GrunTeufel

I think the ruling for the banner might be to prevent fnp stacking. Different fnp mechanics stack this eddition. (ie: warlord trait 6+++ and black rage stacking when you take lemartes as your warlord.) So the rule might be to prevent DC models getting 5+++ rerollable.

I started kitting them out with bolters since the start of 8th and never looked back since. They come on the board, shoot a target, charge another one (lemartes charge reroll is great) and they almost always come out on top. Shooting a pistol in combat really isn't all that helpful compared to being able to do twice the damage in the shooting phase. And if they have jump packs they can always retreat and shoot some more which is also a neat option to have.

I've been experimenting with 4 x Devs with 4 heavy flamers and a sarge with a combi flamer. Results are quite surprising. I have two ravens in my list and the amount of combined firepower they bring to the table is astounding. No target too tough for them. Conscript bubbles, flyers, demons with their invuls etc. And less then 150 pts for a squad of them. I am not going to build any yet since codex might change things but so far they have worked for me.

I remember reading a story in which a group of marines having problems with stealth suits. Their team leader takes his helmet off in order to take in the smells around him and locate them since none of their equipment was able to. Only occassion it made sense.

Italeri guards red. Valejo medium brown for postshade. Haze it with red again and do some panel highlighting with some red and orange mix. Wash the whole model with seraphim sephia shade. Drybrush using a red and flesh tone mixture. A bit time consuming sadly.

Okay, so I tried a list I wanted to try for some time last friday. It goes something like this. HQ Dante Lemartes Elites Death Company Dread: 2 fists, heavy flamer, melta, magna grapple 2x Death Company: 10 marines, Jump Packs, thunder hammer, Bolters Heavy Support 4x Devastators: 4x Heavy Flamers Flyer 2xStormraven (All Twin) Heavy bolters, Assault cannons, Hurricane Bolters, Stormstrike Missiles. Mission: Kill Point Result: Tzeentch Demons tabled by turn 5 THOUGHTS: We have some serious damage output in our hands. Stormraven might just be the hardest hitting flyer out there. My deployment was fairly simple. DC and Lemartes in reserve, Dante, along with two devastators in one raven. DC dread and the other two devastators in the other raven. I only deployed two flyers on the table which is a great way to get the first turn. Ravens performed superbly, even against an enemy with stupendous amont of units that fly. I disembarked dante to give the ravens them rerolls they needed. They more or less wiped a unit or more each turn. One of them actually one shotted Belakor. Absolutely huge. At 8 points a pair, hurricane bolters are more or less free. Death company is still good. Fnp nerf hurt them quite a lot but its not too bad. I find that bolters work great combined with jump packs. +1 attack is good, but being able to rapid fire things to death (you can now fire at units other than the ones you intend to charge) is much better. If you are like me and hate tactical marines it is the way to go. In the end, DC is just better tactical marines with bunch of great bonuses while being only a bit more expensive. Dante is still a great beatstick but now he is also a great force multiplier with his reroll to hit: everything! Great character slayer with his axe and his inferno pistol does serious damage in close combat as well. Lemartes is finally usable. Charge distance rerolll is useful when you deepstrike and his combat capabilities are better than ever. Plus, litanies of hate. You can never have enough rerolls. DC dread performed better than I expected although he got knocked out by Lord of change quite quickly after he dealt 6 wounds. Two bloods fists means you get 5 attacks rerollable on the charge. Now that I am writing this, I notice that BA gets so many rerolls its absurd. Devastators worked well enough I guess. I just wanted to try the idea and I think 16 heavy flamers is a bit overkill but they did wipe out some screamers and flamers. They qot wiped out quickly after that. Last thoughts: Ravens are the best. Best mobile firesupport we have probably. DC are my new tactical marines. Mobile bolter fire platforms that can smash faces. Durable and efficent. DC dread was fun. But I have yet to try the libby dread so jury is still out on that one. Dante is a good buffmander now. Not massively durable so you have to watch out since there are lots of multiple wound inflicting weapons around. 4++ goes only so far. The system overhaul turned it into an easy to play game with lots of tactical depth without excesive micro managing. I was quite dissapointed with Flames of War v4 so this is a breath of fresh air for me. Can't wait to try some other units thats been gathering dust.

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It has certainly been a while now hasn't it? http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.17.30_zpsrqfblufd.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.17.47_zpsojuhwrhn.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.15.39_zpsglamzj0b.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.16.26_zpsnyawnuzf.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.18.53_zps4baihbyc.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.18.03_zps3a26d3ne.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.18.37_zpsttwpqyzb.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.16.06_zpsxpo8r2hy.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Freelance/2016-01-19%2022.16.53_zpswffwob2u.jpg

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.04.58_zpsnsllswnq.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.04.40_zps4g4wrg9z.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.05.12_zpsaqeawppw.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.05.35_zpskvtwxk8e.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.05.59_zpsvpailwnc.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.06.23_zpsut2bvzlg.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-06-13%2000.04.11_zpsrmbrdzyl.jpg You can never have enough melta.

It is painted but now that I look, it is a bit dull. I will work on it. Smoke launchers on a frag dread is a bit useless I find. I put it in a pod so it unleashes hell upon the enemy first turn. If it survives it charges the closest enemy and thats it. So the magna grapple is the better choice. But I modeled it like this for variation. A drop pod probably. My vow includes 10 jump DC, a pod and a librarian dreadnought. I've finished half of it (raven, rhino x3, furioso) so far. I will probably add some more stuff along the way. We will see.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/2015-05-26%2016.58.16_zpslrdtyrod.jpg Decals and everything. Completely done.

Furioso is done. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-25%2015.55.52_zps8oetiuip.jpghttp://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-26%2000.14.04_zpsfzwnumvd.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-26%2000.14.38_zps5rcjwrwe.jpghttp://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-26%2000.14.23_zpscytqklsu.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-26%2000.14.56_zpsalhvv6cq.jpg And three rhino transports. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-26%2000.20.32_zpsc1bzsthg.jpg Better pictures during the week. I've been busy. So busy that I forgot to take wip pics for the rhino's but I do have their bare bone state in one of my earlier posts.

Low quality photos for now since my camera ran out of battery. Better pics will be poster tomorrow. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.49.32_zpsqnubs9qt.jpghttp://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.46.25_zpsxpqnm76t.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.40.26_zpsahfmpqdr.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.28.38_zpshbqg5jyh.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.28.22_zpsjfxjxqg8.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.47.59_zps616d8ixl.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/Blood%20Angels/2015-05-14%2022.48.15_zpskdytetzr.jpg And the turret is temporary. I ordered couple of razorback turrets from forgeworld and this was just lying around.

Some chipping and other weathering tomorrow. I don't have a tutorial handy since I did this by stuffing every gap with plasticard and modeling putty but I have some pics if you are interested. I am happy with the result but it takes a good amount of time and spare bits. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.48.15_zpscufsqexn.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.48.31_zps656hwm17.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.48.55_zpsqxxamybc.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.49.12_zpsuobysowi.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.49.46_zpskckiknli.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-14%2003.50.15_zpse4r22ojh.jpg This is how I got rid of the front thrusters. Simple yet effective. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/SDC10177_zpstjeus5zo.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/SDC10178_zps3qkhkqnq.jpg The tail extension. Cutting individual rivets and fixing them in place takes some patience. But it is worth it as long as your raven stops looking like Quasimodo. The air intake was cut in half, filed down and repositioned.The small hatches you see are from chimera kits. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-12%2016.56.35_zpsnnr76scp.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-12%2016.56.28_zpsavstgfde.jpg Turned out better than I imagined in the end.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-13%2021.58.58_zpsdnlafqsj.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-13%2021.59.11_zpso783o49i.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-13%2021.59.29_zpscsusotxm.jpg http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/jacksonseverimben/WIP/2015-05-13%2021.17.27_zpsrbafmmft.jpg The raven looks much better without its chubby chipmunk cheeks.