Blog Aim

Is this the sixth or seventh time I've re-started this blog.  Fifteen years ago I had a blog here where I had set myself the mission to collect and paint an army of Warhammer 40k miniatures. I must admit that the hobby became little more than buying metal miniatures on ebay with very little painting being done.  I'm now selling off models that have little chance of ever being painted.

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My first Warhammer love had been the Imperial Guard but I couldn't make a decision about their tanks.  I hated the boxy Leman Russ and the Chimera is only a little better.  I had previously tried making guard tanks based on the Rhino but only managed to make a couple of mangled models, but the release of the Rogan Dorn now gives me a good looking tank.

So, my plan is to concentrate my meagre painting efforts on finishing off what could pass as an Astra Militarum army consisting of my Tallarn models and new tanks and sentinels.  The following seems a reasonable 2000 point army:

-   Commissar (armed with plasma pistol and power weapon) 30pts

3 Platoon Command Squad (officer with bolter; 1 plasma gunner)  3 x 60pts

3 Infantry Squads (2 x Sargent with power weapon and plasma pistol; 16 lasgunners; 2 plasma gunner)  3 x 120pts

2 Infantry Squads (1x Sargent with power weapon and plasma pistol; 8 lasgunners; 1 plasma gunner)  2 x 60pts

2 Heavy Weapon Squads (Mortars) 2 x 60pts

2 Rogan Dorn Tanks  2 x 240pts

6 Scout Sentinels (with autocannons) 6 x 55pts

6 Armoured Sentinels (with lascannons) 6 x 65pts

Total 1990 points

  

Doesn't a 67 year old man have anything better to do? Probably but the country is going mad following Brexit and the world is coming to an end due to limited resources/global warming/war/banking collapse. I need a diversion.