A Night Lord posted:

"Would anyone perhaps care to tell me why, when we are twenty thousand fine killers in number, we cannot take one small mountain off a handful of Guilliman's brigade of public officials?"

Groetgaffel posted:

Colonel Aeryn Strune
Leader of the 11th Korcari Infantry.

Zark the Damned posted:

Hellbats Space Marines
Only a couple of guys here, the rest are buried in a box somewhere and are awful anyway...


Chaplain


Chief Librarian

genola posted:

I’m getting into this game and just got the Dark Imperium set, and I just finished the first mini from it. It was so fun to paint this guy up.

Killer_Bees! posted:

This is super cool bro

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Caradin Tolon, 144th Centurion, XIV Legiones Astartes

The so-called “Headsman of Barbarus” had already carved out a sinister reputation for himself long before the Great Betrayal. A Barbarussian native, Tolon was born shortly after Mortarion’s arrival and was a member of one of the earliest generations of Astartes to be raised from the world. By this time the influence of the Terran Dusk Raiders was still strong as the Primarch was only just beginning to reshape his legion. Tolon stood apart from his contemporaries by actively seeking tutelage from the older veterans and attempting to incorporate their hard won knowledge and experience into the doctrinal directives laid down by his sire. In doing so he combined the cunning of the warriors of Old Albia with the survivor's brutality of a Barbarussian and won himself the recognition of his commanders in a series of punishing close quarters actions. He rose to command his own demi-century after seven savage years and was promoted to lead his own century a decade later.

The 144th was a more specialised century than most others in the XIV, suited as they were to rapid deployment and assault. Most of the line squads were equipped as jump infantry with a preponderance of bikes and speeders as quick and flexible heavy support platforms. Tolon ran his century to primarily perform dangerous pathfinding and reconnaissance in force tasks or to act as a mobile and responsive reserve force. He and his marines roamed the battlefields of the Crusade and frequently engaged vulnerable targets of opportunity with overwhelming force. What opposition could not be destroyed was lured into the main line of advance, a task greatly assisted by Tolon’s reputation.

During his early service Tolon became enamoured with the ancient Terran doctrine of “total war”. It was his belief that the only morally justifiable way to conduct war was to do so so completely and savagely that the mere thought of resistance would be crushed. He shared fervently his Primarch's belief in the liberation of mankind from slavery, ignorance and tyranny and was convinced in the value of thousands of lives horrifically spent in war if it meant the sparing of millions through rapid capitulation. He took it upon himself to be the manifestation of the “hard hand of war” and committed atrocities more at home in the annals of the VIII than the XIV. Taking of heads as trophies, burning of population centres with flame and phosphex and the execution of prisoners were all common practice in the 144th. Higher command echelons would frequently turn a blind eye to such practises as they produced results that were desired by the legion. The XIV was not a legion that occupied itself with the building and maintenance of worlds.

Tolon’s talents would serve him well during the years of the Betrayal. Like nearly all native born legionnaires he was wholly behind his Primarch in all things and had no qualms with the purging of the Legion at Istvaan, viewing the brothers that would not support Mortarion as traitors to the Death Guard and humanity as a whole. It appears that as the rebellion ground onwards and more and more terrible deeds were required of him Tolon lost his moral grounding completely, justifying every kill and casualty as necessary for the overthrow of the tyrant Emperor. Like many of those fortunate enough to have missed the XIV’s final muster, the Siege of Terra shattered these illusions completely and the full magnitude of what his Legion and his Primarch had done proved too terrible to bear.

BuffaloChicken posted:

EDIT: I'm clearly biased, but this is wonderful. Got any more Catachan to post, Groetgaffel?

BuffaloChicken posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (allied Space Wolves Lord on Thunderwolf from my "monster detachment")

chutche2 posted:

Here's my mediocre contribution.

First we've got Pedro Kantor, I promise he looks okay in person and not like the complete mess it does in the photo




Pedro's loyal bigly lieutenants








And the captain that has not once seen table time since I started proxying Pedro and eventually got the model

BuffaloChicken posted:

TheChirurgeon hosted me for two excellent games of his Zone Mortalis missions today (he also showed me the new Genestealer Cult minis, since we were playing Cult vs Deathwatch, and I'm STOKED) - while there, he told me to post my characters.

Marbo



Leman Russ Tank Commander (currently converting a magnetic commander popping out the hatch to look more "HQ")



The Respectmobile (allied Space Marine Commander on Bike)



Anteater Shaman (allied Space Wolves Librarian from my "monster detachment")



Calvin and Hobbes (allied Space Wolves Lord on Thunderwolf from my "monster detachment")



My friend Marco riding the Herpaderpadon carrying a staff of PBR cans (allied Space Wolves Logan Grimnar on wolf sled from my "monster detachment")



Eversor Assassin



Necromunda ladies - the two on left also see time as Catachan Commanders



Squat Pirate Lord (Catachan Commander)



Squat Mechanic (Techpriest Enginseer)



The Narrative Forge (Grey Knight Dreadknight Lord)



Squat Medic (Grey Knight Apothecary)



Genestealer Cult Magus



Genestealer Cult Patriarch



Genestealer Cult Primus



Genestealer Cult Icon Bearer



Old One Eye (sculpted/converted)





The Red Terror



Farseer



Warlock on Jetbike (Wraithknight head on old bike chassis)



Moose God (Magnus the Red)





Terror Trees (Daemon Princes of Nurgle, plus bonus Primaris Psyker in bottom center of photo 2)





Mummy Lord (Herald of Khorne)



Hope we keep doing these themed posting sprees, the content is terrific! Love seeing everyone's stuff, hope nobody's getting sick of my same counts-as stuff getting posted regularly.

EDIT: I'm clearly biased, but this is wonderful. Got any more Catachan to post, Groetgaffel?


This is also so retro-wonderful.

Pendent posted:

So this should explain the frustrating part and the really, really funny part of the game in one picture. My opponent ended up completely filling up the top of that building with dudes- those few gaps you see were drones that I'd killed this turn. Per the FAQ that means there is no way for you to successfully charge anything up there, which meant that my 250 point unit of Death Company accompanied by Lemartes were effectively useless.

For_Great_Justice posted:

40k an rear end assault just does not mix.

Raphus C posted:

Bosses:

Zark the Damned posted:

Rano Pano posted:

Imperial Fist captain

Groetgaffel posted:

The paint job is lovely. They all are.
But it looks a little bit like he's propelling himself through the air with the power of farts.

Zark the Damned posted:

Next goonmeet we should both bring our chariot bosses and figure out some racing rules

Booley posted:

Pendent posted:

I played a sort of frustrating open war game against Tau yesterday that was fortunately still very enjoyable because I really like the guy I was playing with. He's also got a really great custom Ork army that I look forward to playing against once the codex drops. I won't bore you guys with a full battle report because most of the game was either him shooting his entire army at my knight and mostly bouncing off it, or the Knight stomping on or otherwise murdering poo poo.

So here's the highlight reel.

This Intercessor Sergeant has already fought once, alone, against that squad of Fire Warriors, killing three. He will proceed to wipe the squad out by himself which was incredibly funny.




My opponent was so intimidated by the Sergeant's sheer fury that he ended up shooting him down with this smug motherfucker afterward




The context here is that I was able to get my captain (bottom center) into combat with a Breacher squad white still being out of LOS of the battlesuits on top of the building. I then proceed to forget why I was so careful to position him and consolidate into the position he holds in this picture. He failed to wipe the Breachers, they fell back and I'm sure you can guess what happened to poor slamguinius- barely so might I add. I used the warlord trait to give him FnP and he made an assload of saves.




So this should explain the frustrating part and the really, really funny part of the game in one picture. My opponent ended up completely filling up the top of that building with dudes- those few gaps you see were drones that I'd killed this turn. Per the FAQ that means there is no way for you to successfully charge anything up there, which meant that my 250 point unit of Death Company accompanied by Lemartes were effectively useless.


So here's the funny part. I used that strategem to let my knight reach up with his sword and try to open up a hole in the Crisis Suits. The Tau proceeded to take 10 wounds off of a Knight with a 2+ 4++ on overwatch to kill it. The Knight then exploded 10" which hit almost everything up there, resulting in ~15 mortal wounds. I conceded the game next turn as I physically could not win but I did secure the moral victory.

Here's the results of the explosion



It doesn't look like much until you realize that everything up there has a ton of wounds and it's now all completely crippled. I did 5 mortal wounds to that Broadside, for instance.