Black Cohort

Elvrit charges the now commander of the Iron Warriors, who manages to parry the attack, though it costs him his combat blade to do so. The Salamander continues to fire, shifting to the Iron warrior beside the corporal, multiple rounds land hitting the left arm, but one fails to detonate. Currently the situation is as follows Elvrit and the Iron Warrior corporal are in melee near them Ekene and another Iron Warrior are shooting at each other from short range Ryvax is beside Ekene Kraith is in the doorway of the keep Hadad is a few meters behind Ekene and Ryvax towards the thunderhawk The other Iron warrior is on the ground after being run over by a bike the dark angel is behind the Iron warriors on his bike. [ooc] Kraith is up Hadad is likely aiming at either the Iron warrior with a bolt pistol exchanging fire with Ekene or the one who was hit by the bike.[ooc]

sorry for the delay in posting, Grandfather Nurgle decided to visit me for a few days.

The Dark Angel's bike leapt out of the thunderhawk, landing several feet out from the open hatch. The back wheel kicked out for a moment as it sought purchase, before roaring forward. The Iron warrior spraying the thunderhawk attempted to dive out of the way, but it was so unexpected that he was not able to react fast enough. Tossed aside by the impact from the bike the warrior was still alive though badly hurt. Elvrit's counterattack strikes the un-helmed sergeant, carving deep into his skull, the foul stench of searing brain matter spreading across the battlefield as his body caves to the ground. The apothecary turns and moves to the aid of his ally.

it confuses me that they keep previewing things that won't release for months. The whole point of previewing things is to build hype for product releases, but a preview of a model kit that could show up at any point 3 -15 months from now doesn't build hype, it makes you a meme.

@A.T. which of the Iron Warriors is getting run down?

With the assault marine rushing to the gate everything turned to chaos in a moment. The other raven guard sprinting towards the gate as well. A controlled burst of fire spat out of the Salamander's bolter, one round catching the Iron Warriors corporal in the chest, it found a relative weak point and staggered the warrior. The Iron hand drives the sgt back with a blow from his blade. Hadad backed away making one final attempt to salvage the situation, but the die had been cast, blood would be shed on this world. Despite being caught somewhat of guard by the sudden shift in the astartes in front of them the Iron warriors reacted quickly. The corporal and his partner both drew their bolt pistols and returned fire at the Salamander, one round catching him in the chest. The sgt draws his combat blade and struck back at the Iron Hand slashing at his dominant hand, while the blade cuts through the armour there it fails to fully penetrate his enhanced skin leaving a thin trickle of blood. The last Astartes sprays the open hatch of the thunderhawk with automatic fire but his wild from the hip shooting just scatters shots at nothing specific.

sorry I think I missed that. You are probably about 5 meters from the thunderhawk.

Should I take the fact that some people still haven't posted their actions in combat that we have lost some players? I will move things forward tomorrow.

Initiative Ravyx 16 Ekene 15 Elvrit 14 Hadad 14 Kraith 11 Iron Warriors 11 Arazakiel 9 the Dark Angel does have his bike

do you even need drop pods? How many players for LI are going to care if you have stuff in drop pods but don't physically have the drop pod models?

I will roll for anyone who hasn't done so tomorrow.

one of the annoying things I have found about the support boxes is that many units, like most units with 2 gun options, there is clearly a superior, yet equally pointed version; and in the cases where both gun options are good, you don't really want them in the same units. Like the melta Leviathans are an ok unit, if you put them in dreadnought drop pods and slammed down behind something important but I don't think the super assault cannon version makes sense to do that with. Or rapiers where half want to be out of sight dropping mortar rounds on fools, and the other needs good firing arcs.

No, I have been busy and every time I thought about updating things I was busy with something.

The sergeant is surprised by the sudden burst out of the Iron Hand whose power blade carved a great line through his chest wounding him deeply, but leaving him still in the fight. The assault marine surged through the air, reaching the gateway before the Iron Warriors can react, from what he can see the interior is mostly empty with effectively one big structure built into the back of the wall and smaller ones in each of the front corners. The gate is wide enough for a standard pattern land raider to drive through it while the courtyard could hold probably 8 parked with minimal room to maneuver. The Raven guard went wide, trying to get behind the Iron Warriors whose Mk III armour is far weaker from behind.

technically it would be a charge move to attack any of the Iron Warriors with melee weapons. The available cover is the thunderhawk or inside the fortress. Right now I would say the only squad modes you can use are bolter assault and dig in. You would have 3 cohesion at this point. Lord Ikka that model looks great, can't wait to see it painted.