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Specialist Games Supplement

Hi there Specialist Gamers!

format… the ‘tale’. In this case, it’ll be a

‘Tale of Specialist Gamers’, and it’s our main

Firebase feature in this issue.

SPECIALIST GAMES

On second thoughts, perhaps that’s not the

best opener for this issue… you see, after

our last issue I carried out an informal poll of

gamers on Warseer, asking questions here

and there, to try and nd out what kind of

articles you wanted to see in the Specialist

Games section.

A TALE OF SPECIALIST GAMERS

Collecting Epic IG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Each of our ‘tale’ articles will not just involve

collecting and painting an army, but also

it will show you each person’s approach to

collecting a new force for a Specialist Games

game system.

Collecting Epic Feral Orks . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Collecting an Imperial Fleet . . . . . . . . . . 93

Two comments tended to stand out

prominently:

1) More hobby articles!

2) More introductory articles!

If you’ve never tried a Specialist system, then

perhaps this’ll give you a window into how to

approach starting a new Specialist Game.

Collecting a Gorkamorka mob . . . . . . . . 97

Collecting a Necromunda gang . . . . . . . 98

INQUISITOR

The Silent Hunters - Tau operatives

in Inquisitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

So, let me start again… Hi there, prospective

Specialist Gamers!

With that in mind, we have decided to run a

series of articles along the lines of a familiar

AERONAUTICA IMPERIALIS

Keeping Things Square – Meditations on

the Aeronautica movement phase . 108

101

Tactica Imperialis – A comprehensive

tactica for Imperial Players . . . . . . . . 113

Battle Report – Dark Angels vs. Orks . . 116

BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC:

Da Mek Sez… sculpting Ork ships. . . . . 125

GORKAMORKA:

Propa Ork Klan Roolz! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

125

142

New Gubbinz!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

EPIC:

Space Marines versus Chaos Space

Marines, both with Titan allies . . . . . 142

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Collecting Imperial Guard for Epic: Armageddon

COLLECTING IMPERIAL GUARD

FOR EPIC: ARMAGEDDON

By Jonathan Brown

All paint and other organics is reduced to

an opaque sludge, which washes off your

metal models quite easily with the help of a

sawn-off toothbrush. However you need to

be careful with smaller metal components

(like epic tank turrets) as these can easily

be lost in the goo. My trick is to stick the

models to be stripped into a chip pan or

sieve rst. Make sure you aren’t going to

use these for actual food ever again…

at least one Leman Russ company. I spend

far more time modelling and painting than

I do playing, so I went with what appealed

to me rather than what is necessarily game-

winning.

I’ve been playing Epic in its various forms

since Adeptus Titanicus. However I’ve never

had an Imperial Guard at either scale. Epic

Armageddon gave me the excuse to nally

collect one.

FOOTSLOGGERS

The infantry are what symbolises the Guard:

hordes of brave if under-equipped normal

human beings. No superhuman implants,

ceramite power armour, or armour piercing

exploding bolts. Just a ashlight, long coat,

and an occasional autocannon.

ONE CAREFUL OWNER…

In the last couple of years I’ve discovered

eBay, so the army has been sourced from

there and GW Mail Order. Although not

strictly necessary, a PayPal account will make

your life a lot easier if you are buying via

eBay. For a start your payments are safer,

instant, and lots of sellers are “PayPal only”.

For plastic models, US modellers use Simple

Green for paint stripping. This product is

not readily available in the UK. Maybe a

coalition of British modellers needs to order

a job lot….The most effective alternative I’ve

come across is brake uid (the standard stuff

you get from Halfords). To be honest, I’m not

that impressed with the results, as a fair bit of

residual paint remains.

Being Old Skool, all my existing armies

(including those given a spruce-up for E:

A) are mounted on the old square 20mm x

20mm infantry bases. These were standard

up to 2nd Edition, until replaced with the

current rectangular version. I don’t want to

have a mishmash of base types across my

armies, which means using the older types,

which are “legal” in E:A. This leads to a few

problems which need to be overcome:

Buying second-hand models often means

buying painted models. I strip the paint from

metal models using Nitromors, widely available

in the UK. Put your minis in a steel or ceramic

dish, and pour the Nitromors over it, and leave

it as long as you want. Points to note:

This also applies to your own masterpieces

from years past. When E:A came out I went

through the process of “remastering” my

Marine and Eldar armies from my earlier

days, and will do the same with Chaos and

Tyranids (eventually…).

Nitromors is nasty stuff. Handle and

dispose of with care, don’t feed to your

kids etc. This includes the washings.

Square bases aren’t made any more. You

can’t buy them from GW. Therefore I

bought all the ones I needed from eBay. I

found about 10p each (including postage)

is a reasonable price, which you can do if

you buy in bulk.

Nitromors is harmless to metal models,

but will eat anything organic. This includes

plastic models, bases, bowls, glue, your

hand…

Before making purchases I started with a

vague idea of what I wanted: large blocks of

infantry, numerous super-heavy tanks, and

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Models from 3rd edition onwards (all

the current Specialist Games ones, plus

greatcoat Guard etc) don’t t the old

bases; the individual circular base on

each model is a little too big to t in the

holes on the base. This can be remedied

by carefully trimming the bottom edge

with a craft knife, and smoothing with a

le. Hardly back-breaking stuff, but not

worth it if you don’t have a problem with

rectangular bases.

to be represented somehow. I did this

by adding a tech-priest to the Supreme

Commander’s stand. There isn’t an actual

tech-priest in the IG character pack, so I

improvised with a Space Marine Techmarine

model. Using my rudimentary sculpting skills

and a wetted pointy stick, I added a green

stuff cloak and hood to the model whilst still

attached to its sprue. There isn’t an in-game

effect from having the Tech-Priest, I just

wanted him there!

The IG list in the rulebook allows you free

reign to put your random Commissars

wherever you want in each formation, so I

could have added him to a regular infantry

stand or even a chimera. However the

Supreme Commander is potentially the most

valuable unit in the army as he allows any

formation to re-roll an initiative test each

turn. This is particularly important for the

IG as even without blast markers they fail

initiative tests 1 time out of 6. Knowing my

luck, this could be at a game-winning point.

Painting is slightly more dif cult, as the

models get in each other’s way a bit.

Supreme Commander Stand

With a Commissar my Supreme

Commander becomes Fearless,

which means he won’t get wiped

out with blast markers.

I picked some of the old style “Cadian”

infantry off eBay, but the modern greatcoat

version is harder to nd (at least when it isn’t

glued on to those horrible rectangular bases).

So I ordered 2 packs from GW. I have to say,

the greatcoat version looks a lot better.

One out of two regular IG infantry stands

carries an autocannon. You work this out

each time the formation shoots (add up all

the survivng stands and divide by two to

give you the number of shots). You don’t get

heavy weapons troopers in the sprue, so I

didn’t represent these on the regular stands.

The only compulsory choice in the army list is

the Regimental HQ Company. This consists

of a Supreme Commander stand, 12 infantry

stands, and 7 chimeras to transport them

all. Unlike other armies, the IG Supreme

Commander is an actual infantry stand rather

than a character upgrade to a normal stand.

I decided to order an IG character pack from

GW, plus two sets of chimeras which are

fairly cheap. This gave me a total of one HQ

company, one mechanised company, and

two footslogging infantry companies.

I used the Commissar Yarrick model for the

colonel himself. With the powerclaw and

storm bolter he looks a bit like the general

from Dawn of War, and the model is yelling in

a suitably Commanding Of cer fashion. He

is joined by a radio operator and standard

bearer. I also added a plastic Commissar from

the infantry sprue to keep an eye on him.

Once the rst two infantry companies had

been assembled, I ocked them by adding

watered-down PVA to the bases and dipping

them in sand. After several minutes the

bases are tipped upside down and “ icked”

to remove excess sand, and any glued to the

models themselves scraped away. I repeated

this for any “bald” areas.

Since this army was going to be fairly tank-

heavy, I wanted the Adeptus Mechanicus

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Regimental HQ and Mechanised Infantry

Companies

drilling a hole in each component and tting

a length of metal (chopped up paper clip) to

reinforce. The pins were superglued to the

turrets, but these were left loose until after

painting.

the chassis and tracks. I tted this piece

with three pins for extra reinforcement, and

attached the heavy bolter sponsons with

pinning. Finally, the Baneblades had the

barrels of the demolisher and turret cannons

drilled out, and the Shadowswords had the

Volcano cannons drilled out.

I always wanted to eld super-heavy tanks.

To that end I bought far too many off eBay,

and now have enough for several companies

of Baneblades, Shadowswords, and plasma-

armed Storm Swords. For the time being,

I am limiting myself to a company each of

Baneblades and Shadowswords.

Baneblade Turret showing Pin

Shadowsword (top) and Baneblade

Super Heavy Tank Companies

For the time being I’m not including Ogryns

or Snipers. Ogryns could be useful as

counter-assault units for various companies

(e.g. Baneblades) and as infantry with

decent armour saves to the various infantry

companies. In most cases they would need

chimeras either to keep up or to avoid giving

free infantry targets in tank formations.

I also bought two companies of Leman Russ

tanks off eBay. Again they are archetypal IG

vehicles. They have reinforced armour and

a nasty array of heavy weapons, and with

FF4+ will help support engagements. The

models needed quite a bit of tidying up, with

areas of the tracks needing green stuff. Each

turret was also pinned but unglued, and the

cannons drilled out.

I have also bought a number of the old

fashioned Cadian infantry stands. I’m

intending to use these as passengers for

various war machines (Capitol Imperialis,

Moles, Imperator Titans) in future projects.

The latest versions of these models are the

nicest, so I used these for now. I pinned the

sponsons and the Baneblade turrets. The

turret is left unglued to assist painting. For

Shadowswords, the Volcano cannon and

crew compartment is a separate piece from

The Mechanised Infantry chimeras were

cleaned up and had the turrets pinned. I’m

a rm believer in pinning metal models, i.e.

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In addition, there are a number of War

Engines including Titans, Moles, and a

Capitol Imperialis. For the time being, this

army can borrow Warhound Titans and

Imperial Navy aircraft from my Marine armies.

One long-term project is to paint up a pair

of Imperator Titans as moving shrines to the

Emperor, but that one is a good way off. If you

can get hold of an unpainted/undercoated

Imperator for around £30 including postage

of eBay, you’re doing pretty well.

The Capitol Imperialis is a gigantic transporter;

think of Star Wars AT-ATs with tracks instead

of legs. They don’t have of cial rules in E:A,

but house rules can be engineered to suit. The

Capitol Imperialis is protected by void shields

and can carry a couple of companies (even

super-heavy tanks!).

Leman Russ Companies

On The Painting Tray…

completed (but unpainted) models, I have a

number awaiting assembly:

Capitol Imperialis go for around £25 on

eBay. The original model is all metal apart

from the tracks, which were plastic. This can

make paint stripping a pain, as even if you

can extract the tracks from a painted model

without damaging them, they will still have

someone else’s paint job on them. However

all is not lost, because identical tracks are

available on the 1:76 scale M113 ACAV by

JB Models. I bought mine on eBay for £2.50.

The remainder of the kit ends up as spare,

I’m sure it will get used up one of these days.

That gives me enough for the following:

Regimental HQ Company

Mechanised Infantry Company

2 x Infantry Company

Tank Company

Super-heavy Tank Company

3 x Baneblades

7 x Shadowswords

9 x Basilisks (Artillery Company)

2 x Deathstrike Missile Launchers

1 x Capitol Imperialis – new tracks

3 x Moles

6 x Termites

Numerous Cadian infantry

Numerous miscellaneous vehicles (Leman

Russ, Bombards, Gorgons, Demolishers)

In the next installment I will show all these

beauties painted up, and hopefully some of

the War Engines to go with them!

Which comes to a total of 3,700 points,

rather more than I could eld in a standard

game of 3,000 points. In addition to these

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