I had to stop yesterday before barely getting going. The prologue is being distant heir to a Trader and then having cultists interfere so I imagine that's how I'm getting my ship. The Steam achievements point to having to deal with Necrons and the Inquisition so plenty of room for heresy later on.

One of the very first dialogue choices allows you to infer that Imperial cathedral designers have inadequacy issues so it's a *very* W40K game.

Edit: Finally finished the prologue after intervening in a Navigator House civil war and then looting the station for everything that could be moved one way or the other. The station was falling apart. It was my civic duty as a LORD CAPTAIN.

I haven't even finished the prologue and it's already going off the rails. 2 mins in and getting warned of profane acts against the Enginseer. Suddenly Sister of Battle. Also I think the ship is talking to me.

Slowly building predators, going to get a few more done to make a batch to spraypaint and then start painting. This project isn't a rush!

Wow, I thought I was looking at 28 mm models until I saw the second picture! Model making has come a long way since the 90s.

They're absurdly multipart. 4 pieces for hull, all 4 exhaust pipes are separate, hatch options to choose from.

Its an amusing quirk that most upgrades/options are free such as autocannon or twin las on the predator (obviously twin las).

But the rhino has to pay a couple of points to by a havoc launcher or pintle mount multimelta. Clearly worried about OP Rhinos! But nothing else in the marine list pays for an upgrade...

Those are stark differences without a doubt.  I just hope that they will expand the range beyond Space Marines.  I am not overly optimistic about that at the moment though.  I look forward to seeing how you are going to paint the new models.

A 'Legions Xenos' suppliment with Orks and Eldar would be so good. This technology used to make sleek eldar stuff that the old metal never quite captured, or a sprue of ork battlewagon parts you could build in multiple combinations. It would work.

Frankly to me it really feels GW have done everything wrong they possibly can with this release. Typos in the rulebook, Errata published for absurdly OP Warp Missiles on the Monday after release. And leaving out classic units like the Land Raider.... then sticking to only marine v marines in Heresy? Its the most boring scenario in all of 40K as far as I'm concerned.

Can we get some more history lessons to some of these units you're fielding  ! Looking good!

Cheers! I'll be happy to oblige in future posts. For now though, I only have time for a short update before I run off to work.



Meet Pierre. He's the first of several models I'm testing my colour scheme on. I'm rather pleased with the khaki greatcoat so there will be more Frenchmen dressed like him. The next Pierre will have a greatcoat in blueish grey, I think. Keeping the backpack separate worked quite well too, although there is less need for it with the French because their backpacks don't block access to their collars. The British backpacks were giving me problems in this regard because they have rolled-up greatcoats/blankets on top of them.

EDIT: It should go without saying but Pierre's still WiP obviously.

Also a quick flag update: I received some fancy printed flags for St. Nicholas Day that were sadly too big for the flag poles the Warlord Games models came with. Drat. Off I trot to buy some brass rods then... Let's hope I can pry off the super glued flag poles without damaging the models.

Resuming work on Mechanicus!