Helias_Tancred

Black Templar collection rebooted! Araxxian Crusade rebooted! The black box is the Honoured of the Chapter set with a chaplain, judiciar, 3 eradicators, 3 blade guard veterans, and a blade guard ancient. Most immediate next purchases are the Emperor's Champion, an Execrator Chaplain, and Apothecary Biologis.

Cleaned up the boots where they meet the base.

Company Master Rhamiel of the 4th, The Fearless.

I get it, when you're in that sorta squeeze. I've always seen the 8th edition Iron Hands dice go cheap on eBay. Sets of 20 too. Some people say they hated the 8th edition dice for space marine chapters but man I had 60 for my Dark Angels and they rolled like champs! I loved them! However I did originally get 4 sets and literally between 4 sets there were nearly 20 that had weird lumps under the surface and I tossed 'em.

IMO buying GW faction themed dice for 40k is a rip off these days. At 16 dice per pack, and here in the states they're $29.99 (but price may be going up this month for them, IDK for sure?), you realistically need 3 packs for a full set to play 40k with. So that's $90 not including tax. You're looking at right under $100 with tax. Feh! For that amount of money for dice you can do a big 50 count set from Baron of Dice at $60 + shipping, or go to one of your favorite 40k YouTube channels such as Tabletop Tactics, Art of War, Auspex Tactics, or Play on Tabletop for example, and rep them with their dice for 40k! Several of those sets are also made by Baron of Dice so you're looking at that same price point which is a good one imo. I have 60 Tabletop Tactics dice of their OOP Jade set, I love them, and have had them for two years now, sure at 60 count they were around $110 USD incl shipping to the states, but I could have done 40, which is fully functional for 40k, at under $70 USD incl. shipping. And they're cooler (and better quality) imo that most of what GW makes ;) ... I've seen GW continually reduce the number of their faction dice per set each edition, some not looking very good to be honest, and keeping the same price point. Heck with that nonsense! Especially given the competition out there! I've closed the door on buying GW faction themed dice, in previous editions I loved them, bought tons, but nah I'll pass now.

While I don't think he is bad looking, I do have a couple issues with Shaan. The feathery boa gone wild for a start. I also would have given him a different weapon other than lightning claws (although in the Uriel Ventris novel that he is in, does he have claws in that too?). I think it would have been cool to have him wield some sort of chapter relic thunder hammer or two handed sword, or even Nykona Sharrowkin's paired relic power swords, versus another RG jump pack character with claws. ... /yawn. It's getting too cookie cutter, and I'm a big fan of the Raven Guard. The Iron Hands Terminator character is great except ... for the Tetsubo looking power club? I would have gone with a chapter relic thunder hammer, or large sword. Lysander looks great. The White Scar character looks great. The new Ultramarines look great and I'm so glad Calgar went back to his terminator armor! His gravis armored model and Frick and Frack, were not very well done especially compared to what is out now for named characters and elites (except Sanguinary Guard lol). On that note I'm REALLY looking forward to the new Pedro Kantor, and the Dark Angels Ezekiel and Sammael models.

Two coolest moments in that game were my Ballistus Dreadnought and my Gladiator Lancer teaming up for two consecutive rounds to take out his Khorne Lord of Skulls, and each round the dreadnought's krak missiles rolling 5s and 6s to wound it! The other was Azrael and the Inner Circle Companions assaulting out of the Land Raider Crusader into his ecto-plasma Forgefiend and murdering it like it was a squad of 10 chaos cultists! lol. My opponent's immediate reply was "I hate that unit!" lol.

He's WIP right now.

Played a 2k game against Chaos Space Marines yesterday and won. Fun game. I ran this list. Azrael + Inner Circle Companions went in the land Raider Crusader. Asmodai + Bladeguard veterans went in the drop pod. DWK + Belial came in off deep strike. The lieutenant went with one of my intercessor squads. My good friend, who doesn't own Dark Angels, but plays against mine often, designed this list for me. He hit a home run. Francisco’s Strike Force (2000 Points) Space Marines Dark Angels Wrath of the Rock Strike Force (2,000 Points) CHARACTERS Asmodai (70 Points) • 1x Crozius arcanum and power weapon • 1x Heavy bolt pistol Azrael (115 Points) • Warlord • 1x Lion’s Wrath • 1x The Lion Helm • 1x The Sword of Secrets Belial (85 Points) • 1x Master-crafted storm bolter • 1x The Sword of Silence Lieutenant (75 Points) • 1x Bolt Pistol • 1x master-crafted power sword • 1x Master-crafted bolter • Enhancements: Tempered in Battle (Aura) BATTLELINE Heavy Intercessor Squad (100 Points) • 1x Heavy Intercessor Sergeant ◦ 1x Bolt pistol ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Heavy bolt rifle • 4x Heavy Intercessor ◦ 4x Bolt pistol ◦ 4x Close combat weapon ◦ 4x Heavy bolt rifle Intercessor Squad (80 Points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant ◦ 1x Bolt pistol ◦ 1x Bolt rifle ◦ 1x power sword • 4x Intercessor ◦ 4x Bolt pistol ◦ 4x Bolt rifle ◦ 4x Close combat weapon Intercessor Squad (80 Points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant ◦ 1x Bolt pistol ◦ 1x Bolt rifle ◦ 1x Power fist • 4x Intercessor ◦ 4x Bolt pistol ◦ 4x Bolt rifle ◦ 4x Close combat weapon DEDICATED TRANSPORTS Drop Pod (70 Points) OTHER DATASHEETS Ballistus Dreadnought (150 Points) • 1x Armoured feet • 1x Ballistus lascannon • 1x Ballistus missile launcher • 1x Twin storm bolter Bladeguard Veteran Squad (170 Points) • 1x Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant ◦ 1x Plasma pistol ◦ 1x Master-crafted power weapon • 5x Bladeguard Veteran ◦ 5x Heavy bolt pistol ◦ 5x Master-crafted power weapon Deathwing Knights (250 Points) • 1x Knight Master ◦ 1x Great weapon of the Unforgiven • 4x Deathwing Knight ◦ 4x Mace of absolution Gladiator Lancer (160 Points) • 1x Armoured hull • 1x Lancer laser destroyer • 2x Storm bolter Inner Circle Companions (180 Points) • 6x Inner Circle Companion ◦ 6x Calibanite greatsword ◦ 6x Heavy bolt pistol Land Raider Crusader (220 Points) (+ multi-melta and hunter killer missile) • 1x Armoured tracks • 2x Hurricane bolter • 1x Twin assault cannon Redemptor Dreadnought (195 Points) • 1x Icarus rocket pod • 1x Macro plasma incinerator • 1x Onslaught gatling cannon • 1x Redemptor fist • 1x Twin fragstorm grenade launcher Exported with App Version: v1.41.0 (3), Data Version: v685

Thank you. I'm very happy I got my foot back in the water. Still neck deep in my Dark Angels collection atm, but I'm going to acquire and build a 1k Black Templar list and play around with it alongside my sons of the Lion. (990 points) Space Marines Black Templars Incursion (1000 points) Wrathful Procession CHARACTERS Marshal (80 points) • Warlord • 1x Master-crafted power weapon 1x Plasma pistol Techmarine (55 points) • 1x Forge bolter 1x Grav-pistol 1x Omnissian power axe 1x Servo-arm BATTLELINE Crusader Squad (150 points) • 1x Sword Brother • 1x Heavy bolt pistol 1x Master-crafted power weapon • 5x Initiate • 5x Bolt pistol 5x Bolt rifle 5x Close combat weapon • 4x Neophyte • 4x Astartes chainsword 4x Bolt pistol Intercessor Squad (80 points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant • 1x Bolt pistol 1x Bolt rifle 1x Power fist • 4x Intercessor • 4x Bolt pistol 4x Bolt rifle 4x Close combat weapon DEDICATED TRANSPORTS Impulsor (85 points) • 1x Armoured hull 2x Storm bolter OTHER DATASHEETS Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs (90 points) • 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant with Jump Pack • 1x Plasma pistol 1x Power fist • 4x Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs • 4x Astartes chainsword 4x Heavy bolt pistol Ballistus Dreadnought (150 points) • 1x Armoured feet 1x Ballistus lascannon 1x Ballistus missile launcher 1x Twin storm bolter Redemptor Dreadnought (195 points) • 1x Icarus rocket pod 1x Macro plasma incinerator 1x Onslaught gatling cannon 1x Redemptor fist 1x Twin storm bolter Sword Brethren Squad (105 points) • 4x Sword Brother • 4x Heavy bolt pistol 4x Master-crafted power weapon Exported with App Version: v1.41.0 (98), Data Version: v687

My local game and hobby store still had two of these on the shelf alongside the new ones. I had to pick one up! I'm back in the saddle. My 40k collections will be Dark Angels and Black Templars, again. I'm very content with that.

Update: I've got the new codex supplement arriving tomorrow. Yes, my good friend, who already had a Black Templar collection, bought mine off of me, and he's very happy having got them, and I'm very happy for him, and I play against them often lol. But I'm doing Black Templars again! I realized I gave up on them too fast on the tabletop. I do struggle more with melee armies because I have a learning disability since middle school with spatial concepts, etc. Makes 40k overall a little more challenging to play ... but thats okay been in the hobby since 2013 and I love it. Not going anywhere. But yeah I gave up too quickly on Black Templars. I've always loved their lore, their place in the genre, Sigismund, Grimaldus, all their Black Library material, and of course the new sculpts. I loved painting them. I'm neck deep in my Dark Angel collection at the moment, but I'm going to slowly get back into Black Templars. They will be my second 40k collection (I sold all of my 40k collections back in 10/23, etc etc blah blah did a total reset of the hobby, keeping it much more real this time around, only2 collections for 40k, no collection over 7k, get it all painted, etc)

This is what I decided on. I did take the down hood bit from an Azrael kit and used it on him. Note when you do this is, it will make a helmed head sit higher, and its noticeable. So what I did was trim down the base of the helm head, the neck portion. Then I trimmed the sides of the shorted neck portion. Lastly I trimmed the height of the wrap around side of the bit so overall the helmeted head sat deeper and looked more normal. I have faith it will look pretty cool and more unique once I paint him up.

Deathwing Terminator squad Seraphus.

I'm beginning to see the wisdom! Thanks. It only took some 13 odd years lol.