March for Macragge: Part 6

Hi all, my first Ultramarines post of 2020 and I've painted a few things so far this year.  My new editions to my painted roster this year are a unit of Eliminators with bolt sniper rifles, a unit of 5 Incursors and a Primaris Lieutenant with power sword.

I now nearly have full company of Ultramarines painted with my captian and lieutenants having multiple models so they can be deployed with a variety of different load outs.

Eliminators are good little units that can do good damage if left alone and are resilient while in cover if the enemy decides to fire on them distracting for more valuable units.

Incusors are becoming a favourite unit of mine, being able to forward deploy, bully other infiltrating units, take objectives early and as they ignore to hit modifiers as well as exploding 6s in combat helps them with their role to deal with other infiltrating troops.

My Ultramarines are taking a bit of a back seat for a while but hopefully I will be bringing more updates on my other projects while we're under lockdown.

Tournament Operations: Alpha Game Warhammer 40000 - 2000 points - 15th March 2020

Last year I started off the Tournament Operations post with a trip to Alpha Games near Bury St Edmunds for a 1750 point 40k tournament in June, so this March I am going to return to Alpha Games for a 2000 point 40k tournament.  I will be hoping to do better this year than last as I've had a whole year of gaming plus another event to (hopefully) improve.  I will be taking my Ultramarines along again but this time without a Imperial Knight to support them as I have more Ultramarines units so no longer need it  to make the points level and also this will allow me to use the Combat Doctrines rule that Space Marines have received since my last visit.

A 2019 Retrospective - Neil's thoughts on 2019 and looking forward to 2020

Merry Christmas!

2019 has been a good year with a glut of new releases for many games that I both play and keep an eye on and its looking like 2020 will be the same.  2019 also saw this blog come into being back in January, which has provided me with somewhere to keep track of what I've been doing and to let anyone who is interested see what I've been working on. 

March for Macragge: Part 5

Hi all, this will be my final post for the Ultramarines in 2019 (but don't worry I already have plans for 2020 for them).  In November/December I painted up 2 squads of Eliminators with Las Fusils and Captain in Phobos Armour to complete my planned list for an event.  One of the big features on all of these models is the camo cloaks, which nothing I've painted so far has had, so as my basing was a winter urban style I went with a urban camo style.

Tournament Operations: Winter Assault 2019 AAR, Cambridge; 30th November

Hi all, so a couple of weeks ago I had the Winter Assault 2019 in Cambridge, this was a kind of ITC-lite style one day tournament with 14 players on the day with three rounds where you were matched against similarly scoring players in rounds 2 and 3. The list I took was my Ultramarines with the exact list being found in the previous Tournament Operations post.

Tournament Operations: Winter Assault 2019, Cambridge; 30th November

Hi all, I will be going to the Winter Assault 2019 tournament run by Rebel Wargaming, which appears to be a new tournament local-ish to me.  The event is a single day with 3 games being played, its a 1750 point size for the army with the standard matched play rules from the rulebook and chapter approved, while the missions are custom but appear to be based on the ITC style of mission (the full details are in the pack which can be found in the link above).

March for Macragge: Part 4

Hi all, its not been too long since my last one but I wanted to get back to doing these at the end of a month after missing that last one.  This month I have been painting up a Leviathan Siege Dreadnought with two Storm Cannons to add some brutal firepower able to threaten hordes and vehicles to my Ultramarines.

Here are the pictures of the finished Leviathan ready to gun down the enemies of the Imperium;

March for Macragge: Part 3

So this post is a bit late being the middle of October, but sometimes real life gets in the way so hobby time so I haven't had anything to show you till now.  This month (and a half) I have painted Chief Librarian Tigurius to add to my Ultramarines command cadre.

Tournament Operations: A New Codex and a New List; Initial Ideas

With the release of the new Codex Space Marines and the Codex Supplement Ultramarines, I have been having a think again about my plans for a tournament list.  I thought I'd share a few things I've found from reading the codex and what list I've decided will start me off on playing competitive games with the changes.

March for Macragge: Part 2

Hi all, its the end on August and I have finished painting all my Ultramarines that I had this month so though I'd get in a bit early with the pictures.  This month I have painted up a Repulsor Executioner and a Primaris Chaplain as new additions my Ultramarines force. 

March for Macragge: Part 1 - An Ultramarines Project by Neil

Hi all, welcome to my first post in my March for Macragge series, in which I'll be sharing how my Ultramarines are progressing each month to continue to build on what I've already done as part of our group Mustering for Vigilus series.  The month (June '19 if you're reading this in the "future") I have painted up a Lieutenant in Phobos armour and a Repulsor to add to my Ultramarines.  If you read my epilogue post for Mustering for Vigilus then this wouldn't come as a surprise but you can now find some close up pictures of these below.

Mustering for Vigilus: Neil's Ultramarines; Epilogue

Hi all, our Mustering for Vigilus group project has ended so I thought I would do a post to reflect on how it has gone, what I got painted and what my plans are now.

The Warhammer 40k project was done with the aim of getting all of use back into 40k a bit more and to build up forces to go to a doubles event so armies of around 750-1000 points.

Tournament Operations: Joint Ops; Wayland Games Warhammer 40,000 Monthly Doubles - 750pts per player - 13th July 2019

The Mustering for Vigilus project has come to an end so we are all going to Wayland Games for their Warhammer 40,000 Monthly Doubles event, and as the event is a doubles event we're going as two teams, Matt and myself being one team.

The format is 750 points per player, giving a combined 1500 points army per team, with no Lords of War being used for the event and the rule of 3 for datasheets and the maximum 2 detachments being per team rather than per player.  CP are also shared between the two players but the 3 CP for being battleforged is only applied once to the starting CP total.  The day will have 3 games being player with 1 Eternal War mission, 1 Maelstrom of War mission and 1 Open War mission so it gives what could be quite a hard spread of missions to actually get the lists working across but hopefully it will be a fun day playing games with nice people!

Mustering for Vigilus: Neil's Ultramarines; End of Month 6

So the end of our 6th month of the Mustering for Vigilus series is here so its time more another update on how painting Ultramarines have gone.  This is in fact the end of the Mustering for Vigilus group project to get our collections to the point where we can all go to a doubles event at Wayland Games.

My aim this month was to paint a couple of characters in the form of the Primaris Apothecary and the Primaris Librarian as well as another 5 Primaris Intercessors to bring me to a nice round 30.

So lets see how that went.

Bash the Back-log #3; Medge's April - June

This year I've pledged to #BashtheBacklog - taking steps to correct that most grievous (but widespread) of hobby sins; the backlog of unpainted plastic!

Last update covered the end of Feb, March and the start of April. It's been 2 and a half months... so where am I now?

Tournament Operations: Alpha Games Warhammer 40k Tournament - 1,750 points - 22nd June 2019

With the Mustering for Vigilus series coming to a close, I now have around 2000 points of painted Ultramarines so I though that I could start trying to form a good tournament list by going to events and iterating my list to improve how it plays rather than my usual thing of slapping some units together and hoping it works well.

Mustering for Vigilus: Neil's Ultramarines: End of Month 5

Its the end of May and its been another good month for my painting.  I had aimed to get 5 Intercessors and 3 Inceptors painted, and I have completed exactly that (though unlike the other months I haven't managed to compete any additional models)

Below are the pictures of these completed models:

Mustering for Vigilus: Neil's Ultramarines; End of Month 4

April is over and another stage in our tale of four gamers Mustering for Viligus is over.  This month I'd planned to paint a single Ultramarine, but he is the primogenator of the Chapter and the Legion before it, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman and some members of the Adeptus Custodes to accompany the Imperial Regent, a trio of Allarus Terminators.

So this was my aim, how did I do with the painting?

Bash the Back-log #2; Medge's Feb-April 2019

This year I've pledged to #BashtheBacklog - taking steps to correct that most grievous (but widespread) of hobby sins; the backlog of unpainted plastic!

Last update covered January through till mid February. This update we'll cover the end of Feb, March and April. 

In Bash the Back-log #1 I confessed to having expanded my hobby backlog by some margin (Birthday and Christmas had some very expected consequences!), and whilst I've made some headway in painting those mini's... and the few more I bought in March and April... for this series I'll only be focusing on the unpainted mini's I owned before the start of 2019.

So how am I doing?

Mustering for Vigilus: Neil's Ultramarines, End of Month 3

Hi all, March has been a very productive month for me painting wise with another 10 Intercessors, 5 Hellblasters, a Primaris Ancient, a Predator and a Redemptor rolling of my painting production line.  This now brings me to just short of 1500 points of painted Ultramarines that I've done since the start of 2019 and completes my first version of my doubles list so I can start gaming both on my own and with Matt to practice for solo and doubles events in the future.  Below I've got pictures of everything I've painted so far.