The Annals of the 9th Squad mark them as the last to leave the Fire Hawks first homeworld of Cousteau XI and thus lead the honour guard that is stationed on the planets memorial shrine.
March to the Stars. An account of the Fire Hawks.
The Hammer had fallen, Dreadnought drop pods smashing into the beleaguered Mantis Warrior defences.
The Munitions depot had been a strong point and the defenders had dug in well, but it was not enough and as the pods burst open with a falling panels and hails of twin-linked Bolter fire the air was filled still further with the screams of incoming jump packs.
Within the command complex the Mantis Warriors prepared for the their last stand as casualty reports and sector losses poured in. Captain Azteem and his surviving command squad faced the blast door in grim preparation for the end, their fingers set against the triggers they would never press.
Light filled the room and from it stepped Squad Kempler, the teleporter light fading to be replaced by the Fire Hawks bright armour and fire of storm bolter and heavy flamer.
Captain Azteem was the last to fall, small comfort as his cold weapon fell from his hand and hit the floor moments before the blast doors gave way before them.
Chapter Vs Legion. Anonymous memoirs of the Badab War
March saw some planned changes on what I was painting, partly due to losing time to other painting projects (mainly Doctor Who!) and also ill-health but made it in time and also took the plunge and settled on adding the Chapter badge freehand
The Mantis Warriors had halted their retreat and dug in around a munitions depot. In desperation they had abandoned movement and flexibility that played to their Chapters skills in exchange for safety and a chance to survive.They had chosen well, It’s wall were thick and has been built to endure fire from without or an explosion from within. It would need more firepower than the Fire Hawks that harried them carried.
But the Fire Hawks were not alone and as their forward units encircled the position, armoured drop pods were already burning their way down from low orbit deployment. A hammer was needed to break the Mantis Legion and Warden Tyrak would be that bright strike and lay open the way.
Chapter Vs Legion. Anonymous memoirs of the Badab War
February started as a short month, but with various commitments I knew that I had even less time for painting so it ended up a quite a mismash but ended up enough.
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I have started watching the Second Doctor and picked out a couple of the stories to build some figure sets around (yes, I know I still haven't finished off the Robot group yet!) and have started off with the Dominators. my Plan is for some Quarks, Dominators which will be a Black Tree purchase and some Dulsians. I already have the Second Doctor so will also need to pick up his companions Jamie and Zoe.
Both Black Tree and Warlord Games have figures for the Dominators and Quarks but will stick with Black tree due to the size and I have been able to find some files for the Quarks I can 3D Print.
