Category Archives: 40k

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The Battle for Ducosi

Angel of Redemption, Dark Angels battle barge, 017M41.032.1130. From: Ikhnaton, fourth Company Grand Master, Master of the Fleet To: Azrael, Dark Angels Supreme Grand Master My lord, attached my report on our recent battle against the ancient enemy. We had been deploying our battle-brothers to the main planet of the Lothar system, when Rubicon squadron, send […]

February 1, 2017 – 15:08 | By Itsacon | Posted in Background, Battlefleet Gothic | Comments (0)

Librarian on bike

Just a quick one today: My recently completed bike-mounted librarian conversion. As always, Dark Angels. Conversion The bike is mostly the bike from the old bike-mounted chaplain kit. Which in turn was just a normal bike with a few metal bits added on: A fancier front guard, some items on the back and holstered boltgun. […]

October 14, 2016 – 08:26 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Battlefleet Gothic: First ships

As I mentioned earlier, one of my goals for this year is to get a playable fleet ready for Battlefleet Gothic. Over the past month, I’ve done just that: Get started. Coming weekend, I’ll be playing a few games, and to that end I’ve been busy painting up a 1750 point Space Marine fleet. I […]

September 28, 2016 – 13:11 | By Itsacon | Posted in Battlefleet Gothic | Comments (0)

Mortis Pattern Dreadnought conversion

A while back I noticed my bit box contained two complete metal Dark Angel Dreadnoughts. The model with a lascannon and a missile launcher. I decided to combine them into a Mortis pattern dreadnought. This is an anti-air version of the dreadnought, which has two identical weapon arms and can gain the Skyfire special rule […]

September 22, 2016 – 10:46 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat patrol army, vehicle repairs

I realized I never posted a picture of my own army for the Combat Patrol tournament. I didn’t even take one, even though I displayed it for the best painted army vote. So here it is: For the close-combat scouts, I painted up an alternative sergeant to the one shown earlier, since a power sword is a […]

August 18, 2016 – 10:12 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat patrol tournament: Evaluation.

I won’t be posting a report of the last game. My opponent had brought an Eldar army that had pretty much maxed out the cheese available within the restrictions of the tournament: 4 scatter bikes 3 scatter bikes 5 Warp Spiders with Exarch 5 Warp Spiders with Exarch Even he agreed it was a bit […]

August 12, 2016 – 13:30 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Tyranids

To re-cap: Last weekend I played had a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the fourth game, against a Tyranid army I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three Whirlwinds Game […]

August 11, 2016 – 13:35 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Sisters of Battle

To re-cap: Last weekend I played had a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the third game, against a Sisters of Battle army I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three […]

August 10, 2016 – 09:23 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Dark Angels

To re-cap: Last weekend I played a 400 points Combat Patrol tournament. This is the battle report of the second game, against a Dark Angels Successor Chapter. I played with the following force: Scout squad, 5x CCW, melta mombs Scout squad, 5x sniper rifles, camo cloaks Ravenwing Bike Squad with three bikes Whirlwind Squadron with three Whirlwinds […]

August 9, 2016 – 11:54 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (0)

Combat Patrol Battle Report — Dark Angels vs Eldar

Last weekend we had a 40k Combat Patrol tournament at my gaming group. Over the following days I’ll post a battle report for each of the five games I played. The rules for army selection were: 400 points, with a single detachment consisting of:  0–1 HQ 1–6 Troops 0–2 FA 0–2 HS 0–2 Elite Furthermore, […]

August 8, 2016 – 13:48 | By Itsacon | Posted in 40k | Comments (1)