are to fat to actually ride in one on the battle field. I think the hover tanks are sweet but to rich for my blood.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/853/43661475151_68bb409fa7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29wdtqk)

Next are the sorta first two models in an experiment of mine. Lore wise my chapter has an auxiliary unit called the Scattered Sons. The DoomSeekers operate on the far rim of the galaxy, way off and isolated. They guard s spatial anomaly that tends to spit out things lost elsewhere in the galaxy. Like the other end of the Bermuda Triangle. 90% of the time it's spitting out angry aliens or heretics, but occasionally there's some loyalists that come through. Unable to return to their home chapters (At least quickly) they instead work in mixed chapter squads. Like a poor mans death watch.

In real life it's really just an excuse for me to paint up a few marines in other chapters colors to experiment and practice without having to paint a whole patrol or army. I've got maybe a dozen in the painting queue. At least one from every first founding chapter, and a couple from some others. Because it's more for a painting experiment the models are usually second hand and usually not in fantastic shape, so ignore some of the ugly gluing and melting on the models. It wasn't me, I promise.

Here we have a Raven Guard and Iron Hands tactical marine.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/915/42758536455_35d66bb8ee_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/289qFcM)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/846/29791685498_79203865c2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoAbaY)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on July 27, 2018, 12:37:49 AM
To finish the update I have my favorite stuff from this batch. My last Death Watch squad that I've been meaning to paint for months now. I've said it before, but it's just such a pleasure to paint death watch. Basecoating black  means I just have to do some details, pick out a few things, and then really spend some quality time on the chapter badge. I love having these guys all in black and silver uniform with just one shoulder showing their home. I've got a real soft spot for special forces guys like these.

Introducing Squad Curtana. Watch Station Winter's close combat experts and premier assassination squad. You got a filthy alien leader who needs to be put to the blade? Then we've got no one finer to do so.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/850/42758535375_1c5e6437dd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/289qETa)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/853/29791683008_1fa3863fb8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoAar3)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/836/29791681808_58926af6da_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoAa5m)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/841/29791680648_fcd7dd488c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoA9Jm)

and showcasing the chapter badges. From left to right we have a Flesh Tearer close combat monster, Brazen Claw sergeant, a Howling Griffon sniper, Nova Marine with frag cannon, and Black Templar shield brother.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/843/43615006152_52cc3667a6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29s7iNG)

Not exactly the most optimized load out for the table top, but in their brief showings so far they've ripped apart multiple traitorous Scion squads, slain a chaos lord, out dueled Kharn (with some ridiculously lucky rolls) and got stomped on my an Eldar titan.

Finally we need something for our amazing Death Watch to hunt. So I painted up and Eldar warlock to test out a color scheme for a bunch of other old metal models I have. Let me know what you think of the colors.

An Eldar Warlock of Craftworld Caedmon.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/847/29791677988_234bd7ab8d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoA8Wu)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/852/43615001602_1f7dc7bc4d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29s7hsf)

Let me know what you think of things folks!

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on July 28, 2018, 06:17:05 PM
They look ... deathly. :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on August 03, 2018, 02:09:05 PM
I was always a huge fan of the Deathwatch. Fantastic minis Gankom and very climactic ones at that. :smile2:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on August 24, 2018, 06:44:31 PM
So I thought these were pretty awesome.

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PeachysPDF.pdf

It's a printable PDF, but all the images have been pre-shrunk. All you have to do is print them out and you can attach them to a battlefield or board to have posters and maps the right size for the models.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on September 09, 2018, 04:41:56 PM
Nice work Dude …………….tooo good  :dry: me thinks you are up to something nasty  :unsure:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 09, 2018, 05:45:45 PM
Your probably not wrong Zak!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on September 09, 2018, 10:52:02 PM
Your probably not wrong Zak!

I have the shinning  :unsure:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 21, 2018, 01:20:18 AM
Does anyone have an experience with Kromlech stuff? I've seen it before but I've found myself looking at some of the stuff with interest. How are the models? It's resin isn't it?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 02, 2018, 08:27:34 PM
More guard join the front lines!

First up we get a look at the sniper specialist of Corporal Furlongs squad. Although never the MVP's in my past battles, they've proven to be a serious annoyance to my opponents. Even when they're missing every shot (Which is sadly rather frequent) they force my buddy to keep hugging cover and keep his head down.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1944/30124575347_f979496dc0_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MU1jJ8)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/43248990190_9de6913041_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28TLo1E)

The other two members are some of the old Gaunts Ghost models that I still need to repaint to fit with their squad mates. Fluff wise the other two are irregular guerilla's who've been attached to the snipers as trackers and guides. Helps explain the radically different combat outfit. Although in fairness, if these guys are snipers they probably shouldn't be wearing bright red and white flak armor.

Next up in my of my personal favorite specialist squads. The Demo team. Armed with a melta gun and two demolition charges in past games they've essentially erased units off the battlefield. I like to leave them lurking at the back near my command squad till my opponent forgets about them, then spring them out.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1967/30124588767_3cd97991c6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MU1oHv)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1923/30124590387_9af7318d66_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MU1pcr)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1976/30124593477_5fc9e3ae5e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MU1q7H)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1965/31188322938_e479909965_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Pw1iPQ)

Finally we have four members of Captain Gretzky's Command squad. I uh... I have a bit of a melta obsession that's getting somewhat unhealthy.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1911/31188324898_85386b7624_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Pw1jpC)

I'm also just noticing this thanks to the pictures, but the guy on the right is a medic. Does he look like he has a rather unnatural neck to you? It's freaking me out a bit.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1917/30124596687_f7fbf974c9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MU1r54)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 02, 2018, 10:50:47 PM
Dude are those Canadian flags on their shoulders   :unsure:


Just kidding those look great … I cant wait until I buy my first set.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 02, 2018, 11:06:31 PM
They absolutely are terribly painted Canadian flags. Or more accurately for the fluff, the flag of the fine regiment of the 1st Canadiana.

Although it has been pointed out to me that the middle bit looks more like a pot leaf then a maple leaf.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on October 02, 2018, 11:16:25 PM
Gah! Zak got it in before me!  My comment didn’t print. I had just finished pointing out the Canadian flag pauldrens and feeling smart about it then I see he got in before my non existent reply😺
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 03, 2018, 12:10:41 AM
Gah! Zak got it in before me!  My comment didn’t print. I had just finished pointing out the Canadian flag pauldrens and feeling smart about it then I see he got in before my non existent reply😺

I'm convinced Zak secretly works for the NSA and just talks about conspiracies to smoke out all the hereteks and reptilians. He probably used his top secret computer equipment to post first.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on October 03, 2018, 12:19:44 AM
😺👆
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on October 03, 2018, 03:31:09 AM
 :icon_lol:  Zak on the NSA? :icon_eek:  That'd be a stunner.

Good to see the Candiana moving full speed ahead! :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 03, 2018, 01:24:56 PM
Gah! Zak got it in before me!  My comment didn’t print. I had just finished pointing out the Canadian flag pauldrens and feeling smart about it then I see he got in before my non existent reply😺

I'm convinced Zak secretly works for the NSA and just talks about conspiracies to smoke out all the hereteks and reptilians. He probably used his top secret computer equipment to post first.



he knows to much  :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 03, 2018, 03:41:15 PM
My whole house is built of tinfoil Zak, you'll never get me!

:icon_lol:  Zak on the NSA? :icon_eek:  That'd be a stunner.

Good to see the Candiana moving full speed ahead! :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::

All the best spies and traitors hide in plain sight GP!

Also thanks!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on October 03, 2018, 03:47:12 PM
Ooops, spelled it wrong! :icon_redface:

Corrected it in the original post, my apology.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 03, 2018, 04:55:49 PM
I'm Canadian GP, there's never any need to apologize to me. It'll only set off a chain reaction of me apologizing to you, because you apologized to me, then I'd have to apologize again because it's just hard wired into the DNA or something...

I'm sorry, i'm going off topic here!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 03, 2018, 05:28:57 PM
I'm Canadian GP, there's never any need to apologize to me. It'll only set off a chain reaction of me apologizing to you, because you apologized to me, then I'd have to apologize again because it's just hard wired into the DNA or something...

I'm sorry, i'm going off topic here!


hahahaha holy moly it can go forever  :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:


I would call these guys the 3rd Canadian Moose Humpers  :biggriin:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 03, 2018, 06:02:31 PM
It's a vicious cycle, and we're eternally sorry for perpetuating it.

I shall keep your moose 'riders' suggestion on my list. I need to work moose in there somehow. Perhaps battle moose? There was an old fantasy book called Hiero's Journey where the main character rides a battle morse, which was a future hybrid of a horse and a moose that could communicate with it's rider somewhat telepathically. I'm sure I can work that in somewhere. Maybe if I can find a good model I'll have a reason to convert up some rough riders.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on October 03, 2018, 06:06:18 PM
Quote Gankom : It's a vicious cycle, and we're eternally sorry for perpetuating it.

 :::cheers::: :::cheers::: :biggriin:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on October 03, 2018, 11:33:39 PM
 :icon_lol: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 04, 2018, 12:37:41 PM
It's a vicious cycle, and we're eternally sorry for perpetuating it.

I shall keep your moose 'riders' suggestion on my list. I need to work moose in there somehow. Perhaps battle moose? There was an old fantasy book called Hiero's Journey where the main character rides a battle morse, which was a future hybrid of a horse and a moose that could communicate with it's rider somewhat telepathically. I'm sure I can work that in somewhere. Maybe if I can find a good model I'll have a reason to convert up some rough riders.



I don't know about Moose but guy on a buffalo would be tough as nails https://youtu.be/iJ4T9CQA0UM
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on October 04, 2018, 02:47:32 PM
Woah, that might be the best link you've ever posted Zak, congrats on finding that one! :icon_lol: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 04, 2018, 02:59:18 PM
Woah, that might be the best link you've ever posted Zak, congrats on finding that one! :icon_lol: :::cheers:::



wow I guess there is a whole series of guy on buffalo  :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 11, 2018, 10:47:26 PM
Gankom, I cant believe you have said nothing about the man riding a buffalo?!?  :dry:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on October 12, 2018, 12:04:35 AM
Gankom, I cant believe you have said nothing about the man riding a buffalo?!?  :dry:

I have to agree. That is definitely a bizarre video. What in God’s name made you google that ? 😸
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 12, 2018, 12:56:25 AM
Zak! Gah! I saw it when you first posted and honestly thought I replied, only to come today and find I did! How have I shamed myself.

That is a fantastic video. I really love how the title is just "Bears, Indians and such" as if it's just a casual stroll through the woods atop your buffalo.

I'd happily ride a buffalo to work.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on October 12, 2018, 01:01:29 PM
Gankom, I cant believe you have said nothing about the man riding a buffalo?!?  :dry:

I have to agree. That is definitely a bizarre video. What in God’s name made you google that ? 😸


I have issues, deep issues bro  :unsure:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on October 12, 2018, 01:23:26 PM
And evidently not interested in sharing anything other than the results, and sometimes that isn't even complete. :icon_wink:

(Wait GP ... this is Gankom's Guard thread.)

Oh, yes, ooops.  :icon_redface:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 17, 2018, 07:04:03 PM
I love the Regimental Standard so much. This month it's been taken over by Orks to promote Orktober.

Quote
Attenshun Boyz!

Humie kultur is primitiv, and ugly. It iz only thru numberz and cheatin’ they keep beatin’ us in scraps. One of the wayz ‘umies cheat is thru their big hats.

Humies arn’t civilised like us Orks, but they obviously know dat a big hat means bizness. Usin’ my kunnin’, I ‘ave analysed da best humie hats and made Orky vershuns fer da ladz.

For a price. I’m not made of teef.*

(https://regimentalstandard.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ork-standard-image.png?w=760&h=993)

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Xathrodox86 on October 17, 2018, 08:14:40 PM
Buahahahaha these boys sure have a sense of humor! :-P
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on December 30, 2018, 05:09:34 PM
I'm In a painting competition on facebook and I'm actually quite pleased with my work. The transfer could be better but the rest is nice.

My local games workshop had a challenge set up. Buy one of those small space marine heroes boxes and roll on a chart to see what chapter you have to paint. I thought it would be a fun painting challenge, something to get out of my comfort zone. Now pictures are up to be voted on. If any of you fine gentleman have facebook (I don't sadly), perhaps you might consider dropping by here to vote for my nice Brazen Claw named Ekod?


https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2044043495677852&id=787460061336208&set=pcb.2044044219011113&source=48&refid=13&_ft_=mf_story_key.2044044219011113%3Atop_level_post_id.2044044219011113%3Atl_objid.2044044219011113%3Acontent_owner_id_new.787460061336208%3Athrowback_story_fbid.2044044219011113%3Apage_id.787460061336208%3Aphoto_attachments_list.%5B2044042695677932%2C2044042702344598%2C2044042749011260%2C2044042755677926%5D%3Astory_location.4%3Astory_attachment_style.album%3Apage_insights.%7B%22787460061336208%22%3A%7B%22role%22%3A1%2C%22page_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22post_context%22%3A%7B%22story_fbid%22%3A2044044219011113%2C%22publish_time%22%3A1546099504%2C%22story_name%22%3A%22EntStatusCreationStory%22%2C%22object_fbtype%22%3A266%7D%2C%22actor_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22psn%22%3A%22EntStatusCreationStory%22%2C%22sl%22%3A4%2C%22dm%22%3A%7B%22isShare%22%3A0%2C%22originalPostOwnerID%22%3A0%7D%2C%22targets%22%3A%5B%7B%22page_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22actor_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22role%22%3A1%2C%22post_id%22%3A2044044219011113%2C%22share_id%22%3A0%7D%5D%7D%7D%3Athid.787460061336208&__tn__=%2B%3 (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2044043495677852&id=787460061336208&set=pcb.2044044219011113&source=48&refid=13&_ft_=mf_story_key.2044044219011113%3Atop_level_post_id.2044044219011113%3Atl_objid.2044044219011113%3Acontent_owner_id_new.787460061336208%3Athrowback_story_fbid.2044044219011113%3Apage_id.787460061336208%3Aphoto_attachments_list.%5B2044042695677932%2C2044042702344598%2C2044042749011260%2C2044042755677926%5D%3Astory_location.4%3Astory_attachment_style.album%3Apage_insights.%7B%22787460061336208%22%3A%7B%22role%22%3A1%2C%22page_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22post_context%22%3A%7B%22story_fbid%22%3A2044044219011113%2C%22publish_time%22%3A1546099504%2C%22story_name%22%3A%22EntStatusCreationStory%22%2C%22object_fbtype%22%3A266%7D%2C%22actor_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22psn%22%3A%22EntStatusCreationStory%22%2C%22sl%22%3A4%2C%22dm%22%3A%7B%22isShare%22%3A0%2C%22originalPostOwnerID%22%3A0%7D%2C%22targets%22%3A%5B%7B%22page_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22actor_id%22%3A787460061336208%2C%22role%22%3A1%2C%22post_id%22%3A2044044219011113%2C%22share_id%22%3A0%7D%5D%7D%7D%3Athid.787460061336208&__tn__=%2B%3)

You should absolutely check out some of the other entries. I find some of them phenomenal!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on January 02, 2019, 08:28:07 PM
HAHAHA that's funny
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on January 20, 2019, 12:33:44 PM
That picture seems to have greened out the space marine's face.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 20, 2019, 06:20:48 PM
Yeah I noticed that to. I might try and spend some time this week taking some updated photos of stuff.

Still, I came second in the challenge! Primarily because I seem to have had more friends then other people.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on January 20, 2019, 08:39:21 PM
Well whatever the reason, congrats, he looks good! :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on March 25, 2019, 03:57:59 AM
Got some painting done but mostly been playing some games. The local hobby club has been running a campaign based around the current Vigilus setting, and I've been part of it with two kill teams. A Deathwatch and Imperial Guard one. I've actually made a name for myself for my Guard kill team not suffering a single death over the campaign so far. (Guys get knocked out in battle, but no one dies from their injuries.)

Yesterday was a bit of a special event. A massive 8,000 pt Imperial army vs 8,000 Chaos vs 8000 'aliens' which included orks and genestealer cults. The two aliens were technically on the same team, but campaign bonus' were given based on independent faction results. So If the alien team got 3 objectives the whole team would win, but Genestealers would only get 2 bonus pts and orks 1. Etc etc. I started to take pictures but time was a huge issue throughout the game so I ended up putting my camera aside and forgetting about it.

There was a trick though. It was tanks and vehicles only. No knights, flyers or lords of war. You could take troops if they fit in a transport but 75% of your list had to be vehicles. I joined with another Imperial guy so we'd both be able to play. I had 2 Russ tanks and a Chimera filled with veterans (The same veterans from my kill team). My plan was to try and act like a little wolf pack. Drop the veterans on an objective then run around as a group of 3 trying to pick off weak targets.

Imperial forces deployed along one long edge, with chaos on the other (north). Genestealers along the East short edge and the Orks the western. My little group was part of the Imperial effort to hold the Eastern sector. The game was split over two boards that had a small number of buildings, pipes and roads on the eastern edge, and transitioning into an open badlands area with a road running from east to west. A spaceport landing pad occupied the north western area.

It was a blood bath. Baneblades and artillery everywhere, a pack of about five defilers and half a dozen hellbrutes rampaged through the middle of the genestealer army. My two tanks, named Caribou and War Thunder wracked up six kills between them before getting blown to bits by some kind of forgeworld land raider variant. The Chimera lasted another turn before falling to a Genestealer cult Russ and its escort of mad max dirt bike maniacs.

Remarkably the veterans might have done the best. They stormed one of the few buildings, pushing a group of GS Neophytes out, and held the objective for all six turns. They withstood constant shelling, multiple assault attempts from the remaining infantry, and even killed a host of different vehicles. By the end of it only the sarg, the melta guy (Who I was protecting the most) and the rocket team survived.

The final score was Imperials with 10 pts (From a somewhat modified objective system), Chaos with 9, Orks with 7 and Genestealers with 1. So it was an incredibly close game, with Chaos and Xeno's almost tied and Imperials in the lead just barely. Honestly because of their deployment the aliens got the short end of the stick, but it was a blast playing and they all had fun. GS Cults had a real good ambush plan, but bad dice rolls killed some important units and then the defilers/hellbrute mob got right into their center. There was an interesting battle within the battle for infantry. Most people didn't bring many infantry. Transport tanks didn't seem super popular and the battlefield was really open. Combined with the intense firepower what few infantry squads did come got ripped apart pretty fast. This led to a number of half strength squads using what little cover they could to scrabble and brawl for a small handful of objectives or good hiding spots.

It was tons of fun. At one point an ork speed waagh tried to race up the road to help the Stealers, destroying both chaos and Imperial tanks left and right, but just couldn't make it in time.

After seeing how well the game went there's talk about doing some similar games. Like an infantry only, or even just some more themed ones based on how the Vigilus story goes.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on March 25, 2019, 10:22:12 AM
That sounds like it was a blast!👆
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on March 25, 2019, 11:28:12 AM
It does sound like a fun time, congrats! :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 21, 2019, 03:04:39 AM
I've done it! Despite my deep seated dislike of painting vehicles, I got off my ass and finally painted my Russ and Chimera. It's taken two years (or more) but they're finally completed. Full props to Demonslayers Ad Mech and my buddy Luke for getting me motivated to do some painting. Now if I could only get photobucket to work...


It's not the best painting, but I'm happy to get it to table top quality. The writing on the name plates is disappointing for me, but I just don't have the dexterity to do any better.

(https://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Chimera_zpsk9tuel78.jpg) (https://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Chimera_zpsk9tuel78.jpg.html)

(https://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Russ%202_zpsv93xju6j.jpg) (https://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Russ%202_zpsv93xju6j.jpg.html)

(https://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/Russ%201_zpstldgijjb.jpg) (https://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/Russ%201_zpstldgijjb.jpg.html)

and an extra shot of UR-025 from Blackstone Fortress. I liked the Sherman olive drab color when I was painting the tanks and wanted to try something different for robot man. Everyone else seems to paint him blueish.

(https://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag28/Gankom/UR-25_zpsd8upvwp1.jpg) (https://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Gankom/media/UR-25_zpsd8upvwp1.jpg.html)













and an extra shot of UR-025 from Blackstone Fortress. I liked the Sherman olive drab color when I was painting the tanks and wanted to try something different for robot man. Everyone else seems to paint him blueish.








Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on May 21, 2019, 05:48:51 AM
Bring on the armour!
Reminds me of our Canadian colours 😺
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on May 21, 2019, 06:53:47 PM
Congrats, and I like the robot! :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 25, 2019, 12:16:59 AM
Canadian's what I'm going for! They're called the 1st Canadiana for a reason!

So I've got the silliest of 1st world problems. But I bought some space marine terminators off ebay to convert into deathwatch ones to add to my veteran squads. I then went out and bought a ton of DW upgrade sprues to get the shoulder pads for them. Unfortunately the pictures weren't great, and it turns out that four of the five terminators have moulded left arms, with the pad and the arm molded together. Just unfortunate and annoying. Now I've got to spend time scrapping of icons and green stuff new ones.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on May 25, 2019, 08:49:22 PM
Quote gankom: Canadian's what I'm going for! They're called the 1st Canadiana for a reason!

Doh!!  :eusa_wall:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on August 18, 2019, 11:54:54 PM
Woo! It's terrible picture time!

A few years ago I inherited a box of warhammer from a sort of relative who passed away. It was almost all half built conversions and scrap points. Over the years I've slowly pillaged it for various projects. Recently I discovered that there were actually enough half built kits to combine with other half built kits to make full vehicles. I've never really looked at Eldar before, so I didn't pay much attention to it till recently.

So the Eldar stuff is all salvaged stuff, which includes some apparently old forgeworld parts.

Front and center is the new special store anniversary stormcast model. A bad ass warrior women with a big ass glaive. I intend to run her as a stormcast, but also paint her in a way that I can use her as an Inquisitor in Terminator Armor. Behind her are some of the new Enforcer models (Which I mention in my Necromunda thread). They'll be serving as Inquisitorial Acolytes, with a suitably low life span no doubt.

The various imperial guard models are all kitbashed from various sources. Some are going to be divided up to serve as special weapons troopers in various squads, while some of the fancier guys (on the left behind the kitbashed deathwatch biker) will likely join the Inquisitorial Acolyte Survival Program.

Here's the whole group

(https://i.imgur.com/4fo1g2l.jpg)

A close up of some savaged Eldar vehicles, a kitbashed deathwatch biker, and some suckers new acolytes.

(https://i.imgur.com/Nm8Q8xP.jpg)

Below is the mentioned stormcast warrior lady, backed up by the new enforcers. More Eldar lurk at the rear, and some brave guardsmen with special weapons cover the right flank.

(https://i.imgur.com/K2a5UNG.jpg)

And a final picture of those same brave guardsmen. Training time for them was 4 months: transport time 6 months: life expectancy on the battlefield? 2 hours.

(https://i.imgur.com/avgtIgR.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on August 19, 2019, 12:05:22 AM
Quote Gankom: And a final picture of those same brave guardsmen. Training time for them was 4 months: transport time 6 months: life expectancy on the battlefield? 2 hours

All in all a good return for the investment 😸👆

Love the acolytes. Good idea for the stormcast.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on August 19, 2019, 12:44:48 AM
A close up of some savaged Eldar vehicles ...
Suspect the Eldar don't consider themselves savages. :icon_wink:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on August 19, 2019, 02:53:06 AM
Lol thanks guys.

@GP, they might not be savages, but you should have seen the condition I found them in. They had been savaged.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Zak on August 19, 2019, 01:05:17 PM
nice work bro  :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 22, 2019, 09:10:59 PM
The only thing worse then chaos is... poorly taken pictures! And we've got both in this update! Primarily a 'what I built" update, because apparently the photo's I took of painted stuff have vanished into the void.

Start off with the brave Imperials trying to keep order!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777666986_9c5720b9e6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjji1o)

Next some brave Inquisitorial Acolytes venture into the depths of space.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777850932_ef46792e91_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjkeFS)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777303603_f17014c362_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjhqZa)

Next is Missionary Taddius and his blurry marine escort.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777298378_e6868f62fd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjhpr5)

Gasp! A painted model! They do exist!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777657441_4a9e65d430_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjjfaP)

A filthy poxwalker! Followed up by a squad of traitor guardsmen, eager to kill the loyalists.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777642866_5ec9a412e2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjjaQw)

Then the tide of grey plastic continues.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777838547_3d0046dab4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjkb1k)

Blurry pictures for the blurry picture throne!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777296413_bb86d40e0f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjhoRc)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777652961_be681bee26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjjdQz)

(That last one also has some new AoS ghosties I picked up. The Ghost models are just such a pleasure to paint. When I eventually get there.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48777833642_72316e3ee6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hjk9xL)

The plan for these new marines is to paint them up to join my Blackstone Fortress models. In Blackstone when enemies are summoned, you can only summon as many as you have models available. So previous I only had 2 models, which meant my explorers only ever faced two at a time. With 10 more it looks like the difficulty might get cranked up...

Homebrew lore wise they're actually part of my homebrew renegade known as the Fianna. To stay good with the Blackstone kit I plan to paint them in black and bronze, instead of Black Legions black and gold. I've even written up some little fluff pieces about how other renegades and pirates frequently misidentify the Fianna as Black Legion. Something that annoys both of them to no end.

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on September 22, 2019, 09:39:16 PM
Great squads! Let the paint fall when may.
Love the missionary 😸
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on September 22, 2019, 09:41:21 PM
Loved the fluff about the bronze vs. gold trim! :icon_biggrin: :icon_lol:

Wait ... I see lots of grey ... must be the Grey Guard of course! :icon_wink:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 22, 2019, 11:22:04 PM
More like the Grey Death of me!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on September 23, 2019, 03:24:07 PM
Hmmm ... perhaps I'm a victim of the same plague. There is more than one cure though. :icon_wink:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 23, 2019, 07:01:43 PM
Quote
There is more than one cure though.

Is one of them buying more stuff? Because I think that's my usual method.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on September 23, 2019, 07:47:44 PM
Could depends on how one defines a "cure". :icon_wink: :icon_lol:
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 17, 2020, 06:26:52 PM
Brace yourselves for necrothreadery AND poor quality pictures!

In classic fashion, I've been ignoring my painting to instead focus on a brand new project! It was originally termed my "Christmas Project" but really I had no intention of actually getting it down for Christmas. Essentially the goal is to make 9 highly customized space marines, each one themed around one of my friends. Custom sigils, special weapons, etc. Once it's all done I'm writing up some kill team rules for them, and along with a fluff blurb, then mailing each one out to the friend themselves. Everyone get's their own little wee avatar.

I'm bending the lore a fair bit for the fluff. My friends and I all do our own homebrew lore. Plus everyone's heavily influenced by halo and star wars and such. So fluff wise these aren't actually going to be space marines, but actually a radical inquisitors experiments to make similar super soldiers. Very similar to Spartans meets Astartes.

Stage one, the construction, is done! I'm just waiting on some deathwatch shoulder pads and then its on to painting.

(https://imgur.com/CSIlUW3.jpeg)

(https://imgur.com/lFFE6g1.jpeg)

(https://imgur.com/zHaYnZx.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/tb7P4JW.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on August 31, 2020, 03:23:44 AM
Seven months later and I manage to get an update in just before my thread moves off the front page. Got a bit of painting done and actually took some time to take some pictures!

First up, lets take a visit to the Blackstone Fortress. Its gotta be one of my favorite boxsets of all time. Today we take a crack at the Navigator of the crew. I haven't settled on a base I'm happy with. Hence the bare black. I want something that fits in for the game BUT also looks decent on a tabletop beside my army.

(https://i.imgur.com/8HsuTeS.jpg)

Then we have a fugly Lord of Contagion. Pictures are terrible at showing it, but the nurgling actually have quite detailed faces!

(https://i.imgur.com/yTUWhpd.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/G4FElCH.jpg)

Then onto some other favorites, Deathwatch Eliminators! Meet the snipers!

(https://i.imgur.com/qJX1J1I.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/0YaSxGQ.jpg)

Hopefully more coming!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on August 31, 2020, 03:40:49 AM
More pictures I found that date from March 2020, including some shots I quite like of some Deathwatch. So might as well add them in!

Lets start off with a group shot of some Deathwatch, including a bunch of terminators and reivers.

(https://i.imgur.com/KXcOzNf.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/EVGqaNC.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/iXBIqIJ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/YCsyxfB.jpg)

Then we get a group shot, followed by some close ups, of a Chaos Space Marine squad. My homebrew Chaos Marines are actually renegades who usually aren't very chaosy, but I got these guys to expand my forces for Blackstone Fortress. That meant painting them up as Black Legion, even though I don't particularly like them. Luckily, homebrew can do whatever it wants, so I wrote up a nifty little short story ages ago about how my homebrew renegades are constantly being confused as the Black Legion because they have similar colours. Something that causes no end of grief for them.

(https://i.imgur.com/iDnVLFB.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/iv2PrA1.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/o9jmYsy.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/8cstX6o.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ztsW7fm.jpg)

Then we have a bit of a random one. Some real old school marines painted up in my homebrew chapters colours, and some catachans. The old school marines I got from a buddy and they were just covered in thick paint and glue and I didn't want to strip it. So frankly I just slapped some colours on to get it table top ready and if they ever see a battlefield they'll be first into the fire. So to speak.

(https://i.imgur.com/Qz7OQFJ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/DxbP1CL.jpg)

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on September 01, 2020, 12:50:52 PM
I like the Navigator!  And the snipers!  Obviously you've been putting some effort into the space dudes, congrats!

 :icon_biggrin: :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on September 01, 2020, 04:23:42 PM
My love will always be fantasy, but the most popular flavour down here these days is 40k. So if I'm going to be spending all my time playing that with people, its always nice to put the word in for it!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on October 31, 2020, 10:56:49 PM
Huzzah for updates! First we have some Death Guard gross boys.

(https://i.imgur.com/T7PRm4z.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/14gqEhF.jpg)

Next there's a Space Wolf Deathwatch Captain who's hanging around with his buddy the White Dwarf Tech Priest. Weirdly, they are the same size.

(https://i.imgur.com/CsYzmKm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/CsYzmKm.jpg)

I'm also working on a special project to make some Deathwatch guys for buddies.

(https://i.imgur.com/dhwwibp.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/TKhs4gk.jpg)

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on November 24, 2020, 01:26:58 AM
I see dark angels and space wolves! My 2 favourite chapters. What is with that techpriest and where did he come from?
I want to get back to 40K but I’m overwhelmed at how much I would need to invest.   I love the 40K vibe more than fantasy or AoS.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 24, 2020, 02:28:28 AM
Ha, I know the feeling! That tech priest is last years special White Dwarf model. You know how every year or so they make a special White Dwarf in a costume or something? Last year was Ad Mech White Dwarf and he came with a little servitor Goblin buddy.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Rowsdower on November 24, 2020, 05:25:24 AM
Good job.
I'v mostly been sticking with 40k projects lately as most [if not all] of the FB kits I used to collect have either been discontinued or placed on the digital market.
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on January 04, 2021, 04:51:29 AM
A special milestone update tonight actually. I spent New Years Eve finishing some stuff on my workbench, including some special models for the future. Lets start off with the regular things.

Poxwalkers! The zombies are coming!

(https://i.imgur.com/rtZmaYf.jpg)

And a grab bag mix of some Deathwatch agents! From a variety of units, I have a habit of just painting up/buying random models then slotting them into existing squads. BUT then writing extensive fluff behind the agents/squads/companies/watch stations/etc.

(https://i.imgur.com/VA77riz.jpg)

And now we get to the special project. For the better part of a year I've been building a squad of death watch based on my home town friend group. Originally planned as a christmas gift, I'm instead holding off to get a full set of stuff with a little booklet of fluff, and then give them out at a planned reunion meet up sometime in the future. A deathwatch marine for all the lads and the ladies (Most of whom are very clear in their dislike for marines) are a mix of custom psykers and Inquisitors. But December 31st marked the completion of all 9 of the marines! Now I just need to finish painting the ladies and they'll be set!

You lot better not be reading here!

(https://i.imgur.com/Fl9duT2.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/JwqmggL.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ABxWz1p.jpg)

Shotgun dude on the left was suppose to have the Star Wars Empire sigil on his shoulder pad, but I'm terrible at free hand! Right side shield man has a very wet look shoulder that might eventually have a totally-not-world-eaters sigil.

(https://i.imgur.com/rBaBHVe.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/otGjwDN.jpg)

A group shot of the final 5 painted.
(https://i.imgur.com/vTSHqaV.jpg)

And a group shot of the whole nine!

(https://i.imgur.com/78EK7zU.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/hlaQk3l.jpg)

And thats a wrap for 2020!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Artobans Ghost on January 04, 2021, 11:51:04 AM
Fantastic! They look great Gankom 😺
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on January 04, 2021, 12:01:55 PM
They look very good, and as if they mean business. :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on November 28, 2021, 10:32:57 PM
Long time no post, but figured I'd post up a picture of a special Deathwatch squad I've been working on. Heavily customized, using a pretty big variety of bits. Both chaotic and imperial. They've been heavily used in an ongoing RPG-ish campaign, so all of them are mini characters starting to rack up an extensive history and set of battle honours.


(https://i.imgur.com/SmVcLS1.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: StealthKnightSteg on November 28, 2021, 10:39:04 PM
looks great!
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 13, 2022, 01:06:03 AM
I’ve been spending the week trying to reorganize a few dozen boxes and trying to arrange it so each faction is in a box of its own, that way I can just pull and go what I need, when I need it. Along the way I took some pictures for my own records and that means you lovely people get to see them as well.

First up we have the heroes of the Blackstone Fortress.

(https://i.imgur.com/j0sGTwO.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/KMiaoWm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/bXn1C80.jpg)

And a Catachan Sniper that was a Christmas gift from a buddy, painted just yesterday.

(https://i.imgur.com/lnpwHsJ.jpg)

Here’s the currently painted Deathguard. They mostly work as an auxiliary to my homebrew chaos forces.

(https://i.imgur.com/VDILUAd.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/DE5lUXe.jpg)

And then we move into Deathwatch.

(https://i.imgur.com/ktarITB.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/lkCnVR6.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/6559teM.jpg)

Followed by homebrew DoomSeeker space marines.

(https://i.imgur.com/FYM9fQI.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/3lHtZVZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/3cYhqDe.jpg)

And then we turn back to Chaos forces, all of this bit from the Blackstone Fortress.

(https://i.imgur.com/TrM51QH.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/pXZCLom.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/yAXHQI8.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WvJoqCL.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/SwOMfKt.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/EUqIRaS.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/0Pbi8Kq.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/McD9b5p.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1PbO7VL.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/0G0A7JK.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/L03B57B.jpg)

Random Space Marines!

(https://i.imgur.com/qxYrRnP.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/6XjeMu1.jpg)

And some more Blackstone Fortress monsters.

(https://i.imgur.com/rztxbwr.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on February 13, 2022, 02:18:55 AM
A superb collection, congrats, and thanks for all the photos! :icon_biggrin: :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Syphon on February 14, 2022, 03:55:44 PM
This is some fantastic stuff. I'm curious about the leftmost miniature on the third picture of Blackstone Fortress. Isn't that just Confessor Kyrinov?
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on February 15, 2022, 04:13:07 AM
I think he's very clearly inspired by Kyrninov, but he's technically Taddeus the Purifier. One of the main characters of Blackstone Fortress, who goes there with his aid Pious Vorn.

(https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BlackstoneExplorers-Nov7-TaddeusPriest13cm.jpg)

Here's a lexi link

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Taddeus

and Vorn, he's equally fun. Brutal glass cannon in the games.

(https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BlackstoneExplorers-Nov7-PiousVorne11ht.jpg)
Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: Gankom on May 22, 2023, 10:17:30 PM
Back with what is both the first post of 2023, and knowing my usual commitment issues, the last one! Maybe! Kinda! Hopefully not! But I got a bunch done finally, and actually remembered to have some pictures done first.

We begin with my Deathwatch Primaris Chaplain, ready to lay the beatdown on whoever gets in front of me during our narrative campaigns.

(https://i.imgur.com/yoeK7kc.jpg)

Some brave men of the 1st Canadiana, A Company. The black flak armor means they're members of various Special Weapon Squads, who are attached to platoons as auxiliary support instead of embedded permanently. None of that matters, because the 9th edition book got rid of the unit and 10th likely will as well. But they live on in my heart, and in my storage bin.

(https://i.imgur.com/3pURXy2.jpg)

A Krieg Killteam! In my little fluff universe, they're X-Company saboteurs so I wanted to keep them with some rather muted and dull colours. It doesn't help sneaking around if your shiny!

(https://i.imgur.com/BRcfmjj.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/pn1orkC.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WHJ9vlv.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/NN94NFj.jpg)

Some random orks! Courtesy of the games-workshop free model day, and gives my chaplain something to beat down.

(https://i.imgur.com/Ppa5nX4.jpg)

Title: Re: Joined The Guard
Post by: GamesPoet on May 23, 2023, 01:41:19 AM
Ta da! :icon_biggrin: :eusa_clap: