Alpha Legion Recon Land Speeders

I am super pumped to get these on the board and shot out of the air by boltguns!

Alternative Pre Heresy Alpha Legion Color Schemes

Oh hey there! I've just finished doing a couple things in some of my alternative Pre Heresy Alpha Legion color schemes. I wanted to mix it up a bit for this army, as I'm getting up towards 130 infantry models, and I wanted to keep it interesting for myself. I've got two alternate schemes.

One is based on the Astral Claws theme. I've always loved it, but never wanted to start a new army for them. I figure for my force, the Iron Scales are a division of honor guards and specialists that get called in to help with high value campaigns. It is an honor for them to be sent to re-enforce a campaign, and Harrow Masters will go to great lengths to secure their services.

The other is a reference to my love of the old crazy Rogue Trader color schemes. I love goofy colored camo on space marines, and I couldn't help but paint up  my recon force in my tiger stripes! I have two speeders to do, this photo only has the first test portion done.

Adepticon Calth Bash: The Revenge!

Last night, we played a great game at the house of one of my fellow Greying Legion (The Adepticon and NOVA Heresy Team) veterans. We played through our "Calth Bash" that we ran at Adepticon this year, and are planning to again. It's a pretty great little set up. The armies essentially are restricted to what you can get in the Calth box, plus your legion rules. That's it. So, each side has 30 marines, 5 terminators, a contemptor, and a character. There are points restrictions for upgrades on each of those things, and the only model not from the box that is available is a single bare rhino. To make things interesting, we add in the Calth dice, which gets rolled every turn. You can then use the various results to do things like add models back to squads that have taken casualties, or get extra shots with various weapons. We also use a fancy version of Meatgrinder. Each time you recycle a unit, you give your opponent your Meatgrinder token, which they flip over and becomes a Vengeance token. You can use those to do things like count as a one shot combi weapon, or juice someone up on combat drugs!

Overall, it's a blast, and basically results in total madness and huge numbers of casualties that keep getting followed up by more fresh meat....which is exactly what the Heresy is to us!

We racked up my Alpha Legion and Salamanders against the birthday boy/host's Death Guard. Really, his army is made up of Istvaan III loyalists, so it's got Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor's Children, and World Eaters in it. For simplicity's sake, they were all Death Guard.

In the end, the Death Guard won by a single Victory Point, 23-22. VPs were based on a check-list of accomplishments during the game, some silly, some game based. Things like destroying a unit, destroying a unit in a sweeping advance, making your opponent laugh, and contributing to capturing objectives all got you VPs.

Since it was a weeknight, we ended up cutting the game short, but we had a great time, and got a couple people a little more familiar with the rules.

SOON

Pre Heresy Salamander Calth Bash Force!

Here are the models I'll be bringing to the Calth Bash at Adepticon this year! I'm super pumped with how these dudes are coming out. I will be adding transfers and weathering, once I actually have the transfers in-hand.

Salamander Firedrakes

Cruising right along on my Salamander army! These are the first batch of my Firedrakes. I really like the models, but I wanted to stretch them a little further, so I combined them with regular cataphractii parts, as well.
Few more of these dudes, then it's on to the contemptor!

Pre Heresy Salamander WIP

Back again with some more dudes!
First, I am just about done with the pre-transfer stage of my Delegatus/Centurian/Praetor model:

He's made from all kinds of stuff: Tyberos the Red Wake, a tiny shield from Master Crafted Miniatures, a Lizardmen jawbone, Spellcrow scaly tabard, a tartaros shield, etc etc.

Next up is the batch of stuff I just got into the airbrushin' booth yesterday: My first five Firedrakes, and a Contemptor. His arms are magged so I can swap later. For now though, I love the brutality of a chain-fist/heavy flamer+plasma canon robot death machine.

Pre Heresy Salamander Veteran Squad

So, I have the first squad for my Salamanders pretty well done...for now. I will be adding transfers when those sweet sweet new sheets show up, and then weathering them a touch. I have bases underway, and will be doing a batch of 30 at once. For now...I bask in the satisfaction.

Pre-Heresy Salamanders Underway!

Here are a bunch of my dudes! I'll be bringing these guys to Adepticon this year, for the Calth Bash.

Pre-Adepticon Zone Mortalis Game!

So, last night, we played a game on one of the nine (!) zone mortalis boards that we've been putting together for Adepticon this year. This particular board is all Bug Hunt corridors from Fantasy Arc, with scatter terrain from Mantic. There will be three boards of this at the event!