“The daemonic are without number, and their legions span the galaxy. But faith does not tire. Should it take us an eternity, the Ordo Malleus will find and exterminate them all.”
– Lord Hephaestos Grudd
This is a bit of a back story to my current hobby situation. Yes I’m going to ramble, but you’ll get to the rest of the pictures eventually. Just hang in for a little while; I hope it’ll be worth it.
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Phil Millar: No Joke
April 26th saw the arrival of the first Corehammer 40K tournament The Dark Throne. Hosted by Chris Kaye & myself and (ably assisted by the rest of the crew) at the North West Gaming Centre in tropical Stockport, Dark Throne was something we’d all put a lot of time and love into setting up and running in a style that best refelcted our attitude and approach to gaming. A lot of new players are put off from entering tournaments because of the (sadly often true) preconception that they are teeming with gobshites wearing fedoras and them daft leather trenchcoats bellowing Family Guy quotes and getting on everyones tits. That’s not what Corehammer is about brah, we try to run things like a hardcore show, keep the door price low, the spirits high and the attitude chill. Filth lists were actively discouraged as were gamey twats and annoying neckbeard sensibilities. This was to be a day for relaxed gaming and some laughs with other somewhat functional humans. Continue reading
“From iron cometh strength! From strength cometh will! From will cometh faith! From faith cometh honour! From honour cometh iron!”
— Unbreakable Litany of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion
Since I got back into the hobby, it didn’t take long to decide which army to collect. As a student of the Horus Heresy fluff and lore, after cutting my teeth with Adeptus Titanicus, I’d always been drawn to the original traitor legions, and none more than the IVth legion. Reading the fantastic Angel Exterminatus and Storm Of Iron by Graham McNeill pretty much sealed the deal, with a fantastic insight into Perturabo’s mind and the way the legion goes to war respectively. Cruel, bitter, taken for granted, overlooked, but also with a sharp mind, with attention to detail and meticulous planning. Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I can identify with. No talking swords needed to convert me.
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Work In progress
My commitment to the Oath Of Moment challenge we alluded to the other week is something of a cop out I’m afraid. With The Dark Throne Tournament now only a month away I’m using this part of the challenge as a motivation to get my first 1000 points of 13th Company Space Wolves finished. Now this is the first army I’ve EVER painted. Sure I dabbled with Bloodbowl figures and the ocassional plastic dwarf when I was a kid but this is a whole challenge in itself. I’m a fluff guy primarily, I possess a creative and curious mind. I’ll happily sit and bullshit with you all day about twin tailed comets actually being Thunderhawks, the politics of heresy in the 30K universe, lost Primarchs and all of that caper, but when it comes to practical application of actual brush to model… ehhhhhh not such a natural fit for me. Continue reading
Our resident hedonistic prince of perversion Paul steps up and shows off his nicely painted 3rd legion Continue reading
This is the second in our series of CH Armies features and this time it is the turn of my old friend ‘Sketchy’ Adam Chandler to confess his secrets upon Interrogator Chaplain Beans slab. For my sins I have known Adam for the better part of 15 years starting back when he was a regular customer at the comic book store in Canterbury that I worked in. Adam was a student at the time and a disgusting mosher whom I took under my wing somewhat and introduced to the local hardcore punk scene that was slowly gestating in the area. Around this time I also discovered just how talented an artist he was and quickly put him to task designing gig posters, shirts and record sleeves. His reputation as an artist soon outgrew the confines of the local underground punk community and he eventually started producing artwork for touring bands on an international level.
Since those early days Adam has continued to work dilligently churning out oddball fanzines and eccentric artwork (as well as doing favours for whatever band I happened to be in at the time!) and in recent years has built himself a solid reputation as an excellent tattoo artist, with most members of our crew carrying his work on their skin. Adam also runs the Old Bones Bmx/Skateboarding clothing company (links in the sidebar). Some day he and I will finally get round to working on the comic book we’ve been talking about producing for the past fifteen years, but for now he is going to take us through the nuts and bolts of his sickeningly well painted Raptor Legion…… Continue reading
The three female commissar models available, plus some sort of weird hippo dog thing I’m not really sure about.
Good looking girls with guns, its that old cliché for the non functioning gamer isn’t it? But I’ll be honest, having grown up on Japanese monster movies and Anime from an early age, I still reckon they’re boss, and no one does it better than the Japanese.
Soda Pop do some good Anime style female models with mechs, giant robots are awesome right? Whats more awesome? Giant robots with hot girls! But recently I’ve been debating some models from the Raging Heroes range. Continue reading
Corehammer presents: The Dark Throne, our first Warhammer 40K Tournament
on Saturday 26th April 2014, at the North West Gaming Centre, Stockport.
Tickets are £10 for 3 games of 1000pt Warhammer 40K, and includes a hot meal.
Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place, best looking army and wooden spoon
This is a primarily a social day, for hanging out, meeting new people and having a laugh.
There will be a bring and buy from the people at Warmart, and anyone taking part
can have a table to sell stuff that Andy and the guys will run for them.
There will also be people on hand to run demo games of X Wing, Warhammer Fantasy,
Dust Tactics, Hordes/Warmachine and Bolt Action. Details here
Tickets available from our store
Please add a note in PayPal with your army choice
Event pack and details here
Email us at corehammercrew@gmail.com with any queries
EDIT: PLAYER TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW SOLD OUT. Drop us a line if you want to jump on the reserves list. The Warmart and demo games are open to all though so come and hang.
Picture if you will the scene, me and John are setting up our, admittedly very purple, armies on a nicely laid out table at our local gaming centre. Its shaping up to be a fun, cinematic experience with some cool scenery, painted models and good laughs.
Tabled, John lost 0 units either thanks to my cursed dice skills.
Setting up next to us is a kid with a Forgeworld army of bare half built resin models, his opponent rocks up and unloads a pile of space marines that have been sprayed with some sort of red car paint, bases and all, as well as a storm raven. I say a storm raven, but this is 3/4 of a Storm Raven, there’s no doors, no weapons, its essentially an empty shell again sprayed in red car paint.
I was almost sick in my mouth.