4 Corners of 30k - Week 10

Week 10 - Balance

What is the biggest complaint that you hear about most tabletop games?

You hear the words: "OP", "broken", "unbalanced" and more.

Games Workshop is one of the biggest culprits of being unbalanced; mainly do to it's release schedule for army updates.

I dare say that the Horus Heresy line offers something big to Warhammer 40k fans: balance.

4 Corners of 30k - Week 9

Week 9 - Melting Point

Well, there has been a lot of building and priming going on at the Swonkob Bo stronghold but waiting for product from the UK; is like watching paint dry. For an impatient buyer like myself, it makes getting things from Forge World a lackluster experience. Three and a half weeks of waiting and the Royal Mail finally showed up at my house. Ok, it was lackluster for 3.5 weeks but I was pretty excited when I saw the box in the driveway!

Initial thought when I saw the box: "AWESOME!"

Second thought: "CRAP!"

Are those my models?

You see, it broke 100 degrees on my car's thermometer that day; all I could imagine was the box in the middle of the oven of asphalt and a puddle of resin at the bottom of the box!

After a DEEP breath, I examined the contents of the box and, not only was everything below the melting point, it was all accounted for!

After looking over each item; the "wow" moment for me was the shear size of the Cerberus Tank Destroyer bag! It is HUGE!

Here it is next to an Ironclad box!

The instructions were elaborate and covered the ins and outs of the 35+ pieces of resin. I'm looking forward to putting it all together! But I promised myself that I won't build it until my painting table is clean; so clean it will be!

After drooling over the Cerberus Tank Destroyer, my attention quickly jumped to the Alpha Legion dread body. Oh yeah!

This is how it looked when I opened the box (less the arms):

I proceeded to remove the chaos iconography with a razor....well, except for those amazing hydras on the chest!

Within an hour of its arrival from the land of tea and crumpets, the dread looked like this:

It'll be easier to see once there's paint but the points on the edging came off clean and the chaos arrows are all gone!

Next week: Recon Marines and....wait for it...my Praetor!

Time to clean house!

Swonkob Bo - OUT!

[Images acquired from http://warhammer40k.wikia.com and http://forgeworld.com; images were used for reference purpose only, not for monetary gain]

4 Corners of 30k - Week 8

Week 8 - WIP Up A Conversion or Two!

This week we'll be focusing in on some conversion work! I wish I had the conversion skills of our DuskTillDawn compadre, Darth Murphy but I'll have to make do! We'll cover the final inventory update (that's right, i said FINAL!) and you'll, also, see my first attempt at the pre-heresy color scheme!

The main conversion work is around the Alpha Legion iconography, as seen here:
 

Bo Knows: Converting for Horus Heresy

How to convert for Horus Heresy

This is an impromptu post on converting 40k models into pre-heresy armies. I cover some of this in my weekly blog called 4 Corners of 30k but Lycane suggested that I do a 1 stop shop all about making a pre-heresy army from stuff you can get at your favorite local game store!

So there are 2 reasons that you would build this army: 1. Because pre-heresy stuff looks REALLY cool or 2. Because you want to play the rules from the Forge World Horus Heresy rulebook along with answer number 1!

Either answer works and even if you aren't playing the Horus Heresy rules, it's an incredible reference guide.

Let's get started, shall we....

Let's take a look at some Forge World stuff and compare it to stock GW stuff.

Here is a Forge World MKIV Space Marine in Maximus armor:

Here is a Forge World MKV Space Marine in Heresy era armor:

And here are some items found on a standard tactical Space Marine sprue from Games Workshop that you can pick up locally:

Now you'll notice the chests are virtually the same. The MKIV plain shoulder pads are the same as the contemporary pads and the MKV studded shoulder pad is the same as the studded contemporary. The suit pictured above is a full MKVI Corvus pattern suit. The "beakie" helmet is a key factor to that pattern of armor.

4 Corners of 30k - Week 7

Week 7 - Assemble Your Army!

Well, I am in official "Work In Progress" mode! My hope was to get some detail in to a model for this week but I have been distracted by building and priming! It's looking like details won't come for a few more weeks yet.

Here is what I hope to detail up first:

Legion Praetors are hawght!

4 Corners of 30k - Week 6

Week 6 - Friends That Go The Distance

When you have a friend traveling the world and they send you a picture like the one below; you can't help but be psyched!

That picture was taken from the headquarters of Games Workshop and Forge World! And that friend was DtDGs very own Ironleaf!

4 Corners - Week 5 - Rules Overview

Week 5 - Betrayal Rules Overview

The army composition is very close to the current 40k rule book but with many cool and wonderful twists! I'll, actually, cover all of that here in this week's article!

4 Corners of 30k - Week 4

Week 4: Acquisition

No, I do not have to put a work order through the Adeptus Administratum but in certain ways it feels like I will be. There are a lot of Forge World models that will make my 31st Millennium Alpha Legion list that much cooler. For those that don't know, Forge World is based in the UK and focuses on AMAZING add-ons to the Games Workshop lines of models.

4 Corners of 30k - Week 3

The Horus Heresy: Betrayal

The book was a whole lot of awesome! It's focus was around the Istvaan III massacre time frame.

4 Corners of 30k - Week 2

The more I look at this project, the more awesome it gets!

Since this isn't a 10 to 30 model project, I'm definitely taking my time to do my homework! Not to mention we're talking about a lot of Forge World models and bitz; so not only do I have to plan my list strategically for the game, I have to plan the monetary expense of it.

This week will be made up of reading this awesome book: The Horus Heresy: Betrayal

4 Corners of 30k

I was asked to be part of the "4 Corners of 30k" project.

What is this project, you ask? Well, there are a handful of us representing the 4 corners of the US. I am proud to represent the North East! Which is wicked awesome! :P 

I'll get you all an intro to the other 3 corners next Sunday, along with progress!
 

We will be building/painting pre-heresy 40k armies and blogging about it! The Games Workshop game called 40k takes place in the year forty thousand. Pre-heresy falls in the year thirty thousand, which is the reference to 30K.

My army choice is pre-heresy Imperial Fists Space Marines (Adeptus Astates)

with a complement of Adeptus Custodes, or known as Legio Custodes before Horus jumped the proverbial ship!

When I was asked to participate, my mind went right to the Custodes! I've always wanted to put them on a table!

I went with the Imperial Fists because it gave me a viable reason to have Custodes in my list! Imperial Fists and Custodes were both on Earth (Terra) during the fortification of Terra.

Here are the Legio Custodes:

Halberds with bolters please! Yup, they've got 'em!