Games!: 2nd Edition Warhammer 40K (Angels of Death vs. Tyranids)

Nearly 5-6 years ago, some buddies of mine and I decided we should try some co-op 40K from 2nd edition --- all of us painting up some space marines to face a collective horde of Tyranids (owned by two of the three of us).

 

I slowly painted up some models, and we finally played the first game.  The concept was pretty simple:

 

• Blood Angels and Dark Angels each have 750 points, will fight co-op against Tyranids.
• Each chapter gets two explosive devices, assigned to squads or characters - these must be used to blow up two generators (which in turn will cause the overheating of an orbital defense platforms' reactor).
• Tyranids are generated randomly each Tyranid turn using four separate nodes, and some random tables.  Tokens are generated - and when spotted, we used a D20 table to place random Tyranids.
• Tyranids activated using a simple beahviour table (mostly consisting of "eat their faces").

The end result was that the Blood Angels managed to blow up both generators, though they lost 19/21 marines in the process.

 

The Dark Angels held off many Tyranids including a Carnifex.  They made it out with 9 marines...so not too bad.  Some random pics from the game.

 

 

Breaking my own rules...(Space Marine Bikes)

Deciding to finally maybe actually play some modified 2E 40K that my buddies and I have been planning for...maybe 4-5 years, I broke one of my own rules and bought some (poorly) assembled Space Marine bikes off ebay.  I normally don't mess with pre-built plastics, but these were too cheap to pass up.

 

While I wasn't happy with the state of them (ended up with a ton of cleaning as the minis were - expectedly - poorly built with too much glue, weird components, etc.) I can 'cope' with using these.  Similarly I hate painting stuff assembled, so this was annoying.

 

 

Yet another Chaos Dwarf lord...

Admittedly I have "too many" Chaos Dwarf lords and sorcerers...but variety is the spice of death or some such.

 

This one is similar to one of my previous lords, but I've based him to be a special unit instead of slotting into normal infantry units.

 

 

I continue to make bad choices...

I generally dislike painting cavalry...and that apparently includes centaurs.

 

My yearly paint numbers are going to quickly revert back to 120 a year simply because I take 2-3 weeks to paint a small unit of cavalry because I just...don't enjoy them.

 

However, happy to have the first Bull Centaur unit done.

 

 

"This weekend only, FSF mega-mega-MEGA game!"

 This weekend we played the largest single game of FSF we've played so far, 1200:1000 points.  We ran a "Hold the Pass" scenario consisting of humans (Bretonnians and mercenaries) attempting to stop a wave of Orcs & Goblins...it didn't work.

 

The Orcs & Goblins won on turn 12/16, sadly.

 

 

And now for something...completely...different.

I've made a decision to start knockin' out random stuff I've got sitting around.  In one of my many "we're totally going to do this..." plans, my buddy and I want to finally put some of our space marines into the table against Tyranids (likely using non-GW rules).  Thinking a cool co-op, but difficult, bug hunt with Blood Angels and Dark Angels.

 

To that effect I snagged a 'cheap' set of plastic push-fit terminators for my Blood Angels.  I painted them in a single sitting today and then finish the basing and decals shortly thereafter.

 

As someone who generally dislikes almost every modern GW sculpt, product, game, etc...these were nice, and it was nice to fire up the 2E codex and paint them to match the old school style (though not nearly orange enough).  It's nice to go back to when normal space marines and terminators were cool enough without 150 new fancy versions and 'special' units, etc.

 

Just...classic...space marines. You can keep your Indometrixus Procagastrators...just give me some reliable Blood Angel terminators.

 

 

Tackled another sketchy project...Lammasu Sorcerer!

I was...hugely intimidated by this miniature when I received it maybe 2-3 years ago (I bought my entire Chaos Dwarf army years ago, only finally getting most of it painted...)

 

The Lammasu is one of GW's weirdest/silliest creatures, so I wasn't sure how I'd make it look a little less silly, while retaining its charm.

 

I'm happy with the result, and it's nice to have a proper "General" for my Chaos Dwarf army in its entirety.  Chaos Dwarf forces are led by powerful sorcerers...so now I have one on a Lammasu!

 

 

Brivoli's Great Company, 2026.

This mercenary army is officially "too big to photograph" easily, or nicely...but here is the final form of Brivoli's Great Company.  This doesn't exclude me painting new stuff later if I find some cool models, but this is the entire model collection I had on hand and planned for the army.