As I embark upon this new project, I thought it would be helpful to explain my projects in the past. I'm actually a relatively new player in 40K. I've only a few years under my belt, but what fun they have been! Originally I started with the Black Reach box, running generic marines. I ran them for a bit, but they never truly captured my fancy. When the Dark Eldar codex came out, I found my true passion. However, I didn't feel my hobby skills were up to taking them on. Thus, when my friendly local game store started a Tale of 4 Gamers modelling campaign, I decided on something different.
This was at the height of Leafblower madness, so I set out on a bit of a joke: to create the opposite of a competitive Imperial Guard list. Not a single melta gun or plasma anything showed up in the list. Only one Chimera and no Valkyries either. Mostly a lot of special characters, Infiltrate/Outflank/Stealth on everything, and an entire special weapons squad of all demo charges. The idea was a beleaguered Infiltration and Demolitions force fighting a guerrilla war in the remains of a dying Hive World.
It was a purposely stupid list that somehow won me two local tournaments mostly due to my opponents having no idea what to do with it. But the real success of the army for me was the modelling. It's certainly not the greatest thing ever seen, but all 1500 points came together in 2-3 months from scratch to painted, and really stayed true to the theme.
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| Al' Raheim's Platoon |
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| Scout Sentinel with Camo Cloak |
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| Marbo getting the best of a Dark Eldar |
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| Commissar with Camo Cloak (when it stealthed the whole squad) |
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| Creed and Kell with friends |
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| Harker's Squad with autocannon poking through a wall |
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| A Manticore with camo cloak ran as a forward artillery spotter |
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