Shades head to the Brighton Warlords! An army progression thread.

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Yep, probably... Everything has base coats, but may need help touching up whilst I work on the captain.

[SotonShades]

Well, it has been a week since I set of to Brighton (via Crawley) with Night system and the rest of our group for the Warlord's tournament, I guess it would be nice of me to update you on my army and how I faired. Short answer is not well, but we will get to that!


So, do you want to see the bikers?



Of course you do. Why else would you be looking at this thread? Not the best photo I'll grant you, but you can see what I managed to achieve before setting off on the long drive down south. Since I took the photo I also went around the edges of the bases with a brown to match up to the rest of my marines. Nothing special, a lot of work is needed before I think of these guys as actually being finished, but they were of a higher standard than a lot of the armies that were there at the weekend.



The Captain also got his basic paintscheme finished. I got a lot of positive comments about this guy. Really was a shame I didn't manage to get a little further with him and do some shades and highlights. Still, something to look forward to, along with his biker command squad.



Last but not least, a less than brilliant shot of the whole army on my carry board. It has come a long way from that first photo I posted five weeks ago (though not nearly as far as I would have liked). Over all I was happy with the force I took and saw a lot of people taking photos and leaning in to get a better look at the army between games, though I suspect a significant amount of that interest was purely for the Captain's bike and the Contemptor.

As for the result of the tournament? Well, I won my first game, had an embarrassingly poor loss in second and all but tabled my opponent in the third. Not bad for the first day, but my second was less successful, taking an absolute battering in the 4th game, getting a draw in my second (which would have been a win if we hadn't ended on turn 5, as my opponent would not have been able to do anything to stop that given 2 further turns) and being tabled in my last game by none other than Night System in my final game, even though we were on the same team! In the final standings I ended up in a dismal 28th place out of 39. Our team came in 5th out of the 8 entered as well. On the bright side, all six of us who went down from Leicester had a good time against fun opponents, got a few laughs and made a good few of the other tournament goers chuckle with an epic army list (A0 printer FTW!) and our patented Butthurt Report forms...



Most of which were normal A4 sized. I earned the right to this one after Night System thrashed me in our final game.

Future plans for this army? Well, at the end of June I will be attending Blog Wars 5; a one day 1850 point tournament in the North of England. I'll be dropping the Imperial Guard for that and will take the main force as Blood Angels (woo fast vindicators) with Space Marines as allies. The Biker Captain will get 'promoted' to Kor'Sarro Khan (to keep the bikers as troops, as well as fill out the obligatory Special Character requirement for Blog Wars) and will be accompanied by a Stormtalon. Naturally the Mortis Contemptor will have to be in the allied Space marines, freeing up the third Heavy Support slot for a third Vindicator! I'll be taking a Blood Angels Librarian to lead the army and filling out the second tactical squad to 10 men. Overall, it is a mean gunline that can be very mobile when I need it to, with three to six decent scoring units, more than decent AA cover and a Flyer to really harass my opponent's back lines, thanks to escorting Khan and/or the bikers on from outflank. As such, I'll be continuing this thread so you can see how the new army develops, and see what I actually do with the bikers and Khan given ample time.

Shades