Blood Angels are in the upcoming Space Marine game

The Space Marine preview has always been breath taking:

I kept telling myself though that I won’t need this game since it will take away from my painting time and honestly, who wants to play Smurfs? But then they released this video covering the multiplayer customizer:

I just had my second look at it tonight and yes, you can do Blood Angels! If you move on to like 5:37 in the video and rapidly click play/pause until you see pauldron badges page 6/8 (around 5:41), you can clearly see the mark of our beloved Sanguinius. Customizing the rest of the armor with the various armor pieces provided and the colors you can choose from should be no problem for any devote Blood Angels player. Now just keep those Chaos Space Marines coming!

Back from Wargames Con

It’s almost a week now since I have come back from the Wargames Convention in Austin, TX, and I still have happy and vivid memories of that trip.

The BoLS crew is extremely nice and all players were very welcoming and you can see me and my Blood Angels in a Video Battle Report and today’s Pic Of The Day.

You can also have a look at my very own Picasa photo album covering the event – well, a small part of it:

Wargames Convention 2011

Back at painting BA and upgrading my army

Well, after my Warmachine hiatus it feels good to be back at painting BA. However, the detour was worth it: I painted my Cygnar army for the first time with a palette and those models have tiny little details, so I think that experience transfered into my new BA models having smoother blending and more nicely painted details. What do you think?

Sanguinary Priests

From Blood Angels

From Blood Angels

From Blood Angels

From Blood Angels

More Marines for my two existing Tactical Squads to add more punch:

From Blood Angels

From Blood Angels

GW lives in a parallel universe

Really. GW always appears awkward and clumsy to me when they are trying to explain to their readers how they turn their army into a winning army. Their tactics may work in their local metagame, but when I read their advice I always get the thought “there are ways that let you hit still way harder”.

I just ran across their blog post on on how to kill a Blood Angel. It shows the general GW symptoms of overly hyping the latest releases (Storm Raven and Furioso Dreadnought in this case) and then offering meager advice on how to counter the threat:

Blood Angels can be a bit trickier to take down as they have Death Company and Assault Squads as troop units too, but the principle is the same.

Umm, you noticed in the Codex that Death Company can’t hold objectives, right? Just outrun them.

Take a look in your Codex to find the weapon with the biggest blast, highest strength and lowest AP, it’s guaranteed to cause a few worried faces.

Unless the Blood Angels player is sporting an Honor Guard equipped with Melta Guns, in that case the worried face is probably yours.

However, he comes my favorite part (added bold type face for emphasis):

Walkers are a great way to hold up Blood Angels units that would otherwise be chewing through your weaker squads or holding objectives. As long as the Blood Angels don’t have a power fist or a thunder hammer in the unit, your walker will be practically invincible.

Hello? GW? Reality check? Have you recently been playing games outside your dorm rooms and noticed what every Sergeant is equipped with?

I got some shelf space

I finally got some shelf space in our local gaming club and took the opportunity to take a picture of all my painted models. I painted them between Summer 2008 and Fall 2009 when our daughter was born. Now I paint at a slower pace and I still have at least as many Blood Angels still to paint, but I am already very satisfied of what I managed to paint so far – they are about 6’800 points worth of models.

(Below my Blood Angels you can spot nu55kill’s magnificent Tau)