{"id":2167,"date":"2014-06-10T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2022-07-01T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:08:41","slug":"40k-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/06\/40k-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"40k: Scouts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These guys have already seen a fair bit of\u00a0table time and battle report photos, but I finally took some gallery photos:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2173\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2173\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-group-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"All together now!\" width=\"530\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-group-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-group-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-group.jpg 1869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All together now!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kingbreakers Scout Squad 1\u00a0were done the night before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/05\/40k-redcaps-1000pt-tournament\/\">Redcap&#8217;s May tournament<\/a>. And by &#8220;night&#8221; I truly\u00a0mean the entirety of a long, long night&#8230; Definitely worth it though, I&#8217;m extremely happy with\u00a0how these guys came out, and they look great\u00a0on the table. They&#8217;ve gotten prime placement in all of my recent battle reports. In-game value be damned, Sniper Scouts are totally worth having just for the iconic battle report imagery of a bunch of rifles pointing out of a ruined facade or wreckage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2174\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2174\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-1024x838.jpg\" alt=\"The Sarge.\" width=\"530\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-1024x838.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2169\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-back-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"Looking the other way.\" width=\"530\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-back-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-back-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-sargeant-back.jpg 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking the other way.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The only real variance from the standard Kingbreakers\u00a0paint-up is that the legs got heavily drybrushed with Bleached Bone rather than edge highlighted. That shifted and lightened the color a bit from the underlying\u00a0P3 Hammerfall Khaki, but that differentiated them\u00a0better from the Dheneb Stone\u00a0cloaks as well as the power armored\u00a0Marines, both good things.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2170\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-1024x398.jpg\" alt=\"Snipers!\" width=\"530\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-1024x398.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snipers!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2171\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2171\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-back-1024x405.jpg\" alt=\"Looking every which way!\" width=\"530\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-back-1024x405.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-back-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-snipers-back.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking every which way!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took legs and the missile launcher torso from a bunch of regular Scouts I have from a Battleforce Box and magnetized them as well as a sniper torso to give me a sixth guy and the option between the two weapons. \u00a0The missile launcher pose\u00a0is pointing downward pretty hard, but that actually works well since they frequently wind up perched up on some balcony or ruin top.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2172\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-torso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2172\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-torso-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"My legs! My legs!\" width=\"530\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-torso-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-torso-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-torso.jpg 1677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My legs! My legs!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2168\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-heavies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2168\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-heavies-1024x735.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy business.\" width=\"530\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-heavies-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-heavies-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scouts-heavies.jpg 1329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavy business.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Normal Scouts are kind of funny looking,\u00a0the bulky proportions throw them\u00a0off. Sniper Scouts though look much more reasonable, I think because the heads aren&#8217;t as large. Both have grown on me a lot though. Fortunately I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/06\/40k-1000pts-of-7th-edition\/\">infiltrating\u00a0is going to be more important<\/a> in this edition, let alone cheap and plentiful troops, so I expect to be able to use these guys a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These guys have already seen a fair bit of\u00a0table time and battle report photos, but I finally took some gallery photos: Kingbreakers Scout Squad 1\u00a0were done the night before Redcap&#8217;s May tournament. And by &#8220;night&#8221; I truly\u00a0mean the entirety of a long, long night&#8230; Definitely worth it though, I&#8217;m extremely happy with\u00a0how these guys came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/06\/40k-scouts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[272,257,17,274,24],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","tag-40k","tag-featured","tag-kingbreakers","tag-miniatures","tag-space-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}