Shadow War Armageddon- what Kill Team are you planning?

[sykoholic]

I really do not need another set of figures, no really I do not.....

Need? Since when did "need" have anything to do with it? 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Need? Since when did "need" have anything to do with it? 

That is for a given value of need...

[Keith]

Used this as an excuse to try out some of Victoria Miniature's figures. Female Cadian-type team planned.

[eilif]

They came up with a whole narrative to go along with the mining figures, which is really cool and if you don't like it you can always get the cult upgrade sprue and make empire flagellants, imperial guards men or whatever into your cultists.

It was a very well thought out and done release.  

Here are some pics of the Patriarch, not useful in SW:A normally, but I'm thinking we may do a game where he is the objective, like he is concentrating on sending mental snap chats to the hive mind of all the fun things to eat on the planet and the objective of the Imperial side is to disrupt him and then get the hell off of the table.  Like just hitting him once with a single shot will be enough to break the connection (Tyranid hive mind stuff working a lot like 1992 dial-up internet connections I suppose.)

I also wanted to do some of the neophytes like they started with darker skin.  I started with a US Olive Drab from Vallejo and then highlighted it with chocolate brown and then mixed some violet into that to give it a further highlight.

Nice work!
What is the background they are in front of? I like a bit of bright'ish color in my grimdark.

I haven't seen all the new genestealer info (Probalby going to buy the current codex cheap for fluff after 8th comes out) but perhaps you can help me with this fluff question.  Should I make the "initiate" new gang members or the more experienced gang "Hybrid" members more alien looking.  The more genestealer'ish they are the tougher they look, but the fluff I've seen suggests that perhaps it should be the later-generation, more human guys that would be the more experienced ones.

[Pictors Studio]

From my understanding the more humanish ones are the 4th generation ones and they are the novices in SW:A, the more alien looking  ones are the regular troops in SW:A.  Which is confusing because the leader is more human looking. 

The background is the tiles from the Death Watch: Overkill game. 

[AWu]

Had my first game. While I prefer Necromunda power level I had a lot of fun. Played Orks to match my opponents Scouts and felt a little under powered although most of my guys down fell to falling (even had one of my guys fall on second one.. much hilarity ensured

[Pictors Studio]

Ah, yes, toxic slime.  I lost most of a Wych Kill Team to falling in one of my first games.  Never fun. 

[AWu]

I had fun. But you have to play with special mindset when you are plaing Orks I guess..
My first move was SkeryGrot - Yoof had to jump 1.5 Inches and failed off course diving 6 Inches down to his doom 
Only to get extra advancement from What doesnt kill you.. (well... extra battle for Yoof).
My Boss got Medic skill.. Strange skill for a Ork Nob but he is bad moon after all..

But I would be in grim despair if my Dark Eldars would do slapstick sketches like that

[Pictors Studio]

Yeah, it was pretty annoying actually.  I was running because I was facing Chaos marines and wanted to get to grips quick.  The first one ran, fell, went out of action.

My thought:

"Well how many more ones can I really roll?"

A lot.  I think they managed to put two models out of action themselves and the rest of my guys just fell down. 

[AWu]

I feel your pain.. I once changed the name of my very grim Delaque Dark Dervishes - to The Clowns after just 3 games in which they failed to deliver any grimdark but became kings of slapstick not-very-funny comedy.. 

[Pictors Studio]

I've certainly seen my fair share of clownish behaviour in plenty of games besides this and necromunda.

Like the time I was playing a siege game and the enemy, despite me getting 6 attacks to their 3 and me hitting on a 4+ instead of a 6, killed one of my models in their first assault on the wall.  My unit broke, was pursued, caught and wiped out and the castle taken.  On something like turn 2 of the game. 

Most of the games of Shadow War have not been like that for us though, fortunately.

[AWu]

Audentes Fortuna adiuvat..

To stay On topic, my veeeery wip Band (Grots are yoofs) after 1st game, Orks need  manpower badly, and few crude photos from the game itself.

[Pictors Studio]

Nice looking start to your team. 

I have a lot of that Necromunda terrain still.  I never painted any of the wall sections, except to do graphitti on them badly. 

I need to pull those out and do something with them.  I just bought one of the 2x2 section of the Sector imperialis or whatever it is called, the big plastic 40K table on Saturday.  I sprayed it tonight when I got home.  That will be the base for my 2x2x2x2 table. 

[von Lucky]

Skaven... I'm mean really, why wouldn't there be mutant rat men in the bowels of a giant industrial complex?   



These are actually leftovers from WAY back in the before times when I actually tried making a Skaven gang for the original Necromunda. 

Nice conversions - I had given them pistols, but they look good with larger guns too.

[AWu]

Painting bulkheads gives them a lot. Its just quite boring and messy that why I painted only 1/3 rd of mine..

But I have plans to do the rest

I have one set of original terrain from Necro, 2 sets from GorkaMorka, and one Shadow War.


What i lack is small details to provide cover and block lines of fire (except few computer parts and some barrels).
I think I should get Containers set and ideally one more Shadow war box equivalent) and glue up my Sector Imperialis buildings and I will be set.