Hi all!
Thank you Kaelo for the introduction last week but considering that all everyone knows is my favourite unit (the Legion Breacher Siege Squad), I think a full introduction is overdue so let’s do that!
I was always interested at a young age but I didn’t really know anyone who played so I ended up playing TCGs back then but now I have a lot of friends who all wargame, the door finally opened up for me. In August 2012, I had a demo game at my local Games Workshop and I was hooked, next thing I knew, I had a Dark Vengeance starter set on order, and a whole bunch of Grey Knight stuff as I liked the aesthetics (Dreadknights!).
Fast forward about year, I started looking at collecting a new army and for inspiration I started reading the Horus Heresy series and the odd 40k book here and there and Space Marines just became an obvious choice for me, particularly the Imperial Fist chapter so I started collecting them.
I love their siege warfare specialisation, it felt like a natural fit for my playstyle (defensive rather than offensive play, anti-vehicle/building armaments, siege tanks…) and as I learnt more and more about their history, it highlighted also how multi-dimensional they really are – just look at their successor chapters (i.e. the Black Templars and Crimson Fists). When their legion rules came out for Horus Heresy, I was so glad that this was accurately represented and funnily enough I bought an awful lot of marines from Forge World and started building my legion.
Thank you Kaelo for the introduction last week but considering that all everyone knows is my favourite unit (the Legion Breacher Siege Squad), I think a full introduction is overdue so let’s do that!
I was always interested at a young age but I didn’t really know anyone who played so I ended up playing TCGs back then but now I have a lot of friends who all wargame, the door finally opened up for me. In August 2012, I had a demo game at my local Games Workshop and I was hooked, next thing I knew, I had a Dark Vengeance starter set on order, and a whole bunch of Grey Knight stuff as I liked the aesthetics (Dreadknights!).
Fast forward about year, I started looking at collecting a new army and for inspiration I started reading the Horus Heresy series and the odd 40k book here and there and Space Marines just became an obvious choice for me, particularly the Imperial Fist chapter so I started collecting them.
I love their siege warfare specialisation, it felt like a natural fit for my playstyle (defensive rather than offensive play, anti-vehicle/building armaments, siege tanks…) and as I learnt more and more about their history, it highlighted also how multi-dimensional they really are – just look at their successor chapters (i.e. the Black Templars and Crimson Fists). When their legion rules came out for Horus Heresy, I was so glad that this was accurately represented and funnily enough I bought an awful lot of marines from Forge World and started building my legion.
I originally started my legion with the Siege of Terra in mind but with all the stuff that Polux was involved in – the Battle of Phall, his involvement in Imperium Secundus (Pharos) – it was hard to ignore the wider war so I’ve been expanding to include other elements and have been considering creating a shattered legion army to introduce other legions into my collection (Ultramarines to team up with Polux for instance).
I also have other armies sitting on the side-lines currently that I can make use of here in the Heresy – I’ve got a Knight Household that I am currently in the process of deciding which household they are (most likely a custom one as there isn’t really enough 30k lore on the knights in my opinion and it will be easier to introduce them into my fluff to support any of my other armies). I also have a cultist army that is a work in progress – using the Age of Sigmar Khorne Bloodbound models from the starter set I have built up quite a horde of berserkers that could be used as a traitor army or even a chaos corrupted human population on an uncompliant world for a great crusade scenario.
Looking forward, I’m really looking forward to sharing my love of the Imperial Fists with you all by showing you elements of my army and possibly even starting up tactics discussions. I’m also planning on showing you all other parts of my hobby work as I am looking at working on the scenery for my Realm of Battle board (buildings, fortifications, cargo containers, even random scatter terrain as I feel the little details really help make a board look great!).
Until next time!
Hector Cephas
Welcome bro. Your army is beautiful. Can't wait to see some more posts about the units!
ReplyDeleteLook forward to seeing this army grow
ReplyDeleteGood to have the intro and start seeing your army. Looking forward to you getting amongst it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on joining the bunnies (it's a gang:)) I can't wait to see the force in its entirety and the additions you plan on adding.
ReplyDeleteSo many breachers!! Love it! :D the army you've built up is exactly the approach I would take for a IF legion! Excited to see more of the army in upcoming posts!
ReplyDeleteSo quick question for the community at large: I'm painting figures for my armies on parade and I found small moldings on them. 1) do I leave them on or hope no one sees them and 2) is there any easy way to remove them or do I bite the bullet, scrap em off, and paint over? Any awnser is appreciated. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYour minis your call. Basically, to remove all imperfections is the route of madness. Can you live with it?
DeleteNo I can't live with it seeing figures like those above. It's basically the mold lines on the legs that catch my attention.
DeleteI have to say you are very observant, good spot! In some regards, I am probably lazier than I should be with removing mold lines - I do try but I miss more than I should but sometimes I feel that my skills of green stuff lets me down as there are some imperfections that I just can't fix without ruining the model. Look at the hull just above the heavy bolter on the spartan assault tank in my first image, I could have ended up cutting a chunk out of the spartan to fix that whereas I always make a mess of my work with green stuff so I ruled it out and accepted the damage - "a close shave with a lascannon that has been patched up prior to redeployment?"
DeleteUltimately, Col. Hertford has nailed it here as in the end of the day, it's your hobby and your models so your call :)
Just in case people are missing it, there's a pic of the November WD cover with the new Horus Heresy Game on it. It has pictures of plastic Custodes, Tartarus terminators, mkIII Legionannies and a character (possibly Beojn)... It's over at bolter and chainsword.
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