Urauloth

(Placeholder, catching up on the last few posts)

Sorry I'm late! My initiative roll is a 2, which I think puts me dead last. I'd like to write something as catch-up for the fight at the entrance etc, but I can focus on what we're doing right now first. Speaking of the fight, I got a 5 on that D10-3.

There's no direct equivalent to the (very useful) off-white of Corax as far as I know. You might have to switch to a pure white, or go a step darker - Colour Forge have a very pale grey (Ashen Grey) which is comparable to Ulthuan, I believe it's lighter than Grey Seer.

You can immediately tell it wasn't meant to be in there because it didn't get worked over with the Saturnine meat tenderizer.

So, naturally Váfri's first instinct will be to go for the traitor himself, but when I was first putting him together I had a campaign against mutant ogryns as one of his pre-Deathwatch deployments (he even has an ogryn tooth among his talismans and trappings) and I'm trying to have a general theme of his character arc be him learning to be (a bit) less impulsive as he learns what the mantle of leadership actually requires, so this seems like a great opportunity for him to put those lessons into practice and let someone else go for the renegade Astartes while he focusses on the nearest/biggest ogryn using his experience in taking those down. As unsubtly as possible, of course. Oh, yeah, @Lysimachus - I like those upgrades you suggested for the unspent XP. I had a quick look through the books and I don't see anything I'd rather take, and the Strength advance is a good shout. I'll go with those, cheers! I probably won't need the tracking this late in the adventure, but like you say it's a fluffy choice.

Very nice. I really like that sculpt with the slung boltgun. A better-scaled Mk7 also feels like a vision of what might have been (or what might be, someday) Lamenters shoulder pad looks good! Chequerboard are hard. I know this because my Dark Angels are staring at me accusingly from my desk because I haven't painted theirs on yet.

It took me a while to find the thread with the reorganisation, but I'm back aboard.

Váfri While the Xenos had been true to their oath, they had also left Lucifer Pack to dig their way out of a hole in the ground like rats, and Váfri's disposition was surly by the time they came upon the mountain path. The way the almost-hidden path opened up before them felt like Wyrd, like fate. He had no choice but to tread this path to its conclusion. As the broken path wound around the mountainside, he felt as though he was walking down a dragon's throat. His Wolf-Helm caught traces of the smoke on the air before they saw it, and he knew it for what it was at once. Black fire-smoke. War-smoke. Morkai's breath. Gylthir was in his hands in a heartbeat, the dead eyes of the wolf skull on the weapon's housing tracking over the horizon as the Pack advanced. It was the fortress. Of course. One of his hearts snarled with satisfaction at the sight; let the nest of Inquisitorial perfidy burn, was it not a fitting fate? The other drowned it out with the song of duty. Both called for revenge against the true enemy, a drumbeat pounding through his veins. "Brothers." He kept his voice measured, though his eagerness gave it an edge. He wanted to race ahead into the valley and run through the fires, catching the Bulwark's assailants by the throat with their hands still red. "There were foes here. If we are fortunate, there may be foes here still. Let us hunt!"

I swear we're 18 months away from the Saturnine price being the default for starters, launches and FOMO boxes. Cool terrain though. Very nice.

Hell yeah. I got into OPR exclusively to use it for Heresy-era skirmish battles and it's cool to be able to post about it.

Cities of Sigmar were basically in this position at one point. Anyway, love the options, love the potential. When I get around to doing Traitors at some point my kitbashed ash wastes nomads cultists will have a home here. I can even get some of the big bugs from their range and use them as beasts.

They're FOMO I'm afraid.

Very nice. The apothecary looks fantastic in that scheme. I really like the weathered look you've achieved on your tank hulls, is that stippling?

This is fantastic. Love that we're getting a Xenos mini, and it's always nice to see great Eldar sculpts. I'd pick this for my subscription miniature in a heatbeat if they hadn't made SKELETONS for AoS. (I see a fantasy skeleton, I buy it. Do I paint them? No)

While I'd love to see a ton more books about the Heresy and an embrace of setting over linear plot (which should be possible without frustrating people now that we've finished the Siege of Terra, right? If we had a new Pythos now it wouldn't face the complaint that it was a roadblock to advancing the story of the primarchs) I have to add the caveat that I don't want to see any more inclusions that exist purely to set up stuff in the Era Indomitus. I don't mind continuity between the millennia, but too many links diminish the sense of aeons having passed between them. Anyway, very optimistic about this new novel. French has done some excellent work, and hopefully this will be up there with it.