"The Forge Viridor must be protected against the profane invaders" Tech-Priest Magos-Rho-7 vocalised as he expressed displeasure at the expedition's current situation.
He heard the slight whine as Dominus Arcigophion turned to face him, her occular lenses half closing somewhat in contempt for his communication.
Dominus Arcigophion bowed her cowled head and intoned in Binaric-cant "Indeed Magos, none of the barbarians will gain a foothold within the forge. It has been taken care of with a zero point nine one percent chance of failure".
"There is still a zero point zero nine chance of the great enemy succeeding. Our work here recovering the Standard Template Construct is all that matters"
"Confirmed and Affirmative Magos. Observe" Arcigophion blurted again in a mass of binaric noise as the viewing hololith rose between them and flickered into life. It's screens flickered as Arcigophion extended a series of mechadendrites from her body and plugged them into the machine. Dull blue light filled the chamber to show the battlefield through a tech-thralls' eye augmetics.
They could make out a hazy image of the outer gates of the forge, the image flickered with static as lasrounds spat past the thrall.
Around them a score of the worker-defenders swarmed, each moving to a predetermined point in the defences for maximum affect upon the enemy.
The Techno-Barbarian forces of the enemy were upon the outer prefabricated wall and tearing chunks from the plascrete, even as the thralls opened up with their laslocks.
Amongst the throng were a number of Skitarii units positioned at the points of vulnerability, their carbines and rifles emitting deeper subsonic booms as they fired their deadly solid shot ammunition.
With a flick of her taloned mechanical hand, Arcigophion forced the thrall to turn it's head away from the battle and to look towards the main entrance where a squadron of lesser made vehicles were approaching.
They trundled forwards on fat greasy track units, much lower slung than the noble Leman Russ, they almost looked as though they had been previously squashed.
Thick Battle Cannon weapons pointed from their front angled armour and they opened fire as one, three explosions of light, noise and smoke concealing the vehicles for a moment.
The shells exploded short of the wall and threw up great gouts of flame and dirt. Smoke hung in the air and the barbarians roared in delight as their support demonstrated its abilities.
Dark blue beams of energy spat through the smoke and lanced into the approaching vehicles.
The first of which crumpled like paper as it was hit multiple times in succession and the armour was unable to hold up to the punishment. After a moment of successive fire, the ammunition aboard exploded, reducing the vehicle to a burning husk and killing infantry in a radius around it. Debris clattered down and the battle continued unabated.
The thrall kept watching the smoke as three mechanicus battle servitors of Kataphron designation crunched forwards on their own track units. Blue exhaust smoke exiting from their drives as they clanked forwards to open fire again. Targeting lasers casting red lines through the smoke as they sought the optimal weak point to fire at.
Their left arms erupted gouts of dark orange-yellow flame, driving the enemy infantry back whilst the great heavy Grav-Cannons that replaced their right arms opened fire again, reducing another of the enemy tanks to burning scrap.
The hololith suddenly turned black and Arcigophion withdrew her mechadendrites back into her robes.
"The thrall is offline. Attend to your duties Magos- the defence is being upheld" she grated in binaric against.
"Compliance" Magos- vocalised, before shuffling off using his axe haft as a mechanised walking staff.
*****
Something I've finished recently, out of the blue in fact has been this unit of Kataphron Destroyers for my friends Ad-Mech army, something I haven't worked on since March 2021 (where does the time go?).
He contacted me the other day and we've arranged for a meet up, as he wants the painted stuff back to organise a 7th edition 40k game with another friend (everyone getting back into older editions of 40k).
As these models were mostly painted, I decided to get these finished off to give him some stuff other then just Skitarii and Dunecrawlers.
The full unit:
I did pull these to pieces before I started painting, as he'd assembled them all looking and firing straight forwards (yes I know they are undead, emotionless robots (Necrons?) but I wanted to make the models more interesting to look at, as well as paint).
Standard Ad-Mech painting was use, lots of Mephiston Red and Retributor Armour, Leadbelcher and Abaddon Black as back up colours.
The Temple Guard Blue for the lights, lenses and such makes for a nice bright spot colour which works really well with the overall scheme.
Bases were modelled and painted to match the cityfight basing the rest of the army has (obviously) and the dust drybrushing was carried around the track units and across the drive wheels.
I did try to get a dead flesh look following a tutorial on Warhammer TV, but my photo has washed the skintones out. It's a lot more blue and deathly looking in person then this photo.
There we go then, another unit completed and off of the desk.
For my yearly total this takes me to 129 models for the year, somewhat slower then last year it seems, hopefully things will pick up over the last quarter of 2022
I'll do an army showcase of these Ad-Mech force later in the week, and detail what I have left to paint for it then as well.
Until next time, have nice day...
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