30k Alpha Legion Great Crusade Infiltration Sniper Squad

Returning once again with a new Alpha Legion unit that I did for a club group project. This time we reach back to the Days of Ole when the Alpha Legion was taking part in the Great Crusade, I have put together a 5 man combat squad team of legionaries in the old Alpha Legion colors and logo. Since it's great crusade I thought anything went so instead of the usual codex marine heavy or assault weapons, I gave the squad a sniper rifle as its special weapon. Also the entire squad is armed to the teeth for rear enemy line long range infiltration. The theme of the squad is very much infiltrating, head hunting and causing chaos in the enemy's rear echelon. It was a challenge to free hand the alpha logo since I had never done it before, but once it was finished the whole squad came together real well. With the rumors of a new Chaos codex coming soon I might be returning to my Alpha roots sooner then later.....so be ready for the return of the Faithless!

Escalation League: Chaos Daemons....I Chose You!

This year our club, the Ineptus Astartes is running an escalation league starting in February. I was considering starting a whole new xeno race from the bottom up, but with so many projects in existence I chose a different route. I have chosen to use my recently started Chaos Daemons army for the event. I started painting this army mostly last year in May during an Iron Painter event. Originally most of the first units were meant to be used as lesser daemons for my various Chaos Space Marine armies, slowly I amassed a force that I could be used with the Daemon codex, and here I am today with a whole new army. I have only used the army in a few games as a Daemon force so I’m still new to the codex and what I can do with the units I have. I’m hoping to learn the ins and outs of this army by playing with it in the escalation league. The army is not fully painted and there are units still in the process of being finished. In the coming weeks I will chronicle my adventures with this army thru battle reports and painting updates. So for the next 9 or so weeks it’s going to be Daemon central on the Anarchy’s Heart!

So looking at my backlog of Daemon projects that I want to accomplish in this time the list is not as long as I expected it to be. A lot of the units are half finished so I should be able to finish them soon I hope. Let’s see what I have in the Daemon To Do List….

Partial Painted:
1 Squad of Daemonetts
1 Squad of Pink Horrors w/ Changeling
2 Squads of Bloodletters
1 Daemon Prince of Khorne
1 Forgeworld "An'ggrath The Ubound" Greater Daemon of Khorne

Primed:
1 Squad of Plaguebearers
1 Skulltaker 

Still in Package:
1 Soul Grinder
1 Herald of Slaanesh on Mount
1 Squad of Slaanesh Seekers
1 Forgeworld Daemon Prince of Khorne w/ Herald

Need to be Cleaned and Rebuilt:
1 Lord of Change

I think if I can at least get the majority of the partial painted group done it will be a successful accomplishment for the campaign. Most of it is well into being completed, as for the rest I am looking to trade the forgeworld prince possibly so he might slide off the list in the future, and the rest will be a gradual grinding away for the army. I’m not sure what faction the Soul Grinder will serve so it might be one of the last pieces to be finished. Right now Khorne and Nurgle dominate my army but Slaanesh is making a sizable rise into the ranks, this with The Masque already finished will make a good size component of the army. Finally I am hoping to make An'ggrath the centerpiece of this army when it is completed, a great model and a lot of fun to paint.

This new force will join my existing finished army of....
1 Greater Daemon of Nurgle
1 Herald of Nurgle
The Masque
10 Bloodletters
21 Plaguebearers
14 Flesh Hounds
8 Furies
1 Daemon Prince of Nurgle

Enjoy! :)

2011 at the Anarchy's Heart

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Let's start this off with a proper hello! This last year marked a lot of activity for my Chaos Blog. Although towards the end of 2010 my activity here did fall off due to a massive Valhallan IG project for gamesday I still took some time to build my chaos forces when I had time. As you can see by my recent Chaos Apocalypse post the forces under the command of Arkos are still strong and growing each day. With the split of my imperial forces to another blog the content here will be pure Chaos and forces of disorder now. I am also going to be cutting back on my participation in the Tournament scene. I have done the rounds in the tournament scene for the last few years, and I am now at the point where I enjoy the painting and building hobby aspect of this hobby more then going from tournament to tournament. I still enjoy the casual gaming but with the battle bunker now gone, my casual gaming has been dropping off, still this doesn't mean I will not  play anyone who want to throw down. In fact if plans go in the direction they are heading, I will see my share of gaming soon. The Ineptus Astartes club is planning to host a good size Escalation League and this blog will see a lot of action because of this event I hope. So let me share with you some thoughts on where I see the forces of Disorder are heading this year......

Alpha Legion and Legion of the Dragon: The primary force behind this blog. My Alpha Legion has been slowly working up this past year and right now it looks like they will be hiding among the stars for the foreseeable future. I still have 30 CSM troops to paint for this army, along with a Predator conversion, and possibly a Vindicator to go with the army. As for the LoD the IG Renegade forces have slowed down a lot to almost no action at this time. Mostly because of my involvement in my Valhallan army, one IG force at a time. Still I'm thinking about getting my Malcador tanks finally finished this year, along with a rattling force made out of Chaos Squats to join this force. I will also attempt to finish off the last platoon to bring them up to minimal size, and maybe a Marbo conversion. Last year I completed the conscript force, so we shall see what I can get done this time.

Grey Death Legion and Nurgle Allies: The GDL right now sits at the top of my list as my most complete force. Built to be a tournament army, this army was mostly built around its background but was also built to compete in the tournament circuit. I have a few things in the pipeline for the army to grow a little more in 2011. I hope to finally get the last Troop Choice finished this year, guess what kind it is. Heh! I also got Spawns making a appearance. Finally my second special character for this army might make it to my list finally straight out of the codex and in his terminator armor. As for allies, I am still not sure if I want bring the renegade War Pigs servants of decay into nurgles clutches. Right now the force is up to a full platoon and sentinel that serves as mercs for the LoD.  The units were fun and easy to paint, so we shall see where I want to take this force this year. Its looking like a fun green year for Nurgle!

Chaos Daemons: While this army would usually be attached to my CSM forces above, last year it grew in size to earn its own status as an autonomous force. My Daemon forces have grown so large they now field at least one force from each Chaos Power and more reinforcement are in route from the Warp. I suppose this is good with the possible release of new Grey Knights this year my daemons will be the ones hunted this year perhaps. The big to do out of this army will be my Forgeworld Khorne Great Daemon, will I finally have time to finish this great project, time will tell. I really want to finish it and make it the centerpiece of this fun army.

Phalanx of the Bronze Face Necron Forces: My Necron army has laid in slumber since the days of the Medusa V world campaign, I am still unsure as to what this year will bring for them. I have a few units in the middle of being painted, so expect a few bits to show up here. I also picked up some BFG ships for the raider fleet. Since this is my only army with a Battle Fleet Gothic force I plan on growing this force more then the ground forces so if your a fan of BFG and Necrons keep an eye out. I might even get a few players around here to give me a game or two of BFG with this fleet finally. Heh!

Dark Eldar: If you told me last year at this time I would own some new DE toys by the end of the year, I would have laughed in your face. I have to say the sculpts of this new army are really cool. This is going to be a mostly hobby project, where I will paint what I like and not drive it based on the codex. With an Archon already finished, and a unit of Trueborn Warriors and Raider already waiting to get primed on my desk this will be a fun army to slowly build up one unit at a time. It should be interesting to see what I grab next for this army.....

Other Projects: As for other things like Super Heavies and Terrain, I am thinking of a few things that come to mind I want to try and get done this year. Maybe if I have time I'll finish up a ShadowSword I picked up from a friend before the bunker closed. I'm also thinking of making some chaosy terrain for my armies to showcase them on. I would also love to build another Subjugator titan force my CSM forces. There is also the Escalation League coming up which I need to chose an army to use for. Right now I am thinking of something GREEN!! I'm still unsure if I want to go with it or not, so I will hold my tongue till I am 100% sure. I will be posting about this soon

Well good luck in 2011 with all of your projects and have fun....We've started a whole new year and it's going to be fun as always!

Enjoy! =)

Gamesday Baltimore 2010

Well Gamesday USA has come and gone...WHEW! I've been a bit quiet with my post on this blog because of the work I have been putting into Gamesday for my local club. I was asked to build and paint a 2K Valhallan IG Army for our 40K even the Hunt for the Red Orktoba. I can say that the mission was accomplished with a few days to spare, I am not a quick painter but to crank out almost 140 models in 2 and a half months is a miracle for me!



Still I had a blast at Gamesday this year running the Chaos vs Imperial Aeronautica Imperialis event for the club. The table was non stop air to air warfare all day long. In the end the forces of chaos were pushed back and the imperials were able to disable a chaos Landcarrier in the event!





Well what does this mean for the Anarchy....it means I'M BACK!!! Given a few weeks to recover from my paint fest I will be back on the saddle and working my chaotic force ready for the next great invasion! The Anarchy's Heart is out of the Warp and looking for its next target!

HYDRA DOMINATUS!

Enjoy! =)

New Ineptus Astartes Forum

The main local club I belong to has now opened up a new forum with its own URL location. In the past we have used Yahoo groups as our main site on the net, but as we expand and add more active members the Yahoo site is just too restricting. So check it out and jump in on the discussions or just check out the new site.

Ineptus Astartes Club Forum

Enjoy!

Ineptus Astartes Club Battle

Another Game Day has come and gone this past weekend, and a good time was had by all. I was a little late to the battle, but I did bring my digital camera this time, and got lots of pics of all the action. I wasn't sure how big the battle way, but I'll guess it was easily somewhere around 6-7K. I only was able to deploy 1050 points of the Grey Death Legion. I didn't deploy a whole lot for the points, but I still got my new lesser daemons into the battle, as well as trying out a greater daemon. I really need to get on top of finishing my greater daemon, my prince wants to go back to being a daemon prince I think. Anyways, the mission was kill points throw down. we had one new member attend and wouldn't you know a new army hit the table, we finally got a Eldar player in the club who is willing to admit it. He took a beating for the first 2 turns and held out much better then me that's for sure. I was tabled and cleaned out by the time the games end came around. I guess that comes with being an assaulty type nurgle player. Alright then, lets check out some of the action!


Who forgot to tell those Striking Scorpions Vulkan was in the house...Ouch!


Are those Eldar I see! WOW!


Ah! The Reven Guard has arrived...although this was after they lost all their Rhinos to Dark Lances....


Raven Guard and Salamander Chapy's rough combo!


Now that is a real Daemon Prince your seeing there.....


No those are not Grey Death Legion...they are some other Legion...


Even the Guard was invited to this throw down....Oh well...


That's not a Prince, but a Greater Daemon, and Necrosis was present. He went one vs one with Shrike and they both knocked each other out, Force Weapon vs Lightning Claws = Double KO!


That's what I call a swamp...Saly Marines...Raven Guard Scouts...Eldar...and Grey Death Legion! Oh My!


My Lesser Daemons arrived! Then proceeded to rout some guard!


Not much left after my forces were wiped out of the table.....

Enjoy!

Alpha Legion 2010

Arkos made his way out of the conference room, as Lord Bruticus joined him. "Well my lord has the high command given us new orders?"

"Yes Bruticus, inform our command to begin preparing for departure. We will be setting course for the Eastern Fringe, the High Command has given us orders to make contact with a group of humans in the eastern fringe who are not influenced by the Imperium." Arkos said.

"We get to battle the local Xeno filth?" Bruticus asked aware of his last posting in the fringe when he lost a lot of brothers to the Tyranid threat.

"Of course, and Emperor loving fools as well. Here are some profiles on the enemy forces we might meet." handing the data slate to Bruticus and continuing to his personal shuttle.

Well first off....Happy New Year and Decade to all.....The Anarchy's Heart is once more setting off on a new year! While on break I took the time to work on a few surprises for all to check out. On top of relaxing and reading up on Dark Creed, which was a great book even if it is about Word Bearer scum. I seriously suggest the trilogy of books if you want to read up on some good ole Chaos fluff.

Anyways on to matters at hand. The blog is officially back online! I got some terrain finished and more Chaos minions painted as well, so its not all about my Grey Knights as some have asked me. Heh! The local battle bunker had a garage type sale where customers sold lots of their old stuff off and I got some good chaos deals, especially for the Grey Death Legion. I will be posting more here soon. I'm also working on a lot of my Legion of Dragon IG forces now. I'm coming up on 2 years into my dive into chaos and I want to have at least 2K of that army finished before then. I also have plans to work on more of my Titans and Grey Knights. This year will be more laid back and mostly doing what I want to do, then building up a new army. Nids and Tomb Kings are both getting new codex and they are some armies that really interest me. Also I'm hearing rumblings of a new WHFB Core Rules coming out later in the year, so I might get motivated to work on my Orcs and Goblins full time finally. So there is a lot out there to catch my usual New Shiney Syndrome working.

On the club front, this past December we put in an order with Chessex and got some real cool custom dice made of the club logo. Check these out! Our logo is on the #1 of course. We're also planning on making our yearly trek to Games Day this year, and our master plan to take over all is in the works once more.


The two proposed designs, we voted for the left one with the Road Sign look....

Finally here is a cool piece of fiction I created a few years ago for 40K which has finally resurfaced on 40KOnline. My fave IG army of course are Praetorians, so a few years ago I created my own guard background for my Praetorian regiment. The article is once more back up and edited for showing there. As a fan of Zulu, Zulu Dawn, and the Sharpe Books, I took a few ideas from that into my regiments background. After all who doesn't like Guardsmen with Pith Helmets and Lasguns!

13th Praetorian Guard

Enjoy!!

Battle Report: IA New IG Codex Test Drive

This past weekend our local club held its monthly meeting. The theme of this months battle was 40K. Most of the usual members were in appearance along with one lost brother who made his return after being absent for almost a year. Several players also wanted to try out the new IG Codex that came out last month. So it was agreed that the game would feature the new IG and any other army that showed up. After a short discussion the armies and points for the Non-apocalypse style megabattle were set.

Forces Involved:

Imperials: 5200 Points Total
2K Catachan IG
2K Cadian IG
1200 Salamanders Space Marines



Chaos: 5200 Points Total
2K Alpha Legion & Death Guard
2K World Eaters
1200 Dark Eldar



Mission and Battle Field:
The chosen Mission was Objectives/HQs, and the deployment chosen was Quarters. The forces of the Imperium won the dice off, and got to set up and go first. The forces of Chaos failed to size the initive at the start of the game. The field of battle would be our open field and hills battle board, with a few added bits to give it a 40K feel. The objectives would be two objective markers, the Imperial one would be located on the small island on the river, the chaos one would be on the hill in the chaos deployment zone.





Set Up:
Ready! Set! Go! The battle is joined as both forces are arrayed for the coming battle!


Turn 1: Move! Move! Move!

Turn 1 saw the imperials moving forward, with many of the IG forces employing the new Move! Move! Move! order, with an armored force charging the middle of the line, and Salamander forces flanking to the left side of the imperial lines. Few forces fired, but some like Sgt. Harker's Devils on the far right flank engaged a unit of Death Guard and World Eaters in the woods. This would end bad for the devils because the Death Guard were able to reach them in close combat and take them down in one round. A stray Griffon round meant to take down lots of dark eldar drifted instead onto a passing raider, which turned out to be the HQ Raider of the DE Forces. The lucky shot took down the raider and the commanders retinue.

Meanwhile the forces of Chaos tried to advance as well, with Death Guard Plague Marines shielding World Eater Khorne Bezerkers, and the Dark Eldar forces along with CSM armor holding the center of the line. Finally Chaos fast attack elements swept around the right flank of the army to engage the oncoming Salamander thrust. Alpha Legion Obliterators supported the charge by stopping the armor charge of the Cadian forces. One Hellhound was immobilized and stunned, while another one was blown up by the obliterators. Death Guard forces took down Harker's Catachan Devils, while a massive mob of catachan infantry was cut down by fire from Dreadnought "Baltar" and other Chaos forces in the center of the chaos charge.







Turn 2: Imperials on the Offensive

Turn 2 saw the Imperials on the offensive, as Sly Marbo entered battle, and the Salamanders began a flanking counter attack. Marbo snuck in behind enemy lines and attempted to take down a chaos Predator furthest from the imperial lines. Tossing his Demo Charge, he failed to put enough strength behind the throw, because the bomb came back on him and went BOOM! While it damaged the Predator and took out a lascannon, Marbo also went up in a blaze of glory and called this battle done for him. Meanwhile a unit of Salamanders of assault marines lead by a venerable dreadnought charged into a unit of Death Guard, locking them into a close combat melee, which will turn into a massive battle in the following turns. A unit of unlucky stormtroopers landed in the middle of the chaos right sweep and took a beating. The armor thrust continued with the last hellhound leading the charge and burning its way into the chaos and DE forces. A Catachan Vanquisher also took on Baltar and immobilized it along with help from the other cadian leman russes. Chaos armor took a beating from the imperials this turn as they became the main focus of the imperial charge.

Meanwhile Chaos forces were pushed to the defensive, as the Death Guard pushed forward the World Eaters took a lot of fire from the imperials. One of the DG squads chased down a mob of IG Catachans running back from the center battle with dreadnought "Baltar" last turn. The other DG Squad was locked up by the Salamanders who were unable to take down the whole squad, but stopped them from advancing. Fast Attack elements had to deal with a stormtrooper surprise on the right flank, and chaos armor took a beating from the imperials. Kharn along with his World Eaters continued to charge forward. Meanwhile reinforcements arrived in the form of 3 squads. First was squad of Alpha Legion marines who took control of the objective on the chaos side securing it while the rest of the army moved forward. The next surprise was a squad of World Eater Khrone Terminators who teleported into the rear lines of the enemy. Finally the last squad was another Alpha Legion squad of Chosen Marines known as "Stealth Squad" who outflanked into the enemy rear and made for the Catachan Vanquisher, taking down IG squads in the way, but the tank was well hidden and took no damage.





Turn 3: Turning Point

Turn 3 was the breaking point for the imperials. Several major flashpoints on the battlefield were completed. Starting with the Salamanders, Forge Master Vulcan joined the growing melee on his side of the field began to dish out the close combat death to both Death Guard and World Eaters. A World Eater lord stepped up and challenge Vulcan hand to hand, it was a dead even battle on the first round of the combat, but the second half saw Vulcan smite down the mounted Khorne Lord. Meanwhile on the center of the line Col. Straken and Nork Deddog finished off a small Death Guard squad. A surprise attack on the Chaos objective failed as two squads tried to deep strike into the battle, a Salamanders Terminator squad dropped in and unloaded on the Alpha's guarding the objective, but the CSM held on. A squad of Stormtroopers drifted too close to the Alpha's and was destroyed while deepstriking, finally the Griffon took a shot at the Alpha's and cut the numbers down more, but still the Legion troops held the line and the objective. Catachan veteran reinforcements also joined the battle as they exited their chimeras and headed for the center to plug the hole held by Straken and his command squad.

For chaos this was also a turning point, as the entire right flank was brought to bare on Vulcan's offensive. Khorne Raptor squads from both the Alpha Legion and World Eaters were committed to the melee. The Salamanders dread was finally brought down, by a Death Guard champions power fist. Meanwhile after the World Eater Raptors were given the chance to avenge their fallen lord and failed, Alpha Legion raptors lead by the main Alpha army commander finished off Vulcan and routing the last of the Salamanders from the melee. This battle slowed down the chaos offensive and took the entire turn to resolve, and into the top of turn 4. Meanwhile in the center....FIRE FRENZY!!! "Baltar" unleashed his hatred on a Cadian hellhound that got too close, and paid the price. Kharn took the chance to push forward into the middle of the chaos lines and head for the prize. Another Bezerker squad flanked Kharn's squad and took more losses for being ahead. While the imperials assaulted the chaos objective, a combined gauntlet of fire from Alpha Legion forces and Dark Elder forces was able to stamp out the pesky Salamanders Terminator squad with no trouble at all. In the imperial rear, World Eater terminators had to make a choice on who to fight, and avoided instant death, as the Catachan "Pask" Vanquisher turned to face them down, but failed to take down the whole squad. The Terminators made for the objective stomping all in front of them. The Alpha chosen continued to hunt the Vanquisher and accomplished the mission as the tank went up in a great ball of fire! BOOM!





Turn 4: For Chaos!

Turn 4 saw the imperials falling back to the last lines of defense and preparing to hold to the last man. Imperial Armor was used to stop the charge of the forces of Chaos. The armor was places as a stop gap line in front of the bridge leading to the island where the objective was held. The Cadian commander sacrificed his life as his stayed behind to harass the oncoming chaos raptor forces. Col. Straken along with the last of his squad, finished off another squad of chaos, as a Khorne squad was wiped out. Afterwards he began to a retreat to the bridge and rejoining with his fellow Catachan veteran squads. The imperials knew time was running out and began to set down roadblocks where possible. The Khorne terminators were finally finished off by the last of the Salamanders led by a "Telion" commander.

Meanwhile Chaos was advancing in leaps in bounds. All enemy Leman Russ tanks were destroyed with help from the Dark Eldar dark lances and obliterator forces. On the other side of the river, with the mission accomplished Alpha chosen turned on riding the woods of enemy infantry and making a dash for the bridge on that side of the bank. The chosen attacked several Cadian and Catachan infantry squads at once, and routed all of them in the ensuing melee. Kharn continued his charge forward for the bridge.





Turn 5: At Any Cost!

This was the last resort of the imperials. The plan was simple, bring in all remaining troops and swamp the island with troops to deny the objective to the enemy. Time to fortress up and hold out to the end. Operation massed troops was in effect. Col. Straken held the center to provide support to all the infantry left. The last of the marine forces continued to snipe to the last chance.
Meanwhile for chaos it was all or nothing, all forces that could make a dash for the objective were committed to one last push. Kharn charged the center, chaos Raptors lead the way, with the Alpha Legion raptors being the first to reach the enemy bridge. The enemy Griffon was finally silenced, but was able to pin a unit of dark eldar in the end. "Stealth Squad" of the Alpha Legion continued to push from the other bank and fight its way thru the masses of infantry.

In the end.....The roll for turn 6 was made and it came up...YES! There will be a turn 6...



Turn 6: Hold The Line!

This would be the end as the forces of the imperium had to hold the line. Straken lead the defense, as Operation Flame was put into effect. Heavy Flamers from the Catachan vet squads unloaded on the unlucky Alpha Legion who reached the bridge first. That along with a tank shock on the alphas from a catachan chimera broke the raptors and forced them to fall back, a small victory for the imperials. The Salamander scouts moved to block the other bridge, as all prepared for the coming onslaught.

Chaos was more then ready to answer the challenge. World Eater Raptors along with Kharn assaulted from one end of the river. Alpha Obliterators blew up the chimera that tank shocked the raptors. The explosion caused massed casualties on the imperials in the island. On the far bank the Alpha Legion chosen began to assault that bridge. Trapped between two chaos forces, many imperial squads who failed leadership checks in the shooting phase were destroyed as they were trapped on the island and could not get out. Both chaos forces charged into combat and the World Eaters were able to break thru, and as the last dash for the objective was made....Chaos forces fell short by less then half an inch in coming with in range of contesting the objective....

Final Result: DRAW!