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11Nov/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIV

The base building continues, and I pick up where I left off last time with Part XIII, but added to further bases to cover the base design for the two Warhound Scout Titans.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII

I started with the base for the Warmaster, where I used the Falchion wreck as a primary piece for the base design. I cut down the tracks, to lower the height of the tank's silhouette.

28Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII

We're now in the post-Battle for Uulda part of this series and it is time to complete the Legio Astraman project. We're having for the main titan legio four (+maybe two further) models left;

As I'd like to cover the bases first, and I already built the Warmaster with a slightly raised leg, so he could stomp on something.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII

The idea was to recreate something that I did with one of the Warlord Titans (this one will be used with Legio Magna, so the similar pose doesn't bother me within Legio Astraman), and have him stand upon a lower terrain piece or upon a (super) heavy vehicle.

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20Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XII

Next and final step for the preparations for the Battle for Uulda, were the bases. I bought the name plates for the bases and command terminals from Versatile Terrain, and used their Print your own-service for the initial 7 bases.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XII

I went for the recessed plates with their Gothic (Calson Antique) font, without any further decoration (but most likely will go for some skulls or the eye of horus for the traitors) and chose the following names;

18Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. III

As the base decoration is dried and would be ready for further washes and dry brushing, I finished the trim and details on the models, it was time for further progress.

Adeptus Titanicus - House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. III

This meant a proper wash on both the bases and models. The later got a wash with Army Painter Dark Tone, but on a dampen surface, to use the capillary reaction of the water to bring in the pigments of the wash into the recesses.

14Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XI

While I made progress on the Knights of House Moritain, it would be time to move on with the remaining Legio Astraman Reaver. I did the bases the same way as before, and added the two dry brushes after Citadel Contrast Aggaros Dunes dried. I used Army Painter Desert Yellow and Army Painter Skeleton Bone, and brushed it over the feet of the miniatures later as well.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XI

As the armour plates were painted white and green, with the golden trim, I wanted to do the chevrons for some variation on left leg again and cut up some strips of masking tape and added the dark blue contrast in Citadel Base Paint Night Lords Blue. If you're not using an airbrush to do this, painting over the masking tape with the base colour creates cleaner edges, just like you would do on a wall.

12Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. II

We're jumping back in time to cover the progress on the miniatures for our Battle for Uulda campaign weekend. In addition to be a bit more flexible with my Legio Astraman, I added a few auxiliary knights from House Moritain.

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As we would be playing between 1.250 to 2.000 points, in different matches and to cover the different point sizes of in these lists, I added three Cerastus Lancers and two Acastus Knight Porphyrion to the backlog of the current project. As I already put the Lancers on bases, but with thin sheets of plastic between the feet and the base, to not have them sink into the base decoration, I repeated the same thing for the Acastus knights and covered initial base decoration.

9Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Battle for Uulda IV – Part 2

I gave you a brief overview on the first evening of the Battle for Uulda Part IV campaign weekend, so let us continue to the "main event" - the gaming on day two.

Adeptus Titanicus - Segmentum Pacificus Uulda Subsector

This year we put a bit more effort into the narrative, adding fan fiction to the conflict. We added the Uulda subsector in the Segmentum Pacificus, and Patrick / AuxiliaryMirelurk prepared an introduction on the lore as well.

8Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Battle for Uulda IV – Part 1

After last years gaming weekend, and my first time playing Adeptus Titanicus, the Battle for Uulda continued.For this we met pretty central in Germany and travelled from the North, the South and the West to get together to roll some dice and decide the fate of the Uulda subsector. Initially we were 8 players in total, with not only the stress of finishing the miniatures in time but as most of us are wargaming daddies, stay healthy long / get well soon enough for the weekend, with Hauke unfortunately having to cancel last minute and me held together by some meds.We had three different tables available, Uulda Prime, Uulda Minoris and the ash desert of the orbital moon, all equipped with fitting terrain.

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While the others bridged the time until everybody was there with Heroquest, quickly after I arrived on Friday late afternoon we picked up Titanicus, to refresh our knowledge of the rules (as for some of us, the last Battle for Uulda was the last time, we actually played Adeptus Titanicus). In case you want to freshen or get completely into the game, these videos by Tabletop Standard are very helpful.

8Oct/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Battle for Uulda IV Titan Walk

After the Battle for Uulda we used the chance that we were all together, had the miniatures and terrain out and build a quick setup to take some pictures of our maniples. Some were the same, you saw in last years battles and titan walk, others were new builds or had new miniatures added to them.

Adeptus Titanicus - Battle for Uulda IV Titan Walk

We used the gaming mats, along with the vast terrain collection of our host Broncofish, who had both the Civitas Imperialis terrain and his own 3d printed terrain, that he sculpted himself for GrimDarkTerrain.

29Sep/240

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. X

Only a few days until the next Battle for Uulda, and quite a bit to do. The regular maniple of the Legio Astraman has to be increased by a single Reaver Titan, and I need a few Knights to have the various lists between 1.250 and 2.000 points. Beyond that, a couple of smaller things to take care of, but let es see what the to-do list for Legio Astraman is so far:

  • Assembly of Reaver
  • Assembly of Sunfire Annihilator
  • Printing the further weapon options
  • Adding of magnets
  • Base decoration for Reaver
  • Name plates ordered
  • Name plates printed
  • Name plates painted
  • Decals sorted for Titans
  • Base paints
  • Washes and Highlights
  • Decals applied

So I build another Sunfire Annihilator for the Warlord Titan, and added the magnets to the Reaver as well as the weapon options. So we can check off two things from the to-do list.

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