Kill Team Cassius Part 1

Here it is everyone, the culmination of  132 hours, a couple cuts, and a weird callous on my index finger. The entirety of Kill Team Cassius. This was a great opportunity to practice grey lining black, due to all the black armour, try our Agrellan Earth and Mordheim (man I miss that game) Turf. I'm sorry about the darkness of some of the pictures, they did not turn out as well as I'd hoped. This was a ton of fun to paint and I'm exceptionally happy with how they all turned out, and without further ado, here's Kill Team Cassius!

Heres' the team in all their glory 

Ortan Cassius

Garren Branatar

Edryc Setorax

Antor Delassio

Jensus Natorian

This Cassius model is excellent, everything from his mk 4 power armour to his Crozius, to the pose itself is well designed and sculpted. I had great fun painting this model

I especially love the recessed name on that pauldron

Branatar is he only model I don't really care for in the kill team, simply because hes not a legal addition to an actual terminator squad in 40k due to his additional meltagun. At least that's why we have the formation rules

Hazard stripes on the fuel tube. Caution: burnination

Setorax is exactly what I'd expect form a Raven Guard character, basically mini Shrike. I do love the pose of this model however and the rubble built right into the base. It sure beats using flying stands to make airborne Assault Marines

At least his name wasn't Alenpo, yes theres actually a Raven Guard Captain called Alenpo 

Delassio having just a chainsword is fine in Deathwatch:overkill, but it somewhat pants in 40k and a hand flamers just not beefy enough. Beautiful model though.

Blood drops on all the things!

Oh boy, space magpie! Honestly I though with THQ folding I figured we had seen the last of the Blood Ravens, but here's an actual cannon model. I'm not a huge fan of the Blood Ravens, their "are we loyalist thousand sons?" bit never sat well with me, but this is a perfectly good model and fun to paint.

Not pictured: Custodes Halberd, Abbadons Arms or any other stolen wargear

I'll be posting the rest either tonight so stay tuned for more Deathwatch!

DEATHWATCH

"Amongst a hundred men, there may be none fit for the Adeptus Astartes. Amongst a hundred Space Marines, there may be one fit for the Deathwatch."— Watch Captain Brand

Ho boy Deathwatch. My favourite Chambers Militant of the Inquisition Ordos, my favourite of all of Fantasy Flights Tabletop RPG's and now a new kick ass board game from GamesWorkshop. Ever since I started playing Space Marines way back when I was 12 I've always wanted to build my own kill team, and when I bought the Chapter Approved 2003 annual collection I started converting Sergeants into, as I was playing Dark Angels at the time, Deathwatch Deathwing Veteran Sergeants. Yes, that's like a 50 point 1 wound squad leader, but dammit I was 15 and those 30" range ap 4 Kraken bolts excited me since my most common opponent was a Tau player. I also ran a year long deathwatch campaign when FFG first released the game and I'd love to do so again. Lastly since GW released datasheets for the new kill team I cant wait to include them in my Imperial Guard army now which on its own is exciting.

However all of this excitement pales in comparison to my excitement at seeing their adversaries. Genestealer Cults! The first army I ever played was Tyranids. I really only played them in third edition, but I had a copy of the old 2nd edition Tyranid codex and in the back of it was a Genestealer cult army, and boy was it cool. Cult leaders riding around in Limo's, Technical's with machine guns on them, weird hybrid troops and the ability to include Imperial Guard units as allies to represent corrupted PDF troops. However, since a brief splat appearance in Chapter Approved the 41'st Millennium has seen hide nor hair of that brand of cultist (or any cultists really, but that's another rant.) Bust as the saying goes, GET HYPE, because their back! Honestly I don't even care if their datasheets good or anything like that, they're super fun to use in Deathwatch: Overkill, and I plan to add them to my Imperial Guard whenever I get a chance to play Unbound. 

All of this is leading up to a point though, as I plan to use this blog to chronicle my painting of Deathwatch: Overkill, and as a showcase when everything's all done. As I'm writing this I have just finished painting Kill Team Cassius, so look forward to seeing them posted soon!