Northern Invasion photos

 I'm just going to photo dump all the other photos from the Northern Invasion 2025 tournament here for your viewing pleasure. 

Extra models

Alongside the marines I painted in the last post, I also had a number of other random models that I painted and built. 

The only models that I actually painted were these AoS Gryph hounds. 

I have painted these up to act as cyber-mastiffs for the subductor squads I painted up last year. I really only need two of them but I have several, eight actually, so decided to paint a more. Three others were nicked by my boy for his D&D character to act as familiar's for his elf ranger. (I think ones an actual pet and the other two are familiars)

I have two more that are unpainted as I don't actually have a need for them and so am waiting to paint them up, plus they are on bigger bases as the pose means they don't fit on 25mm bases, required for the doggos. 

Next up is a new Inquisitor. I already have four Inquisitors, Lord Inquisitor Laurissa and her cabal of Inquisitors, consisting of Inquisitor Sophiana, Inquisitor Tamhas and Inquisitor Jameelis, well, now they have been joined by Inquisitor Danihael. 

Inquisitor Tamhas has heavy Scion leanings, Inquisitor Sophiana has Sister of Battle vibes and Inquisitor Jameelis is AdMech influenced, so Inquisitor Danihael needed to lean another way, so he's gone more of the imperial guard route (or maybe imperial navy?). 

He is armed with a shotgun and sword, or combi-weapon and inquisitorial melee weapon. 

I'm not sure what colour scheme he will get yet, most of the inquisitors have a blacka and red scheme, except Sophiana, who has purple and black, but I'm tempted to go for a different scheme here, maye more green or blue(if I go navy). 

In addition I also built some more other models, the Combat Patrol issue 31, a Chaos Dark Apostle. This come with one chaos marine and two other models. After some minor conversion work, I've made a chaplain (maybe?)

Some minor work is still needed to finish off the green stuff work on the book. 

So of the chaos runes and details have been removed and one of the shoulder pads was replaced with a generic one. 

I'm looking forward to painting this model up but I actually don't know where I'm going to use it. It won't fit in to the Eagle Knights (Blood Angels), Dark Guardians (Dark Angels) or the Stone Dragons (Space Wolves) but might have fitted in to the Emperors Disciples (generic SM\Ultramarines) or Brazen Hawks (generic SM\Deathwatch). My first thought was Brazen Hawks but I'm pushing this towards Gravis armour. So that really only leaves the Emperors Disciples, or maybe I'll put it in to the Doom Eagles?

I will have to see what happens. The last models were the two Dark Disciples that came with the marine. These two required some work to remove the various chaos iconography and details but nothing too difficult. 

The most difficult part was filling in the chaos star on the book holder. This was filled with green stuff and I also put some scrolls on the top side. 

These will be painted up to match the three AoS models I painted a while back. I still have no idea what I'm ever going to use these as, but they will make a very cool looking squad of models (maybe some sort of Inquisitorial retinue?)

The AoS models in question. 

 

1k game 2

 After game 1, game 2 was a bit of a relief. This was more of the type of games I had been hoping for, with a very quirky list! 

The guard list I was facing was one Basilisk and lots of troops! And I mean lots! There was at least 120 of them!

I was really worried that I was going to struggle to actually get through all the bodies and he was just going to rampage all over me and bog me down with sheer numbers and for a some parts of the battle field, that's exactly what did happen!

The long fight!

One area where this happened was in the centre where two of my dreadnought were. Both ended up in combat with a 20 man squad of guardsmen and while they did not take much damage, a couple of wounds a piece, it took a long time for them to get through the guard as well! With just 5 attacks hitting on 3's it took a long time to chew through 20 guardsmen. 

The rhino had a similar problem, as it got swamped on an objective and spent much of the game just trying to squash guardsmen, rather unsuccessfully!

The Rogue Trader and Voidsmen again did very little, just sitting on the back field objective chilling. They probably could have done something this game but holding my home objective was good enough. I had thought about splitting the squads and running the voidsmen up the table but decided to just let the Deathwatch get on with it. 

This was a really fun game, with both of us just having fun and not worrying about who was winning or scoring cards or more accurately stopping the opponent scoring. 

The game very much swung in my favour towards the end but to be honest, if I had lost I wouldn't have minded at all, this was probably the best game of the weekend and my opponent was really in the spirit of this tournament, silly list and zero shits given. 

Extra Marines

 So with all the new guard models shown off, it's time to show some other models I've painted recently. These were originally my son's marines and he started painting some up, as something different to his T'au, however, he lost interest when he started painting his orks and they have sat on his desk ever since. 

As I didn't have much to paint at the time I thought I would paint up the marines and add them to my own forces. Initially, I thought I would paint them up to match the chapters they were to be added to, but in the end I decided to keep them as my son had started and so a small force of Doom Eagles was completed. 

This force is actually formed from the Imperium magazine sprues for the Vanguard space marine set, although the sprue with the captain on is missing. This means that some adjustments had to be made as there were six infiltrators and only two eliminators and two suppressors. The eliminators gained a infiltrator as a Sgt but the suppressors are still sitting waiting for another marine to join them before they are painted. 

The Infiltrators (or possibly Incursor squad)

Eliminators, with borrowed Infiltrator Sgt 

Actual Eliminators

I was tempted to get the missing sprue to complete the squads but at over £30 for a copy off eBay that wasn't happening. I also thought about getting just a suppressor but the options on eBay are £20 for 3, giving me the same problem of being one short still or £25 for one model! If 11th goes back to points per model then it will solve the problem as I'll just run a single squad with all 5 models that I have!