Reply To: Hobby weekender 17/05/19 – A good tone, tone deaf, dark tone? AtmosFearic!

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@mage the Active Reaction Order – whenever you activate a model in Infinity your opponent checks to see if they can react with any of their models. That can be something as simple as taking a shot as your model passes their line of site, performing a hacking action on the model that activated if in range or in range of a Repeater, dodging incoming fire, attempting to reveal what a camo marker is, or even alerting models nearby to a threat they are not facing so that they can change facing and be ready to react if it activates again. It really makes you consider every action you take and potential consequences,  and makes you think about your positioning for when it’s your opponents turn and you can react….

 

A Warhammer-themed Transformer? Ok, challenge accepted:
Ultima Maximus is one of the last Glorianna-class Battle Barges within the fleets of The Imperium, and no one quite knows for which Primarch it was built, but it serves as mobile fortress monastery to The Sons of Primus chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. A system-control ship, the Maximus is not just laden with firepower comparable to small fleets but has hangers and docks large enough to serve The Sons fleet of Strike Cruisers and Escorts, as well as enough internal space to service a Legion of Astartes, let alone the requirements of the chapter that now call it home. As such there are large portions of the ship that have gone un-tread for millenia, and expeditions into these depths to accurately map the vessel are often used to provide training for the novitiates of the 10th company.  Of the secrets that have been uncovered, the most closely guarded is a unique machine spirit that provides an incredibly intuitive connection between the crew and the ship, and which can – in times of the utmost dire need – allow the vessel to reconfigure to a titanic approximation of a fully armoured Space Marine, capable of engaging like no other vessel in existence, but at the cost of a battle brother who must intergrate their nervous system with that of the vessels core….
Unbeknownst to Sons of Primus their vessel is in actuality one of the lost Cybertronian Titans, lost, critically damaged, and forced to hide his existence from the universe at large, lest his systems be scavenged by those who would abuse them.

That do the job?

As for why no painting, I’ve had a bad week pain wise and am just trying totake it easy today. As such I’ve even binned he idea of getting some stripping done, instead I finished off building the minis from the Blackstone Fortress core set (lovely sculpts, but I really need to pick up one of the bespoke foam sets out there for it…), built an Umbra Samaritan I’d had knocking around, and delved back into the 3rd Edition Space Marine Codex to mount Pedro Kantor’s wingman, the Crimson Fists own man of Iron, Captain Aleissio Cortez onto a 40mm base.

Seriously though, what were CB thinking with that sculpt and putting it on a 25mm base?

Yeah he looks a little derpy (and his legs are especially slim), but threw on a more blinged out Sternguard backpack (which has the bonus of having an Iron Halo sculpted on) and I think he looks pretty great 🙂

Otherwise it’s been a day of catching up on videos online – a few bat reps from Tabletop Tactics and Guerilla Miniature Gaming, a spread of What Culture’s latest offerings, Cinema Wins Rogue One video, and I’ve had through review disks for the Netflix Castlevania anime to watch and do a write up on for a site I (very) occasionally contribute to.

Also after spending a few years looking for sources of transfers for the Raptors chapter, I find not only does this site have just the sheets I need, but also does sheets of Roman numerals. Looks like I’m saving buying the 3d-printed versions….

https://www.themightybrush.com/product-category/waterslide-transfer-sheets/

And as it’s Eurovision time, here’s my personal favourite winner 😉