Necrons Rising out of their Tombs

It's the day after Halloween, but last month I got into the whole spirit of old dead things by breaking out my oldest fully painted 40K army. The Phalanx of the Bronze face was my first dive into building a fully painted army for 40K. Before then I would just paint the random model for fun, while still playing casually with all my models. This gave me a chance to go back and finish some bases and also to finish some units that were half finished when they returned to their eternal slumber after the Medusa V Global Campaign. It was fun digging thru this stuff again, and has me thinking about using this army once more in the tournament scene. Yes Necrons are perhaps the worse army in existence right now in 5th Edition, but my mind is grinding the gears on a fun idea. For now I will continue to slowly work on this army and bring all the other stuff I have for it to the status of fully painted and based. Perhaps one of the rarest things this army has that none of my others do is a fully painted Battle Fleet Gothic fleet as well. When I recently got into BFG in the last few years I wanted to play with a fleet not seen too often, with everyone else running about in Imperial or Marine ships. So along with the ground upgrades I have been working to get my BFG up to par with a Necron Raider Fleet. Perhaps in the future I will be posting BFG battle reports here too....

Commanders Codename: Lord Axalon
Phalanx: Phalanx of the Bronze Face
History: The phalanx was first recorded by imperial force during the famous Medusa V campaign. The forces of the 13th Praetorian Guard ran into the Phalanx while making a troop reinforcement run to Medusa V. During the chase the Phalanx was lost in all the chaos at the time, until they rose once more on Medusa V in the thick of the fighting. Imperial forces were surprised at the resilience of these Necrons and the numbers rising to combat whole imperial divisions during the campaign. Imperial command put out a call for the capture of one of these necrons to study why these particular necrons were so hard to kill and keep down. It is unknown if this study was concluded, because of all the chaos in the final days of the Medusa V evacuation. One thing is known, no more sightings of this army have been seeing since those dark days, but rumors exist of a raider fleet roaming space matching this necron force, we may not have seen the last of this army yet.




We Are Legion!


Two old Lords I got already painted, I call them my Disco Lords due to the flashy colors. Backed up by older Warriors and converted Scarab Swarms of old Scarabs. The Disco Lords are not done growing.


One of Lord Axalon's newer minions. This lord leads the Phalanx more newer models into battle. Backed up by a retinue of Pariahs and many Warriors, Immortals, and Scarabs to lead into battle.


I'm hooked on the fun factor of Wraiths since I had a whole unit when I first got a necron army, and used them often. Add a necron Destroyer Lord, and unleash the speed and pain!


A Full Necron Raider Fleet!



A Necron Base Star! Ok....a Necron Tomb Ship...Heh!



The Harvester.....Every good necron fleet needs a few of these....

Hope you enjoyed this little blast from the past..... ;)

The Wolves Howling at the Gates

This month marked the return of the Space Wolves. After my initial look over them, I was impressed by the new kits, and thought they looked great. So as anyone suffering from the new shinny syndrome, I picked up a Codex and a box of Tactical Wolves for giggles. Having a standard marine tac squad box sitting around doing nothing, it was time to build some Grey Hunter Squads! The models have that cool Chaos Space Marine feel, while at the same time keeping with the whole imperial look. After my initial build was complete, I did a little kit bashing with some CSM bits and it worked out real well for simple conversions.

While I'm not looking to build a whole 10K point army out of these guys, I wanted to put some together and see what I can come up with. Now that the build is finished time for some painting. I am going to try a little bit fun with some Dwarf Bronze and Red Washes from GW, to get a cool red metallic effect. I have chosen to make these guys into Red Wolves, a little known GW marine chapter. The red will be simple enough. I will need to get some metal Ragnar company shoulder pads for the chapter logos, but I think that will be the last thing I do for these squads. I have already primed them and they are waiting in the holding pattern for bronze base coating......Check out some pics pre-priming.



Two chainswords for the price of one!

1st Squad the Slice and Dice squad....

With several plasma pistols, a power weapon, the wolf standard, and a Wulfen marked member, this squad is built for close combat terror.


2nd Squad's Wolf Guard Commander with Chain Ax and CombiMelta....

2nd Squad....Shoot'um Up!

This squad will be built for fire support, with several Melta and Plasma weapons the squad will lay down a hard hitting amount of firepower to take down armor and high toughness units.

Any thoughts on this....Enjoy!

Random Thoughts on 40K and Other Games

So recently I took a break from my full speed rush thru chaos. It's been a year and half since I dove into Chaos and I am still not done, but I can say I easily have 7K of Chaos goodness fully painted and based. This includes Alpha Legion, Alpha Legion IG, Grey Death Legion, and many support elements from other chaos forces. Let me see where I stand with my many projects...

Alpha Legion: Currently I am working on all my troop choices, I have nearly finished my 2nd Chosen squad, and I am going to tackle 30 CSMs, 3 Rhinos, and 1 Predator before the year is out. This will set me with a fully painted and legal Tournament Army.

IG Alpha Legion/LotD: The Legion of the Dragon is nearly finished. I have been a bit burned out by working on so much for the army. I have 1500 points now finished, and I need to get a heavy weapons team, platoon command squad, and another commo- trooper for my 3rd platoon to be finally finished. I also want to get my Penal Legion troopers and Conscripted troopers painted. The goal will be for all that to be done by the end of the year. I still will have bit more to go before this army is tourny legal, but I can continue to build on it.

Grey Death Legion: This army is finished, I can easily field 2500 points, and while I still have a few other units I want to add on like 7 Spawns for fluff, its an army I can work on from time to time. I like the Plague Hulk and Plague Drones but I don't know if I want to invest in so much FW right now. Right now the only thing on my mind about this army is, "Do I want to take it to Armies on Parade next year at Games Day?" If I do, I will get the Drones and Hulk for coolness factor.

Ravenwing: I started the building of the army, and it has gone ok. The problem is I stopped when I got the itch for WHFB. I must work myself into this army once more. It will be a fun side project.

Specialist Games and WHFB: I recently got into a 4 month contest of a Tale of 4 Gamers at the GW Bunker. I got one regiment of Goblins ready for basing. I need to work up to a 2K fully painted and based Orc&Goblins. This on top of random work on my Imperial Aeronautica force, Mordheim Night Goblin force, and Necron BFG Fleet. Ahhhhh so much!

There are a few new additions that have risen in the last 2 weeks. First was a Grey Knights army I got for a good deal, almost 50 GKs, 25 GK Termis, 2 Land Raiders, and few other bits. I like the models a lot, and the price was great. I spent the better part of last week painting a squad, and I'm almost done with the whole squad. I'll post pics soon here. It's also a side project like my Ravenwing, maybe I will tackle a Terminator Squad next for the army. I know the army isn't too competitive, but it looks great. The other new toy was Space Wolves, I broke down and got a codex and a box of tac Wolves. This along with a marine tac box I won in a conversion contest will be the base for another project, the Red Wolves. A little known marine chapter, the Red Wolf project will be small, possibly 1K at most, we'll see.

Well that's where I stand with my most major projects.....I'm hearing rumors that the Dark Angels fortress in Planetstrike might be released in December, and I gotta have it, if the rumors are true....so more work as always! Gotta love this hobby! Heh! Enjoy! ;)

Exploring Renegade BLogs around the Internets

While my log has been active for only a few months, I was keeping the log going on 40KOnline for much longer. I also cruise the internets in search of other great Blogs. On such blog is on Warseer, this log is very large and the author has expanded into other aspects of Chaos, much like myself. I find it an inspiring log, that any would be Renegade Army commander should see and explore at the link below. It's a must see blog…..Enjoy!

Chaos Militia

Papa Nurgle does it again!

Damn you Nurgle! You keep pulling me back to your sphere of influence! That Plague Hulk is AWESOME!

For those of you who might not know yet....Forge World has done it again...they just posted pics of the their new Plague Hulk engine today. Here!

The machine looks awesome and would fit in my Grey Death Legion perfectly. If your curious about the rules for this beast look HERE! I usually am not in the business of making comments on things I don't own, but I like this one so much I had to put it out there. Even if your not using the FW rules, it makes a great looking Defiler stand in. FW has once again put out an awesome model, and a great looking addition to any Nurgle army.

Enjoy!

Gunheads of the LoTD

With the new IG codex, armor has changed a lot for Renegade and Loyalist forces. There is a whole new group of units available to the treadhead in all of us. Since this army was suppose to have some exclusive FW pieces too it when I first began, that has now changed. When I first began last year I had no idea of the Punisher, so I built 2 Exterminators to provide my forces with a lot of firepower to mow down MEQs. With the ability to throw down at least 15 dice a turn in firepower, the exterminators were my choice for taking down troops. The LRMBT with the battlecannon was my other choice for taking on heavy armor. This was going to be my plan originally. The new codex brings with it new variants, and also new rules for the Exterminators. The new rules allow for more dice, and also the ability to add an ace to the force. It also makes the tanks legal for tournaments, and such which is a plus for the army. The rate of fire make the exterminators great gun bunkers for holding my lines down. I also have a manticore conversion kit, which I plan to add to this force in the future.





2 Exterminators with Brass Etched pieces on the hulls, and Alpha Legion logos.


The entire heavy armor force with 2 Exterminators and 1 LRMBT.


As for super heavy support, my vision for the army was to run the opposite of the regular forces. This would mean 1 heavy bolter Malcador, and 2 annihilator type malcadors for the squad. I also have an idea for a "Plague Reaper" tank with a few changes to reflect it not being a Plague Reaper. The Valdor tank also appeals to me for this force. I will slowly gather the super heavy support, for now I have 1 bolter Malcador and 1 annihilator Malcador for the force.



That's all for now....Enjoy!

Conscripts and Cultist

Recently Gav Thorpe posted on his blog about his thoughts on the CSM Codex. Something that stuck with me was the use of lesser daemons and others using other models and reasons for using them. This got me thinking about how the Alpha Legion can use these forces, but not as daemons, just to represent something else. In the past codex the Legion had access to Cultist, which also brought about the use of lesser daemons. This was of course cut out of the current codex. As we know, the legion doesn't use daemons in its armies. I do have a unit of cultist, which I am using as conscripts for my IG Alpha Legion forces. These are the old metal cultist, which I scored 24 of them a while back. I have already begun the work of painting them and I like the look of them. They will fit well as conscripts, charging from outflank when I use my stand in Al'Rahem platoon commander. Now a second use has occurred to me, this one for my CSM Alpha Legion forces. I'm thinking about using them for lesser daemon stand ins, but as an "ambush" mortal unit. The basic idea will be that they are cultist who have set up an ambush or hidden position on the battlefield. When the legion needs them(ie. summoned) they will appear on the battlefield from hiding or launch an ambush. Yes the stats are a little out of place, but again my idea would be that these cultist are crazed or jacked up on some kind of drug that lets them survive outrageous damage. This would also work well for the ambush idea since daemons can assault on the same turn they are summoned.

I've not used daemons much in the past, but the few times I have they do well on the battlefield. Easily one of the best support and counter charge units available to a CSM commander in any game. Now that I have begun work on a Emperors Children force, I got a unit of lesser daemonetts with the force. I also have lots of bloodletter models for when I get around to building a World Eaters force. Nurgle still use metal models, and while it would be nice to have a few units of them I don't have the $$ to spend on metal models, should GW ever make some in plastic they will be part of my Grey Death Legion. I will have to try this out and experiment a little with my Alpha Legion forces in future games.