Wednesday, 19 September 2018

The Burrowden Crusade

 To the glory and praise of the Emperor and of the imperial court, and of the noble house of Cawdor, I, deacon Malakev, wish to preserve the memory of what came to pass in Necromunda through the deeds of my master, the blessed Redeemer, Klovis of glorious memory. Who led a great crusade against the deviants... to purge the planet of all heretics. And of whom it was truly said: 'prince, slow to punish quick to reward, he suffered when he was obliged to be hard.'
 He it was who from the halls of the blessed Redemption led us, and the mutants and heretics fled his righteous wrath. The Burrowden, a labyrinthine expanse of the underhive had been degrading for far too long without knowledge of the blessed light of our Divine Lord, and so he declared a crusade to cleanse the place from all evil and deviancy.
 Foremost of zealots, he was first to head the charge against the heathen eschers, smiting them down with the holy flame of the Sword of Persecution
 I rallied our brothers on the right flank and we poured our rightful wrath into the ranks of the heretic
 Rallied by the fervour of our pure messiah the brethen surged forwards, burning their blasphemous leader away with the blessed flames of redemption
 Craven harridans as they were, the eschers lost heart, and began to flee at the sight of the dead arch-idolatress. Proving once again that only in the faith of our church can a man find true purpose in life, and that all other so called "causes" are a mere facade for the most base and primal urges, only fit to be put to the sword and flame by the faithful
 I took careful aim with my trusty stub gun and lo behold! another of the pagans went down
 Brother Neroscis was valiantly injuried while flaming down a tunnel but before the eschers had time to react, brother Deza was upon them blazing left and right
 I joined him in a joyful charge into the mass of blasphemers, striking down one of the spineless cowards with a crushing blow of my axe
 Not that he, most paramout of crusaders, had been idle, as another unrepentant sinner was easily dispatched by his matchless zeal
 Inevitabily the enemy lost heart and turned tail, slinking back to the shadows of miscreancy, fleeing from the light of the Master of Mankind
And so Klovis gathered us for a solmen sermon to celebrate the victory, humbling us with his wisdom as he proclaimed that not to us but to the Emperor must go the glory, and that to He it was due. We were merely tools in His hands, the reward of purging the deviants from Necromunda enough in itself, since we were cursaders in a holy cause, free from the shackles that bind lesser men.
Afterwards, the Redeemer sold a captured escher to a slag pit mine so she might reflect on her life of sin and degeneracy, and atone for it with a life of hard work under the lash:
For penance without pain is no use, if it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count!





Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Necromunda terrain 2

 The second batch of scenery: a sawmill, power transformer and the chapel of the holy cog (yes, I can hear you sniggering)
 The sawmill is made from the knight chainsword, drop pod bits, executioner russ turret and clockwork cogs, the cutting supports are drop pod sides from the doors and russ sponson flamers
 cliché yet effective decals

 Warning decals: radiation (left), high voltage (right)
 The power processor is made from drop pod spares and a shield generator from the battle for Macragge starter set. Again the transfers warn the user about electric discharges




 And finally the chapel of the holy cog! The Mechanicus is full of pants on head rituals, so the machinery couldn't be complete without a fane to the Omnissiah in his aspect as the ever rotating cog. I'm sure this contraption has some essencial function only understood by the adepts of the machine god. In this face there is a devotional altar where the faithful deposit offerings, unlike the more mundane ones of the Ministorum (like candles or donations) these take the shape of lengths of cabling, plates and machinery pieces. A release funnel crowns the piece with a strategicly placed halo-like cable.  There is a binary prayer on the left and some specifications on the right.
 Of course the chapel needed some clockwork gears
 Behind there is the control panel with warnings of the high voltage
 Moar cogs!

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Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Necromundan generatorum

 I've made some terrain for an upcoming campaign, there are two plasma generators, one storage silo, an underground hatch and a cogitator. They will be used as scatter or zone mortalis scenery
 The silo was the easiest of the five to make, just a painted up tomato can with decals and weathering

 The hatch is a Necromundan essential being a destroyable objective since the dawn of time, it's made from drop pod inner door plates and an extra bit to provide open-close buttons

 The plasma generators are made fro drop pod bits and leman russ executioner cannon
 I drybrushed some glowing effect around the plasma radiators, quite happy with the result

 Warning markings: power generation (top), radiation (bottom)
 Of course any generatorium needs a control lectern: this cogitator has been made in mars and includes assorted drop pod bits and a bundle of cables from a guard lascannon. There seems to be some overheating problem on screen, please apply sacred oils and recite prayer number 10010010

 Behind the keyboard-screen block there is a sort of computer tower
 Cooling fans and electricity warning
 bip bip bip
Most of the terrain can be used for Titanicus too

Saturday, 25 August 2018

Mortis refit

 There have been radical changes to warlord titans in the new rules of Adeptus Titanicus: many weapons have been eliminated. such as the warp missiles, and those that remained must come now in pairs. It was time to adapt the Mortis engines to the new meta, one got a stubber/gatling in place of the warp missile wile the other ditched them altogether for two vulcan megabolters. Both carapace setups will do nothing against armor, but can strip shields easily. I've also given them highlights in the red and black areas and a much needed inking in the gold.