Med Tour 2014

Every Med Tour starts with a fully loaded minis case. And what better case than the Apocalypse limited edition ?

I had a shock when I arrived at Perpignan. I had a 17°C when I leaved Savenay, and a 37°C, 10 hours later at Perpignan.

First players arrived friday, we took time to eat and discuss before playin'

First Day...

Med Tour is a two day meeting where we come to play at Warhammer 40,000 the Apocalypse way. And when you say Apocalyspe, you mean... Lords Of War !

Haridan's in town, and it's hungry !

Nothing can replace a Harridan's "Good morning !" smile when you arrive on your first day table. This very well painted organic flyer comes from an army named "My little Forest Animals". So cute...

The All new painted mini malediction strikes again ! Every unit of my 3k DA army, fresly painted, doesn't stay more than two rounds on the table !

Even the Land Raider, painted a long time ago, didn't escape this malediction !

The game was one of a kind: Nids everywhere, Terminators falling from the sky, and Chaos Gods laughing hard. Our Astartes and Mecanicum alliance couldn't resist the Great Devorer and Chaos Space Marines alliance.

To win or to loose, what's the matter ? We played, had a good time and took great pictures. An apocalypse game is made to see great armies have great battles on great tables.

The Med Tour is also having a BBQ with friends, to take time to discuss about our Holly Hobby and everything that happened during last year.

Second Day...

A croissant, a coffee and 'ere we go !.

This time, it's desparate times : we decided to have a mirror alliance on both sides. An astartes, a Nurgle Marine, a Khorne Marine and a Necron players will fight.

I decided to keep only one terminator squad in reserves and place all the other squads on the table.

Apocalypse isn't only a big fight. It's a wonderful huge fight with huge armies, huge Lords of War and themed armies. 

You'll see a 7 Nurgle Chaos terminators squad and a Khorne demon possessed dreadnought fall from the sky... Right in the back of your previously decimated terminator squad !

An Apocalypse game allows players to create crazy armies. Like a Nurgle army based on the sacred number 7, or an all Forge World Mecanicum army.

All you need is time and motivation.

Med Tour 2014 - Preparation

I'm done with the Med Tour's apocalypse army preparation.

It all started with this :

Count 36 terminators to be painted, or refreshed. I won't keep the dread and paint a new one. The Land Raider will be the only one who won't give me any work.

It took me one full year to mount, paint and damage a 3k Dark Angels Deathwing Apocalypse army. It's based on Belial and a command squad, three squads counting ten terminators each, a venerable dreadnought and a Hellhammer.

Belial and it's command squad :

Belial and it's Command Squad

All these terminators take place in a Land Raider Crusader :

Dark Angels Land Raider Crusader

First terminators squad : the Titan Killers

Dark Angels - Titan Killers squad

Second terminators squad : the Xenos Slayers

Dark Angels - Xenos Slayes squad

Third terminator squad : the Angel's Wrath

Dark Angels - Angel's Wrath squad

I painted a Deathwing Venerable Dreadnought :

Dark Angels - Legacius Deathwing Venerable Dreadnought

And you can't pretend to have an apocalypse army if you don't have a Lord of War :

Red Fury - Hellhammer version

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP 4)

I have my 2410 points of Dark Angels ready to fight !

Dark Angels Apocalypse army WiP

Just need to add 590 pts with a Hellhammer and I'll be ready for the Med Tour.

Planification works. And rocks.

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP 3)

The army's going on pretty well. Three  terminators each couting ten models are ready to fight. The all new Venerable dreadnought's done and battle damaged.

I need to paint Belial and it's command squad to complete the army.

Then it's cherry on the cake time with the Hellhammer.

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP 2)

Time to check the Dark Angel Apocalypse ary project.

It started in september, with this :

Many empty bases, ans a Heavy tank to paint.

Cherry on the cake, all painted minis, except the LRC, need a refresh !

February, here I am...

A new dreadnought and a new Belial added to the "to do (army) list".

But I already painted half the army.

So, to anybody who wants to start such a project : don't give up. Never. 

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP)

Let's make an assessment of my Apocalypse Dark Angels army project.

I had the idea to assemble this army while I came back from the Med Tour 2013. After such a 40k Apocalyspe orgy, the motivation is high and it my head's full of army projects. Reality comes soon enough to breack your dreams... And you'll feel like  jackass one year after, because you don't have new minis to show at your buddies.

This is why after two Med Tour editions, I decided it was time for me to come back with an all new army, created for this event. The success of such a project requires a preparation without fault. Although time appears very broad, Murphy's law will be able to add you his batch of unforeseen. This is why you have to be realistic and establish a planning with your mind, and not your heart.

As you can see above, the army is almost half done. Two of  three squads are finished and the third one is quite advanced. Planning's good, but I had some bad surprises. Like November when I did not paint. At all.

Preparing all the minis took a month, Hellhammer not included. It was already prepared.

Even if some terminators were already painted, count one month by squad. I'm taking again all the minis to standardize the colors.
The Dreadnought will take one complete month. The banner is not ready yet and that will add to the painting time.
The Hellhammer will take two good months. It's a big vehicule and I want to take my time.

I everything goes, I'll be done with the armie's painting in June.