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For our last apocalypse game, there was a prize, destined to the best player of the winning team.
Guess what?

 

I think i will share the story of the narrative tournament.

This time we were 6 player for the usual apocalypse, however we were torn about armies and allegiances.
there were 2 xeno players (both orks)
2 with imperium (Black Templars and IK)
2 for chaos (Death Guard and me, with CSM - Creations of Bile)

so, i've managed to set a story, a mini tournament that would have led us to the apocalypse.

Basically a mini-tournament with 3 sides, structured in 3 rounds of battles 1v1 (chaos vs imperium, chaos vs xeno, xeno vs imperum). The first at 1500 pts , the second 2000, the third 2500. Each round, the winning side would have gained some advantage for the next round.
After 3 rounds of tournament, the setting would be ready for the final apocalypse, 2v2v2 (a grand total of 12.000 points on the battlefield)

Story:

Imperium:
at the borders of the Cicatrix Maledictum a lot of planetary systems were apparently lost... many of them only for the interruption of communications.
An imperial expeditionary force was conducting a sort of mini-crusade to take back to the imperium the still functional worlds.
THe fleet caught a transmission, apparently a repeating one. It was coming from a world colonized by a AdMech forge world and it had a notable feature: it was a vermilion code... a security code that usually only Primarchs or Lords of Terra can open. Even a Capter Master is ont authorized to undecrypt it.
What was so important? there was the need to investigate, moreso because on that world the original message could be opened. The fleet changed its course.

Chaos:
A DG force was chasing the personal vessel of Fabius Bile. After the Spider stole the Ark of Cornucontagion, he was on Mortarion's list "dead or alive", and after a long chase the target was near. The chaos force was aware of the imperium's fleet, and when they changed course so abruptly, it was clear they were on something. Alas, the loyalist one was a force too large for Fabius' pursuers, so it became clear that, if they wanted to discover what they were after, maybe if could have been the case to negotiate a truce with Bile, to see what was going on and possibly find an arrangement about the Ark...

Orks:
long time ago, the world had been conquered by the ork, that firstly overcome the humies' resistance, then repelled the invasions of some daemons. Lately things were getting kinda boring and even the car races and the usual fights between klans were not funny as usuals.
Luckily, the weirdboys (under the influence of fungal beer) predicted that soon there would have been plenty of strong enemies. That waz gud!


What's going on:
As discovered after the first combat, the mechanicus' fleet that colonized the planet, discovered something incredible, buried under tons of debris: a very ancient human vessel which was arond during the Great Crusade. When the Emperor was still around, even before the raising of Horus as Warmaster.
It was a war cruiser of the Raven Guard, and incredibly, in the stasis chamber of the chief apothecary, there were samples of the geneseed of said chapter, before it was irreparably contaminated during the course of the horus heresy. Actually, the Raven Guards' geneseed is one of the most corrupted among all the SM geneseeds, and here there is the one of the original SM chapters, still intact.

Of course, with such a prize, it's time to wage a war with everything at disposal!

 

Current project: a Tallarn Armored division, with THREE baneblades in it, painted in the style of the 7th division "Desert Rats"

 

Cavill: it's official!

 

Conversion time! (again)

i've started from an incoplete Drop Pods, which i took for free as it was missing all the internal pieces and part of the top turbine.

Who cares?!? I wanted to work on it to turn it into a chaos Dreadclaw drop pod.
This requires inverting the "fins", also working on them by cutting some edges to have them fit into the new position (see the right fin).




then the assembly part.
(not so easy, missing some pieces that would have helped in holding the thing together.

 

And today, as last act of the year 2022, I've managed to complete it.

If i will put my hands on other bits i will be able to increment the details, but as it stands i'd say is pretty much good.






Given that i'm gonna use it with Bile's Creations, it's chaos undivided so i dedicated the five sides to Nurgle, Tzeentch, Khorne and chaos undivided (twice). No Slaanesh, 'cause i don't have a single bit of that particular god. Oh well...

 

The Tallarn Project goes on...

 

Glad you like 'em.

You will see that army.
4 leman russ and 3 baneblades... those alone makes for 2000 points and are actually my priority for an incoming apocalypse.

later i will need a way to convert my cadian guardsmen into tallarn ones and maybe grab a transport or two.

 

A finished baneblade, with some chipping in the lower armor to give it an older look, and stains around the engine

 

7° Tallarn tank regiment "desert's rats", ready to go!

 

It is said that Skitarii cohorts of Metalica forgeworld, march into battle listening (in loop) to Black Sabbath "Computer God"

 

To expand on my Tallarn army...

the tanks of course will be led by commanders, and those must be special ones.

The Baneblade of the tank commander (tank ace officier) is of course "made to order".
I've picked a 2nd hand baneblade, largely incomplete, and i've started adding new weaponry.



WIP




MODEL COMPLETED

 

I did a similar thing for one of my Tank commander on a Leman Russ.

I've picked an old Catachan commander...



modeled with green stuff to mimic a scarf (kufiya like) and shirt sleeves rolled up (ala afrika korps)




PAINTING!