http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Proiteus&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Proiteus en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:09:37 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/28238306/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/28238306/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:01:58 PST
The army has been broken into two parts the first is what needs to be redone for the display at Warhammer World on the 16th January next year. Learning how to paint the army using the foundation and washes instead of the crude watered down paint and drybrushing I used last time. This will include the 4 veteran squads, grot command and the ninja, as well as improving some of the units that I’m not longer using just for the display.

The 2nd part is the new stuff, first off is the 2nd Grot mobile café to pair up with ‘The Little Grot’ so far it looks like it’s gonna be called ‘Stargrots coffee’ also there’s grot air command and the 5 transport vehicles ‘the doom-vees’

The only thing I’m struggling to do is come up with a valkrie conversion for the grots! Any ideas?

As always I’ll be looking for feedback from you all and posting polls about my ideas, till then.

First off will likely be my grot ninja.

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/28084367/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/28084367/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:39:26 PST
Sadly I didn’t win best army, I was so disappointed… Then it was announced that there was an award for best converted army called ‘The Big Mek Award’ AND I WON IT: [link]

AND THAT’S NOT ALL OF IT.

After the judging at lunch time I found a card on my table underneath on of the miniatures, GW is interested in displaying the Zanatorian Machine Cult in the Miniatures Hall at Warhammer World.

Which is fantastic, so at the beginning of next year they will be on display at Warhammer World for 2 months! They have also requested the Grot Rebellion to be displayed alongside the Zanatorians.

I’m so glad that this army has worked at so well, thanks for all your feedback guys.

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27943964/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27943964/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:25:42 PDT
The Zanatorians are already and hit, I was playing a game at my local GW the other day and two strangers walked in and pointed at my army and yelled 'The Zanatorians!', I knew my army was liked on the web but never expected it to be called by it's proper name.

Anyway the army has be touched up to the best I can do. Now all thats left is the fluff, which sadly I was unable to get a comic shorted in time so I'm going to shorten in down to a paragraph and have it supported by some codex page style artwork thats currentling be worked on kindly by ~tyrantwache.

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN TO THE FIRST 'ZANATORIAN STEEL CRUSADE!'

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27646330/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27646330/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:38:30 PDT
Now for a crucial part of the project, the origins comic. People tend to look at comics more than a few pages of just words. This was demonstrated when the grot rebellion comic got a lot of attention from people viewing the army and player’s commented on how they loved the amount of character the grots had.

Anyway the good news is I’ve found an artist to do the comic for me, she says she’ll be able to get two pages done before open war and she’ll finish the rest of the pages afterwards. She is currently drawing up an Iron Guard robot for me to judge whether the art style suits the army.

However the bad news is I’m having difficulty creating a comic that presents the fantastic fluff behind the Zanatorian Machine cult effectively. My first attempt was awful and my doubts were pointed out by ~wordbearer and ~CrabTasterMan (thanks for the useful crit guys) who mentioned that the guard setting was too shallow and there was little chance these guardsmen would know the things they knew about the Zanatorians, plus the descriptions of the machines were a little too cheesy. Plus the Zanatorians sounded ‘too good’ this is the 40k universe no one is supposed to be perfect!

Anyway I’m asking for suggestions and even rough drafts for a 2nd attempt at the Zanatorian Machine Cult Origins comic, I’ve written a summary of their fluff below.

Zanatorians Background – [link]

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27256350/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/27256350/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:57:17 PDT
It was a great day, allowing me to test the army's performance and see how people reacted to it. Everyone loved the army and best of all no one had a problem with the 'counts as' rule that the army is built around. Most importantly the judges for Open War which is the tournament this army was built for loved the models and couldn't wait to see them appear in their tournament.

The Games
The army's performance was excellent! I had made some changes to the original list. 1st off was I had downgraded the Lord Of Change to a winged daemon prince as all I was after was a nasty combat unit to defend my fragile units from close combat and the LOC wasn’t built for that, it also freed up an extra 110pts. The next change was shifting the icons from the horror squads because the conversions looked awful to the chariot and plaguebearers allowing me to have one icon on offense and have another zipping round the board at 12 inches a turn allowing me to spread out my forces better.

In the first round I wiped out a whole Eldar army with the exception of the Avatar which I avoided altogether. The Robot of the round had to be the flamers who annihilated 9 striking scorpions upon deep striking in the first turn and held up the champion and avatar for 2 turns with their inv saves.

Second round I was up against some orks which I thought was going to be interesting as I my army’s weapons will cut down orks easy but if they get into combat with me it could turn nasty. But once again the army shined losing only 1 squad of horrors to a 30 boy dog pile on an objective I was holding I managed to wipe out the entire ork army. Robots of the round this time was the Deathstalkers (Plaguebearers) who put up a fantastic fight against a large mob of storm boyz and Zagstruk for 3 turns before I threw in a prince to finish up.

Now in the 3rd round I fought against an army led by the raven guard special character and it quite scary to see 10 assault terminators fleeting across the board towards my lines. First off I threw my flamers at them and only killed 1 terminator the captain broke off and charged them while the terminators continued towards my lines. He was later cut down by a shot from the chariot when he failed his fleet roll and was left in the open. The rest of his army wasn’t the problem and the deathstalkers and avatar were already closing in on his objective, whilst the horrors were shooting down any marines that go close to mine.
I was eventually able to slow the terminators down with the Nurglings who kept them back for 2 turns and even killed 2 of them allowing me to bring my princes around to cut down their enemy squad.

A very successful first day for the Zanatorian Machine Cult!

Now all that is left is squad markings and 2 flamers 2 horrors and 1 plaguebearer to bolster up the ranks for 1750pt game plus the Ratling Frodo objective.

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25934612/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25934612/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:01:20 PDT [link]

HOWEVER...

There is a photographer job going for images for their rulebooks ranging from one model to full battles, so I'm going to go for it I'm just afraid that my camera limitations that make it impossible to photograph any large scale photos will let me down.

But if I'm luckily I'll be able to use one of the uni's high quailty cameras and photograph a game at my local club.

He's a hoping

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25399530/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25399530/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:50:25 PDT

Anyway this has made me more determined to finish up drafts for the Zanatorian background comic, I’ve come up with 2 final drafts, which our listed below. I would like to hear about what your think of them and which do you think is best suited for being turned into a 6 page comic?

-- FINAL IDEA 1: GUARD COMMAND MEETING --
A planetary governor meets with his command staff to discuss about a mysterious force that has appeared during a grim situation of an Ork Waaagh overrunning their planetary defence forces.
A surviving guardsman is brought before them and explains what he saw when the Zanatorian’s robotic forces aided in the defence of one of their major defensive positions.
After examining some images taken at the battle one of them realise the robots belong to the Zanatorians.
After this they debate over who the Zanatorians are and what their objective is.
The comic ends with the Governor shooting the commissar looming over him and confessing that he will do anything to protect his people, just them a projection of a Machine Lord appears congratulating him and saying it is time they talked.

-- FINAL IDEA 2: THROUGH THE EYES OF A GUARDSMAN --
Similar to the original idea, the comic begins with a platoon of guardsmen making a desperate last stand against the green tide when the Zanatorians appear. In this part the comic is narrated by a single guardsman describing how he saw the event. Afterwards we observe a discussion about who the force was that helped them. The comic ends with an old veteran interrupting the conversation and stating that the universe isn’t all black and white like they’ve been lead to believe and that he trusts that the Zanatorians fight for the good of humanity.

What do you think? Any improvements that can be suggested are welcome, as always?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25343729/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/25343729/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:24 PDT

Anyway I thought I'd let you guys know that I've been writing a project log for the Zanatorians, you can find it at either of these 3 40k forums...

Warseer: [link]
Librarium Online: [link]
Dakka Dakka: [link]

They describe the long story of how I built the army dispite road blocks such as the bits discontiuation and Necron nurfing, it should be interesting for anyone who is interested.

ALSO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE ZANATORIAN ROBOT HERE: [link]

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/24824386/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/24824386/ Mon, 18 May 2009 15:02:07 PDT
I'll be cosplaying as Sasori: Puppet Master from the Naruto Series - [link]
I guess he's my overall favourite anime/manga character in the way he relates so much to my main character Proiteus, just puppets instead of robots.

You'll see some photos soon.

Anyone know who Sasori is, cause I've got a special addition to my costume?

Plus anyone here in england going cause it be nice to meet someone off DA in person?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/24629960/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/24629960/ Thu, 07 May 2009 05:20:52 PDT
But instead of me coming up with all the stories myself I thought it be better it some of you guys come up with the gossip and rumors. The best will be featured in the comic on 2 or 3 slides so keep them short.

For example
Guard 1: “I’ve heard that the machine lord is always escorted by a powerful machine called the Avatar that’s power is unmatched”
Guard 2: “as his bodyguard?”
Guard 3: “nah it’s got to be the one running the show and using the machine lord as it’s puppet”

Some key facts about the Zanatorians to help you come up with stories…
1. Their robotics and energy shield technology is highly advanced
2. They have trade relations with the Tau
3. They saved worlds but they are marked as heretics by the Inquisition
4. The Machine Lord offers his help to the planet by himself before calling down his forces.
5. The machine lord is often referred to as ‘the one who is many’
6. Despite his appearance the Machine Lord is a remote body controlled by the machine lord.

I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

--Zanatorian Miniatures--
Machine Lord (objective or herald): [link]
Harbingers (Chariots): [link]
Dragoons (Flamers): [link]
Iron Guard (Horrors): [link]
Steel Scorpions (Nurglings): [link]
Scorpions-111458330
Mastermind (Changling): [link]
Disruptor (Screamer): [link]
Golem (Deamon Prince): [link]

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/22599699/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/22599699/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:29:45 PST
I’m in dire need of a comic artist to tell the origin stories of the Darkmakers and Zanatorians. I will need the Darkmaker’s comic completed in time for the upcoming tournament in April as I feel that a comic helps portray my army’s unique characteristics rather well. The grot’s comic that ‘Machomon’ created for me proved that last year when it helped them win best army.

So does anyone know of a good comic artist that maybe interested in helping me?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/22126191/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/22126191/ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:37:22 PST
'Twas da night before Christmas
An' all through da place,
Not a creature was stirrin'
Or I'd punch 'im in da face.

My choppa wuz hung by da chimney wif care,
In da hopes dat sum 'Umie would be comin' round dere.
Da boyz wuz snorin' all snug in dere bunks,
It's a good thing, too, or I'd show doze punks.

When out in da front dere arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed when I heard sumthin' shatter.
Away to da window I flew like a flash,
I tripped onna squig and landed with a crash.

Da fires from da wrecks,
With dere bright orange glow,
Gave me enough light,
Ta find sumthin' ta throw.

When wot to my one good eye did appear,
But a bunch uv da Grots,
Drinkin' my beer!

I leveled my slugga,
Squeezed off a quick round.
I missed by a mile,
An' plugged a squig hound.

Da Grots jumped inna buggie,
And gave it sum gas.
Cuz dey knew I was comin',
I was gonna kick dere ass.

Dey floored da buggie,
Down da road dey flew.
Dey was laughin' and giggling,
Cuz dey'd been drinkin' me brew.

But I heard 'em exclaim,
As dey drove outta sight,
Merry Christmas to all,
An' to all a good fight!

Merry Christmas!

P.S. Help me out with the Kroggs backstory by visiting the forum here and telling me what you think: [link]

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/20921343/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/20921343/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:25:30 PDT
Good news is that I found a model that can represent a warrior that I can take to the GT: [link]

Also my Darkmakers will be going to ‘Open War’ tournament next Saturday so I’m looking forward unleashing them on Warhammer World, though I am a bit disappointed that I was unable to find someone to help me put a comic together for them, however I will make a Codex cover and artwork for the deamon Sharazad this week to put on display with them. But despite the conversion work I have very little confidence that they’ll win ‘Best Army’ my grots won out of character of which I believe the comic helped. o well they goes my 3 awards in a row dream, then again I won’t have the Zanatorians done in time for the next Open War in march.

The following week after ‘Open War’ I’ll be going to the MCM expo in London in May some of you may remember my Cosplay outfit

Sasori Of The Red Sands (Puppet Master From Naruto Shippuuden)
Proiteus makes robots, this guys makes puppets now you know why I love him so much…
My Costume: [link]
Video Clip Of Character: [link]

Now this is the character I’ll be cosplaying at this expo, I’m currently working on the two swords…

Archer (Fate Stay Night)
Video Clip Of Character: [link]

Well I’ve got a busy month and with each week my coursework gets more intense.



]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/20501650/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/20501650/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:32:12 PDT
Now all I need to do is get artwork done for all 5 Darkmakers and a cool codex cover and hopefully get their 4 page background comic ‘Darkness Rising’ done with Warp-Zero before the 15th October.

For those of you who haven’t seen the miniature check them out on the following links…

--DARKMAKER MODELS--
Lord Sharazad: [link]
Korell's Lost Sprits: [link]
Rokhan's Zombies: [link]
Sindri's Zombies: [link]
Zaceria's Zombies: [link]
Predator Tanks: [link]
Land Raider: [link]
Rokhan & Terminators: [link]

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DARKMAKER: [link]

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17796115/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17796115/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:35:09 PDT
If anyone would like a short battle report on all 3 rounds I’d be happy to write one IF people will read it?

Nevertheless I laid the Grots out for the Army inspection along with the first half of the Grot’s origin comic and they got the attention I expected they would get. People loved them laughing at the little features like the ‘Ruff Riderz’, ‘The Little Grot’ and ‘GAZA’ most players crowded round my table and I felt so proud even if they weren’t the best painted army they got the attention they deserved.

At the end of the day I was ranked 13th out of 50 experienced 40k players and came 2nd in the order of the my club members in the rankings but not only that but the Grots succeeded in their ultimate goal.

THEY WON BEST ARMY! THE JUDGES SAID THEY LIKED IT PURELY ON THE AMMOUNT OF CHARACTER IT HAD AND WALKING UP TO THE STAGE I COULD HEAR THE POSTIVE COMMENTS AMONGST THE CROWD. SO I WENT HOME WITH A MASSIVE GRIN AND A LARGE CERTIFICATE

On a lighter note. The Grot Ninja won the ‘Iron Man Challenge’ at my local GW today he came first in Wood chopping, sprinting and weight lifting, 2nd in the hurdles and 4th in the fencing contest.

So this week has been a great week for all grot kind. Viva La Grot!

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17796095/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17796095/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:34:03 PDT
I’ve recently reflected on the two armies and how I predicted they’d play on the board and no matter how I look at them the similarities are just too great.
Both a ‘Death Guard’ and ‘Necron’ army are more suited for shooting than combat plus they are both more heavily resilient than armies, so I asked myself “What is the point of having two armies that play the same?”

The Grot Rebellion is a shooty, static, horde army and because Necrons are the only list suited for them the Zanatorians will be a shooty, fast, armoured army.

Which leaves me to create a combat specialised army using the chaos codex now I can either…

1. Stay with the undead theme and create a footslogging army of marines with icons of Nurgle?

-- Or --

2. Scratch it and go with the ‘Hellscreamers’ theme: A once great chapter whose pursuit of power turned them into a nightmarish horde of feral mutated marines? (Converted using both marines and Tyranid bits and a lot of green stuff)

Any suggestions here would be helpful?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17546902/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17546902/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:39:53 PDT [link]

So for the past few weeks I’ve been exploring other means of putting the Zanatorian Machine Cult along with Proiteus on to the tabletop. I now have the choice of 2 armies…

-- Option 1 --
I’m sure GW will bring back the classic marine jump back on demand and I can get the classic Necron immortals of eBay plus cast the minor gun tip so that’s my Harbingers saved.

My biggest challenge will be redesigning the Dragoons by replacing the tomb Spyder heads with a model of my own design that looks similar to the tomb Spyder’s head so casting that in resin will be totally legal.

So apart from those problems my Necrons are still possible: [link]

-- Option 2 --
Use the Chaos Codex to create an army of powerful robots by converting powerful robots representing Terminators using the Mega Armored Nob torso as a base and attaching these arms to the side: [link] to create something like this: [link] of course the cost of this project would be massive (£11 per termie) forcing me to ‘duplicate’ the arms?

Alongside them would be 2 Deamon Princes (being Proiteus & Ix in mechs) and some defilers converted into large mechs: [link] I will add more heavy armor using plastic card and other bits, construct a head from scratch.

To be honest I prefer the loyal terminator they have much more firepower.

So which option do you suggest?
Go here & vote: [link]

NEXT JOURNAL WILL FEATURE SOME FANTASTIC NEWS! ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17010409/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/17010409/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:19:36 PST
So such miniatures such as the Dragoons & Harbingers are now impossible to build: [link] [link]

If I had known sooner I could have brought the components but the only real notice was given in White Dwarf and I don’t read that overpriced monthly catalogue.

So now I need to come up with some new miniatures and choose a new codex to use for the Zanatorians, any ideas for an army of robots besides Necrons?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15920796/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15920796/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:57:19 PST

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15863847/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15863847/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:01:07 PST
Time for the Zanatorian Machine Cult's fifth legion commanded by Ominssah Knight Proiteus Kruger using the necron list

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15523730/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/15523730/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:14:56 PST

If you which to watch and comment on my work go ahead,
!!!BUT!!!
Don't watch me if your not going to comment on the photos it's shallow

Anyway here it is...


Eldar dodge the bullet, Orks mock the bullet, Tau favor the bullet, Space marines deflect the bullet, Tyranids absorb the bullet, Necrons take the bullet, Imperial Guard "eat" the bullet ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14868441/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14868441/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:03:32 PDT
Rather than a dude who gets stuck in with duel pistols and a sword I’m thinking of having him as a guy would holds back and commands a variety of Robots while wearing a powerful shield.

This maybe because I want to make him fight similar to me when I game: [link] or maybe its just cause I love this scene from Naruto Shippuuden: [link]

Either way I like your thoughts on this idea?

Eldar dodge the bullet, Orks mock the bullet, Tau favor the bullet, Space marines deflect the bullet, Tyranids absorb the bullet, Necrons take the bullet, Imperial Guard "eat" the bullet ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14729373/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14729373/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:02:02 PDT
BEHOLD: [link]

Also making a guest appearance is the Grot Rebellion’s own ‘Little Bugger tank’ out of the ashes [link] rebuilt and repainted for Gobstyks’ Grot Tank Battles (my idea)

So your mission to those of you going to Gamesday in the UK on Sunday is to seek out The Grot Tank Battles! (It’s listed in the Gamesday guide) Take control of Little Bugger and win one for ME!!

Heck you may run into me?

Eldar dodge the bullet, Orks mock the bullet, Tau favor the bullet, Space marines deflect the bullet, Tyranids absorb the bullet, Necrons take the bullet, Imperial Guard "eat" the bullet ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14592897/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/14592897/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:55:44 PDT
But with Team Fortress 2 coming out I look back to how I create a small Headquarters as a builder creating sentry turrets and stuff in the original game, this applies to most games that have an engineer concept.

So you want to know how I act in a game, well this trailer pretty much sums me up: [link]

I WANT THOSE GUNS!

Eldar dodge the bullet, Orks mock the bullet, Tau favor the bullet, Space marines deflect the bullet, Tyranids absorb the bullet, Necrons take the bullet, Imperial Guard "eat" the bullet ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/13784010/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/13784010/ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:58:12 PDT
But I still have another 41 models to build and assemble before the 11th of august when I go home and all my modelling equipment is left at my uni flat, with only the 4 tanks to work on when I’m home in Norfolk (boring...) so the army is completed for ‘Open War’ a large gaming club network tournament on the 25th of aug. Which will allow me to test the army ability on the board so I can make judgements and alter the list for the Grand Tournament in November and also see people’s reaction to the army’s look, design and background.

That and I need to complete the Grot Comic and Gamesday Art Contest Entry as well as a few poster for the Sci Fi club at Uni, then there my job cleaning up the flat etc!

GOD I NEED A HOLIDAY!!!

Eldar dodge the bullet, Orks mock the bullet, Tau favor the bullet, Space marines deflect the bullet, Tyranids absorb the bullet, Necrons take the bullet, Imperial Guard "eat" the bullet ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/13013320/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/13013320/ Sat, 19 May 2007 12:40:43 PDT
You might already be aware of the ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ fan art for a local art contest at a Toykopop Anime/Manga Con: [link]

With one art contest out the way I must now considerate on planning the next one which will be at this years Games Day I was expecting it to be related to Elves considering they have covered the Emperor, Chaos and the Orks but for this years subject it is “Chaos Incarnate”
So I going to go flat out to draw up a Codex cover for the Darkmakers and artwork on Sharazad himself: [link]

While on the subject of Chaos I’ve heard of some of the new rules and the fact that Nurgle get feel no pain as well as T5 has made me even keener to forge the Darkmaker Army. But I’ll upload that in a short while.

Also along side this will be the Grot Rebellion’s Tank Division involving the mobile fast food joint Hellhounds ‘Little Grot’ and ‘KFC (Kentucky Fried Cadians)’ just a little tutorial before the big 125 min army of my infantry based Grot Army (shudder)

Well then let the summer begin in Lincoln!

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/12402933/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/12402933/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:15:19 PDT
One of these projects is to create a flash website at first i thought of doing a website based on one of my favourite animes such as Appleseed, Fate Stay Night and Fullmetal Alchemist but in the end i decided to stick with my grots

Yep you heard right the grot rebelion is being put into a flash website for a final project for this year at uni.

The menu will feature 3 grots 1 sleeping, 1 tinkering with some machinery and 1 picking his nose. When clicked they will do some funny animation before a page featuring either the army's background, a gallery of the miniatures or the comic will appear.

But my problem is the intro flash animation i plan to have several grots running across the screen in some heroic or suicidal charge. But the question is what music should i use for this 10-20 sec animation?

Suggestions?

]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/12062531/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/12062531/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:26:40 PST
--Command Platoon--
120 - Colonel Grotsnik (Heroic Senior Officer) with carapace armour, bolt pistol, power weapon and iron discipline, 1 Medic, 1 Standard Bearer, 1 Master Vox and 1 Grenade Launcher.

60 - Special Weapons Squad: 6 guardsmen with Demo pack and Meltagun.

90 – Support Squad: 3 Heavy Bolters, sharp shooters.

120 – Support Squad: 3 Lascannon, sharp shooters.

55 – Sentinel: Lascannon.

--Infantry Platoon--
74 – Junior Officer with power sword and Iron Disciple, 1 Lasguns and 3 Grenade Launchers

95 – Infantry Squad with Plasma gun and Lascannon.

90 – Infantry Squad with Plasma gun and Autocannon.

90 – Infantry Squad with Plasma gun and Autocannon.

98 – 20 Conscripts with 2 flamers

86 - Armoured Fist Squad: 9 guardsmen with Lasguns, V.Sgt with melta bombs, Vox Caster and meltagun.
93 – Chimera with Heavy Bolters, Extra Armour and Smoke Launchers

95 – Rough Riders: 7 with Hunting Lances, 1 Vox and V.sgt with power sword and melta bombs.

105 – Rough Riders: 6 with Hunting Lances, 1 with Meltagun, 1 Vox and V.sgt with power sword and melta bombs.

102 – 2 Sentinels with Autocannons and searchlights.

125 – Basilisk with Indirect Fire.

Total: 1498
Number 108 (5)

-- Tactics --
Basically the command squad and infantry platoon form the solid fire line. The conscripts form an advancing wall in front to sock up enemy fire and force target priority tests. Meanwhile the sentinels and chimera act a support where needed and the rough riders act as counter attacking and assault troops.

Its for the Grand Tournament this year so any useful feedback will be nice?

-- Links --
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]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10847121/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10847121/ Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:45:56 PST
At first I though infiltrating my Grot (Imperial Guard actually) Army was a good idea but recent thinking has made me consider taking the drop troops doctrine allow all troops and sentinels to deep strike for free. Saving me from adding another 10pts on to each squad giving me an extra 110pts however I will have to take at least two vehicle comm upgrades to allow me to reroll the grots arrival.
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Considering Wordbearer reaction to the idea I though he could have a look at the list and if he doesn’t think its good, fill free to come up with another list that uses numbers effectively mate! So far this is the a rough line up for the army list...

Heroic Officer with carapace armour and Iron Discipline medic and Master Vox and 2 bodyguards with lasguns. This unit will be at the back of the field allowing units to use the Heroic Officer’s Ld9 with use of the vox casters!

Special Weapons 4 lasguns, 1 Meltagun, 1 Demo charge!
Special Weapons 4 lasguns, 1 Meltagun, 1 Demo charge!
Their role is simple blow up anything up with a nasty armour save!

7 Ratling Snipers: for deamon, avatar, C'tan, Wraithlord killing, these little fellas are useful for that kind of work!

2 Platoons with
Senior Officer with carapace armour, Iron Discipline and bolt pistols. Medic, Plasma gun and 2 Guardsmen with lasguns!
2X 10 man squads with V.sgt, vox caster, grenade launcher!
1X 5 Man squad with V.Sgt and Plasma gun/Meltagun to pick out annoying targets!
If the enemy is not nids, chaos or some other combat based enemy I will deep strike these guys along with the special weapons squads. I think it nasty not knowing when or where half your enemy’s army will appear and thanks to the improved comms on the 2 tanks I can speed up the arrival, of course if the timing isn’t good I wait a while before re-rolling!

1 Iron Fist Squad with 8 lasguns, 1 V.sgt and 1 Missile Launcher team with a chimera with 2 heavy bolters extra armour, improved comms and smoke launchers. This is for objective taking and supporting other units!

1 Sentinel with Lascannon armored crew compartment and extra armour. Cheap at 60pts I hope to take out a land raider with this little grot tank!

1 Hellhound good against swarm armies and with quite a nasty sting, either this or a few more heavy weapons teams. I would prefer to keep the hellhound cause I plan to convert it to a moving cafeteria for the army made to look like little chef!

1 Basilisk with indirect fire and improved comms!
A must for any Guard army

3 Lascannon teams
3 Heavy Bolter Teams
3 Missile Launcher Teams
To provide support to the deep striking units

Doctrines
Drop Troops
Iron Discipline
Special Weapons
Heavy Weapons
Ratling Snipers


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Also for next army The Zanatorian machine cult what better units to deploy than six venerable dreadnoughts 3 with Assault Cannons and Heavy Flamers and Close Quarter Weapon and 3 with twin linked Lascannon, storm bolter and close quarter weapons all of them with extra armour. These backed up by one maybe two techmarines to inflict repairs should anything to my beloved machines. However this leaves me with 560pts left for troops and fast attack.

Any Suggestions?

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Also another tactic i've been considering lately is the 3 whirlwind mine field tactic: 3 Whirlwinds creating 3 ordance blast sized minefields a turn which remain there to the end of the game enemy units walking over them take a sgt 6 hit on a 4+ tanks get hit automaticly on the rear armour these rules apply to jump infrantry and skimmers and don't effect your units at all.
So by the end of the game they will be 16 minefields on the board not bad for 3 units costing only 255pts!

"VIVA LA GROT" ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10757726/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10757726/ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:01:19 PST
Here is how it works...

You comment on this journal with the name of your character you wish to fight for you and a link to a picture of him.

I'll will then do a small draw to pair up the characters for the first round.

After that you and your opponent will a create a pic of those two characters fightning.

You then send me a link and i upload a poll to have the public decide on who wins that fight and progresses to the next round.

Of course i'll need a total of 8 maybe 7 people for this to work including myself?

Anyone up for it?

"VIVA LA GROT" ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10584936/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10584936/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:03:12 PST [link]

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Comic Title: Iron Fist / Save Or Enslave / Disturbing The Peace

Proiteus is sent by the Zanatorian council to inspect and discuss an alliance with a large military group calling themselves ‘The peacekeepers’ who claim their goals are very similar to the Zanatorians in the way that they wish to free humanity from the Imperium. However it is soon realised that the contrast between the methods of the 2 fractions is too great and Proiteus soon finds himself being stranded on a small planet and being hunted down by this terrorist group. Can Proiteus survive until Zanatorians can send someone to rescue him?


I decided that it would be fun to create an enemy for Proiteus with a similar past and experiences except he choose the path and methods of a terrorist, forcing Proiteus to wonder if he hadn’t be recruited by Ix for the Zanatorians would he have ended up like the terrorist Commander Talyn!
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Comic Title: Iron Maiden

After discovering an ancient piece of Adeptus Mechanicus data called ‘The Iron Maiden project’ which was apparently an attempt to create the next stage of human evolution using enhanced bio and cyber engineering. The Zanatorian High Council orders Proiteus and Ix to investigate what they believe to be the temple of which the project was originally based which is on a barren Ice world. However their investigation is soon interrupted by an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor and his men assault the temple, soon after the assault Proiteus and his team come across a mysterious young women wandering through the temple grounds. Ix believes her to be the Iron Maiden, but Proiteus is too concerned about the arrival of the Ordos Xenos and what they would want with her. Soon it is found out that what the Radical Inquisitor is after is not the ‘Iron Maiden Project’ but Proiteus himself!


For this storyline I wanted to go with a several twists and turns to keep the reader interested.
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Comic Title: Creeping Evil / Within The Darkness / Ship Of The Dead

While returning to Draconis after excavating an ancient Mechanicus ruin The Axion comes across a badly damaged civilian ship. The ship is scarred and most of its hull is covered in a thick organic like substance. After the ship’s sensors pick up on a small collection of human life signs. Proiteus decides to go aboard. But after coming across the only human servitor of a crew of 1100 Proiteus is forced to fight his way out though an onslaught of nightmarish creatures.

"VIVA LA GROT" ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10260654/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10260654/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:33:31 PDT
I also plan to create a comic showing how the grot rebellion came to be, rough designs of the units, photographs of the models and certain rules for the characters such as ‘Colonel Grotsnik’ himself and ‘The Babysitter’ all of this being put into a small A5 size booklet with a codex cover.

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Also in the planning stages is a comic involving Proiteus which I hope to find an illustration student interested in drawing up the comic pages. I’m currently thinking up of decent storylines so look out for my next poll.

As well as that I have made arrangements with the Tutor of the games programming course to involve Proiteus in a few of his projects so I might be uploading a short animated film featuring Proiteus in the next few months!

So let the hard work begin

"VIVA LA GROT" ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10082215/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/10082215/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:39:40 PDT
There are 4 designs so far:
The 3 Blades one which can be seen in the centre of each picture!
The Claw design made for both fighting and labour with its robotic claws!
The ‘Nemo’ design which is built for support!
And a new design yet to be drawn the shield one acts similar to a tau shield drone but being able to focus it shield energy into bolts if needed!

But apart from that I’m open to other designs of Dragoon?

Reference…..
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[link] ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/9386565/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/9386565/ Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:30:33 PDT
Bye! ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/9052594/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/9052594/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:03:59 PDT
Does anyone have any other ideas for a picture?

I need some really Orky ideas!

----40K Battles----
Deamons Of Draconis! (Tyranids: On Hold)
The Grot Military (Imperial Guard: In The Works 29/128)
Zanatorian Crusaders Chapter
V12 / T3 / D11
Necrons Of Ordos!
V3 / T2 /D6
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8691295/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8691295/ Sat, 06 May 2006 12:52:42 PDT [link]

Necrons and Tau, Very Sweet!

What ya think of that??

----40K Battles----
Deamons Of Draconis! (Tyranids: In The Works)
The Grot Military (Imperial Guard: Ideas in development)
Zanatorian Crusaders Chapter
V12 / T3 / D9
Necrons Of Ordos!
V3 / T2 /D5
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8301773/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8301773/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:57:40 PST
The aim of the Proiteus project is to extend Proiteus beyond my artwork thought connections and friends I’ve made here at uni. All of these are being done by different people and by the end of the year Proiteus will not just be a comic character.

1. First is Proiteus’ transformation to the tabletop both as an Inquisitor miniature and 40K Model to lead my Space Marines to victory (hopefully). Of course the 40k model will only be a small conversion while the Inquisitor one is building built from scratch and if I’m lucky my friend will enter it in Golden Deamon so Proiteus will become famous

2. I’ve found someone on DA who I’m offering to pay £15 for a picture I can print of on A2 and slap on my wall of Proiteus sadly the first person I went to was doing prints but refused due to ancient history between me and them, such service! Anyway the person has a nack for drawing Inquisitors and also there is a slim chance his employer might use it in one of the products in the 40K Card Game. So Proiteus might also be a collectable

3. Finally the greatest achievement to look forward to. Working along side a Games Programming Student Proiteus and the rest of my characters will star in a computer animated game intro. Featuring all my characters holding their ground in a ruined cathedral against an enemy that has yet to be decided.

So prepare yourself for Proiteus’ ascension!!

----40K Battles----
Hive Fleet Kerrigan! (Coming Soon)

Iron Falcons! (Space Marines soon to become the Xanatorian Alliance)
V9 / T3 / D8
Necrons Of Ordos!
V2 / T2 /D4
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8187753/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8187753/ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:05:23 PDT The results envolved a broken microwave and explosive dice!!
I've recently found something interesting on the net on how to make you dice roll higher without changing the weight of the dice or anything. The Answer:
Microwave Em!! Apparently if you microwave your dice with the 6’s facing up your chances are that they will roll high numbers more often due to the molecular structure being changed. I’m about to go try it myself so I tell you soon my results!!

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17/3/06
Hive Fleet Kerrigan
After building up one nasty looking Tyrant today I’ve decided to abandon the ‘Zerg’ theme because 1. 9 out of 10 people I’ve met don’t know what a Zerg is, so the theme won’t have must of an impact! & 2. Today I’ve been building on nasty looking flying Hive Tyrant by turning the Carnifex’s tail upside down and adding some wings I can give it a pose similar to the GW Lord of the Rings Felbeast! The only way to describe him is as a baby Harridan [link] which looks to be the most impressive minature in the whole army

The Xanatorian Alliance
The Iron Falcons have been annihilated in a 3000pt game against a large Word Bearer force failing horribly at 694 to 3000pts I decided after many suggestions that it was time for a change in approach for the army. But I had grown tried of the Iron Falcons paint scheme so I thought making I should create a new chapter again, but how could the two be able to mingle. The answer an alliance between Chapter that have almost twiddled to nothing, forged by the Inquisition fraction ‘The Xanatorians’ (Proiteus’ fraction) This alliance is made up of 3 forces:
1. The Iron Falcons, 2. The Paladins: Created from the Black Templar models with a paint scheme of silver and gold these Religious Warriors are a perfect addition to the alliance. The 3rd I’m not so sure about whether it be an allied Deamon or Witchhunter force or a small chapter of scout based troops?

As for the Xanatorians you find more about them later in a short fiction ‘New Horizons’

Inquisitor’s Report Ended…….

----40K Battles----
Hive Fleet Kerrigan! (Coming Soon)

Iron Falcons! (Space Marines soon to become the Xanatorian Alliance)
V9 / T3 / D8
Necrons Of Ordos!
V2 / T2 /D4
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8059649/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/8059649/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:52:04 PST
This all began after a presentation I did today which involved creating an air display board that could be used at an Air Museum or an Air Show that shows information of air travel from the eras of the 1920’s, 1940’s, 1960’s and 1980’s. I came up with what I thought was a good idea of a clean screen wall that had the information displayed in small areas on it allowing the visitor to see both the planes and read the information without any trouble. However my idea was rejected and what only I can describe as shot down by the audience, walking home afterwards I wondered if Graphic Design was really my specialty?

In college I had my friends to back me up and encourage me but with them being 45 miles away and not very easy to contact, I have no one to help me here.

So right now I’m a man who is both Lost, Confused and Alone.

I only pray that my situation will improve soon.

----40K Battles----
The Fuegan! (Eldar)
V1 / T1 / D1
Iron Falcons! (Space Marines)
V9 / T3 / D6
Necrons Of Ordos!
V2 / T2 /D4
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7788973/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7788973/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:06:05 PST Ever since then I’ve been wandering round my flat like what I can only describe as General Grevious from Star Wars due to the weezy breathing and coughs also the way I’m lend forwards, my dressing cown gives me his droopy cape.
I hope to be back to full health by Sunday at the least because I’m behind with a lot of work right now. I’ve been in bed all day today in fact my laptop is resting on my chair right now while I lay in bed typing this journal with one arm.

My 40K Army will still remain a secret I’ve been currently discussing it on my local gaming club’s Forum. I’ve chosen a race now I’m just deciding to go with either Speed, Sheer Brute Force or the Cheesy (Lots Of Rules to ruin the enemy’s plan)

Well that all from me this week. I hope to be better soon

Bye

----40K Battles----
Iron Falcons
V6 / T3 / D4
Necrons
V2 / T2 /D4
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7648439/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7648439/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:20:10 PST

----40K Battles----
Iron Falcons
V6 / T3 / D4
Necrons
V2 / T2 /D3
V= Victories, T= Ties or Draws, D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7573506/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7573506/ Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:17:23 PST However over the months I’ve spent here in Lincoln which I have come to call my home, I’ve began to feel lonely, empty inside. All my best friends are back home which is 60 miles away. The fact is I’ve noticed that I’ve been shutting myself out to others making myself a loner (kinda like Proiteus in a way) I’ve come to know a lot of people here in Lincoln but they seem more classmates that friends. Most of my flatmates are complete idiots with dumb ass friends who tend to dominate the place in the evening I just can’t stand them. The rest are people who work to hard and just can’t spare the time for a friendly evening.
Another thing that has got me down recently was a large fallout with a friend she is currently under the weather part of me wants to point and laugh the other wants to forgive her and help her up, it’s confusing.
I’ve haven’t found a group of friends to settle down with and hang out for 4 months, I’ve tried to go out with people I know but I just end up feeling left out.
Not to mention my love life ain’t going nowhere.

I am Alone!

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V5 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7546707/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7546707/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:35:49 PST
I’ve decided to go with the Eldar Guardian conversion as it has a bit more of better ring to it that your basic barbarian thug that I was going to create with the other conversion!

The 5 Doctrines I have chosen to represent my Evil Army is:

Drop Troops: All infantry and sentinels have the option of Deep Striking at no extra cost
This representing the troops either parachuting in or coming up from
Underground, Nasty!

Iron Discipline: At the cost of 5 points per officer the unit can regroup even in under half
strength and ignore the morale modifiers for it. When you under the
command of an Evil general you are not likely to retreat!

Hardened Fighters: For 10 points a unit the unit’s WS is increased by 1. All of the
Darkmaker’s troops are training in the ways of close combat!

Light Infantry: Allows the unit on extra roll for difficult terrain, Infiltration, all this for 10
Points a unit to represent the Darkmaker’s Stealth and Skill!

And the allowed unit of Rough Riders riding dark lizard like creatures seen here: [link]
To allow me to support other units fast!

With the troops capable of infiltration and deep striking (if I choose to) makes them very flexible, supported by a variety of tanks which shall be modelled to appear deamonic and I ain’t talking about just sticking a few spiky bits and icons on them!

I’m currently working on Names so far I have either Darkmakers, Sons Of Shadow, The Brotherhood Of Chaos, The Brotherhood Of Darkness!
Feel free to offer you ideas for a name to this Dark Army?

One last thing what do you think to the Banner, the final one for the army’s command squad will be more detailed: [link]

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V5 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7500606/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7500606/ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:07:05 PST Well now I have the designs for the tanks sorted GW doesn't allow any type of allies in the GT so my over ruling Chaos Lord is out the window but that can work to my advantage. Anyway I need to think of easy mix and match conversions for the soldiers themselves. I have come up with 2 Conversion ideas for these Chaos Guardsmen one of the key things I have to keep in mind is that I believe the 4+ armour upgrade is well worth the points however I will dump it if necessary!:

1. Using Eldar Guardian bodies to represent their armoured/protective suits cut of the Shruken weapon and replace it with a Lasgun and use a mix of catachan and Var-Sar heads (from the sprues from Necromunda [link] )
The armour will be painted Black with grey and metal highlights, the skin an unhealthy colour. Veterans will have blood smeared icons on their armour such as hand prints as well as cloaks (Possibly from the new Wood Elf Guard) along with sergeants.
As you can guess this idea was inspired by the ‘Necromongers’ from ‘Chronicles Of Riddick’ and the Fremen from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’

The 5 Doctrines I have chosen to represent the Stealthy Army is:
Drop Troops: All units can Deep Striking at no extra cost, this representing the troops either parachuting in or coming up from underground, Nasty!
Iron Discipline: Unit can regroup even in under half strength and ignore the morale modifiers for it.
Hardened Fighters: For 10 points the unit’s WS is increased by 1.
Light Infantry: Allows the unit on extra roll for difficult terrain, Infiltration for 10pts
With Rough Riders as the specialised unit!

Or

2. I stick with the idea of Chaos Space Marine legs and Chaos Marauder torsos and heads only this time armed with Lasguns and Imperial Guard weaponry [link]

The 5 Doctrines I have chosen to represent the Stealthy Army is:
Drop Troops: All units can Deep Striking at no extra cost, this representing the troops either parachuting in or coming up from underground, Nasty!
Iron Discipline: Unit can regroup even in under half strength and ignore the morale modifiers for it.
Hardened Fighters: For 10 points the unit’s WS is increased by 1.
Caraspace Armour: 4+ armour save for 20 pts a unit.
With Ogryns as the specialised unit!


Which one do you think works the best and why?

I’ll be putting together 2 small 5 man squads of each idea and see which one looks more evil


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Imperial Guard Gone Renegade!!

Yep you heard me Imperial Guard; it is different yet similar to my current 40K armies. It will also allow me a lot of conversion work from the basic Guardsmen to the Leman Russ to make the Guard appear really evil! I would prefer using the Codex Imperial Guard over the Eye Of Terror Codex due to the Guardsmen being more flexible and a lot tougher than traitor guardsmen. I’m also thinking about having them Mechanised to make them more mobile and also giving them carapace armour as it is worth the points. Plus I might have a unit of ‘Fallen’ Grey Knights or something similar attracted to them, to represent the Chaos Lord that rules them!

I’m start work on an army list tomorrow but until then any thoughts on my decision?

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V5 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7449741/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7449741/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:38:47 PST I've been so caught up in ideas recently that I have forgot that one of my objectives apart from to make it effective in battle and amazing to look at (without tons of work) is to have something completely different in the ways of playing compared to most 40k armies! Something that is very original (The Possessed Tank Company for example!)

So Feel Free To Give Me Any Ideas For An Army That Fits The Description Above?

By the way I'm getting tired of this, so I aim to have finally decided which army I’m going for and start work on it at the end of this month!!

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Once again I trouble you for your thoughts about my army for the Grand Tournament next year and just now while looking through the ‘Chaos Space Marines Collectors Guide’ I came across an excellent conversion featuring a Possessed Land Raider with eyes and demonic features located inside the tanks doors and hatches. So the thought dawned on me why not create an army of Possessed Space Marine tanks! Sadly because all Chaos tanks are heavy support it restricts me to only 4 vehicles where if I used the Loyal space marine rules I get techmarines, land speeders and all sorts of useful stuff for such an army. I’ve have just emailed the Events at GW to ask them if it would be legal to do so.
Think about it 3 tanks, 3 Dreads and a few rhinos and land speeders backed up by a very small amount of marines and you got a nasty army! Whole enemy squads harmless except for one heavy weapon which can’t hit all the time? The only thing that I fear in the game is 1. Necrons as those nasty 6’s can cause a problem and 2. Omega rules which puts all tanks in reserve which is why I’ll probably have a few space marines or scouts (which one do you recommend?)

A Hard Hitting Army & Limitless Conversion Opportunites
Sounds Like A Good Army
What Do You Think?

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V4 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7404292/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7404292/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:42:24 PST

I did plan to draw a Pic or Proiteus smiling for once at a 5 year old little girl who offered him a flower and patting her on the head in the snow! But due to a lack of time i was unable to finish it in time so i'll show you a treat i found on DA you might find it funny i know i did. I've had a rough day and it was just what i needed to cheer me up

[link]

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V4 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7403469/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7403469/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:38:37 PST One last question: Considering I’m deciding to have the Dragoons capable of switching from different pieces of equipment rather than their standard daggers and mounted pistols! So apart from engineering tools what other type of equipment do you think the Dragoons be able to fitted with?
Remember that they are very small I’d say around the size of an average computer monitor! Also considering the average Dragoon is armed with weapons already I don’t want any Dragoons fitted with 6 ranged weapons, so I basically looking any specialised Dragoons any ideas?

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Rather than do poll after poll I created this small Questionnaire just answer the questions in you comment for example:
1. 2 I think would be better because…
2.B
3.D
And so fourth!

Answer the Questions to what you think and ignore other people’s answers!

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Question 1: How many Dragoons do you think Proiteus should have keeping in mind they are his bodyguard and henchmen 24/7? (Please explain your choice)

Question 2: What should be the main ranged weapon of a Dragoon keeping in mind there are only able to carry pistol type weapons due to their size?
A: Autopistols
B: Laspistols
C: A Small Blast of Electricity (keep in mind that very few shots will hit the target)
D: Other (Please Specify?)

Question 3: Should all of the Dragoons be armed with Power Knifes?
A: Yes the more the better?
B: No Too Powerful?
C: Only the (head) Dragoon the rest with normal knifes!

Question 4: How should the Dragoons be equipped?
A: They should all be permently equipped with different types of tools and weapons suited to their personal tasks and skills which can be used as weapons!
B: They should all be able to be switch from different pieces of equipment rather than their standard daggers and mounted pistols! Weather it be engineering tools, Data Equipment even some sort of shield generators or nothing at all for quicker speed when it is needed!
C: No equipment leave it up to the Servo Skulls to do the hard work!

Question 5: In the way of skills how should the Dragoons be approached?
A: All the Dragoons have the Same Skills!
B: Certain Dragoons certain tasks!

Question 6: How should the Dragoons be represented indervaly?
A: By colour perhaps different shades of blue!
B: Certain Patterns on the armour?
C: A Number in Roman on the robot (Please suggest where?)
D: Have them look all the same?
E: Other (Please Specify?)

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Thanks for you help
Merry Xmas

--40K Battles--
Iron Falcons: V4 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
V= Victories
T= Ties or Draws
D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7374156/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7374156/ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:40:53 PST Basiclly I've made a few points of what is good and bad about the army being represented by one of these three Chaos Armies:

Death Guard
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Good: 1. Nurgle has a lot of Wargear that represents Death more than any other force!
2. I could use Scorpion Swarms (from the Tomb Kings selection) as Nurglings, as i like the idea of them.
3. Extra toughness and fearlessness makes them harder to put down like most undead warriors.

Bad: 1.Being risen from the dead may make warriors harder to put down and kill but it would by no means make them any tougher. (It is because of all the pus and swealing that make the Death Guard Toughter.

Thousand Sons
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Good: 1. The mark of Tzeentch adds another wound to the warrior's profile, makes them fearless and slow, these are often very good qualities found in Zombies!
2. The Thousand Sons have Sorcerers leading their ghost like warriors just like the Darkmakers have Sorcerers controling the undead warriors in their squads.

Bad: 1. There Bloody Expensive at 24 points a warrior!
2. The force is too limited gamewise due to them having hardly any skill in close quarters with an Initive of 1 and being unable to take any Veteran Skills such as Infiltration! (which means I’ll have to spend points and money on Rhinos!)

Alpha Legion
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Good: 1. Cheep Infiltation!
2. More Options!
3. Also I would be able to field human zombies or skeleton warriors as Cultists.

Bad: 1. There is no way I can increase the marines to make them harder to kill such as added toughness or an extra wound. So they can only be played as normal marines!

With those points in mind which do you think works the best??

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Also recently I’ve noticed how I was ruining Proiteus look as a lone warrior by giving him his own warband and even Kill Team (The Purifiers) So I decided to scrap it all so and that the warriors of the Warband & Purifiers were called for when they were needed. In fact the only thing that remains close to Proiteus is his Dragoon Robots (Read the description on the Reference Sheet for more info) I’ve currently designing them should all 4 be the same or should each one have an distinct difference? Should they all have certain skills or all have the same skills and just be equipped to handle a certain task?

Once Again Your Thoughts??

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Iron Falcons: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7355720/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7355720/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:10:55 PST
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Iron Falcons: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7321773/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7321773/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:33:29 PST Well here is what could be looking to be the final army list, I play tested it today and it came out quite well now all it needs is perfecting:

186 Chaos Lord: Deamonic Armour, Strength, Aura, Speed, Mark Of Nurgle, Manreaper, Frag Grenades and skilled with Furious Charge and Infiltrate!!

179 Chaos Space Marine Squad: 7 Space Marines with Mark Of Nurgle and Infiltate, 5 Bolters, 1 Meltagun and 1 Champion with Powerfist and Boltpistol!
X5 = 895 (1 Of these is a Havoc Squad with no weapons)

30: 3 Nurglings

30: 3 Nurglings

205: Defiler: Indirect Fire and Mutanted Hull

I'll answer the question before it pops up about why i have small groups of Nurglings?
Well because my all my foot troops are infiltating if i ever came up against an Infiltrating army i would need something in my deployment zone to restrict their deployment so they don't suffercate mine by sprending the Defiler and Nurglings out I restrict him from deploying his army all over the board and forcing me to infiltrate in a certain area!

I did have 7 Plaguebearers but i planning to replace them! Any Ideas what i can spend 154 points on for an all Infiltrating Nurgle Army?

Also what do you think to my new Icon and ID?

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Iron Falcons: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
Darkmakers: V1 T0 D1
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7293581/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7293581/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:09:27 PST I couldn't help myself adding that to the tittle. Please join our debate between me and Wordbearer on how to represent my dead marine army? You comments could help me accend to the final of next years Grand Tournament

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The origins of The Darkmaker Legion is a mystery however recent investigation reveals that they may of originated from around 4 Millennia after the ‘Horus Heresy’ as a loyal marine chapter known as the Light Bearers who had a large number of psychic priests who had the unique ability to heal the wounds of others and even revive the dead using the powers of the warp however this was a dangerous procedure and only the Chapter Master Marcus could fully use this ability as he was the only true master of this great power and was rumoured to be gifted with immortality. He was said to be blessed with the Emperors hands by many of the planets the Light Bearers had saved. Although it was because of their unique ability to revive the dead that had their Chapter exiled from the Imperium by the Inquisition on the crime of using dark sorcerery.
In hope that his chapter would be forgiven Marcus made an oath to kill the Chaos Warmaster Abaddon. However a few years later despite their highly successful campaign against chaos Marcus was assassinated by an Imperial Assassin, this was the main turning point for the chapters fall to chaos. This as well as many other events that followed twisted the Light Bearers into the Renegade Space Marine Legion known as the Darkmakers!
The Darkmaker’s Priests use their dark powers to revive the dead of their fallen brothers and even the enemy troops to booster their ranks. Because once they are awakened they are merely an extension of the Dark Priest’s will. The Darkmakers remain on the quest to defeat Abaddon however many years after their fall to chaos their current leader lord Raban Hellscream now seeks to kill Abaddon and claim lordship over the forces of chaos.

This is a rough draft of the History, so it is possiable that there will be a few changes soon! Also with this kind of chapter background it allows me to be very creative and do a lot of conversion work as the main troops are nothing but dead space marines also i have plans to build a scorpion defiler [link] (go to the Tenezzch Army and look up the Defiler at the bottom of the screen), The Dark Priests will act as champions for my squads created from Dark Angel bodies, Classic Chaos Warrior arms (those chunky halberds look so cool) and backpacks with Braziers attracted at the sides from the Undead coach. The Army will use Nurgle Rules as it’s excellent to represent for them being half dead. Also because the army has a different history it means I might be able to still use my paint scheme [link] which I’m am very keen on!

Now to construct an effective Nurgle Army List to construct it from!

So what do you think to my plan?

--40K Battles--
Space Marines: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7256008/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7256008/ Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:02:19 PST After alot of thinking i thought that if i'm am really going to amaze people at the GT with conversion i don't just need a lot of the same conversion but a wide variety of miniature for example maybe a Defiler, i've always wanted to create the scorpion like version
So i'm not looking at a large variety of units to go in my army.
Any Ideas?

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Well my Warhammer 40,000 Hellscreamer Crisis continues as I try to find the most effective Chaos army list to suit my converted marines [link] but at the moment I’m using other models to represent them.

I tried my all infiltrating army today against Space Wolves and failed badly despite my Oblivators blowing up every tank he had on the board and worst Raban was the first one to die!

So I shall continue to explore other unique army ideas here is the other 2 ideas to be
Tested:

1. An army of the dead tons of zombies (as much as I can get) backed up by marine units and traitors. I mean how much firepower can take down around 200 models
Or
2. An all flying and mobile army using space marine traits allowing me to equip all my tactical marines with jumpbacks that shall be converted using my original Hellscream conversions [link] only with added classic Tyranid Gargoyle wings backed up by converted Land Speeders and maybe some bikes.

Tell me what you think and help me out here as well as put a vote into my pole: [link]

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Space Marines: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7218234/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7218234/ Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:31:13 PST & (Thanks you two)
BUT AS FOR THE REST OF YOU NO ONE COMMENTS ON MY WORK ANYMORE!!

AND WHY NOT? DON'T I COMMENT ON MOST OF YOUR WORK?

Now thats out of my system i'm going to have some booze

Bye

--40K Battles--
Space Marines: V3 T3 D4
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
V= Victories
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7134555/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7134555/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:08:23 PST
The bloody thing had me troubled all night as i had plans to buy the new Dwarf army set

But just a few mins ago i visited the Specialist Games site to ask them about this foolish action. The only thing that has happened is that there has been a misunderstanding the Inquisitor figures are not be discontinued only repackaged to better suit the new catalog. For example the small conversion kit available for the female enforcer will be included in the box with her to allow you more choice

But I've emailed Andy at Fanatic just to make sure!

Altogether one giant shock a small sigh of relief and one giant slap for Games Workshop Kind!!

--40K Battles--
Space Marines: V3 T3 D3
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7037885/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/7037885/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:01:42 PST [link] BUT THIS IS AWSOME AFTER THE FIRST DAY 19 FAVS THE NEXT 16 THEN 15.. YOU CAN EXPECT A LOT MORE RAVEN PIC FROM ME

Also I Have Some Info On The New Tau That Some Of You Might Find Interesting: [link]

Most of you will know of the new Warhammer Fantasy strategy game by Namco and It's just had me in stitches I admire their bravery or maybe just their stupidty anyway here it is...

[link]

Tell us what you think of it. Hope you like it?

--40K Battles--
Space Marines: V3 T3 D2
Necrons: V2 T2 D3
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6991604/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6991604/ Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:58:23 PST , after all the character designs and rough storyboards , my comic is sinking like the Titanic before it has even left the harbour. The reason is the member of my team who was responsible for drawing the pages who was really good at comics has pulled out , and like a car with no wheels my team ain’t going nowhere! And before anyone asks I haven’t got the skill necessary to create a comic as I have discovered before with many failed attempts!! (bangs fists on table )

So if anyone is looking at helping me create a comic I would welcome your help greatly to apply just draw Proiteus and I’ll tell you if you’ve made the cut! (according to my team’s opinion)

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Space Marines: V3 T3 D2
Necrons: V2 T1 D2
V= Victories
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6899285/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6899285/ Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:19:27 PDT
So would you please comment on my work just to let me know what you think of it, is it crap, and if so why?

I’m just worried about uploading the first page of the comic and only getting 3 comments on it!!



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Space Marines: V3 T3 D1
Necrons: V2 T1 D2
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6838243/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6838243/ Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:50:40 PDT [link]

--40K Battles--
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Necrons: V2 T1 D2
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6802195/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6802195/ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:15:23 PDT
Its been nearly two months since i uploaded anything and thats cause at the begining of september my photoshop program on my PC at home stopped working and the laptop i got for Uni (and bloody good one for half price !) doesn't come with the software so as the weeks have gone by and i've been sketching one picture after another most of them character designs for the "Guardians Of Justice" comic i hope to start before christmas Also Hell Screamer Conversion Ideas for my chaos army i brought everything i need for an 2000pts army off Ebay for only £30 pounds and thats cheep

Also i've been listening to the tracks from Sonic games one of my flat mates who is doing Game Design lent it to me and i drew up a Sonic character of my own while listening to it. Plus my Raven picture has reached an...
AMAZING 35 FAVOURITES!!!!
so i plan to do another one.

Hopefully i'll have Photoshop on my Laptop by the end of this week and i'll be back in business

Bye For Now

--40K Battles--
Space Marines: V3 T2 D1
Necrons: V2 T1 D2

V= Victories
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D= Defeats ]]> *Proiteus http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6624578/ http://Proiteus.deviantart.com/journal/6624578/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:08:52 PDT The bad side is cause of the amount of work I’ll have I will be unable to spend as much time on artwork and DA. So I will only make one appearance every two weeks.

I also started up to projects in my spare time which is to…
1. Create Proiteus as an Inquisitor miniature.
2. With a little help from my friends at Uni start up the Guardians of Justice Comic

Well until then see ya

]]> *Proiteus