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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:52 am
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Updates 13-07-2009: Set up this log with the basics. Images to follow later today or early tomorrow. 30-05-2010: New army list.
Background I swear to whatever you hold dear, I am sick and tired of being reminded of Apocalypse Now and the Ride of the Valkyries. With that out of the way, welcome to my work log that's going to properly attempt to archive my serious attempts at building up a small veteran Elysian combat wing that has full airborne capabilities. Inspiration for this came in no small part from Imperial Armour 4 - the Anphelion Project and Imperial Armour 3 - the Taros Campaign. While the third book contains the tragic telling of a daring airborne raid behind enemy lines gone horribly wrong, the fourth book was the one that got me to buy Elysians. Anphelion contains the rules for Detachment 99, or D-99 for short, which is a specialized formation of Elysian Tyrannic War veterans put under permanent auspice of the Ordo Xenos. They are the special forces of the Inquisition so to say. While the story is again a tragic one of gross betrayal as we've come to know and love in 40k, it was the picture painted in the "story" section of the book that got me interested. Here we have an elite, highly motivated airborne assault force that ropes or chutes into their missions far behind enemy lines. With a pile of Christmas money burning a hole in my pocket it wasn't hard to make a choice.
At first I wanted a small 500 points raiding force, just a command squad, two veteran squads, some snipers and a Drop Sentinel. They did okay-ish, but would need more men and equipment to persevere! Over time I added in some extra Drop Sentinels and a Vulture. Things didn't start getting off the ground properly until the arrival of the plastic Valkyrie kit. Due to my own impulses and someone breaking my laptop I know have four Valkyries in various states of paint along with a fifth in the process of construction. Also on my desk is a second Vulture along with a pile of spare bits that are awaiting a third squad of veterans, all thanks to a silly little conversion a friend did for me.
It's been a while since I last wrote up a list but a rough guess is that the force should now be somewhere around the 1.500 pts at the very least with plenty of room for future growth.
Organization This force is mostly a fun thing for me to tinker on, gaming with it coming in second. That's why I've been adding on "pointless" but fun things here and there, such as the changing of a perfectly good Valkyrie into an unarmed medicae version with a medic inside. In gaming terms it's still a Valkyrie with multi-laser and rocket pods though, but visually it is an unarmed medevac response unit with fuel tanks instead of weapon pods under the wings. Plus it can double as a nice objective marker of sorts.
Army List HQ. Command squad - commander with lasgun with auxiliary grenade launcher, medic, plasma gun, meltagun, vox Valkyrie - rocket pods & multi-laser
Elites. Drop Sentinels (3) - heavy bolters
Drop Sentinel - multi-melta
Troops. Veterans - sniper rifles (3), vox, Forward Observers (Squad has camo cloaks and a homing beacon) Valkyrie - rocket pods & multi-laser
Veterans - shotguns, vox, meltagun Valkyrie - lascannon & hellstrike missiles
Veterans - sergeant with auxiliary grenade launcher, grenade launcher, vox, Demolitions (squad has melta bombs and a single demo charge) Valkyrie - rocket pods & multi-laser
Veterans - sergeant with auxiliary grenade launcher, meltagun, vox, Demolitions (squad has melta bombs and a single demo charge) Valkyrie - lascannon & hellstrike missiles
Fast Attack. Tauros (2) - grenade launchers
Tauros Venator - hunter-killer missiles (2)
Tauros Venator - lascannons
Heavy Support. Vulture - twin-linked Punisher cannons
Vulture - Hunter-Killer missile racks (6 missiles total) and twin-linked lascannons
Valkyrie Sky Talon - fuel tanks (count as Hellstrike missiles, but fuel tanks look more at home underneath a transport)
Total: 1994
Work log July - Finish Vulture - Start painting a Valkyrie - Order last parts for Valkyrie 5 and finish construction of it
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:48 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:51 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:09 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:51 am
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An update of sorts now that I've finally found a proper spray for the task at hand.
I've got no idea just how many points I've got as of right now, I'm just tacking on things as I go. I'm also not so sure of whether I should stick to the D-99 list or adapt to the upcoming IA8 list instead. The latter would mean buying more squads of fiddly Elysians. :'(
HQ - Veteran officer with power fist, medic, vox caster, plasma gun, meltagun HQ Valkyrie - Multi-laser and rocket pods First Squad - Veteran sergeant with aux. grenade launcher, vox, grenade launcher and demo charge First Squad Valkyrie - Lascannon and Hellstrike missiles Second Squad - Veteran sergeant, meltagun, vox, demo charge and the whole squad has shotguns Second Squad Valkyrie - Multi-laser and rocket pods Third Squad - Veteran sergeant with aux. grenade launcher, vox, grenade launcher and demo charge Third Squad Valkyrie - Multi-laser and rocket pods Medicae Valkyrie - Unarmed, wing hard points instead hold fuel tanks Drop Sentinel - Multi-melta Drop Sentinels (3) - Heavy bolters Vulture - Lascannons and rocket pods Vulture - either Punisher cannons or rocket pods and hunter-killer missile racks
I also have four dropzone beacons and a drop crate that are used as objective and dropzone markers.
Some old pictures to appease the curious razz
A regular old boring Valk and the hybrid kit. The hybrid will either get a nice pair of Punisher cannons or rocket pods and HK missile racks.
Not really a conversion, just the clever use of one of those absurd running legs. However, I'm really fond of this guy.
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:12 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:48 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:51 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:04 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:43 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:55 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:12 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:29 am
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