++++INLOADING DATAFILE 024++++ How to make a Chaos Heretic

Are you a devoted servant of the Dark Gods?  Do you wish that you could sacrifice legions of pathetic mortals on a whim?  Well now you can!!!  Hey everyone Jon from The Autoforge here with a big treat, a tutorial on how to convert Dawn of War 2 style Chaos Heretics.

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Finally an update!!! Sorry for the dearth of activity here for the last few months, I'm finally at the end of my vocational school so I was able to devote some time to mini-work this weekend. So without any further ado.......

Here's my test model for the truescale Word Bearers to accompany my Chaos heretics.

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So I know I've been afk for a while, quick rundowns of why. I've just spent two weeks finishing my post deployment training with the national guard, been in school full time, had to make up for missing a week of shook or the national guard, and gone to a bodybuilding competition (My other hobby, was cheering on a friend).

Now things are starting to settle back down an I should finally have time for modelin projects. Things to be in the lookout for:

-more chaos heretics and truescale marines
-a converted war altar for my empire
-some conversion bits for space marines.

++++INLOADING DATAFILE 021++++ Empire early test results

First off sorry for no posts of late. I've had little time to devote to modeling since working a crappy 60+ hour a week job and now going to school. Things are settling down here agaij though so more posts upcoming. Ok now for the actual post. I've been playing empire for the last two years and I've enjoyed them a lot in 8th, they were a great army. They were of course a lot of units which were not viable, largely from being too expensive and just from how things changed in 8th. Now we have a new book and after my first three games with it I can't help but feel that we are considerably weaker now for it. So here's a quick pros and cons review. The negatives can be summed up as: -Everything is more expensive save characters. While its great that my priests cos 25 points less and are better it's not creat that virtually everything else in the book costs 1-2 points more. I pointed up my old 2400 point list, it's 2850 now... -Key things were nerfed, and I don't mean the steam tanks. Mortars are worse and more expensive. The cost the same and are the same strength as the no save catapult skaven have. -Detachments are mostly worse. With the one exception of detachment sharing special rules with their parent unit the system is even less effective then it was before. Oh and no more support charges. The good: -heros are way better, hold the line is great and priests are amazing now. -flagellants are better, and no unit cap. -witch hunters are back an great. I have snipered a vampire lord to death do far, it was great. -the rare war machines actually work now. So how does the army fight? So far empire seems to have all it's old issues of weak units, just those units are now considerably over costed. So far I've found that my units no longer hand the force to actually win fights, I'll keep practicing and see what I come up with, perhaps I can mak these guys work.

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First off, sorry for the lack of updates of late.  Between starting a new job and prepping for Templecon I have had to put most of my projects on hold for the moment.

We are currently at T minus 4 days and counting down quick till Templecon kicks off.  I'm going to be playing in the two day fantasy Grand tournament, its been ten years since I last played in a GT (And yes I'm only 26.) so this should be a blast.  The one downside is that all armies must be fully painted (3 color standard), so I have 4 days to fit in getting 130 models up to standard!!!  So far I'm on track to get it done, and I'll probably post some pictures as I go.

++++INLOADING DATAFILE 019++++ WIP Upcoming project

So here is an in progress first look at an upcoming project I'm doing for a company.  This guy is just the test model so far, actually he's the first 100% sculpted from scratch model that I've done in about two years, coming along pretty well so far.

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Ok just a small update for now, I'd like to say that I've been busy for the last week but in truth I've just been playing a real lot of Shogun 2, Holy Crap is that an addictive strategy game!!!  Very challenging as well, though multiplayer play makes it WAY harder still as the comp is often dumb with its battle tactics.

That aside, here is a sneak peak at my upcoming chaos ogryns for my Lost and the Damned army.