Moritat-Prime Kaedes Nex

In the interest of continuin to post int the face of my poor camera adversary I give you:

Moritat-Prime Kaedes Nex

Strike Force Nightfall

This page will serve as a living WIP, and later complete gallery, for my planned Heresy-Era Raven Guard Force.

http://nusquamsbfn.blogspot.com/p/strike-force-nightfall.html

Pale Nomads WIP

Camera is somewhere in storage after the move so until I get a new phone; Scratchy lens it is.

100th Post and Raven Guard Legion Tactica: The Legion and Units Part One v1.1

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Raven Guard Legion Tactica: The Legion and Units Part One v1.1

Raven Guard were my first army back when I started Warhammer. When the Horus Heresy expansion came out I instantly fell in love with it. I knew the day would come for Raven Guard to get their legion tactics and units. When they came I could not have been happier. I'll be drafting this up and posting them as more eyes can help point out errors and the like. Now this obviously isn't the be-all-end-all of a Raven Guard tactica but I've done some research and played a fair amount of games. So it should at least serve as a starting point.

Before I begin, allow me to paint the Raven Guard mindset for those unfamiliar or new to the XIXth Legion:

While World Eaters go after anything that moves, Emperors Children find the most grandiose way they can to dance around their opponent, Imperial Fists seek the Warlord and other worthy opponents, we Sons of Corax exploit weakness. Fighting fair is for the glory seekers. We are about getting the job done efficiently and quickly. We may not have the biggest Death Star or the toughest units but we are really, really good at killing anything better than any other legion. Our Rite of War is perfect for alpha strikes. Our unique units, rules for superior positioning and mobility are perfect for applying the correct counter to your opponents units when and where you want.

In terms of game-mechanics the RG legion is one of the two most adaptable and variable Legion list. The other being Alpha Legion. The RG list strengths lie in it's ability to hit what you want, with the most effective unit for the job when you want to. The options for doing so are numerous. While you can reasonably expect certain things from other legions, especially when they take a RoW, a Raven guard list can vary wildly while still being strong at hitting first and hard. They can be a shock-tactics style list with numerous Drop Pods supported by infiltrated units, a mechanized infantry list with infiltrating rhinos, or a infantry based list where everything is perfectly infiltrated to ambush your opponent. Or any combination of those tactics. All from the same Rite of War: The Decapitation Strike.

Let's start with the basics.

Raven Guard Contemptor WIP 2

After stripping this poor fella' 3 times I finally settled on a theme. Man I love Contemptors. I definitely need a second one with one or two Kheres cannons and a Cyclone. Perhaps a Mortis? Man Forgeworld has my money forever.

Enough musing, here's some more WIP shots:
(The camera flushed the color out a bit. Without a dedicated set-up photographing black is hard.)

Raven Guard Contemptor WIP

All my transfer materials are packed up for the big move so the iconography will have to wait. Until then here's some WIP shots!

XIXth Legion Tacticals and Kaedes Nex

Picked up some Anvil Industires Black Ops Exo Lords to flesh out my 30k Tactical Squads and Mor Deythan. I like them a lot. Perhaps I should do a review... Anyway...

The following guys will be painted grey liek the legionary in HH Book 3 Extermination and will represent the XIX legion pre-Corax AKA the Pale Nomads or the Dust Clad

These fellows are my Mor Deythan and will be black on black:

All their combi-weapons are magnetized. On the left of the last pic is my rescued converted Storm Eagle I'm going to work into a Darkwing Pattern.

The following is another rescue that will become Kaedes Nex: