Now That I Have Batteries, Here Is My Priest. I Feel That He Came Out REALLY Well. Also My Three Priests

Now that I have batteries, here is my priest.  I feel that he came out REALLY well.  Also my three priests together, they are a huge part of the awesome that is in my army.

Hey sorry for the long wait, those of you that care, but summer is my busy season.   This is the fruit of my weekend.  I think he came out pretty well.   Thoughts and comments are welcome.

“Why were they not detected?!” Commander Ashefire barks over the tactical network as he and his Crisis Suit team sprints a building flanking the imposing enemy force. Not moments ago, Commander Stubs with a battalion of his Imperial Guard opened fired on Ashefire’s own advanced team, annihilating...

The Tau Incursion

The Enemy Skies, a battle ship of the Ashfire Cadre, jumped into the Grahoya System.  

Grahoya 7 is a small mining world, drawing minerals from the planet itself and the surrounding asteroid belts.  The fleet of small mining ships and massive defense stations work tirelessly to keep the asteroids away from the planet.  The ore from these efforts are sent in regular shipments to Kerentia 4 for the forge to turn into tools and weapons for the artisans and warriors of the Hammond Sector.  As one of these shipments was leaving a large wing appeared in orbit over Grahoya 7.  

Alerted to the strange ship by the merchants, the Brotherhood and the 713th went to investigate.  Ariana,The Heavenly Spear, a battle barge of the Brotherhood, arrived a week later to see the Enemy Skies, of the Ashfire Cadre, sending shuttles and drop ships to the planet.  Captain Micheal and the Second Company deployed to the planet in Thunderhawks, sending the Heavenly Spear on to deal with the Enemy Skies.  

As the first cannon blasts were exchanged, the Enemy Skies seemed slow to respond, prompting the marines and guardsmen to attempt boarding.  Four boarding torpedoes were prepared, two with marines and two with guardsmen.  Stubs turned to tech marines preparing the torpedoes and made a request, "I need you to put a loaded Chimera into this boarding torpedo." The techpriest stared for a moment and then began to modify a torpedo.  Modifying quickly became rebuilding and the delay caused the marines to reach the enemy ship first.  

One torpedo was loaded with five Sanguinary Guard and a Sanguinary Priest, the other was loaded with half of Delta Squad.  The torpedoes hit the Enemy Skies and opened into what appeared to be barracks.  These marines were quickly met by three squads of Fire Warriors and two Crisis Battle Suits.  Delta Squad found the selves unable to resist charging the enemy flew toward the enemy, their jump packs nearly taking them to the ceiling.  They were met by the Battle suits, and suffered heavy losses, losing three of five members before making it to the enemy.  Chain swords glanced of battle suits and armored fist failed to penetrate power armor.   The Sanguinary Guard similarly charged into battle, their armor ignoring most of the shots fired by the fire warriors.  Soon one squad fell to their power weapons, then another.  While charging the second squad one member fell, and when that squad was scattered the Sanguinary Guard helped their brothers, felling the battle suits with their power weapons.   Once the battle suits were defeated, the Sanguinary guard turned their attention to the final group of fire warriors, who managed to defeat another member of the squad before being destroyed.  Delta squad pushed deeper into the ship, looking for new enemies.  

The Enemy Skies held its own while attempting to recover all of its drop ships and shuttles, but the battle gave the tech priests time to finish Stubs' request. Two more boarding torpedoes were launched from the Heavenly Spear, huge ugly torpedoes carrying chimeras to their enemies.   The Chimeras punched through the hull of the Tau vessel and were met by three groups of fire warriors and two crisis battle suits.  The suits moved to neutralize the chimeras so that the infantry could move.  They were countered by heavy melta and las fire from both chimeras.  One chimera was blown to pieces, while the other continued to rain fire down on the battle suits, but the efforts of the suits were not enough and the fire from guardsmen and the remaining chimera destroyed both suits.  The fire warriors did not have any weapon powerful enough defeat the chimera, and 713th took control of a small portion of the ship.

Alarms began to sound as the Enemy Skies prepared to retreat from the system, and all Hammond Sector forces fell back to their boarding torpedoes and off of the ship, though some had to be dragged by their Brothers.  The Enemy Skies then successfully left the system, though it feels like they will be back someday.

Here Goes

I play Blood Angels in Warhammer 40K and I like to tell stories.  This Blog will have two "sides", a Fluff side where I will tell the stories of the many battles I will be fighting and a not fluff side where I will explain the numbers behind the battles and probably talk about the painting I am doing and the models I am adding. 

Here we go.

This is my Sanguinary Guard.  They are fun and I like 'em.  Base coated in silver, then used a green wash and brought them back up.  Layered the power swords/axes and I think they came out pretty well.