Orjetax’s in-game photos and short narratives

[Orjetax]

A thread to compile fun in-game photos that fall short of a battle report.

From my most recent game with my chaos squats (40K): Gribblies (as poxwalkers) guard a chaos squat still in its test chamber (as infected objective). Of course, the test subject is from Olley’s armies psychic mutant scrunts. The Gribblies are from late 90s or early 00s game, Vor: The Maelstrom.

Lightly armored chaos squat scouts secure another test subject. I played these lightly armored squats as chaos cultists. They’re a mix of a Macrocosm Kickstarter (multi part minis with various heads) and the Big head hybrid space dwarf fan sculpts from a Facebook group.

Chaos squat scouts advance in the light of their bio-portal. The portal here is an Olley sculpt (of course) from a mid-2010s Kickstarter, possibly by Knightmare miniatures? One of my all time favorite paint jobs I’ve done, used an acrylic pour for the swirling surface of the portal. In game it counted as some fortification piece and did almost nothing (other than looking fantastic).


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[symphonicpoet]

I remember that portal. It's a pile of wrong. Knightmare sounds right. Great stuff! The infected diggers look great too. Aren't at least one or two of those also Olleys?

 

[Orjetax]

I remember that portal. It's a pile of wrong. Knightmare sounds right. Great stuff! The infected diggers look great too. Aren't at least one or two of those also Olleys?

I’m not sure I remember this correctly, but I think the multi part ones from Macrocosm have Olley heads but bodies by that prolific squat group sculptor, if memory serves his name is Steve Marchant?


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[symphonicpoet]

^That makes sense. They look like one of the Macrocosm Kickstarters to me, but I don't doubt they've used several sculptors over the years. And there's enough stuff similar to Macrocosm out there that I may well be wrong even on that. (Since they are themselves, after all, pretty similar to Citadel space dwarves for some reason.) Glorious stuff!

 

[Orjetax]

^That makes sense. They look like one of the Macrocosm Kickstarters to me, but I don't doubt they've used several sculptors over the years. And there's enough stuff similar to Macrocosm out there that I may well be wrong even on that. (Since they are themselves, after all, pretty similar to Citadel space dwarves for some reason.) Glorious stuff!

Oh yes. They certainly were a Macrocosm Kickstarter.


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[Orjetax]

THE DERRO took to the field against some collectivists who REJECT THE ONE TRUE BIOMASS!

Political unity is NONSENSE! TECHNOBIOLOGICAL unity is an IMPERATIVE!

Stranded by the destruction of their transport beast, a squad of DERRO (as plague marines) rapidly disassembled some kroot, but found themselves surrounded by the foe’s highly maneuverable short range firepower.

Elsewhere, a vatgrown war beast (as predator annihilator) blew a trio of collectivist mech suits off an objective.

Although THE GOOD DOCTOR (as daemon Prince with wings) tore apart a hover tank and more kroot, it succumbed to the counter fire. THE GOOD DOCTOR’s scraps were dutiful collected and will be regrown in the birthing vats.


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[Orjetax]

This species is BIOLOGICALLY SIMILAR to the source deoxyribonucleic acid of THE DERRO.

The sophistication of their technology must also BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

They practice intraspecies unity only. This is VILE and must be REJECTED. All species and things belong to the ONE TRUE BIOMASS.

These foes were STRIPPED FOR PARTS.

THE DERRO and some helper mutants advance through the ruins.

The foe’s heavy tank advances towards DERRO exo armor.


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[Orjetax]

A flesh portal opens, and THE GOOD DOCTOR emerges from the shrieking gap that yawns between the stars.

Close combat is soon joined in the middle of the battlefield.

Scout bikes appeared on THE DERRO flank, seizing an objective and vaporizing the helper mutants to do so. Their success was short lived as elements of THE DERRO were able to pivot quickly and eliminate them.

As THE DERRO prevailed in the center of the battlefield, the biologically similar foes withdrew. Many parts of the foes and their machines will be stripped and put to appropriate use in service of the ONE TRUE BIOMASS.


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[Citizen Sade]

Loving the Doctor & the portal, in particular.

 

[Orjetax]

Loving the Doctor & the portal, in particular.

Thank you, me too!
I get a lot of use out of the portal. It’s been a terrain piece, a marker for “infected objective” under 40K 10th edition rules, and an aesthetic representation of teleport or deep strike style effects.


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[Orjetax]

The RED ONES seek to NEGATE life.
They wish to pile skulls on a THRONE.
They offer BLOOD to METAPHYSICAL ENTITIES.
This does not put biological material to USEFUL ENDS.
This WASTE must be OPPOSED.

The battle is JOINED.

Firing in overwatch, THE DERRO’s nanite weapons (as plague belchers, spewers, and a sprayer) BLUNT the charge of the ELITE RED TROOPS.

An AMALGAM fails in its INTENDED USE.


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[Orjetax]

DERRO exo armors materialize improvidently and do little.

But they do find their way to tearing apart this RHINO (inorganic).


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[Brother Meredith]

Grand to see your army taking on those red monstrosities! What rules were you playing?

 

[Orjetax]

Grand to see your army taking on those red monstrosities! What rules were you playing?

This was tenth edition (the current edition) 40K!

Not what I, or probably anyone on the Oldhammer forum, would pick first (my nostalgic age is 2nd edition black codex) but I like what it offers nonetheless.

1. Although more “game-y” than an old school edition, it is also much more balanced.

2. Streamlined rules allow you to play a game with more models on the table and actually finish (a big plus for me as my major focus is - getting the models that I want on the table, on the table)

3. Many rules have been “off loaded” from the model to the text, which means you can tweak the rules you play under without a ton of pressure to change what the models look like.

It lacks the crunch or RT or 2nd Ed but my only serious criticism is the focus on “balance” encourages a tabletop that’s a bit too geared towards the play rather than the aesthetics — a bit too symmetrical, terrain pieces that are too uniform.


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[Orjetax]

But I do like to add some more visual flair to it. My army has a rule that allows what’s called “sticky objectives” (to score on an objective, it is not necessary for my army to remain on it continuously to score continuously, only long enough to score and then I will continue scoring on the objective until an opponent takes it)

And I like to represent this by doing things like planting a chaos squat test subject on the objective.