WIP Asdrubael Vect finished.

I finished the chains and will be handing this project off to Capt. O. Enjoy!

I'll be putting little rivets on the plates at the end of the chains. I wasn't exactly sure what to do and this is the first thing that came to mind, not sure I like it but I'll mess around with it depending on if after Capt. O puts the rest of the model together you can see it or not. If not it won't be worth the effort and I'll just skip it.

The picture above doesn't do a good job but the chain looks like it goes into the chest cavity and comes out of his back to hold the guy up. Also, the haphazardly placed modeling make it look really good with the chains. The guy with the knee up looks like hes caught in it and its a pretty cool effect. I spent most of the time just weaving the chain in to make it look at purposeful as possible.This is a better angle of that braced knee/leg.

I love that rat (upper right quarter). Originally I had the chain running over top of him and then realized it was a rat and that didn't make much sense that he was chained it with the bodies. In the chest cavity on the guy he's about to chew on there was a little rat head sticking out that had to sadly get covered.

Thanks for looking!

WIP on the dirty Asdrubael Vect

It doesn't seem like its the nature of this blog to do work in progress' but since I'm new I get FNG leniency.

This is my chain tut in action. Cpt. Obvious asked me to do some GS work on his raider for Asdrubael Vect. OST put on some corps cart bits and I'm just chaining them up so that any poor soul who stands in their way see the cruel and twisted fates they'll soon be sharing with these lesser beings.

Anyhow, heres my progress:



I'm going to do two more chains coming down for sort of the mid line. You'll see when I get it done. I'll update with more pics as they come along but back to homework for now. 3 exams this week, awesome.

-CVinton

DARK ELDAR GROTESQUES

Captain Obvious here with another installment of Dark Eldar unit break downs.

GROTESQUES

These units have some pretty special rules. To start it off they have feel no pain, but it’s not your normal feel no pain. Grotesques ignore shooting attacks that aren’t STR6 or higher. So basically you can not kill grotesques from a shooting attack that doesn’t already insta kill them. This works out pretty nicely because STR6+ weapons aren’t usually a huge volume of shoots, and usually won’t be wiping entire squads.They also have some other rules which apply to them as well. Given their unusual tolerance to pain, grotesques are stupid. In game terms it means unless they are accomplice by and Independent Character they must pass a LD test to even move in the movement phase, they need not test for assaults.

Grotesques have one more VERY nasty rule. When ever grotesques win in close combat the enemy automatically falls back with out taking a LD test. Grotesques however do not have a save in close combat, but do benefit from 2 wounds and 2 attacks a piece.How to run them? Well I have been trying a couple ways to run these silly beasts. I mainly use them as a web way delivery system. Ill cover web way later in my posts but a quick run down: Web Way Portal is a portal that we can deploy from a character on the table and lets our reserves come in from the portal as if it were the table edge.

Is what you do is you take a cheat HQ (Homunculi) and give him a web way portal and what ever war gear you way (preferably cheap). Put him in a raider with a squad of 8-10 grotesques. Now u have a tough unit delivering your web way. Seeing as grotesques can be hurt by shooting attacks of STR6+ when that raider blows up unless your opponent wounds every single model that falls out they suffer no wounds, just don’t fail the pinning test. Next turn hopefully you got that raider where it needs to be and u can release that portal. Your opponent can NOT destroy it. Now your entire footslogging force that was kept in reserve can start to enter the table from the portal right on the front line of your opponent. This means TALOS. This is the only time I will ever run Talos because now they will be getting into assault and will become useful. When running a web way list I will usually run 3 squads of grotesques and 3 homunculi, one for each squad all with web way portals. This is to ensure that I get at least 1-2 portals open and to ensure I get my forces there. I also will run warrior squads with 2 splinter cannons and 2 blasters so I can lay down some fire power when they walk through. Obviously you can run it how you want, but this is how I have found it successful.

A small pointer on this list………it has not proven itself to be very competitive for me. I will run this list for fun, or against a gun line list….Like tau or guard just to mess with them. Once again IT IS NOT COMPETETIVE you may get tabled, so be ready lol.

Dark Future Games Invades Quantico area!

Old School here, and it looks like I am leaving for Quantico VA bright and early Sunday! I will have two weeks to myself to paint, model ... and attend a course, but at least the nights will be mine.

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While I am there, I want to hit up Glen Burnie and a few other places. When I used the GW store locator, I saw a ton of independant retailers. Does anyone know of an awesome FLGS in the Quantico/Maryland area? If so, send me a message and maybe I'll hit the store. Not to worry, I will have my camera and my minis with me for any interested in a game!

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While I am gone, I may have some connectivity issues, but I will try to blog as much as possibel and maybe even crank out a tyranid paint-scheme tutorial (if I can figure out a paint scheme) and I am sure my fellow authors here will continue to churn out tuts, tactics, news and discussion while I am off. Once again, feel free to let me in on the good FLGS locations!

Artist of the Week: Menelker!

This week's Artist of the week is CMON's Menelker. Also, in honor of the new Tyranid codex, this week's theme is tyranids. The reverse Hive Fleet Kraken theme looks amazing in these photos and the fact that he has a Hierophant is ridiculous! If the photos are too small here, take a look at his gallery here: http://www.coolminiornot.com/browse/page/1/submitter/Menelker/orderby/Descending

Enjoy the art!

The psychic energy around the head and the position of this model has made me change my outlook on the once static Zoanthrope model - now I look forward to making mine really stand out!

This final photo of the space Wolf is not Menelker's. It belongs to Asylum, another CMON artist. I just posted it because it makes me think of Silence of the Lambs ... "It puts the lotion in the basket, it does what its told!"

We were Soldiers! Guardians hoowah!

After the latest poll I figured I needed to step it up! It's good to see that so many people are still interested in Eldar!

To start off I'd just like to say that if you like a particular model or unit field it as much as you want, this goes for any army.

Don't let anyone discourage you from building and running your army the way you want to no matter how much they piss and moan that "It's useless" or "I wouldn't field that".

You're playing, not them, they can die.

If you like it and wanna build armies around it, go for it. There's nothing quite like shoving that bad model or unit down someones throat or making it part of an effective force and laughing. On the same token there's nothing like putting up a good, close fight with a supposedly sub-par force. Not as good as winning but if you fight for some respect with something like a Guardian themed force no good player will dog you for it.

After sitting through my short rant I have a fun sample army as a prelude to my next installment of tactica that I challenge everyone to play with like they've got a pair!

HQ: 115, Farseer, Jetbike, Fortune

Troop1: 293, 11 Guardians, Brightlance, Warlock w/Embolden
Wave Serpent, TL Brightlance, Spirit Stones

Troop2: 293, 11 Guardians, Brightlance, Warlock w/Embolden
Wave Serpent, TL Brightlance, Spirit Stones

Troop3: 148, 3 Guardian Jetbikes, 1 Guardian Jetbike w/Shuriken Cannon
Warlock on Jetbike w/Embolden

Fast1: 75, Vyper, Brightlance

Fast2: 75, Vyper, Brightlance

Yes I spammed BLs but in the gist of things I stuck true to a fast, Guardian themed army. Some of them might be driving the tanks but everyone is in fact a Guardian.

You don't necessarily have to play with the same weapons load outs. You could probably downgrade some or all of the BLs to Shuriken Cannons or Missle Launchers and have enough points for another Vyper, or another unit of Guardian Jetbikes or drop Vypers for War Walkers.

That's your choice. Great that the game does that for you.

Now the biggest thing when you sit down to try this list out is to not drop hints that you'll be dropping almost nothing but Guardians onto the table.

Knowing what your opponent is playing and what army they're playing are two different things.

Nothing quite like swapping out Lascannons for Heavy bolters on Devastator squads and tanks when you know the other guy is playing nothing but Ork boys, Fire Warriors or Dark Eldar Raiders.

I'd have to say most of us try not to meta-game our buddies lists but we're all guilty to some degree whether it be because we've had a bad day or because our buddies are kind of dumb and can't seem to play something else.

Let me know how you do guys. If you make a day of it let everyone else know too about any changes you might have made, what you liked best, what did well and in what combinations.
Hell, try a weekend of Guardian lists and let's show the community that even our Crossing Guards can kick ass!

Cheers!

The Votes are in for the new DFG army

Old School here and the votes are in - you the Dark Future readers picked Eldar as your choice for the army you would like to see covered here more. In an underdof victory, they came from behind and beat the Nids and wrecked the Guard ... the only thing is, when I posted the poll, I forgot that we already cover Eldar with Farseer Re-Rolls and his articles, which hopefully sends a message to his craftworld to write more articles and post some more of his work.

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There is more however, with the addition of CVinton to the team, we now have a guard player and even better, a guard player who writes a mean tutorial and will surely have one of the most unique and beautiful Guard armies in the Blogosphere.

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Wait, there is more, Considering that we can cover the other two armies ... and the fact that I really like the new Tyranid codex (and I would like to provide a blog that doesn't while about the new codex), I will be starting a Nid army from scratch. Expect plenty of conversions for the Swarmlord and more!

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With all that being said, expect DFG to now provide content for all three armies in the poll in addition to our Chaos Space Marine, Codex Space Marines, Black Templar, Dark Eldar, Necron and White Scar coverage! Feel free to comment as always!