Lands to Raid part 2

Hello, this is Neverness. A few months ago I took some pics of some of Kushial's vehicles in order to use the pics for this blog. They never got used accept for a few and I decided to go ahead and show off more pics of his tanks. In particular I want to show off his really nicely painted Land Raider Crusader.

This tank really caught my eye on the gaming table due to it's lights. He has such a perfect, yet simple, technique for painting headlights that really works well. I think he is far more successful at painting a convincing looking light than what I have been able to achieve on my own models

Look into the lights... keep staring at them as I Tank Shock you!

I wanted to write a bit more though, so I was pushing Kushial to come up a name and a history for this tank, but I guess he couldn't come up with anything, and he told me that he had never worked up a naming convention for his vehicles (yet). I was suggesting all sorts of weird stuff, which probably didn't help! LOL. Since he didn't approve this thing I sent him, here is what I sent him anyway. This is unofficial.

 Land Raider XXI was deployed to the 3rd Company as early as 556M38 and fought in many campaigns before becoming seriously damaged during the Druidian Revolt of M39. It was retrofitted and re-equipped into a Land Raider Crusader and assigned to Warzone Antonius where it was instrumental in over-throwing the forces of Chaos Cultists lead by the Arch Deviant Screech 'The Mouth of Tzeentch', and leading the spearhead that broke the 5 year siege. After this the Lions of the 3rd Company nicknamed the Land Raider "The Indomitable Wrath"

I have more pics of his vehicles, so if he doesn't come up with a naming convention, I just might keep coming up with my own, what do you think>

Lands to Raid

So, this blog post is for the heavy support transports we all love, Landraiders.

The fleet assembled

So yeah .... I've got a few landraiders.  They make great visuals on the tabletop, and the different variants allow for very different play styles and tactics.

Crusading

So there are three landraider crusaders, the one in the front the only one that's painted to the Lions' color scheme.

Standard Pattern

Only two of the standard landraiders but I'm starting to enjoy this pattern more and more as the twinlinked lascannons on the durability of the landraider hull really can be a game changer.

Burn it, burn it all!

My pair of landraider redeemers which use to be my favorite version back in the previous marine codex.  I frequently played a list with Vulkan in it and he gave the redeemer a big boost by twin linking that meltagun and flame cannon sponsons.  These days I rarely field this variant.

Bringing all firepower to bear

And then finally there are my two Terminus Ultras.  I've not got to field either of them yet, but I really want to one of these days.  Five lascannons with three of them twin-linked just has to be devastating to hit with.

And that's my collection so far.  The reason I say so far is that I really want to get an Achilles.  An Ares with that Vindicator cannon could also be fun to have.  But having watched a number of battle reports on them now, the Achilles with a techmarine inside is about as close to invulnerable as a landraider can get.  It's immune to the extra D6 pen from melta, immune to lance, can take a dozer blade to help not immobilize on terrain since it lacks a front assault hatch, ...   Then look at it's firepower.  It has a thunderfire cannon in the front, twin-linked multimelta sponsons, and can add the multimelta pintle as well.  Yeah, one of these at least is on the want list.

So that's where I am at with the landraiders and we'll see what I come up with for my next post.