Badab War: Updated 4/8 Fire Hawks Contemptor Dreadnought, page 3

[Andym]

Lovely!  Keep up the good work!

[Pizzagrenadier]

Thanks Andym!

Here is a little battle report using the minis I have completed (which wasn't much, but enough for a game of Betrayal at Calth!). It's a Fire Hawks attempt to kill a Mantis Warriors captain on the nuclear wasteland world of Bellepheron's Fall (which saw vicious fighting during the Badab War).

Hope you enjoy! Click the link to see how it ends!

http://thisveryblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/badab-war-mantis-warriors-vs-fire-hawks.html









I also finished the first of my Mantis Warriors tactical squads. Here they are, ready for action.

http://thisveryblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/badab-war-mantis-warriors-tactical.html



Hope you guys have been enjoying the project! Thanks!

[von Lucky]

Looking good. With your particular hand-held device I'd suggest more landscape photos

[Pizzagrenadier]

Howdy again!

A few more new blog posts showing my Badab War progress. Some pics of the now completed part of the Fire Hawks, some shots of the Mantis Warriors so far, and a few shots of a game using Betrayal at Badab.

Hope you enjoy! More pics on the blog...

http://thisveryblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/badab-war-mantis-warriors-progress.html

http://thisveryblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/badab-war-fire-hawks-force-part-1.html

[Wachaza]

Top top notch mariney goodness. Very nice.

Love the terrain as well.

[von Lucky]

Totes amazeballs.

[Pizzagrenadier]

Thanks guys! Next on the bench is the second Mantis Warriors tactical squad and I decided to paint my Betrayal at Calth Contemptor dread as a Fire Hawk.

[Modhail]

Just a wonderful project all-round!  Good painting and modelling, nice terrain, a nice setting/fictional conflict.
How are you liking the Calth rules "in the wild" (aka outside of the game board)? Could they be adapted to handle more 40k troop types/races?

[Pizzagrenadier]

Just a wonderful project all-round!  Good painting and modelling, nice terrain, a nice setting/fictional conflict.
How are you liking the Calth rules "in the wild" (aka outside of the game board)? Could they be adapted to handle more 40k troop types/races?

Thanks! I'm really loving the Badab War setting. What's not to love about Marines vs Marines without chaos? (which is still stuck in GW's 90s metal style).

I like the Calth rules a lot on the hexless tabletop. They work really well with very few changes. I did play around with Orks and IG a little but with the way the Ballistic skill is worked into the dice itself (2 sides are hits and one side is a crit-which means no matter what, your model has a BS that hits on a 4,5,6). This makes it hard to justify for Orks and IG. Other than that, the Armor and Stamina stats can be adjusted to suit other races. But since a normal marine in Calth rules is Armor 2 and Stamina 2, there's not a lot of room except to give other races a 1 or 0. I think it could be done, but I'm not sure it would work all that well.

[Pizzagrenadier]

Update! Contemptor dreadnought for my Fire Hawks. I wasn't sure about this model when I first got it, but now that's painted I knod of like it. The pose is still pretty static, but it's not bad. I made swappable gun arms using magnets. I'll mostly use the Multi Melta as that is much more Fire Hawk like.

The front of the sarcophagus says "Burn Them All, The Emperor Will Know His Own". I shall be calling him Trogdon the Incinerator 

I also didn't realize just how BIG these Contemptors were. He towers over my Mantis Warriors dread.

Enjoy!

http://thisveryblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/badab-war-fire-hawks-contemptor.html

[von Lucky]

Very, very nice. The flames are nicely done.

[Suber]

That's nice! I usually don't like the Contemptor model quite much, but you made this one look great!!

[Mason]

Wonderful work on the big lad.
 

I did not realise that they were that size either.
He is massive!
 

[Kegluneq]

A few days ago I had no idea what the Badab War was, and just assumed Badab Black was another nonsense name for some overpriced pots of paint.

Now I have found what must be my favorite bit of 40k flufftext!  Your Firehawks in particular look so damn good I actually looked through the old hobby closet, found a bunch of early 2nd edition marines that my dad had purchased and then discarded, and now I think I'm going to try and copy your colors.  I looked up the original, and the black shoulderpad and accents really brings your unit together.

Seriously, though, why am I only just learning about these chapters now?  The way the TO&E reads, the Badab War feels more like a Battletech campaign with different and colorful units moving throughout a wide operational zone attempting to accomplish strategic objectives than it does a Warhammer 40k grim and nonsensical clash of infantry when orbital bombardment or airstrikes would make more sense.

[Diablo Jon]

Very nice lovely brush work. I much prefer the Contemptor's design myself looks more space marine like to me than the other box on legs design