I really should stop making memes while doing meal prep.

Anyway, Stern/Kyganil are the best human/eldar couple!

Made a start on Ephrael Stern tonight. Should finish her off this week.

Ephrael stern, Kyganil and the Lord inquisitor of the Ordo xeno Kyria Draxus.

The little piece of green to paint with the little dragon was a real pleasure among the black, gold and red.

Commission work

Reorganized the Sisters of Battle collection and with some heroics (all the tokens got to hang out on top of a Rhino, the "ugly squad" was exiled to another cabinet, as was the Custodian boytoys) I finally managed to fit everyone into one shelf!

Also I should really stop painting characters. Because there's like, 30+ of them here? Which is a insane amount of characters for Sisters. Why usually field 3? In a battle. Maybe 4.

We got the normal special ones: Stern (with female Kyganil) Celestine & Gal Pals, Vahl, The Triumph, (genderbent) Karamazov, (genderbent) Eisenhorn, Draxus.

And then there's all four (girl) Assassins, two more Inquisitors, four Preachers (including Vorne), a Repentia Superior, a Hospitaller (the old metal one), a Dialogus, a Dominus, seven(!) girls with some sort of relic or banner (Signifiers? Forgot the name) and six (!) girls who can be either Palatines or Canonesses.

And there's also Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuin but they run as Repentia, so they don't count. Though Satsuki has served as a Canoness in the past.

I might have a character problem

what other couple do kyganil and ephrael stern go on awkward double dates with (no saying "yvraine and rowboat galleon, that's too easy.")

Ephrael and Kyganil are only pretend dating each other to keep their conservative relatives off their backs. They’re both gay as hell and have the kind of pleasantly acidic friendship that only exists in movies and coffee table novels.

That said, they go on double dates with absolutely everyone possible just so they can marvel at the atrocious state of relationships in the galaxy and laugh about it afterwards over space McDonald’s.

It’s awkward for the other couple always, but Ephrael and Kyganil have an amazing time making up sickening pet names for each other and fabricating entirely unbelievable romantic tales that no one can disprove.

Did Ephrael actually propose to Kyganil on the surface of a dying star as a chaos fleet exploded in the background under a hail of battery fire?

Fuck no, but it made Amberley punch Ciaphas in the arm and ask him why HE never did anything like that for her. Kyganil had to excuse himself from the table, pretending to be overcome with emotion at the memory, so that he could shriek with laughter in the bathroom.

Kyganil

I’m back. Sorry for not posting/being active on this side of the internet.

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Grumpy Git - Results and Winner!!

Grumpy Git – Results and Winner!!

A reminder of the entries first of all:

Entry A

Entry B

Judge 1 – Nerodine – said this:

I like that both entries thought on their basing, and decided to push the sculpted theme a little further.

Entry A – Good palette and great use of colour. Yellow accent colour works well to break up the space. – Love the colour glow brought onto the base and a cheeky bit of colour blending there. Would…

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the final tally

for some weird reason my purchased e-copy of psychic awakening: pariah could already be downloaded midday today, rather than saturday morning as it typically does (also, for most of the day, when hitting the download link for it, it downloaded ravenor: pariah instead, so i got that free out of this, weird).

i can now do something of a tally of how psychic awakening’s gone over all. to be blunt this isn’t a strong series, i don’t think anyone thinks this was handled particularly well, and narratively it’s an enormous step down in quality from vigilus. it also really wasn’t epic, since 3/4 of the books often dealt with meaningless, tensionless, conflicts with no resolution. off the top of my head the only books in the series which could, even a little, be called ‘story important’ would be: phoenix rising, ritual of the damned and pariah. saga of the beast doesn’t count because the actual plot important event there, ghazghkull’s humiliation and subsequent return, doesn’t even happen in the book, so it’s excluded.

anyway, of course, the more clear thing is; holy crap these books shit on xenos. i mean they shit on chaos too, but chaos gets out a little better. pariah is definitely the best handled of the xenos books, easily, because it at least understands for an enemy to be a threat they can’t JUST lose, so the very first fight of the book is a major necron victory. of course, from there, both follow-up battles are necron losses, one embarrassingly so because they only lose because szeras has now shown himself to be an eldrad-level idiot, but it’s better than blood of baal, the greater good or the absolutely fucking awful rise of the phoenix and saga of the beast.

so let’s look?

Phoenix Rising: Within this book Asuryani do some pointless border scuffles and win one fight against rando-Daemons (the favoured enemy of all Aeldari because Daemons are such universal chaff even Aeldari are allowed to beat them). Is second to the tied Ritual of the Damned, War of the Spider and Pariah for the clearest narrative. In the overarching narrative of the book the Ynnari discover their hope of the Seventh Path is crushed already, the efforts of all their greatest heroes can barely compete with a glamour of Shalaxi, and both Yvraine, and now again Kyganil in Pariah, declare Phoenix Rising to be a crushing, hopeless, defeat. Death Masque all over again, because GW doesn’t seem to think Aeldari can ever succeed at anything.

Faith and Fury: No Xenos. Focused on Chaos and Imperial forces, mostly the less important Space Marines, it showcased us three inconclusive battles and was a step-up from GW’s normal method of ‘Imperium wins everything’ by instead just going ‘nobody wins, it’s ongoing’. A naïve me might have hoped they’d stick to something like this so at least the non-Imperium factions don’t lose constantly, but I was stupid as always.

Blood of Baal: Followed Faith and Fury’s style of a warzone and three battles chosen from it. Of course these are Tyranids so they just lost two of the battles outright and the third was ongoing. Yay. Blood Angels, of course, lost nothing.

Ritual of the Damned: Very story driven, as was War of the Spider (skirmish of the Spider, seriously, war? It was a grand total of one battle and an ambush against like 50 dudes) and Pariah, Ritual of the Damned taught us that 200 Marines was all it took to lead a successful direct assault on the Thousand Sons’ stronghold, break right into their inner sanctum, kick their shit in, and successfully withdraw in good order. It was awful. 

The Greater Good: Faith and Fury part 2: Boogaloo. The Greater Good gave us a warzone, three factions, and had each of three battles end on an inconclusive ‘ongoing’. I guess Shadowsun is still a Xenos so now she isn’t even allowed to beat randos anymore, as she fails to successfully conquer an unknown, random, planet with no known characters on it.

Saga of the Beast: Six meaningless battles focused almost purely only on the Space Wolves’ perspectives with, in most, there not even being Orkish characters with names at all, it presented us a mix of stalemates and Space Wolf victories with the only Ork ‘victory’ being one battle where they teleported out of the battle before it could finish. Yay. Humiliatingly this is the best the Xenos do till Pariah.

Engine War: More focused, but lacking clear direction, this was a small, scant, book focused almost purely on rando Knights and Magi attacking a single fortress on a single Chaos Knight world. Technically the outcome is mixed, but it’s a closest to an outright win Chaos manage. The overarching Chaos scheme, a machine that could slingshot Warp Storms, is destroyed and foiled, but the Daemons released as a result do wipe out the Adeptus Mechanicus fleet entirely and send the remaining Imperials running from the planet, so they don’t hold it.

War of the Spider: Why does this even exist? Nothing happens in it? War of the Spider is a pointless, short, story in which Fabius has none of his more detailed or interesting characterization, in which Typhus is a cowardly idiot who loses one fight when he lets himself be ambushed by a warriors 9000 years younger than him and loses his second fight when he pisses himself at the sight of Custodes and abandons his entire honourguard. so veterans of the long war who’ve fought with him for millenia, to die as he runs away with his tail between his legs. The Death Guard lose. The Shriven lose. The Custodes technically win as they set out to destroy the Shriven and they do, and Fabius wins because his ‘win condition’ is basically just that he doesn’t die so by that metric he always wins. The battle, though, is of course won by the Imperium. Again. It’s also nonsensical. Where told the Shriven fleet could wipe out the Custodes fleet, but they land to kill them in a land battle. Then the Death Guard show up and destroy the Shriven easily, so by that metric their fleet should destroy the Custodes fleet easily too but...instead Typhus just runs away from them? Is he that scared of Custodes? What an absolute loser.

Pariah: Probably the most competently written of the books because it follows, like, literally the most basic of story telling conventions. We are introduced to a threat. The first engagement with the threat, Mesmoch, ends with the Imperium retreating in defeat. Then a second battle lead by Stern ends in victory. Then in a third battle a super-secret-special-awesome team of characters infiltrate to the Villain’s evil lair to steal a McGuffin and succeed in doing so. 

[when can we have a campaign where xenos just win? taros has now been invalidated, so when are we getting a campaign where xenos actually beat the imperium for once?]

Of Psychic Awakening the Imperium wins a whopping 9 (of these it should be noted Space Wolves and Blood Angels alone constitute more than half) battles. Asuryani come in 2nd place with 2. 2. Chaos gets 1-2 (debatably?), Necron get 1, Orks get 1 (debateable again) and that’s about it.

In terms of winning ‘campaigns’ as most of these are ongoing there aren’t too many of those. That being said the Imperium wins outright in both Ritual of the Damned and in War of the Spider.

Beyond that the only other people who can claim to have won ‘campaigns’ are Fabius Bile and Chaos Daemons, but it is a little more shaky. As I said Fabius does in War of the Spider ‘win’, because he escapes with his prize, but whether this should matter when he’s really not a military player is up for everyone to decide for themselves. Daemons are also possible because I’m pretty sure at the end of Engine War THEY don’t care that the Warp Storm machine is now destroyed, they just enjoyed wiping out the Mechanicus force attacking Ordex-Thaag, so I’d submit these two are the only other options for actual ‘wins’ in books.

To fucking no-one’s surprise Xenos don’t manage to win a single campaign. 

Ephrael Stern & Kyganil

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In my attempts to avoid painting Imperial Fists I’ve been on a mission to finish some other models instead. So here is Kyganil hopefully with Ephrael Stern to follow soon after.

Ephrael Stern and Kyganil Question:

So with these two models being revealed, it was also stated that “you’ll be able to field her alongside the Sisters of Battle, or with any Imperium force, and she’ll be accompanied by her Harlequin companion, Kyganil.”

Then we also got this titbit, “And that’s not all! Before long, White Dwarf will be bringing you juicy new Psychic Awakening rules for the Deathwatch and Harlequins. Neat, eh?”

So are the Harlequins fighting the Deathwatch in their chapter of the Psychic Awakening? As in, will there be a “story” with named characters and a named planet? Or will we be just getting pure rules?

It doesn’t look like we’re going to be getting a proper standalone book for these two factions, just a White Dwarf section. But what does that mean for Ephrael? If there is a narrative attached to this, will she be fighting alongside the Deathwatch against Kyganil? Will Kyganil be fighting alongside her and the Deathwatch against the Harlequins? Will Ephrael just not appear at all? Will Kyganil appear? Or will the Deathwatch vs Harlequins be completely separate from these two characters?

I’m a little bit confused, and a little bit worried we’ll be seeing Deathwatch beating Harlequins AGAIN, and Eldar killing Eldar AGAIN.

Not that anyone *really* cares but my content is going to be few and far for the next little bit as this is what’s currently on my paint table. From left to right we have: Aradia Madellan (Blackstone Fortress) X-101 (Blackstone Fortress) Daedolosus (Blackstone Fortress) Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus (40K) Ephreal Stern (40K) Kyganil (40K) They’re all characters and they’ll all have a lot of attention. I can’t wait to get started on them! I may even be able to stream some of the process as I’m starting back on Twitch soon! (More to follow!). (And YES that is the sprue for Illuminor Szeras in the background....) . . . . . . #warhammer40k #onthepaintingtable #somanycharacters #allthisbeforeindomitus #sneakyszerasinthebackground #cantwaittopaint https://www.instagram.com/p/CCi0tAahUxc/?igshid=1k93md19scvrz

Actually, the closest they get to that is when Khygaril lets Ephrael kneel on his back when she does her daily prayers. (Really good for your general flexibility, if you're an Eldar and have decent pressure tolerance.)

Kyganil always pops his spine in several places and adds a cheeky “Praise the Emperor for his deliverance of good chiro” which gets him a long suffering thump over the head from Ephrael.

Ephrael Stern Inquisitor Draxus Unboxing 40k Pariah It is time to level up the Imperium! Here is our unboxing of Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus as well as the new duo of Ephrael Stern & Kyganil. Read More The post Ephrael Stern Inquisitor Draxus Unboxing 40k Pariah appeared first on Spikey Bits . https://spikeybits.com/2020/07/ephrael-stern-inquisitor-draxus-unboxing-40k-pariah-3.html