It has been a busy summer, and I have made good progress on the new Legion I started at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown back in March. I have completed my second Breacher Squad, a new tactical support squad with melta guns and made good progress on my HQ, Alexis Polux, the Crimson Fist.
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Alexis Polux - The Crimson Fist - Captain of the 405th Company
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Why Polux? I think his statistics are pretty good for any praetor, but more importantly, you paint Imperial Fists because you love Space Marines with Shields. The close-combat specialist unit I am going with is a quad of Tartaros Terminators with Vigil Pattern Storm Shields and a mix of Power- and Chain-fists. Alexis Polux may not have terminator armour, but he does have an Iron Halo, and of course his mighty Power-Fist with built-in combi-melta. I think Polux will complement the Tartaros terminators well, and of course, they can get round the battlefield much more quickly than Cataphractii.
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| A tactical support squad equipped with melta guns. The perfect complement to a Murder Drill |
The tactical support squad with melta guns should be a pretty deadly unit in a Termite - certainly the Iron Warriors have made good use of their squad in a Termite on many an occasion. I'm not planning on playing Stone Gauntlet, so I won't be limited in my Fast Attack options. However, if I do play Stone Gauntlet, I do at least have the compulsory two squads of Breachers now. At some point I will have to paint my Phalanx Warders, I guess, but not this year,
My VIIth Legion now stands at 31 Tactical Marines, 20 Breachers, 6 Tactical Support Marines with melta guns and Alexis Polux. Pretty good progress in 6 months. Next up are those Tartaros Terminators and a couple of Contemptor Dreadnoughts.
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The Stone Gauntlet: a second Breacher Squad
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