An introduction tp Pask and Bonehead

Tonight we played a 2100point game, the Crimson Slaughter took on the Imperial Guard, after a few defeats the Imperium has sent Pask and his bullgrins, led by Bonehead, to quieten the sector.
We played end to end over a bombed city scape battlefield using the maelstrom escalation game set up.
Plenty of fun was had on both sides, Chaos Raptors landed right next to Pasks tank, and endured two full turns of shooting, one melta gun guy made SEVEN saves on the bounce then fluffed his penetrating hit on Pasks flank! The bullgrins, along with their chanting Priest made short work of a unit of Chaos Marines. One Marine champion with power fist took down a hovering Vendetta- he's now being promoted.
Right through the game the Crimson Slaughter were on top, points wise, however, the inability to dispose of tanks was their downfall and on turn 6 the Imperium took 5 points pushing them into the lead, the Crimson Slaughter only had 4 figures left on the table. Final victory to the Imperium 17-13.

 Bonehead and his bullgrins

 Fluffed penetration roll.

 At last, Pask dies to massed Slaughters.

 Sorcerer about to meet his doom.

One power fist downs a Vendetta.

Well it's 2017 and time for a new season of gaming activities- shows coming round again to look forward to are Vapnatak at York, Salute in London and the two/three at Newark. No New Years gaming resolutions for me as I tend to break them before February anyway, there's plenty of armies being built and new rules to get my head round, however I would like to get more games in and with this in mind Craig brought his Salamanders round today for a 40k 1500point bash. Craig is concentrating on his Sallies at the moment and building reinforcements/ options for his army hence the unpainted figures on the table.

Over view, corner to corner set up.

 First blood for The Crimson Slaughter, nice shooting from the Land Raider 'Lorgars Gift'

 Sallies drop pod lands right in the middle of The Crimson Slaughter deployment-

Result- one blown up Rhino!!

Sallies General getting surrounded by a Dark Apostle and his possessed bodyguard, Kranon and his possessed bodyguard can be seen in the background mopping up a 10 man squad, this combat carried on for three full turns, eventually the Salamanders were wiped out but not before doing a lot of damage to the Crimson Slaughter elite units.

The Centurions arrive, this could be the turning point of the battle.

The Centurions blast apart Lorgars Gift in one round of shooting but are ambushed by a squad of marines sat in a shrouded Rhino. The Centurions are weak in combat and were wiped out.

Famous last words- "I'll fire my plasma pistol, I won't roll a 1"

By the end of turn six there wasn't much left of either side, however The Crimson Slaughter held the most objectives and came out on top!

I now remember why I like 40k so much, nothings ever over until the last die stops rolling, brilliant game to start the season.

My Legion is growing! just finished another two 10 man squads that I recently acquired from good mate Nathan. They were destined to be Iron Warriors but after accepting 'The Word' they are now new recruits in the 17th Legion. The squads are kitted out with two heavy bolters or two melta guns, the heavy bolter squad may be stood back giving covering fire as the meltas rush in to fry the odd tank or two.
This is enough foot sloggers for a while, next project is to supply some transports, a drop pod is on the table and I fancy a Spartan for the terminators. And a Deredeo dreadnought with dual auto cannons. And a dreadnought drop pod!

 I need a Legion Praetor to take command, or more likely a Diabolist.

The medic may get replaced too.

It's time these lads got well and truly bloodied so I'm going to arrange a couple of games over the Xmas holidays, watch this space for updates and results.

I've got a new flyer, he took a while to build and paint as other things kept getting in the way, I've had it for about three months, usually enough time to build and paint a model.  Forge World models aren't always the easiest things to build and this was no exception! I've always used Warlord Games superglue and usually it's been fine however this time the bloody thing just wouldn't stay together, I ended up pinning the large wings to keep them on, the tail fin is a bit thin for that though, it fell off twice during painting then when I thought I'd finished and started on the transfers it fell off again- not a good day that one. I think it came out well in the end. It's got some good game rules too, I think I should be able to take my mates' Fire Raptor out before he realises how good my little Interceptor really is- hopefully!!

The transfers are the Forge World set, they may be expensive but they sure do bring out the best in any model. I've got some Renegade Militia on the painting table at the moment, hopefully they won't take as long to complete as this feller.

This is my most recent acquisition, a Siccaran battle tank, great stats and weapons, I saw it on Heresy Trading, on Face Book- a great site that specialises in selling and swopping Forge World gear, the name gives it away really! I saw this come up as I was browsing through and within 16 minutes had contacted the seller and paid through paypal, not only is it painted in Word Bearers colours it was only £60.00, the bare model is £76.00 from Forge World so I think I got a bargain, I can't recommend the site highly enough. I haven't used it yet so I'm not expecting great things in it's first battle- new model syndrome is bound to kick in and see it blown up on turn one.

This ostentatious little guy is a Diabolist, these are characters unique to Word Bearers that open up buffs to other units in the Legion, these are rolled for and as with Chaos nothing is certain. He's a Daemon and Zealot so worth killing off if you can. The model is Fine Cast and was a bitch to put together, the Fine Cast is so weak it breaks at the slightest touch and as I've often been described as a clumsy twat I managed to break him at least a couple of times, but in the end I think he's come out alright.

This is my Anvillus pattern Dreadclaw drop pod, it's a decent sized model and with it's claws it can be placed almost anywhere on the table. It not only lands and disgorges it's payload, it can then fly off and bathe the loyalist scum with a cleansing fire storm- nice! It's also an assault vehicle which means it can fly about and the Gal Vorbak inside can burst forth and do what they do best- kill, maim and burn. I've given the Gal Vorbak a couple of melta guns to knock off a few hull points of vehicles before the power fists charge in and finish them off. I've painted it grey as it's and old vehicle, kept in service after the Legion turned to chaos and changed to red, it also enables me to field it as a loyalist transport that didn't support Lorgar during the Heresy.

 The Gal Vorbak were a pleasure to paint, plenty of detail and recesses to hold the washes. They're bigger than normal marines and with my eye sight getting worse I enjoyed being able to focus on what I was doing.

 Melta gun for a bit of punch at close quarters.