Tabletop Warhammer?
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Caporegime
1000 point game tonight. My dark angels vs blood angels.
Through sheer fluke I thought I'd trial a vanguard list and it definitely won me the game. The cover plus -1 to hit completely neutralised his limited shooting. What really did it though was the calculated feint strat. Saved me from 2 nasty charges.
First turn I managed to pop his baal predator, a 5 man death company squad with captain, a chaplain (thanks to precision), another death company marine and dropped his dread to 5 wounds.
He came back at me and did...1 wound on a heavy Intercessor but managed to burst through a building and melt my eliminators with his dread.
Turn 2 I somehow...rolled 4 1s on a Lancer to hit, despite only needing 2s. Despite this finished off the dread, 3 death company from one squad and 2 from another.
I avoided a charge from his lamartes blob which allowed me to completely wipe them out along with the remaining 2 dc. Scored full secondaries but only had 2 main objectives consistently. He didn't score anything.
Through sheer fluke I thought I'd trial a vanguard list and it definitely won me the game. The cover plus -1 to hit completely neutralised his limited shooting. What really did it though was the calculated feint strat. Saved me from 2 nasty charges.
First turn I managed to pop his baal predator, a 5 man death company squad with captain, a chaplain (thanks to precision), another death company marine and dropped his dread to 5 wounds.
He came back at me and did...1 wound on a heavy Intercessor but managed to burst through a building and melt my eliminators with his dread.
Turn 2 I somehow...rolled 4 1s on a Lancer to hit, despite only needing 2s. Despite this finished off the dread, 3 death company from one squad and 2 from another.
I avoided a charge from his lamartes blob which allowed me to completely wipe them out along with the remaining 2 dc. Scored full secondaries but only had 2 main objectives consistently. He didn't score anything.
I won't tell you to follow your inner voice telling you to follow the Lord of the First...I'll just suggest it
Lore-wise, they are also the Chapter that unabashedly is still effectively a legion at this point in time in all but name, and have the coolest/most secretive toys in thier hidden arsenals. No other legion/chapter can match them in this.
The Blood Angels by contrast are a bunch of PTSD-ridden Angry Marines, that try to pretend they are not
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You called the Space Wolves/Leman Russ when you want an executioner and a warning.
You called the Dark Angels/The Lion, when you no longer need a warning or an execution, but simply an extermination.
Think the wolves also kind of operate as one like the dark angels, or they used too.
Soldato
The thing with the Wolves is that yes, they're oversized, but they don't have much in the way of successor chapters. The Dark Angels however have a lot of them, and all of them effectively at senior levels get inducted into the circles and the truth, and in reality operate as spin off chapters of the larger organisation.
It's a similar concept to the Last Wall Protocol of the Imperial Fists, with the exception being that it's permanently active.
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Gone back to procrastination again. I know you don't have to have 'fluff' to go with your army, so if you want Salamanders who don't use many fire weapons, or Nightlords who use characters from black legion it's fine, but always feels a bit weird. Thought I was over this lol.
I watched a TTT game of NL Vs Blood Angels and also noted that the ones they had were proper dark blue (midnight clad after all). Yet you look at the Nemesis Claw boxart and they are rather bright which I prefer. Again, doesn't matter but I swear my brain uses it as an excuse to stop painting for months.
My heldrake is probably TSON level bright blue but no danger of me finishing that anytime soon.
In other news, got some ships to paint for Dystopian Wars which I've been dragged in to.
I watched a TTT game of NL Vs Blood Angels and also noted that the ones they had were proper dark blue (midnight clad after all). Yet you look at the Nemesis Claw boxart and they are rather bright which I prefer. Again, doesn't matter but I swear my brain uses it as an excuse to stop painting for months.
My heldrake is probably TSON level bright blue but no danger of me finishing that anytime soon.
In other news, got some ships to paint for Dystopian Wars which I've been dragged in to.
Soldato
That is looking very nice!
Had a little issue with my shoulder pads. Brushed on ultra matt varnish over transfers but it started to rub off with slight pressure from a paint brush :?
As a fix I have airbrushed Vallejo Airbrush gloss varnish then some matt over the space of two days to see if it fixes the issue.
Never had it happen before. not sure if it was the shinny new transfers or the fact that i brushed the matt over the top instead of gloss then matt via the airbrush.
As a fix I have airbrushed Vallejo Airbrush gloss varnish then some matt over the space of two days to see if it fixes the issue.
Never had it happen before. not sure if it was the shinny new transfers or the fact that i brushed the matt over the top instead of gloss then matt via the airbrush.
Thanks very much its looking even better now, should get it finished tomorrow.
Still can't understand where that green rectangle comes from on the photo, its not the original image.
