Armylist of the Empire

I've not posted an armylist for a long time, so I'm going to share with you my planned list for my Talabecland army, the first model of which you can see below. I intend to paint the army as simply and quickly as possible, using the quickshade to get half decent results with minimal effort (my Blood Angels take enough effort on their own!)

The army is based around a few large blocks of infantry, with cannons and hellblasters to pound the enemy as they advance towards the glorious ranks of Karl Franz's infantry, yada yada ya. If the name of the unit is a link, it'll take you to the GW site to show the model I intend to use.

General of the Empire on Foot

Sword of Sigismund (+1S, Always Strike First)

Dawn Armour & Shield (3+ Save, Re-rolled)

Talisman of Protection (6+ Ward Save)

Captain of the Empire on Foot

Griffon Standard (Doubles Rank Bonus)

with

23 Greatswords

Full HQ

Warrior Priest on Foot

Heavy Armour

Second Warhammer

with

24 Flagellants (Counts as Core Unit due to Priest)

Prophet of Doom

Level 2 Wizard on Foot (Probably Celestial)

2 Dispel Scrolls

25 Swordsmen

Full HQ

10 Hangunners as Detachment

25 Spearmen

Full HQ

10 Handgunners as Detachment

3 Great Cannons

Hellblaster Volley Gun

So, any Empire generals out there who can give me an opinion or any advice? 

EDIT (29th April) - From feedback on forums, it seems that:

A - The Warrior Priest may not join the Flaggelants

B - Pistoliers Rock

and 

C - Pistoliers Rock

I'll be updating my list to reflect this.

- Gavin

Experiment with Quickshade - Part 2

I was mightily impressed by my first use of the Army Painter Quickshade, which made a simple box of 4 snap together Guardians look like this:

I thought they looked great, especialy since I put pretty much no time or effort into them. Unfortunately, I don't collect Eldar, so they were pretty useless to me. I've decided to put some Quickshade to use on an army I actualy collect, Empire. Here is a handgunner painted in a very basic scheme of Iyanden Darksun / Blood Red.

Pretty rubbish looking, and the photgraphs don't help at all. I then dipped the model, left it to dry and applied Matt Varnish. Unlike my Guardians this didn't work perfectly first time, the yellow had turned into a Vomit Brown, although I was pleased with the Red, the face and the gun. I think the solution for this would be to use a cheap molehair paintbrush to liberaly splash the shader on the model, leaving less splotches. 

I decided to try and salvage this model by going over the yellow with a new coat of Iyanden, which is something I've not tried yet. I think this saved the model, and I can now proudly use this, as long as I keep him in the rear ranks.

I pulled an old Imperial Officer out of my bits box, and applied a fresh coat of paint to his armour and cloth. I'm going to test the brush on method with this model next.

More Blood Angels coming soon, painted with real  painting...

-Gavin

Empire Greatsword

Here's my single painted Empire Model from my 500pt Nuln army, a Greatsword. I want his unit finished for Christmas.


- Gavin

News - High Elves Update

Coming soon from GW, the new High Elf models. Looking pretty good, it's just a pity that the old plastics spearmen and archers are staying for now.










The Mages (as yet unseen, by me anyway) and Prince are apparently plastic.

- Gavin