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Currently on Painting Table

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Here is some of whats on the current painting table. I'm coming for you apoc formation!

7th edition and the Dark angels

There are many changes that have occured with the advent of 7th ed. I won't go through all of them here, since there are other sources and sites that can do it far better. But I do have some thoughts on a few topics and how things shake out for the Dark Angels. No area terrain anymore - Its interesting about the area terrain thing. Its seems that the area terrain that GW produces, twisted copse, battlescape (trees with the ruined rhino) gives you the 5+ no matter what. GW suggests that scratch built terrain may follow the rules of their building models, but doesn't give this distinction to the "woods" terrain peices, eg scratch built. They do say that "in cover behind difficult terrain has a 5+ cover save" so it ends up amounting to the same thing (for the most part). In the case of ruins its a 4+ no matter what. Personally i think the whole "hey look my mostrous creature/dreadnaught/tank has a tiny piece of itself in this ruin's basing ergo i get...

The Gordium Campaign: Assault on Ix

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This tale follows the armies of the Dark Angels as they endure the evil of the galaxy while trying to right the wrongs of ancient treason. Follow the whole tale of the Cogitators of Gordium:, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . S omewhere in the polar regions of the planet Ix, a meeting of nefarious leaders, Koros the Ironclaw, Bolivox a Nurgle Lord, and a shadowy figure plot the down fall of our heroes... "Lord it is I Bolivox, we offer you this progress. The gene-seed has been obtained by the chirurgeons and we are administering its modifications as we speak. The vessel is hardy and will make a good host. The sorcerer Enkynius works the warp on it as we speak." "Bolivox I trust this task to you but be warned my gift is that of life, should i choose to withdraw yours it would be all too easy. Warpsmith, I turn now to you, have the preparations been made to welcome our guests?" "Yes Lord we have prepared the defenses. The iron warriors will offer a test and exac...

Back Order Batrep, Apocalypse at Ithacus

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The Back Order Batrep is something that helps met get more pretty pictures on the web. Its not always possible to do comic writeups for all the batreps.The written variety serve to give a bit more showcase to models or battles that don't have the complete aesthetic picture, but were fun games non-the-less. The Apocalypse on Ithacus After losing several battles in attempting to get acess to the hidden cache of archeotech and weapons on the planets Industrial zone, the Dark Angels Attempted to muster a last push to gain enough time for the tech preists to complete the data transfer of Inventory manifests. This activity would prove to the inner circle that activity on Ithacus would be well worth it, should the logs show items that had long forgotten STC blueprints. As this activity took place, a massive push forced a majority of synapse creatures out of the industrial zone. The Dark Angels were instructed to hold the city at the collapsed southern city wall and transport corridor, ...

The Gordium Campaign: Hamerfall on Ix

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In orbit around the planet Ix we rejoin our hero's fresh off their victory at Orlansk, where they were able to capture the site, but the Sorceror Ekynius vanished while plaguemarine Captain Bolivox, has been tracked by the Ravenwing, and was last seen heading for the mountains...