Red corsair CSM! Yep, more Corsair goodness!

[salvindogath]

Looking good dude, Uraka looks spectacular!

[The Laughing God]

The Chosen look really nice, I like the cloaks.

[Ormo]

Few small updates. Been busy with commission work, so haven't been painting much of my own stuff.





enjoy!

[The Laughing God]

Nice rhino, not sure about the head on the front though. The spawn looks nice too. I really want to pickup a box for the bitz and painting them, but they are just so worthless in game to spend money on them.

What have you been working on for commission? I'd love to see more stuff from you. I checked out your fantasy log and I love the khorne lord riding on the jugger.

[Ormo]

I have a flesh tearers commission, i'll ask the owner to post them up sometime in the future!

[salvindogath]

The spawn and the rhino look great Ormo! Where is that 3 headed horned mass on the side door from??

[Usiel]

Wow, really striking I'm a big fan of the Red Corsairs paint scheme and you've done it justice. Also those bone Berserkers are awesome ^_^

Can I suggest you shoot with the natural light behind you? It's hard to see all the detail work on some of the pictures from light bloom.

Keep it up! BLOOD FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!

Usi

[Ormo]

Hey Usi,
thanks for the comments, makes me want to keep painting them even though they keep losing games lol :-p
I have tried to take better photos, but like my gaming capabilities... hopeless!
I am thanking of building a proper light box to take nice shots of models and squads.

Thanks again for the comments!

[Ormo]

Well, to prepare for a mini tourney, I'm bringin these guys out to play again. I'm going to try a horde infantry list as well as just lots and lots of shooting. The tourney is using just obj based missions, so lots of troops are needed.

So, i've never tried havocs, and I want to have a go at trying a havoc squad with just heavy bolters. So I have mixed and match CSM and space marine devestator sprues to create three new HB guys (already have one made and painted)







hope you enjoy the WIP shots and I will have em painted up in no time. And the CSM thats painted iron warrior colours will be Red Corsair, its just an old paintjob!

[The Laughing God]

Havocs are cool. Heavy bolters are always helpful.

[Rhinocaps]

I love chaos Havoc heavy bolter marines, they just bring all the awesomeness of chaos combined with the awesomeness of heavy bolters. I look forward to seeing them painted.

[PrimeMinisterSinister]

Looking really great.
Good use of imperial equipment.

[Ormo]

Looking really great.
Good use of imperial equipment.

Cheers PrimeMinisterSinister! Also I think you have the BEST username on Warseer lol.

[Ormo]

OOOOKKKAAAAYYYY!

It's a couple of days until this mini tournament I am attending and I have been fretting like crazy about how to build a decent list. I normally try the old Rhino rush, but I feel as if I don't kill enough of the enemy before I reach them, leaving my combat elements ready to be punished once they win just the one round of combat. So I have been thinking a list comprised mostly shooting, with some small mop-up combat units to kill off smaller squads or mop up the remains of a unit that has been shot to bits.

So this is about 1200pts of a list so far, any comments or fix ups would be great. Also this Friday night (Friday night in Australia that is ;-) ) I will post up my final list and maybe a group shot of the army.

LIST

Daemon Prince (110), MOT (30), Doom bolt (10) - 150

CSM x15, Champ+PF, Plasma+Flame, Icon Chaos Glory
TOTAL - 295

CSM x 10, Champ+PW, Meltax2, Rhino, Possession
TOTAL - 255

Berserkers x8, champ+PW+PI, Rhino, Possession
TOTAL - 258

Obliterators x3 (225)
TOTAL - 225

Havocs x5, Heavy Bolters x4
TOTAL - 115

1298

MODEL COUNT - 42

Vehicles - 2

As a note, some of my points calculations are just off the top of my head, so there may be a discrepancy of a few points here and there.


On the actual painting side, the Havoc's have been sprayed and base coated, getting ready for their PAINTED debut (I played with them unpainted) this Saturday (hopefully)!

[The Laughing God]

How many points is the tournament?

I'd get rid of the possession on the rhinos. Instead give them extra armor so they can still get your troops where they need to be. For the berserker champion and the aspiring champion with power weapons I'd give both of them melta bombs just in case they get charged by a dread or something.

[Ormo]

The tourney is 1500pts :-S
Also is extra armour worth it? I've found Possession to be great a lot of the time.

[The Laughing God]

Well extra armor counts crew stunned as crew shaken. Possession is 5 more points and ignores both but reduces your ballistic skill. On your rhinos you haven't given them any weapon upgrades so they still have storm bolters and won't be much use. Instead you can save 10pts that might be helpful if you want to upgrade something else in the remainin 200pts.

[CaptainOtter]

Wow, Ormo, excellent work. That red came out just right, and the bone colored berzerkers is a really nice change from the standard red and gold.

As for the list, I do have some suggestions. You only have two tanks (rhinos, even), which are going to draw all of your enemy's anti-tank power. Considering the relatively weak armor of the rhinos, they're going to get torn apart, leaving your infantry stranded and vulnerable. The deamon prince will draw some fire, but you really dont want him to be a in a place where hell be facing any long range firepower.

There are a few things you can do. You can go all infantry, ditching those two rhinos. Use the points for more models, or more big guns. By doing so you can limit the effectiveness of your opponents anti tank capabilities by giving them only marines to shoot at. You can also chose to keep those rhinos, using them either as mobile cover to guard your troops or contest objectives. Considering how cheap rhinos are with no upgrades, this is probably the wiser options. Upgrades on rhinoes get really expensive really quick, and if youre using them like this its best to run them bare bones.

The other option is to stick with the rhinos in a transport role, but to do so youll need more armor. Something to draw some fire and hopefully do some damage as well. Adding a defiler might be just what you need, although in the interest of full disclosure i do really want to see you paint one up! If you dont have one in time, you might want to consider taking a land raider and throwing the berzerkers in it. This changes your army composition and makes it a bit aggressive, but its a lethal combination.

[Ormo]

@Captain Otter,
Funnily enough I have a defiler pretty much all painted, but no pics.
I'm gonna play around with a few list ideas before Friday and post em up.

[Ormo]

Well, you know the tourney I spoke of? I played and walked away with 1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss. The loss was a close one and the draw should have been a loss, the win was hard fought. The way the games were scored was W22pts/D15pts/L8pts. You also had an agenda card which IF you achieved gave you and extra 10pts. At the end of the day I walked away with 14th place out of thirty people. I did decently on battle points, however, there were several FANTASTIC armies at this tourney, so I didn't get as many points in the painting department as I wanted (players choice scores went into the overall tally). Anyways, this is the list I took:

Lord - Daemon Weapon, MOK meltabombs

x8 Berzerkers - PF Champ

x15 CSM - Champ w/PF Lascannon, Plasmagun IoCG

x10 CSM - Champ w/PW x2 Melta

x5 Lesser Daemons

Land Raider

x3 Obliterators

x5 Havocs - x4 heavy Bolters.

1498 pts total I BELIEVE (this is from memory)

This list gave me a good amount of shooting and bodies to surge forward and grab objectives (the tourney only had obj based missions).

GAME ONE: VS Eldar - RESULT: DRAW. DEPLOYMENT: Pitched, x5 Objectives. Agenda: Kill most expensive HQ

This game looked doomed from the outset. My opponent held the army in reserve and brought it all out on one flank as my army was spread across my entire deployment zone. It took until turn five however until we were able to start doing damage to each other. The highlight of the game was my unit of 8 berzerkers and Khorne lord being shot by the entire army (lost 4 berzerkers) then assaulted by 8 Dire avengers, 6 Harlequins, 1 Autarch and Yuriel (sp?). I lost 2 wounds on my Lord and the rest of the berzerkers. I thought I had lost the game right there as I wouldn't be able to budge the dire avengers from the objective. So I put faith into my Khrone Lord and he rolled for his Daemon Weapon. An impressive eleven attacks, plus his four base (x3 for the lord =1 for MOK). He killed all 8 Dire avengers to take them off the obj. By the end of the game, we held one objective each, I didn't achieve my agenda, neither did my opponent.

GAME TWO: VS Lysander SM - RESULT: WIN. DEPLOYMENT: SPEARHEAD, x3 Objectives. Agenda: Kill most expensive HQ

This game was HARD FOUGHT, but my weight of firepower won out in the end. Lysander and his retinue of 5 terminators were smoked from repeated bolter rounds. My Khorne Lord once again went berserk and rolled an impressive 12 attacks on the charge and smoked Lysander in combat. He then went crazy on the last turn with the berzerkers, rolling eleven attacks against a squad of 5 marines. Needless to say, the were killed. By the end of the game I had 2 objectives and my opponent with one.

GAME THREE: VS Dark Eldar - RESULT: LOSS. DEPLOYMENT: SPEARHEAD, x5 Objectives. Agenda: Keep most expensive HQ alive.

This game was an absolute massacre on both sides. I was reduced to x3 marines, Khorne Lord, land Raider, x1 Obliterator. My opponent (also my regular opponent on friday nights) had 1 ravager and 17 Warriors left ( he lost both talos, x4 Raiders, 20 Warriors, x8 Wyches, x4 jetbikes and both homunculus). At the end of the game, we both had one objective each, however, his ravager cruised up and contested my objective on turn 7.
I achieved my agenda card. Highlight was my Khorne Lord once again going nuts, rolling up to have a total of 13 attacks to kill his Shadow Field Archon.

Pics of Last game:


Havoc's overlook the position.



ALSO: these are the Havoc's I had to paint up in time. Didn't get them 100% done, but not bad for knocking em out in one night in about 4 hours of frenzied painting!