Iron Warrior Aspiring Champion.

Here is a few shots of an Iron Warrior Aspiring Champion that I finished recently.

He is a simple conversion.  I gave him a combi-bolter from a chaos terminator.  His power sword blade is from a Dark Elf spear.  His helmet is the standard Chaos champion with the horns removed.  And finally the servo arm is from the  techmarine servo-harness and servitor.  Hope you like it.

Necron Destroyer Lord

Here are a few images of my Necron Destroyer Lord.  He is a simple conversion but I like it.

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Of Iron Warriors

Ok lets talk Iron Warriors.  Iron Warriors were my first army back in the fall of 2000.  This was in third edition of Warhammer 40k, before the Index Astartes articles.  The only background I had to go was what was in the first Chaos codex for third edition.  That really was not that much.  I had a little of everything in that army: marines, tanks, and daemons.  It was fun but had no focus.

When the Iron Warriors Index Astartes article came out I found out a lot more about my army's background.  All my squad were either 6 or 9 man squads since the Iron Warriors perfered multiples and I no longer used daemons.  Best of all I now had a Basilisk in my army.  It would almost always get deployed in one of my corners and I got real good at range guessing fast.  One of its best moments was during a game against Dark Eldar where on the first turn I took out about half of there army with a well placed shot.  It obliterated a Raider with an Archon and his squad, destroyed another Raider and half its squad, and 2 jet bikes.  After that it was just a matter of gunning down the rest of the army.  I can see why Iron Warriors got such a bad reputation, but Imperial Guard could bring 3 times the fire power.

Then the 3.5 codex was released.  I had to make a few more changes to my army.  The basilisk was gone but now we got defilers.  I also lost beserkers but they were replaced with furios charge marines.  My army now was a focused ranged army with one or two melee squads for support.  I played a few fourth edition games with but finished college before their fourth edition codex came out.  Moving back to my hometown moved me away from gaming groups so I have been just collecting since then.

My army's theme now is based around that shown in  the Storm of Iron novel.  In that book there was one warsmith and three lieutenant in command of his own force.  My army is the 21st Grand Company, has 1 warsmith and 6 lieutenants divided into 3 different companies, each with their own specialty.  One company is the seige specialist, so a lot of tank and bunker busting squads.  A company that specializes in melee, to storm breaches in defenses or counter any threats to the ranged squads.  And finally a company that is more balanced.  I had planned this around the current codex but with the new one around the corner somethings are bound to change.

Howdy

Let me tell you a little about myself and what, as of now, my blog will mostly be about.  My name is Joseph and I am 29 years old.  I am married and have 3 wonderful daughters.  I am a Christian and have a great church family.  I work as a scientist for an air emissions testing company.  I am a graduate from Texas A&M University and majored in Wildlife and Fisheries Science.

OK enough about me, lets move on to the blog.  This blog will mainly be about my war gaming experiences.  I choose the name The Forces of Disorder because the armies I like are normally the "evil" races, with a few exceptions.  Since I have not played a game of Warhammer 40k since 2005, but plan to start again once I have a painted army again, this will mostly be hobby related.  Once I start playing again I will try to add some of my thoughts on the games I played, battle reports, and maybe even tactics if I come up with something that hasn't already been posted hundreds of times around the web.

My current goal is to get 1500pts of Necrons assembled and painted.  I have found some nice resin bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures that I am using for my army.  The only thing is Necrons can have a lot of flying bases in the army depending on what you take, and mine has 10 as of now.  My solution is since they are all large flying bases, 55mm, I will just stick them on 60mm bases.  This should be close enough to the original size that most people will be OK with it.  I will hopefully has this army finished by the end of summer, I know I am a slow painter, and then start back on my favorite army the Iron Warriors.  They have been the army that I played the most when I got started in Warhammer 40k, and I think will always be my favorite.

That's it for now.  Later this week I will try and post up my army list and maybe some pictures of my Necron Destroyer Lord.