Big Robots, Gribblies and Cake!

A slow week on completed projects, but a fun week none the less. I got my first game against Imperial Knights last week and didn't do too badly. Yeah sure, trying to go toe-to-toe with a 3 story tall, armoured war machine in combat with my Warboss might sound like a bad idea (and it was) but damn it, it felt right at the time.

Though My warboss bought the far, The Mek was able to finish the Knight off for me. In the end I only lost by a single VP.

There have been so many great GW releases of late that I'm spoiled for choice on what to work on, but I was determined to get more of my Chaos Marines done.... then this happened.

Once I get some more green stuff on him he'll be added to the Night Lords as a Greater Possessed. The Primaris with cape is something completely different.

Finally, I had my birthday last week, I leveled up and the guys at work decided to show me appreciation by blowing up a cake in my honour. I don't have any photos unfortunately, but after the initial shell shock of a dynamite filled cake they presented me this.

And for added effect the icing had bourbon whiskey in it. It was a VERY good day.

Return to the Night

I've been playing a bit more Kill Team of late and after running the Grot Suicide Mob I've decided to try something a bit different. Up until now, I've been fairly unimpressed with Kill Team, favoring the character building and options offered by Shadow War. I've tried to keep an open mind, but it took a completely different play style to really show me what Kill Team was all about. The Grots were (let's face it) never going to win big (or at all) but the idea was fun. Now I've brought my Night Lords back out to play and Kill Team has really grown on me.

As a further bonus, the Chaos Marine Codex recently got updated so now seemed like the perfect opportunity to get more of my Night Lords actually painted. First off the bench were the remaining Cultists

These finish off my squad of ten so it was really bugging me for a long time. As a reward to myself though, I'm moving onto something a bit more interesting, the Un-named Lord of Chaos.

He'll by my painting project for the next few weeks I imagine, but He's not the only thing I've working on. Besides rewriting scripts and trying to hash out the finer points of my next Comic short story, I was able to cobble together a Sorcerer conversion to round off the army.

Da Flashiest of Gitz!

Though I finished these guys last week, I've only recently had a chance to photograph them. Now I've made my excuses, onto the Weapons Road Show!

First up the Kaptain of the self proclaimed "Kings of Dakka" Boss Thugnutz and his over burdened ammo runt, Flint. The Boss' weapon of choice is the obnoxiously noisy "Terrorizor". Built from a heavily modified imperial auto-cannon, this beast of a gun has been fitted with additional medium range assault weapons for those jobs that require quantity of fire over quality. The fact that everything is wired up to the same trigger is irreverent.

Next is the Kings' Mek, Zaggrok. When he's not tinkering with the squads guns to correct minor issues or improve on performance, he's working on his personalized energy blaster, the "Flash Kannon Supreme!" Powered by multiple stripped back plasma batteries and then given an extra boost using Orky Kno-Wotz, this suped-up plasma cannon boasts an impressive rate of fire, recharge time and background radiation. Zaggrok has had trouble keeping grot assistants alive whilst working on the gun's power pack as a result of it's radioactive nature. It never occurred to him to give the grots a lead vest too.

In mob of trigger happy show-offs, Og is the worst. He make outrageous claims, both on and off the battlefield, regarding his marksmanship with his favourite gun Little Og. Perhaps worst of all is Og's ability to back up most of his bragging. For an Ork, Og tends to hit his mark more often than not and can indeed write his own name in bullets in the landscape. It would be more impressive if he could actually spell his name however.

Grizzgutz used to be a loota boy before he got into a fight with an Ogryn over ownership of a ripper gun.. After winning the fight and taking the ripper gun as a trophy, he sank his fortune into kustomizing it into something more his style: namely louder and heavier than when he found it. Due to heavy caliber rounds and the tremendous recoil on this newly constructed monstrosity, Grizzguts is roundly mocked as the worst shot in the mob. The jokes tend to die down a bit though when he does score a hit, especially after the time Grizzgutz blew up a Land Raider with one shot.

The one-ork-arsenal that is Baggrot is a sight to behold. The weapon, referred to as "The Gun Rack" is the result of one Mek not knowing when to stop sticking guns together. "The Gun Rack" cost a fortune to build and has cost many times that amount in ammo over the years, so much in fact, that Baggrot is possibly the ONLY Ork known to exercise restraint and ammo conservation. It is also possible that this could have been mistaken for the gun jamming all the time.

And that's the lot. I've got some other projects to start working on so I'll hopefully have something next week.