The Siren call of the Horus Heresy - 11 Sep update

[Dr. The Viking]

So Deathshroud:

Nice! A special sort of close combat marine I gather?

[Mason]

Nice! A special sort of close combat marine I gather?

Primarch's bodyguard.
 

A lovely rendition of them, too.
 

Of course this now means that you have to do the man himself, Janner.
You know that, dont you?

[Dr. The Viking]

Primarch's bodyguard.

Oh OK. My second suggestion was that they were typical farmers of the 41st millennium.

In the 41st millennium even the grain is lethal and requires armour to harvest.  


Yes, let's have a primarch!

[Jonas]

They look good, but the weapons are stupid IMO.

[robertsjf]

but the weapons are stupid IMO.

Can't be any worse than chainsaw swords, can it?

[Jonas]

Chainsaws are always cool 

[Cosmotiger]

If you thought the grain was lehtal, wait 'til you see the trees!

[janner]

I'll surely do their glorious leader once FW release him 

As to the idea of power-scythes, I'd hope no one would take their small resin space toys too seriously 

Still you never know 

[Dr. The Viking]

I'll surely do their glorious leader once FW release him 

As to the idea of power-scythes, I'd hope no one would take their small resin space toys too seriously 

Still you never know 

But still - you have to admit that these guys would be pretty awesome at harvesting grain! 

[Jonas]

As to the idea of power-scythes, I'd hope no one would take their small resin space toys too seriously 

Still you never know 

I don't do resin 

I still think a power scythe is silly though. In same league as Space Sharks riding a flying shark or Space Wolfs riding wolfs.

Even though I prefer the super silly Rogue Trader approach to 40K, there is just somethings which is becoming too over the top in new GW stuff.

Admittedly the pre-heresy stuff from Forge World is mostly very cool though.

[Elbows]

In the Grim Darkness of the Farm Future...there is only Agriculture.

Warharvest 30K.

[janner]

No offence intended Jonas, and yes powered battle scythes are very silly indeed. But, these marines have flared power armour so what can you do!

On a boring note, whilst these are an extreme version, more mundane use of scythes in combat has quite a long heritage including the falx, fauchards, rhomphaia and, of course, the Japanese kama.

So roll on harvest time: scrumpy, wanton wenches and plenty of reaping  

[Jonas]

I know scythes have been used in combat, but as far as I know it has been used by peasants who could not afford a real weapon. Surely an elite marine could do better.

Anyway, it is an impressive army you have and I hope we soon see a group picture.

[Inso]

Nice paint, Janner

As for scythes... it doesn't matter how daft you think they are, they are in the rulebook.

[steders]

Nice stuff Janner. I need to get my stuff back on the work bench