2 of 6 bikes done

I wanted my attack bikes to look different so here is the first one. It is my 40K rendition of the G.I.Joe R.A.M. This was one of the first G.I.Joe vehicles I received as a kid. It was a motorcycle with a gatling gun on the side. Awesome stuff!
So, this is my Night Lord Multi Melta bike. I'll pair it with the scout bike below on a large base. Thus giving two bikes to equal the two wounds. It seems to work on paper.


It isn't super fancy, but it conveys a microwave gun on a bike. It is a little close to the rider, but marine armor is supposed to be all ceramite and such to protect from such things. A little melta blow back shouldn't hurt the rider.Right?

Besides, before it is fired it can be hydraulically pushed out away for rider saftey. Yeah that's it! See it has all that cool hydraulic stuff on the mount behind the seat! That is what it is for! Quick off the cuff with that idea to cover a small design flaw.


I thought a little flayed skin and ork tooth would look nice where the bolters would go. The scout bike has the twin bolters, so this bike didn't need them. A Chaos loincloth thing seemed to work just fine as torn flesh. The rider even carved some sigils into it and applied an ork tooth to it for luck!


I like the lighter look of the scout bikes. It should add some flavor to mix and match these with the regular bikes.


Rear end didn't line up just right, but hopefully this is the only time anyone will notice.
Little display picture. Nothing fancy there; just wanna be lights, buttons and switches.

A couple more guys

A couple more grunts for the force. I only have two foot marines left. I decided to paint four extra in case I want to add extra bodies down the road. My first two motorbikes are almost done along with four riders. I am slowly facing the dread of nothing but a arms, backpacks a few bikes and a predator left. There is a glimmer of light at the tunnel's end.

I also received my second batch of Night Lord helmets and shoulder pads. Now I can add more Night Lord iconography to this force.

follow us and grow useful extra limbs,heads,feet or what have you!

Well while painting yesterday afternoon, I randomly threw this idea together. An army list that is not as cool as 66 genestealers, but just as silly as that, if not worse. Tzeentch, an army list that if run pure is not all that scary. Sure they all have a 4+ invulnerable save, but they have no real hand-to-hand threat. They do have all kinds of cool shooting and that is what I decided build upon.

So where to start? Well it isn’t Tzeentch with a Lord of Change with no upgrades. They are descent on their own. So there is a HQ choice down. I also really like the bonuses you get with chariots; and the ability to take two heralds as one HQ. I’ll nab two Heralds with chariots for some staying power. I’ll throw on Bolt of Tzeentch for fun and Master of Sorcery two shoot two ‘guns.” With a little left over, I’ll add Soul Devourer. It is a power weapon. I don’t want to get to grips with people, but if I do I have that for help. I put no faith in strength 3 guys with power weapons, but if I’m hand-to-hand I get what I deserve. Plus it can cause Instant Death, which really….isn’t that useful anymore.

Ok on to troops, which if you know me, are my favorite units! What units? Why Pink/Blue horrors and only those of course.
TROOP 1 Pink Horror x10 and Bolt of Tzeentch
TROOP 2 Pink Horror x10 Bolt of Tzeentch and Icon
TROOP 3 Pink Horror x10 Bolt of Tzeentch and Icon
TROOP 4 Pink Horror x10 Bolt of Tzeentch and Changeling (he is cheap and Tzeentchie)
Well that doesn’t leave much left, when building to 1500, my preferred army limit.

So with the remaining points I’ll add…
Flamers x3 with Bolt of Tzeentch
Flamers x3 with Bolt of Tzeentch

This gives me five points left over for fun. I could always dump the Heralds for another Lord O’ Change and some extra points, but the double Heralds intrigue me as a unit and for modeling fun.

So is this a scary list? Nope. Can it shoot bunches? Yup. Is the shooting scary? Maybe if the dice are hot for you and not for your opponent. Is it survivable? Well ½ the time yup, with 4+ invulnerable it is easy to see it that way. Will I ever build it? Probably not, but Tzeentch demons would let me make all kinds of weird stuff, since that is kind of their thing.

I have read through the Dark Eldar codex and it isn’t a bad read. I am glad they expanded on the history of this army, well how could they not? Look at the previous edition and laugh at how terrible it was when it came to Dark Eldar exposition. However, with the good of background comes the bad as well. The problems are small, and might only be problems to me.

The first is a Games Workshop problem. We have another codex put out and around half of the army has no models. Why do they do this? Sure you can take Venoms, Chronos Parasites, a bomber, fighter, cool beasts some neat-o independent characters, a weird non retinue retinue, Scourges and a Talos. Sure the Talos, I think, is still available online, but man it looks bad next to the new models and picture in the codex. So, yes behold the new codex and stuff there are no models for.

Yes, there might be models and yes you can convert units from existing models, but what about those who can’t? Not every player is a converter, nor should they be. So, put out the models with the codex, or at least within a month (two at the most). Please!

The second complaint is the lack of pretty pictures of the new models. Sure there are a lot of pictures of warriors, winches, readers, hellions, raiders and ravagers. Yet, there are no pictures of painted other units. BOO! Why is this? See previous point.

Last is the silliness of the Talos and Chronos entry. These are monstrous creatures. Monstrous creatures have special universal rules that are listed in the main rule book. However, they list Move Through Cover as a special rule. They already have it. It just seems silly to list it. I guess if you don’t know that monstrous creatures have Move Through Cover it is a nice reminder. I guess.

So is this the new face beating army? It probably won’t. Will it cause some problems? Yes it will, if you don’t know what does what. Is it a veteran player army? By the gods no!

This is no more a veteran army than any other low toughness and high armor save army. It is “veteran” in the sense that isn’t power armored. If you have played 40K for a while this army isn’t hard to wield. You just have to know the limitations of the units. Just like any other army you are playing.

If a new player picks it up, they might find it more difficult to use at first. Yet, this is no different than any other army a new player starts with. Seriously, who beat face the first few 40K games they ever played? Nobody did. This isn’t the hardest game to play, but it takes time to understand it. The Dark Eldar are no harder to use at first than any other army. They just fail as a beginning army, since they aren’t marines. That is just my opinion.

So the Dark Eldar are here. Now let us see what people do with them.

To Do List, or What's Next After This?

After this Night Lord project is complete, what do I have left to do? Well…..

10 Necron warriors on sprue
1 Monolith to finish guns and crystal
3 Scarab swarms that need flock
6 Emperor’s Children to finish arms and guns
Stormlord body and 1 set of sponsons to paint
Dark Eldar Ravager still in box
Raider have to magnetize the rider platform
4 Grotesques to paint
2 Talos to finish
3 jetbikes still in boxes
20 Dark Eldar warriors still in box
5 Chaos Terminators to paint
1 Obliterator to build
6 Chaos Marines to touch finish painting
Huron still needs his axe, face and wires/ bionics touched up
Demon Prince needs his body painted (Chrono Gladiator from Inquisitor, a sweet model)
Dark Angel Fortress still in box

Realilisticaly, the Necrons will stay dormant. They are so bad now I have no want to finish what I have.
Besides I have 2000 some odd points of them already completed.

The Dark Eldar will also stay in the webway. The new release is cool, but my 1600 points of them aren’t that great with all the new codex confirmations. The warriors in box will be needed to cut and paste all the “new” stuff, I’m going to need. The jetbikes would flesh out my squad to 10, but since I completely dislike what has become of the jetbike use and stat line, they might never be completed. The Talos might see completion, no wait Ravagers got so much better. Yet, the two I have complete, are triple disintegrators. Which are better and worse than they were before.

The Chaos stuff is what I’ll probably try to churn out next. The Emperor’s Children are really close to completion. The Terminators won’t take long either. My regular Chaos army is very bland when it comes to color and detail. They were iron Warriors, before they lost the ability to be Iron Warriors; i.e. loss of Basilisks, servo arms and such.

Sadly the two models I am most excited about are also the biggest projects. The Fortress of Redemption and the Stormlord are just both made of champion stuff. They are also giagundus and a bit overwhelming. Do I go super detail with them? They both have detail to go nuts over. I could just keep it simple and get these bad boys done. Either way, they come after the Chaos and way before the Dark Eldar and Necrons.

Hell, I’ll probably be building another Adepticon List before I get my Necrons and Dark Eldar done. There are so many models and so little waking hours. Curse you adulthood responsibilities!

Another day another future army list, I do this a lot

Tyranids have become the bane of codices in the game as of 5th edition. The army people once loved to run now is a pox on the game to those same people. Gone are the days of dual Tyrants, genestealers the eat face, and multiple Carnifex units, either the heavy or elite variety.

Now the interweb only acknowledges the multiple Tervigon, Hive Guard and drop podding Zoanthrope build, with a sprinkling in of whatever else you feel is needed.

I don’t miss the multiple Hive Tyrants, always one with wings, which would plague the table. I never could beat those two HQ units, just those two and then there was the rest of the army. I do miss Without Number, that was cool, but that seems to have been replaced with the Tervigon. I guess now it is more like With or Without Possible Numbers when you run Tervigons.

I miss the fear of the bug list. Lately this army, well it just isn’t as scary. Sure Mawlocs and Trygons can do some damage, and are sweet models. Yes Tervigons can also spawn so many extra troops and are tough 6 with 6 wounds, but where is the fear and fun in that? Just sitting still and spawning? Just waiting and waiting for a reserve roll so you can pop that monster up from the depths. Trying to find a way to justify wings on a tyrant that is and isn’t as kill crazy as before. Where are you going Ian? You are rambling again.

Well, I’m going here…my Tyranny list or what I would run if I ever get the want to play gribbly bugs at 1500 points.

We start with troops, the core of my armies. I like troops!
Squad 1 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands
Squad 2 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands
Squad 3 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands and Broodlord
Squad 4 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands and Broodlord
Squad 5 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands and Broodlord
Squad 6 = 11 Genestealers with adrenal glands and Broodlord

That leaves 126 points for a HQ. Probably a Warrior Prime modeled to look like a Patriarch, or the old Patriarch model. I could drop a Broodlord for a Tyrant. I do have an Inquisitor scale Genestealer model, thank you e-bay lot of 40K models auction. It would look just fine as a giant leader Genestealer.

I see them infiltrating as far forward as possible or all going reserve to out flank.

Will it blown to bits on the way across. YES! Will terrain be both a good and bad thing? YES! Does it have potential to wreak havoc? YES!

Sure it isn’t competitive, but that isn’t why I post on this blog. I run for fun and actually like to paint and model a bit too.

PEW! PEW! PEW!

Thank Ebay for the occasional good auction. I wanted a backpack multi melta, but all the bits sites are out, or want silly prices for them. I get lucky to snag a multi melta off a cheap buy it now auction.

I like the bitey helmet rebreather and I don’t completely hate the gun.





Even better, I bought this Thursday and had it yesterday. Man that is some awesome service! Yesterday I threw this guy together. He will be my second multi melta biker.

Speaking of bikes, I received those Saturday and have slowly started them.