BRAND NEW - BETRAYAL AT CALTH UNBOXING!

Hi Readers,

Just made my excuses and ran from my girlfriend so that I could pick up my pre-ordered Betrayal at Calth and have a look at what's inside! This article is just going to be a quick overview of what you get with front and back pictures of all the sprues and a look at all the other bits and bobs. I will do a more in depth look during the week and hopefully get a few models built and converted for you to peruse :)

The Box opened

The characters Captain Aethon and Kurtha Sedd

The contemptor dreadnought Sor Gharax

The terminators

And the Tactical Marines - you get 3 each of these Sprues (6 pictures for front and back of each)

The Transfers sheet

The instructions for building the models - just the front cover

The bases for completeness

The dice and cards for the game

The front and back of the sealed tiles (I didn't want to get them out and muck them up just yet)

The Rulebook cover

And some choice pages of content

Plus back pages advertisement for forgeworld!

PHEW! That's a lot of photos for you guys to digest! Enjoy them and try not to order too many of the boxes yourself! As you can see the sprues and the entire boxset are of an extremely high quality and I cannot wait to start clipping these sprues and putting the models together. I haven't yet checked the results of my poll to see which legion these guys will be being painted as but I am excited whichever one it is!

As I said tune in later in the week for more pictures and thoughts on this latest GW boxset.

Peace out,

Rob

Betrayal at Calth Pre-ordered AND my first POLL!

Death is not the opposite of life, death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal.

So! I have ordered the Betrayal at Calth game from my FLGS Excelsior games (which is awesome btw), so at £85 with discount it was a snip for what comes in the box! Which is, as far as I can recall right now, 30 tactical marines, a contemptor dreadnought, 5 cataphractii terminators and a chaplain plus praetor/other centurion model.

The bees, delicately pollinated knees.

I have not got any interest in the board game really, for the simple reason that board games I like to play at home with friends and the missus and I'll be damned if I paint up the models for just use with that when I will want to be taking them down to the club!

The problem I have is deciding how I am going to paint them. I have decided against adding them to my Dark Angels 30k force as they have a very distinct look so far from my conversion of Age of Sigmar models and I feel these would clash with that. If I do use anything from this bundle with the Dark Angels army it will be the contemptor (which will need extensive converting anyway lets be honest).

So my question to you guys is, which legion should I paint these guys up as? I'm tempted by the Raven Guard as a drop site survivor I would pull them to bits and have armour hanging off, a few amputations, massive battle damage amongst many other things. I would limit this force to having no vehicles and play them as a fluffy hit and run/infiltrate force. AND I would probably convert up a broken Corax using his reduced profile where he has no jump pack.

But there are so many other legions that are also awesome, the Alpha legion have always appealed as well. The only legions that I can categorically rule out are the White Scars, Ultramarines, Blood Angels (done with them for now!) and obviously the Dark Angels. There are others that I am less wild on than some but I would quite like to push into the unknown with this cheap army, as I won't feel afraid to cut it up and get funky with conversions, unlike if I had bought all forge world!

So that brings me to my first poll! Which should be appearing around about here I hope....

What 30k Legion should I collect next?

Have a vote and comment below if you really want to push the case of a legion, sell it to me baby!

I'll leave the poll up till the 14th and then we'll have a look at the results :)

Peace out,

Rob