40k For The New Year

Well, Im bitten by the bug again, Im wanting a simple 2k Imperial Guard army for 2013, and Im hoping some of the more tactically minded 40k players could advise me on how this looks.

Now, I know 'the internetz' has a hard-on for melta-vets, but Im thinking with the following airborne army, splitting it into 2 melta squads, 2 plasma (one each of stormies and veterans) wouldnt be a bad thing either.

Anyhoo, onto the list:

Blog Updated, new shiny pics available...

So, nothing for a year and now two posts in less than a week!
Basically, this is a quick post to showcase some of the changes Iv put in.

No Longer is this blog known as "Of Angels and Heroes", as I have simply moved on from the Blood Angels, (the original plan) and instead I plan to showcase more of my own work, not only the commissions and sculpting work I do, but my personal armies, gaming I get up to, and general hobby-related banter.

So, Of Angels and Heroes, Requiescat In Pace.

But now, I find myself without a name! Does anyone have any suggestions???
A placeholder will be "The Empire's Finest Feathery Hats", but I need something better from you guys...







(Also, if you look to the right, you will find a number of new pages, where I have finally got around to uploading a truckload of pictures from the past few months)

ta ta for now

JP

Warhammer Fantasy Battle Report Ogres v Warriors of Chaos.

Well, its only been a year!, still, 12/12/12 is an auspicious day to restart eh?
anyway, for the past year, Iv been getting massively into my fantasy, and today Im going to share some with you...


So, to set the scene, me and my buddy Joe have a long bloody rivalry, with my beloved Empire seeing his warriors off in clouds of smoke, feathers and moustache wax. However, recently I decided to start a new army, and settling on Ogres, I decided to make a decent list, that was the polar opposite of my Empire (NO cannons, in fact no gunpowder units at all, and monsters where possible)

So, last night, Joe challenged me, to meet his Iron Legion face to face, to test gut against plate.
We drew up lists:

2400 Ogre Kingdoms

Slaughtermaster - 355
-lvl4, silvered steel armour, dispel scroll

Firebelly - 207
-lvl2, hellheart, ahw
Bruiser BSB - 193
-ironfist, heavy armour, razor standard

2x10 Gnoblar Trappers - 50/50
2x10 Gnoblars - 25/25
9 Ironguts - fc, standard of discipline - 432
12 Bulls - fc, ironfists, lookout - 419

4 Mournfang - ironfists, heavy armour, FC, dragonhide banner - 360
1 sabretusk - 21

Thundertusk - 250



to face

Tzeentch Sorceror Lord - 410
-lvl4, MoT, third eye, staff of sorcery, bronze armour of Zhrakk, tali of preservation

Sorceror - 120
-lvl2, Lore of Fire
Exalted BSB - 195
-Ogre Blade, charmed shield, MoT, BSB

15 Warriors - 323
-AHWs, std, musician, Banner of Rage, MoN
15 Warriors - 290
-Shields, FC, MoT
5 Marauder Horsemen - 65

10 Chaos Knights - 475
-std, musician, standard of discipline, MoK
6 Ogres - 380
-FC, chaos armour, GW, MoN

Warshrine - 150
MoT


So, with the armies ready, the scenario rolled (Watchtower), and the terrain set up, twas time to start...


So, with Joe winning the roll off to control the tower, we deployed as such. I cant speak for him, but my strategy was mainly whittle the warriors in the tower down with the AP bulls, clean up the rest of the board with the Ironguts and Mournfang, annoying with gnoblars and supporting with the Thundertusk. Knowing I had no shooting, or real offensive magic, his characters were out alone, obviously planning on getting his Exalted BSB into the tower ASAP.

Sisters of Silence - History and WIP.

Bam!

For me, that is one of the best pieces of Pre-Heresy artwork, from "HH-Collected Visions".
Now, in the centre, no surprises, its the Emperor (duh!). On the left we have the iconic Adeptus Custodes, but who are those mysterious ladies on the right?

History Time


Sisters of Silence (for that is who they are) were around before the Horus Heresy. During the Great Crusade, they were the military arm of the Adeptus Telepathica, and unlike the Telepaths of that order, they were all "blanks", the 'anti-psykers'. They were used to capture and restrain psykers, and were usually found onboard the Black Ships, scouring the galaxy for the rogue and untrained psyks.

They were active during the Great Crusade, often fighting alongside the Astartes.

Post Crusade/Heresy, information on them dried up, and they were seemingly folded into the fledgling Inquisition. This is supported by tales of Malcador the Sigillite meeting with the "Chief Sister", and some "Astartes who remained loyal, despite their own legions turning"



In game terms, since I am running the Custodes as Paladins, my first thought was to run the lasses as Strike Squads. Though, looking at things, A henchman squad of Death Cult Assassins will be a bit better...

Stay tuned for the build:

Adeptus Custodes

All other projects (Blood Angels/True Scale) have been on hold for the past wee while, as I decided to expand upon the Emperor and Custodes squad.

Unfortunately, Im going to be using the Grey Knights codex (groan), but on the other hand, I get to use an army of these guys:

Oh yes, I have finished the first four Custodes. The models are Scibors "Roman Legionaries", with plastic GK terminator arms, and Rogue Trader GK terminator weapons. Expensive, but worth it in the end. Plus, its not like Im gonna need many of them...

Here are some pics to round off.

  
Thats all for now, next time, army list.

TrueScale Deathwatch Marines

I'm jumping on the True Scale bandwagon!

This time, to keep it simple and small, Im just going to be doing a 8-10 man Deathwatch Squad, with possibly a scaled up Dread too.

Plan is to do Captain/Libby/Assault Trooper(2)/Heavy Troop(1)/Tacticals(3+)

anyway, before the tl:dr, here are some pics of the first two builds, and one of them painted.

and Painted up:

As you can see, the heavy guy is of the Imperial Fist persuasion, and the other completed Marine is a Wolf. Just waiting on some more Terminator Pads to continue the project...

any suggestions for Chapters to represent? I certainly want an Ultramarine, an Angel and a White Scar in there, so there are up to 5 slots free...

The Emperor of Mankind

Yeah, the title is right, this post is about the one, the only, The Emperor, Him.

Not the ridiculously overpriced (and generally a crappy knock-off) one you can find on ebay for something around £70, but one I picked up, with my Custodes, for a much more reasonable price, and a far far nicer model (IMHO).

Well, he is finished. I wanted to go all out on this, try my absolute best and do things I have never managed to pull off before. I wanted to wet-blend the sword and do a proper freehand scroll on the cloak as the two main things, the rest I just wanted to do well...

And, well, you be the judge

Appreciate any thoughts...-jap