Gates of Morpheus

Necron Second Wave (pics!)

2012-04-23T22:04:00.001+02:00

Forgeworld News!

2012-04-03T11:30:00.002+02:00

Assault Marines Mk IV. Unsure if the backpacks are really Jump Packs. They do look like the Sanguinary Guard Jump Packs without the angelic wings.

Tartaros Pattern Termiantors w Close combat upgrades and Character upgrade. I like this pattern but not *that* much. I read on a forum that the legs would be good for true-scale marines though. Lightning claws look bloody awesome though!

Random beast. Like it though :P

Space Wolf Commission Continued

2012-03-31T23:03:00.003+02:00

Some progress on the army.

3 LasPlas Razorbacks

Long Fang!

Special Weapon Grey Hunters, weapon options magnetized!

Standard Grey Hunters.

Another 3 Razorbacks.

Some more pics of new Space Wolves

2012-02-23T23:59:00.000+01:00

Arjac Looks quite cool, I'll probably get myself one!

Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf Will have to see him alongside the plastic TWC before I decide if he's worth having. I suspect it will be easier and create a more uniformed look to build the Lord from the normal kit. Just bling him out with some fancy bits.

Wolf Standard bearer Ugly banner and unnecessary resin addition to my plastic horde.

Cyberwolf I guess if someone used Iron Priests with those bad boys it could be worth having maybe, rather though instead of having 4 identical ones, people will go for the plastic Fenrisian Wolves and cyberify them.

Scarab Occult Pre-heresy Thousand Sons WIPs (Grey Knight Paladins)

2012-02-23T15:49:00.006+01:00

Bases: Scibor Egyptian
Heads: Galactic Knights marines
Legs: Microart
Bodies: GK and vanilla Terminators
Weapons: GK Terminators
Shoulder pads: Dreadnought leg plates

Finally some wolfies! ...and nids too!

2012-02-22T00:10:00.003+01:00

Thunderwolves, Fenrisian wolves, Arjac and both Tyrannofex, Tervigon and flying Tyrant! Lo and behold! And might that be a Wolf Standard?

Important! Wheel of Time: A Memory of Light release date!

2012-02-17T15:31:00.003+01:00

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/02/the-release-date-for-a-memory-of-light-has-been-set?WT.mc_id=0

Space Wolves Commission

2012-02-14T22:28:00.000+01:00

I've ordered a Space Wolf army from a commission painter and there has been some progress that I'm quite excited about - Scouts! Apart from these bad boys we have six squads of Grey Hunters, three squads of Long Fangs, one squad of Wolf Guards, Nine(!) Razorbacks/Rhinos, one Rune Priest, Five Thunderwolves, Five Fenrisian Wolves, Two Land Speeders.

After that batch I'm thinking about adding two additional Priests, Logan, Njal, 6 CML Terminators, 2 Assault Cannon Terminators, 3 Lone Wolves and Bjorn (I ordered the Forgeworld Space Wolf Dreadnought). Maybe a few Multi-meltas, Drop Pod and Arjac (so I can try that trick too lol). Or I should wait for the next edition to leak so I know what I buy is actually not crap anymore.

Two Headed - anything goes Warhammer 40k tournament 2x1000pts

2012-02-14T13:59:00.006+01:00

I'm considering entering a two-player tournament. Each team of two shares a FOC, each player needs to field at least one HQ och one Troop choice. Unique characters may not be fielded twice in the same army. "Friendly units" are all units in the teams armies.

So, this opens up a lot of possible combos, perhaps the first to come to mind being Blood Angel's Apothecaries. Fateweaver deserves some mention as well. Daemons only having to field one troop might have some merit.

My teammate has alot of Marines as well as some Orcs. I have Chaos Daemons, Tau, Imperial Guard, GK and some Marines.

My first idea was:

Fateweaver

6 Bloodcrushers
6 Fiends
6 Fiends

5 Plaguebearers

Then add, maybe Deathwing?

Belial

5 Termies, 4 SS/TH, CML, Apot
5 Termies, 4 SS/TH, CML
5 Termies, 4 SS/TH, CML

Leaves 135 points, It's a pity a Teleport homer won't work for Daemons :/

This has the potential to land 5 Terminators with re-rollable 3++ or 2+, followed by FnP. Try to kill them ;)

Another idea I had was fielding big orc mobs with BA priests, but I don't think we have enough models to field that.

I guess you could yes cherry pick good things on their own from two codexes. Actually, IG and GK might work.

Coteaz

2 x Purifiers (5), 2 Psycannons

5 x Acolytes (3) w. Psybolt Razorbacks

2 x Psyflemen

960

and

Primaris Psyker

Infantry Platoon
PCS, Chimera (ML/HF)
2 x Infantry Squad, Chimeras (ML/HF)

3 x Vendettas, Hvy Bolters (on 2 of em)

Hydras (3)

Maybe IG could be switched to DA, then you could field 3 Psyflemens in the GK list and use:

Belial

Riflemen

5 Termies, 4 SS/TH, CML, Apot, Standard

Land Speeder Typhoon w. MMs (2)
Land Speeder Typhoon (2)
Land Speeder Typhoon (2)

You'd have a somewhat nasty CC unit.

Dropping in Arjac, with Logan and MM-Long Fangs could be interesting with say Apothecary, Chaplain and a Blood Angels HQ. Gaah, the possibilities are endless!

Eldar artwork

2012-02-14T11:56:00.001+01:00

Forgeworld News!

2012-02-13T14:48:00.006+01:00

More Pre-heresy mark Space Marines. This time to hang around in the tanks of the Adeptus Astartes. Two MKII aka Crusader armor and one MKIV.

Nice with three for the not so over the top price of 12 pounds. Though personally I'm not a fan of mixing the marks of the different armors.

This one is kinda standard but when would you want to use a crew for a tank that holds a bolter? It's wrong WYSIWYG but it looks kinda coolish.

Good for a Rhino!

Wow dude, go shave! Apart from that this one looks really cool, unique headgear and generic enough to use for whatever vehicle you'd like.

1250pts tournament. Grey Knights or Imperial Guard?

2012-02-09T11:27:00.001+01:00

I've made 4 different lists. The IG one is fully painted (my Death Korps) the GK needs everything GKy to have a lick of red paint (Pre-heresy Thousand Sons).

I have about 3 weeks, but there is no painting score, everything just needs to be painted. The tournament is played on 48x48" tables, which is why I opted for some terminators mainly.

Last time I played the first GKlist and came in third. It worked really well. Last game I failed against 9 Hive Guards and 3 Tervigons because I wasn't offensive enough with the Purifiers. I really like to play mechy gun lines with one offensive element (Straken command squad etc, mech BA with Mephiston). Any thoughts from the internet?

Grey Knights #1 1250

Coteaz 100

Purifier Squad (7) 199 - Rhino 40
-2 Psycannons, 1 Daemonhammer, 3 Halberds

5 SBwarriors 35 - Chimera (ML, HF)
5 SBwarriors 35 - Chimera (ML, HF)
4 Warriors 3 w. Melta – Chimera (ML, HF)
4 Warriors 3 w. Melta – Chimera (ML, HF)
3 Warriors 12 - Psyback
3 Warriors 12 - Psyback

3x Psyflemen

Coteaz rides with the Purifiers. Quite straightforward.

Grey Knights #2 1250

Coteaz

5 Paladins
-Psycannon, Hammer
-Psycannon, Halberd
-Sword
-Halberd
-Halberd

5 SBwarriors - Chimera (ML, HF)
5 SBwarriors - Chimera (ML, HF)
3 Warriors - Psyback
3 Warriors - Psyback
3 Warriors - Psyback
3 Warriors - Psyback

3x Psyflemen

Paladins provide counter-charge together with Coteaz and can threaten other shooty armies as they wade through cover and shoot 8 Str7 rending shots. No melta at all might be a problematic.

Grey Knights #3 1250

Coteaz
OM Inq, Terminator Armor, Psycannon, 2 Servo Skulls

5 Terminators
-Psycannon, Halberd
-Hammer
-Halberd
-Sword
-Justicar w. Halberd

5 SBwarriors - Chimera (ML, HF)
5 SBwarriors - Chimera (ML, HF)
Jokaero Weaponsmith, 3 MM-Servitors, 4 Warrior Acolytes– Chimera (ML, HF)
3 Warriors - Psyback
3 Warriors - Psyback

3x Psyflemen

A very resilient Terminator squad fill the same role as the Paladins did in the previous list, but here they are scoring. Coteaz hang out with the Servitors, but near enough to go out and join the Terminators if the Inquisitor runs out of extra wounds :P

Imperial Guard 1250

CCS, 3 Plasma + Chimera

PCS, Flamer
Infantry Squad, Flamer
Infantry Squad, Flamer

2x Veterans, 3 Melta + Chimera

3x Vendetta w. Hvy Bolter

3x Hydra

I'm not sure, every time I try to build a IG list nowadays I just feel that Coteaz lists with Psyflemen are much better.

(Part 1) My own Legion of Space Marines - History[1]

2012-02-06T15:08:00.003+01:00

In an attempt to bring fluff to my vision of having one army to represent ALL space marine forces. I have started outlining their history and their organization to bring some sort of explanation as to why they can be used to fill a variety of different codex roles. In the following short articles I hope to give examples on my own legion and how it comes into play with magnets and what choices in bits from different online stores will be used. Hopefully this will spur me to more hobby time both online and in front of the hobby desk.

Templars of Pandemonium

History of the Legion

The Achaemenid Empire rose to prominence following the beginning of the Age of Strife. In that empire an order of warrior-scholars existed. They were keepers of ancient Terra lore and remembered the time of humanity’s space empire. They were disciplined, their martial excellence on par with their extensive knowledge. In truth, their discipline was what kept them from the ravages of the warp. One of the reasons they remembered the days of the galaxy-wide empire was because they in part brought it to an end. They were originally psykers inviting the Chaos to wreck destruction on those presuming to judge them and their new-found talents. As the worlds burned around them some of them despaired and regained their senses. They fought to resist the lure of Chaos and wield their psychic talents for their own cause. As the space empire crumbled this group swore to preserve the history of what had happened and never let it happen again. In the ruins of Terra they established a monastery and from there they spread their knowledge and when able, served to uphold peace.

When the Emperor started his Unification War the order which now called themselves the Templars of Pandemonium was against it. There were a couple of the warrior-scholars who recognized the need of unity to ensure any kind of steady growth on a global level, but the Grandmaster was a firm pacifist.

Vampire: The Masquerade -- 20th Anniversary Edition

2012-02-06T11:31:00.001+01:00

I've been playing Vampire the Masquerade for quite some years. It all started with a local LARP group playing Mind's Eye Theater. I bought Clanbook: Gangrel and copied the character that had the coolest picture for my first experience. The Prince killed me and I stayed up later than I ever had before. Then I grew up... kinda.

Since then I've played and storytelled both Giovanni and Transylvania Chronicles. Currently I'm storytelling my own chronicle after a few years of playing other games. What got me back was the announcement of the 20th anniversary edition. See more info here: http://blog.vampirethemasquerade.com/page/Information.aspx I was thrilled! Sadly though, I were too late and missed the pre-order dates.

I was glad to have found my way back to the setting and continued to dwell deep into the metaplot, once more theorizing around Saulot, Ashur and all of the old geezers wandering about. I began to compile my own, if somewhat short, version of "all" things and how it all came together at Gehenna. I then asked my gaming group about Vampire and soon enough the campaign got underway. "Cycles of Sins" were born!

I'll write more about that, but what got me to write this in the first place is that apparently the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire is on PRINT ON DEMAND!

Linky linky: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=94815

What can I say, I love sexy hardcovers in my bookshelves.

Quick'n'dirty Coteaz Storm bolter henchmen

2011-11-29T14:38:00.002+01:00

Thunderwolf Cavalry Mr.dandy

2011-10-14T15:58:00.001+02:00

Got those puppies this week and they look really great! :D I've seen them painted at tourneys before but the detail and quality is incredible. Hopefully I won't be too dissapointed if/when GW releases their own, I'm tired of waiting.

IG 1850 for tourney

2011-10-14T15:52:00.002+02:00

CCS, 3 Plasma 95
-Chimera ML-HF 55
CCS, 3 Plasma 95
-Chimera ML-HF 55

Psyker Battle Squad (7) 90
-Chimera ML-HB, Stubber 65

Veterans, 3 Melta 100
-Chimera ML-HF 55
Veterans, 3 Melta 100
-Chimera ML-HF 55
PCS, AC 40
-Chimera ML-HB, Stubber 65
Infantry Squad, 50
Infantry Squad, 50

Vendetta, Heavy Bolters 140
Vendetta, Heavy Bolters 140
Vendetta, Heavy Bolters 140

Hydras (2) 150
Hydras (2) 150
Manticore 160

I feel that he list is quite good if maybe lacking a little in the scoring apartment. It's a pity I won't get a chance to try the list. Hopefully I'll write some battle reports after the tourney, last weekend of October.

FOX

2011-10-04T15:05:00.001+02:00

Isn't the cutest?

I make a habit of incorporating something foxy in all my armies. Death Korps NATYA (count as Marbo) has a pet fox on her base. My Daemons had a Fox changeling (that works really well me thinks). Eldar have a fox as an objective marker. My in progress Space Wolves will probably have a Firefox Mounted Wolf Lord (hehe). I have inbound some Thunderwolves from Mrdandy and one of them is getting a fluffier tail :)

This sort of recurring theme is important for me as it makes something feel like "mine". Now I'm trying to figure out which Marine chapter rules would work best for my Space Foxes chapter. I've been thinking vanilla with Shrike. I want them stealthy, trixy and psychic. Maybe a future codex will provide a better base. No rush, have too many projects as is.

Pre-heresy Thousand Sons (well, GK in red)

2011-10-04T14:57:00.001+02:00

Supposed to be an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator Armor and armed with a Psycannon.

Some Purifiers. Plan is Henchmen+Purifiers, but I've made a Strike Squad member test model, which I can photo later.

Their ride. Includes HB-turret option.

With a lil lick of paint :)

Yeah, sort of

2011-09-06T14:10:00.000+02:00

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

-Erich Fromm

Foxes!

2011-09-03T21:13:00.000+02:00

I love foxes! Who doesn't? You must be mad or just lack vital EVERYTHINGS if you don't...

Anyway, I collect those lil things and try very hard to incorporate them in my armies (popular objective markers, one became the Changeling for my Daemons).

So, if you know any, please tell me! Currently I have:

Fox familiar (from Reaper):

and Kitsune with fox form (from Bushido):

I also tracked down an old Gyrinx, whilst not a fox, still cool!

So, give me more foxes!

Legs for Mr. Mephy

2011-01-16T18:18:00.000+01:00

My first time using gs, which probably can be seen :P

Plan is to true-scale a Mephiston out of termie legs and the Master of the Ravenwing jetbike torso.

Two comp lists

2010-11-28T17:33:00.000+01:00

I missed a tournament with composition limit of 60, using the swedish composition model, which you can find here: http://svenska40k.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=2582

But that didn't stop me from musing on potential list.

I came up with two, using my collection of Dark Angels/Space Lions. Mostly I try to abuse the cheapness of the Iron Priest on TWM to hide a cheapish Lord.

List 1

Wolf Lord -7
- Wolf Claw, Storm Shield, ThunderWolf Mount, 2 Wolves

Logan Grimnar -9

Iron Priest -1
-Wolftooth Necklace, Thunderwolf Mount, 4x Cyberwolves

Wolf Guard [10] -6
- (2) Terminator w. Cyclone

Wolf Guard [5] -4
- Terminator w. Cyclone

Long Fangs [6] -6
- Missile LAunchers (5)

KOMP: 60

Total: 1695, need to spend 55 points (some of em to differentiate the lords)

List 2

Wolf Lord -7
- Frost Blade, Storm Shield, ThunderWolf Mount, 2 Wolves

Wolf Lord -7
- Wolf Claw, Storm Shield, ThunderWolf Mount, Meltabomb, 2 Wolves

Wolf Lord -7
- Wolf Claw, Storm Shield, ThunderWolf Mount, Saga of the Beastslayer, 2 Wolves

Iron Priest -1
-Wolftooth Necklace, Thunderwolf Mount, 4x Cyberwolves

Grey Hunters [5] -3
- Meltagun
- Razorback w. Lascannon, TL-Plasma -2

Grey Hunters [5] -3
- Meltagun, Power Sword
- Razorback w. Lascannon, TL-Plasma -2

Grey Hunters [5] -3
- Meltagun
- Razorback w. Lascannon, TL-Plasma -2 75

Long Fangs [6] -6
- Missile Launchers (5)

KOMP: 58 (105-47)1750

Latest tournament list

2010-11-28T17:24:00.000+01:00

Played in a swedish tourney with the swedish composition system.

The Comp points were set to 25, 1750points, 3 games with composition not really affecting anything beside army building. Link to swedish comp model here: http://svenska40k.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=2582

I played:

Space Lions (Space Wolves with Dark Angels riding on horses instead of wolves)

HQ:
Logan Grimnar, the Great Wolf -
Wolf Lord Dragoon -Frag and krak grenades, Thunder Wolf, Powerfist, Storm Shield, Runic Armour, Fenrisian Wolves [2]
Wolf Lord Zaknefiel - Frag and krak grenades, Thunder Wolf, Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield, Runic Armour, Fenrisian Wolves [2]

Troops:
Wolf Guard Pack [10] 8 w. Frag and krak grenades, Bolter, Bolt Pistol, 2 w. Terminator armor, Power Weapon, Storm bolter, Cyclone Missile Launcher, 1 Combi-Melta
Wolf Guard Pack [5] 4 w. Frag and krak grenades, Bolter, Bolt Pistol, 1 w. Terminator armor, Power Weapon, Storm bolter, Cyclone Missile Launcher
Wolf Guard Pack [5] 4 w. Frag and krak grenades, Bolter, Bolt Pistol, 1 w. Terminator armor, Power Weapon, Storm bolter, Cyclone Missile Launcher

Fast Attack:
Thunder Wolf Cavalry [2] 1 w. Power Fist

Heavy:
Long Fangs [5] All w. Close combat weapon, Frag and krak grenades, 4 w. Missile Launchers, Leader with Bolt pistol
Long Fangs [5] All w. Close combat weapon, Frag and krak grenades, 4 w. Missile Launchers, Leader with Bolt pistol
Long Fangs [4] All w. Close combat weapon, Frag and krak grenades, 3 w. Missile Launchers, Leader with Bolt pistol

The list worked good and I got the chance to play against the new Dark Eldar which spurred my enthusiasm for my next project... Drawed in first game against mech Imperial Guard, mostly due to sucky diff and fleet rolles for wolfstar. Won the next against orks very big and had another major win against Dark Eldar. Landed me on second place out of 18. I think I'm beginning to grasp 5th ed.

Nest up: some idea of a combination of Slaanesh, Eldar and Dark Eldar. Time to get good at painting I suppose.

First Lion (Wolf) Guard

2010-06-05T13:21:00.001+02:00

He has some character so he'll go with 4 "normal" Lion Guards. 2 more to come for Logans squad.