Custodian guard sodality

 

The new custodes range refresh has provided us with great models, in my opinion the most beautiful custodians yet, so I couldn't resist bagging a box of spear armed custodian guard.

Dressed in regal capes and far more ornate than their predecessors I'll play these as wardens in 40k

Painting was quite easy actually: first I did the red cloaks and plumes and then the golden armour and details. The most time consuming aspect was as ever all the jewels they wear, something I really enjoy and have little chance to do while painting chaos, empire or cyberpunk minis

The models were great so I only converted one to turn him into a vexilifer armed with axe and bolter (castellan axe in-game)

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

Jovis Fossae

After the victorious landing at Mondus Ocullum the loyalists push toward the heretical seat of power in Mons Olympus clashing with the Legio Mortis

A terrifying psi titan marches in the middle of the terran host

Wiping a warhound in turn one with its sinistramanus

The lighter astorum titans engage their traitor counterparts

Meanwhile in the center one of my warhounds has managed to recover some lost crew

In the second turn the warlord sinister moves unnaturaly quick and destroys another warhound 

On the other side of the battlefield a lone reaver takes cover behind a generatorum from the fire of two warlords

The game turns in favour of the loyalists when the warhound with the objective manages to quit the battlefield

Then the traitors reveal their hand when a warlord rushes for my board edge

Legio Astorum is having none of that, and the warlord falls when the Spirit of Victory blows its legs away, wrapping up the game

 

Horus heresy board game

 

Hi all, I've just made a board game for the heresy, the map was borrowed from here  and you can find the markers and the rulebook below. The map should be printed at dina-2 size.

Herejía de Horus

Cartas

Card edits:

- Daemon primarchs do not remain in play

- Replace "combat value" with number of markers (ex: double combat value=double number of markers)

Imperial Palace campaign map

 

A map for the Siege of Terra 

Landing at Mondus Gamma

 

After beating the Warmaster at the Siege of Terra the loyalists begin the Scouring of the galaxy starting by the corrupt planet of  Mars, where the legio Astorum lands to exterminate the traitorous engines of Legio Mortis in the battle for the Mondus Gamma forge

The Spirit of Victory marches into the fray flanked by the smaller warhounds

A pair of scout titans deploy on the left to flank the enemy

The right is held by a corsair maniple of three reavers and some auxilia tanks

After ripping the void shields off a mortis engine the machine spirit of  the Astorum warlord takes over and runs recklessly forwards in its thirst for vengeance

The traitor warhounds have manged to reach my backline, but my reavers manoeuvre deftly around them coming into optimal firing positions

Princeps senioris Kallian retakes control of his engine and rips into the enemy torso with missiles and plasma blasts

Next to it a sneaky warhound has moved itself behind a massive warlord and punishes its chest with accurate fire from its diminutive weapons

The warhound squadron almost kills the enemy command titan with targeted shots

But the killing blow is given by the Spirit of Victory

Amongst these metal giants the super heavy tanks of the imperial army fight their own personal duel.

The second warlord is finished by a powerfist to the torso

With that last blow the battle comes to an end, falling back the traitors towards Olympus Mons

War in the Webway

 

Having painted Valdor sometime ago I had to play a game featuring him, and what better setting for his outing that an eldar webway corrupted by the nasty daemons of chaos. In this scenario Constantin and his custodians will have to fight an endless hordes of neverborn to keep a warp gate shut.

Valdor rolls with a unit of sisters as the talons move forwards

By the Emperor that's a lot of daemons

The heavy support blows huge holes into the chaos masses, and even gets into melee range to tie the enemy up away from the portal

A mighty charge by Valdor & co. almost destroys a unit of neverborn in a single round of combat

The second wave of creatures smashes against the tall gold line

However the first custodian falls to a demolisher shot

Another unit of praetorians is surrounded and wiped out

Their diabolic cackles are short lived however, as the knight weels around and nukes them with battlecannon and termal shots

With the death of the deamonic lord at the hands of Constantine himself the battle comes to an end