Limited Scope

I realised last night that this blog is just about one of my gaming hobbies, not all of them. It started out as my fumbling attempt to build me a bigga tank but is now a bit more as I'm reporting the work I'm doing on my Warhammer40K army but still that is only a small amount of the gaming I do. I'm also into RPG's as well as computer games, although I'm stuck with a PS2 for the time being as I can't afford a PS3 ( why buy a blu ray player and a games machine when you can get 2 in 1?). So here I am posting about more gaming.
I helped to play tested Third Eye Games Apocalypse Prevention Inc for the creator of the game Eloy Lasanta, which was a good game, only marred by players to stuck in their ways to give it a good go. We are now currently playing White Wolfs D10 game Aberrant, which is about Super Hero's. Before that we were playing White Wolfs Vampire The Masquerade, which we played for about 6 years, (the game went on so long 2 players got married and had kids before it finished, one of those involved meeting the girl, falling in love, emigrating, getting married, and finally having the baby). Now I'm not sure if that means I was a bad ST for not being able to finish it or good one because the players didn't want it to finish. We where playing the Transylvanian Chronicles, a story that starts in about 1190 and runs all the way up to 200* for the last installment. I added bits and pieces to the story and one of the longest running side stories involved time travel and players thinking that they could cheat me out of doing a story I'd spent 2 weeks working, after I got my head round what to do and got there agreement to go with the change to the story as I was at a loss for the last hour of game time that night, that side story lasted over a year, and involved much travel and dicking about in Space/Time, for game purests my main DPC was a Mage who had learnt to time travel from a mysterious stranger with a long flowing scarf and a blue box..., which is how I got around that major story hole.

Okay signing off for now as there is a crappy 1950's black and white sci fi film on channel 4 shortly and I want to be home to watch it.

Shocking Total

Okay so yesterday while my 2 daughters were out at their mums for mothers day I started to pull apart the Deamon Hunters and take out the Imperial parts of my loyalish Marine army and go head long with Chaos, after taking out the Stern Guard, Vanguard and swapping the Assault Marines with the DA vets, taking out the Thousand Sons and a couple of other bits and pieces, I find I've got 80 models to play with. So that's 4 troops for my Iron Warriors which for now will be it. Also 4 troops for my Knights of Blood Army which comes kind of close to making it a playable army if I add the Khorne Berzerkers as either Berzerkers or Death Company I'm good to go, with the Seth model I've made and the Captain in Terminator Armour as options for my HQ choices. I'm amazed that I had all those model just sat around doing nothing, now all I need is some more paint to get going with the 2 new colour schemes.

2 in one day!

Here's my second posting...

The Games Workshop have totally re-done the Deamon hunters Codex and are releasing it this weekend. Now from what I can gather they have completely revamped the army list. Which kind of leaves me with a problem as I have a small Deamon Hunters force, 2 HQ's (1 Inquisitor, 1 Grand Master with Body Guard of Terminators), 2 Troops (made up of Dark Angel Veterans) and 2 Fast Attack Teleporters (made up form Chaos Marines and Khorne Berzerkers). Now with this new Codex my army is obsolete and I'm thinking of breaking it up and using it again, the Dark Angel Vets will go to make Assault Marines/ Raptors and 5 Sargeants or some Vanguard Vets thereby freeing up 25 models, as I have a spare 5 DA Vets knocking abou,t and the 20 Teleport Troopers give me another 20 models to play around with plus and couple of spares the I'll get from dropping the Imperial Elements from my mian army, the Chaplin, the Librarians, the Medic. Which means I can have 2 basic army lists, one for the Iron Warriors and one for the Knights of Blood supporting elements to my army. But if I do do this I loose an option army that I really liked the idea of of and enjoyed making as every modle was a conversion in one way or another

Shiny!

This post should of been up yesterday, but I had an emergency phone call at 3pm and had to get to the bank double quick to sort out my friends bank and then it's time for tea and all that.

As has been discussed I'm working on a Renegade Army right now with Android support, well I was in town the other day walking past a Charity shop when I saw some 28mm metal robots I thought they look cool, lets have a closer look. Went into the shop and it turns out they are Rouge Trader era Necron Warriors, £5 lighter I walk out of the shop with them in a bag. Didn't tell the woman in the shop that the models in question are probably worth far more than that. Above you can see the 3 models in the range, I've turned one round so as to show the light blue wash I've done on the spine to denote the power supply. And with some judicious ebaying I've picked up 10 of the Space Crusade plastic Androids for a total of £4 and when is all said and I'll have 2 squads of 10 Chaos Androids, lead by Techmarines, armed with 2 melta guns.

Next step for this army is going to be the Troops, Elites, Tanks and Bikes which are going to cost money. Ebay here I come.

Lazy

Okay to make the sharing of photos a bit easier I'm going to put a link from here to my facebook page so that readers, and it's nice to know that there are some out there, can have a look at what I'm working on right now. Any photos will either be in the Game Stuff folder or Mobile Uploads folder. You might need to send me afriend request to view the pics, just put Poxy Proxy Predator in the Add a Message box

My Facebook photo album page
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/198of505?sk=photos

Not Excatly Plan A

Seems I'm having to change my plan for my Lost and Damned army as the Codex I was taking it from is no longer a game legal book. Thankfully I now have the updated list taken from Imperial Armoury Book, and with a little bit of a re jig this army is still a goer.

Basic Change is it's now, at it's core, a Renegade Imperial Guard Regiment (Mechanicus Skitarii in this case), so with that in mind I've shifted the 3 made models around, the Titan Tech Priest is now the main HQ choice, the Iron Father and the self made Tech Priest model will be leading a squad of Androids each in an allied role to the main troops choices.

Fast Attack options are going to be Sentinels the Android Attack Bikes, when made, and either a Hellhound or pay for a squadron of the Salamander Scout tanks from Forge World.

My Heavy Support is limited to 1 tank, 1 artillery piece and a Heavy Weapon Company. So I'm taking a Leman Russ Vanquisher and a Hydra Flak Tank with a some heavy weapons teams as well.

Elites will be fun, I get to convert a few Ogres to make them 40K, plan will be to get a box of Ironguts and play around with them to see what I can get and maybe a Maneater as well to top them off. As well as this unit I'm taking the an elite squad of Guards and putting them in an APC with one of the Enforcers attached to the squad to give them some heavy hitting close combat power. And lastly I'm adding my Android Terminators as allied elites, in the army list it gives you the option of having a Marine squad as elites, but I prefer the allies and taking them where they should be.

The Enforcers I've mentioned will most likely be made out of Space Marine Scouts as they come with the option of buying them Carapace Armour, and 5 of those is cheaper than 5 Commissars will be, or Arbitras for that matter.

And the troops choice is going to be a mix of Catachan Jungle Fighters, Zombie and Skeletons to represent the mechanised nature of the troops. Plan is to have one combined platoon with heavy weapons and to sit them on any objective I have in my deployment zone and 3 Armoured Fist Squads to zip forward, and with the elite unit, capture any that I can, I may just add a heavy weapon or 2 to these squads, I'll have to play with them first and see how well this army woks in it's natural state

Gaden and Plans

Hi there long time no update, but as I'd finished my tank I took some time off, got a girlfriend and a job and now I find myself with some time on my hands again as both seem to have gone now.

So back to the project work. Well as the tank has been finished and put out there to play I've gone onto other things. Photos will be arriving over time as I work out the best way to get them off Face book that is.

My army for Warhammer 40,000 started out as a Loyalish Marines, but I've since fallen down a dark path and have added more and more Chaos additions to it and now have a much larger Chaos army than loyalist, which is good as with Chaos you get more choice. The Core army is still the same but I've added some Chaos flavour to it with the addition of some Thousand Sons, some Khorne Berzerkers and some Nurgul Havoc's. The Slaanesh are (will be when they are bought and made) my Chaos Terminators with the heads of some Dark Eldar Wyches and one squad of Chosen made from the Dark Eldar Wyches box set. I will be adding more of the Slannesh Force to my army over time as I'm making them from a corrupted Sisters of Battle Order, as I like that idea. But right now finances dictate that buying an all metal army is way way out of my price range. Fingers crossed by the time I get round to this part of my army The Games Workshop will have done plastic Sisters of Battle and this good idea will be made.

But onto what my next project will be. With the Ascension of the Leader of the Army to a Daemon Prince I've added a new Unified Chaos Lord to my Army who was leading his own army into exile in the Eye Of Terror. This is my Dark Mechanicus Lord Hudson Gaden with his appreniti and his Mechanicus Sketarri Legion Troops and, the reason he was kicked out of the Imperium, his Androids.

For this army I've already built and painted Gaden who came from the Games Workshops Bloodbowl range, as a base it's an Undead Wraith, I've added blades to one hand to give him Lightning Claws added a 3rd arm and attached a twin linked bolter to that and have shoulder mounted a plasma pistol. The great thing about a Chaos Lord is that this is legal!

Now here's the fun bit I've got a copy of The Eye Of Terror Codex from way back when and in this is a Chaos traitor army which is what Hudson Gadens army will be. As this army's HQ I've already bought and built 3 Tech Priests types. One is an almost standard Space Wolf Iron Priest, all I've done with that model is to cut the hammer that it comes with and replace it with an axe head( this guy will also be used in my loyalish Space Marine as a standard Tech Marine) He will go by the name of Jervis Babbage. Next is Jellet 'Clamps' Arrol which is the Forge World Titan Tech Priest, an expensive and finely detailed model that i feel my paint job just hasn't done justice to, but I can always go back and do it again, and it's Clamps as his tool arms come with 2 options, clamp heads or a tool head and as we'd just been watching Futurama's Into The Wild Green Yonder which does feature The Robot Mafia and Clamps I just couldn't resist it. Lastly of the 3 is Massey Jubah and head of this Army when Gaden is not around. I've made this model myself from various bits scavved from the Coppull and Chorley Knights bits box, legs and body come from a Space Marine Scout, the head is from a Tau Fire Warrior, the arms are from a Terminator and the back pack is from a Tech Priest. One arm has a twin linked bolter and the other was once a power fist that I hacked up for bits a while ago, I've glued a Dark Eldar pistol to the hand and a flamer nozzle and flamer tank to it as well to represent a cutting and a welding torch on the back pack is a double bladed Chainsword that I'm using as a Daemon weapon and I'm also classing him as wearing Terminator armour.

The rank and file troops will be made from the Catachan box set of Imperial Guard models with the addition of some skeleton bits to convey a Mechanised Infantry feel (no pun intended) with maybe one 10 man squad made up of Skeletons with Lasguns. To add to this I'm either going to find some more of the old Space Crusade Chaos Androids and use those or get a box of Necrons and give them bolters to add some Marine level firepower.

The Fast Attack Section of this army is a mish mash, I'm looking for some dogs to use as attack hounds. I'm also making some attack bikes based on the bike terminators from the film Terminator Salvation, looking forward to that project. Lastly there is a full squad of troops mounted in an APC for this squad I'm thinking of spending the extra and getting a Forge World unit as they are very cool model from there.

For the Elites I'm looking for some bionics that are Terminator sized (currently I'm using the Mega Blocs UNSC models) and I'm going to spend some cash and get some fo the Necromunder Pit Fighters to represent some Big Mutants, or maybe some Ogryns... can't make my mind up and price may play a part in this.

The Heavy Support next, I might just get a Defiler at last and and build that in the colours of this army as well as 2 Leman Russ tanks or I might splurge out on a couple of Malcadors from Forge World, to show his ,former, connections.

So there we have it photos for the done stuff will be up shortly and the other stuff will be posted as and when I get it done.

Hope you enjoy reading about this next project as much as I will making it.