GW as the Imperium- Frontline Gamer

Hey everyone,

Today I am merely reposting an essay I just read from Frontline Gamer.

He uses the Imperium of Man as an extended metaphor to talk about the history and current troubles of GW. This is great. Rarely do we get something so far above the petty GW sucks/ WHFB is too random/ 40k isn't for tournaments bullshit.

This is probably the best gaming related essay I have ever read.

http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/2011/09/is-imperium-metaphor-for-games-workshop.html

Blood Pact!

Another twitter army list challenge from @hungryclone at stabhard.blogspot.com.. It was all boots on the ground, guard with no vehicles.

I stepped up finally with a twist. Since I've been reading a ton of Gaunt's Ghosts lately (Blood Pact, Sabbat Worlds, and Salvation's Reach within the last 3 weeks, all are awesome) I went for an evil Blood Pact force.

This is a just a bunch of crazy stuff thrown in for coolness. Straken to make the blob platoon squad as fierce as they can be, conscripts with a commissar to keep them from running as cannon fodder out front, 30 psykers to cause mayhem with leadership or blasts from behind the advancing blobs, and a few anti tank heavy weapons teams. Those are just the normal chaos troops, the Blood Pact are veterans with meltas that can shoot tanks if they can get close, or hang out with an autocannon and camp an objective, they are for versatility, and the penal legion are to cause back field shenanigans. 

Not the most efficient, or effective, but would be awesome to covert up, especially with some of the Forge World parts, with these Fallen Legionnaire heads from Maxmini and the Oni masks with helmets from Secret Weapon.

1997 points

187 models(unless I missed some)

HQ

365 Kentak Damoguar and command squad

(Straken) Biomancer ( Medi pack), Chaos Icon (Regimental Standard), Vox caster, meltagun, carapace armor, Daemonseer (officer of the fleet), Mutant bodyguard(Nork Deddog)

70 Blood Pact Exoriator(Lord Commissar)

Elites

110 10x Gore Mage squad( Psyker battle squad)

110 10x Gore Mage squad( Psyker battle squad)

110 10x Gore Mage squad( Psyker battle squad)

Troops

962 Platoon

75 Gennel Sirdar, and support troops platoon

30, plasma pistol, 2 plasmaguns, vox caster

120 Squad A, power weapon, Pacted Overseer(Commissar, power weapon), meltagun, vox caster

65 Squad B, power weapon, meltagun

65 Squad C, power weapon, meltagun 

65 Squad D, power weapon, meltagun

-Heavy Weapons

90 Squad 1, 3 missile launchers 30

90 Squad 2, 3 missile launchers 30

90 Squad 3, 3 missile launchers 30

75 Squad 4, 3 autocannons

75 Squad 5, 3 autocannons

152 38 cult troops(conscripts)

110 Blood Pact Squad (Veterans) 3 meltaguns, autocannon

110 Blood Pact Squad (Veterans) 3 meltaguns, autocannon

80 Blood Pact Infiltrators( Penal Legion)

80 Blood Pact Infiltrators( Penal Legion)

80 Blood Pact Infiltrators( Penal Legion)

Magnetize the Stone Horn / Thundertusk Kit

So I sat down with Bryce's StoneHorn and Thundertusk kit and decided that since there was not a great tutorial out there on how to magnetize it I would throw one together.

Things you will need: Stonehorn/Thundertusk Kit, Strong magnets about a half inch in diameter. Glue.

I began by assembling the components that I could.

The body, without the lower back.

And both saddles

I then put a magnet in the back of the neck inside the body of the beast
I then put the heads together with a magnet in the back of each. At this point it is very important to line up the correct sides of the magnets.Next Step is to magnetize the saddles. They will be held by the pull to the magnet already in the neck. Again, make sure that you have the correct sides of the magnets aimed toward the neck.

Then Just stick the lower back on, make you two ogre riders and hazaa!

I hope this helps you guys out. It really was pretty simple when I sat down to do it but It seemed like it was going to be pretty hard. Good luck guys!