So we have all heard about the new lander for the Twilight Marines, and let’s face it, wether it is the Tantalus or the Stormraven it matters little. It is going to be a nice looking space marine vehicle which considering it’s armaments is going to be very popular. Okay, so my marines can’t take them. Say hello to apocalypse and a custom datasheet for a drop pod force with landers instead of pods. Now to save up to have enough to field a force of them!

Anyone else planning on getting the new miniatures to just paint, for parts or for adding to their armies as counts as or even apocalypse only units? I am pretty much in all those camps at the moment! If the descriptions are anything to go by, I will be getting boxes to add bits to my rather huge marine collection and to add to my bits box for future conversions…

With the new tyranid release, the pending blood angels release and all the associated new models I am seriously considering cracking open the old genestealer cult army I have and giving it a makeover along with picking up some plastic veteran pieces and some deathwatch items to add some tyranid hunting units to my force. Using the bell of lost souls genestealer cult homebrew rules could be good, but I am tempted to go down the tyranid codex path and build upon my cult invasion force idea. Well I have the patriarch and magus along with hybrids and a whole host of genestealers. I can find similar unit types in the codex, and for carnifex and other huge creatures I have been thinking about the inquisitor scale purestrain genestealer as a basis. It would certainly keep in the feel of a cult invasion force of genestealers!

So what to do for the marines I have? Well until proper deathwatch rules come out again I was going to include a unit of deathwatch and simply use the sternguard veteran rules for them as they seem to be the closest to the rules they used to use. The other thing would be to add some more artillery on the form of a whirlwind or two or perhaps even a vindicator. But for my army I think I would add in a librarian to give me some chance of stopping tyranid powers and having some of my own to enhance my troops with.
My force will need more transports to cope with the new speed of the game, so rhinos look like the best bet. But I am being tempted by a reserve force of a couple of squads in razorbacks supported by a predator.

It may be time to revisit my old marine models once I get a couple of the new blood angel sprues to update the jump packs of my assault troops. (old metal jump packs don’t make for stable miniatures!)

Anyone got any ideas?

After having a read through the new space wolf codex, I am thinking of getting together an army of units that will be fun to convert and paint. Hopefully it won’t be too rubbish on the tabletop either!

My thoughts are getting a strong yet functional force broken into two parts, much like a hammer and anvil build.

Canis Wolfborn and a unit of Thunderwolf cavalry along with a unit of fenrisian wolves supported by a landspeeder squadron as an outflanking or assault element.

The other force component would be a couple of squads of grey hunters, one of wolf guard, a dread or two, a unit of long fangs and a Rune priest. Additions would be some transports for the squads or some more artillery either being more long fangs or vindicators or whirlwinds. More so whirlwinds as the vindicator might be pushing templates too close to the assault elements!

A lone wolf would be nice to use to harass the enemy or make units disengage form the main attack to deal with him.

The thunderwolf cavalry are going to be mounted on converted juggernaughts of khorne, (unless the models are out quickly) which means I get scary looking models leading the charge!

I just see this force lacking in heavy firepower, and lacking long range armor busting abilities. Perhaps it is facing guard armies that make me think of how much I need to break armor! I can see this army is going to struggle against a deathwing army, or a heavy mech list. But once in close, I don’t see it being any problem at all.

The additional options would be to include a Wolf Lord with a saga that helps to bolster the grey hunter squads whilst they fight, but I see a psychic attack option being better for the force as a whole.

Once I get a chance to write it up, I will post it (without values of course)

Put up a couple of iphone sized images from the new space hulk on my other website, drop by if you want some space hulk images as your iphone wallpaper!

http://spedr.com/pqpc

Enjoy!

This is just a follow up to my last post about the cover art.

Below is the proper box art, and if you haven’t seen the quality of the miniatures from the game I have added an example below as well.

The highlight for me is the quality of the objective counter. (a dead marine slumped in a chair) This I am thinking will be making a big appearance in the golden demons this year.

Don’t you agree the quality of this box is well worth picking it up?

Just don’t refer to them as twilight marines.