One down Two to Go!

This is my first attempt at a really big piece - scenery doesn't count because it's easy - and it's a a testimony to how good the spray gun and how useful the Forgeworld Masterclass book are. I would never have attempted this with just a brush. Those that have seen them will know that most of my Marauder vehicles are at best below average.


A battlefield will be rumbling with REALLY heavy armour soon.


I'm off to wait by the door for the postman to bring my next big box of plastic


Can you guess what it is yet?

Terminated!

Ready for the Mkonay System Campaign finale - Apocalypse...

Baneblade WiP

Getting there. Over done the back decks but not the end of the world.

Bastion Wars

I thought I'd provide a quick summary of this novel for those of you with a gap in their reading schedule.

Obediah Roth is an Inquisitor currently deployed in the Bastion Sector of the Eastern Fringe. He is sent to investigate the existence of a mythical artifact believed to be in the Medina Corridor, a tactical and strategically insignificant region of the sector. This sector is suddenly assaulted by a massive Chaos force and the defenders of each planet are swept aside by numerically superior enemy. Caught up in the maelstrom Roth and his small band are assaulted by enemies both within and without.

Not perhaps the Inquisitorial novel I've come to expect from Eisenhorn and Ravenor but more a Guard novel with battles on an epic scale as seen in some of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels.

Criticisms - Roth sustains a significant amount of injury throughout the novel and whilst the hero is expected to continue where lesser men would be laid low you will have to assume that he is afforded a number high speed healing systems to be returned to the fight. That or the time frame is extended. Neither of them are clarified for the reader. A bit more depth to the characters, whilst not terrible we have been spoilt by Abnett, McNeil and some others recently.

Highlights. The Ironclad Chaos raiders, along with the Blood Pact and the Sons of Sekt are very evocative of what I imagine a chaos follower to encompass and it has become a possible army project ;o). The actions sequences are superb, visceral and brutal and rank with the best of the Black Library authors for stirring the imagination. Technology, is also added to in sympathy to the established 40k-verse.

The author is, or was, a member of the Australian Army and as such adds some 'pseudo-detail' to the military content of the novel albeit an assumed military culture of the 40k multiverse. This gives the overall feel of Emperor's Mercy some real grit and grime behind it

Should you read it?

HELL YEAH! 4.5 out of 5

Tank! Shock!

Apocalypse: a chance to get lots of tanks on the table. Some of the biggest too!

With this in mind and an Apoc game in the near future I've been busy with the glue!Just need to add the tracks when its all painted and finish the crew.

Shadowsword

Stormlord

Doomhammer

Stormsword
Banesword

Banehammer

Nice!

Rules for these lovely tanks can be found here:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=3400020