Twelve Days Of Deathwing - Day Six

Call The Banners...

Why does his pose make me think he's the Babe Ruth of the grimdark, arrogantly calling out which skulls he's going to crush when he's up to "bat"?

After years of staring enviously at the beautiful banner of the Deathwing, I now have a model carrying this mighty standard, although painting it will be an epic saga all it's own I imagine.  Adding +1 Attacks in Melee to the Lightning Claw and Thunder Hammer Terminator Squad he will be deployed alongside should make that squad incredibly powerful in the Fight phase especially when combined with the litanies of Interrogator Chaplain Sarpedon.  From what I have been reading online durable units that can kick ass in Close Combat to take and then hold objectives seems to be a winning strategy in 9th edition.  Ideally these deep striking close combat monsters buffed by their characters should be powerful enough to take even the most fiercely held objective and then storm shields should help keep them alive until scoring phase.  The ability to take the two five marine squads as a ten man unit and then use Combat Squads when deploying if I need two units instead of one big one, will leave open the Elites slots I need to rotate in whatever characters whose buffs will work best for the current game.  

That can of Xandri Dust gets more and more attractive all the time...

Thanks for reading and may your New Year's resolutions involve painting more miniatures.

• Terminator Captain  - most likely using a spare Cataphractii Terminator Captain from Betrayal At Calth.
• Interrogator Chaplain Sarpedon - the old school version of the Terminator Chaplain which I have conveniently already painted.
• Terminator Librarian with Force Axe - picked up on Ebay over the summer.
• Deathwing Ancient - Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield 
• Deathwing Apothecary - Storm Bolter and Narthecium
• Deathwing Champion - Halberd of Caliban 
• Deathwing Knights - one Master and eight Knights armed with Power Mace and Storm Shield. - Built from one of my Deathwing box sets. 
• Terminator Squad - 5 man squad with Storm Bolters and Power Fists, one marine with Assault Cannon - These will be the Deathwing Terminators from the Dark Vengeance Box Set.
• Terminator Squad - 5 man squad with Storm Bolters and Power Fists, one marine with magnetized Assault Cannon/Heavy Plasma Cannon - These are the Nova Open 2019 rescues.
• Terminator Squad - 5 man squad with Storm Bolters and Power Fists, one marine with Assault Cannon - These are two RT Deathwing pewter minis, plus three lead RT 1st generation Terminators, they will be painted as part of the WH40K 2nd Edition painting challenge Season 2.
• Terminator Close Assault Squad -  5 marines with Lightning Claws, one also armed with a Cyclone Missile Launcher. - Nova 2019 rescues with Deathwing bits.
• Terminator Close Assault Squad -  5 marines with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields, one marine armed with a Heavy Flamer.
• Brother Azmodel - Relic Contemptor Dreadnought of the Deathwing - completed in 2019.