Whoa! an update!

Just finished painting some IG stuff for 40k. Going for the urban camo, but not liking it. I think I need to add something to break up the mono-chromatic look. since I'm using some green and brown in the base, I think I'll add some like color. Probably a grey-green.

Imperial Guard (updated forces)

I think out of all my forces over the last year, the Imperial Guard have changed the most. Partly due to the wonderful birthday gift of a Valkyrie from my brother, but also finding an older 20 man box of catachans at a local hobby store, I've changed it to a more unified looking army.

Right now the Valk has only been base coated and the new guard haven't even gotten that far, but as it stands I now have 2x 3 squad platoons of catachans plus a mortar squad, missile launcher squad and a melta squad.

Wow, that's a lot of catachans to paint.

I'll post a pic either later today or tomorrow of some of my more "finished" units--which ain't much. I think the lesson of getting your troops together before painting them was a failed ploy. Better to do it in small bites.

Either way, here's a grand list of everything I have for the IG (its a long list):

@2900 pts

HQ:

company hq

(medic, vox, standard, sniper, Chimera)

Advisors:

Master of Ordinance

Officer of the fleet

Primaris Psyker

Lord Commissar

Special Characters:

Lord Creed

Color Sgt. Kell

Colonel Straken

ELITE:

Stormtrooper squad

(10 troopers, melta, plasma gun, Valkyrie Assault Carrier)

Guardsman Marbo

TROOPS:

5x commissars

1st Platoon (Catachan)

Platoon HQ

(plasma pistol + powerfist, vox, sniper, medic, standard)

1st squad

(vox, grenade launcher, hvy bolter)

2nd squad

(vox, plasma gun, lascannon)

3rd squad

(vox, flamer, autocannon)

2nd Platoon (Catachan)

Platoon HQ

(bolt pistol + powerfist, vox, medic, standard, sniper)

4th squad

(vox, plasma gun, lascannon)

5th squad

(vox, grenade launcher, lascannon)

6th squad

(vox, flamer, autocannon)

Special Weapons squad

(melta guns)

Heavy Weapons squad

(missile launchers)

Heavy Weapons squad

(mortars)

3rd Platoon (Valhallan)

Platoon HQ

(plasma pistol, vox, melta, las cannon team)

7th squad

(bolt pistol, vox, flamer, hvy bolter)

8th squad

(vox, grenade launcher, auto cannon)

Veteran squad 1

(vox, plasma gun, melta, hvy flamer, demo charge, chimera)

Veteran squad 2

(vox, grenade launcher, melta, hvy flamer, demo charge, chimera)

FAST ATTACK:

Armored Sentinel Squadron

(lascannon, plasma cannon, hvy flamer)

Scout Sentinel Squadron

(autocannon, multi-laser, hvy flamer)

HEAVY SUPPORT:

Leman Russ Battletank

(battlecannon, lascannon, hvy bolter sponsons)

Leman Russ Demolisher

(demolisher, lascannon, multi-melta sponsons)

Painting update

So since summer is here I have a lot of free time and thus I've started painting up my Imperial Guard finally (especially since I have the new codex).  In the pictures you'll see the vehicles with the masked city rubble paint scheme I was going for (still needs lots of work). I also broke the leg of one of my sentinels and am not happy about that.  My entire guard force is now base coated... let the monotony of painting hordes commence!

I also picked up the Catachan Command squad and boy did I make use of that!  Although it only came with 5 bodies it has tons of arms and what-not and I needed those.  I was able to affect over 8 minis!  It was great.  

I also discovered that the Krylon Camo Flat Black really isn't black.  More like dark brown.  But it does go on very nice!

2nd Brimtok game.

Been a while, I know. My brother and I just had our second turn 0 Brimtok game and let's just say it didn't go well for me.

I had 1000pts of Tau and he had 1500pts of Space Marines. It wasn't much of a contest as his troops pretty much walked all over me. My tanks didn't do anything except die. I disabled a few of his vehicles but only wiped out one unit (a land speeder) while he took out my two tanks (1 destroyed, the other immobile and shaken) and left me with just a lone crisis suit on the table at the end.

It wasn't pretty and I'm sure he's working on the battle report for his blog. That means I'm now 0-2 which doesn't bode well for Tau supremacy on the planet.

Battle Update

My brother and I finally started playing one of the turn 0 games for the Brimtok Campaign last Saturday (pictures are coming). We didn't finish the game on Saturday. Nor Monday. And still not finished yet. We're hoping sometime soon to finish it. We finished turn 5 with me losing most of my guard in one squad forcing them to withdraw. Since I thought we were going to end the game on Monday I decided to assault a scout squad of marines with my Commander Tau Battlesuit and he took out 3. So they ended in a pile in forcing a turn 6 if we were to continue. Which we decided to do. Where it will end??? Pretty sure the marines are gonna finish me off easily in turn 6 but we'll see. On saturday we had only gotten to the end of turn 2 and our victory points were only 5 apart.

Which brings me to why this has taken so long. Whenever Mark and I play we play with someone who intimately knows the rules. We don't. Not really even close. This was just me and him and 1 copy of the rules. The learning curve is slow and hard but we are learning. The game is complicated enough with all the special rules and not helpful rulebook that we both see why avid 40k players don't play any other games: They don't want to get distracted from the 40k rules and forget them!

40K Tau

Here's my current project, the Tau.  I'm going for a white color scheme, essentially a snow pattern (doing snow base pattern as well).  Sure wish I had more heavy support but money being what it is today means they go without.  This is going to be a difficult army in that they suck at close combat and I need to figure out how to effectively use them for shooting.  Of course I'll have the same problem with my guard, but at least they have weapons I'm used to.  oh well....

40K Space Marines

Here's my Dark Angels Space Marines unit for 40K.  Just 2 squads of standard marines (1 at half strength too!) so my missions are gonna pretty much fail if I have to seize objectives.

40K Imperial Guard

Here's a pic of my VERY unfinished imperial guard.  I'm waiting to get to work on it until the new codex comes out hopefully in may.  It has Valhallans, Catachans, Cadians and my own mix of cadian/catachan parts (not to mention a squad of vet. Squats!).  I'm gonna suggest they are a regiment composed of the remainders of other regiments... kinda like the lucky/unlucky survivors of past campaigns.  Hard to make out in the pic, but there is 1 Leman Russ, 3 Chimeras, and 6 Sentinels in the pic too.