Ben Jackson’s Tyranid Hoard Aproaches. This is Ben’s old Tyranid army, the one he’s not happy with. Personally I’d be very happy to game with them; and on occasion he has let me borrow them. There is an irony to that they are both pink and scary.
Jon
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Well here we are trying to find our feet or even work out what rule set we are playing with. With the community welcoming the rules that are 7th edition, but not the frequency of a 100 week rules cycle and confused about how unbound armies and other rules are going to pan out. I thought I’d role back the clock, not just two years but 8 years. I would rather go back 10 years, but it’s very hard to work out what was going on in the later days of 3rd edition. Given the lack of 40k websites running at the time.
So what was happening back in June 2006?
It was rumours and early pictures of the BaneBlade. It’s hard to imaging a game of Apocalyse without one of these bad boys now. How has the BaneBlade survived? Compared to other kits released back in 2006 it’s done rather well. It’s still a mean mother to shift and still puts out a ton of firepower. Considering it’s modest points value I think these bad boys are a worthy entry for the citadel hall of fame. It’s probably time I added a Guard contingent to my own Imperial Force.
Ben is still enjoying his break from blogging and has sent me a picture of his finished Zoanthrope for his Kracken Tyranid army. He informs us he is now repainting his Crimson Terror as a Red Terror in between painting Termaguants. A friend has also donated an original Screamer Killer Carifex to his hoard. Ben says he’s been invigorated by starting a new force. He doesn’t intend to repaint all his old Tyranid Hive Fleet, just the ones he wants to game with regularly.
It appears it will be Space Wolves not Blood Angels that get the 1s Space Marine 7th edition codex, at least if the same sites that predicted we would have Blood Angels on the cover of the 40k rule book are to be believed. Actually this comes from the 40k radio podcast; who have been incredibly reliable with their leaked information. I do recommend listening to their pod cast it’s excellent entertainment or background noise for painting to.
Ben has finally obtained a third Predator for his Ultramarine army. What he didn’t spot from the auction photo was that it came with a heavy Bolter on one sponsor and a Las Cannon on the other. Ben has assured us he has a spare Heavy Bolter in his bits box he can attach. Still we think his squadron of Mki and Mkiv predators look good together, even if the old ones look a bit small. I do like the way he has made a conversion Beamer for one using a communication tower from a Bastion.
Jon
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