Transport week

The Land Raiders are in a bit of a strange place for me list wise. As an assault transport they can act as transport for Terminators, but given they have transport (2) and Terminators are bulky, they can take only a single unit. This is of course entirely in keeping with the canon for a Land Raider, but it does mean even a minimum detachment of Terminators will need a minimum four land Raiders which is 160 points. A detachment that can deep strike for, well, free.

So then you are left with using them as a (comparatively) expensive transport for tacticals or non-bulky support detachments. I'm also not feeling that. It would be nice if you could mix-and-match transports in a transport detachment, but sadly, the rules as currently written don't really allow that. All dedicated transport detachments must consist of the same vehicle and non-dedicated transports must be part of the same detachment. Equally, detachments opting to make use or a transport detachments (non-dedicated) must choose them from the same detachment.

All of this serves to give me a bit of a headache as Land Raiders are so OG I just want to include a ton in my army, but they just don't make themselves an easy option to work in.

That being said, they are pretty speedy and the forward deployment rule is super valuable, so maybe I should just bite the bullet and pony up the points. Either way, four are on the painting station as we speak and I'm liking the new iteration of yellow which I tweaked ever so slightly.

All things being equal I hope to get them finished this week and added to the Fists.

In early progress

Officially started on the White Scars formations. I've a handful of Assault and Skyhunter frames primed for painting this week also. These are more to get a feel for the palette I want to use. if there's one thing I've learned so far painting Legion forces is the process and palette evolves frequently. Both the Blood Angels and Fists are a good example of that. The former in particular has gone through several iterations before I got to a scheme I liked, that was quick to do and looked effective.

I think once these transports are done I'll be focusing much more just on the White Scars. There is one further unit I do want to add to the Angels, some Xiphons. But it's purely an indulgence as the flyer slot is already taken by the Thunderhawk, so they would be as an alternative force selection choice, or air support for a second (armoured) formation. No urgency however.

All of the above I will add to the gallery once they are fully complete. Until then, happy painting!

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