The Wolfling Project

This weekend:

* Space Marine Sergeant
* 2x Space Marines
* Traitor Guard Sergeant
* 3x Traitor Guardsmen

A lot of experimenting with this set.

Weathering and detail work on:

- Leman Russ Demolisher
- Chimera

with a lot of ideas and techniques from the "Painting Citadel Tanks" book.

- Completing base of my dead Dark Angels Captain objective

- Tested Vallejo Paint's Transparent Yellow as suggested by Bryce

- Completed one Tac Marine with full details

- Base colors on two other Space Marine casualty objectives

A pair of renegade Imperial Guard Valkyries skim over the slums.

Sure, they're just AV12 skimmers, but they look cool!

Played a trial of the Red Harvest scenario, as well as my first time with my traitor Imperial Guard force.

Some notes:

* A three player game takes much longer than a two player game.
* Depending on the number of intact buildings, it might be better to adjust the target number of civilians.

My mistakes playing the guard:

* The senior officer in the Company Command can also use the junior officer orders, like Front Rank fire ... I didn't use the CCS orders much, which was a waste.

Color Primed:
- Land Raider
- Rhino
- Tactical Squad
- 40x Imperial Guard Troopers
- Valkyrie
- Leman Russ
- Chimera

Whew, got a lot of guys off my "to be primed" shelf and into foam trays. Just in time for tonight's games!

- Rhino
- Chimera
- 3x vehicle crewmen: Storm Bolter
- Valkyrie #2 "Goblin"
- 2x Valkyrie flying stands

Check out these sweet Imperial Guard Weapons Teams. I like how the Imperial Sector terrain bits were mixed in. I'll steal some ideas from this.

Is a thousand-point Cities of Death game the ultimate 40K experience?

The advantages:

• Easier to collect, assemble, and paint 1000 (or maybe 1500, if you want a lot of options) of troops, instead of the 2000 - 2500 for a sizeable 40K army.
• Grittier battles that don't offer ridiculous lanes of fire. Different from the fights on open tabletops which are better suited to Warhammer Fantasy or other games without long range, insta-kill weapons.
• Stratagems!

This Dakka Dakka article is a compendium of rules clarifications for playing Cities of Death games with 5th edition rules. Check it out.

- Land Raider bits
- Land Raider multimelta crewman
- Leman Russ Demolisher (+ additional main guns and sponsons)
- 3x Imperial Guard Autocannon Weapons Teams