171st Cadian Regiment

waaaaggghhhhheeeddd!!!!

2011-10-10T08:55:00.001-07:00

I gone into my local GW store a couple of days ago and got orkdified. Played 2k points of my guard against 2k points of boys, a squad of nobs and one squad of lootas or to that matter. The game took 3 hours to play; to long for my taste because we only went through 2 1/2 turns with pitch battle set-up with 3 objectives. He pretty much set up on line and rushed at me I was pretty much done because I did not have much to shoot him up with. At the end of the game I had control of one objective with two heavy weapons teams armed with mortars and a Lord Commissar and contesting the other two objectives with 2 5 man stormtrooper squads armed with 2 plasma guns. So I technically won at the end of the game but would have been tabled after 2 more turns. What I came out with this game was I that I need more fire power in my list then man power. The highlight for me was that my opponent deep struck his weird boy with a group of boys behind my two chimeras intending to assault my mortar teams because of the pain they were bringing his army. What he didn't expect was two 10 man veteran squads coming out of my chimeras with shotguns and grenade launchers. The boys recieved 26 shotgun blasts and 6 krak grenade launcher shots in the face.
Right now I am planning to start a mini campaign with my brothers so they can get caught up with the new rules with 5th edition. they pretty much skipped 4th ed. like I did I are willing to learn the new rules so we'll see what happens from here. Till next time...

"Howling Thunder"

2011-09-17T11:10:00.000-07:00

This is my 171st Cadian Regiment all together for the first time. I finally have all my models that I generally use completely painted. YEAAHH :) In my regiment is 25 Harakoni Warhawk Stormtroopers, 30 Medusan Veterans, 20 Cadian Kasrkin Veterans, a 46 Cadian platoon with female commissar and platoon command sqd, 6 mortars teams, 3 priests, Company Command Squad with Harakoni Officer of the Fleet, Cadian Master of Ordinance, Regimental Standard, 2 Medics, 2 Leman Russ Battle tanks, 1 Leman Russ Punsher, 3 chimeras, 3 Scout Sentinels, 2 Vendettas, and 1 Valkyrie. Their are various weapons throughout the regiment including flamers, grenade launchers, sniper rifles and more.

These are my objective markers in the front two rows. The 4 girls are the slave girls from the old Dark Eldar range. The scientist and two beacon like markers are from the 4rth ed. Battle of Macragge starter kit and the wounded guardsmen is from the old IG command box set. In the back is old Yarrick, an Ogryn bone'ead to represent N'ork, and the commander and medic from the old IG command box set.

Company command squad.

45 guardsmen platoon with female commissar and medic from the old Gaunts Ghosts box set.

6 mortar teams.

Vet Sgt with shotgun for my first Kasrkin Veteran Squad. I used the old metal space marine scout with shotgun and some green stuff to make my sgt. I used the Kasrkin Stormtrooper box set to make my vets. I cut off the tips to make the lasguns look mor like shotguns.

The Sgt. for my second Kasrkin Veteran Squad. I cut off his sworn and used green stuff to make a power fist resembling the power fist the IG officers modles have. I also used the Kasrkin Stormtrooper box set to make this vet. squad.

25 Harakoni Warhawks with 4 plasmaguns and 2 meltaguns. I used the IG kasrkin Stormtroopers to make my warhawks.

3 stock chimeras, 2 stock Leman Russ battle tanks with Heavy Stubbers, and a Leman Russ Punisher with heavy bolter sponsons.

3 scout sentinels with autocannons and Hunter killer missiles. 2 of the 3 are the old scout models.

3 10-man squads of catachan fighters, including old metal models. Some are bits bashed cadian/ catachan plastic models. Also are Escher modles from Necromunda. These squads represent 3 Veteran squads of Survivors from Medusa 5 that my regiment adopted in. They can also be used as Penal Legion squads since Medusans also had alot of gangers in theeir world.

Vendetta with eagle hand painted scheme. It was originally red but I decided to make it similar to my other Vendetta and decided to go with thise theme.

Valkrie with Hand painted sceme.On the Front nose it says "Cadian Belle"; in homage to the original paint scheme of the "Memphis Belle".

Vendetta with hand painted "Flying Tiger" paint scheme.

3 priests.

A closer look of my Female Commisar. I had 2 models originally but I traded one for a new Manticore/ Deathstrike Missile Launcher to a friend which isn't built yet.

My Master of Ordinance using the Creed model with a Necromunda/Mordheim dog model.

Last but not least my Regimental commander using an Inquisitor lord model from then Deamonhunters range now Grey Knights and Commissar Gaunt model to represent a regular Lord Commissar. Sorry if the post was long but what do you guys think?

War Trophies

2011-09-03T15:59:00.001-07:00

I was listening to a recent episode of The OVERLORDS podcast and heard a good segment about modelling war trophies on figures and reflected on what htey were saying. Having trophies are cool and show what your army has gone up against. This can also display fluff for your army and have something to talk about to your friends. So here is my opinion on what I think about war trophies on models.

THE GOOD

The ork hunters unit recently displayed for the Heroes of Armageddon is a good example of having war trophies on your models. Weapons and armor show a certain veteran status that displays that they have gone through hell and back and can prove it. The picture above show some guard veterans that have ran into some orks and re armed themselves to re-engeage more enemy units.

THE BAD

The ork hunter above looks as if they were going into the right direction but blew it by having a kroot head being held up in his right hand. It would look good if you were fighting a Tau army with kroot as troops but very odd if you were fighting a Tyranid or Space Marine army.

THE UGLY

Some times having to much trophies will make your unit look like a clutter ball making the model unrecognizable and somewhat deminishing the appeal of them.

So trophies are cool in my opinion but used wisely. If used wisely they can make the unit look even better if they didn't have them. So what arre your guys opinion on it? am I right or Wrong?

1st Griffon Commandos

2011-08-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

I was finally able to finish Harker and his 1st Griffon Commando Squad. I have Harker represented as a Harakoni Grunt. In his squad are two Harakoni light riflemen, a Medusan female riflemen, and 7 Catachan representing a Missile launcher team and 3 snipers. I used the Rocket Girl from Schaeffers Last Chancers, 2 Catachan Sniper models, MAD Larkin and a female model from Gaunts Ghosts, an escher ganger and the rest were bit bashed from Different ranges of IG sets and Space Marine Scouts. I'm still looking into replacing the 3 snipers I have for 3 grenade launchers most likly to represent Medusan rifleman.
The reason I used Harker as a Harakoni then a Catachan was that Harakoni prefer using Heavy Bolters and Plasma guns and I have ALOT of Catachan in the squad already. I wanted the squad to represent "The Best of the Best" from my regiment in one squad.

In front I have Harker put together using Catachan bits, the heavy bolter arms from the scout space marine box and green stuff for his boonie cover. Next to him is an escher ganger with a green stuffed patrol cap.

Here I have the old catachan female figure Oop with green stuffed beret and a shoulder pad from the valkyrie gunners and shaved down grenade launcher. Next to her is a guardsmen using a set of Tau fire warrior arms, a bandolier from the scout marine box, guardsmen legs and torso, and a scout space marine head.

On the back of the rifleman is a boyonet and behind Harker is a Bond staff from the Tau sprue to represent him as a veteran from the Medusa 5 campaign and as a "beat you down" stick :) If you have any questions on the conversions or want more pics let me know and I'll be happy to provide them.

Also These AWESOME weapons came out from Chapter house studioes so check them out when you can

My new models

2011-08-05T09:41:00.000-07:00

I am building some new models right now. I am working through a Manticore/Deathstrike kit, a valkyrie, 5 stormtroopers and a veteran squad.

The Veteran Squad (Harker unit) I mentioned before are almost finished. All I need to paint up now is Harker himself.

I finished putting together a Valkyrie which will be kitted with rocket pods and be hand painted similar to this P-51 mustang.

I will be painting 5 more stormtroopers as Harakoni Warhawks whick complete 3 10-man squads. This will allow me to have a complete Stormtrooper Strike Force to play an Apocolypse game(pics of the complete unit later) :). So far so good. The only thing bad to report is that a AgR has shut down recently were I play Apocolypse and wish the old owners best of luck.

Green light!

2011-07-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

I'm back once more going a slower pace but a pace non the less. I felt burnt out from the hobby because of the environment I was in. More on that later.

I was at my FLGS and spotted an old scout space marine model for a buck and bought it right away. I loved the old scout models back in the day but didn't get around to buy them because GW used to sell them at $15 a piece, if I remember right. I bought the model with MARBO in mind since I converted other old scout models as sergeants in my guard before pictured in my old blog.

I used bestial/scorched brown mix on the armor to be similar to the Marine Corps coyote brown to represent a Medusa 5 unit and green stuffed a backpack to hid the scout armor look. I think I got it down. I will be applying the mix to another unit to see how they will come out also. Pics of that unit later. Hope you guys like my new Marbo. Cheers :)

STANDBY...

2011-07-15T10:36:00.001-07:00

Aaargh. Sorry, things got super busy for me lately with work and in my personal life. I'm working to have things started up again here soon. That is... as soon as I get time and paint on my new models and vehicles :) soon! really! -vmreyes out.

1st Griffon Commandos - WIP

2011-05-26T08:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some Pics of my new veteran squad I'm working on. They will be known as the 1st Griffon Commandos or something else the name is still in the works. They will consist of Harker and other veterans. Their background will consist of them being veterans and survivors of Medusa 5 but more on that later. I'm using some scout marine bits for the upgrades on the models. The scout box is GREAT :) for bits to make Guard veterans stand out from the other guard models. I'm also using Tau Fire warrior bits for some of their weaponry. More details on them when I'm done painting them so I can show them better in detail. Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

Zombie Apocalypse

2011-05-19T12:42:00.000-07:00

A Zombie Apocalypse can occur so says the Centers of Disease control and prevention. J/k seriosly though the CDC came up with this fun blog to get everyone prepared for any natural (or Unnatural) disaster. So take a look and get prepared :)

Tango Down

2011-05-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

Sunday was a great day for many around the world when hearing the news of Bin Laden getting aced. Not everyone thinks this way though and in my opinion should rethink their position. Imagine the years and trials that he would have gone through if he was captured. The mess this would cause and the money no one has that would be spent for all this to occur. I guess it was cheaper this way. For those that want to argue about the outcome don't come to me because I wasn't one of the operators in that room when everything went down. When you do find them let me know so I can congratulate them with a job well done.
In celebration of this event I am going to create my own Seal team 6 type team in 40k. I will be using the veterans team and be naming them 1st Griffon Commandos. Leading the team will be a character using the Gunny Harker Rules because a friend of mine despised the gunny during a friendly match against his forces, even though he won. For the conversion idea I will be using Tau, Space Marine Scouts, and of course Imperial Guard bits. More news later since I am busy with my college finals these next few weeks. until next time, stay safe:)

Something from Ranger Up

Birthday Bash

2011-04-30T11:55:00.000-07:00

Sorry for I have been busy celebrating my birthday with firends and family plus reading some great books. So for my birthday I recieved the new Grey Knight Codex and a Imperial Guard Codex ...... AND some other great stuff I barely remember LOL.
I would like to talk about the codex but there are some great reviews available out there already by Podcast The Eternal Warriors and The Imperial Voxcast. I aslo been reading Black LibrarY book Rynns World which is AWESOME..anyway when I get more time here shortly because of school more reviews models will be up. Goodbye for now. Take care everyone :)

Defender of the Imperium

2011-04-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

Synopsis: The legendary Commissar Ciaphas Cain, lauded as one of the great heroes of the Imperium, finds himself thrust onto the battlefield again. Cain wants nothing more than to keep out of trouble and get to the other side of his commission in one piece, but the war-torn 41st millennium has other ideas. Confronted with the powers of Chaos and hordes of alien foes, our intrepid Commissar seeks to sidestep danger and talk his way out of trouble. Yet each time he survives his legend only grows, and his life is in ever-greater jeopardy… Defender of the Imperium contains the novels Death or Glory, Duty Calls and Cain’s Last Stand, plus the short story Traitor’s Gambit and a new introduction from author Sandy Mitchell.

Content: It starts with a short story called Sector Thirteen. The story takes place while he was attached to a Valhallan Field Artillery. Great short story that starts the pace of the next story which is Death or Glory. Death or Glory is the story of when our hero crash lands on the planet of Perlia. He fights a lot of orks while trying to meet up with local Planetary Defense Forces. During his trip to safety he meets up with a lot of stragglers while in ork territory. They unknowingly turn the tide of this long fought war while trying to survive from the orks in ork territory. Duty Call was the second book that involved him and the Inquisition and his main squeeze Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Amberly Vail. Another short story was included called Traitor's Gambit which was pretty good. The Third of book included is called Cain's Last Stand. Cain finds himself on Perlia again this time during the 13th black crusade and awaiting the attack from Abaddon's forces.

Review: I rate the book a 4 out 5. Overall a great book and recommended read for those who play guard and who like to read books about heroes.

(Spoiler ALERT): I loved the short stories and the fist novel Death or Glory especially how Cain gets into the fight with the Ork Warboss. A lot of side content was included that makes you think of your armies more; such as the two different ways Sisters of Battle are portrayed in Duty Calls and Last Stand. Traditions through out different Regiments were talked about such as a blue feather worn by Drop Regiments such as the Harakoni Warhawks to signify a Drop Veteran. Another cool fight was when Ciaphas fought a rogue psyker by using his thinking skills other then his tactical fighting skills that always gets him out of trouble. I also liked how his partner Jurgen was more of a partner then a lackey follower and was expressed by Cain himself. The pair reminded me of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The great thing of the compendium is that all the stories intertwined one way or the another which gave the stories depth.
The things I hate was the time it took to reach to the plot. A large part of the story dragged on with nonsense writing (I like short to the point). Also the repetitive description of how his friend Jurgen obnoxiously smells is annoying because its expressed almost every paragraph in the book. Other the a few other things Ciaphus Cain and Jurgen are BAMF. :)

Sky Marshall Celine Soleil

2011-04-08T09:28:00.000-07:00

I Was able to finish painting my model this week and am pleased with the results. Let me know what you guys think or any other ways I can make her look better. :)

Female Sky Marshall

2011-04-01T11:15:00.001-07:00

This is not an April Fools. trick. she is real:)I wanted to use an Officer of the Fleet and make the model special from the rest of my models on the board. It would only make sense to have a Harakoni Officer as my Oof to deal with reserves since I start my Harakoni in reserves. While looking up images and icons for the Harakoni I found this pic. What better way to represent someone unique then to have a female Oof. I decided to take the hard task to re-create her in my army and began thinking of ways to convert a female Harakoni officer. I came up with the model above. I used the power sword with robotic arm and the right pointing arm from the I.G. company command sprue, Green stuff, pistol with holster from the space marine captain sprue, a set of Cadian Imperial Guard legs, a Tau fire warrior upper torso, a Kasrkin stormtroopers backpack and a sister of battle head that comes with the vehicle sprue of an Immolator. So far I'm happy with the results. I'll be painting her up soon. Let me know what you guys think. :)

Harakoni Warhawks

2011-03-26T06:39:00.001-07:00

I was contemplating on changing my stormtroopers color scheme for awhile now because I wanted my stormtroopers to stand out away from my veterans. My veterans use the same models and grey/ black color scheme as the stormtroopers. When I first started with my IG in 3rd edition, I painted my guard to the Harakoni color scheme mentioned in the the 3.5th ed. codex. This last month I found an old printed color copy of the Madusa V campaign book, that was free from GW in a PDF form at that time, and decided to read the copy completely this week. I noticed an old drop troop strike the Warhawks conducted against the TAU and recalled that I was part of that attack during the MADUSA V Campaign.
So I decided to repaint my storm troopers to their original color scheme I ounce had them. Pictured above are my three veteran Sergeants. I am very happy with the change I made and hopefully they will see action on the table-top here again with their old color scheme.

Orktimus Prime

2011-03-25T09:06:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to Orktimus prime

Seen this very cool conversion of a transforming ork trukk online while researching for some conversion ideas. :)

Battle Sister and Captain Al' Rahem

2011-03-21T14:00:00.000-07:00

Here is my final paint job of how my sisters will be representing the Order of Our Martyred Lady. Also pictured is my Captain Al' Rahem conversion. Captain Al' Rahem was converted from an Imperial guard officer that has a plasma pistol and ounce had a power sword. The power sword had his sword gracefully removed by my son a year ago when he was 3 yrs old. The claw was converted using 2 small paper clips and green stuff. :)

Colt Pattern Chimera PT.2

2011-03-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

Here is my throwback Colt Pattern Chimera with a heavy bolter as a hull weapon and a pintle-mounted storm bolter :) I hope you guys like the pics. It would be great as an Inquisitor chimera or a Company Command Squad transport. Let me know what you guys think.

ALTERNATE ROUGH RIDERS

2011-03-13T16:17:00.000-07:00

I was looking at some ramshackle miniatures to begin a small rough rider squad. I really like the look of the quad but noticed a conversion using a cadian and the quad which looked out of place IMHO. So continued my search and found another conversion (on dakka and pictured above) and liked this idea even more. So I wanted to share this find before I go off and try it out. I'm also finished building an Immulator and priming and exorcist, another immolator and two rhinos for my Sisters of Battle. I'll be working on those models here shortly so I can have that army painted to a certain degree. :)

Colt Pattern Chimera

2011-03-10T14:02:00.000-08:00

Following suit to Apocalypse 40ks' Capricorn Pattern Chimera, I built my own throwback keeping the sides of the chimera armored instead of shaving them down. I haven't closed off the back hatch yet because I haven't found the right piece for it. You can find instructions to them here, here, and here.

Sisters of Battle

2011-03-03T12:46:00.000-08:00

So looking online on the GW site and I noticed that GW isn't selling the metal Sisters of Battle models anymore as troop choices. HMMM... maybe they are coming out in plastic soon....:) So I took them out of my big box of minis and decided to gather them all up to see what knid of force I invisioned of having when the Witch Hunters codex was first released. Lo and behold, I found a couple of Saint Celestine models, One that I painted and displayed awhile back; a converted canoness with jetpack; 2x10 female squads of sisters; a 10xfemale squad of sisters repentia w/ mistress; 12x seraphim models, 2x penitent engines, Lord Karamazov, 2x of the male inquisitors with flame gun, 2X rare oop male inquisitors with plasma pistols, femal inquisitor with bow gun, an immolator and an exorcist. "What a great I find". I then called my sisters boyfriend to see about his SoB force and he decided to give me his force of 20x regular sisters and an Immolator. JACKPOT!!!

So I'm looking at all these models and I decided to make them an Order of our Martyred Lady and skip out on the upcoming Grey Knight train coming this April. Also, after looking through the Witch Hunter codex, the girls are still a good fighting force if directed right and people will find a few things rarely seen on the tabletop now. :)

Old Stuff Day

2011-03-02T14:04:00.000-08:00

To Celebrate, here are some links to some old stuff from my Old blog :)

vendetta

psykers

Sergeant

To Be or Not.........

2011-02-26T10:08:00.000-08:00

I was looking through the rumors through out the web about what's to come for grey knights and am a little disappointed. Not because of the strength and powers but the fluff that they are being surrounded with or lack their of. The Grey Knights seem to be heading; in my point of view; the way of the Tau. The Tau went from hippies to commies. The Grey Knights seem to be going from mutual deamonhunting allies to deamonhunting backstabbers. i come with this conclussion with the Apocalypse Grey Knight Strike force pdf available on the GW site. It also seems to me that the puritan/radical fluff maybe eradicated but who knows till April.

Anyways I've been working on some terrain pieces for my table. I'm also looking through my Grey Knights and Sisters of Battle and deciding how to play list them. I'm also working on conversion ideas with my Veterans. Hopefully I'll get pics on all of these projects up soon.

Lessons Learned

2011-02-05T20:35:00.001-08:00

I learned a little bit more of my army at the LA Battle Bunker Apocalypse game (See old posts for details).

Here are key points I learned:
* A lot more fun then expected. This was my first Apocalypse game and was expecting it to be something similar to Planetstrike and Spearhead which I don't have much interest in playing. I went and blew a lot of stuff up and units were annihilated :)

* Apocalypse was a lot more stress free to play then a regular game since I didn't have to worry about a force org. and worry about the point limit since their was none. It got me out of my burn out and into a little bit more hobbying then I expected.

* Take some transports to move into enemy units quicker. I felt bogged down because I couldn't move my infantry up in 4 turns to anything since I was in a far corner from my enemies.

* Priests worked great with Straken and Infantry platoons. It helped me re roll my initial assault and help chop a demon prince with his eviscerator.

* Vets with demo and shotguns are AWESOME. I got more bang for the buck in taking vets with demolitions and grenadiers doctrine then my Storm Troopers. My storm troopers landed everywhere but where I needed them. I think I will be taking storm troopers as 5x man squads from now instead of 10. Vets will definitely be coming along with demolitions from now on since my 160 pt vet sqd took out of play 405pts by blowing up the Macharius Vulcan heavy tank in turn 1 and a leman russ executioner base 190pts later in the game.

* Ask questions on the forums about units. I took Astropaths and Officers of the Fleet to the game to be told that their abilities can not be used for the special event.

* Take a fold able chair to the tourney. I took mine but saw that many others didn't. They were hurting from standing up all day.

With all this learned I have a new found respect for Apocalypse and greatly look forward to playing more Apocalypse games then regular games in the future.

Ministorum Priest

2011-02-05T20:33:00.000-08:00

Here is a Ministorum Priest model I completed before the Big Game @ the bunker. I had him for awhile now for my Sister of Battle but now will be using in my IG army. he is the Uriah Jacobus model still sold by GW online. Let me know what you guys think.

Valkyrie Attack

2011-01-29T10:06:00.000-08:00

I seen this video with my son when he was browsing you tube on my wifes phone for Star Wars videos. It quickly came to mind the way that veterans would come swooping in with a valkyire/Vendetta and shoot up everything and toss demolitions everywhere :)

GREYKNIGHT STORM RAVEN

2011-01-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

The upcoming Grey Knights codex will include the new Stomraven. Caught this pic online from apocalypse40k but wasn't really announced. By the looks of this pic its the backing of the Stomraven box. Another something definitely to look forward to in APRIL for the new codex release. :)

APOCALYPSE WWWAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

2011-01-23T20:18:00.000-08:00

I arrived at the LA BATTLE BUNKER and was properly greeted by a Dark Angel :)

Heres a desription of the game on the GW website held at the LA battle bunker:

January 22nd 11 AM
Warhammer 40,000
Name of Event: The Apocalypse total package event!
Brief Description:
You have never played in an Apocalypse games until you've played in the Apocalypse Total package event! This event is what Apocalypse is all about. Come down to your local battle bunker and join the fun as EVERY battle Bunker tries to set a new Apocalypse World record! So, we encourage all you Warhammer 40,000 fanatics that have a local Battle Bunker to get signed up and take part in something un heard of! How many points you ask? Bah, points are for the weak, bring what you can control!

All I could say is WOW. It was record breaking. I had a good time down at the LA bunker representing Adventurers Guild of Riverside with my Imperial Guard. I had taken Col. Straken with his CCS; a CCS equipped with sniper rifles, a Master of Ordinance; 2x 5 man StormTrooper sqds w/ 2x melta guns, 2x 10 man StormTrooper sqds w/2x plasmaguns, a 10 man StormTrooper sqdsw/g.launcher and flamer; a 4 sqd. Infantry Platoon with 6x mortar, 2x missile launcher,& a Hvy Bolter; 4 vet. sqds a with demolitions: one with 2x flamers and a hvy flamer, one with 3x g.launchers, one with 3x meltaguns and one with 2xg.launchers and a flamer; 3x Scout sentinels; 2x Vendettas; 2 regular Leman Russ tanks with no sponsons and a Leman Russ Punisher w/Pask and hvy bolter sponsons: adding up to 200 models at 4,000 points.
I never thought I had so much. I ended up playing at table 20 versus an Eldar player and a chaos player with alot of Traitor Guard tank support which was staring down at my foot infantry. The eldar player mainly focused on an IG player with his Eldar that was in front of him the whole 4 turns while another AGR player and I swept from his right against his armor. All in all we barely won on our table by 2 points at the end of the night. Overall the Imperium won 183-122 at the bunker.

So here is a battle report of what I did at the game on table 20:

Turn 1: My flamer vet sqd. destroyed an IMPERIAL MACHARIUS VULCAN HEAVY TANK / StormLord with their melta bombs that was sitting in front of my platoon of guard which they assaulted alone.
Turn 2: My flamer vet sqd. went on destroyed a Executioner Leman Russ that was hitting my platoon in a single assault. Leman Russ Punisher destroyed 10 bloodletters of khorne with one round of shooting.
Turn 3: A 2 squad infantry blob was holding up their own against a demon prince but were unable to slaughter the beast because the chaos prince vanished due to the player leaving due to a family emergency that came up.
Turn 4: My flamer vet sqd. went on to destroy a hydra flak tank in a single assault. My g.launcher vet.sqd. destroyed an Eldar Falcon with one melta bomb in a single assault.

Their was ALOT of eye candy at the shop that I wasn't able to take all pictures of and my camera to do justice to their paint scheme. It's was announced that its' going to be an annual event. 40K RADIO was also present and live streaming the event on u-stream. More pics can be found at apocalypse40k blospot

A pic of my 171st Cadian Imperial Guard Regiment (not including my stormtroopers).

The players and the battleground.

A nice Imperial Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter.

Some nice Dark Eldar Reavers spotted on an adjacent table.

Veterans

2011-01-17T14:58:00.001-08:00

Last Wednesday I invited my 2 brothers and sisters' fiance over to my place and had a hobby/paint party before the big 40K Apocolypse game this Saturday at the LA Battle Bunker. I was able to finish up a Col. Schaeffer model as a veteran sargeant and use a few some shotguns from the scout space marine sprue for my veterans. Their are also pics of two of the necromunda models that I painted for another veteran squad on my roster.
I first had my doubts about using the shotguns for my veterans but the bits fit very nicely on the models and I highly recommend to others if they think of doing the conversion to go for it. They are roughly the same cost as the shotguns available from forge world but you just have to way your options as what extras you want and when you want them. You get 4 shotguns, a heavy bolter, 5 bolt pistols, c.c. wpns arms, and various little tid bits for the scouts from the scout box. You get 5 shotguns, various guard heads upgrades, 5 packs and a few tid bits for IG models. IMHO i'd get the scout box because its readily available at any hobby shop plus the other things they come with.

Grey Knights Announced

2011-01-10T07:45:00.000-08:00

They are coming out this April. Hooray :)

"Incoming: Grey Knights— Article by Adam Troke
As the Emperor prepared for his final confrontation with the traitor Horus, he granted one final gift to Mankind, a safeguard and protection against the horrors of the Warp - the Grey Knights. A brotherhood of warriors as elite as they are secretive, the Grey Knights are a shining line of silvered steel that stands between humanity and the Daemons of Chaos.

Trained as the mightiest paragons of mental fortitude and martial discipline in the Imperium, the Grey Knights maintain a vigilant watch for daemonic incursion, responding wrathfully against the scions of the Dark Gods, and those who dally with them.

Clad in baroque Terminator armour and wielding powerful weapons such as storm bolters and Nemesis force weapons, the Grey Knights tear through the enemy, unleashing an onslaught of psychic powers and sorcery to sunder the foe.

The Grey Knights are an unstoppable force, the manifestation of the Emperor's will, valiant warriors who willingly sacrifice their own humanity so that Mankind itself can endure.

This April Games Workshop releases Codex: Grey Knights, alongside a comprehensive range of fantastically detailed Citadel miniatures. Although details are being kept firmly under wraps for now, you can expect an exciting selection of plastic kits to enable you to build your own Grey Knights army.

Over the coming weeks we'll be releasing more details both here on the Games Workshop website and also in the pages of White Dwarf - to ensure you're the first to get the news, make sure you subscribe to the Games Workshop newsletter and keep an eye on the What's New Today blog."

THE BIGGEST APOCALYPSE GAME IN HISTORY!

2011-01-02T09:08:00.000-08:00

Just seen this today and wanted to share to those who are interested. all this was found at http://apocalypse40k.com/. the description of the whole game is here also http://apocalypse40k.com/index.php?/topic/159-the-biggest-apocalypse-game-ever-january-22nd-2011/. I don't know if I'm going to attend or not because things are coming up left and right for me.

Out of Sync

2010-12-28T10:54:00.000-08:00

After my last post I was still expecting a game from my buddy but to no avail. and because of the holidays a hobby kink struck me. I was no longer interested in playing my favorite hobby or anyhing else. I picked up a copy of Sandy Mitchells' Ciaphus Cain novel "Hero of The Imperium" and began reading through it. It's the first time I read any of his novels and can say that these novels are a must read (which I will review later with his newest novel). Right now the novel is inspiring me to play 40k but right I'm also got hooked with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which I got with a new PS3 for Christmas :) I'm also looking into getting Black Ops later on since it's all the rage right now with my family, but anyway... I'm looking into creating my own Commissar inspired by Ciaphus Cain and using Yarricks stats from the IG codex to do so. I also was able to finish painting 2 of my girls (from the previous post), 8 catachin/cadain mixed models for a vet sqd., 2 Leman Russ Battle Tanks, and 20 kasrkin stormtroopers (which I'm rethinking of painting 10 to a Harakoni color scheme now since reading the omnibus). Now writing this out I think I just burnt myself out because of the painting because it took me two weeks to do this for a tournament/game that never occured but anyway... I'm back and ready to start the hobby anew :)

Underestimated Unit

2010-11-25T10:04:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the long wait on a post but I was waiting on my friend to come over and play a game of 40k so I can post up a battle rep but no luck. So instead I would like to write about the Imperial Guard Storm Trooper. I know that they are an expensive unit but I think they are worth every point if played with the Airborne Doctrine. They can bring alot of fire power on board when they deepstrike in. Imagine dropping 2 inches away from a monstrous creature/vehicle or a large bothersome squad and hose them down with melta or plasma with either a 5 or 10 man sqd. For me they work best as either a 5 man melta squad or a 10 man plasma squad. You may think that if only they don't scatter somewhere unknown. To you I say, " that's why airborne allows you to re-roll the scatter dice." If you scatter badly after the re-roll then the dice gods are not with you. Remember that 40k is a game and taking risks is a big fun factor when the risk pays off. So have fun.

Hobby Talk Network Campaign

2010-11-07T15:54:00.000-08:00

I listen to several Hobbytalk Network podcasts and happy to mention the their warhammer 40,000 campaign, Hyperion 2010: Soul Harvest, is now available online and can be played by anyone. You can find the description of the campaign on the Independent Character website. You can find the link on their site and here fot their campaign. Happy gaming :)

Afriel strain....Nork?

2010-11-05T07:51:00.000-07:00

LOL. Not exactly but I bet his DNA was used for the project. I've been hearing about how effective people are using ogryn squads and being surprisingly successful. The big problem for me in doing this is that I DO NOT want to pay 22 bucks per Ogryn model to field them.
So I was thinking what I can use in-leu. While looking through my old issues of white dwarf (which I purchased when it first published), there is an article in issue 303 that talks about genetically engineered super humans with the drawback of having very bad luck and granting the opposing force preffered enemy against these guardsman but they had the awesome abilities of they old Imperial heroes that they are cloned after.
So I've decided to get a box of scout space marines for the same price as one ogryn model and count my scouts(painted as afriel strained guardsmen) as ogryns(what a mash up).
I think it's a good idea and a great way to make my guard a little unique in a sense. So tell me what you guys think.

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T14:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone! Have a safe holiday and enjoy all the goodies and eye candy;)

New Girls on the Block

2010-10-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the crappy pic but it is quick phone pic of my the Escher trio I found. I'm still deciding on who will be what. The shotgun chick can very well sit in as a Straken stand-in or a vet and the other two as bodyguards. One thing for sure is the juvie will be a bodyguard. The chick with the power sword can be a vet sgt. or a bastonne stand in as long as I replace the pistol for a plasma one. If you guys have any ideas please let me know.

New Hero of the Imperium

2010-10-29T21:08:00.000-07:00

I finally got a chance to look through the new Dark Eldar codex and thought it was great. I'm happy that they finally got a chance to see that they were rejuvenated and were given more heroes. While looking through the heroes section it occurred to me that the Imperial guard does't have a female hero even when they are described as being a diverse fighting force. If your saying that they let alone have female figures, well your right but they do and are hard to get a hold of, I fortunately have quite a few. Looking into more box of sprues and figures I collected through my time playing games-workshop products, I discovered some female Escher gang minis from Necromunda. I thought to myself that I'm going to develop a female hero myself and introduce her soon to my regiment as a veteran sergeant. So please stand by and hopefully I'll have her set up next week and have a picture session to put up :) So please stand by.

A New Beginning

2010-10-23T16:13:00.000-07:00

Like I mentioned in my old blog, my army army will be going through a new transformation. The cammies will be changed at a later date but they must go through my new induct before continueing on to new and better things. Here's a video of the induct my boys have to go through before continuing on to be some the best Imperial Troops the Imperium has to offer. So please sign up to follow me on this new trip. Enjoy :)