Kasrkin! Ho!

 So it's been a couple of weeks and I have managed to do a couple of things.

Kasrkin!

I've finally finished this squad after far too long having it sitting around waiting for attention.  How long? I found a photo on my phone when I assembled the Sergeant. In 2018. Eesh. 

This one goes in the class of great GW multipart kits. The poses are excellent, the options for building cool stuff like the aiming guy, the prepping to go round a corner guy and even enough poses to mean that I didn't have to build the two plasma gunners looking the same. I've gone with a simpler palette, in some respects, from the rest of my Cadians and elected not to go ham on the armour trim. We don't need camouflage in the Kasrkin Corps. Straight green is real mans camo. Pleased to have them finished for playing some more Boarding Actions too.

Boarding Actions

Speaking of Boarding Actions, assorted highlights from my first two games of Boarding Action. First off, my Guardsmen took on Scotty's Imperial Fist scouts and their Bladeguard escort. 

I learned early on that playing Guard in Boarding Actions is going to involve a certain amount of challenge in unpacking and making best use of both Orders and Voxcasters to really play to their strengths. The new Cadian units are really effective though with two special weapons the combo of their Born Soldiers and Shock Troopers rules help with the confined spaces.

Scotty won the match in the end as his scouts got to a couple of objectives way quicker than I could and while Bullgryns absolutely flatten Phobos Marines, I was too far behind to catch up.

 We played a second game, pitting my valiant Cadians against some rascally daemons of Khorne and Tzeentch, a most unholy pairing.

This one was both easier, because lasguns heck up daemons and less easy because Scotty kept passing his blasted daemon saves. But my Kasrkin and their Commissar bravely charged a bunch of Bloodletters and forced them to stay in their deployment zone...

...while my Bullgryn went down in a hail of Flames as it turns out 2+ saves don't really hold up against quite that many attacks. I think I won this one in the end by virtue of hemming the daemons into their side of the board with a lot of bodies.

Next Time

I'm going to finally get to work on finishing my Renaissance Spanish.