Journal Tactica The Battle for the Signus Cluster Assault on Kol

Hot on the heels of Journal Tactica Prospero Burns: The Judgement of Valdor, we now have The Battle for the Signus Cluster: Assault on Kol. Instead of Tzeentch Daemons, this time, we get Slaanesh Daemons. I'm sure Goonhammer (now renamed Tabletop Battles, but I'll always call them Goonhammer) will cover the rules and stuff for Slaanesh Daemons, so I won't go into too much detail here. Or at least I thought they would, but they're so busy with 11th edition and the Adeptus Custodes codex that they forgot all about Assault on Kol and the Horus Heresy. Normally, you'd expect a review on their website by now, but it's been 2 weeks since Goonhammer and Warhammer 40,000 influencers receive their review copy (sadly, I'm not one of them, so my reviews always come on the day of release, or after), and they haven't posted anything on it - though they did write about the FAQ and errata 2 days ago.

Suffice to say, you get a Daemon Prince (just like with Tzeentch Daemons), a Herald, Daemonettes as Troops, Seekers as Fast Attack, Fiends as Heavy Assault, and Keeper of Secrets as your Lord of War. You can take a Slaanesh Daemon auxiliary detachment like we have for Tzeentch, but unlike that time where you've to be Thousand Sons Traitors (which has since been errata-ed to be any Traitor Legion), you don't need to be Emperor's Children to take one. You just need to be Traitor and bring along an Esoterist, which unlocks a HQ, two Troops slot, 1 Heavy Assault and 1 Fast Attack. Deja vu? Swap the Heavy Assault for Support, and you'll see Tzeentch all over again.

There's also a new Solar Auxilia detachment that's affiliated with Slaanesh, and they get the Fast rule. Of course, just like the Traitor Astartes, they can take the same Slaanesh Daemons auxiliary detachment. It's similar to the Tzeentch Solar Auxilia detachment, but those guys get a 6+ invulnerable save against psychic weapons and Perils of the Warp. I guess Fast is better? Oh, well. Right, I almost forgot. We have a new unit for Traitor Solar Auxilia, the Exalted Section, which is an Elites slot of 10-20 dudes with lasrifles. But if you take them with lasrifles, you're doing it wrong - you might as well take lasrifle sections (though they admittedly have a better BS4...but what's the use of having your Strength 3 lasrifles hit on a 3+ instead of 4+?). Nope, you're taking them for their 2 attacks base and option to turn them into melee mutants for Solar Auxilia.

They can swap their lasrifle for a laspistol and charnabal saber for free, then you can swap either a laspistol or a charnabal saber for a razorclaw for 5 points. Razorclaw too lackluster despite 6+ breaching and rending, and phage (willpower)? Swap your charnabal saber for a hooklash instead, for 10 points, which retains the phage (willpower) but gives up 6+ breaching and rending for Initiative +2 and 2 more attacks. You can take melee auxilia weapons if neither Slaanesh appeals to you, and with a tasty WS4, why not? The Journal Tactica suggests you build them using Solar Auxilia infantry models and heads and arms from Slaanesh Daemonettes.

Anyway, we're here for the lore, as usual. So basically, the Signus Cluster has three primary stars and seven inhabited planets, divided into the inner and outer systems. If you've read Fear to Tread by James Swallow or Malevolence, both Horus Heresy books where one's a novel and the other's the original Black Book for Horus Heresy first edition, you'll be familiar with the story by now.

Sanguinius and the Blood Angels land on Signus Prime, face a horde of Khorne Daemons - led by Ka'bandha - and almost succumb. Fortunately, after being defeated by Ka'bandha once, Sanguinius gets back up and wins the second round. The IXth Legion then leaves Signus Prime, forever scarred by their encounter with the Daemons there. Oh, and their flagship, The Red Tear, crash-lands on Signus Prime, and a bunch of Space Wolves get killed (by Amit, if I recall correctly) when they find out about the IXth Legion's curse.

The journal tactica doesn't focus on that. Before we get there, let's talk about the Signus Cluster. The outer system, where Signus Prime is, consists of...well, Signus Prime and a couple more worlds. Ta-loc and Scoltrum, which are rapidly developing industrial bases, the Hive World Holst, and Phorus, which serves as a navigational waypoint and astropathic nexus.

The inner system, on the other hand, only has two worlds - the mining world of Signus Tertius and the irradiated Kol, home to the 606th Cohort of the Solar Auxilia, the Signian Vexatores. They're more commonly known as the Rad Serpents, though.

The Templi Prudentia, which seems to be the precursors to the Shadowkeepers Shield Host, detects a disturbance in the warp originating from the Signus Cluster, so they go there. The Blood Angels expedition spots them, but they do the whole secretive Custodes thing and tell them to behave as if they're not there. While the IXth Legion investigates the outer system, the Legio Custodes go to the inner system instead, having only a single ship...but lots of armor, lots of jetbikes and lots of Custodes. Relatively - there are a few hundred Custodes, from what I can tell. They are also accompanied by a cohort of Tyrian Exoguard, who's commanded by Marshal Artuk Rahm.

The Legio Custodes are commanded by Tribune Iseulte Eir Xanthe, who has four Shield Captains under her, including Medraut - who's in charge of the Aquilon Terminators - and Jan Morkael Brathe, who rides a jetbike and is in charge of armor. Their ship, Obsidian, goes to orbit around Kol, but there's defense lasers, so they instead go to the far side of Kol and land armor to destroy the lasers first.

Unfortunately, the Rad Serpents have been lying in ambush, and their armored columns and heavy weapons strike, killing at least two Custodes outright and wrecking their jetbikes when Brathe's outriders pull ahead of the host's armored column. Obviously, the Custodes are not happy, so they crash into the Rad Serpents' ambush lines and exterminate them...but at great cost.

They then proceed to Ostium, the fortress-city that's the gateway to Koi's underground warrens. At first, it appears empty, but it turns out to be a trap. While the Legio Custodes are inside, the concealed Rad Serpents blow the place, burying them, then ambush the isolated survivors. To be fair, there are a lot of survivors, and the Custodes inevitably win against the mortals, but at great cost. In any event, the destruction of Ostium means the orbital defensive lasers are silenced, and the Obsidian can safely orbit Kol now. Apparently jetpack Custodes - the Venetarii - drop down from the Obsidian to rescue the survivors from the Rad Serpents' ambush, mitigating their casualties.

Xanthe then dispatches the Tyrian Exoguard to clear the rubble Ostium is reduced to, so they can go underground, exposing them to radiation. Yikes. She then instructs Proconsul Columbanus and a bunch of Custodes to go in ahead of them, once a small opening is cleared, and establish a foothold.

Columbanus and his forces encounter both Rad Serpents and Slaanesh Daemons before they are annihilated. Ouch.

Once a bigger opening is forced, Xanthe then sends Medraut and the Aquilon Terminators in. They encounter the Slaanesh Daemons, including a Greater Daemon, and Medraut vanquishes it while being wounded. They do manage to get their foothold and reach the mines, and Xanthe gives the Custodes a break, sending the Tyrian Exoguard as the vanguard this time. Unfortunately, the Solar Auxilia encounters not just Daemons and Rad Serpents, but Word Bearers, including Saturnine Terminators among their forces. Rahm is mortally wounded, but the Solar Auxilia stand strong until the Custodes reinforce them, wiping out the Word Bearers and the Slaanesh Daemons that appear to aid the latter. Medraut fights the re-summoned Greater Daemon once more, vanquishing it again, despite his grievous wounds. Such a badass.

They then continue downward, deeper, until they reach the heart of Kol, where a giant rift thing has been brought to existence. Apparently, it's the cause of the daemonic incursions in the Signus Cluster, including the Khorne hordes besetting the beleaguered Blood Angels on Signus Prime. The Rad Serpents here are the elites of the Solar Auxilia Cohort, but are horribly mutated, and they and the Slaanesh Daemons attack the Custodes and Tyrian Exoguard. The leader of the Rad Serpents, Grand Marshal Bruja, is fatally injured, but he merges with the Greater Daemon to become Kyriss the Perverse.

Medraut manages to pin Kyriss in place, but is killed. Fortunately, his valiant actions buy Xanthe the opening she needs to impale Kyriss to the wall with the standard of the Tyrian Exoguard, which she rescued from a dying Rahm and vowed to never let it fall in honor of their service. With Kyriss's demise, the Slaanesh Daemons vanish, and the surviving "elite" mutated Rad Guard are exterminated by the vengeful remnants of the Legio Custodes. Apparently, that also helps Sanguinius awaken from his coma, allowing him to defeat Ka'Bandha this time.

Taking their dead with them, the Legio Custodes blow up the entire place to destroy the rift thing, then leave. They don't join the Blood Angels in leaving the Signus Cluster, and definitely do not end up in Imperium Secundus or the Realm of Ultramar, unlike Sanguinius and his IXth Legion. But evidently, they are able to return to Holy Terra, for they're able to inscribe Medraut's name in a tomb in the Imperial Palace, honoring his courage and sacrifice.

And that's it. I wonder what's the next Journal Tactica going to be...Nurgle? Or Khorne? Also, I want a Shield-Captain in Aquilon Terminator armor...c'mon, give us rules for an Aquilon Terminator Shield-Captain for Horus Heresy (and 11th edition)! This book gives us a cheaper Proconsul (basically a budget Shield-Captain), a Venetarii Proconsul (jumppack budget Shield-Captain) and updated rules for the new jetbikes. So why can't we get an Aquilon Terminator Shield-Captain/Proconsul?

Horus Heresy Errata and FAQs

 We finally have rules update for The Horus Heresy! Yay! And one of the best improvements is to the Vanguard rule, which affects me a lot because I play Knights and my Solar Auxilia are mainly Veletaris sections (and my Imperial Militia are composed of Grenadiers). So now Vanguard now allows you to score X (mostly 3, going by my Knights) when you kill units within 3" of the objective marker at the start of the player's turn. That's huge, because it means the opponent can't simply use a Reaction to move his unit away from the objective marker to deny your scoring of Vanguard points. Yay!

Other FAQs include rolls of 1 for armor penetration always fail, regardless of whether it's equal or greater than the armor value of the target. So even if my Knight's Strength 12 reaper chainsword rolls a 1 against an AV10 Rhino, it fails.

There are also line of sight stuff, and I see people complaining about how terrain has infinite height and no line of sight can be drawn. Just a caveat, though - that only applies for heavy terrain. You can still draw line of sight over light terrain, and above 3" for medium terrain, if I'm reading it right. If not, feel free to correct me.

Apparently, you are free to not target different units if you make multiple shooting attacks with a Vehicle. Also, more than one units can make the same reaction in response to the same enemy unit. E.g. if an enemy unit ends a move within 12" of 2 of your units, and within line of sight, both of them can Reposition.

Also, for those of you army builders - if you have a detachment that restricts you to taking specific units for a specific slot, e.g. Support slots in the Dreadwing Detachment only allowing you to take Rapier units and Interemptors, then even if you use the Prime advantage Logistical Benefit to take an additional Support slot, even that slot must be restricted to Rapiers and Interemptors. So you're better off taking a War Engine slot or something, I guess...

Also, if your transport gets destroyed during your movement phase, and your unit makes an emergency disembarkation, they can still move. And charges they make count as disordered. And if your blast weapons scatter back to your tank, e.g. my Leman Russ Executioner tank's plasma cannon, then you treat it as being fired from the actual target (e.g. the Terminators I targeted) when determining which armor facing gets hit. Blasts also don't scatter off the table - treat it as if the center of the blast marker hits the edge of the table. Deep Strikers count as having moved their full movement characteristic when deep striking.

Vehicles can now make saves or damage mitigation rolls against glancing hits. Also, vehicles cannot move vertically or be set up on any level that's not the first floor. Makes sense, so please stop pretending your tanks can climb buildings. Also, units can only disembark from a transport after it makes its full move. You can't move halfway, disembark the passengers, then continue moving the transport's remainder of its movement characteristic.

Feel No Pain is updated, but...I don't see no change, you still discard damage as long as you roll X (Feel No Pain 5+ means you ignore wounds whenever you roll a 5 or 6). Edit: Oh, so Feel No Pain now takes effect whenever you take damage, not just during the shooting and combat phases. Shot Selector now has Breaching 5+. Also, Overseer, Master of Auxilia can now join Imperial Militia units as well as Solar Auxilia. Imperial Militia don't get left out now, yay!

Mechanicum models with Comptroller doesn't let Vanguard units they join score more than 1 point for controlling Objective Markers. Heterodoxists now have to deduct the difficulty Cybertheurgic points when doing their powers. Also, Decimator swaps the heavy flamer and claw for an option now. Apparently, when Titans move and cause Cool checks, anyone passing the Cool check stays as close to his original position as possible, as long as he doesn't end up under the Titan or in base contact with an enemy.

Zone Mortalis has a new map for Configuration Tertius.

Clearance protocol, no quarter also has a new map.

Auxilia Battle Combat Technicians now have Battlesmith 3.

Also, an errata for Prospero Burns: The Judgement of Valdor that I somehow missed the first time - Thousand Sons are no longer the only Traitor Legion who can take Tzeentch Daemons as an auxiliary detachment. They're now open to all Traitor Legions, just like Slaanesh Daemons. No wonder that detachment wasn't specific to Emperor's Children. Well, Word Bearers were there, so...

I guess that's all, folks! I glossed over quite a few things like Challenges because those are challenging to comprehend, but aside from that, these are the stuff I found most interesting in the rules updates. I hope your games will be better now!

Strangely enough, I don't see Goonhammer...ahem, Tabletop Battles writing anything about Horus Heresy. Hell, they didn't even do their usual preview on Assault on Kol. Don't worry, I'll write about the lore, but...uh, I won't write anything about the rules, aside from mentioning the obvious - that there's rules for Slaanesh Daemons and the affiliated Solar Auxilia. Oh, well...

Edit: Goonhammer wrote about the Horus Heresy errata and FAQ on October 14th, 2 days after I wrote this. Good to see they haven't abandoned the Heresy.

Warhammer 40,000 Big Autumn Q&A

Hah! Adam and Eddie answered my question! Thank you! 

Yeah, when you see a question about Imperial Knights, you can bet it was me. Well, not 100%, but where else are you going to find an Imperial Knight fanboy?

Anyway, their answer is: Nope, Cerastus and Acastus chassis will not be in the 11th Edition Imperial Knight codex. Horus Heresy era Knights will not be included in the codex datasheets, but they will not be removed, so most likely they will still be Imperial Armor units like the Custodes' Orion dropship and Ares gunship. Or, at the very least, they will get Legends rules (hopefully it'll be Imperial Armor rather than Legends, so that they can still be used in tournaments).

Would be great if they're part of the whole digital content thing that they promise for codex every quarter (e.g. Legion of the Damned), with lore and stuff to back them up. Not sure what to say, though. Anyway, we'll see!

New Custodes

Hey, look! New Custodes! Aquilon Terminators!

They come with the usual adrathic destructors or lastrum storm bolters, or infernus pike. I like the infernus pike myself, but that's just me. Also like adrathic destructors because they're so Dark Age of Technology.

Their weapons are so cool! I think they'll come in boxes of 6, or boxes of 3, but I'm not sure. I guess we'll find out!

There's also a new Journal Tactica! The Battle for the Signus Cluster: Assault on Kol.

Though it's about the Signus Cluster, the Blood Angels aren't involved here. Instead, it's about the Custodes ending up in the mining world of Kol and fighting against Slaanesh hordes. So we'll get rules for Slaanesh daemons, and probably corrupted Solar Auxilia who worship Slaanesh.

I already covered the Tzeentch guys in the previous post when I wrote about the Journal Tactica for the Prospero Burns: Judgement of Valdor. I'll get the book just for the lore, and then write about it, as usual. But I'm not building a Slaanesh army.

Apparently, you also get "new" Custode units, but they're mostly Command slots, so a jetpack Custode command/HQ/officer - the Venetari Proconsul - and a Hykanatoi Proconsul-Delegate, who's basically a lower-ranked officer than the Shield Captain. Oh, and Jetbike Sodality have a new updated profile. Interesting.

Anyway, I'll cover the lore as usual once I get my hands on the Journal Tactica!

Prospero Burns The Judgment of Valdor

I finally have a chance to read the Journal Tactica: Prospero Burns The Judgment of Valdor. I'll give a brief run of spoilers - too exhausted to write a detailed account. And no, I'm not using AI to read the Journal Tactica and summarize it. Anyone can do that, it'll defeat the purpose of me having a blog.

Speaking of AI, I use AI to code. I have a visual novel I'm creating, so I'm now technically an indie developer. Yay? But let's talk about that another day. For now...Prospero. As a Thousand Sons guy, I was psyched when the Journal Tactica was first announced, and I knew I was going to get it. Not for the Tzeentch Daemons. I'm a Loyalist Thousand Sons, so I have no intention of starting a Tzeentch Daemons army.

Not yet, anyway...

So we begin with the notorious Council of Nikaea, also known as The Trial of the Sorcerer. Long story short (go watch Arbitor Ian's video on Thousand Sons and Prospero if you want the full details), the Emperor summoned a council on Nikaea to decide what to do with the Librarius project and the use of psykers in the Legiones Astartes. Despite Magnus's impassionate plea for wisdom, the Emperor ruled that the use of psychic powers is forbidden, and so Magnus skulks back to Prospero, sulking, and isolates himself for like 3 years.

Instead of obeying the Emperor's edict, Magnus decides to continue using psychic powers anyway, and he learns of Horus Lupercal's treachery. He then uses psychic powers to send a message to Terra to warn the Emperor, instead of y'know, sending an astropathic message like others. Maybe he thinks astropaths can't be trusted and their message will get intercepted in the warp or something. Perhaps he just wants to be vindicated in his defense of psychic powers as indispensable to the Legiones Astartes.

That results in Magnus's folly, where he accidentally breaches the wards the Emperor set up in the Imperial Dungeon, and causes hordes of daemons to invade Terra. The Emperor is rightly pissed off when his Webway Project is in tatters and he's stuck on Terra holding the gates closed to deny the daemons entry to his world, so he sends a Censure Host to bring Magnus back in chains, with Constantin Valdor as his representative.

The Captain-General of the Legio Custodes, he is accompanied by the anathema psykana Sisters of Silence and the Ordo Sinister, which includes not just the Psi-Titans but also the Questoris Sinister! Whoa! We now have...psi-Knights? The leader of the Knights is Stator-Xabulus Erydani Colm, the Commanding Scion of the Obsignatus Lance of the Questoris Sinister. I kid you not.

So basically 5 Psi-Titans of the Ordo Sinister, and a single lance of the Ordo Sinister's vassal Knight household, the Questoris Sinister, which is like 16 Knight armors. And they're escorted by 1,000 Secutarii Sinister, the support troops for the Chamber Occidentalis of the Ordo Sinister.

They meet Leman Russ and his Space Wolves in Beta-Garmon, because only a Primarch may apprehend or execute another Primarch. Leman Russ is determined to kill Magnus instead of arresting him, apparently because Horus talked to him. Valdor and Russ clash over this, but in the end Valdor has no choice but to let Russ do what he wants, which includes grabbing proscribed exterminatus grade weapons and phosphex from the armories of Beta-Garmon.

They then head to the Prospero system, where the Thousand Sons fleet is conspiciously missing. Magnus has used his magic to blind his people and cloud their sensors while dispatching his fleet elsewhere, because he intends to accept his punishment and dies. Russ, on Valdor's urging, sends a heartfelt message to the Thousand Sons, asking them to surrender, but Magnus the moron remains silent because he's playing the victim (Vulkan is sort of right here). Sigh. Why, Magnus...

I'm a Thousand Sons player, and even I think Magnus is dumb for doing this. This is even after reading Graham McNeill's A Thousand Sons, by the way. But I think Vulkan has a point after reading Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Echoes of Eternity.

Anyway, Russ runs out of patience and bombs Prospero to oblivion, but Tizca is safe because of the psychokinetic forcefield. The Space Wolves land, like 30,000 of them, in Old Tizca, and they proceed to crush the poor Prosperine Spireguard and Airguard. Ouch. They do meet more formidable resistance from the Magdan Auxilia across the Lemsa River, the Solar Auxilia Cohort having experience fighting alongside and against Legiones Astartes, and thus familiar with their tactics.

The Thousand Sons, led by Ahzek Ahriman, finally mobilize, and they mop the floor with the Space Wolves through their psychic powers. They're backed up by elite Spireguard Veletarii and psi-automata. Awesome.

Constantin Valdor realizes the Space Wolves might actually lose, so he sends reinforcements. Custodians and Solar Auxilia land, including the Saturnye Rams. The Custodes even overpowered the Sekhmet Terminator elites of the Thousand Sons, forcing the latter to withdraw. Ouch.

Still, the Thousand Sons's sorcery allow them to match the Custodes as they attempt to punch deeper into Tizca, and slaughter the Space Wolves...until Valdor calls for the Sisters of Silence to nullify their psychic spells. The Thousand Sons are thrown back and have to retreat further into Central Tizca as the Golden armored warriors and their accompanying support (Sisters of Silence plus Solar Auxilia) make headway.

Kalophis then activates Canis Vertex, a Titan, and annihilates the enemy invaders before he goes kaboom from the excess warp energy, which means Canis Vertex also detonates in the middle of the city. Lots of Thousand Sons also devolve into Chaos Spawn. Ugh. At the same time, plenty of Space Wolves also mutate into Wulfen or werewolves, and they start tearing into each other. Damn.

Here's the new material not covered in A Thousand Sons or even Inferno (the black book). So apparently, Phtohonos Shield Host breaks into the Order of Ruin's Praefurnium Aeturnus, apparently to pilfer the secret trove of lore that the Thousand Sons have there. They fight a running battle against the Order of Blindness the deeper they descend, and eventually, they find a bunch of Thousand Sons Sorcerers conducting some weird ritual.

Needless to say, this ritual summons a bunch of Tzeentch Daemons, including a Lord of Change. The horrors, flamers, screamers and other Tzeentch Daemons bring down the Custodes and Sisters of Silence while the horrified Thosuand Sons retreat. The leader of the Shield Host, Tribune Achernas, proceeds to duel the Lord of Change.

Above, Magnus finally emerges to fight against Russ, gets his back broken, then teleports his Sons and himself to the Planet of Sorcerers. At that moment, the Lord of Change either is defeated or disappears, leaving the surviving Custodes dazed and stunned.

By the way, about 1,000 Custodes participated, along with 3,000 Sisters of Silence, tens of thousands of Solar Auxilia from the 3rd Terranic Auxilia, 1,260th Tyrian Exo-guard, 9th Saturnye Rams, 10th and 42nd Sarcosan Voltigeurs, Charonid Sentinels, and Sydonia Taghmata Elements Ekriss.

We get rules for the Oblitum Pattern Cohort, which represents the psycho-conditioned Tyrian Exo-guard. They ignore negative Leadership modifiers, but need to make Willpower checks for reactions or score Objectives. At least you can take them as allies to your Legio Custodes army, which otherwise forbid you from taking Solar Auxilia allies. You also get to take a free Helot Tercio for your Veletaris Tercio, which lets you field more expendable troops and a single fire support unit.

I won't go through the Tzeentch Daemons list in detail because I'm too tired and confused to understand all the interactions (with other Daemon types, like Infernal Tempest, Formless Distortion, etc.), psychic powers and rules, but basically, you get to field a Daemon Prince as high command, a Herald of Tzeentch as normal command, flamers as fire support, screamers as fast attack, horrors as troops, and a Lord of Change as Lord of War.

Thousand Sons can also summon an auxiliary detachment called Aetheric Incursion, but only if you're Traitor. Which I'm not, so... anyway, you'll only unlock this if you're Traitor and you bring an Esoterist or Prosperine Sorcerer. No, Librarians don't count, apparently.

But if you're sick of Legiones Astartes for some reason and want to play mortals, but psyker mortals instead, you get the Fateweaver Cohort Doctrine for Solar Auxilia, which gives them a 6+ invulnerable save against Perils of the Warp or Psychic weapons (...that's it?). Command models are pskyers, yay! But only Fateweaving psychic discipline, so no pyromancers for your Solar Auxilia. Also, if you take an infantry tercio, you get a free Aetheric Incursion detachment! Nice! So your mortal Solar Auxilia psykers can also summon Tzeentch Daemons!

...I kinda want the Custodes Dreadnoughts, though. They look cooler than Daemons. Anyway...that's it for the lore!

Ciaphas Cain and Centaur

It's been a long time since I last posted. Sorry, I've been super busy with work and my own personal projects. Starry Knight is still far from being completed, sigh. I think I have 14 more pages to color, and worse, I'll have to redraw a few of the colored ones. I think I'll finish coloring everything first, post them, then slowly redraw and replace them later, when I have the time and energy.

Anyway, I finally had some free time today. Phew. After about a month of procrastination, I finally assembled Ciaphas Cain and a Centaur rapid strike vehicle. And of course, Jurgen.

The Centaur is meant to be an armored rig, a dedicated transport for my Ryuusei Grenadiers. I'll probably buy a plasticard to cover the open top because I want him to be an enclosed vehicle. I'll do that after I get and assemble 2 more.

I plan to have 3 of these eventually, for my 2 Grenadier squads and 1 command squad, for Imperial Militia. Yes, I know he's an Imperial Guard vehicle for modern 40K, but as you can see, I've replaced the heavy stubber with twin heavy stubber and added a "hull" heavy flamer. That's an Imperial Militia Armored Rig. Hah! But I can still run him as a Centaur for 11th edition games if nobody minds the heavy flamer and extra heavy stubber. Of course, he'll only count as having a single heavy stubber.

Ciaphas Cain and Jurgen are looking good! Honestly, buying him was a no brainer. The whole reason why I got into Warhammer 40,000 in the first place was because Ciaphas Cain, and that's also why I'm an Imperial Guard player. The first ever Black Library novel and Warhammer 40,000 story I read was Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium. Or rather, Fight of Flight. One of the best Warhammer 40,000 stories I've ever read, and I've been booked ever since.

You can tell why I was so excited to get Ciaphas Cain. Would have assembled him sooner, but y'know. Life. Ugh. Anyway, this isn't the place to whine, so I'll leave it at that.

Hopefully, I'll have more time to either write about Zone Mortalis, Operation Imperator, or assemble my Armory of Old Night Grenadier command squad for Imperial Militia!

The Second Week of the Siege of Death Mire

The Imperium managed to repel the second wave of Orks from Death Mire. Yay!

Wanted to post this yesterday, but was too busy and exhausted (I literally worked until 3am yesterday, and that was after I worked through the weekend). Finally got to leave the office on time today, so I can finally post this.

My Guardsmen and Knights will stand strong against the Orks!

...and no, I have no intention of talking about the reveal of yet another Ultramarine Character.