Shades head to the Brighton Warlords! An army progression thread.
Hello guys, girls and trolls.
In a little under a month's time I will be making my way down to Brighton for what is always an awesome tournament, hosted by the Brighton Warlords. I've been there several times before for a variety of tournaments, but this one will be 40k, 1500 points and a few restrictions to help some of the older codex's that can't fully take advantage of 6th ed just yet (also to nurf a few of the meaner allies combinations without making them unusable/maintaining the characters of the armies). Never one to make life easy for myself, I'm not taking a list I have used at other tournaments or that I have fully painted up. No, not me. Some of you may have spotted [URL="www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?30172-Tournament-1500-points-Space-Marines-with-Imperial-Guard-allies"]a list recently posted by me[/URL] up in the Tactics forum: Well here is what it looks like;
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As you may have spotted, I still have a lot of work to do with these guys. A handful of miniatures are fully painted but the majority, even some that look it, are not. I think the only things I am happy with are the Vendetta, the Primaris Psyker and the Penal Legionnaires. Well, that is the allied detachment dealt with at least...
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The bike squad will form the core of this force; a fast moving, high toughness scoring unit (thanks to the biker captain) that can split in to two units if I really need them too? Naturally they are going to be of a reasonable priority to a lot of my opponents, particularly if they can take out my vehicles quickly.
I am actually fairly happy with the three knightly bikers at the front. That said, they stand apart from the army visually, so I'll probably add in a bit more red on the bikes. The other guys will take a lot of their visual clues from them though, with primarily silver armour, the black and gold left shoulder pad and perhaps some individual heraldry though I may restrict that to the robed bikers.
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Speaking of bikers, here is the Captain. There are some much better pictures of him on [URL="http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?26090-Jet-Bikes-SotonShades-vs-Machinator"]here[/URL], along with a fairly full description of what I have in mind for painting him. You will have to scroll down a fair way, but there is plenty of interesting stuff to read (I hope you'll agree) along the way.