If you’ve been following the blog, you know how much I love the XIXth Legion. We’ve covered our long-range dominance, our shift into a high-lethality phantom playstyle, and the core rules of Horus Heresy 3rd Edition. But today, I want to talk about single combat—specifically, our Legion Gambit: Decapitation Strike. On paper, the Decapitation StrikeContinue reading “Decapitation Strike: Why Raven’s Talons Are a Trap (And the Power Fist Centurion Rules Supreme)”
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Crossing the Rubicon: Painting My Traitor Mechanicum Army
I’ve been playing The Horus Heresy for a long, long time now and for as long as I can remember, I’ve been a loyalist through and through. After spending years painting black armor for my Raven Guard, I’ve constantly talked about building a traitor force. Over the years, the theory-crafting went into overdrive: First, IContinue reading “Crossing the Rubicon: Painting My Traitor Mechanicum Army”
General’s Corner – Playing Raven Guard in Horus Heresy 3rd Edition
I’ve been playing the Raven Guard since I first jumped into 30k back when Betrayal at Calth dropped. Right from the start, the XIXth Legion rules grabbed me—there was just something brilliant about relying on infantry, drop pods, fliers, infiltrators, and jump packs to outmaneuver an opponent. Fast forward across 9,000-plus points of black-armored SpaceContinue reading “General’s Corner – Playing Raven Guard in Horus Heresy 3rd Edition”
Dicing with Death – Operation Ironclad Part 2
+5 Hours Terran Sidereal – LZ Dorn With each passing hour the Traitors begin to mount a more significant counter offensive against the Loyalists, including committing more armoured units. In particular the Raven Guard to the North of the bridge face a grind down until they can be relieved. +8 Hours Terran Sidereal – LetheanContinue reading “Dicing with Death – Operation Ironclad Part 2”
Dicing with Death – Operation Ironclad Part 1
6 997 009.M31 – Background to the Invasion For months the Loyalists have been on the back foot in the Xyphos Sub-sector – dealing with traitor attacks on a score of worlds such as Eryndor V, Iydris and Moross. But they have not been idle. Under command of Lord-Marshall Horatio Octavian II the Loyalists haveContinue reading “Dicing with Death – Operation Ironclad Part 1”
Dicing with Death – Moross Lives
Played a couple of linked games with our friends @hereticalarchitect and @mysterion_painting. With thanks to their contributions to this blog too – check them out on Instagram. While the Loyalists were able to successfully extract General Sheev Verox from the outskirts of Nova Kharkiv, they still pulled back from the ferocity of the Traitors’ initialContinue reading “Dicing with Death – Moross Lives”
Warzone Xyphos: Minor Astartes presence
Whilst the Emperor’s Children, Raven Guard and Salamanders represented the bulk of the Legiones Astartes presence, detachments of marines and even individual battle-brothers from all the legions were present during the war in Xyphos. The following report prepared at the request of Ghe Ven Ha, Supreme Grand Treasurer of the Xyphoneian Ministry for Logistic Affairs,Continue reading “Warzone Xyphos: Minor Astartes presence”
Dicing with Death: The Trap on Moross
Moross became a frontline system following the Traitors’ conquering of the Perditian and Zeugan systems in Xyphos. The planet was deemed a possible vector for a traitor assault and so by early 009.M31 it had a reasonable garrison including Ultramarines of the 77th Company. Additionally, 19th Corps from 216th Expeditionary Fleet was planetside, acting asContinue reading “Dicing with Death: The Trap on Moross”
Dok’s Shop – Chapter Master Arrias Cordos
Given the Ultramarines legion went on to found so many chapters I wanted my 30k force to represent one such chapter. I could then tease that chapter’s history into its part of the wider legion (like FW did with the Aurora and Nemesis chapters) to show the kernals of the chapter that would become. InContinue reading “Dok’s Shop – Chapter Master Arrias Cordos”
Brushing Up: Gaunt’s Ghosts Speedpaint
Stu’s first foray into clearing his backlog with some quicker techniques I get a lot of abuse for being a slow painter – and it’s (mostly) warranted. A combination of a lack of time and a tendency to spend ages trying to get the perfect paint job means that there’s a lot of unfinished modelsContinue reading “Brushing Up: Gaunt’s Ghosts Speedpaint”
