Blog wars 4 analysis: Steve's Demons.

I will analyze a couple of army lists I saw the past weekend, one at a time.

I played last week a game with Steve's demons and won, maybe cause his force came in the wrong order.
We played again at blog wars and I got tabled.His demons showed up this time in right order and my epidemius came in turn 4.
Even after our first game I was still pretty amazed how strong his list was, it does not win any originality award and utilizes on the best units with multiples of them. But it is a very strong list.



Steves demons were something like this:

    * Bloodthirster
    * Fateweaver, Oracle of Tzeentch Elites

  
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch  

       5x Pink Horror
        5x Pink Horror

   5x Plaguebearers of Nurgle
 5x Plaguebearers of Nurgle
 3x Screamer of Tzeentch

     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath
     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath
     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath

       I realy like the list, yes it repetitive but still bloody cool and strong. The list has 16 no cover , no armour on a 4 you die flammer templates, they can kill terminators, scores of orks or land raiders with the same ease, it can be unstable if you mishap or get the wrong force in.
The best part for the demon princes is that they can deep strike into flying mode, so you can not assault them or shoot them down easily, this has put me in thought about my own list.
The majority of models have a 5+ inv which is rerollable if close to fateweaver,
So the army deals loads of pain during the shooting phase but what about combat, the 4d3 wound on +4 no armour save makes you rethink charging the flammers, my best result was charging them with the leftover 2 marines from a unit and then charge with a whole other unit, in combat they are no monters but with 2 wounds and a inv save they will hold you up. The screamers have 3 attacks ap3.

I was really thinking of making this list after my first game with Steve,
but maybe lose the screamers and plaguebearers for a mono god list which might not be as good.
I decided though that having 4 armies on queue was bad enough.

But if I did do an army like this I would  use very little from the demon range.
It would be a ghost thousand son army.

the flamers would be thousand sons with heavy flamer, a bit like legion of the damned

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The demon princes would be wingless ogre size Sorcerers on disks holding  flaming staffs (turquoise.flames)

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I suppose I would use horrors as horrors and screamers as screamers. Hopefully that would not confuse my opponents. Any thoughts about the list?

Epidemius Update 3.

Good morning readers,
So today I am going to look back one week (real time jump~) and see what I had set a target last friday for today.

"I plan by the end of next Friday to have Epidemius painted, and all 6 bikes cast. Lets see how I do by the end of next friday. Its time to get the thumb out of bum!"

The 6 bikes are cast, I have cast about ten of them trying to get copies without air bubles, my 6 best copies I have started to green stuff.  I have also started cleaning the mold lines of the biker legs, cant wait  to get the bikers on their bikes.

Epidemius is not painted. But he is almost complete he now needs some worms and for me to recheck and add the final details. Experience tells me not to jump in and paint him, but leave him aside, finish the sculpting details and then paint him. Very eager to paint him.  Do you think he needs some more banners?

Plastic ,metal,resin, green stuff, milliput and glue all put together:

Do you have any recomendations?
A friend of mine said he needs a book, but Epidemius is not a psycker and I dont think reading is his thing.
But instead of painting Epidemius I got 14 havoks almost built, today I hope to finish that off.

Target next week, finish the plague marines paintwise(that have been sprayed (thats all of them except for  3 champions)
and have the havoks, and 3 champion ready for spraying. Secondary prepare bikers, and start
 temple -landing pad.

Still waiting confirmation from blog wars 4 if or if not I need a main force special character.
If Typhous must be included then  I will drop the lord the bikes and the landing pad for Typhous and some terminators, really realy don't want too though.

And finaly Setup pictures from a game played this Wednesday at the Sons of War Gaming club in Cambridge.

Brunos Blood angels with Mephiston

Bikes, Plaguemarines troops and Havoks.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 4. Flyers

Good morning everyone,
It was realy hard getting out of bed today. I did manage to squezze some more hobby time this weekend,

So during the week I painted 3 blight drones and on Saturday I had some fun with the glue gun. I will try and cover the glue-slime with a mix of gloss varinsh and green hoping to perserve some transparency.






Today I will be painting the greater Deamon,

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 3. Display board with models on it!

Still need to do some painting, there are 2 more blight drones missing I will paint those with the greater deamon, but before that orks are going to be painted. I am finishing green stuff-ing them today.

Hope you like it.

As for the board If you look at older posts you can see various stages, I used a glue gun to do some streams of  the green fluid, then airbrushed the board and finaly poored some green looking resin.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 2.

Little progress on the board this weekend, I was away on Saturday and on Sunday I got busy creating slab stones for my garden.

The board will display 1750points + a greater deamon of nurgle forgeworld which I think is 777 points.

So once dry I will spray paint then add some goo and green resin. I also need to drill and pin each model, good all dremel will do all the hard work. Also I am buying a new glue gun today.

 Non Wargamming topic.

The majority of Sunday was spent working on another project that pleases the fiancee, stepping stones for the front garden! The are two path ways  to Helen shed/office one from the garage and one from the house.
So I thought to design the two tiles as two pieces of a pizzle that join at the end a bit like Helen and me that are paths are seperate and then join and become one.

Designing the 2 tiles.

Building the tile.

Ready to pour the silicone.

Demolded this morning. My biggest mold yet.

 Next step will be to oil it and add the cement. Hope it all goes well.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 1.

I began past weekend to build my armies on parade board, little progress so far,

6 plague bearers done in 2 hours.

half an hour airbrush and 90 minutes painting in store.

Deamon prince is done he onnly need some pigments I will finish him tonight.

Planetary empires, orks,demons, chaos lord and a bit of 3d animation.

Hello all,

Sorry for my lack of posts I have been a bit busy.

 Planetary Empires

First of all Planetary empires is comming up next month.
You are allowed to play with diffrent armies between the games.

So the first game is 500p. spearhead 3 objectives.
For this I am thinking of using my Slannesh marines

 Chaos Demon Prince Wings slannesh 135p
Chaos Sorcerer with mark of slannesh and Lash of submition 125p
5 noice marines +1 champion power weapon doom siren 165p
5 chaos marines 75p

Total 500p

5 chaos marines hold one objective
the 6 noice marines and sorcerer run towards the mid objective lash  and doom siren.
and the demon prince moves in were needed.

There are another 4 missions I will look into them eventualy.


Orks

Next up the orks.

Ever since I bought the Limited edition forgeworld squadron ork I have wanted to do an flying ork army.

This model is not painted by me I found it on cool mini or not.

I have not seen a properly flying ork army. If you have please link pictures I am intrested to see.

Also with imperial armor 2, the updated version, chinorks are now legal for 40k. they cost 65p are armor 10 all around fast, skimmer, can take 10 orks, counts as a fast choise and can come in a squadron of 1-3.

So my idea is 3x10 boys in 3 chinorks.
5 deffcoptas
a number of gretchin with the limited edition ork as runtherd
an ork mindlayer counts as battlewaggon.
1 deff dread I like the model and already own it, I imageine it is droped of by the mindlayer.

The name and tribe of these orks is the flying deathmachines.
First I will make the 30 boys 3 chinorks and 5 deffcoptas and then I will move on.
I already own the models the chinorks I will attempt to scratch build because 1 65p chinork costs 63£.

So i started with the boys I wanted them all in parashute's, so i bought a box of stormboys hacked at the torso and added a back and front parashute.

Replicated the effect 23 times

And added head legs and feet.

I think they look really cool and when painted and placed on a helicopter even cooler


I also painted some more of my hybrid, soon to sell demon army.
I am now up to 50 hours and have finished the demon prince and the 4 bloodcrushers,
I have left 10 bloodletters and some bassing.

I estimate about 5-10 more hours to finish the army, bringing it to 55-60 hours of work.
Then I will estimate cost of models paints,magnets and hopefully add areasonable painting fee on top.
The army is made in such a way that it can be used for 40k and fantasy. More details and final pictures very soon in the future.


Chaos Lord Commision

This is a chaos lord I painted as a comission its an amazing model and real fun to paint.

3d animation.
I am doing this semester a module in anglia ruskin university 3d modeling and animation.
I find it very creative. The final assignent is to produce a 30 sec animation of star wars.
I asked my lecturer if I could do 40k he is fine with it.
Initialy i wanted to do the scene from the novel Soul hunter when Talos kills the bloodangel marine inside the dreadnought.  But my lecturer adviced me insted of chaps marines use something robotic instead because of the complexity, and I can see he was right.
So I replaced the night lords for necrons.
So the 3 models I made were a dreadnought, a necron lord and necron destroyers.
In the following lessons we will be learining 3d animation. I also attached my story board.

Longest post ever...