Relicblade 2-on-1

Tried something a little different in our Relicblade game last night, a large 2-on-1: 200pts of Lone Guard against 2x100pts of Wretched Hive. Seven beacons placed around a 2×4 board. Activate for a round & score a point on a 5+. Deployment within 4″ of table corners and the long edge midpoints.

This worked pretty well, but we over-thought the activation rules. Of course a sequence like Lizard player A, Lizard player B, Guard player wouldn’t work well. So we went back and forth between the three players, i.e., Lizard player A, Guard player, Lizard player B, Guard player, Lizard player A, and repeat. This is ok, and ensures every human gets to do something in a reasonable amount of time. But it gives the solitary player a tactical advantage to sequencing activations in multi-character fights, e.g., to hit Lizard player A’s character twice while they can’t respond because it’s Lizard player B’s turn. So it’d be better to just play Lizards, Guard, Lizards, Guard, etc, and let the team activate in whatever order they want.

Separately, Pigs and Aug-Suul had a flash mob dance party on the temple steps…

Lady Aurelia and Lone Guard Warrior & Billman

More characters for the Lone Guard and the Advocate.

All models spray primed with Wraithbone.

Lady Aurelia

Lady Aurelia

Process:

  • Metal
    • Black Legion [Contrast]
    • Silver (chainmail, arm segments) or Gold (sword hilt, cloak clasp) heavy drybrush
    • Gold bits and lower elements (forearms, calves, etc) washed with Agrax Earthshade [Shade]
    • N.B.: No wash on foreground elements (helmet, gloves, primary armor)
  • Cloak
    • Frostheart [Contrast]
    • Drakenhof Nightshade [Shade] recesses
  • Sword
    • Wraithbone
    • Pylar Glacier [Contrast]
    • Blue Green (Vallejo) edges, roughly
    • Wraithbone drybrush centerline
    • White (Vallejo) centerline
    • Blue Green (Vallejo) drybrush glow
  • Potion
    • Luxion Purple [Contrast] spill
    • Pylar Glacier [Contrast] bottle
  • Sword, bottle, and spilled potion glossed up w/ Ardcoat after varnishing w/ Stormshield

Billman

Billman

Process:

  • Helmet
    • Black Legion [Contrast]
    • Silver heavy drybrush
    • Agrax Earthshade [Shade]
  • Chainmail, bill, etc
    • Black Legion [Contrast]
    • Silver heavy drybrush
    • Ratling Grime [Contrast]
  • Wyldwood [Contrast] staff
  • Shyish Purple [Contrast] pants
  • Gore-grunta Fur [Contrast] booties
  • Flesh Tearers Red [Contrast] shirt
  • Guilliman Flesh [Contrast] skin
  • Apothecary White [Contrast] mustache
  • Darkoath Flesh [Contrast] baguette
  • Plaguebearer Flesh [Contrast] cheesewheel

Warrior

Lone Guard Warrior

Lone Guard Warrior

Process:

  • Hair
    • Soulblight Grey [Shade] wash
    • Wraithbone drybrush
  • Guilliman Flesh [Contrast] many times for skin
  • Shield
    • Imperial Fist [Contrast]
    • Black Legion [Contrast]
    • Nazdreg Yellow [Contrast]
    • Garaghak’s Sewer [Contrast] back
    • Silver rim
  • Cloak
    • Ironjaw Yellow [Contrast] exterior
    • Nazdreg Yellow [Contrast] interior
    • Casandora Yellow [Shade] recesses

Bases

Basic steps for all the bases:

  • Rocks
    • Skavenblight Dinge
    • Astrogranite [Technical]
    • Agrax Earthshade [Shade] coat
    • Agrax Earthshade [Shade] recesses
  • Ground
    • Wyldwood [Contrast]
    • Stirland Mud [Technical]
    • Flat Earth drybrush
    • Averland Sunset drybrush
  • German Camouflage Black Brown (Vallejo) rims

Lone Guard Ranger, Sabertooth, Infiltrator

An Infiltrator, Ranger, and Sabertooth companion for The Lone Guard:

Take the oath…

Make a stand.

All started spray primed with Wraithbone.

Infiltrator:

  • Cloak—
    • Interior:
      • Black Templar [Contrast]
      • Heavily drybrushed with Nighthaunt Gloom [Contrast]
    • Exterior:
      • Nighthaunt Gloom [Contrast]
      • Recesses shaded with Black Templar [Contrast]
  • Mask, booties, satchels: Black Templar [Contrast] drybrushed heavily with Skavenblight Dinge
  • Pants: Space Wolves Grey [Contrast]
  • Skin: Multiple layers of Darkoath Flesh [Contrast]

Ranger:

  • Cloak—
    • Interior: Militarum Green [Contrast]
    • Exterior: Gutrippa Green [Contrast]
    • Recesses washed with Athonian Camoshade [Shade]
  • Pants: Basilicanum Grey [Contrast]
  • Greaves: Snakebite Leather [Contrast], repeated application on buckles
  • Shoes: Skeleton Horde [Contrast], outlined with Snakebite Leather [Contrast]
  • Skin: Gulliman Flesh [Contrast]

Sabretooth:

  • Body: Agarros Dunes [Contrast]
  • Mane—
    • Gryph-hound Orange [Contrast]
    • Washed with Gor-Grunta Fur [Contrast]
  • Neck, ears, tail: Gor-Grunta Fur [Contrast]
  • Eyes—
    • Wraithbone
    • Gold
    • Tesseract Glow [Technical]
  • Face—
    • Skeleton Horde [Contrast]
    • Inside jaw: Volupus Pink [Contrast]
    • Fangs:
      • Skeleton Horde [Contrast]
      • Wraithbone drybrush
      • White (Vallejo) drybrush
  • Paws: Wraithbone drybrush

General metal elements:

  • Black Legion [Contrast]
  • Silver heavy drybrush
  • Wash:
    • Ratling Grime [Contrast] for silver
    • Garaghak’s Sewer [Contrast] for bronze

Ranger’s tactical rock:

  • Skavenblight Dinge
  • Astrogranite [Technical]
  • Agrax Earthshade [Shade] coat
  • Agrax Earthshade [Shade] recesses

Bases:

  • Wyldwood [Contrast]
  • Stirland Mud [Technical]
  • Flat Earth drybrush
  • Averland Sunset drybrush
  • German Camouflage Black Brown (Vallejo) rims