Ricki

The finished composition will have another stalker to frame the piece from the other side and more rigs to split into two seperate units either side of the command barge. Finally the spektors and immortals will sit on opposite sides to complete the balance of the composition

Armies on Parade 2025 prep: Auretian Migration

With 6 models left to go and probably some base snazzing up capturing the painted models so far that will form my 2025 Armies on Parade online entry.

C&C Always welcome

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Auretian Migration - Battle Androids

Unit 1 now finished with individual suit designations, Volkite holding the place of Gauss within the army as Xenotech is blended with Dark Age tech.

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The Red Winter now complete with her basing finished

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Oh it definately is, there might be some wisdom in having to try and fail at that high bar first though. If there's a low bar it might feel a bit like being talked down to, trying and failing before finding that point thats more achievable could feel like a victory

i may be over thinking.

The concept of Red Winter as a season is briefly covered in The Rose of Bhaskar short story as a convergence of the energies of Aqshy and Shyish in Ghyran through realm alignment.

I've then sort of played with that for Elemental Incarnations where old rites force it into a mortal host.

I think if I tried to replicate box art even these days I'd feel defeated almost immediately, but I also think its so hard for new painters to find "their style" without trying and failing at various styles first.

So box art style is the first thing to try and fail really.

She will be run under the Ghoul King on Zombie Dragon warscroll, or a more appropriate Anvil of Apotheosis one if the FEC book drops in time.

The entire force represent the start of a religious cult dedicated to the season of Red Winter, the convergence of Life, Death and Fire energies.

Part of today is about finishing basing this beauty for Shadowcon 25'

The Red Winter, centrepiece to my Church of Red Winter is an Elemental Incarnation, the season of Red Winter forced into a mortal body so the good people of Ghyran wouldnt have to watch their harvests wither and rot.
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Yeah prepped the wall beforehand and thought it'd work but this does feel like its now a "screw into the wall, hope i dont get the urge to move the room around" situation

Shortly after this photo was taken every command strip designed to each hold 5kg, bearing the weight of about 100g of paints came away from the wall, flipped by waterpot across the room and scattered the paint pots.

Starting to wall mount all my paints, limited only by my understanding of what constitutes a pair of command strips

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Having no clue on the context (is the rule of 3 being introduced to AOS?) it feels flawed to add to AOS.

Rule of 3 works in 40k because everything is so cheap pointwise it limits you significantly (as you could take a million otherwise)

In AoS armies are smaller, 3 is still big impact in game.

First 4 now painted

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Some of these are one dayers, some are doubles, some area teams etc, its really just taking the matched play/spearhead tag off of them as a specific catagory.

In that window 2 are doubles, 2 are teams.

But there is also a difference in Throne of Skulls vs Grand Tournament matched play

Within my experience the narrative and throne of skulls events both seem to have a player or two drop prior to the event, atleast by some round one matchup issues, but I'd be curious how much lower the narrative demand is (In the same period i think there's a dozen matched play and dozen spearhead)

I should of hit "show more" another time, AOS twintailed crusade narrative 11th May 2024.

My bad on that one (I even attended that)

1 AOS

For the purposes of this I've just taken the events Matched Play or Narrative label at face value, obviously its possible to find the narrative within a matched play or the competition within a narrative but I'm talking specifically narrative play branded events

Looked through whw events from May 2024 to Nov 2025, excluding the grand narrative:

0 40k narrative
0 AOS Narrative
1 Imperialis Narrative
1 Horus Hereys narrative
1 Killteam narrative.

So the question becomes, are narrative events so much etra work or harder to find players?
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1 Year Ago:
My take on Stormcast Eternals, where they continue to bear semblance to the cultures they came from. An army of individual heroes rather than a faceless legion of sigmar masks.

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First 4 now painted

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These remain the coolest part of the release for me, something very classic sci-fi about the look and would love to see them central to a detachments playstyle

Maximise your yields with the new Leagues of Votann army rule - Warhammer Community Take what’s yours, and defend it to the death.

Vastly prefer these new Votann rules to Judgement Tokens.

Proper dwarflike acquisition and fortification rather than trading kin to gain a perk

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My favourite (and most well known) is the mythical Rogue Intern who is simultaneously to blame for every time GW makes a progressive design step toward inclusion and for every message put out by their community team that chuds rage at.

Second Auretian Battle Android now finished. Pretty happy the scheme is easy enough to carry across.

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The only tweaks I would have made to this release is the new vehicle.

Votann need a transport between a sagitaur and land fortress in size, gaining a sagitaur with anti grav but the same cripplingly small carry capacity means for many units the Land Fortress is the only viable option

Sunday Preview – Protect the yields - Warhammer Community The Leagues of Votann are back with a vengeance.

An immense week for 40k next week as Votann get one of the most meaningful range expansions in recent years. The artillery and robots are highlights for me

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Transition from low model count elite with (admittedly wonky) shooting mechanics to an increasingly high model count due to rapid point reduction force that had sub-guard accuracy (due to orders benefitting bs).

Essentially moving from that robust dwarf tech theme to a more numerous clone force.

Back in the 9th to 10th edition 40k period i had planned a doubles force with my brother based on the lore of votann who dug too deep and awoke an ancient horror. Name was naturally a play on the Mines of Moria.

Sadly the theme change of votann killed the project

(Art is two gw pieces combined)

The Auretian Migration The Auretian Migration

Updating their evolving lore alongside the model shots on my site:

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