lørdag 1. desember 2018

"People" for the Guard

I've taken a small break from building vehicles for my Imperial Guard (Astra Militarum) army to build some foot sloggers.
I have made one 10-man squad with regular Guard troopers, and also a 10 man squad and 5-man command squad for my Scions. I plan to use the Tempestus scions as my elite sodiers  in my Walpurgian Army, and I have made a new Regiment for them. The 101st Airborne Regiment, nicknamed the Screaming Eagles (as there is an exiting Scions army called the Kappic Eagles in the game (not sure if I spelled that right). The overall plan is to field the Scions in Taurox or Taurox Prime vehicles as well as Valkyries aircrafts. Then the regular Guard units will use Chimeras.
I will build some Scions with helmets and some with berets, and I have one command squad with each. They are elites, so I don't think I will have as many of them as I have of the regular troopers.

I love the big brutes that the Ogryns and Bullgryns represent, and they have their own regiment in the army (the 1st Abhuman Regiment) where they serve together with the smallest race in the army, the Ratlings (I have not primed or painted these yet but I have a bunch of them assembled and glued to their bases).

I have several kinds of Ogryns in my army:
Bullgryns with Grenade gauntlets - These are strait out of the box, armed with big shields and grenade gauntlets, ready to march against the enemy raining grenades down on them and smashing what is left when they get to them with the grenadelaunchers and shields when they get there.

Bullgryns with clubs and riot gear - These are close combat specialists, armed with modern clubs and small shields. They also wear gasmasks (except their Bone 'eads leaders). They will either be driven in to the heat of battle in Chimeras or march in behind the ogryns/bullgryns that have ranged weapons.

Ogryns with ripperguns - this is the classic Ogryns in Warhammer 40.000. I have some of the old metal minis (even one from back when they were quite small) but also the new plastic ones. I have decided that the plastic figures will have armor on both shoulders and not just one as they do in the assembly instructions. I will see if I can field the old metal figures side by side with the plastic ones but if it looks too weird then they will just fight side by side.

Ogryns with clubs and riot gear - I don't like the slick Orgyn faces that comes in the boxes. I don't mind some of the Ogryns being bold, but they look like they have been too close to radioactive waste for a long time... Instead I have bought some boxes of Ogors from Age of Sigmar, and those boxes have lots of spare heads. So I use the heads for all Ogryns that is not wearing gas masks, and then I decided I could use the bodies a well. They look rather different with their belly shields and more baggy pants, so I plan to field them together as one unit. I plan to have two squads of nine of these Ogryns, and that should leave me planty of nice heads to use for the rest of the Ogryns.

Ogryn bodyguards - some of the most prominent officers and advisers have Ogryn bodyguards to protect them when they are outside of the command bunkers that they usually serve in. One of my bodyguards is Nork Deddog but there can only be one of him in the army so I use some clubs from the Ogor box and different heads to show the difference between Nork and the others. Nork has a big serrated knife and I would love to use swords for some of my bodyguard, but they all are right hands and I need them in their left. so then it will be clubs instead until I can find out a smart solution.