Inquisitor's a game within a game.

Inquisitor's a game within a game.

40K is a game I've played for a long time & one of the thing's I really love about outside of the game is the setting, it a future where all the wired & wonderful come together.

Inquisitor V Price of the Ordo Hereticus

Now as to be expected from someone that's been playing I've got at this moment 5 armies plus a dark mechanicus army plus plus all sort of other stuff, so a new codex is not something I'm likely to get over excited about sure if it's for an army I've got I might pick up some of the new releases but at this stage I'm not going to start a new army as I think the amount I've got now is enough.

Inquisitor of the Ordo Mallus yet to be named

For most of my time playing 40K I've tried to not use special characters as I've always found having your own to be more interesting, from my first army the Jade Dragons lead by Lord Falcon & Chaplin Draco right through to my Wordbearers based on the characters from Anthony Reynolds books.

Inquisitor  Merock of the Ordo Xenos  Merock is abhuman 

When I've used GW's I've found one of the big problems is their set in stone all their wargear is already picked for them so they act & play the same way every game, where as when I played the Jade Dragons I'd model for both the main characters in both power armour & terminator armour, in this kind of way you get a lot more freedom & while I will admit point for point the character you build will never be as good as a special character, but if winning is not your main aim then your own character will offer you so much more.

When is the last time you seem Vulken on a bike ?

A couple of Banisher 

Roll playing has always been something that can draw you in lots of different adventures (now I sound like Bilbo ) I have tried it on a couple of occasions but for some reason or another just when I was starting to really get into it the GM had to quit, haven lately started to use Inquisitors I've thinking of ways to use them apart from just sticking them into my army.

As of yet unknow

6th ed seems to be really trying to push us towards the narrative side of the hobby & I for one like it, nothing does narrative like roll playing so what if I could bring some roll playing into my normal games of 40K seems like a win win  to me.

So how to go about doing this this ? take an IG & try to work him up through the ranks I'm not sure how you would go about that & it not what I'm looking for, now as I've said before on this blog I believe that Inquisitors should be a HQ choice for any Imperial army not just Gray Knights, after all Inquisitors are not soldier's but secret police who use the might of all the Imperial forces to get the job done. 

CulexusAssassin this is the first Assassin I've ever painted & I'm very happy with it.

    

So why do I think Inquisitors are the best suited for what I want to do, well it's simple really as they don't belong to any army I can have them turn up in any that is not chaos or nids although some of them might not side with any race that is not Imperial, also they are independent characters so I can start off with a low points cost & has he gains more experience let him have more points to spend on wargear & a retinue, which is the part of this that I get to go wild with making all sorts of wonderful henchmen & characters for my Inquisitors to meet & fight along side.

This Sevitor is a wip but I'm surprised how brown the tracks on the gun look in the photo 

The first step from here is to work out a points chart for the Inquisitor to progress along, so that from starting off fresh out of Inquisitor school he can work his way up to an Inquisitor Lord over time.

Example he gets experience points every time he plays apart in a game with bonus for things like blowing up a tank or his side winning the game & minuses for losing a wound or losing the game, but that will be in the next post I hope.  

FOW A Russian village

Spring time 1944 a small Russian village on the eastern front or something like that, I don't often play fow & i don't have any models for it either but what I do have is a mate that has.

Darra was home for Christmas & when Darra's home I try to play a fow game with him so with him heading back tomorrow we where happily able to get a game in today.
Now when we play it's always on an 8x6 table & one of the things I really love about fow is how the 15mm scale combined with the big table gives you that panoramic feel that is next to impossible to create in 40k.

 As always I was playing the Germans with Darra playing the red army, Darra really puts a lot of effort into model & is getting some great results, here's a link to his latest batch http://dakeryus-blogofwar.blogspot.ie/2012/12/pip-fow-fallschirmjager-in-winter.html.

 Another thing that I really enjoy about playing fow with Darra is that we play it in a very relaxed manner I'am not even sure how much we stick to the rules but we normal have a close game & it's always very enjoyable.

One of the hardest thing's I always find with playing the Germans V the Russians (apart from putting up with my crap dice rolling) is to not get the feeling of being over whelmed by how much more stuff the Russian player has.

 After the first couple of rounds any thought's of me winning this game where well & truly over & it looked liked it would be very much a case of history repeating it's self & even though we play fow in a very relaxed manner the one thing that you can be sure about Darra & myself is neither of us like to lose in any game to the other.
This no inch given or asked for was forged in many epic games of 40K between us across the length & breath of Ireland.

There is also the fact that when you don't play a game to often it can take you a while to adjust into it, now don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say I'm a great fow player I'm not even trying to say I'm a good one, but German tanks are a lot better then the Russian one's so if you can get them into the right places they can turn the game a round.

 So it was that a couple of fun hours went by in the blink of an eye, but another great thing about haven a game of fow with Darra a part from playing a great game with all his fab models is that it give us a change to have a chat about modelling & how thing's are in life in general.

With the game coming to an end it was honours even so no lost pride on either side.
Fow is something I could see myself doing at some point down the line from a hobby point where I could pick a point in the war & spend a couple of years just recreating that battlefild with all the units that were there at that time.

So I'll finish up by saying this   Danke mein Herr und eine sichere Heimreise.  

Ending the year with a big bang

We had an apocalypse game in the shop run by John (thanks mate) chaos v chaos & chaos it was but I'm jumping a head a bit, so where to start ?
Well with the players might be a good point so we'll start there.

Above from left to right Colin, Frank, Ger, Alan, Darra, Adam & Pearce
Darra was a late comer to the game & was to be my team mate, I was running my Wordbearers with dark mechanicum, Darra was using my Varks renegade guards with my salamanders been the Alpha legion.

Adam as always was playing Deathguard & even had the lord of death himself Mortarian (I'd a plan for him)

With Adam where Ger with a nugle space marine army & Colin who was using a lost & dammed Varks list.

Looks like the Alpha legion aren't the only ones with twins

  Some of the lost & dammed, I for one am glad to see Coke made it into the dark grim future
The other team was a farther & son affair with Alan playing Black legion.

Well more blue to be honest but at lest his T-shirt was black & Pearce playing T-sons

I know they where red pre- heresy not sure about the yellow doh well they are Tzeentch after all.

The object of the game was 9 little discs of Tzeentch which the other two teams had to destroy & Darra & myself had to despoil, but this is dgg style apocalypse & things are never what they seem.

Ger closes in on one of the discs while my dark Magos fights the Deathguard.

One of only three Epidemius who took of the battlefield, but there was a nice twist to the tally rule with the nugle player who killed the most the turn before haven the tally so as Colin's Epidemius was the first to die guest who keeped killing the most things on there team.

 My grand plans for Mortarian are undone by a rule technicality who would believe a small monstrous creature couldn't go in a mole so he came back to hide in the building for the next turns.
The one thing I learned from this game was why he was called the long lived.

Haven made a deal with with Alan & Pearce that we would help them to kill the nugle players I then turned on them, this was to set the stage as th how the rest of the game would develop.

   The turning as my bikers & spawns attack the T-sons.

Colin's titan has nothing to fear or has it, this was to become the first of the two titan's the Wordbearers would destroy & become the first thing to go nuke in many a game as Colin insisted in rolling for it as it was his titan.

The other one my Knight titan maybe not as pretty as Colins but I like it but that was not enough to stop my Wordbearers from killing it, at first when I said it to John he wasn't having it until I explained it wasn't in the Wordbearers army only an allied.

As I said earlier this game was to turn into utter chaos with each member of each team turning on each other in true chaos fashion all that was except Alan who funnily enough was to end up winning the  game, but enough of that for now back to the important stuff of back stabing.

Darra had earlier parked a landraider on one of the objective we had despoiled & is my want I'd attacked the landraider with my blood slaughterer & being me hadn't even chipped the paintwork.

Oh to my shame me the great betrayer was to be betrayed as Darra move a beastman into contract with the objective & turned it to khorne claiming it for himself, at this stage of the game all hell had broke out but I was to have my last laugh as I was to tank shock Mortarian just as Pearce had lined him up for Ahriman to hit him with a vortex grenade.

Pearce has to sit down I spoil his plan with oddly enough the game ending with the Wordbearers saving Mortarian after trying so hard to kill him at the start.

So a very big thanks to John & my fellow players for a fun day's gaming I look forward to the next one.
So I'll finish by wishing anyone who reads this a happy newyear some more pictures below.

  

Painting away

Firstly I have to say I'm amazed to see that the blog has pasted a 1,000 view's already, so a big thank you very much to those that take a look as it helps to keep going if you know people are interested in what your posting.

How as I've said before on this blog I've seem to have a  thing for the Inquisition at the moment & I've finest painting my first Inquisitor, a model which funnily enough always reminded me of the movie the witch finder general staring Vincent Price here's a link
https://www.google.com/search?q=witchfinder+general+1968&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&tbo=u&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAy8HixKnfq6-gUlRbnru9sOXpFxSA3dJTZO3ezZd_A5TpHonANJzvUUqAAAA&tbm=isch&source=univ&ei=TILVUOX6D8mRhQeemYHoBQ&ved=0CGcQsAQ&biw=1360&bih=635

Sadly I'm still very hit & miss with my pictures, something I really need to work on.

I've also being doing up some guard & unlike the last guard army I did this one will be loyal

My platoon command squad I was looking a colour to tie them into my SoB's so I went with a green & cream as the SOb's are cream & red.

I gave the sergeant a bolter as it's cheap & help's to make him stand out.

Also have my first platoon squad done, so that's 15 done & who know's how many more to go.

The heavy weapons in the platoon squads I wanted to have a more of a mobile feel to them so I converted a guard with a flamer into a autocannon, the guy next to him has a meltagun.

A Commissar to help keep their mind on the job ahead, this is a very old model with had a hand flamer which I changed to a bolter.

The thing I really love about Inquisitors is all the cool things that go with them this was the first time I've ever painted a servo skull & at only 3pts are some thing I'll be using with my Inquisitor.

Still a wip a cute dog to be a loyal companion for the Inquisitor to keep him  company when he's far from home.

So all that left for me to do in this post is to wish anyone who reads it a happy Christmas.