Khorne Flakes - the Crunchy bits.

 

When life gives you lemons, Blood for the Blood God !

 

Streetfighter !

The Blood Pact arrived on Devos IV in some strength.  They were nearly prevented from landing by the vigilance of the Imperial Navy and the Black Templars.  But in the event perhaps two BCT sized formations were landed.  

The Blood Pact were well aware that theirs was a suicide mission and that they were all condemned men.  However, in an unwelcome parallel to the DKK, their fatalistic outlook would make no difference to their performance.

Their tactics were tried and tested; with the city environment precluding large scale armoured warfare, facing over ten Divisions of the Imperial Guard, they went for 'holding on to the enemies belt buckle' when engaged; staying so close that the Imperial Guard's advantage in artillery and close air support.

Their usual modus operandi was to heavily fortify a line in the ruins, using the shells of buildings, rubble and the other parts of the built environment to create positions from which they could fight the Imperial Guard, creating interlocking fields of fire, booby trapping dead ground and using their preparation time wisely.  Pressed bodies of other groups in the city, former PDF and Militia could be used as bait or to secure a flank or make a counter attack, but were usually used to dig trenches and otherwise prepare their fighting positions.

They would defend a fighting line on one day, and pull 90% of their strength back overnight to an alternative position tens of meters behind the previous day's.  The Imperial Guard would hammer the now lightly defended position, they couldn't not do that.  The defences would be subject to mortaring, including coloured smoke to mark the target area for the airstrikes which would be rolling in, bombing runs by CS Marauders and strafing runs by Vultures and Avengers.  The following infantry assault would be protected by a rolling barrage by the on call artillery.  

The Imperial Guard would take Xyphonica, that was a given.  But it would a take a long time and they would pay a heavy price. 
 

On the table

There's more of the weird pilgrims on the left, some space wolf scouts without heads (I ordered them before Chrimbo and hope they rock up soon) then the servants of chaos boxed set (an expansion set for BSFortress)  then a couple of rows of the 1980s Copplestone castings mad max types and then a Blood Pact detachment with a couple of three missile launchers. 

The forces of freedom and self determination amass to defend Xyphonica from the despotic & opressive invader.

Spartember Part One

I suspect that some of you will be familiar with Spartember, as Siph as posted here.

I don't have a large forgeworld tank to put together (sorry, Dai), but do have a couple of other models which have been hanging about for a bit and really need putting together.

The 1/35 Bradley was an impulse buy a few years ago on a rainy day, possibly when the small people were cheesing me off.  Academy kits have a decent reputation for accuracy and going together well (generally, the more detailed the scale kit, the more of a pain in the arse the build is - who'd have guessed ?).

Even as I took it off the shelf, this was going to be a Command Vehicle for a bit of one of the armies.  As things stand now, it's going to be the Blood Pact, which means 40Kificating the model as it is built.  I could build it out of the box as a US Army model; this is an attractive idea as you'd all be able to see how well I'd done.  However, it'd just get kicked about and smashed, whereas I could actually use a Blood Pact Command Vehicle.

My apologies for the glare on this picture, it's just to give you an idea of the number of pieces on the sprue.  It's an order of magnitude more complex than a GW kit, but nowhere near the recepie for tears which the Eisenkarn Mecha looked like.

But, scale models have good instructions.  Some are better than others but let's face it, if you've experienced Forge World instructions, then this sort of thing is both blissful and slightly daunting.

So all I have to do now is pull my finger out and get on with it.  I'm working Monday night but we'll see how far I can get by the end of next week.

Blood Pact finally organised.

So you all know that the hijacked transport ship destroyed by the Black Templars dropped off a large number of Blood Pact before being trashed.

I'm anticipating them being a DKK Siege Army list.

Etogaur.  Two bodyguards, bloodmage (counts as momento memori - for the time being) and master vox.

Platoon of three squads.

Platoon of three squads.

Four members of the Death Brigade.  Obviously four grenadiers doesn't fit any DKK codex entry, so another two boxes of scions and I can have two squads of seven... plus one sourced from a bitz site would be three squads of five.  And Centaurs would be kool.

Here we are with the three sentinels and a basilik (obviously an allied detachment).

Not shown are the three VL/Reaper Sledgehammer counts-as-earthshakers, yet to be delivered.  The five terror bird (death) riders.  Left out of these pictures by error.

So they're looking fairly healthy.

Tranche 3:  AT Teams with Tread Fethers plus others, including another command squad for the heavy artillery.

Other randoms as well, so we can crew the Basilisk etc.

Forsaking the Emperor for freedom from oppression and unlimited war crimes.

So that's posts into the new year written.  I've got a special treat waiting for me under the tree, so the next time I write a few posts, maybe Christmas will have passed and there'll be more new stuff.