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.

Here’s the errate we used for this game, it’s incomplete and not totally tested.
DIY-Terrain – Siege Errata

Siegecraft v.2 from Warseer

This is by no means a comprehensive list, there are things we still want to test and eventually I’ll rewrite all of the rules for this.

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?

Ready to be dipped

Freshly dipped and still shiny!

Finished squad

But, I did get a chance to play with the new Kings of War ruleset and it was Kingdom of Men versus Elves.  I don’t have anything cohesive review, but I do have a few points that I think are note worthy.

• Warmachines with the new rules of 1d6 needing a 6 to hit and then deal 1dX amount of damage is not good.  It’s impossible to hit anything and do damage.  I had 2 trebuchets fire every turn, 6 turns and 12 shots, and I didn’t do a single point of damage….not very useful at all.  The previous method worked just fine IMO.
• Elves having elite seem’s like it’s over powered, but I’m going to hold final judgement for a few more games.
• The rules change to ensure after a combat was over, and pushed apart 1″, that there is no option other than charging back in.  This prevents a unit from surviving and then opening fire instead of getting back into melee combat.  There has been lots of discussion over this on Warseer (you’ve been warned, this is a super long thread).
• Tripling attacks when engaging a warmachine in melee seems a bit much, but whatever works I guess.
• Rules are now in booklet form, this is great and way better than printouts, also, $9 is a great price.
• I would have liked to see more than 1 scenario, but it’s not hard to imagine up some other options really…..

Completed Gothic 'Astle

This piece would stand great on it’s own, I decided to (at the time) use foam core for a base, in hind sight, I’d opt for the hardboard in a heart beat.  I also added a wood floor to the inside.  The paintjob was a simple matter of drybrushing grey’s and adding some basing material to the base.  Overall I’m happy with the project, even if it took me 2 years to complete…I’m not sure why I waited so long.

Many in cover in this Kill Point Match

Cover saves are super nice in this game, it makes my otherwise worthless army in terms of resilience / toughness much, much better.  The Dark Eldar player could probably agree to a large extent as well.  Imperial Guard have a ton of cool features, I’d like to know how some of these actually got through playtesting at GW to be honest, the Vendetta is an amazing unit to have, I now understand, entirely why all of those Adepticon tourney armies are loaded to the brim with these things.  The two that I did have in this game were very dominant, and one of them also had a unit inside that it dropped off to add to the insult.  It’s a shame that these things are so intense, I’d rather have them be support units and not so powerful.

IG Vendetta's are rad.

I like powerful units as much as the next guy, but this seems like a little much.  Another thing that I noticed is that if you get most of your information about what Warhammer 40k is all about via the web, you’re missing a lot, as sites like Bell of Lost Souls and Dakka Dakka really only cater to Tournament, Win At All Costs, type people, which is a shame.  It really skewed my view as that’s my only real insight into a game I get to play a few times a year.

A close game for sure

I can’t wait to go out there and throw down again, it’s gotten better each time I’ve played, which surprises me more and more each time.