'Uggernaut Incoming

 

Hi everyone, 

Back in the 5th edition of 40k some people loved Nork Deddog and was a must have for your commander as a bodyguard. Unfortunately the model for Nork was a bit unattractive for me at the time and I never bought it. Looking at it now I should have.

I felt the same way with the Ogryn models at that time as well and highly regret it now. The current models are alright but lack something I can't pinpoint. I found some of the 4rth / 5th edition Ogryns and felt like creating a Nork model again for my regiment. I seen some good conversions out in the wild especially one that looks like a COD Juggernaut. So I went looking for ideas and enjoyed the look of the characters from Army of Two.

I found an old Ogryn model with the ripper gun barrel cut off. I didn't mind it because that is easily fixable with some green stuff. I added some green stuff to get the Army of Two look I liked for my regiment. 

Below are shots of my 'Uggernaut. I'll post pix of the finished model soon. I hope you all enjoy it. Post any questions you'll would like me to answer. The emporer protects and so does Nork lol. 

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If anyone is reading this. The 171st Howling Thunder have came out of the warp. The mission tasked to reinforce Cadia can no longer be accomplish as we are in awe that Cadia no longer appears on our star maps. We await further orders from high command and reassess our forces. We will stand-bye and answer calls for distress from near-by sectors.

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    Hello Everyone. I have come out of the warp finally and getting back into things with my guard army. It's been awhile for me as I am catching up to the newest lore since 5/6th edition. It has been a loooooong break. I returned reading the lore early September this year and began gaming again with family and friends. I was tired of having my models just laying around in boxes. It's been fun since getting back into the swing of things. I forgot how fun it is to model and play but life was more important to me than the hobby after 6th edition. Now that life has me back and the lore has been incredible these last few months, I'm back. Please stick around as I will be posting more conversions I made for my guard. If your wondering what edition I am playing, it's 5th edition. More on that later. Stick around for more. It's good to be back. 

Feeling Safe

   I began to dust off my Battle Sisters to get a fresh breath in the hobbie after being motivated by the pick above but got into a funk.  I have an Exorcist Battle tank I want to paint but feel lazy to do so because it has a lot of detail. This also tried to paint their models but the funk still lumbered over me till I found some extra sister superior models. I decided to convert them as Imperial HQ Bodyguards since there are no models for them. I also recall in a Ciaphus Cain model how he described a rogue psyker of how bad @$$ he looked flanked by to sisters next to him (they were mind controlled at that time). They Sisters projeted some kind of authority nobody wanted to mess with because of them being known to be very short tempered and quick to the point lol. So I converted the two models pictured below.

This started a small amber of enthusiasm. So goig a little more story fluff I am know painting a small attachment force of Salamanders Chapter Space Marines. to go with my growing 40k army. That sall I had time for to do recently since the holidays are upon us and only one can do so much this time of year. So Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Years.



Gunslinger

Been quite busy lately with the holidays; prepped for a tournament in november but now cancelling due to family events, term papers and final exams.

  I listened to a couple of podcasts out there and heared a lot about the meta-game the community is playing. Right now infantry armies are the hot thing since it seems that everyone is taking Aegis Defense Lines to go toe-to-toe with flyers and vehicles. What I predict is that people will eventually go back to what they have been playing before because it sounds like a cycle. I foresee the 40k community begin playing infantry based armies to fight vehicles and flyers (which is beginning), then they will move to the anti-infantry armies with vehicle and flyers to beat out the infantry units. Then they will go back to their old army play style or realize they spent a lot of money on their army and think about playing 40k Apocalypse LOL.

 Anyways, I've been reading up on 6th edition and spotted the gunslinger rule and see how it can apply to my Imperial Guard. I see that it only applies to special characters (i.e. veteran sgt.'s) and then it clicked. I've talked about Stormtroopers before. The Storm Trooper Sergeant can not only duel wield pistols but Plasma Pistols as well. So not only can one have 2 but 4 plasma weapons in a 5-man deep striking unit. HE HE HE :) Also a good guardsman exploits what only he has available to his army. An army overlooked by the community is the only ally they can have and that's Sisters of Battle. Ready the new FAQ the Sisters of Battle Canonness with the Acts of Fate CAN give a 40-man blob squad +1 initiative and preferred enemy on the first charge. Imagine that with Colonel Straken within 12'.  Not only that, let's up it a step and place that Cannonness in a full squad of Ogryn. WOW I like to see that on the tabletop but who knows since the assault phase seem to scare  people.

 So to add I've been working on a conversion with a dual plasma pistol wielding storm trooper sergeant because I have have three squads of storm troopers already. I also removed some dust and began painting a 10 Battle Sister Squad I had shelved since 3rd edition. More to come later when things calm a bit
- vmreyes1 out.

Take off

Nothing big this month to post, other than I'm back on the saddle with the hobby since I got my 6th ed. rules. I'm still working on my vendetta. I'm back on my rough rider conversions and creating some bodyguards for my Command Regiment also picks of those laters. I've been thinking of getting a small vanilla Space Marine force as allie. Now I'm regretting in selling off all my space marines I had 2 years back. Like a great person said to me, "Never sell your armies unless your getting completely out of the hobby". I'm also excited about an 1850 pt. tournamnet held by the Imperial Vox Cast crew. Information is on their latest podcast.

Solo Op. Battle Report

Before I begin my report I want to share my update on the hobby. On my workbench is painting/ converting my valkyrie into a vendetta with a snake theme nose art I spotted on-line of an A-10, Tyranids from the "Battle for Macragge" set to change things up, some Sisters of Battle heavy weapons models and other conversions.

Termagant and Genestealer

The A-10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"

The Vendetta at this time partly painted and without conversion

Battle Report

I was Roaming sites a while back and discovered the Medusa V Campaign Site. On the the site I spotted a Solo Mission battle plan the worked out interesting. It's hard for me to play with others and family members that have armies on hand. So I set everything up using a 1500pt IG army list I had laying around. My 5 yr. old son was available for the project to roll dice and make some decisions for Warp possessed guard. A battle narrative/ battle report can be found below. My boy had a blast calling his controlled Storm Trooper Squad "Juggernauts" LOL.

The battle field using buildings/ ruins from the 3rd ed. starter box. Pre-painted Barracades from that era also. The down aquila from the 4th ed. "Battle for Macragge" box. (Son in background who set the board up).

My sons "Juggernauts" sited by my Storm Troopers after deep-striking in.

The objective interestingly in site by my vets running towards the sound of  las-fire.

Narrative/ Battle Report

Orders were sent by Regimental Headquarters of a down hijacked aquila transporting the daughter of a nearby governor. Pirates had taken over the aquila in the same orbit while the regiment was refueling. The nearby adeptus arbites had lost communication going after the ship. Echo Company was chosen in to retrieve any survivors.

The Lord Commissar decided to leave back the Major and his vets and taken a supported infantry company and a storm trooper company with him to help recon the area. A day passed and no communication from the commissar was made due to interference.  The major took action and gathered three of his best veteran squads with a storm trooper squad on stand by.

As soon as the Major made planet fall, the sky turn black and a great purple cloud risen far from the landing site. The Major dispatched his scout squad to the coordinates given to him by headquarters.

In the first hour the Majors scout squad reported the findings of the down aquila and the possibility of an opposing force heading to the site. The Major quickly reacted and ordered his men to double itme towards the crash site.

The second hour quickly came and the scouts reported that the opposing force resembled that of the commissar and his platoon but reported that the opposing force look terribly distorted and recieved mortar fire seriously injuring one. The scouts begin firing upon an enemy squad taking out two and causing them to run back. The major continued his effort to get to the site and having a squad to reach the scouts.

During the third hour the scouts reported more mortar fire and a flanking force to the east. The scouts again recieved more mortar fire hurting two more. The storm troopers finally recieved proper coordinates and deep striked on the battlefield landing in front of a group of "juggernaut" troops. They quickly fired upon the enemy taking out some of them with ease.  

The fourth hour came with bad news. The Juggernauts fired and assaulted the stormtroopers sweeping in a horrific manner viewed only in recordings sent back to ship through their helmet cams. The veterans arrived on the heels of the assault and rescued a lone suvivor of the aquila. A visual identification with pix from the governor of his daughter were made and positively IDed the lone survivor as her.

In the fifth hour the juggernauts tried to do the same on a veteran squad by shooting and assaulting the squad after recieving casualties the veteran squad quickly returned the favor and destroyed the juggernauts avenging their fellow sellow storm troopers. They quickly recovered from their fight and returned to the unit.

The Major and his troops quickly moved away from the large distorted force heading their way. The Major Quickly boarded the retrieving Vendettas/ Valkyries and headed back with an accomplished task at a large price paid.

Comeback

Yes Yes. I know. I've been out of the game for awhile because of many family events since the last time I posted. Many grand things occured in the game since I left for example a New Edition of 40k out changing evrything I know of the game, new starter box, etc. With all these new things out it's hard to determine what's next to do. The only thing now is to revamp my army to the new edition and come back with a vengeance. - vmreyes out

waaaaggghhhhheeeddd!!!!

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"

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

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

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

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.