HQ
Runepriest: (Living Lightning, Murderous Hurricane), Wolftooth Necklace, Wolf Tail Talisman, Meltabomb, BP, Force Staff

Elite
Wolf Guard x 3: PFx2, Mark of the Wulfen

So I've been looking at my Guard again and have started working on models. I still like my Mech guard and have been looking at ways to make them more viable. One thing about Mechanized guard is that your HQ choice really needs to be cheap.

The only reason to take a Company Command unit is put a cheap Colonel in there with either 4 meltas or plasmas. The Order system is a waste on Mech lists.

The Commissar Lord seemed the only real choice. The problem I had with my first list was that I stuck him in with an Ogrynn unit (which is insanely expensive and still dies very easily). I thought that it would be better to put him in with a Veteran unit (saves alot of points and gives me one very Stubborn unit)

Then I got to looking at my 3rd choice, the Primus Psyker. 70pts (no upgrades allowed), laspistol/Force weapon, WS4, Ld9, and has an Invunerable save. His primary shooting attack is called Arc Lightning (range 24, St4, 2d6 hits). I could put him in a unit of Plasma Vets and he could shoot out of the top of the Chimera with his unit. In using him, the fluff behind him is that he is an Inquisator leading his own little army to root out alien and heretic scum.

Or as Pidge suggested, I need a Slaan.......

So this is what I am thinking of for my 1000 point Space Pup army to go along with the Necrons.

HQ:
Rune Priest with Runic Armor, Wolftooth Necklace and Storm Bolter
Jaws of the World Wolf, Living Lightning

Troops:
Grey Hunter Pack x 10 with Flamer, Melta, Mark of the Wulfen and Power Fist
Rhino with Extra Armor, Storm Bolter, Smoke Launcher

Like the title says, I want to make a army of Space Marine mercenaries, which I will name the Black Company. Black armor with Gunbolt Metal accents. The army will be themed after the Black Company books. They were some of my favorites growing up. The Black Company were a group of medieval/fantasy based mercenaries lead by powerful sorcerers.

The idea is to use a mixture of CSM, SW, and SM models to represent them, like the Iron Hand marines and the Legion of the Damned models. I was thinking of using the Death Watch Kill team models I have with their fancy shoulder pads to represent either Chosen CSM or SW Wolf Guard, that way I can use those great looking models that John gave me and actually use them without having to modify them..much..

I have both of the codexes and just can't decide which to base them from.

Any thoughts?

So, for the Brettonians, I had been thinking of painting each lance of Knights in the same color scheme, then John pointed me to the Templar Knights. I think would be a very easy color scheme to stick with and would look good on the board.

DE Assassin

m5 ws9 bs9 s4 t3 w2 i10 a3 ld10 base cost 90 (96 with extra hand weapon for +1a)
75 points of magic stuff, ASF, Hidden, Hatred, Poisoned Attacks and Scouts
May be taken as a unit upgrade..

Skaven assassin

m6 ws6 bs5 s4 t4 w2 i8 a3/4 ld8 base cost 105 (Cost going up with new codex)
50 points of magic stuff, ASF, Hidden, Poisoned Attacks, Scouts, Outflanking, and 4+ dodge save
Hero choice


The DE assassin is cheaper, better stats with the exception of toughness and you can have a lot more of them.. Plus some of the Khaines gifts are really nice..

The Skaven assassin has a 4 toughness, 4+ dodge save, and can get 50 points of real gear instead of the khaines gifts.. Which I think is honestly what makes them slightly (ever so slightly) better..

The DE would go first and likely do well.. but the Skaven assassin is more resilient in that he has a higher toughness, has an intrinsic save, and can take items to give him a ward save.. (25pts for a 4+ ward save for example) with points left over for some more Skaven nasty..

I still think the Skaven assassin would beat a DE assassin in a one on one fight.. Though maybe not.. I dunno..

What sucked previously about Skaven assassins was that they were heroes.. And that still sucks, especially considering the wealth of other rocken heroic stuff we could take..

Thoughts?

So I wen't into BFG and waded through all the dirty WFB players (JWolf and Goatboy included) and got my dirty mits on the Space Wolf book.

I've really been reading alot about the Ultramarine Special Characters and if they are worth the points. I've also been playing around with Armybuilder looking at what kind of army builds I can make with them. Heres my conclusion:

2000 Pts - Chaos Marines Roster

HQ: Chaos Lord (1#, 150 pts)
1 Chaos Lord @ 150 pts (Bolt Pistol x1; Power Weapon; Twin Linked Bolter; Fearless; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Bike; Mark of Khorne)

Fast Attack: Bikers (4#, 222 pts)
3 Bikers @ 222 pts (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Meltagun x2; Twin Linked Bolter; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Bike; Icon of Khorne; Mark of Khorne)
1 Biker Champion (Bolt Pistol; Power Fist; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Bike; Mark of Khorne)

Troops: Thousand Sons (10#, 292 pts)
9 Thousand Sons @ 292 pts (Bolter; Fearless; Slow and Purposeful; Inferno Bolts; Mark of Tzeentch)
1 Aspiring Sorceror (Bolt Pistol; Force Weapon; Fearless; Bolt of Change; Inferno Bolts; Mark of Tzeentch)

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (11#, 235 pts)
9 Chaos Space Marines @ 235 pts (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Bolter; Meltagun x2; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Rhino)
1 Aspiring Champion (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Bolter; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades)
1 Rhino (Twin Linked Bolter; Extra Armor; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers)

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (11#, 235 pts)
9 Chaos Space Marines @ 235 pts (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Bolter; Meltagun x2; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Rhino)
1 Aspiring Champion (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Bolter; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades)
1 Rhino (Twin Linked Bolter; Extra Armor; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers)

Troops: Khorne Berzerkers (10#, 240 pts)
9 Khorne Berzerkers @ 240 pts (Bolt Pistol; Close Combat Weapon; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Fearless; Furious Charge; Mark of Khorne)
1 Skull Champion (Bolt Pistol; Power Weapon; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Fearless; Furious Charge; Mark of Khorne)

Heavy Support: Land Raider (1#, 250 pts)
1 Land Raider @ 250 pts (Twin Linked Heavy Bolter; Twin Linked Lascannon Sponson x2; Havoc Launcher; Extra Armor; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers)

Heavy Support: Vindicator (1#, 150 pts)
1 Vindicator @ 150 pts (Twin Linked Bolter; Daemonic Possession; Demolisher Cannon; Dozer Blade; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers)

Heavy Support: Obliterators (3#, 225 pts)
3 Obliterators @ 225 pts (Power Fist; Obliterator Weapons; Show Weapon Stats; Fearless; Lascannon; Linked Flamer; Linked Meltagun; Linked Plasmagun; Multi-Melta; Plasma Cannon; Slow and Purposeful)

Validation Report:
Roster satisfies all enforced validation rules

Total Roster Cost: 1999

Thoughts?

So, I put the two small terrain sets together last night and made a huge 18'x24' terrain piece that I think looks fricken awsome, but I wondered if it's maybe too big. I placd my sandbag sets around it and it makes an awesome central objective to try and maintain and control. What do you guys think?

Since John hasn't responded to my last few IMs about how he wants these..I'm posting what I've done so far anyway. So here's the squad post-priming:




And here's the first two "finished". It's really a quick and dirty paintscheme, but I think they look pretty decent. I have no idea how to base them because I'm still waiting to hear from John on that.






Thoughts?

So after playing Tom's guard today and facing his Commisar lord I think I have found an issue. Tom is using (I believe) the Commisar-Colonel (or is it Colonel-Commisar) Gaunt mini (seen below)

The problem with Gaunt is that he is just too, "OK guys lets all gather around for a group hug and then go kill the heretics!"

I think Tom needs an ass-kicking commisar that will put the fear of god into his enemies. I was cruising the GW site and found they had a whole page dedicated to commisar minis. Out of the ones there, I think this guy is the scariest.