One heck of a weekend...

As the post title suggests it has been one heck of a weekend. There have been lots of new purchases for the army, battles fought, models painted and photos taken. It's going to take at least a few posts over the coming week to fit everything in.

Before I start there are now gallery photos of the Highland Guard with proper lighting and background. There is also a new objective marker and the chimera to accompany the Veterans.

So where to begin...

This weekend I took part in a tournament at Triple Helix in Westbury, Wiltshire. It consisted of 4 battles, two of 1250pts and then an escalation to 1750pts for another two games. Units used in the 1250 had to be in the 1750 and could not be altered.

With the tournament in mind I got all of my Praetorians out of their cases and set about writing an army list. In doing so I just couldn't resist taking some photos of the whole army, so here you go. The finished elements of the Praetorian IV Mechanised Infantry.

The Inquisitorial Valkyrie attached to the army.

INCOMING!!!

There you have it, the army as it stands this weekend. Also 12 explosion markers I use for my wrecked or damaged tanks.

I will post again in the next couple of days with details of what happened at the tournament and a bumper load of photos of the battles and other armies.

Any comments are very welcome!

What's new? Praetorians that's what!

As the eagle eyed informed me earlier today, the 4th Praetorian Mechanised Infantry were seen on manoeuvers not once, not twice, but thrice on the GW what's new section of todays website!

I sent them some photos and a blurb a few weeks ago and they said they liked them, sent them a few more of the newly finished tanks the other day and as if by magic on GW they appear, needless to say I'm pretty chuffed. Followers of my blog will have seen the photos before (possibly there is a new one of the rough riders with better colour), but there is a new blurb about them which speaks more of why I collect Praetorians. Also check out some photos of Big Toof River from back in the day, almost 15 years ago, surely it is about time for a rematch against the Ork foe? Also well done to Commisar Dave, who's Colonel featured as well!


Here's a little update of my painting table for today, we have the HQ chimera Salamander which (other than the crew) both just need chips and insignia painted. My inquisitorial Valkyrie (just needed a base, its the old forgeworld one so had to do some drilling and pinning) and two smoke markers. I decided that my tanks also need to look good as wrecks (what with fielding 10 of them) so smoke markers were a must!

Who knows, perhaps this represents a softening of the GW stance on pretending Praetorians don't exist anymore! We can only hope. All that is left to say is...

For Praetoria!