Chaos: Very strange bug concerning the fireball launcher unit: It has a question mark icon, no name (except when you mouse over it in the building queue), no description (the cost tends to float one or two lines above the command box), doesn't show up when built and instantly lags the game (two is even worse). Chaos Chaos Daemons chaos space marines Charity Christmas citadel texture Codex Review Community Projects contests conversion corsairs coven Cultists Dark Age dark angels dark eldar dark eldar battle report Dark Vengeance Deadzone deamons of chaos Deathguard diorama Disciples of Tzeentch Dreadball Dreamforge Leviathan Durham Durham Raiders. Compendium Tratoris: The Shadow Kings - posted in + LIBER CHAOTICA +: Compendium Tratoris: Extinction AgendaThe Shadow Kings This post is just me setting up the layout (wanted to get it actually done before I get distracted again), so Ill be adding to this post over the next couple of days with what I have so far. Massively WIP, and if you know my previous works youll know I like to blend.
I need to do a more thorough post on everything that I was able to accomplish in the past 6+ months, but I wanted to get this post up ASAP, as I'll be leaving for Valhalla this coming Sunday, and between work, family and getting ready to go to Utah, I might not have time to do the subject justice (or at least the way I want to).What's missing in the group in the above shots is one unit of 10 Plaguebearers, which I also loaned to John (they're finished), and the Herald of Nurgle I mentioned above. The display board was John's idea. He's got one, too, and the plan is to avoid having to pack up after each game and then unpack again for the next game every day; instead, I'll probably be running the same list(s), or variations of them, most of the time, so I can just put the models onto the display board after a game, set it on a side table, go grab lunch or dinner, then come back and get my next game in, retrieving the display board (and my army) from the side table. It will save a lot of time!Sorry I don't have time to write more as a summary of all of my efforts, or include more of the pictures of the entire group of both CSMs and Daemons in this post.
I will do that as soon as I'm able, but for now, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm DONE with all my modeling, converting and painting, and ready to head North to Valhalla! Hey, Folks.Sorry it's take me so long to report this, but I finally got the second (and last) Plague Hulk (which I will be using as a Soul Grinder) completed back on Wednesday, October 2nd.
I actually got him assembled and mostly finished on Tuesday, September 24th, but wasn't able to get any hobby time in after that due to attending all of my daughter's performances of an adaptation of Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia. (Let me tell you, she does 'crazy' really well!).
So it wasn't until October 2nd that I was able to finish all the edge highlighting on the legs and snap a few pictures, and then work got in the way and it wasn't until last night that I was able to set up both Plague Hulks together and snap a few pictures of them so I could put up this post.So, without further ado, Plague Hulk #2, affectionately known as 'Lefty', because his left claw still moves. It only took me 26 hours to complete Lefty, compared to the 40 hours it took me to get the first Plague Hulk, 'Righty', finished up.
I think the difference was that with Righty, I didn't know what I'd be doing in terms of painting him, whereas with Lefty I knew just what I was going to do and just had to bang him out; also, when I did Righty I painted up both sword hands, including fixing the one I broke trying to bend the resin straight, so that added some time to how long it took to get Righty finished.So, all told, it took me 66 hours to paint and magnetize both Plague Hulks. Here they are together.
I can't wait to get them on the tabletop and into a game!And with that, all I had left to do was base all 5 of the Heralds of Nurgle, and do the edge highlighting on the two Heldrakes, and I could call it good.I got the bases done on 4 of the 5 Heralds finished up last night (more work and family stuff causing me some delays in getting hobby time in), but I had loaned the 5th Herald to a friend of mine (along with 10 of my Plaguebearers) to use at DuelCon and Feast of Blades. So, I won't see Herald #5 until we both get to Valhalla, and then I'll need to get him based PDQ. Once I have all 5 Heralds finished, I'll put up a post about them, as they were painted by my 'Guest Artists' series of painters, each one done by a different friend, in very different styles. (All but 2 of them are different models, too; I have Epidemius, which I can use either as himself or just a Herald on a palanquin, but in those games when I don't want to have either and still want to have 4 Heralds to run with my 4 squads of Plaguebearers, I got a second one of the new GW plastic Herald of Nurgle that came out when the Daemons codex hit this past February, so I can run that one as an alternate.)Also last night, I was able to get the edge highlighting done on one of my two Heldrakes, and expect that I'll be able to get the second one finished tonight.
So I will try to get updated pictures of both of those up as soon as possible.In the meantime, please take a moment to comment on these two Plague Hulks, and let us all know what you think! Here’s another battle report of another gameagainst Tau, this time with a different opponent, my friend James Conley. James has been playing a lot of games withhis Tau since the new codex came out, and I think he played them quite a bitbefore that; in other words, Tau are not a new army to him. He had a very different lineup from what Joshthrew at me about a week prior, which I knew was going to happen, which is alsowhat I wanted to have happen as I’m trying to get in as many games againstdifferent opponents, armies and builds as possible before heading off toValhalla (in less than two weeks!!!). I,on the other hand, used the same list as I did against Josh, but I’ll repeat ithere. Jon’Ker De’Bloath, Chaos Lord on Bike withMark of Nurgle, Sigil of Corruption, The Burning Brand of Skalathrax, The BlackMace, Blight Grenades, Melta Bombs, Gift of Mutation.
– 220 Points. 4 Chaos Spawn with the Mark of Nurgle – 144Points.
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7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198Points. 7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198Points. 2 Heldrakes with Baleflamers – 2 X 170 = 340Points.
5 CSM Havocs with Mark of Nurgle and 4Autocannon – 130 Points. 2 CSM Obliterators with Mark of Nurgle – 152Points.Allies. Commander Farsight. Farsight’s “Gang of 7”, mostly kitted outwith double plasma, plus a fusion gun, and one guy had no weapons, just theCommand and Control Node so that everyone else could ignore cover; plus 6 shielddrones. Crisis Suit Commander with missiles, plasmaand 8 Marker Drones.
12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and MarkerDrone. 12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and MarkerDrone. 12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and MarkerDrone. 7 Pathfinders with Marker Lights. 3 Crisis Suits with plasma and missiles, plus3 Shield Drones.
2 Broadsides with all the missle goodness andSky Fire.Allies. Since James was running Farsight he alreadyknew what his Warlord Trait would be, which is that Farsight and his unit don’tscatter at all when they arrive from Deep Strike, which is what James wasplanning to do with him. We agreed thatI would roll and then choose from one of the three tables in the BRB for myWarlord Trait, as that’s the way James usually does it in his friendly games,and that’s the way that Jimmy does it at Empire Games when he’s runningtournaments. Makes it a bit morebalanced in that you don’t necessarily end up getting totally screwed if youroll something on the table you picked first that wouldn’t benefit you atall. I rolled a 6, and chose from thePersonal table, which made my Warlord (my Nurgle Chaos Biker Lord) a scoringunit. Well, if he survived until the endof the game, which would be a rarity.
I then had to roll for my Daemonic Rewardsand Psychic Powers for the GUO. For theGreater Daemonic Reward I rolled DarkBlessing, which would allow my GUO to re-roll failed Invulnerable saves, whichwasn’t bad at all. For the Exalted RewardI knew what I was going to do, but rolled on the chart anyway and got Unholy Frenzy, which would have givenhim Rage and Frenzy, which weren’t bad, but I decided to do what I’d planned todo anyway, which was to swap that out for one of the Hellforged Artefacts, the Grimoire of True Names. I’d only used the Grimoire once before, inthe previous game against Josh’s Tau, and it proved to be a huge boon to mygame, so I was hoping for similar luck this time. Then James started deploying. He spread out across his deployment zone withall of his units, but kept his 3 units of Fire Warriors bunched up around thetwo objectives he’d placed in cover in his deployment zone, just over 12” fromeach other on my left side of the table.I had placed my single objective marker in cover in my deployment zone,but to the left of the center so that it was in the same half of the table asJames’ two objectives. This would(hopefully) allow me to not have to spread myself out, as I knew I would bemaking a push towards his two objective, as just holding my one wouldn’t cut itby the end of the game; or so was my thinking along those lines.
James held Farsight and his bodyguard in Reserve,as expected. I had 11 units to workwith, so held 6 of them in Reserve: The2 Heldrakes (which had to start in Reserve), Mr. Fat Pants (the GUO), the unitof 2 Oblits, and both units of Plaguebearers.My plan was to weather whatever shooting was necessary until Reservesstarted showing up, and Deep Striking close to James’ line and press towardshis objectives.
I put my Havocs in theonly building that made sense, and stuffed the Biker Lord and his escort of 4Chaos Spawn down in the ground floor level of the same building, so that theywould have as straight a shot at James’ big cluster of Fire Warrior units aspossible on my turn, but would be out of line of sight of as much as possibleat the start of the game. I thenpositioned one unit of Plague Marines about in the middle of the table, out ofcover but also out of sight of all of the Fire Warriors, although I knew they’dbe lit up by the Marker Drones with the Crisis Suit Commander, and then shot atby the Crisis Suit Team on my right side of the table. The other unit of Plague Marines I put behindthe cover that my objective was in, so that they would be out of range of James’Fire Warriors, and as out of sight from his Pathfinders as possible. James’ Pathfinders lit up my Havocs withtheir Marker Lights, and then a couple of squads of Fire Warriors shot theliving shit out of them, wiping out the squad.I think the Broadsides contributed to that, too, but they may have shotat the Plague Marines that were behind my objective, in which case that’s how Ilost one there.
A few Fire Warriors wereable to take pot shots at my Biker Lord, but either none were able to wound, orhe successfully Look Out,Sir-ed them off to the Spawn, who make their coversaves. The PlagueMarines behind my objective moved up into the cover (mostly), and the PlagueMarines that had been lit up by so many Marker Drones decided to angle off tothe right and head towards the Crisis Suits that had jumped closer to them intheir assault phase. I had very littleshooting, since my Havocs had been obliterated, but the Death Guard on my rightangling towards the Crisis Suit team got lucky and took out a few Shield Droneswith their rapid fire shooting. TheBiker Lord used the Burning Brand of Skalathrax to flame 4 Fire Warriors out ofthe squad to my far left, which was the squad he and the Spawn intended toassault next turn. The units I shot ateither didn’t need to take a Morale test after shooting, or passed it. One Heldrake. The Great Unclean One.
One unit of Plagubearers. The unit of 2 Obliterators.This was also very beneficial for me.
There were some tense moments for me, as Igot aggressive with my Deep Strike positions, and the GUO almost had a mishap,dropping in very close to James’ Pathfinders, and the Plaguebearers almostscattered onto the Spawn accompanying the Lord.However, I got lucky, and both units came in just far enough out to makeit in and not require me to roll on the Deep Strike Mishap table. The Oblits hit right where I wanted them to,and the Heldrake flew in from my right side, vector striking the Crisis Team andtaking a toll. The Crisis Team was stillthere, but they lost some drones and some wounds from the Heldrake’s vectorstrike. In the shooting phase, the Lord refrainedfrom shooting at the Fire Warriors in front of him with the Burning Brand ofSkalathrax, not wanting to thin their numbers too low, or have no models on theground floor to try to attack.
TheHeldrake flamed the Pathfinders with its Baleflamer, causing considerabledamage and forcing the Marker Light toting Tau to break. The Plague Marines on my right declined toshoot at the Crisis Team with their bolt pistols for fear of putting themselvesout of charge range, which after moving an unobstructed 6” was only 5”. If I recall correctly, the Plague Marinesemerging from the cover in the middle of the action where just barely in rangeof the Fire Warriors opposite them, but I can’t recall for sure, or whetherthey were able to shoot any of them successfully (they may have run, can’trecall for sure). In my assault phase, the Spawn assaulted theFire Warrior squad immediately to my left, drawing all of the Overwatch fromthem and the squad next to them. Sincethey were in the open, they didn’t have any cover, and as a result took a fewwounds, which left me with 2 Spawn with full wounds (James had a good Overwatchon the Spawn). However, the Spawn wereable to make their short charge distance, and the Biker Lord, without having toworry about any Overwatch shots coming his way, assaulted the same squad. My units caused enough wounds to force Jamesto make a break test, which he failed, and that unit of Fire Warriors got rundown.
However, in the process they wereable to put a wound on the Biker Lord, so he was down to one wound, and theyalso peeled one wound off of one of the Spawn. In my half of turn 4, the both Heldrakesturned 90 degrees and were able to vector strike Farsight’s squad, taking aheavy toll. The Plaguebearers in theopen made a 6” bee-line for the closest objective in James’ deployment zone,while the other Plaguebearer squad managed to get out of the cover they were inand headed towards Farsight’s squad to see if they could do anything. The Spawn wanted to join in that fun, too, sothey headed straight for Farsight and his bodyguard as well. The oblits managed a decent difficult terraintest and moved off of the objective they’d stood on after they wiped out thelast of the Fire Warriors that had been there. At this point it didn’t matter that theCrisis Suit Commander (who was down to one wound) was still in combat with the GUO,as I’d essentially tabled James. Bothunits of Plaguebearers would have made it to an objective marker in Turn 5, andI had Slay the Warlord.
The Oblits would’vemade their way over to the GUO and Crisis Suit Commander’s combat and tried tojoin in, and with two player turns in Turn 5 to work with, I’m sure they would’vetaken care of the Commander. So Jamescalled it at the end of Turn 4. For my part, it was good to get another gamein against a different Tau player who has a different style of play.
It was also probably good for me to lose myHavocs at the top of Turn 1, so that I had to figure out other means of tryingto deal with all of the Marker Lights James had early, and secure a victory bysome other means. The Grimoire only letme own once, and my GUO did take a wound or two as a result of only having a6 save for one turn, but his Greater Gift was that he could re-rollInvulnerable saves, and that helped.Iron Arm was a help, but I kept forgetting to cast Warp Speed on theGUO, which is just my inexperience with playing with a psyker.
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