Tag Archives: 40K
Strategic Assets: Tunnels Part Two – Hill with Culvert
Strategic Assets Guide #3: Tunnels, Part Two – Hill with Culvert. A guide to creating tunnels for use in Apocalypse battle from polystyrene foam and plaster culverts. Continue reading
Strategic Assets: Tunnels Part One – Caves
Strategic Assets Guide #3: Tunnels, Part One – Caves. A guide to creating tunnels for use in Apocalypse battle from polystyrene foam. With the diameter of a CD these models could be used for objective markers for normal games of 40K as well. Continue reading
Strategic Assets: Minefields
A guide to making the Apocalypse Strategic Asset: Minefields by creating boundary sign posts. This solves many of the issues involved with modelling minefields in way that takes very little time to create. Continue reading
Terrain Guide: Rok ‘Em Boyz Apocalypse Template
Another step-by-step modelling guide from Battlebarge. This guide is for creating Apocalypse Ork Strategic Asset Rok ‘Em Boyz 10″ Template, specifically the Rok itself and impact crater. It can also be used to provide direction for creating foam craters of any size. Continue reading
About my Imperial Guard: Part 3 – Hardened Veterans
I worked all weekend and I completed a new addition to my Imperial Guard army, a squad of Hardened Veterans. Here is a picture of the sergeant (more pictures at the end): As you can see I used Catachan jungle … Continue reading
About my Imperial Guard: Cadian 17th Regiment – Part 2 – Sly Marbo
It didn’t take long for me to deviate from the plan I laid out in my last post. I figured I could finish a whole elites choice by painting one model. So I pulled out Sly Marbo – the one … Continue reading
Modelling Guide: Imperial Guard Valkyrie Vendetta
This is a step by step guide showing how to convert the new Imperial Guard Valkyrie model into a Valkyrie Vendetta gunship. The conversion uses plastic parts from other Games Workshop model kits. Here is a picture of the finished … Continue reading
Tactics: I hide behind you, You hide behind me, We both win
In the table top war games we all play, there is a fine balance between making the rules too complex or making them too simple. Personally I tend to favor more simplified rule sets because I think streamlined rules make for a better playing experience. But with simplified rules you also find more game situations that are counter intuitive [...] Continue reading
When good figures go bad
If you play these games long enough then eventually you will have to deal with a new codex that makes one of your figures or even entire units obsolete. For me this just happened with the new Imperial Guard codex. Here is a picture of my second edition Warhammer 40K Cadian Imperial Guard Lieutenant [...] Continue reading
The Thunderhawk Debate
Simple question: how many Thunderhawks are there on a Space Marine Strike Cruiser? For me, this question comes up roughly quarterly and the debate in my group generally lasts for hours. Let’s define the parameters of the debate shall we? First, … Continue reading