Warhammer 40,000

[glitch1501]

nice, i should post some pictures....

[skynes]

I think the enw Rhinos/Predator/Land Raider's are beautiful models. A Huge improvement over the originals.

[Sephiroth]

me and my friends played a 2v2 team 40k take and hold game a couple of days ago, we used 40k in 40 mins rules (no 2+ saves, no 3 attacks or more, no models with total armour 34 +, 400 pts a side) though we made 500 pt armies for this battle. the teams were Dark Angels (Me) and Blood angels vs Orks and Chaos.

our sid lost but not by much (if i'd managed to finish off the chaos guys tactical squad beside the objective: (3 men in it) on the last turn it would have been a draw) we all had hardly anything left except the chaos guy who bought tons of squads with plasma guns. (which were the bane of my 5 man bike squad), oh and the ork guy had a mech that charged into my tac squad with a plasma cannon that i NEVER got to use the entire game and killed em after 3 turns of combat, (my krak grenades didn't do anything to em) he lost most of his army to the blood angels landspeeders. while my heavy bolter in my other tac squad kept the chaos at bay on my side for the game

[glitch1501]

those rules are interesting

[skynes]

http://www.ikwarmachine.com/

Take a look at this, it's another tabletop game and it looks really interesting. A hobby store in my town is going to get them in soon. Im gonna buy the Paladin ones for sure!

[glitch1501]

my youthpastor bought some of those and converted them into destroyer squads

[skynes]

Destroyers? What are they from?

[glitch1501]

lol, when i posted that i hadnt slept in like 24 hours, so, what i meant was devastators

[skynes]

Rhino Update!

My local hobby shop got Plasti-card in! So I bought a couple of sheets and have been at my Rhino with it Here's the results.

I'm sorry the quality isn't that great, it's 5pm here and it's pretty dark now. If requested I'll take a fresh pic during the day with better light.

[kaji]

Cool Stuff Skynes!

I like the 'Iron Jaw' look, characteristic of Orks.

-kaji

[skynes]

Those pics were really bad... so I've deleted them and replaced them with these.

[glitch1501]

ive got to go to work in like 5 seconds, but this is here to remind me to post about last weeks battle here

[Razgriz]

pretty cool

[glitch1501]

ok, the battle on friday night was awesome!
i had so much fun, it was myself(tyranids) vs. 2 opposing factions of chaos armies, it seemed to equal out (i finally have over 1000 point army) they were holding this hill with a defiler at the top, i had to destroy it and take the hill(which i did not end up doing)

the thing that stinks is they took out my tyrant and a few of my warriors before they got to the mountain, i really need to take some pictures, i think i need some guard for my tyrant now....

[Razgriz]

Sounds like an interesting battle. What kind of Chaos chapters were they? Was there a lot of terrain on the board?

[skynes]

Here's pic 4 in my Rhino series.

Another bad one, I'll replace it during the weekend when I have better light.


Edit: Here's the nice shiny new picture. Much better quality

[mechana2015]

I got the first members of my Tau army/militia/modeling/modding project today. 1 Crisis suit equipped with drone control, a rocket pod and a fusion blaster and 2 gun drones. The suit is in a takeoff position, and I will provide a picture once modding is done (spikey addons probably, pending computer based prototyping. Color scheme will be chaos blacy with *some* sort of highlights (possibly green, maybe a bright orange... again, pending testing on a computer system). I'm also thinking of modding a crisis next or getting an O'Shova so I can attach a bladed weapon to a mech... heheheh. (I know Tau w/ a short range weapon = heresy... don't care, since If I get O'S he's made for em...) Might do a transport also...

[glitch1501]

sounds awesome, i want pictures!

im gonna get my brother to help me take some more pictures with his camera, cause its good and i dont know how to use it

[skynes]

Just to let you know, on my Rhino, that white bit on the top is actually a raised floor, so I can put an Ork model on top of it and pretend he's kinda using it as a mobile shooting platform.

[mechana2015]

I gave up on spikes for the time being... I didnt have any easily spiked material
maybbe on the next model...
anyways the paint scheme is black with orange highlights and highlighting in white. Lenses may be green... silver accents. Ill have pics after I finish basing the mech.
Symbol... skull of some sort

[Razgriz]

very cool

Just wondering, does anyone read 40k fiction?

[skynes]

Only the fluff that's in White Dwarfs and Codexes...

[glitch1501]

what kind of books do they have?

[skynes]

They have Space Marine books, a few Imperial Guard books an I think they have some Fantasy ones. Yhere's a mix of different ones, but they seem to focus on the Imperium the most.


Using the good old Vehicle Design rules, I designed a new Dreadnought for my Orks!

Gatling Big Shoota (3xD3 shots), Kannon and Two Dreadnought close combat weapons.
Armour 13,12,10.
standard Ork Stats - Ws 4, Bs 2 etc.
4 Attacks.

Costs 208 points.
Comments?

[Razgriz]

Yeah, most of the books are Imperial based. I'd highly recommend the "Eisenhorn Trilogy" and "Ravenor" if you like Inquisition based things. "Gaunts Ghosts" books, "For the Emperor," and "Cave of Ice" if you like Imperial Guard. "Grey Knight" and "Uriel Ventrias" books if you like Space Marines. But yeah, most of them (practically all) are Imperial based.

The dreadnought is pretty good, however, it may be a bit of a heavy point sink. I'd recommend dropping one of its shooting weaponry to lessen the points.

[skynes]

It only had two shooting weaponry... Same as the average dreadnought. the VDR seems to make vehicles more expensive. I may drop it's armour down to 12 at the front, will knock 20-30pts off it.

[kaji]

Well, after many months of dormancy I finally got around to taking a few pics of some of my Eldar and Space Wolves units.

Feel free to critique constructively. ^_^

First up, from my Eldar army we have a member of one of my favorite units, my Warp Spiders:



Next up is an older model of a Striking Scorpion. These guys are the back bone of most of my combat assaults.



On to leadership, here is the first Farseer I ever painted, not particularly detailed, but I like how the split face came out. ^_^



My last Eldar picture is of Asurman, this mini isn’t done, but I thought I would put it up anyway.



On to the marines. Here is the only wolf scout that is completely painted, which is too bad, most of the other ones I made have a lot cooler equipment, but maybe if I ever get around to finishing them, I will put their picture up too.



Next is an incomplete Wolfguard Terminator.



And here is my armies faithful Chaplin, Ulrick the Slayer. (also unfinished)



Here is my deadliest HQ, Ragnar Blackmain. This model was actually a friends who got it and painted it just for fun and then gave it to me. I tried to strip off the old paint job, but ended up just painting over most of it in the end. I did, however, leave the original paint job of the Wolf Pelt. A tribute of sorts, I guess…



And last, but not least, is my mighty Venerable Dreadnaught. I have yet to pain the wolf pelt and tassels on him, but he is pretty much done.



Well, that’s all for now, let me know what you guys think, and if you have played any good matches lately.

Later,

-kaji

[glitch1501]

wow, you did an excellent job on those!!!!!

i havent been able to play recently at my church, my youth pastor had a baby recently, and he doesnt have alot of time for that

[Sephiroth]

wow, nice paint jobs, man i suck at model painting

[kaji]

Thanks guys. But it takes me FOREVER to paint stuff, thats probably why so much of my armies are still unfinised. But I would rather go slow and just add new stuff as I think of it then rush through it and not be satisfied. I guess I am also fotunate that the people I play with dont get upset if I play with incomplete models (wich I have found some people get all bent up about ).

Do you guys have any new stuff to show off?

-kaji