In every project there are milestones - and this years #newyearnewarmy project (Word Bearer Chaos Marines) has reached a pretty good one quickly!
Starting on New Year's Day, I've now painted 1000 points of the army, which has been great fun.
There is:
Lorgar (Daemon Prince):
Squad of 5 Chaos Marines:
Squad of 10 Chaos Marines:
20 Cultists:
6 Raptors:
A Forgefiend:
Along with a few partially painted units, I took on my friend Josh's Dark Angels yesterday for their first ever fight..
The Mission was 'Secure and Control' - each player places an objective marker in their deployment zone (which in this case was the 'Search and Destroy' version - table quarters). Suspecting Josh would be taking fast Ravenwing units on the whole, I knew I had to deal with those as quickly as I could...
Which worked for a few rounds as I tied up his Ravenwing bikers with the Forge Fiend, and wth the assistance of some deep striking Oblitorators (yet to be shown here) I took out most of his Land Speeders...
Problem was, even with a few bikes left, he was still able to reach my objective by turn 6 whilst I languished trying to take out his units that had dug in!
So unfortunately it was a 4-2 loss to me (my points came from First Blood and Linebreaker, Josh's from Linebreaker and Capture the Objective).
Still, I learned a few things, got a taste for the army and I'm looking forward to our next tussle!