Alpha Legion Destroyers

This is a unit I wanted for some time, a unit of Destroyers for my Alpha Legion.

I had some problem with the painting, I switched idea or paints scheme half way trough. This meant that I painted some layers or details in the wrong order and not up to the level I wanted or rather it took longer time then it had to. But in the end I managed to fix most of my errors.

When I had finally settled on a colour scheme it landed on a dark grey armour with tiger stripes in metallic blue/green.

I added some eldar grenades and equipments donated from a friend to represent the venom sphere special equipment that Alpha Legion Destroyers can get.

Alpha Legion Recon sniper squad

I wanted to add some more Recon Marines to my Alpha Legions, this time its a small Recon squad in scout armour and cameleoline with sniper rifles.

I used standard 40k scout marines as the base and then added mk4 helmets to make them more 30k. I used textiles for the camo cloak and to cover the bad joint from the helmets.

I wanted to have them realy dark and used a dark grey as the base before darkening the shadows and highlightning.
Their clothes was painted to look like multicam camo.

Looking at the pictures now I think I should have given the bases a warmer tint, to create a little contrast and to better simulate the stones  in my garden. But that can be added at a later point.

The radio antennas are two black straws from an dishing brush

 The sergeant was given artificer armour.

Recon marines are about the worst unit pointwise in the game and especially sniper rifles are severly lacking... But rule of cool wins every day in my book.

Battle under the city of Paimanah, Parvana Mahrukh System. Horus Heresy campaing game 6

This will be the sixth episode of our campaign of Parvana Mahrukh, set in the world of Horus Heresy, 30k
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/search/label/Campaign%20-%20Parvana%20Mahrukh


In our previous battle (http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2019/04/khurshid-area-of-city-of-paimanah.html) we followed the actions of the East Fringe Trading Company's actions of attacking the Expeditional Protection Force and its roadblock and tollbooths in city of Paimanah located in the Khurshid area.

What we will see here is the action taken place at roughly the same time but under the ground.

As the Eastern Fringe Trading Company planed the attack on certain areas in the city an underground attack aimed at capturing the wares, supplies and valuables collected by the Expeditional Protecting Force in their main job of keeping the local warlords separated and balanced.
This stacks of supplies is worth a lot of wealth and the owners of the Eastern Fringe Trading Company, the House of Naryshkin wants to get a hold of this...


So Håkan and I decided to play a game of Zone Mortalis. We decided on a 800pts strong force and gave the militia an ´half cost on provenances´on the Force Commander handicap (but not on upgrades on regular units) to compensate the way provenances are costed in lower point games.
And we allowed the militia to instead of maximum 15 to get to a maximum of 20, because lets face it... 15 Astartes is not the same as 15 militia...

The Militia Gredadiers in power armour and bolt guns have deployed and the East Fringe Trading company have deployed a large Castelax to flank them...

Close up picture of the Castelax in the bad lightning of the Zone Mortalis.

The Grenadiers storms forth and blast away at the Castelax with bolters and plasma.

In its turn the Castelax opened up with its guns and charged in, the combined effort of the defensive fire and later the combat knives of the grenadiers took wounds of the robotic beast. And it was in the end taken out by the power fist of Force Commander Stein. 

My Legate Commander had rushed in as an attempt to save my Castelax but he was stopped in his track by the grenadiers and Force Commander Stein...

With my force spread out my Legate Commander have no units to support him in this fight...

Force Commander Stein totally crushes my Legate Commander with his power fist...

Solar Auxilia reinforcements starts to arrive.

Half lassrifle squad ranks up and gets ready to shoot....

Force Commander Stein and his grenadiers are now surrounded from three sides...

Shot at from all sides the moral of Force Commander Stein and his grenadiers fail and they flee away.

They continue in their flight... (another failed moral save)

The axe Veletaris prepare to chase after the enemy commander...

A half squad of lassriflemen set up a small firing line in the corridors to catch some militias.

The target of the lassriflemen.

The axemen charges in as my unit of servo-automatas lead by engineseers arrives...

Lassfire in the halfblocket corridor.

The Reinforcements of the Expeditional Protection Force starts to arrive... More grenadiers with bolters that climbs an container to get a nice field of fire and some kind of battle droids (ogryns with heavy bolters) moves in...

My servo-automatas

Enemy battle droids...

All of the enemies bodyguards are cut down...

And in the end even the mighty Force Commander Stein fell to the might of power axes...

In my turn the Veletaris threw their shroudbombs grenade but it scattered onto the grenadiers and in a flash of light they are blinded. I had tried to use the walls of the Zone Mortalis to my advantage and protection from any incoming defensive fire. The combat droids failed the initiative check and the defensive fire was less then successfully..

My servo-automatas engage the blinded grenadiers in a firefight.

The combat droids morale fail and they tries to fall back from being hacked in the forehead with large axes...

They are not quick enough and get hacked in the back with my power axes instead...

Enemy sentinels blocks the hallway...
Its time to charge in with krak grenades...

But it is not enough to break through the enemy lines and my opponents holds more objectives and a roll to see if the game continues for more turns fails me and the game ended.
This means that my opponent came out on top.

What this means is that most of the supplies gathered up by the Expeditional Protection Force are kept by them.
The Eastern Fringe Trading company had fail in their goal to capture the valuables.


For this battle I had painted a new Legate Commander and a Castelax... Both of the suffered horrific by the "new model syndrome" and was the first two models to die in this game... Better picture of them can be found here: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2019/11/solar-auxilia-legate-commander-and.html