Hey Guys, the tutorial is still in the works. Ive had exams all week so i'm a bit stuck on time atm.

I want to know what you think of this as a rapid assault list.

The main ideas behind it:
- 6 meltaguns and 3 plasma guns flying round for some punching power
- 3 plasma guns with an Inquisitor Lord to watch my ass.
- Command Squad to pick off straglers and weak tanks
- Master of Ordanance (MoO) and a Leman Russ to blow apart blocks of infantry
- 2 Vendettas (need I say more)

Anyway heres the list

HQ
Company Command Squad
+ Power Fist + Autocannon + 2 Grenade Launchers + MoO

Inquisitor Lord
+ Power Sword + 3 Plasma Gunners

Elites
(10) Psyker Battle Squad
+ Chimera + Heavy Stubber

Callidus

Troops
(10) Veteran Squad
+ 3 Meltaguns + Power Fist + Grenadiers

(10) Veteran Squad
+ 3 Meltaguns + Power Fist + Grenadiers

(10) Veteran Squad
+ 3 Plasmaguns + Power Fist + Grenadiers

Fast Attack
(2) Vendetta

Valkyrie
+ Missile Pods + Heavy Bolters

Heavy Support
Leman Russ Battle Tank

= 12 Kill Points
= 3 Scoring Units
= 51 Models (Human not tanks)
= 5 Tanks

You will have to tell me what you think - my main worry is that i just dont have enough models on the table. Im used to playing with 80-100 Guardsmen so my "elite" army is a big change

C&C welcome as always

~ Benedictus ~

Helloooo. Im gonna start of by saying my painting tutorial is in the works so expect it up by the weekend (possibly).

Here we go then. This was a 4 player game with each player having 1500 Points. It was Orks & Chaos vs. Imperial Guard & More Imperial Guard.

I'll Jump straight in, we played on a small 4x4 board so the game was a bit cramped, but who cares. I should also say that the lines are for guidance and the models are only estimates, i.e. dont take it too literally!


The game was capture objectives so we had all set up quite defensively to start. One vendetta, Marbo and my Callidus were off the board to start but everything else was in play.

Imperial Turn 1

I dont know how many of you have bought bitz individually for those key conversions but it is such a good way to go. I personally use a company called BitzBox. They are a UK based company and are excellent at what they do. Buying these "bitz" individually may seem expensive but really its not. Its a great way to personalise a model or whole unit for not very much at all.

For example. Those 20 backpacks are for my veteran squads to give them a bit more realism as a unit. They were £0.50 each which tbh is fairly reasonable.
The meltaguns from a space marine sprue were £1 each. A metal melta guy is £4-5. A plastic one will only work out at about £2.20 and its plastic
And the banner. I dont want a £15 command squad I only want the standard!.


I nearly forgot to mention. These were ordered about 9pm Monday and arrived 8am Wednesday. Thats good service!

Have you guys got any prefeerences for bitz suppliers? Know anyone better/cheaper?

~ Benedictus ~

Hi Peeps, hows your week going. In the UK its half-term which for some people is a week of work and of school/college/Uni.

Ive been working hard on my veterans and psykers having most of my veterans painted and most of my psykers built. You have to tell me what you think of the paint scheme. Im a bit worried that the pictures make the models look blotchy and a bit messed up but in reality they arent.

Bear in mind that they arent finished yet and still have all the small details to paint (hence no shots of their backpacks)


Tell me what you think, ill try to get a tutorial for the painting up ASAP

C&C welcome as always

~ Benedictus ~

Oh herro, 2 posts in a week.

Im still working on the 2nd valkyrie but the first one is assembled into 3 sections for painting; cokpit and body and the 2 wings. Ive bought a box of empire flagallents to be psykers and am using any left over parts for my penal legion squads. The amount of bits on the sprue is just astonishing. about double the amount of heads per body and 100's of little empire extras which im not gonna be using.

But anyway - pics of the inside of the valkyries

After a quick boltgun drybrush

And then with some bright colours as buttons


Ive yet to start with the external but my idea for the paint scheme is pretty simple:
= Codex Grey -> Black Ink -> Fortress Grey (highlight)
and for the guns, engines etc..
= Tin Bitz -> Devlan Mud -> Boltgun

I painted a test Guardsman and the colours on the armour weapons worked pretty well with a bleached bone coloured cloths. Ill hopefully get a guardsman painting tutorial up during the half term if i get time

~ Benedictus ~

Hi guys, long time no speak. Its been well over a month since my last post and pretty much nothing has happened. Ive been swamped with work/revision/exams and will continue to be for at least the next month or so. Updates therefore will be short and few I'm guessing but back to the main topic.

THE NEW IG CODEX!!!
Isn't it just beautiful, look at it. 3 shot lasguns, twin linked lascannons, AP3 Hellguns who could ask for more! But seriously its brilliant, and just so many amazing combinations of troops, named heros and special rules. How about we go through some of the most interesting and powerful combinations I have come across and playtested.

The List: in no particular order

1. 2 x 10 man psyker squads in chimeras:
Pretty simple really, they drive round psy blasting the enemy from hidden within the now well priced chimera and picking at the edges of the enemy lines, the really evil of you will take a callidus and make the psykers lower certain units Ld to 2. Pretty much meaning the callidus can take out a 10 man Ork nob biker squad in one turn

2. Penal legion in Valkyrie/Vendetta with priest

Give the priest an eviscerator, and with the 2/3 chance of getting a CC type special for the penals the added bonus of the priest could really give this relatively cheap unit some good kicking power

3. A combination of Creed and a Banewolf

Creed does great things for your army allowing 4 orders a turn. His special rule allowing one unit to scout is even better though. A banewolf or even a whole squadron coming on from the side and annihilate your opponents troops left on his objectives (Y) The sane would work for demolishers or even veterans.

4. Heavy weapons squads with a commisar close by

Granting a HW squad "bring it down" on an important tank/monster means twin-linked lascannons etc.. but a Ld 7 this has a fair chance of failing but..... oh, look behind me, a commisar, i'll use his Ld of 9 (or 10 for a Lord commisar) much better chance of orders working.


Please correct me on anything ive misunderstood but those are some kick a$$ combos!

The first of my Valk's is nearly assembled. I've been going slow as I didnt want to mess it up by rushing it and I want to paint the interior


As you would expect for £35 its a big kit. I'm guessing most of you probably havent seen a half built one so its an interesting picture for you. Im thinking of trying a memphis belle style pinup on the cockpit for a bit of something different.

I'm gonna try and get a squad of imps painted by the end of the week and maybe a tutorial if i can find time.

C&C's welcome as always
~ Benedictus ~

I thought i'd update you on how it's going. Ive pretty much built everything and only have one Leman Russ left (YES!) and will have a whole army shot up shortly. Then its time to pull the paintbrushes out, dust them of and paint nearly 80 guardsmen and about 5 tanks.

Overall shot (excuse the wobbly, photo i'm lookin for a cheap tripod stand)

Platoon 1 (on the right)
Veteran A (far top left)
Armoured Fist A (top centre)
Lascannon and Heavy Bolter Batteries
Command Squad


Platoon 1 with 3 Heavy Bolter squads each with a grenade launcher.


Veteran squad A, soon to have 3 plasma guns.


And the platoon command squad


I can see me with two pimped out veteran squads with 3 plasma each.

A quick question for you guys. if any of you know how to add a blogroll could you leave a comment telling me how as i cant seem to get it to work?

~Benedictus

Just purchased the Artemia Pattern Hellhound off Forge World along with a Executioner and a Demolisher turret for my existing Leman Russ's. Will hopefully have a shot of the whole unpainted army pretty soon.

I thought i'd post a few of my new favourite Imperial Guard models for any of you guys that havent seen them yet.

The awesome Commander of the fleet who i can see being my new officer.

The new command squad. Plastic Meltas and Plasma FTW!!! I can see these making a huge impact on the amount of plasma fielded

And a final pic for any of you interested, my WIP Imperial Fist Terminator Chaplain enjoy.

Well I lied a little with the title but i guess it got some peoples attention.
Got what i promised, some pictures of Imperial Guard for you to have a poll over. Are you ready for the pics? These were a quick paint of the only imperial models i had at hand, also theyre the easiest to strip once ive chosen my final scheme
Pics arent too good so ill do a bit of a rundown on each one.

No. 1 Grey Scheme
Codex Grey with fortress grey highlights, White pants


No. 2 Blue Scheme
Enchanted blue, inked with dark blue, then highlighted in an icy blue


No. 3 Cadian 8th
Dark Green highlighted with a lighter green. Bleached Bone pants



Get Voting guy's. Poll will close in a week or so to give me enough time to get everything painted.

Comments and Criticisms always welcome

Just testing the blog (dont take this as an actual post)