Alpha Legion Champions

In the last edition of Horus Heresy I toyed with the idea of having two Champions in a list for my Alpha Legion. playing the whole duality of Alpharius-Omegon in a mini format. One Champion is right handed and the other one left handed.
I got two large Eldar swords that I think was from some Wraith Guards to represent their paragon blades. The plan was to have two Recon squads, each riding in a Storm Eagle with a Champion to give them a punch.
That idea never materialized but I never dropped it, kept it back in my mind.

So with the new edition I thought it was time to start working towards this idea.
I ended up giving each Champion Tartaros Terminator armour because its the best looking armour in my opinion. I hope I didnt end up mess up my idea with them joining Recon marines by this, I dont know the rules good enough to know if I messed up here. But I think its no problem.
I changed the front of the torso armour to some Blood angles bits, to give then the whole ancient Greek muscle armour. I gave them specific Alpha Legion helmets and some shoulder pads from Scibor miniatures that had some Greek letters that Alpha Legion uses.

https://www.sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?group=154

As I wanted the paragon blades as Xenos-tech I painted them "wrong", some kind of alien crystal blade. The colours is not the typical choice for this model, I wanted them to pop, to stand out, to make them draw the attention.

If there are some rule or mechanic I have missed that dont let me have them join a Recon squad I can allways have them accompany regular Terminators....

Alpha Legion Tartaros Terminators

With the Horus Heresy 2.0 edition new weapon options seems interesting for me.
So here are some more Tartaros pattern Terminators for my Alpha Legion to supplement the my collection.

First up we have the Power lance, or power spear. Its made by attaching with a metal pinning a bayonet from the mk VI power armour kit onto a spear from Fire forge games.

Next up is some dual power claw wielding dudes...

Here with a banner, vexilia. A power sword and a double power claw.

The new lot, picture taken with less sun glare then the above picture.

The Vexilia is from I think was old Dark Eldar bits. I think its part of a trumpet/ horn like musical instrument if I recall correctly.

I think his scaled shoulderpad was from Scibor Miniatures, a "not Salamander" bit.

Alpha Legion vs World Eaters HH2.0 After Action Report

 

Olof and I had a game of Horus Heresy 2.0 and it was far to long time ago I played the new edition.
It took some time in the first turns to get into it again but we picked up speed later in the game. We played 2000pts and rolled for the mission and deployment.
2000pts was a nice pointlevel to get a little of everything in but was still not to massive. I think I like this level for a game.

My Alpha Legion would be facing his World Eaters.

A massive World Eaters assault spill forward from an Land Raider...
Enemy Preator and Elite soldiers of the World Eater legion...

With their special Alpha Legion reaction of Smokes and mirrors the Alpha Legion Terminator squad with my Preator turns up in the middle of the enemy lines, far ahead of their previous position...

Everything in its way are swarmed and picket apart...

After some gunfire and a couple of close combat attacks followed by more gunfire the zone starts to thin out...

More World Eaters sallies forth...

Enemy Preator with a lone bodyguard charges in... having taken a massive round of firepower that was all that was left of the elite squad.

The enemy Preator cut down my Champion but atleast his bodyguard didnt take down my Terminator Sergeant.

And then it was time for the Terminator Sergeant and he... he cut them all down with his chainfist...

A lone Recon marine Sergeant charges the side of the Land Raider and manages to take the last hullpoints of it with his meltabomb. Not that he needed it, but it was a juicy target for a lone Recon marine with meltabombs...

With dreadnought gunfire duels ebbing out it was a victory for the World Eaters...
The Alpha Legion was forced back with heavy casualties.

All in all it was a blast and I really need to play more games of Horus Heresy 2.0
The list I played was fun but in really need some tweaking to work better.

And here are some more pictures that Olof took