Dave's Traitor Guard

[Darren Richardson]

Very nice army so far, well done

[Boscolamb]

Really great! My only surprise is that your traitor guardsmen still have their imperial eagles on their helmets.

[Spy_Smasher]

Curious if you got IA13 and, if yes, which list variant you were thinking of using.

[Daveisdvd]

Curious if you got IA13 and, if yes, which list variant you were thinking of using.

Yep purchased IA13 over xmas and have played 3 games with it. At first I was fairly unimpressed with the renegades but then I started to play around a bit. I just played a game on the weekend where I managed to fit 85 infantry, a rapier laser battery, 6 tanks and 3 walkers into 1500 points. I had no flyers or anti-air which I have to adjust but the guy I was playing didn't have any flyers. It was basically a giant horde of manics and was a lot of fun to play. The marine player was actually pretty freaked out.

I ran the Arch-demagogue with level 2 Primaris witch upgrade and backed him up with two rogue psykers. Managed to toss out a squad of blood letters on 6 dice in the first turn to put me up to 95 screaming fanatics. Everything I have read says to play as a horde and after that game I've gota say it works. My opponent actually had a very shooty marine list but he had to focus on the 40 mutants bearing down on him led by 10 blood letters. My gun line just simply out-shot his. Can I say I would almost always pay for the upgrade on the chimeras to give them BS3 and and autocannon turrent. So worth it for a total of 70 points.

I've also played around with the bloody handed reaver commander but I can't seem to make a list that feels competitive but I feel there is one there, might only work at 1750pts+

At the moment I'm working on a list allied with Chaos marines. Take 40 mutants and throw in Covenant of Khorne, and enforcer with combat drugs and a dark apostle and you've got a very scary unit. Reroll hits first turn of any combat, reroll wounds and has rage on the charge and won't break until the apostle goes down. They die like flies but they're so cheap and they'll take the pressure off the big guns.

Let me know if you come up with something interesting yourself.

As for the imperial aquillas I remove the eagles on most models or at least gouge them out to taint them but as these guys were resin I was afraid of taking a big chunk out by accident.

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Thought I'd add some pics to assist with the imagination

[Boscolamb]

You sir, are an inspiration to renegades and traitors everywhere. I too was less than terribly inspired by IA 13, until I really looked at aspects such as the Chaos Covenants. Now, I'm building my army around maximizing the effectiveness offered by the codex.

[Boscolamb]

I've also played around with the bloody handed reaver commander but I can't seem to make a list that feels competitive but I feel there is one there, might only work at 1750pts+

At the moment I'm working on a list allied with Chaos marines. Take 40 mutants and throw in Covenant of Khorne, and enforcer with combat drugs and a dark apostle and you've got a very scary unit. Reroll hits first turn of any combat, reroll wounds and has rage on the charge and won't break until the apostle goes down. They die like flies but they're so cheap and they'll take the pressure off the big guns.

Let me know if you come up with something interesting yourself.

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Thought I'd add some pics to assist with the imagination

This is the same chaos covenant I was interested in using. Please let us know how this works? It looks challenging.

[Daveisdvd]

Update...Shmupdate

So I have been working away on a few things. I recently decided I was sick of have no decent terrain, I usually rely on other ppl or the local gaming store. Lame I know but I fear it is the result of a transient lifestyle. At any rate I wanted to show people what's been going on and although terrain isn't part of my army I have designed stuff that fits with my colour theme. I'm going for a deathworld slum shack kind of theme. Think fallout I suppose. I bought some really great laser cut snap together card kits which have given me some awesome little extras to add detail to my buildings. Anyway pretty happy with the first batch.



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...and here are my magnetised Russ tanks and my progress on my 40 (sigh) mutants...

[Boscolamb]

Are those mutants WH Beastmen? It's hard to see much detail.

[Daveisdvd]

Yes Bosco, they are, with only some minor modifications. They do the job

[Daveisdvd]

Some more new buildings and terrain. Finally finished a table worth.