ARMY PLAN: Lost and the Damned

With the new Imperial Guard plastics coming out (or were you in the bar when they were put up on the GW website), i've decided that its about time that I created a LatD army again. Should be quite interesting, and it gives me a reason to finish off that damned (excuse the pun?) LatD Mini-dex i've been working on

If you've been paying attention, the following units are available in the army:
HQ
1-3 Aspiring Champions (Mandatory)
0-5 Advisors (Daemonhost, Cult Leader, Rogue Psyker)

Elites
Cultist Possessed
Big Mutants
Rabble Rousers (1 per unit of Mutants or Big Mutants)
Lesser Daemons

Troops
Traitors
Cultists
Mutants

Fast Attack
Hordes of the Gods
Chaos Defiler
Screaming Souls
Hell Riders
Traitor Recon

Heavy Support
Forsaken of the Gods
Chaos Space Marines
Traitor Tanks
Dark Mechanicus

So! What to use, what to use... Well, Traitors share the same basic profile and options of an Imperial Guardsman, only they are brought in multiples of 10 - they 'begin' as a single unit, but then get split into individual units. I'll take 3 squads of them. A single 10 of the unit becomes the command group
I'll take a Cult Leader to lead them, of course. Take a Mark - Nurgle, for the sake of the blog owner =P. Means that the traitors may take the mark as well. Marks change in LatD however, seeing as they are only for the lesser servants of the gods

Mark of Chaos Undivided (Units): Models with this mark gain the Stubborn special rule
Mark of Chaos Glorious (Characters): Models with this mark gain the Rites of Battle special rule - this means that units within 12 inches may count as their leadership for all tests requiring Leadership (this excludes Psychic tests)
Mark of Khorne: Models with this mark gain an additional point of Strength. This is applied after any other modifiers.
Mark of Nurgle: Models with this mark gain +1 to their cover saves - if they are in the open, they gain a 5+ Cover Save
Mark of Tzeentch: Models with this mark gain the Relentless special rule. However, they may not choose to use the "Run!" special rule
Mark of Slaanesh: Models with this mark gain the Fleet special rule. They must, however, use their own basic Leadership unless another model with the Mark of Slaanesh joins the squad

Let's fast forward. Here's the summary of the list i'll be building and posting on the site over the next few months:
HQ
Aspiring Champion of Chaos Glorious (Lesser Daemon Weapon, Armour of Grief, Personal Icon)
Aspiring Champion of Khorne (Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol, Personal Icon)
Rogue Psyker of Tzeentch (2 Powers, Force Weapon)
Rogue Psyker of Tzeentch (2 Powers, Force Weapon)
Cult Leader of Slaanesh (Power Weapon, Power Armour)
Cult Leader of Slaanesh (Power Weapon, Power Armour)

Troops
30 Traitors of Tzeentch (Command Group: Icon, Champion (P Wep), 2 Meltaguns. 2 Squads: Champion (Poison Weapon), Flamer, Grenade Launcher)
30 Cultists of Slaanesh (Command Group: Icon, Champion (P Wep), 2 Flamers. 2 Squads: Champion (P Wep), Flamer)
30 Cultists of Slaanesh (Command Group: Icon, Champion (P Wep), 2 Flamers. 2 Squads: Champion (P Wep), Flamer)
20 Mutants of Chaos Undivided (Firearms and CCW)
20 Mutants of Chaos Undivided (Firearms and CCW)
20 Mutants of Chaos Undivided (Firearms and CCW)
20 Mutants of Chaos Undivided (Firearms and CCW)

Elites
5 Rabble Rousers with Extra CCW Arms
3 Big Mutants with Extra CCW Arms

Fast Attack
3 Hell Riders of Khorne with Pyromancer (Power Weapon and Hunting Lance)
Defiler of Chaos

~ This is all that i'm allowed to admit at the moment - it's some things that i'll be building and finalising the rules for in April. See you then!

Open Day Heroes: Part 2 (Ork Hordes)

Welcome to Part 2! This is where we flip to the other side - I have an Ork Horde to paint up for the day! 2 Black Reach boxes. I have a Shokk Attack Gun to add to it, but past that we rely upon other stuff. I'm planning on adding a Battlewagon, or bartering for such models such as Gretchin or Stormboyz

HQ:
Warboss with Cybork Body, Power Klaw, Twin Linked Shoota, Eavy Armour, Bosspole, and - 110
Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, Eavy Armour, Ammo Runt, and Cybork Body - 113

Elites:
15 Lootas with 2 Mekboys - 225

Troops:
21 Ard Boyz with 2 Big Shootas. Nob with Big Choppa, and Bosspole - 240
21 Boyz with 2 Big Shootas. Nob with Eavy Armour, Big Choppa, and Bosspole - 156
8 Nobz with Eavy Armour, Big Choppas, and 1 Bosspole. 275

Fast Attack:
3 Deffkoptaz with Buzzsaws, and TL Rokkit Launchas - 210
3 Deffkoptas with Buzzsaws, and TL Rokkit Launchas - 210

Heavy Support:
Battlewagon with Killcannon, Ard Case, Red Paint Job, Grot Riggers, Armour Plates, Zzap Gun, and 2 Big Shootas - 210

The whole point of this army is to have a balanced force, with as much of
it in Plastic as possible. We will be putting on matches all day in order to
show off the club's assets - this army is what will be used for most cases on
the forces of good. Ork force will be composed of 2 Black Reach box sets, as
well as some pieces of history from other collections

This is NOT a GW Starter Game. It is a fair match, and we will be making
this point! The people we advertise to will be not newbies or wannabes for the
hobby, but actual players of it. Thus, it needs to be changed!

This is even MORE so in the Ork Army. The army is, at its heart, a FUN force, and this list should respect that while at the same time giving a fair fight. Therefore, i'm adding some other things. Trukks, for example. I'm adding Lootaz, as you can see from the list, and i'm also possibly adding a Battlewagon for the Nobz

POINTS: 1749. MODELS: 74

~ Well, thats the end to Part 2. Part 3 will be on Scenarios and the final army lists. I hope that this is good enough for y'all ^_^. Won't be on for a long time - i've got 2 weeks to show some results

Open Day Heroes: Part 1 (Space Marines)

Currently volunteering to paint up an army for July 4th. 40k Starter Set. Both sides

I'll be increasing the contents of the box set - i'm donating my personal set in order to make it a legal army. So here's the list:

HQ:
Chapter Master Furion. Bears the Artificer Armour of Aeons, a Relic Blade, and a Storm Bolter. The Storm Bolter has an Auxilary Grenade Launcher - 188
Master Regar of the Forge. Bears a Conversion Beamer - 120

Troops:
10 Tactical Marines. Flamer and Missile Launcher. Sergeant has a Power Weapon, as well as Meltabombs and Teleport Homer - 205
10 Tactical Marines. Flamer and Missile Launcher. Sergeant has a Power Weapon, as well as Meltabombs and Teleport Homer - 205
5 Scouts. Sniper Rifles and Camo Cloaks. Single scout with Missile Launcher - 100

Elites:
5 Terminators. There is a Sergeant with Power Weapon. Cyclone Missile Launcher on 1 Terminator - 230
5 Terminators. There is a Sergeant with Power Weapon. Cyclone Missile Launcher on 1 Terminator - 230

Heavy Support:
Dreadnought with Multi Melta. CCW has Bolter - 105
Dreadnought with Multi Melta. CCW has Bolter - 105

Fast Attack:
5 Vanguard Veterans. Jump Packs. Sergeant has Relic Blade. 3 Marines with Power Weapons - 235

POINTS - 1723, MODELS: 44
The whole point of this army is to have a balanced force, with as much of it in Plastic as possible. We will be putting on matches all day in order to show off the club's assets - this army is what will be used for most cases on the forces of good. Ork force will be composed of 2 Black Reach box sets, as well as some pieces of history from other collections

This is NOT a GW Starter Game. It is a fair match, and we will be making this point! The people we advertise to will be not newbies or wannabes for the hobby, but actual players of it. Thus, it needs to be changed!

~ I intend this to be an experience. Something to savour. Storm out for now - i'll be back soon with Part 2 (Ork Hordes). We'll be kicking it custom with some scenarios we'll be using in the day itself. Storm OUT!

ARMY PLAN: Sea of Daggers

This is where we stand, brethren. We stand at a crossroads in the path of destiny, but this be no case of mere galactic destiny. This is the destiny of our race, the twilight upon which even our fading spirit is a vast sun toward. We have only 1 way to escape
We need to awake Khaine

Sea of Daggers is my latest Apocalypse army, which I will be building over the period of 6 months. It will end as a 10000 point list, which is dwarfed only by my vast collection of Chaos - I believe it is currently 10K points at the moment?

I have quite a few goals in it:

• To have every single Eldar formation
• To mass into 10000 points
• To have the majority of models as plastic

Not so easy, is it? Eldar have a vast mass of datasheets and formations that I would need to take into account, and this will be difficult. No matter. Here's the list from IA: Apocalypse:

Post Transfer

I am beginning the process of transferring some posts over from my other opinion blogs. I am also still recruiting some more people for the blog - a blog for the people! A blog for the true content!

In addition, you might have noticed that comments are disabled at the moment. We've been going through some problems with our templates recently, so this will be resolved ASAP

~ Don't worry, i'm not leaving. Just building up some plans for more content

Aun'byr welcomes you to the BFC Empire

Greetings, my friends bonded by the greater good of the blog. I am Aun'byr of the BFC Empire, and I shall be the runner of the blog store upon http://www.lulu.com/. I will be creating the many products that the blog will require to keep financially viable

That is all I can say at the moment - there are no additional things. You'll be seeing me whenever we produce from merchandise for you to purchase*



*: this is a warhammer blog, but we make NO PROFIT AT ALL from these services. In addition, we will be taking absolutely NO old content from these. We promise this!

General Storm reporting!

Why hello! This is General Storm reporting, new member of the Battlefleet Chaotic team! I'm simply one of those oddly named pieces of furniture which is placed into the front living room, only I have a purpose!

I'm a friend of The Herald in RL, and i've not got that much of a job on the blog. I'm going to be the one who attempts to raise our profile. I'll be designing merchandise, creating our site image. For example, you see the Bell of Lost Souls banner here:


It's an image that is distinctive, and many people know of. It is also beautiful anyway. I LOVE it! I'd love to be able to produce a piece of work to it's standard, but I just know that it is a powerful idea. I aim to create something similar for this blog, with FAR reduced resources. It's a long term process. Some of the many things i'll be doing are going to be small - i'll be getting us into blogging alliances, i'll be creating a storefront at Cafepress. I'll be gradually increasing our power on the internet, or so thats my aim!!!

It's a large scale campaign, but it's well worth it!

~ Well, thats General Storm for you. He'll be a rare sight on this blog, but it's good to have a viewpoint here. There's also a few more people here soon. We'll also be using multiple colours to distinguish between bloggers, easier that way, aye? Red is the colour of the Herald - ironic, no? Deep Blue for Storm. There'll be a few more members soon as well...

Battlefleet Beginning

Battlefleet Branching out. Sounds strange, eh? But eventually, all blogs have to take on more people - it's just that today, it's BFC

I've invited someone to take over some parts of the Blog for me. It brings more updates, and hopefully it branches out in a good way!

We'll see how it goes - if it doesn't work, it'll stop. Otherwise, welcome to the team, new members!

Activity Rating, Sar!

Just a small shout out, to confirm that this blog is now going to be ACTIVE!

If it isn't for 1 per 2 days (approx), then it will be 4 a week. Activity is, to me, the quality of posts, rather than the quantity of them

So, yeah. I'm going to be making it way more active. Thats a fact

Herald Highlight: Projects

Welcome to a new section on the Blog - Herald Highlight. The point of this is to actually give us a reason to be viewd! So I thought 'hmm, why not highlight things I personally love about the hobby? Isn't that something different, shouldn't I rejoice in the fact that we would have a purpose?'
So without further ado, let's start the piece on Projects...

Huzzah for projects!

Projects vaster than vast, more delicious than that glorious internet dessert, Pie!

Do they not give purpose to even the most patient hobbyist? Do they not reward the grinding, no matter how fast or slow?

Ok, I must say that many of the people down at my FLGS think of me as a rushing rhino, as the complete opposite of my god, Nurgle. I am who I am. I don't LIKE doing things slow. It's a bit like the Eldar Apocalypse Army i'm going to be building up over the next few months.

I like doing the majority of the work on each project in the initial 2 months. It becomes fresh in my mind, it isn't just a filtered set of thoughts! Speed has its rewards, it has its praises. But at the same time, I understand how a certain Jolly Stefanic enjoys doing it slower. Because speed has its own disadvantages

Mainly, for me, it is my focus

I can build and paint 2000pt armies (ok, badly) in a matter of perhaps a week. I can spend loads on an army and then finish it before, truly, it has begun. This leaves me with a problem - what do I do in the gap between the start and end of an army? Do I attempt to improve upon it, perhaps ending up having to scrap a scheme to keep it consistant, or do I simply attempt to make lists for it, to deal with all enemies?

I HAVE to settle for the option of making lists! I don't particularly have a need for perfection. I LOVE to have things 'done'! It's WHY I rush. Why should I change this because someone doesn't like the idea of completing projects - which 'are supposed to be completed over long periods, not short'?

I have no idea. Did this just change from a matter of my preferences on projects, to a rant at those who DON'T want to do it?

Strangest thing... isn't it? My project at the moment seems to be the art of ranting

Here's your link to Bell of Lost Souls. And seriously, I enjoy writing articles but if you read them, you can COMMENT on them! Cookies to those who do!
~Scruff, the Herald of Nurgle

Sons of Arkhan

I've begun my newest army, even after discovering I have loads of stuff to finish =P
I essentially think of this as a Renegade Chapter, with Pre-Heresy technology. Thus I will use a combo of Codex and Evil Marine books - based around the Babab War campaign coming soon from Bell of Lost Souls

Current forces:
- Sorcerer Darro Trenai, Acolyte of Arkhan (Parts)
- 16 Khorne Berserkers (GS)
- 28 Plague Marines (GS)
- Invictus, the Fellsword (Fellblade/Stormsword variant)

Beginnings of a Dark Elf

FINALLY started my Dark Elves after 3 months... Warriors have been getting less awesome, and I fancy a change
I constructed 3000pts of stuff 3 months ago, and i've been dreaming of painting it. Here's what I brought:

• 2 Battalions: 30 Warrior Spearmen, 24 Warrior Crossbows, 40 Corsairs, 10 Cold One Knights
• 10 Corsairs
• Lokhir Fellheart
• 2 Assassins
• Shadowblade
• Supreme Sorceress
• Dreadlord on Cold One
• High Elf Dragon (converted into Chaos/DE dragon)

New Beginnings for an Old Blog

Oh, you thought we were dead? Well, technically we were ^_^
The blog officially became resurrected mid-January of 2009, in the form of Battlefleet Chaotic: Heresy Online. Now it returns home with some... upgrades

1. DISQUS: We now have a decent comment design!
2. Bell of Lost Souls adverts: In each post, there will be an ad for the simple reason that they are AWESOME
3. Posting: We actually have a source of viewers! People know of us - at least soon!