war gathers in the east (pt2)

so this post will or should explain the title





cant beat xibit memes lol


I was looking for a meme on forging a narrative but couldn't find one which is annoying.  so the knight titan isn glued down and for good reason I haven't decided wat the theme will be.  to help me decide iv looked into some background type stuff


the skittarri of metallica (should be 1 l but I can use this 2 add some funny things like song lyrics) are from ultima segmentum in the eastern quadrant near the ultrasmurfs and Armageddon!!


so that explains the title lol


and also leads nicely into my first musing and ideas for bases


the 3rd war for Armageddon as they are in the east they would have helped (or I can jus say they did lol)  also the blood angels were part of that battle n that explains my allies choice.  bases will be mainy rubble n dead orks and imperial stuff.


for comedy value I an hide gretchin behind my vehicles


the second is demons teeth the mechanicum as a whole are trying to invade a world where an original STC is held that is immensely powerful. so I have no idea wat a demon world would look like but I do know I can swop the gretchin for nurglings lol


so these are my 2 ideas and wil make up another part of the base once iv got an idea

war gathers in the east! (pt1)

so I did this lol and completely ignored my own "wont buy anything until my necrons are painted" which didn't really work lol  that's mainly becoz the night is dark and full of terrors lol.

so in the 4 bags is the start of my mechanicum force! and I went straight for the big guy as my first piece I cudnt wait nor resist this kit as I really like the kit. so here is a picture heavy near enough step by step account lo

 

first up a lil look at the shiny shiny goodness

here is the kit stripped so we can see the lovely insides (mainly for those that haven't made a knight)



the legs n feet went to gether realy well the instructions are probably the best GW have ever made lots of detail shots and colour really easy 2 follow and use 

again the waist came together really quickly all goin pretty well so far 

and in true GW fashion it all goes wrong  piece 105/106 are the sides of the body  and they are labelled the wrong way round in this kit but once uv looked at the picture and figured out that its not right its easy 2 correct.

after that mix up I was back on form n it all went really well 

so the tilting plate(sheild thing) and melta gun and head are all not glued for ease of painting (incase for some reason ur reading this as a building guide lol)



the top plate is glued so is the rocket pod the body isn't glued to the legs and neither is the feet to the base



arms aren't glued as the lock in its very kool n clever!!  

so that's it spent a good few hours building the beast  next instalment will be wat ever else I build lol and somewhere a rock narrative that will leave u un able 2 walk for a week!!

40k winners/losers

well  im officially jumping ship  and getting rid of the tau  the main reason is I have



the top the best the most awesome D filled codex in 40k  and everyone hates eldar lol



I was looking for a decent demons pic and found this suitably freaky pic! demons yea another army that people hate lots of psykers and punchability fast mobile and annoying with either belakor or a screamer star



lastly necrons  they are super slow and unkillable  5+  inv VS shooting  4++ re-rolling 1's reanimation and can reach out and touch any unit and wound/glance it on 6's

these are top codex's don't need allies 2 make u cry or bring the PAIN

on the flip side



rubbish saves cardboard vehicles  but all the poison and haywire u can shake a stick at and the corpse thief keeps me in the game or wins the game for me so much lol

so on balance I have 3 top codex's compared 2 1 low tier codex and i'd like to change that !!

so skittarrii and ad mech are generally quite weak low saves/toughness  mixed with decent saves toughness and lost of sweet combos makes this army like dark eldar a lovely swiss army nice that will still leave a hole in a top codex that isn't ready for the pain and winning with a codex that sucks is awesome lol

so tau are out  and im back on the imperium train lol

options and tau!!

so iv looked at the war convocation and looking at all those awesome combos is something I can really dig

I also love the under dog armies and doing well with them is a real buzz

I kinda enjoyed playing the fish heads the static gunline meant regardless of mission their was only 1 real option table them lol which was fine but not all ways great. 

I did want a more jump n shoot style list with suits but the models are terrible and with new models coming out im quite excited to see wat the codex brings



I have got lots of options the next one is marines as an alternative  to the war convocation 

I'm not a massive fan of marines but out of all the other armies they are the most appealing

but like the cat I am quite confused but this will end when the new tau book comes out n iv read it

damn u tau!!!

so from my last mammoth 2 part post I was looking at changing my tau into a adeptus mechanicus war concoction with flesh tearers strike force

but those fish heads have new suits that look like mini riptides they look amazing!! the problems is they look like they could be around the same size as a broadside which means they wont be a unit in a box.   if they end up as a single pack then we cud end up with a 30 quid price tag which is very expensive army!!

so the jury is still out on what will happen to my poor tau army ive priced up the war concoction and its 510 quid so with 20% off that's 408 quid I jus need 2 get it down as much as possible

war concoction pt2

it was getting abit boring and lengthy that first post n iv spent ages reading so ill split down each part with points in brackets to show how much u can save:

first off the skitarrii battle maniple

vanguard x10
omnispex
plasma x3 (45)

alpha
taser goad (10)
digital weapons (10)
refractor field (5)
phosphopheonix (25)

rangers x10
plasma x3 (45)
omnispex

alpha
refractorfield (5)
taser goad (10)
digital weapons (10)
phosphor blast pistol (5)

rust stalkers x5
mask (20)

infiltrators x5
pater radium (20)

iron strider

dune crawler
phosphor (15)

240 not a bad saving so far lets move on to the next section!

admech
hq
dominus
scryerskull (25)

troops
breachers x3
breachers x3

knight crusader
storm spear (40)
melta gun (5)
battle canon (5)
mark of the omnissiah (30)

finally blood angels

Hq
preist

troops
marines x5
melta gun

FA
drop pod
drop pod
drop pod
drop pod
drop pod

and that's a massive saving of 300+ points

the vanguard/ranger/breachers/marines will drop pod in starting with  breachers and marines t osoften up tanks etc n then follow up with the skittarii to take out the enemy

nothing is obsec but 17 units  scouting crusading all over the board they'll move up 2 grab most objectives turn 1/2

and their we have it 1 headache later and its done !!

war convocation pt1

I've had the blues recently about tau lol get it lol even with the titan having 100's of guns im still unsure im hoping the new models wont jus be a rebrand into "new" boxes as apposed to actual new sculpts and if that happens im hoping ill be able to finally run a nice suit list like enclave gave us



i'm not so bothered that tau have gone down in power with all the new super combos but I have played them for a yr or so and they were kinda boring i was mainly using the tau gunline n want something more !!

so that's the preamble and here is my more and by god is it more!!






the war convocation

now when i read this i hadn't seen much of the skitarii and same with mechanicus as the formation for those that cant read or live under a rock is this

all units get canticles of the ommnisiah which is a set of 3 that can be used once per turn
1-3 units  u get stubborn
4-7 units get stubborn and re-roll tests
8+ fearless

stealth
shrouded
stealth shrouded

the best i think is

re-roll 1's
re-rolls 1's n 2's
re-roll all failed hits in combat

will work well with rust stalkers/infiltrators

units falling back don't count towards this !

secondly  weapons and wargear including relics are free!!  this is pretty huge imagine all those free points left over to add in more bodies!!

and finally gets hot rule for plasma is removed they no longer get hot lol

so what do u need to make up this army of awesome well firstly

an oathsworn detachment so a knight titan any variant lol
a skitarri battle manicle this is pretty much every unit u can take
battle congregation 1 hq and 2 troops from add mech so u can take other options

the main problem is all these rules will start stacking very fast !!
and that means u have 2 remember them or do a cheat sheet

so basic skittarii end up with scout,crusader, canticles of the ommnissiah, ld10 within 12" of a dune crawler

mix the canticles with +2 WS then re-roll all failed hits  stealth n shrouded for first turn def etc etc the combos are near enough endless

so as the big events in the UK are now multi sourced i can run this style list but can i make it fit 1850 well here goes!!