Lord Marshal Dreir leading Deathriders of the Death Korps of Krieg

 

Here we have the plastic Deathriders for the Death Korps of Krieg with the new special character Lord Marshal Dreir.
I am really really impressed by the new plastic Deathriders. Lots of options, bits and such nice movement in the miniatures.

The old Forgeworld resin miniatures were nice but they were standing still. The new ones larger so it might be hard to interchange them in units, but I have plans to rebase the old ones with raised bases so it would trick the eyes somewhat.

I gave their officer a hackle from a Napoleonic shako from my historical collection of bits... To make hime stand out even more.

I gave one of the riders a drum, also from my Napoleonic bit pile...
I guess his drumming skills might be a bit unappreciated as I think all of these miniatures might have hearing disability, both from their helmets and gas masks but also from all the shelling and livefire from both training and actual combat...
But i like the added fun little detail.

Lord Marshal Dreir him selves.
 

Death Korps artillery

Here we have a piece of Death Korps of Krieg artillery.
The kit came with a variety of swapable barrels so you can use the one that is most fitting for the task or which one is cooles.

I didnt like the look of the lower gunshield or the sandbags that is supposed to be placed on the sides. They didnt make any sense so I just leaved them of and I think the results looks better this way.

I tried some different colourschemes on the gun platform. Still keeping with the theme but I went with some "wrong" colours, trying gray and yellow. The "wrong" colour choice I really feel capture the ww1 look when they just started to try out camouflage. But after chipping and weathering the colours really tied the modell together and the yellow and gray against brown fitted really good together.
That was a fun experience. 

I havnt glued the gun to the base. The reason is so I am able to use it as a terrain or objective piece in games.

All the gun is interchangeable and just snap-fit together. 

40k Battlereport. Guards vs Guards

 

My friend Håkan and I had a game of Warhammer 40k. Its hard to not have a great game when playing games with Håkan.

So he wanted to have a game of Warhammer 40k but I haven't played a game for almost a year so I had almost completely forgotten the rules or how to even build an army and what to think about when doing it.

So I made an easy option of running a Leman Russ force as it would be less rules to learn then a force with more miniatures.

Håkan let me use weapon options from Warhammer 30'000 so for example I could use pintlemounted multilasers, but as I was playing without sponson weaponry overall it was a netloss in term of optimisation. But it looks cool...

The Russes are hiding in the bushes...

At the horizon the enemy Baneblade are seen.

Amongst the sea of Leman Russes a Techpriest tinkers along...

My first Vanquisher tank inflict a massive 11wounds on the enemy Baneblade... Damn... I think I just fell in love with the Vanquisher Leman Russ.
Last time I played with it that I can remember, granted it must have been in a previous edition but then it was shit...

And with more Leman Russes of different flavours the Baneblade were taken out in the first turn of the game.
That felt strange.

The stormtroopers ambush a Leman Russ and takes it out with meltas...

Stormtroopers have spotted their next target...

This techpriest looks more interesting in capturing a rare butterfly in the jungle then taking care of the Russes. I think he should work for the Biologus brand instead...

Håkan takes out a Leman Russ with a ocean of lasguns shots... Im guessing a shot hit a sight and bounced of the mirrors and finally hit a sensitive component.

Infantry holds an objective...

A Leman Russ finally enters from the reserve...
And the punisher gatling cannon started to spin...

The objective were empty at the end of the turn...

Leman Russ Executioner pushes forward to contest a objective, having more "object secure" then a Chimera it even managed to take control of it.

With their Chimera just exploding the infantry dismounted from the wreckage but that did not stop them to push forward...

Having pushed even further my Executioner is wanting to secure a objective that just happened to be guarded by an Techpriest...
- Power up the plasma cannon, Its execution time!...

When the smoke cleared and the fog of war lifted it ended for a minor victory for my Leman Russ force.
A really fun game that gave me the opportunity to relearned a lot of the current Warhammer 40k rules and mechanics.