Painting Challenge: end of second week, new Night Lords breachers and new sentinels for Blood Pact!

Ave Dominus Nox,

That is almost the end of the second week of containment, as I started working from home during this week I have been a bit less productive. I finished my breacher squad by adding a few details and I did the two scout sentinels for the Blood Pact regiment.

If you take the list:

Drukhari:

- a 6-man squad of Reavers

- 16 Kabalites

- 2 Talos
- 1 Archon (new)
- 5 Incubi  (new)

Blood Pact:

- 2 Scout sentinel

- 10 guards  => work in progress

Orks:

- 30 Stromboyz

Night Lords:

- 1 Raptor Gunship

- 1 Leviathan full closed combat

- 10 man-squad with meltagun

- 10 Night Lord Raptors

- One Praetor with Jump-pack

For this third week, I plan on finishing the 10 man-squad for my Blood Pact, I did some kit bashing to modify their lasgun and the result is pretty nice.

After that, I hesitate between either the Night Lords Leviathan or the two Talos. Any idea of what to start with?

Anyway, below some pictures of the Breacher squad and the two sentinels.

Drukhari: Another pack of mercenaries, the scourges

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Another kind of mercenary paid by the Winter Eternal Kabal are the scourges. These winged killers come with a certain number of specialist and heavy weapons and bring flexibility on the battlefield. The only issue is to be sure to pay them on time and that no other Kabal paid them more before. It can be an issue if they decide to betray you in the middle of a raid.

A few scourges are currently in the payroll of the Kabal. They are mostly using shredder and like to see their foes turning in a red mist after shooting at them with their weapon.

I only build one squad of scourge and I like these models even if they are not the most efficient on a battlefield. They bring some nice deep strike and can strike hard if you do not mess up with the dices.

Like the other units, they are paint in white/grey with red or white wings. I am not happy with the white wings and I think I will modify them in the coming days to change for brown wings like an eagle.

I may had a couple of other marker for them if I decide to obtain another squad of these people.

Painting Challenge: End of first week results and new manticore to join the Blood Pact regiment.

Ave Dominus Nox,

That is the end of the first week of containment and I can say that I have been quite productive these past few days in my painting.
If you take the list, some stuff has been done:

Drukhari:

- a 6-man squad of Reavers

- 16 Kabalites

- 2 Talos
- 2 Raiders

- 1 Venom

Blood Pact:

- 1 Basilisk

- 1 Manticore

- 2 Scout sentinel

- 10 guards (but I think I am missing some bitz for them)

Orks:

- 30 Stromboyz

Night Lords:

- 1 Raptor Gunship

- 1 Leviathan full closed combat

- 10 Breachers

- 10 man-squad with meltagun

- 10 Night Lord Raptors

- One Praetor with Jump-pack

That's a good start and we will see where I am in another week.  

In the meantime, I finished my manticore for the Blood Pact.

I even put some marks on the different missile to give Khorne's blessing upon the glorious victim of his wrath!

I also tried some new stuff that will be better on the next models in line for the pact: 2 new scout sentinels. But you'll see that later!

Next article: the new 10-man breacher squad for the ninth company of Night Lords!

Drukhari : Razorwing Jetfighter squadron on the move

Ave dominus Nox!

The Winter Eternal Kabal decided long ago to use the service of many aircraft for their raid in real space. As such, squadron of razorwing jetfighters and void bomber are always ready to take off from the kabal ship. As they cannot directly bring slave, they prefer to inflict suffering and destruction upon the poor target of the Kabal.

Their pilots are member of the Dark Blood cult and therefor are specialist of tank and monster hunt.

Two razorwing jetfighters are part of the current Kabal airforce. They both use disintegrator cannon and missiles to rain death from above. As they are part of the Dark Blood Cult, they benefit from “test of skill” that give them a nice +1 to wound against tank and monster. Always appreciate with a strength 5 weapon.

I adapted a technique from this WHTV tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc9aMBc9Lxg

I just replace the Praxeti white by Ulthuan grey as the drukhari planes have less sharp angle than a rhino and the dry did not produce a good result. After a couple of game, I will add some specific marker in each plane depending on their effort on the battlefield.

Painting Challenge : Day 2 - Blood Pact Basilisk

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I continued the painting challenge due to this beautiful containment (Stay at home!). And the second models after the raiders was a Basilisk for my Blood Pact army.

As usual I put some specific Khrone marking on the model, a symbol here, a name there "Khorne Hammer"... Nothing fancy, but the usual details for this model to be correctly part of my army.
With the additional bits, I will be able to create more guard for the Death Brigade during my next kit bash (probably next week).

Next model on the list for the painting challenge: a fast Venom for the Winter Eternal Kabal.

Painting Challenge: First results - Drukhari Raiders

Ave Dominus Nox!

As the containment is now fully in application in France, Luxembourg and Germany, I will only know day by day the evolution for my work. So As previously state, I started my painting challenge and after a couple of days, I finished up to tabletop my raiders:

They will join the other forces of my Winter Eternal Kabal as fast moving transport for the numerous Kabalites, Dracons and Archon. 

I used mostly the advice of WarhammerTV for white scar armor: 

I did not use all these tips :  I did not use the dry. After a try on another model, I found the result disappointing for an eldar skimmer. 

I think I will add more details to these models in the coming days but at the moment they are tabletop ready.

I will continue my challenge, with a basilisk and manticore for my Blood Pact regiment.

Painting Challenge - using the containment to reduce the stock.

Ave Dominus Nox!

As you are all aware, special containment decisions have been made all across Europe to limit the dissemination of the new COV-19. It is our responsibility to stay at home, work from home and limit our travel. 

As a result, I, and I pretty sure you too, will have lot of time to paint all these nice minis that we have. You know, the one that we bought and then let in some boxes because of all the other projects that we have. 

It means that this containment is the perfect opportunity to work on them! And as it will last for at least a couple of weeks more realistically a month, it will be my painting challenge. 

At the moment, I am working on some Drukhari raiders and I hop to finish them today or tomorrow. After that, I have the below list to do:

Drukhari:

- a 6-man squad of Reavers

- 16 Kabalites

- 2 Talos

- 1 Venom

Blood Pact:

- 1 Basilisk

- 1 Manticore

- 2 Scout sentinel

- 10 guards (but I think I am missing some bitz for them)

Orks:

- 30 Stromboyz

Night Lords:

- 1 Raptor Gunship

- 1 Leviathan full closed combat

- 10 Breachers

- 10 man-squad with meltagun

- 10 Night Lord Raptors

- One Praetor with Jump-pack

And I also have some terrain to finish for my table, a gang of Esher and a team of Skaven for Blood Bowl.  

What do you think I should working on? I think I will do some of the tanks for my Blood Pact army. 

Drukhari - first battle report against Chaos!

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First battle report with the new Druhkhari a couple of days ago against a Thousand Sons / Alpha Legion army, we played the scenario 4 of the new ITC rulepack.

My current army:

Battalion Black Heart: 2*Archon, 5 Kabalites, 9 kabalites, 10 Kabalites, 2*Ravager, 2*Raider, 1 Void Bomber

Outride detachment: 1 Succubus, 2*6 reavers, 1*5 Scourges, 2*Razorwing Jetfighter

My opponent army:

Battalion Alpha Legion: Lord with power fist, sorcerer, 3*10 cultists, 2*3 Obliterators 2*Scorpius relics whirlwind

Battalion Thousand Sons: Ahriman on disc, sorcerer, 10 cultists, 2*5 Rubrics

I gain initiative and my opponent select vanguard strike for deployment.

First turn:

Drukhari: I started playing by sending my flyer in position to fire against the Scorpius and Obliterators. As my opponent use a stratagem, I cannot shoot the obliterators and focus on damaging a Scorpius and killing one squad of cultists.

Chaos: He almost did not move, but he managed to destroy one flyer and cause some damage to the others.

Second turn:

Drukhari: I did a better turn by killing one Scorpius, one obliterator squad and removing from game 2 cultists squad. One reavers squad manage to do that by engaging in close combat with the cultists.

Chaos: Not a lot of move again, but during shooting phase, the second obliterator squad that arrive destroy my ravager and my flyers take lot of damage. The reaver squad in close combat died by the hand of the chaos lord.

Third turn:

Drukhari: without the ravager and as the plane are damage, I did not do a lot of thing, I kill a rubric squad and focus with the reavers to damage the remaining Scorpius as well as engaging him in close combat to lock him and prevent him from shooting.

Chaos: During the psychic phase, my Void Bomber and reavers died. My raiders follow them after the obliterator shoot at them.

End Game:

At this point, we do not have many units on the table anymore. I focus on scoring as much as I can as well as killing some units outside the enemy deployment area (one rubric squad, diminishing the number of obliterators…). My opponent move to take some objectives markers in order to score.

In the end: 22 victory points for me 29 for my opponent, victory for the Chaos!

Analysis:

I clearly made a mistake during first turn by forgetting to “Vect” his stratagem to protect the Obliterators. I miss an opportunity to destroy them and it costs me one razorwing as an immediate punishment.

Also, I should have send all the reavers in second turn to destroy the cultist/engineer squad. It gave 3 victory points to my opponent.

Conclusion, I need to play more with this army in order to remember all the rules.

Drukhari - New 2020 project!

Ave Dominus Nox!

New project since the beginning of 2020: a new army! After some thoughts, I decided to start a Drukhari army. I want an army able to strike hard thanks to the speed and firepower of their units.

I used the army boxes sold during Christmas to start this project. It provided me a good basis: 40 kabalites, 2 Archons, 2 flyers, some reavers…

I will call this army the Winter Eternal Kabal and I will paint them using a winter thematic white, snow, cold blue.

The first part of the army must be ready for end of March with a team-tournament objective. I will publish the first version of my list in the coming days just after the deadline to send it to the tournament referees.

 

Before that, I can show you some of the first pieces and the way I painted them following the advice of the best painter of my club as well as my personal research on the internet.

I know it is not the best work ever, but I am not a pro painter, I want to find efficient way to paint this army at tabletop quality. And according to this criteria, the result is decent.

Imperial Knights - Warglaive

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Beside my Orks, Night Lords and Blood Pact, I also have a small collection of Imperial Knights. Some of my last addition to this strike force was a couple of Warglaive. These units can be good auxiliary when I want to play an “imperium” soup of my one. Not the most competitive piece of my collection, but they can surprise my opponent! 

And with the Psychic Awakening coming for Imperial Knight (probably in April or May), it is good to have a wide range of heavy walker available. 

I keep the painting simple and respect my house color: purple. At some point, I plan to buy a new Renegade Knight kit and do some kit bashing with the Imperial one to create something to put with the Blood Pact. 

Night Lords : End of new Tactical squad and second Praetor

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It has been a while but I finished the second half of the 4th Claw, my tactical squad of 20 marines. I did in the same time the first of my two new Praetor, the one in cataphractii armor. 

With his big Nostroman chainglaive, more a two handed chainaxe if you want my opinion and an integrated volkite caliver in one gauntlet, he is pretty cool. With the new Night Lords terminator coming soon, I cannot wait to have a big squad of him and these new models to send against the loyalist. 

In the meantime, after 3 terror squad, a big squad of “standard” marines is needed. I still gave a Nostroman chainglaive to the sergeant, he will be able to do some nasty stuff in close combat.

Next unit on my list: some raptors and the second Praetor.