42nd Krieg Engineer Korps

[majorspeirs]

Yes 3ffect, "ad-mek" one might say

I've got my last two actual Orks from my ally contingent, both of which are characters for the Flash Gitz (or potentially HQ characters if required). They make use of Kromlech models to represent Kaptain Badrukk and a Painboy:

[majorspeirs]

Haha, buy them! Do it! They are awesome! As expensive as they are they make me smile every time I look at them, which to me makes it all worthwhile.

I just finished painting my Aegis Defense Line, so now my "fortifications" slot is full:











I also painted the model I won at Arcanacon for my display board in my army colours. He is "Barry" the Arcanacon mascot, and I'm going to use him as an objective:

[majorspeirs]

I had an interesting battle today. It was the first game larger than 1500 points I’ve had in two years (the last being a ridiculous 11,000 point apocalypse bout). I’m planning on attending a 1850 point tournament in six weeks, so this was a trial run with a list. It is also the first time I’ve ever used allies (I had better things to use than the Deff Korps Orks, but they just look so cool I couldn’t resist) or fortifications.

CCS w/ Lascannon, Camo, MoO
Vets w/ Lasguns, 3x Plasma, Autocannon, Forward Sentries
Vets w/ Shotguns, 3x Flamer, Carapace, Demolitions
Vets w/ Shotguns, 3x Flamer, Carapace and Chimera (Multilaser, Heavy Flamer)
Vets w/ Shotguns, 3x Meltagun, Carapace, Demolitions and Chimera (Multilaser, Heavy Flamer)
Banewolf w/ Multilaser
Vendetta w/ 3x Lascannon
Colossus w/ Heavy Flamer
2x Hydra w/ Heavy Bolter
Manticore w/ Heavy Flamer
Aegis w/ Quad Gun
Big Mek w/ Shooter, ‘Eavy Armour
12x Ork Boys w/ Shootas, ‘Ard Boys, and Nob w/ Powr Klaw, Boss Pole
Total: 1850

I don’t have my two of Chimera Vet units painted yet so I seconded stand-ins from my other Guard army.

My friend played his Space Puppies with allied Blood Angels. The wolves included a Rune Priest, two large Grey Hunter units led by Cyclone totting Terminators, a large “combi-things” Wolf Guard unit in a Drop Pod, 5x Missile Long Fangs and an Aegis with Quad Gun. The BA had a Librarian, two 10 man Assault Squads, a Priest and a Storm Raven

The game was interesting and pretty hard fought, with both of us having to contend with spudly shooting phases at various points which hampered out plans. I ended with a victory, however this was largely due to the mission being “The Scouring” and me being lucky enough to draw the the highest value objectives where I’d deployed.

Here is a photo of my army commanders discussing the coming engagement:


And here are the Krieg forces arrayed in their corner. I basically castled up, with the Hydras ranging forward with searchlights (damn night fighting) and the two chimeras and Banewolf off to the right of the photo ready to advance.


The podding Wolf Guard blew up the Bane Wolf before I had a chance to move and the many missiles stalled the chimeras. The BA Librarian, Priest and full Assault squad rolled in and eventually munched the squads and tanks.


The Orks came romping over and after a few volleys of fire assaulted the Blood Angels. The poor Mek was cut down in a challenge, but his boys killed the four marines. Despite losing the combat they held on (the Nob didn’t even need to restore order with his Boss Pole) and they clobbered the Librarian next turn.




After the combat they scampered back to their lines as missiles rained down upon them and secured an objective with the last 4-5 boyz.

Aside from the first outing of my awesome Deff Korps Orks, the two highlights of my game came on the other flank. On turn 2 my friend’s Storm Raven came on, but he was crafty enough to put it out of range of my Quad Gun (I’d been itching to intercept it). At the same time a combat squad came down and attempted to meltagun my Hydras, so I “Intercepted” these instead and much to my delight managed to kill the two closest models, which were conveniently the unit’s meltaguns.

The second incident was on turn six. After my Engineer squad had disembarked from their poor stricken Blimp (with its one remaining hull point) the previous turn, they came under intense frag missile fire. The four remaining Engineers broke and fled eight inches. Much to my surprise in my turn they regrouped 3 inches, then with some encouragement from my Commander they then “Ran Ran Ran” 5 inches back to where they started and reclaimed their objective.

All in all it was a good game, and I’m looking forward to a rematch with a slightly altered list (I’m thinking about trying to incorporate an Exterminator with Pask).

I’ll leave you with a parting photo of my Deff Korps bludgeoning the Librarian with their Shootas:

[The Hawk!]

Looks like the Librarian is pleadeing them to stop :') Hahahaha. That looked like a really good match The armies looked great aswell! The use of the Trench Orks is great I really like these dude! Their brilliant

Dave

[majorspeirs]

After about 7 years of wanting one I finally have an operational Exterminator:










Here is the tank commander Pask (soon to be renamed), standing ready to blow any cultists or gribblies off his tank’s hull (there is a reason he has survived long enough to be a veteran):


I also have the option of reequipping as an Executioner:


Here is a shot with my other Malcador-based chassis; the Colossus/Medusa:


Next on the agenda are my next two Engineer veteran units and their Hades “Chimera” transports. These may take a while, but I’m hoping to have them done in the next two weeks.

[Adam Selene]

Very cool Majorspeirs, where did you get the Malcador-based chassis?

[majorspeirs]

Thanks Twitch. Unfortunately the Malcadors aren't legit FW, but they are still pretty good casts.


I had a pair of games with a friend yesterday. He forgot his army case (he left it in his hall), so I pulled out my old Guard army and let him make some lists for himself. We played at 1500 points in preparation for an upcoming 1500 point tournament.

This is the army I played:
CCS, Lascannon, MoO, Camo
Vets, 3x Plasmagun, Autocannon, Forward Sentries
Vets, 3x Flamer, Demolitions
Vets, 3x Flamer, Demolitions and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, 3x Meltagun, Demolitions and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vendetta, 3x Lascannon
Exterminator, 3x Heavy Bolter, Pask
Colossus, Heavy Flamer
Manticore, Heavy Flamer
Total 1500

My friend made two different lists based around potential Guard armies he has contemplated collecting down the track The first being a Krieg-style list to use DKoK models.

Enemy Guard List 1:
CCS, Lascannon, MoO
Vets, 2x Plasma, Lascannon
Vets, 2x Plasma, Lascannon
Vets, 2x Plasma, Lascannon
Vets, 3x Flamer, Demolitions
Vets, 3x Flamer, Demolitions
Vendetta, 3x Lascannon
Vendetta, 3x Lascannon
2x Armoured Sentinel, 2x Plasmacannon
Basilisk, Heavy Flamer
Basilisk, Heavy Flamer
Colossus, Heavy Flamer
Total 1500

The short summary of the two games is that I dominated them both. This was entirely due to the fact that I had first turn in both games and my dice rolling was red hot from the offset.

In the first game my Chimeras powered forward due to night fighting and illuminated a Basilisk and some infantry. The Manticore them proceeded to blow up one Basilisk and with the MoO knock two hull points off the other one. Despite my Chimeras getting wrecked by return fire next turn, my firepower proceeded to pick apart the opposing Guard. The infantry were whittled down, the remaining artillery destroyed, and I even managed to blow a Vendetta out of the sky with the Quad gun. It was just one of those games where everything did what it should and went to plan.










My friend’s second army was a more heavy armour “real world” military force.

Enemy Guard List 2:
CCS, 4x Plasmagun and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, 3x Meltagun and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, 3x Meltagun and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, 2x Plasmagun, Autocannon and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, 2x Plasmagun, Autocannon and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vendetta, 3x Lascannon
Executioner, Heavy Bolter
Executioner, Heavy Bolter
Vanquisher, Lascannon
Total 1500

In the second game night fighting was in effect and I again managed to secure first turn. In a repeat of the previous game the Chimeras illuminated some tanks and the rest of my army blew them up. From my defensive position the game basically developed into a turkey shoot. I methodically chewed through his Chimeras and Battle Tanks, before killing off the poor infantry who bailed out. The enemy Vanquisher spent about four turns blasting away at the Colossus (who was in the open) before finally taking it down. Just to spite me the last thing my friend did before capitulating was freem my favourite model, the MoO, with his Vendettas Lascannons.






My opponent gallantly fought on in both games, but the dice were simply in my favour. I’ve been on the receiving end of this with my Guard on plenty of occasions so I know that feeling of helplessness when things go against you. The Guard can be a very inertial army at times, once you start to build momentum (either things going well or things going bad), it can be hard to turn around. Full credit goes to my friend for taking it in his stride and remaining positive over the course of each game. Maybe he’ll remember to bring his army next time .

[Deleted]

Looks better as an Executioner but I firkin love the conversion

[majorspeirs]

I finally managed to get my two Hades Breaching Drill “Chimeras” up and running. I love these models and am looking forward to using them in some games. I’m still undecided as to whether to include a crewmen on each.













Here are some shots with my Banewolf/Hellhound:





Unfortunately they are a little smaller than the standard Chimera, but as long as I stress the Multilaser is part of the hull and act leniently during games I don’t see it being a problem.



I’m deciding to discretely ignore the fact the Multilaser would obstruct tunnelling. I’m basing this on the fact that as a tunnelling machine it is somewhat unfeasible anyway, and wanted to use the breaching drills because they are so cool and thematic. As noted previously I decided very early with this army that aesthetics take precedence over practicality.

[cheminhaler]

Nice work, majorspeirs.

The Hades breaching drills look brilliant; the wood on the bases looks like it's being stripped away.

Your Ork allies also really look the part - congrats on marrying two seperate armies and making a convincing looking allied contingent.

[majorspeirs]

I have painted another 25 engineer models:


Now that my six main infantry units are completed I also took the time to paint unit markings and went with coloured stripes on the right shoulder pads. I have red, green and blue squads, which are divided based on there being three “Engineer” squads and three “Trench Coat” squads. In the photo there is one member from each unit, so you can see the shoulder pads:


Tomorrow morning I’m going to take some better photos of the units.

I still have 15 infantry, 10 rough riders, 2 vehicles and 17 allied infantry models to paint and then the army is complete. In the mean time I crammed all my painted models onto the display board, which was no mean feat. I only just managed to squeeze them in – I’ll need to make an extension to fit in the additional models.


I also wrote up a list of my currently painted models:

CCS, Lascannon, MoO, Astropath, Camo

Marbo

Vets, Lasguns, 3x Plasmagun, Heavy Bolter, Forward Sentries
Vets, Lasguns, 3x Plasmagun, Autocannon, Forward Sentries
Vets, Shotugns, 3x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace, Power Fist
Vets, Shotgun, 3x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer, Dozer Blade
Vets, Shotgun, 3x Meltagun, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer, Dozer Blade

Banewolf, Multimelta, Dozer Blade
Vendetta, 3x TL Lascannon

Exterminator, 3x Heavy Bolter, Pask
2x Hydra, 2x Heavy Bolter
Manticore, Heavy Flamer
Colossus, Heavy Flamer, Enclosed Crew Compartment

Aegis Defence Line, Quad Gun

Big Mek, Shoota, ‘Eavy Armour
12x ‘Ard Boys, Shootas and Nob, Power Klaw, Boss Pole

Total: 2390 Points

More pictures tomorrow.

[Deleted]

Makes me wish I paid more attention to detail on my force, the colour coding system really works nicely on DKOK but not so much on Cadian...

[Adkenpachi]

Thats a tastey theme

[hacgutt]

This. Is. Amazing. And. Wow. :3

[Cosmic]

You, Sir, are a machine! Beautiful work as always.

What's next?

[majorspeirs]

Lots and lots of photos today.

First up are the painted models squeezed onto the display board.














I added in my Thunderbolt, which has been seconded from my older Osarian Guard army. I recently gave it a new stand and base to match the Krieg army.


Here they are spaced out a little bit more:

[majorspeirs]

Now here are individual photos of each of the units I have completed so far:

Squad Red One: Company Command Squad


Marbo


Squad Green One


Squad Blue One


Squad Green Two: The Magnificant Flying Engineers


Squad Red Two: Melta Tunnel Engineers and their Breaching Drill

[majorspeirs]

Squad Blue Two: Flamer Tunnel Engineers and their Breaching Drill






Banewolf


Vendetta: The Blimp


Manticore: Festive Spirit


Hydras: Ack Ack


Colossus: The Evaporator


Exterminator: The Paskinator (I added in a targeting array on the front of the turret)

[majorspeirs]

Allies: The Deff Korps


Fortifications: The Thin Orange Line


Air Support: The Thunderbolt


Objective Markers:


Miscellaneous models for swapping out squad options:




I’ve got a month before I start work, so next on my agenda are the remaining 15 infantry (storm troopers and characters) and 10 rough riders. After that it will be a much slower process of plinking away at the allies.

[majorspeirs]

I also have two separate five game tournaments coming up at the end of the month. The first is a 1500 point team tournament and the second is 1850 points. Here are the two lists I’m taking and the armies arrayed for battle.

VICC – 1500 Points


CCS, Lascannon, MoO, Camo, Krak Grenades
Vets, Lasguns, 3x Plasmagun, Autocannon, Forward Sentries
Vets, Shotguns, 3x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace
Vets, Shotguns, 3x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, Shotguns, 3x Meltagun, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vendetta, 3x TL Lascannon
Exterminator, 3x Heavy Bolter, Pask
Manticore, Heavy Flamer
Colossus, Heavy Bolter
Aegis Defence Line, Quad Gun


Western Smash - 1850


CCS, Lascannon, MoO, Camo
Vets, Lasguns, 3x Plasmagun, Autocannon, Forward Sentries
Vets, Shotguns, 3x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace
Vets, Shotgun, 2x Flamer, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Vets, Shotgun, 3x Meltagun, Demolitions, Carapace and Chimera, Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Banewolf, Heavy Flamer
Vendetta, 3x TL Lascannon
Exterminator, 3x Heavy Bolter, Pask
Manticore, Heavy Flamer
Colossus, Heavy Bolter
Aegis Defence Line, Quad Gun
Big Mek, Shoota, ‘Eavy Armour
12x ‘Ard Boys, Shootas and Nob, Power Klaw, Boss Pole

[sapperq21]

as a combat engineer, this sapper approves of this army! love the crazy and bright colors, and i like the british Cromwell look of the turret to your executioner tank

you just motivated me to work on my kreig

[majorspeirs]

Thanks sapper, that's about as higher praise as I could receive!

Quick update today: I bought the Ork Kommando Nob to use as a Warboss for my Deff Korps. I’ve always loved this model, and figured with the goggles he would fit in reasonably well.










Here is the Boss with the Big Boss:


The Boss with the Boyz:


And some regimental publicity shots:





Now I’m looking for a name for this character to fit in with the rest of the army. I’m thinking something Orkish but German sounding, and probably with the format, “Freebooter Kaptin XXXX von XXXX”.

[sapperq21]

When you got your dkok infantry were your lasgun arms broken? Like the lasguns were broke? Or is that just me

[Deleted]

Freebooter Kaptin Heinz Von Grimleck

[vegna]

Mar 26, 2013 8:41:14 GMT -5 sapperq21 said:

When you got your dkok infantry were your lasgun arms broken? Like the lasguns were broke? Or is that just me

I had one that had a broken barrel. and others were warped but I didnt need the broken one and fixed the warping. if you contact FW they sometimes will replace damaged items.