Triad Cluster Campaign: Space Wolf saga continues, more Legendary Units

Some more players added, running of all things 30K lists.  We'll see how that goes!  Iron Hands and Sons of Horus join the fray.

New Legendary Units:

 

The Tears of Cretacia (Flesh Tearers) 15 Death Company with Jump packs

Forever Blazing Dragons - 10 Fire Dragons including Exarch with Firepike

 

The Fists of Ferrus (Iron Hands) 3x thud gun weapons platforms, 6x crew men

Triad Cluster Campaign: Completed Shokktroopahs, legendary bikers, and Adeptus Sororitas prepare to purge!

Shokktroopahs from the Steel Leejun ready for battle!

We can survive bolters and flamers half the time!

But just to be sure, push the weedier gits up front.

The Way we Were - Sons of Taurus 2014 in review!

Yep, time for another of those posts.  

Looking back over the year so far, looks like:

Posts: 75

Leagues/campaigns: 4

Tournaments: 1

New player events: 2

Battles: 33 reported (16 win, 13 loss, 4 ties) plus probably another 10-12 unreported.

Miniatures completed: 114

Vehicles/larger models completed: 11

Terrain pieces completed: 5

The bulk of the models came from completing the Void Phantoms Eldar/Dark Eldar Corsairs army.  

In the various leagues/campaigns I played the Void Phantoms, Space Sharks, Scythiak and Endless Ones.  For 2015 the Orks are next up in the rotation, and we'll probably see more Chaos Marines and the Merkan 76th showing up later in the year.  

For projects I have a bunch of CSM and related models to paint, a bunch of terrain pieces to put together and perhaps some additions to various armies.  I don't think we'll see a brand new army unless I get some amazing deal or decide to knock out a bunch of the fantasy Chaos guys I have partway done.

 

Thanks for reading in 2014, hope to see you in 2015!

WIP Shokktroopahs

Some WIP "Shokktroopahs", aka Ard Boyz.  These are made from regular plastic boy and nob parts.  Still need basing, and I am debating whether or not they are done enough or if I should add the stain mix I used on my other orks for extra shading.

 

Gellar Field Charlie: Games

(Part one can be found HERE)

Round one I was on the snow table with the Grey Knights/Space Wolves/Space Marine/Inquisition army, bunch of purifiers, squad of TH terminators, squad of centurions, bunch of psykers with various gimmicks, some mandatory chaff squads of blood claws and scouts.  Space Wolf pods turned over to the Grey Knights and the marine centurions.  I set up with the terminators delayed until turn two, hoping to have his guys committed then deploy termies away from the big threats and clear up his chaff, or be able to use the teleport homers on the bikes to all come in and deal with the threats one at a time.  They took out the attack bike and shot up the other on-field guys a bit.

Gellar Field Charlie: Setup

They have so much terrain they have a special shelf for Evil Shrines.  I approve!

Saturday some fellow locals and I trekked out to Atomic Empire in Durham for a 40K tournament.  I'm not a big tourney player, but several others were planning to go and we are in a lull between local leagues/campaigns so I decided to go along.  Three rounds, 2000pts, anything short of unbound goes.  I decided to bring the "Shark Angels", Space Sharks count-as Dark Angels, with a bunch of terminators and some other support.

We had:

1. Astra Militarum
2. Chaos Space Marines / Necrons
3. Space Marines / Astra Militarum / Space Wolves
4. Adepta Sororitas / Inquisition
5. Grey Knights / Inquisition / Space Marines
6. Necrons
7. Orks
8. Chaos Daemons
9. Eldar
10. Dark Angels (me)
11. Eldar
12. Chaos Daemons / Heretics and Traitors
13. Chaos Daemons / Chaos Space Marines
14. GreyKnights / Space Marines / Space wolves / Inquisition
15. Eldar: Iyanden / Dark Eldar
16. Chaos Daemons / Space Wolves

Triad Cluster Campaign: Buildup

Some tidbits as we get closer to starting the Triad Cluster campaign:

 

Triad Cluster campaign

++ LORD COMMANDERS MILITANT ++

AS YOU ARE DOUBTLESS AWARE, THE TRIAD CLUSTER HAS LONG BEEN A SCENE OF CONFLICT WITH VARIOUS XENO RACES, NOTABLY ORKS AND ELDAR.  FOR SOME TIME THE CONFLICTS HAD REACHED A ROUGH EQUILIBRIUM.

RECENTLY HOWEVER A SERIES OF EVENTS HAVE DISRUPTED THAT EQUILIBRIUM.

HERETICAL INFLUENCE AND WARP INSTABILITY HAVE BOTH BEEN ON THE RISE.  IT IS UNCLEAR IF THERE IS A DIRECT CONNECTION AND IF SO WHICH GAVE RISE TO THE OTHER.  THIS INSTABILITY IN THE WARP HAS APPARENTLY ALSO SERVED AS A BEACON TO OTHER MALIGNANT FORCES – AN INFLUX OF ORKS IS GIVING RISE TO A NEW “WAAGH”, A TYRANID HIVE FLEET IS ENCROACHING ON THE CLUSTER FROM THE GALACTIC EAST, AND MONITORING STATIONS NEAR LONG-DORMANT NECRON TOMB WORLDS ARE REPORTING INCREASED ACTIVITY.  ALSO OF NOTE IS A TAU EXPLORATOR FORCE THAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED MAKING COMMON CAUSE WITH THE ELDAR ON SEVERAL OCCAISIONS.

ALL IS NOT DARK HOWEVER MY LORDS.  WE HAVE MANY ENEMIES BUT THEY ARE DIVIDED WHILE WE STAND UNITED WITH THE FULL IMPERIUM BEHIND US.  EVEN NOW, FORCES FROM SEVERAL SPACE MARINE CHAPTERS HAVE ANSWERED OUR CALLS AND HAVE BEGUN TO DEPLOY – THE DARK ANGELS, SPACE WOLVES, AND FLESH TEARERS WILL SOON BE ENGAGING OUR FOES.  WE HAVE ALSO BEEN RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FROM THE ADEPTUS SORORITAS IN DEFENSE OF THREATENED SHRINE WORLDS AND IN PURGING HERETICAL AND GENESTEALER CULTS.

GOOD LUCK COMMANDERS.

INQUISITOR DARIUS HELGRAVE

++ FAITH IS MY SHIELD ++

In a few weeks we'll be starting up a semi-narrative 40K campaign.  At the moment we have sixteen players (currently grouped into teams as follows):