Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Moar War! Minotaurs vs Night Lords now with added pics!

So I have chivvied and goaded the lovely Rachel Docherty into expanding her Night Lords over the past few months, and so today we played a 2,500pt game in which I deployed a veritable wall of Tactical squads and, I'm ashamed to say, thrashed her 7 kill points to 2. I do feel bad about this, as her army is properly gorgeous...
Some Devastators, earlier. Not shown is a
Terminator squad getting all shot up


Moloc once again did his thang and messed a bunch of stuff up including a stand-in Tyberos the Red Wake who made assault marines led by a Chaplain outrageously nasty - doing over a squad of 10 lightning claw-equipped assault terminators in a single turn!
Plus, as Rachel deployed a Tactical squad and totally beat down on part of my thin bronze line, there was this awesome sight:
Land Raiders square up against each other...
but wait...
THAT ONE HAS EYES!!
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6 comments:

  1. Marcel13 November 2011 at 10:03

    Hi Ead, I've been looking for pics of your minotaurs for ages, ever since they were on the "Whats new today" thing on the GW site.
    That thunderhawk is amazing, kudos on that!
    I might steal that lettering idea for my Minotaur vehicles....
    how do you paint your Bronze? or is it a secret?
    Cheers!

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  2. Ead10115 November 2011 at 03:06

    Thanks :) it's an overbrush of Tin Bitz, followed by Dwarf Bronze (or Brazen Brass if you can find it), then Shining Gold and finally a drybrush of Mithril Silver to achieve that 'burnished' effect.
    Obviously a bit different to the duller, verdigris-d effect on the profiles in IA10 but then I've been painting these guys for ages and they only really stopped being 'diy-chapter in gold' when we began to playtest the Badab War campaign system.

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  3. Warsmith Morgoth13 December 2011 at 07:22

    So that was you on the GW site, I saw those pics! I was wondering too how you painted them. I've taken a darker tone to my Minotaurs, doing a simpler scheme of Dwarf Bronze with a black wash.

    My vehicles are Snakebite leather with a devlan mud wash.

    I haven't picked up any of the new Forge World bits yet and besides the transfers I probably won't be getting anything Minotaur-specific from them because I've already put together most of my vehicles and marines.

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  4. Unknown15 January 2013 at 05:22

    Tactical Squads are just the best, they are woefully under-appreciated these days! Belated (and that's putting in mildly) congratulations on the win :)

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  5. JohnGG18 April 2013 at 04:02

    I have yet to use asteroid but how on earth did he kill 10 assault marines in one turn?

    I must have read that wrong surly...?

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  6. Ead10118 April 2013 at 10:53

    Yeah, slightly. Raye was using Tyberos; his Chapter Tactics combined with a Chaplain and a full strength squad of assault marines is ruinous. They were my Terminators getting slaughtered...

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