"White Scars" vs Salamanders, 30k AAR

 

I played a game of Horus Heresy, 30k.
My "White Scars", Alpha Legionaries in White Scars colours faced Salamanders.

Lots of dakka...

Heavy infantry...

Alpha legion Recon marines in World Eaters colours lured a Contemptor into the ruins.

The Recon marines did some damage but the Contemptor survived their meltabombs.

The Outriders reacts and moves back as the Salamanders terminator advances.

 

 After a wall of fire the Outriders closes in with close combat weapons.

The Salamanders fired and my whole Veteran squad was wiped as an reaction to me issuing a charge order.
I knew it was a bad idea to try to charge them but standing still and take a round of regular fire was not an option...

As a last ditch effort or mostly just for fun, to die in glory I used the Alpha legion special reaction of smoke and mirrors and pushed the last 3 bikes forward bypassing the bolterpigs and would face the anti tank guns...
None of the bikes survived being hit by the anti tank guns...

In the end I just had my Delegatus and the last Veteran squad left and in my turn I called it quit. Their were no way to change the course of the battle. Better to pull back and fight another day...



It was a great game and I really felt that I play these games far to seldom. You forget the rules when not playing so often hopefully I can get to play more often in the future.


In this game I really felt that I needed more ap2 weaponry. Terminators, Dreadnoughts and the special troops of the Salamanders are a tough nut to crack. Bolt guns or Heavy bolters are clearly not enough...

Turnip 28

 

I have painted a new group of soldiers for Turnip28.

Its a mixtures of some 3d printed bits, and mostly Perry Miniatures 100years wars and Napoleonic bits and then some greenstuff.

In this batch I painted a Toady, a unit of Brutes with close combat weapons and a unit of Chaff with missile weapons.

The Toady to led the new soldiers into battle.

The Brutes for some heavier close combat action.

And the Chaff for harassing enemy units.

Infinity - Operation Blackwind cardboard terrain

 

I built the cardboard terrain from the Infinity - Operation Blackwind box.
https://store.corvusbelli.com/en/wargames/infinity/codeone/operation-blackwind

And as far as cardboard terrain goes I think its rather neat.
I think I should paint the edges black or dark grey but we will see if I will bother...

The smaller buildings are stackable on top of the larger buildings.

Infinity Haqqislam

Infinity...

Its a game that have some really really neat miniatures I have been tempted to test it or at least paint the miniatures from the game.
I bought some miniatures when it was in first edition but I found the rules hard to get into and the hype later died out.
But that was many years ago and the rules seems to have been streamlined a lot and the miniatures are even better today.

So when Corvus Belli released a new starter box with the Haqqislam faction in it and there seems to be a nice Infinity community here in Växjö, Sweden I couldnt stop my self and bought the box, selling the other faction to a friend and keeping the Haqqislam and the terrain and such for my self.

And I really dont like playing with unpainted miniatures so I had to paint them up to see what I have getting my self into.

I like the official colour scheme for the Haqqislam but I wanted to have something different and tested out some different colours before ending up with the colourscheme chosen.

The pictures ended up somewhat blurry in some cases but Im to lazy to take new ones. This will have to do.
Al the miniatures have new name for me and I think it will take some time before I learn them...

Hassasin Bokhtar
I didnt like the original pose with holding a pistol in one arm and the machinegun in one, so I did a greenstuff modification to have her carry the machinegun with two hands instead. It doesn't hold up for a close inspection but looks good enough at the distance you usually looks at the miniatures on the gaming table.

Daylami Infantry

Hassasin Barids (Hacker)

Rahman Rouhani

Hassasin Fiday

Hassasin Nadhir

Hassasin Lasiqs

Mukthar, Active Response Unit (Hacker)