40K Lamenters: Phobos Librarian

Whilst I was doing camo capes last week, I used the opportunity to polish off this character. He's a stealthy space wizard, using his abilities to mask his brothers' efforts. The force sword came out much better than I expected, and I like the chequered bookmark.

40K Lamenters: Eliminators

These Lamenters are snipers, hiding their canary yellow power armour with camo capes. I'm quite happy with the sergeant's magnoculars.

Skull-o-meter™:     10

I've painted those three and touched up my earlier standing Eliminator- I've changed the markings to reflect the 10th Company. I like how his pauldron is proudly on display.

40K Lamenters: Suppressors

These are one of the weapon systems of all time. Some sort of anti-grav/ hover tech, mated to a massive automatic weapon. Beaten zone for days!

These have been on my painting desk for ages, and then I lost one of the heads. I recently found it again, and with the impetus to clear some room before AHPC XVI, I finished them off. I used paperclips for the flight stands, drilled into their legs. I got these off eBay without the clear plastic flight stands. The original flight stands were notoriously awful at staying intact. I've had enough problems with my flying nuns*.

Skull-o-meter™: 14

* I realised I haven't posted these to the blog, and I'll do that next week.

Grimdark Future: Red Corsairs vs a Knight

Just some photos of our latest game- we pulled out all the stops to have a big battle, that lasted several hours. The main drawcard was the intimidating knight! I was torn between trying to bring it down or ignoring it, and pathetically chose a terrible mixture of the two. I did a lot of damage, but couldn't bring it to its armour-plated knees. There are optional rules for accumulating damage, which I may consider in the future- otherwise a warmachine with one wound left operates at full strength, but a platoon with one guy left is pretty useless.

Stompy robot! With hand-painted markings.

Hordes of cultists. The movement bases are a real time-saver.

The lascannons did a lot of damage.

My elite close combat squad flubbed their moment and got taken out.

The wolves ripped the cultists apart.

The spider chased the wolf up the side of the building.

The spider charged the knight but got squished underfoot.

My commanders scaled the building to attack the knight, but couldn't kill it.

This was our biggest battle yet, and it was a bit of a drain in the evening. But we played it to a satisfying conclusion, and got some big toys out.

Grimdark Future: Chaos vs. Marines

They do not know why they are here- all they know is they must fight.

My Red Corsairs face off against the Dextra Manus Marines again. We fought in June but it was a very one-sided affair, with my cultists being swept off the board and I didn't take photos. But I've been selling my soul for dark gifts, and my Legionaries are reinforced with some stronger hitting power... We played a 2000 point game of Grimdark Future, jostling for possession of the objectives marked with corpses.

The foes face off again.

The Dextra Manus have come with strong armoured support in the form of a Redemptor Dreadnought and a Gladiator Lancer hovertank.

The Gladiator attacks my Havoc heavy weapon
specialists, its main threat.

The lascannons return fire, but the tank soaks up the hits.

I, too, have armoured support:

Venomcrawler!

The Venomcrawler daemon engine scuttles forwards on my left...

... but is overtaken by the terrifying Possessed marines.

Behind the loyalists, the warp rips open
and Obliterators teleport into action!

Obliterators!

Their weapons tear the marines apart.

The Possessed rip apart a squad of assault marines
and their captain.

In turn, they fall to the cyberwolf cavalry...

... who are trampled beneath the metal legs of the Venomcrawler.

The Gladiator and the Havocs exchange fire.

The Havocs succumb to the armoured might of the tank.

My Commander uses his psychic might to finally silence the tank.

The sole survivor, the Dreadnought,
impotently fires at the Venomcrawler and withdraws.

A 4-3 victory to the ruinous powers. I had some lucky dice rolls, and it was a characteristically fast and brutal game.

I'll be showing off my latest recruits over the next few weeks.

More Grimdark Future

We played another game of Grimdark Future, Marines (Dextra Manus) vs Chaos Marines (Red Corsairs). We rolled up a random setup and mission, which gave us only one objective- to be the last man standing in the centre! Clearly vital intelligence was on the body in the crater.

Red Corsairs approach the objective, but there are
lurking loyalists...

Both sides hastened to the objective, abandoning some degree of caution in the rush. I knew that the Dextra Manus Invictor Warsuit would be a tough nut to crack, and had craftily added a lascannon to my traitor squad with a clear view over the battlefield.

Mutual exchange of fire between marines...

Lascannon keeps trying to blast the Invictor Warsuit

What I hadn't expected was... cyberwolves!

No-one expects cyberwolves.

After they tore up one mob of cultists, the lascannon accurately blasted a hole in one. My Sorcerer flamed a second, and the third gloriously charged my daemonically possessed marines. After a tough fight, they took the wolf down.

Lascannon kills one wolf.

Sorcerer kills another

The last wolf has a glorious charge into the Possessed.

I then kept missing with the lascannon, and my possessed were gunned down by the Warsuit. Victory to the loyalists.

Deja vu as the Invictor guns down the Possessed.

I will need to build up a reliable anti-armour capability for this campaign, and maybe look into some mobility.

The wolves have to be shot; fighting them in hand-to-hand is a losing proposition.