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Road to Badab Update

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

I’ve been making some posts over on roadtobadab.blogspot.com, but I haven’t really done much here as a result. I’ve been actively painting and building my army to prepare for this large battle. I’ve been busy building and painting the Space Marine side of the Tyrant’s Legion list. This part of my list is 2 units of tactical marines with 4 Missile Launchers each.

Both Squads built and ready

Primed and ready to paint!

The Tyrant’s Legion list is built up of Astral Claw’s, which, after tons of reading, is a chapter of space marines that seems rather neat, I’ve ordered and will be using the Forgeworld transfers on the shoulder pads and knee pads. I’ve never really considered using Forgeworld bits/add-ons for an army, but I’m trying it out on this project.

Test paint job #1

Test Paint job #2

Since I’ve ended up with some space marines, I’ve been adding slowly to the pile. In the end, I should have a pretty sizable army to use, and with the paint scheme I’ve chose, it should all easily get painted. One thing is for sure, using Forgeworld add-ons adds up quickly, but they are specific and well done, it’s a strange toss up in the GW scheme of things and it leaves me with mixed feelings. Once I get more progress on this army / project I’ll post it. I’m also nearing completion on painting all of the IG infantry for this list, I can’t wait to finish this up.

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40k Apocalypse Game

Monday, January 16th, 2012

I attended an apocalypse game out in Madison this weekend as a spectator, I couldn’t commit for the whole day, but I was able to watch the majority of this game go down. It ended in a tie and seemed to be very close from what I witnessed. Either way, check out the Thunderhawk below, it’s awesome, along with many of the other figures on display.

Imperial Guard holed up behind some barricades

A little hurt being dropped on some Land Raiders

Dreadnoughts marching across the board

Overview of the board

Rough combat between Terminators and Dreadnoughts

Thunderhawk rolling in

Total clusterfuck....

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Warhammer 40k – Road to Badab

Friday, November 11th, 2011

I’ve posted about the large apocalypse games I’ve taken part in over the last few years, and they have all been great experiences….minus the loss of a Valkryie who got knocked off a table edge….

I was recently invited to a game based around the Badab War, to which I know next to nothing about. I’ve been reading more about it, and 40k fluff in general, so that I can understand WTF is going on. So far, I know that IG had a small roll helping one of the two sides in this fight! Great, right?

One of the neat things about this battle, that’s different from before is that there is a blog setup for each person participating in it to post their armies progress (of which I’m doing as well). What really blows my mind are all the crazy specific armies being built just for this fight, or at least primarily with this fight in mind. This just adds a whole knew level to the game to be played, did I mention this game is in late march next year?

For me, the goal is to try and have as much painted as I can, preferably my entire list that I bring, I’d say my whole army, but that’s just insane… In any event, you should check this out, the guys involved are all excellent modellers and painters, it’s worth looking at their creations. Also, below are some of the units I’m working on in various states of completion. I’ve got the itch to continue working on it, so for now I’m going to plow through as much of my Imperial Guard as I can stand, then I’ll go back to one of the 500 other things I’m doing, cause why not, right?