Today, I will crack on with some Horus Heresy, in this case, an Imperial Fists tactical squad! Unfortunately, I have yet to come up with squad names, but I am working on them as time marches on!
I am going to give this squad a vexilla & nuncio-vox – I already have a “spare” with a vexilla, so the next squad will be missing that out. For this particular list, I’m running two squads in a land-raider each, although with a view to run them later as a squad of 20. Later, I am absolutely planning on making a big squad of 20 tactical marines – the question is, what mark armour?
I mention this list in a previous post which is an armoured spearhead and primarily tank-based. Any troops must ride in transports and you can upgrade rhinos to land-raiders! I thought about running purely tanks, but I do need some units to hold objectives.
The backpacks and left shoulder pads are not attached to these marines as you can see. The reason for that is that I built all of the pads a while ago and they are now in storage! As for the backpacks, I do prefer to paint those separately, as I find it easier to paint all of the shoulder pads with them detached.
My Imperial Fists tactical squad sergeant you can see above – they do look very strange without their shoulder pads! Honestly, I am looking at it and reconsidering the power-fist position, but that can wait. When I was starting this out, I wanted to give all marines the Forgeworld heads, however I’ve decided against it. This squad, the second squad and the heavy weapons squad will all remain beaky, after that, I may change them.
Tactical squad extras
As you see on these miniatures, I am attaching pouches and extra grenades where possible to add more visual interest. They will NOT be getting chain bayonets or regular bayonets, I wanted them as cheap as possible. I know in the future I will want to try Stone Gauntlet at some point, but that will require shields. LOTS OF SHIELDS.
No doubt you’ve already noticed they aren’t based at all. Honestly, I can’t quite figure out how I am going to do that! My 40k Imperial Fists are all based in city rubble but I have a Forge World Heresy praetor already finished! He does appear to be on some sandstone type basing, however I can always repaint it! My Iron Warriors are all based in muddy battlefields, so I know I don’t want to do that. Maybe some Siege of Terra type basing? I suppose urban rubble could also be that, but maybe some marble? It is something I am going to have to put more time into, as it needs to contrast the Imperial Fists.
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