I have painted up the Mantic Ork heavy suits - I have work out what 40k stat line to use. Fairly happy with these 2 - I tried to do WW2 German tank colour scheme.
Big mech suit with circular saw hand to hand weapon and a “plasma” type gun thing.
I have another 6 to go (with bows) - I might srape the rectangle on the flag off the next set so that I can do a more interesting design … happy with these 2 tone wolves.
I think these will look good when the bases are done.
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The leader figures for the Ork marauders.
Painting wise I am still working on the Mantic Orks and have completed these dog things - which must equate to 40k squigs - they appear to have bombs on their backs. A bit of fun with contrast paints.
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I have managed to complete the first of the GW/Mantic Ork/Marauder mashups.
Overall pretty happy with the start of the kill team - although I think the boots are overly detailed, with lots plates and some pouches. I’m hoping the basing will hide some of the fudging there.
I have gone for a uniform appearance for these Orks - which just makes sense to me. 6 more to go and some dog things and a couple of goblin types. Might have a go at another Drakon rider next.
Always too many figures and not enough time.
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1. I have been sucked into looking in to Kill Team 2018 again - and have picked up the following expansions.
Quite pleased with he overall. Must get the varnish out and base up a few bits and bobs …
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For my birthday I was given Trajann Valoris figure for my birthday. I have managed to assemble and paint the lord commander of the Custodies of the emperor of mankind.
I am happy with the red cloak (although I didn’t get the filling of the gaps as well as I could) - I have tried to get the various golds to be different but I am not sure that I have managed it.
Along with a couple of other things he needs finishing off with a coat of varnish and bases need completing.
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Last week my Bro and Nephew came over for a couple of days from Denmark. Quite a change from frozen to soggy - but apparently it was nice to see some colour.
We played a game of Raiders of the North Sea - a solid game with clear mechanics and theme. We were playing with the Hall of Heroes expansion. My nephew went for the good crew and raiding the high points monasteries and fortresses - and was doing rather well. I went for the usual (although not always successful), raid harbours and outposts then score the offerings - and getting your crew killed. The expansion’s quests helping out here. My brother was doing a hybrid strategy. As it was although the visitors did pull out to a decent lead, it was not enough to counter the offerings and points from the Valkyrie track - I out Viking-ed the Danes! We also managed a game of the King is Dead, which due to surprising placements was a win to my Brother.
The plan was to visit Dartmoor for a walk but due to some (more) rain that was shelved for a tour of Isca instead. I took then around part of the city walls (Roman, with some rare Saxon repairs in Northernhay gardens), Rougemont castle - where the last witch executions in England took place, Exebridges, the house that moved (which was inspiration for Bree) and the Cathedral. Some of the places my Brother couldn’t ever remember visiting. Exeter could be a spectacular historical city, but has suffered some massive cultural losses - most of which is self inflicted by the city itself (can’t blame too much on the Baedecker blitz).
We also took the opportunity to visit some games shops, were my nephew picked up some Sternguard and I picked up some Sister of Battle (with my Christmas voucher).
My nephew to suffer a lot of combined fire from the Eldar and Nercons - because the Marines were so difficult to kill … that 3+ save was really frustrating for the Eldar Rangers (well me actually) who were hitting, but not damaging. Also me nephew picked figures based on the rule of cool and then didn’t use them as expected - again more guidance here would have been helpful. The game saw the marines shooting a lot and killing the most enemy fighters, But eventually being forced back and becoming broken - the Eldar had the most figures out of action, but due to the vague objectives managed a draw with the Necrons.
Off the back of this I have picked up the Kill Team 2019 Annual off eBay (typically I got a good offer just after buying one … aggghhh!), as I think I will go back to this edition as it allows more customisation of the teams.
A good couple of days - I hope the my visitors enjoyed themselves.
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So Osprey games send out a Black Friday offer, which a bargain in it! Imperium Classics for about £15 including postage. I had looked at this in the Orcs Nest a week or so ago, so it was snapped up.
I have a a review of some of my stuff and I have decided to get rid of some stuff. The Mantic Epic Warpath kickstarter is going mainly due to the realisation that I was never going to get around to painting it in a reasonable time frame - I still have the 15mm Hit the Beach stuff which has hardly been touched …
I have also chosen to move on the Voidscarred Corsairs for Kill Team - managed to paint them but never played with them.
So I have done a little photo set to remember them by …
I am still missing the gaming and making mojo - just not quite feeling at the moment - which is annoying as I have the Epic warpath kickstarter now. I have watched the rules play through and actually read the rules - looks like a fun game. But total inactivity in regards to getting it, or anything else for that matter up and playing.
The Viking and Saxons are staying individually based for SAGA games … like I have played lots of that …
Also I have been considering the 40k stuff - the major mission creep on the Ad Mech and Marines in particular well beyond the skirmish/Kill teams that I originally planned … so do I review this set up??
More thinking to do …
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I finally got on with some of the Wargames Atlantic Canon Fodder and GW spare part Servitors. I see these as recently converted to servitors former convict types, hence the lack of leg cybernetics. If I had waited a few weeks I could have used the Stargrave Automatons, which might have been better. Anyway here are the first 5 - these will be classed as close combat types.
As these are the first I have painted in a while I a fairly happy with these. Especially as I a now thinking that I shouldn’t have started these, because 28mm sci-fi should really be just skirmish, but my Ad Mech forces are pretty big now. Damn that mission creep!
Also on the horizon, the Mantic games Kickstarter for Epic Warpath has arrived. Some nice little miniatures and the rules seem tight, having watched a how to play video. So something else to do … and still thinking about rebasing to multi bases the 28mm fantasy armies, but I am a little confused on that one.
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With my brother and nephew over it was necessary to play a game of some sort … as over the years I have purchased various starter sets and kits from GW … and my nephew has got into the 40k lore ( in a big way) the game was going to have to be 40k based.
However, I don’t have 40k (well I do have a copy of 3rd edition - never played) and the first two editions of Kill Team. But due to work and cooking commitments I decided to go for One Page Rules Grimdark Firefight - I had done Marine and Mechanicus lists for a big game, but thought a skirmish game would be quicker and we could play a 3 player game.
So we picked sides -
Little Dane - Space Marines
Big Morts - Necrons
Myself - Chaos Marines and Cultists
The young Dane was cautious with his marines - trying to keep them out of harms way … the Necrons were slow … the Chaos forces rushed forward with cultist meat shields. My brother and I managed to score some objectives in turn 1. What we were finding difficult was to kill space marines - their armour was blocking most hits. We were also finding that very few wound rolls were “knocking out” operatives.
The game rolled along fairly well - the cultists did their job well as canon fodder, with 5 out of 6 being killed off in the game, but gaining a few objectives on the way. One of my chaos marines was vaporised by a plasma gunner … If I recall correctly the Necrons and Space Marines only lost one figure each, the armour and self-repair being a bit of a pain. The last turns were a grab for points - the Necrons managed to kill a marine when he was on an objective and a cultist was killed for the little Dane to score a point. The final scores were 5 to me, 2 to Big Morts and 1 to the little Dane. I saw this as the Chaos Marines ruthlessly rushing in a getting an artefact for some nefarious purpose or preventing the Imperium and Nercons from getting some Blackstone …
I quite liked the rules - although we probably played a few rules wrong and with 3 players possibly a bit slow. Possibly we played the game a little dry and needed a better reason for the engagement.
Anyway a game played.
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The Oathmark Eldar here compared with their official GW offerings.
The top shows then with a couple of Corsairs - the figure on the far right is a Guardian with a Corsairs head - I think they match pretty well.
So I have had a busy couple of days. First up I looked at the cyclops again and just did think the painting just wasn’t good enough - so I did an old school repaint on the flesh tones.
I think they came out better than the speed paints - however I still plan to use speed paints for the celts.
On Friday Snake-eyes and Steedo came over and played a couple of games of Valhalla - with the Valkyries expansion.
An enjoyable evening was had by all - the expansion didn’t change the game that much. The games were pretty close, with Steedo winning the first game 26, Snake-eyes 23 and myself on 20. The second game was closer with Steedo and Snake-eyes tied on 23 points, the tiebreaker was who had the most opponents shields … which we concluded was Steedo (although Snake-eyes had the most opponents shield, in that he had a lot of mine, but Steedo had the most shields and head to head had beaten Snake-eyes). I had planned to play Risk Europe, but I think that it plays better with 4.
Then Saturday morning was a trip out to Dartmoor in Storm Bert!
I hadn’t thought it was a good idea to go out - it was rather wet and windy and we called the walk before the really poor weather set in and it stopped being funny as we were being blown about.
With the extra time I had - I finished off the Space Marine Terminator Captain - pretty happy with it (apart from the rear cloak thing, which is ok).
I still need to put some transfers on the shields by the pauldrons and stick him on a base.
So quite a lot covered in the last couple of days.
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I have finished the last 5 of the Voidscarred Corsairs.
Mainly done with speed/contrast paints - which are pretty useful, still trying to get the best out of them. I plan to paint my Celt/barbarian army with them.
As to 40k stuff - there is the 3rd edition of kill team out - but at the rate I have been playing games, I will probably stick with 1st and 2nd editions - I do plan to have a play with the One Play Rules for Kill Tram and 40k. I have the space marine captain in terminator armour to do (and possibly some more skitari to do - I picked up some bodies cheap off LAF and have some spares from previous purchases - might just be a squad of 5 vanguard).
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Been busy so I hadn’t varnished these for a while or done anything else with them.
This has been a busy weekend - it has been one of the olds 80th birthday, so we have had visitors and been out a lot. We managed some games of Ultimate Werewolf, Codenames and Pass the Bomb.
But as my nephew was staying with us, we played a game of Kill Team (over 2 days). Space Marines versus Eldar.
Initial set up below.
