Siege of Helm's Deep

Recently we got a re-relase of the two towers movie and so I decided to replay the iconic final assault in Helm's Deep

The massed ranks of uruks and orcs assault the ramparts with their siege ladders

In the raised causeway the uruks have placed a blasting charge in front of the gate, but it's explosion isn't enough to blow open the doors

Next to it a mix of uruks and orcs attack the postern gate

Fierce fighting in the deeping wall between orcs, uruks and the men of Rohan led by Legolas

While on the Hornburg the second blasting charge has opened the way into the fortress

Gimli and Aragorn hold the attackers coming from the postern while Théoden and Éomer defend the other side

The stubborn dwarf however is the forst of the good heroes to fall

Followed by a Théoden injuried from the first explosion

As we run put of time we look at the objectives and the game ends in a tie with two for each sied!

Achillus dreadnought

 

Coming hot on the heels of the Caladius I've done an achillus dreadnought, one of the ancient warmachines of the Legio Custodes in which one of the fallen guards of the emperor fights on beyond death, wielding an upscaled version of their iconic guardian spear

Custodians get their names from history and religion, so which better for a dreadnought than Lazarus, the leprous man resurrected by Christ?

I converted a dead world eater from goliath and chaos bits for the base

Battle for Infernus & Hades

 

With the boys I've recently started a 40k campaign based in Armageddon. In our first game the adeptus custodes attacked Infernus hive, controlled by a renegade knight house of the adeptus mechanicus

With both sides deployed on opposing corners the custodes got first turn

Killing an enemy armiger with concentrated firepower

The knights answered taking over some objectives

And blowing the caladius up, who suffered from the fresh painted model syndrome 

Then the reserves finally arrived

And the custodians made their first charges taking down a crusader knight

A desperate salvo failed to kill the newcome land raider in the knights turn

But a cerastus lancer freshly arrived from reserves killed a pair of aquilon terminators

Yet another armiger fell to the warden's axes

And the game ended with a slight victory for the custodes 21 to 15 points

The second game played just yesterday was against the imperial guard, a classic steel legion army full of armoured fist squads with leman russes in tow attacking the ruins of Hades Hive

Undetered by the mass of enemy combatants the custodians moved swiftly as the eagle and blew a basilisk while bringing the tank commander to half an inch of death

The guard answered in king, but a combination of strong saves and strats meant just one biker died

On turn 2 the massed custodian reserved teleported into the battlefield

Taking over yet more objectives

And wiping out all russes

Even the blade champion pitched in, chopping up a chimera with the rendax ka'tah

Turn 2 of the guard meant that their reserves also got to the battlefield, but again the golden plate of the custodians prevented them from suffering any telling losses

The battle ended thus in a far easier victory for the custodes, 30-5 this time round