Finished a few more marines! This brings the second tactical squad up to 15. Really enjoyed how the medusa on the sergeant's shoulder pad turned out. And here are the other 5: Need to take a picture of the full squad, and both squads together! Thanks! Quick good search of "great stone dragon mcdonald's toy" didn't come up with much, but I did find an original picture on pinterest. Thanks! I enjoyed how the colors work together on the desert board. Bit of pop, enough to add color, but the overall board looks great Spoiler: More pictures from the game My opponent's TAG was really strong in game, completely collapsed my right flank. ...and thanks @Nathan Weeres for all the likes!
Thanks @Killer Angel! Converted up some legion HQ choices recently: Delegatus, basically a ranking officer of smaller armies: A legion Esoterist, hence his lack of weapons (he is using psychic powers to smite the enemy): Spoiler: Esoterist And a Master of Signals: Spoiler: Master of Signals Rather poor attempt at converting a power axe out of plasticard. I think it will look fine enough once painted.
Took photos of the Horus Heresy collection last Sunday. Legion Tactical Squad 1 led by Sergeant Ajaak: Legion Tactical Squad 2 led by Sergeant Kanuur: The banner-bearers (legion vexilla): The sergeants: Both squads along with my Leviathan Dreadnought and Legion Praetor: They turned out good! Need to hurry up and decide what I want to do with these bases though . Action shot:
Out of curiosity, how many points could be that squad? how many do you still need to fit a standard HH battle?
Good question. A legion tactical squad bare-bones can be as little as 100 points for 10 marines with bolters and 35 points for a rhino. I have added a bunch of upgrades though. So far as I can tell with the current 2nd Ed HH rules I am sitting at the following: Tactical Squad 1- 205 points (15 legionnaires with bolt guns, sergeant with artificer armor, power fist, and plasma pistol, standard bearer/vexilla, and comms/nuncio vox) Tactical Squad 2- 235 points (15 legionnaires all with bolt guns and chain bayonets), sergeant with artificer armor, power fist, and plasma pistol, standard bearer/vexilla, and comms/nuncio vox) Legion Praetor/Iron Father- 215 points (all the iron father upgrades plus power ax and a combi flamer) Leviathan Dreadnought- 310 points (added the big melta gun and phosphex launcher) Brings me to a total of 965 points. I hear standard size games are normally played up to 3000 points to get the armies nice and big. That is generally what I am working towards, regardless of the new version of the game on the horizon. I have a bunch more footslogging marines I want to put together with new special weapons (plasma, maybe some combi melta) plus a group of x10 breacher marines armed with shields already primed and ready to paint. And their Land Raider Proteus is ready to paint up with them took, and my recent legion character conversions. Beyond that I have a few tanks I want to put together as well, along with some Contemptor Dreadnoughts that I am super excited to put together. They were some of my favorite minis to build for my deathwatch, not planning to go quite as over the top as I did for those dudes though! Once I get the backlog a bit smaller I may consider branching out into some more breaches, terminators, and hopefully a super heavy tank or two!