The warfleet of Renegade Lord Korsun's "Peoples' Rights" insurrection currently contains:
The capital ships;
Renegade Admiral Milanhor's flagship the Styx class Heavy Cruiser "Heartless Destroyer" - Ld 7 - Renown 1 - 290pts
The Carnage class Cruiser "Excessive" - Ld 8 - 180pts
The Devastation class Cruiser "Unforgivable" - Ld 8 - 190pts
The Slaughter class Cruiser "Soulless" - Ld 7 - 165pts
The Slaughter class Cruiser "Heathen Promise" - Ld 7 - 165pts
The escort squadrons;
3 Idolator class Raiders "Retaliators" - Ld 9 - 135pts
3 Idolator class Raiders "Purgators" - Ld 8 - 135pts
4 Idolator class Raiders "Ravagers" - Ld 7 - 180pts
3 Infidel class Raiders "Damnators" - Ld 6 - 120 pts
3 Infidel class Raiders "Fellclaws" - Ld 7 - 120pts
3 Iconoclast class Destroyers "Fearmongers" - Ld 9 - 90pts
3 Iconoclast class Destroyers "Exterminators" - Ld 7 - 90pts
2 Iconoclast class Destroyers "Carrion Squadron" - Ld 6 - 60pts
2 Iconoclast class Destroyers "Lost Souls" - Ld 7 - 60pts
Thursday 6 July 2017
Imperial Navy OOB for the BFG Korallex Sector Campaign
Battlegroup Sarcus at full strength (1985 points) contains;
The capital ships:
The Mars class Battlecruiser "Fist of Faith" with upgraded gunnery sensors - Ld 7 - 285pts
Admiral Sarcus' flagship the Dictator class Cruiser "Fortitude" - Ld 7 - Renown 1 - 220pts
The Tyrant class Cruiser "Incendrius" with upgraded batteries - Ld 7 - 195pts
The Lunar class Cruiser "Iron Duke" - Ld 8 - 180pts
The Lunar class Cruiser "Centurion" - Ld 7 - 180pts
The Dauntless class Light Cruiser "Vigilant" with Torpedo Tubes - Ld 8 - 110pts
The escort squadrons
3 Firestorm class Frigates "Lexus Squadron" - Ld 7 - 120pts
3 Firestorm class Frigates "Costa Barbarus Patrol" - Ld 6 - 120pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Omega Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 105pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Gamma Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 105pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Alpha Flotilla" - Ld 8 - 105pts
2 Sword class Frigates "Stalwart Patrol" - Ld 6 - 70 pts
4 Sword class Frigates "Vanguard Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 140 pts
3 Cobra class Destroyers "Widowmaker Squadron" - Ld 9 - 90pts
2 Cobra class Destroyers "Minnow Squadron" - Ld 8 - 60pts
Quite heavy on frigates among the escorts as I find the 5+ Armour and 2 Turrets, plus increased firepower, invaluable. Although there are some Cobras in there as coordinated torpedo attacks with a Mars or Dictator, along with their bombers, can really put the hurting on anything short of a Battleship.
Pretty standard spread of capital ships really. I'm itching to try the Tyrant and its long-range guns (a rare novelty in Imperial cruiser design) but feeling a bit short on Dauntlesses. If I get a run of Raids it's a shortage that may tell but hopefully my first batch of reinforcements will be a few more of the little beauties.
The capital ships:
The Mars class Battlecruiser "Fist of Faith" with upgraded gunnery sensors - Ld 7 - 285pts
Admiral Sarcus' flagship the Dictator class Cruiser "Fortitude" - Ld 7 - Renown 1 - 220pts
The Tyrant class Cruiser "Incendrius" with upgraded batteries - Ld 7 - 195pts
The Lunar class Cruiser "Iron Duke" - Ld 8 - 180pts
The Lunar class Cruiser "Centurion" - Ld 7 - 180pts
The Dauntless class Light Cruiser "Vigilant" with Torpedo Tubes - Ld 8 - 110pts
The escort squadrons
3 Firestorm class Frigates "Lexus Squadron" - Ld 7 - 120pts
3 Firestorm class Frigates "Costa Barbarus Patrol" - Ld 6 - 120pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Omega Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 105pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Gamma Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 105pts
3 Sword class Frigates "Alpha Flotilla" - Ld 8 - 105pts
2 Sword class Frigates "Stalwart Patrol" - Ld 6 - 70 pts
4 Sword class Frigates "Vanguard Flotilla" - Ld 7 - 140 pts
3 Cobra class Destroyers "Widowmaker Squadron" - Ld 9 - 90pts
2 Cobra class Destroyers "Minnow Squadron" - Ld 8 - 60pts
Quite heavy on frigates among the escorts as I find the 5+ Armour and 2 Turrets, plus increased firepower, invaluable. Although there are some Cobras in there as coordinated torpedo attacks with a Mars or Dictator, along with their bombers, can really put the hurting on anything short of a Battleship.
Pretty standard spread of capital ships really. I'm itching to try the Tyrant and its long-range guns (a rare novelty in Imperial cruiser design) but feeling a bit short on Dauntlesses. If I get a run of Raids it's a shortage that may tell but hopefully my first batch of reinforcements will be a few more of the little beauties.
Thursday 4 May 2017
Must Paint Faster....
Just a quick update in the painting project that is my Ork 'horde'. They'll be hopefully coming with me to Birmingham in June so everything else in the painting queue has been necessarily pushed aside while I paint as many greenskins as possible.
First up was two Mekboy Big Gun Mobs made of a motley assembly of Epic40k Lootas with Traktor Cannons and Shokk Attakk Guns from an earlier set. I just used the same technique to paint the metal areas but with blue and red as the main colours, as they hail from the Deathskull Klan.
Next up came a Biker Kult of Speed from the Evil Sunz. The same technique is doing wonders on pretty much everything, the different Klan colours just nicely brings some colour to the horde whilst all the battered metal brings the army together.
And a group shot of what I've painted so far. Not bad for 6 weeks work I have to admit. And it even look quite nice. If I turn the lights down.... and squint a bit.... The Stompamob is still a work in progress but I really wanted some Bad Moons in the horde somewhere. The Meganob stands are pretending to be Killa Kans at the moment until I can find a more suitable proxy.
Must get back to painting more Orks. Only a month to go!!! Oh dear....
First up was two Mekboy Big Gun Mobs made of a motley assembly of Epic40k Lootas with Traktor Cannons and Shokk Attakk Guns from an earlier set. I just used the same technique to paint the metal areas but with blue and red as the main colours, as they hail from the Deathskull Klan.
Next up came a Biker Kult of Speed from the Evil Sunz. The same technique is doing wonders on pretty much everything, the different Klan colours just nicely brings some colour to the horde whilst all the battered metal brings the army together.
And a group shot of what I've painted so far. Not bad for 6 weeks work I have to admit. And it even look quite nice. If I turn the lights down.... and squint a bit.... The Stompamob is still a work in progress but I really wanted some Bad Moons in the horde somewhere. The Meganob stands are pretending to be Killa Kans at the moment until I can find a more suitable proxy.
Must get back to painting more Orks. Only a month to go!!! Oh dear....
Saturday 22 April 2017
Space Orks in Colour (a painting blog)
I thought I'd do a bit of a log of the painting of my Waagh! both as a log and as a bit of a motivation boost.
I was pretty intimidated by the sheer scale of the horde I plan on building and as I also have a ~5000 point army of Steel Legion (that can do double-duty as ~4000 points of Kreig) with each trooper having at least 6 colours on them, I really didn't want to have 2 'horde' armies to paint like that. After much meditation on a quick and easy way to paint Orks I decided that most of the Boyz fighting as infantry would be Goffs and therefore mainly black with a bit of red here and there. I found that Ork skin could be done reasonably with a generous application of GW Biel Tan Green wash over a white spray.
First off the brush were 2 Goff Warbands. The Boyz are Defeat in Detail Skinnerz from their plastic sprues and the Grotz are Skinnerz Gobblars with some GW Grots to fill in the numbers.
Next came 8 Wagonz from the above sprues to ferry the Boyz around. My idea for their paintjob was for them to look like they could've been pulled out of a scrap heap. If I could find a good way of doing battered metal then even when I've got vehicles for all 6 Klanz of all the different colours the painting 'style' might pull them together into a roughly cohesive-looking force. I was at a loss on how to paint them until I remembered a technique I'd used on my GorkaMorka mob and thought a simplified version may suffice.
Basically I sprayed 'em black and attacked them with my 'stippling brush' (now about half an inch long and splayed to hell and back but sufficient for the task) using Ironbreaker. I aimed for an uneven silver all over followed by a wash of Agrax Earthshade to bring out the detail and give a rusty, worn colour. Then the panels were roughly painted the right colours leaving the silver showing through at the edges. A quick and easy load of Battlewagonz that appropriately look like they'll fall apart at any moment.
On the heels of the Wagonz I decided to roll with it and see what it would look like on the Epic 40K Great Gargant. I love the goofiness of it so I knew I wanted to paint him like a huge Goff Boy so colour choices were easy. Another quick job but one I'm pretty proud of as it's my biggest epic model painted so far.
With the bug still going I've managed 2 more bare-bones Warbands, a Stormboyz Warhorde of Kommandoz (EpicUK), and a few odds and ends.
2150 points painted so all in all a very productive month! Plus due to some happy EBay karma I've got another ~4000 points of Orks to paint which means my goal of having an army of them ready for Wrath of the Tyrant in Leicester in October shoud be achievable.
On the table I'm loving the way Orks play. They have a fantastic laid-back style of generalship. Double everywhere until they're close enough to assault. Nice and simple. Admittedly my successes have been limited so far but they've been heaps of fun win or lose. I'm generally makng my opponents have to fight their way out of their deployment zone while the pressure mounts turn after turn. The only struggle at the moment is when small fast units manage to break through and run around my rear areas contesting objectives and such. Catching them and eliminating them is a challenge currently.
I was pretty intimidated by the sheer scale of the horde I plan on building and as I also have a ~5000 point army of Steel Legion (that can do double-duty as ~4000 points of Kreig) with each trooper having at least 6 colours on them, I really didn't want to have 2 'horde' armies to paint like that. After much meditation on a quick and easy way to paint Orks I decided that most of the Boyz fighting as infantry would be Goffs and therefore mainly black with a bit of red here and there. I found that Ork skin could be done reasonably with a generous application of GW Biel Tan Green wash over a white spray.
First off the brush were 2 Goff Warbands. The Boyz are Defeat in Detail Skinnerz from their plastic sprues and the Grotz are Skinnerz Gobblars with some GW Grots to fill in the numbers.
Next came 8 Wagonz from the above sprues to ferry the Boyz around. My idea for their paintjob was for them to look like they could've been pulled out of a scrap heap. If I could find a good way of doing battered metal then even when I've got vehicles for all 6 Klanz of all the different colours the painting 'style' might pull them together into a roughly cohesive-looking force. I was at a loss on how to paint them until I remembered a technique I'd used on my GorkaMorka mob and thought a simplified version may suffice.
Basically I sprayed 'em black and attacked them with my 'stippling brush' (now about half an inch long and splayed to hell and back but sufficient for the task) using Ironbreaker. I aimed for an uneven silver all over followed by a wash of Agrax Earthshade to bring out the detail and give a rusty, worn colour. Then the panels were roughly painted the right colours leaving the silver showing through at the edges. A quick and easy load of Battlewagonz that appropriately look like they'll fall apart at any moment.
On the heels of the Wagonz I decided to roll with it and see what it would look like on the Epic 40K Great Gargant. I love the goofiness of it so I knew I wanted to paint him like a huge Goff Boy so colour choices were easy. Another quick job but one I'm pretty proud of as it's my biggest epic model painted so far.
With the bug still going I've managed 2 more bare-bones Warbands, a Stormboyz Warhorde of Kommandoz (EpicUK), and a few odds and ends.
2150 points painted so all in all a very productive month! Plus due to some happy EBay karma I've got another ~4000 points of Orks to paint which means my goal of having an army of them ready for Wrath of the Tyrant in Leicester in October shoud be achievable.On the table I'm loving the way Orks play. They have a fantastic laid-back style of generalship. Double everywhere until they're close enough to assault. Nice and simple. Admittedly my successes have been limited so far but they've been heaps of fun win or lose. I'm generally makng my opponents have to fight their way out of their deployment zone while the pressure mounts turn after turn. The only struggle at the moment is when small fast units manage to break through and run around my rear areas contesting objectives and such. Catching them and eliminating them is a challenge currently.
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