Greetings friends, and welcome back to the CollardHammer special! I must begin by apologising for the lack of a blogpost last week. Between playing 40k on the Sunday, Kill Team on the Monday and Magic on the Tuesday, I didn’t find much time to write or get hobby stuff done, so figured that it was better to wait for this post and take a week off. Over the last two weeks, hobby wise I have mostly been building Emperor’s Children, gaming and digesting the Adepticon reveals. I did find time to paint up another test model for Emperor’s Children – while the Daemon Prince was fun, I didn’t feel like he represented particularly well the army as a whole. As I mentioned above, I’ve also played a whole bunch of different games.
Unfortunately, all of this is to say that my Trello board
hasn’t progressed much. I am not even going to bother putting it in this time,
as almost nothing has been completed. However, I think this is fine for now. I am
deliberately leaving the contents of the EC boxset off the plan because I want
to take my time painting the new, very nice kits and really getting to grips
with the techniques involved. With all that said, the Adepticon reveals have got
me very excited to get my Tomb Kings done for Old World (no prizes for guessing
why), so I think that the next focus is going to be on getting the second skeleton
infantry cohort and Liche Priest done. I am also hoping to make time to finish
painting my rogue trader entourage, as there isn’t too much to do on that, and
I have been using them a lot lately.
Moving on to what I have actually painted, here is the test Noise Marine I painted:
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| I spent an excessive amount of time on one dude |
I was very pleased with this until I realised that I had
missed a part off his sonic blaster. Truly a rookie error. Half-joking aside, I
am pleased with the results here. One thing that was missing from the daemon
prince was the gem-work and glass effect that I’ve tried to paint on here,
following on from similar texture’s I’ve been painting for Tomb Kings. I think
some of these have actually come out very well, particularly on the shoulder
pad (although the dark blue is a little hard to distinguish from the black on
the pad itself). It’s taken a while, but I think I am just getting to the point
where I can convince myself that the light pattern is correct. It should be
dark at the top, where light enters the gem, and light at the bottom where the
light leaves. Overall, this was a really fun test model, although it took a lot
of time to get it right. I am hoping that once I am in the habit of painting
the pink and the black, I’ll get faster, but for now I am just enjoying the new
kits, which are truly lovely. I would strongly recommend the noise marine kit
to any chaos player, as they can assembled without the legion’s icons (and could
very easily be kitbashed into Night Lords.
Moving on to gaming, I’ve played a considerable amount of quite radically different Warhammer over the last 2 weeks, although all in the 40k setting. My first game since the last update was boarding actions, where I took the Penitents and Pilgrims list I talked about in the last update. Unfortunately, my opponent bought along the Tyranid detachment which is largely composed of models with Fights First.
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| My boarding action |
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| The boarding action she tells you not to worry about |
Turns out that Von Ryan’s Leapers absolutely laugh in the face of Sisters Repentia. Lesson learned. I followed that up with my first ever game of Kill Team with my colleague, with my Starstriders taking on his Ratlings. While I definitely didn’t play well, the game felt much more nuanced than the game of Warcry we had a few weeks back, and I still managed to eek out a win. I am aiming to get the rogue trader and company finished because they seem much more fun and interesting than both breachers and novitiates.
The final game I played was another campaign game against a newly joining Orks player. We are generally good friends and played a lot during 9th, so I am very pleased that he is moving back to London after leaving last year and is joining the campaign. As it was his first battle in our campaign with Orks, and his narrative broadly continuing from the 9th edition crusade our playgroup did, we decided it would be fun to have a big blowout and play 3000 points.
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Orks
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| The valiant defenders of the Imperium |
We played an onslaught mission from the Leviathan book and the game was certainly engaging, if not tremendously well balanced. I am coming round to the idea that any mission where either player only scores at the end of the game is inherently unbalanced, doubly so when I was scoring progressively, and he was scoring at the end. I was playing Army of Faith and he was playing More Dakka, but with lots of fluffy stuff (including a Stompa). Overall, the final score didn’t really reflect how close the game had been at parts, with me winning very comfortably. Some highlights included my Paragon Warsuits and Morvenn Vahl (who for the purposes of the narrative is the living saint form of my canoness from the previous campaign, who was thought to have been martyred) essentially destroying the Stompa in a single round of shooting and me rolling quadruple 1s on 2+ saves for dominions with an Imagifier.
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| Would have probably been better off with a Dogmata. And that's saying something. |
I have rarely known a
character be so useless. We both got a lot out of it and reignited some old
narrative rivalries, so I can’t wait to see how that develops further.
That’s going to be me for this week. Unfortunately, I think
next week may also be a miss, as I am heading home for the weekend. However, I
couldn’t leave off without mentioning that I am very hyped for Grand Cathay.
The range looks absolutely amazing, even if it is missing a considerable amount
of stuff. I’ll almost certainly be looking to pick up some stuff for them later
in the year, although I am really trying not to overcommit. Generally, this
year has had a lot of hits for me already, with EC, the new Sisters Kill Team
and now Cathay too. Anyway, may you all have a wonderful week of your own hobby!
Ben
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