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THE DOOMFARERS

 

Having toyed with doing marines for a while and not having had a marine army since second edition, i decided to put together an army for that years NZ grand tournament. thankfully we had a grand opening sale as i was thinking this through so i picked up most of what i wanted fairly cheap. i was also working as a casual at GW wellington, so had scored the occasional freeby, most coolly the sgt for the terminators, who was retuned by another customer already cleaned up.

I wanted to do an army that visually looked like it was in the middle of a prolonged campaign, with battledamage and jury rigged weapons. also i wanted them to be more dynamic so got running legs from the assault box for all of the tactical marines. as i am not a fan of static heavy support i had no heavies but 3 fast attack.

the combat terminators were there for a counter attack or to go through the middle of the enemy. i was using these guys before they got the 5+ inv save. at the time i was using them characters in termie armour with 2 LCs were unheard of, i kinda pioneered it locally. for about 4 months after the first GT, GW could not keep lignthing claw termies on the shelf, as they had done so well.

 

You are looking at an award winning space marine army. This army won the New Zealand GT, and a couple of local Rogue trader tournaments. In all tournaments the army scored high on painting. all the units have squad markings and the army is 100% wysiwyg. The army is a halved green and black scheme with red trim and helmets. all the champions have facial tattoos and all the seargents have banners. the core of the army is 1500pts, in the old marine codex, everything does port over to the new dex though. it could get to at least 2000pts now with the additional stuff added. i am also selling my scout army, which is based of the same chapter, and will be up soon. in a week i will also have my eldar army up. purging a few things as i am saving for a house. there is no reserve, if you have the high bid you win. i had a fairly good look through the army before i took any photos and it was all fine, but if you see any damage let me know and i will fix it before i send it out, i don;t expect much beyond the occasional chip. the army will be packed in bubble wrap etc, it does have a GW figure case cut for it, if you want that its an extra $ on top of the top bid (includes extra postage). Marine commander in termie armour, with twin lightning claws. Chaplain with jumppack, made from the xavier figure, with a different skull head and crozius and cyphers plasma pistol. not in the main list, added for games where i did not use any termies so he hung out with the assault marines. 7 Close combat terminators, used as a counter punch unit hanging out with the commander or for pushing through the enemy lines. i don;t think the seargent gets power sword etc anymore, but you can always use him as an alternate commander or as a librarian. Regular terminators, sgt based on the captain model, there are two assault cannons and a cyclone for you to choose from as well as the regular guys. these guys were not in the original 1500 list, but were added later. Here are the tactical squads, i wanted to show that they were used to operating in small fireteams and ducking from cover to cover, as well as having been in a prolonged campaign. for this i added battledamage, gave them all running legs, and some of them have jury rigged weapons. most of the sgts have the mk8 chestplate. all the squads are designed for some long range and some short range ability, so if they have to move they can still do something. 6 man Tactical squad with las/plas 5 man Tactical squad with las/plas 5 man Tactical squad with missile launcher/melta. missle has been converted. 6 man Tactical squad with heavy bolter/flamer 5 man Tactical squad with heavy bolter/plas. this squad all has mk 6 heads and either mark 6 or the plain armour plate. Assault squad with 2 plasma pistols and vet sgt with twin lightning claws. 5 bikes with two melta guns. the model with the hammer can be a vet sgt with power weapon if needed. attached attack bike for the above squad. 3 land speeders with heavy bolters, used in a squad of 3. they have quite a bit of battledamage, as i figured speeders would attract a lot of attention. i was wathcing aliens when i made the one with the shot gun and quote on it. Dreadnought (metal) with lascannon. he has been convereted to give him the claws that Bjorn has, and i have covered him up to make him look more armoured. i never finished him (except for his base), but he was another addition to the army if needed.