Grey Knight Force

While working on the Obliterators over the weekend, I also finished up a few more Grey Knights. I was kind of considering them for one of the scenario options for the Daemon World Campaign... but just didn't get to it... I have something entirely different for the final battle on Thursday. 

The force so far - could be fielded as a Battalion Detachment now! 

Or... could still be fielded as a Patrol Detachment - as the Ordo Malleus Inquisitor does not take up an HQ slot in the force organization. 

Headquarters

Brother Captain - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Sword, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades - Power Rating 7

Brotherhood Champion Tyson - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Sword, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades- Power Rating 5

Inquisitor Maria - Ordo Malleus - (in Terminator Armour) - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Daemon Hammer, Psyk-Out Grenades, Psychic Powers: Smite, *one other - to be determined* - Power Rating 6

Troops

Strike Team I

Justicar Jeremy - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Sword, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Trevor - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Brett - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Gordon - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Todd  - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Power Rating 7

Strike Team II

Justicar Jeff - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Sword, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Steve  - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Roger - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Curtis - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Blake  - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Power Rating 7

Strike Team III 

Justicar Nelson - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Sword, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Wayne  - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Keith - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Colin - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Bryce  - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Power Rating 7

Heavy Support

Purgation Squad

Justicar Brian - Storm Bolter, Nemesis Force Halberd, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Scott  - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother James  - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Kyle  - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Robin - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Kevin - Incinerator, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Brother Patrick  - Psilencer, Frag, Krak, and Psych-out Grenades

Power Rating 7 (for five of them, one always Left-out-of-Battle)

(typically only five of these would take to the field any more and the Power Rating jumps to 13)

Total Power Level (so far): 45

Enough for a Crusade starting force! 

A pair of alternative Ordo Malleus Inquisitors. Without the Terminator Armour, they would only be Power Rating 4.

I have a few other things that need finishing up  I have a Dreadnought and  three Terminators - all older metal minis!  

One of the Terminators is done, I just need to finish up the other two. I'll probably field them as Paladins, as I have no great desire to track down two MORE old metal ones, and Paladins can be fielded in units of just three! The only trouble with them, is the OLD metal terminators DON'T have the wrist-mounted stormbolters the newer ones have - just the Nemesis force Halberds... Not sure if I should mock something up or track down newer bits and try to stick those one or just say they don't have them...? Regardless the Dreadnought and three Paladins would add another 10 Power Rating to the force. 

I also have a pair of Rhino APCs to finish up. They're newer ones. As they can carry ten regular Greay Knights each, I could use them to ferry around the three Strike Teams and the Purgation Squad - two in each of the Rhinos. Rhinos are 4 Power Rating each. 

So painting up the rest of the stuff I have could bring the force to 63 Power Level. 

I do also have Bother Captain Stern and Castellan Crowe models... but I'm not super stoked about fielding named characters - so they're waaaaaay down on the paint list. I suppose I could just paint them up and maybe call Stern by some other name and just use him as a second Brother Captain (which would bring the force to 70 Power Level)

The only other thing I'm sort of considering would be a Land Raider, of some sort. This would make the entire force MECHANIZED and could ferry around the HQ elements along with the Paladins. But unless a crazy good deal on a used one comes my way, I probably won't be picking that up any time soon! (But if I did, that would be 85 Power Level!) 

If I wanted to get crazy and bring it up to 100, that would probably require a Razorback and a Stormhawk Interceptor.... 

...but that would be CrAzY!? 

Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

The Grand Finale to the Daemon World Challenge! 

Void Ships of the 41st Millennium

I totally thought Games Workshop was going to drop a new version of Battlefleet Gothic this year. I mean, in the last few years they've rereleased Necromunda and Blood Bowl and Adeptus Titanicus and some other fabulous new games... So I thought it was only a matter of time... But it didn't happen this year. I'm kind of glad. If it was anything like the new Adeptus Titanicus, it'd probably be a GAINT $400CAD boxed set with, like, two Imperial cruisers and two Chaos cruisers and a handful of escorts for each in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT SCALE from the previous editions...

And it would have BROKE me...

I've gone more than a little overboard in the last year or so with the 40K stuff and,  more recently, all the Necromunda stuff...

But still... I WOULD love to be able to play some space actions - whether as part of a 40K/Apocalypse campaign or to play out any action that came up in a Wrath & Glory campaign - whether the characters are working for a Rogue Trader or and Inquisitor, there are definitely opportunities for some Void Ship battles!

last week a local dude posted some old Chaos BFG ships on the local miniature trade/sale Facebook group - and I snapped those up. Didn't even have to pay out any cash, I traded him some of the Imperial Guard I picked up in the summer that I have absolutely NO USE FOR!!

There were SEVEN old plastic Chaos Cruisers and three escorts. Most of the Cruisers were damaged and so I had to steal bits from some to repair others, In all I'll have four or five useable ones - which is probably more than I need as I have no Imperial Cruisers!!



The start of a Chaos Fleet. I was king of thinking Slaanesh when painting these - perhaps delivering a contingent of Emperor's Children and NOISE MARINES to a Warzone!

I was trying to do these all very quickly - so these were mostly just painted gold and washed with purple wash and then drybrushed gold (the one in the front has been given a wash with a Flesh Tearers Contrast Red... but I didn't like it, so it got a wash with the purple as well...).

I'm not entirely sure what class of Cruiser that is. I think it may have been put together with parts from a couple different kinds? Perhaps it's a Devestation class cruiser? If anyone actually knows anything about Battlefleet Gothic - feel free to help me out here!!

The smaller ones, I'm pretty sure, are Infidel Class Raiders.



This one had the bubbles of green stuff already on it and was missing a bunch of turrets... so I added the tentacles and giant eyestalk and decided to call it a Nurgle Deamon Plague Ship - of some sort...? Maybe a Hades Class Heavy Cruisers...?

While I was at it, I decided to knock off a few other ships as well!



These are a pair of Imperial-ish ships I picked up from Vanguard Miniatures... oh... a year or more ago...? I was trying to get a Rogue Trader campaign off the ground (pre-Wrath & glory) and wanted a few gen-u-ine-looking imperial ships to represent the Rogue Traders ships. These are pretty tiny. I do have a few more of these and slightly larger one as well.

The one ship can easily be passed off as an Imperial Transport. The other a Destroyer of some sort? The slightly larger ones I have still to paint should be able to stand in as Frigates... not sure how ANY of these are going to fair against a Chaos fleet with CRUISERS!!!

I guess if I actually get PLAYING I'll just need to pick up a few more Imperial ships - either from eBay or a few more of these fro Vanguard.



I'm not sure where these came from. I'm pretty sure I bought them over a decade ago as part of a large lot of assorted space ships. I was hoping I could pass them off as some sort of Ork Attack Ship...? (Red makes them go FASTER!)

I also have a few chucks of bark that I've been gluing bitz to, to make into Ork Roks.



Two of these - the blue and green ones - I'm pretty sure are from Battletech (Aerotech?). The orange one... I'm not so sure. I'm not sure what I could pass these off as...? Perhaps the ships of some minor alien race(s) in the T'au empire...?



The lot of them - for a sense of scale.

The bases are 40mmx40mm 1/8" thick MDF.

and now that those little distractions are out of the way, I think it's time for a Workbench Hard Reboot!



Things have gotten... a little cluttered...

There are some miniatures I SORT OF planned to be working on... (Necromunda).. but there are also dozens of others that have snuck on as distractions - or that have simply been there for AGES but I can't bring myself to clear them off because they're SO CLOSE to being DONE!? I think to get back on track with THE PLAN, I'm going to have to do just that - EVERYTHING GOES! 



Okay... Maaaaaybe I'll keep the Ambul Hulk on there... because, it's really just his BASE I need to finish up - and without other distractions that should be done in very little time...



I'm tempted to leave this Tallarn Mortar Squad on there as well... because it finishes off a WHOLE DETACHMENT! Not that I've played 40k in few months... or plan to at any point in the immediate future...

and...

and...

GAH!?

We shall see...

That's today's project. clear it all off and make space to get some HELLBOY miniatures painted - as of today Xmas is ONE MONTH (30 Days) away - and I have a LOT of Hellboy stuff to paint up if we're going to start playing that on Xmas Day!


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Still have a few of those Gang posts to finish up...

After that...? Well, hopefully, some pics of HELLBOY miniatures getting painted up! I am also planning to play Necromunda on Sundays for the rest of the year - and into the new year, so there should be game reports of those coming up next week.