Legions Imperialis: Part one completed

 Sorry for the 'not so great photos'. Models are quite small in Legions so still trying to get used to photographing them ... and the fact that I chose Word Bearers - a dark red - stuck to a dark brown base doesn't help.

Below are images of 'part one' of my Legions army. I currently have no unpainted Legions marines in my house! Everything I have bought for this army has been painted ... and not many people can say that!

So what do I have in my army?

4x Command stands (100pts)

10x Rhinos (100pts)

4x Tactical detachment - 16 stands (140pts)

2x Tactical upgrade stands (12pts)

1x Plasma gun detachment - 4 stands (35pts)

1x Missile Launcher detachment - 4 stands (40 pts)

1x Assault detachment - 4 stands (30pts)

1x Terminator detachment - 4 stands (50pts)

1x Rapier Battery - 2 stands: Laser destroyer array (40pts)

1x Rapier Battery - 2 stands: Quad launchers (40pts)

1x Leviathan Siege Dreadnought detachment - 4 stands (75pts)

1x Legion Dreadnought Talon detachment - 8 stands (130pts)

1x Tarantula Battery - 2 stands: Lascannon battery (36pts)

1x Tarantula Battery - 2 stands: Missile Launcher (36pts)

1x Deredeo Dreadnought detachment - 4 stands (85pts)

1x Predator squadron - 3 stands (115pts)

1x Sicaran squadron - 2 stands (105pts)

1x Kratos squadron - 4 stands (260pts)

6x Xiphon Interceptors (570pts)

2x Storm Eagles (200pts)

2x Fire Raptors (200pts)

1x Thunderhawk (150pts)

1x Outrider squadron: 4 stands (60pts)

1x Scimtar Jetbikes squadron: 6 stands (70pts)

1x Land Speeder squadron: 4 stands (60pts)

1x Lavelin squadron: 4 stands (66pts)

4x Spartans: 2 pintle mounted multimeltas (330pts)

6x Land Raiders: 2 pintle mounted multimeltas (250pts)

4x Drop Pods: 1 Palisade Drop Pod (50pts)

4x Dreadnought Drop Pods: 1 Palisade Drop Pod (53pts)

Grand total 3488 (plus all the titans and knights you could ever want)

So what's next: In truth I am struggling to get to grips with the game. In my opinion ... there are far too many special rules that it's hard to remember them all. I am going to sell my imperial guard stuff for the game and just concerntrate on marines. I shall play the game for the next 6 months or so and, if I get it, buy more and build the army up. If not, maybe see this force.

We shall see!

Legions Imperials: The Start

 It’s taken over a year.

 

Legions Imperials came out in October 2023 and I, like so many others, was super excited. Epic 40,000 and Epic Armageddon were two of my favourite games. I also love Aeronautica Imperialis and Adeptitus Titanicus. So, having all these models in one game themed around the Horus Hersey … what wasn’t there to like?

 

Well … I was pretty shocked, when I wrote my first 3,000pt army, with the amount of stuff you could put onto the battlefield. Compared to Epic Armageddon, I’d need close to three times the amount of infantry. With the board size shrunk, I was getting worried that the game play would lose any aspect of strategic movement it once had. Add to this early supply issues and, the first online battle reports not all being overly positive, I decided to complete a few other painting projects along the way.

 

It has therefore taken over a year to get my army into a position where I can field it and play a game. Note I say ‘army into a position’; it’s not all painted yet. This Christmas I set myself, and completed, a project to base all my painted Legions Infantry which had been on sprues for months. Because I paint infantry on the sprue, I can’t use it in a game until painted hence, why it’s taken so long. So, I only have planes and drop pods left which have been built and sprayed so, can be used.

 

Below is my first attempt at a 3,000pt Word Bearer legions army list (I need to get rid of 4pts). As I have 10,000 points of Titans and knights, I am determined to make sure that these are included in my force … hence why my Legion infantry have bases which match my titans and knights. I also feel that my marine army should be hard hitting and lighting quick, hence why lots of flyers

 

Legion Garrison force (546pts)
Infantry command (25pts)
Rapier battery - Quad launcher (40pts)
tarantula battery - 2 lascannon / 2 air defence (36pts)
Tactical detachment (35pts)
Dreadnought talon (70pts)
Deredo Dreadnought (85pts)
3x Xiphon intercept (255pts)

Legion Aerial assault (770pts)
Infantry command (25pts)
Missile launcher - Storm eagle (140pts)
Tactical detachment - Storm eagle (135pts)
Outrider squad (30pts)
Legion Assault (30pts)
Plasma gun support (35pts)
Thunder hawk (150pts)
3x Xiphon intercept (255pts)

Legion Demi company (612pts)
Infantry command - Rhino (35pts)
Tactical detachment - Rhino (45pts)
Tactical detachment - Rhino (45pts)
Terminator detachment (50pts)
2x Raptors (200pts)
Leviathan Dreadnought - 2 drop pods + palisade (121pts)
Talon Dreadnoughts - 2 drop pods+ palisade (116pts)

Legion Skyhunter (226pts)
Scimitar jet bikes (35pts)
Scimitar jet bikes (35pts)
Outrider squad (30pts)
Javelin squad - 2x extra (66pts)
Landspeeders squad - 2x extra (60pts)

Warlord titan (600pts)

Acastus knight (250pts)

Total 3004pts

 

So next up are the planes and drop pods. After this, I have two boxes of land raiders to paint. The idea then is to have a break from painting legions, and paint up my ‘Old World’ Chaos Dwarfs whilst playing lots of legions. I reckon it’ll take me so long to paint up my Chaos Dwarfs that, I would have had lots of games of legions. Those games will allow me to work out exactly what I would want to paint up next for this game within ‘tranche 2’.

 

Toodle Pip!