Battle of the Great Harbour

 

A clash of triremes today with the battered athenians trying to force their way out of Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War

Fewer in number the syracusans form at the harbour's entrance

baiting the athenians to get closer...

Then springing into action

First blood for Athens with a side ram

Then a trireme is cleaven in two by their foes

And soon both fleets clash prow to prow

Fire arrows crisscross the sea

And vicious boarding actions are fought

The athenians gang up on a poor syracusan vessel

And get their first prey of the day

The sicilians have more hoplites on board however, and weight of numbers starts to tell in the confused melees fought ship to ship

More and more athenian triremes are captured

And some losses suffered

The northern battle has been won by Syracuse

While in the south Athens emerges triumphant

Another trireme is bruatally rammed on her side

While other galleys engage in melee

The last dregs of the southern syracusan force hold on for dear life

But it's all over for Athens that loses ships left and right

Battle comes to an end

With a crushing athenian defeat

Necrember: plasma and silos

 

Another week another set of scenery pieces. With these done I've only the ferratonic furnace and a tower left to complete all my Necromunda terrain (for now of course)

Silos/furnaces

Plasma generators

Smokestacks

Mons Olympus

 

The reconquest of Mars comes to a head with a final battle in the sprawling forge-city that extends over the slopes of Mons Olympus, fortress of the traitor Kelbor-Hal and seat of the Dark mechanicum

In the open industrial areas the reavers of the Legio Astorum advance with armoured support

On the other side of the battlefield the swift warhounds move around a complex of blast furnaces

Princeps Helgan comes under heavy fire but restarts her shields with a repair order

The reavers seems to be way outgunned by the bigger engines, but thanks to a smart use of cover and reactor pushes they manage to stay alive

The Spirit of Victory moves into the open with the typical arrogance of the legio, shrugging enemy fire thanks to its trait and legion abilities

A less armoured warhound is blown up by Mortis however 

Princeps kallian takes his vengeance next turn by killing the enemy warlord with plasma annihilators

In the main avenue a titan smashes an enemy stormlord to a pulp with its fist

Another massive warlord is killed by reaver and leman russ fire

After helping in the demise of the enemy command titan the Astorum warhounds duel with their traitor counterparts, felling one of the corrupt engines

With its death we run out of time and the campaign ends in a solid loyalist victory; Mars is purified of scrapcode and the traitors flee to the warp

Nercember: pipes & gantries

 

Painted some more scenery, this time a set of pipelines, a recharging station and a gantry made from two leftover sections from the plasma generators.

The pieces were sprayed black then rustes with a combination of brown, red and orange over which I applied a final drybrush of vallejo's oily steel

Control panel of the station

And the two fully charged plasma flasks