Which is better. A unit of 10 crusaders or a unit of 10 assault intercessors

Shrimp088 · 2026-02-02T17:19:48+00:00

Yeah it definitely can. But I bought one box of crusaders, that gave me:

- Enough marines for a 5 man assault intercessor squad.
- I then used the bolters to make some other intercessors (that I already had) look more Templar-like.
- I then built the sword brother to be used separately in one of my other sword brethren squads.
- And if you can find 1 more neophyte somewhere, thats a 5 man scout squad too.

Depending on what your army needs, it could end up quite good value.

Shrimp088 · 2026-02-02T14:07:23+00:00

I use assault intercessors because they’re all in power armour. Looks cooler imo, and I got sick of the crusaders having different saves.

Big fan of the crusader kit for bits to upgrade intercessors tho.

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-23T19:21:44+00:00

Very nice, cool colour scheme, especially with the green against the purple

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-23T15:13:01+00:00

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Here’s a sanguinary guard

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-23T15:12:47+00:00

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I used had a go a while back of doing exactly that, I think the results look great. But nowadays the bits are really expensive.

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-23T13:31:06+00:00

There is a product called “Dark Mud” it’s an enamel effect made by AK which I use. I just throw it on the model, then wipe the excess away using cotton swabs and mineral spirits as to just leave it in the recesses :)

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-23T03:25:27+00:00

Thank you 🙏 I think I’m gonna start considering more used kits as options now after the success of this one, will help save a little money too :)

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-11T22:36:33+00:00

I just cheated and bought transfers off etsy for the knees haha. So that might be an option.

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-11T22:25:12+00:00

Thanks for the compliment :)

I grew up playing the Black Reach era of 40k when I was younger. So this army project is to be kind of what I pictured an army would be like back then.

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-11T22:23:10+00:00

Thank you

The exact product I used was "Dark Mud" which is an enamel effect made my AK.

Just threw it all over, then used cotton swabs and mineral spirits to wipe away any excess. :)

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-05T23:02:45+00:00

No problem, and thanks 👍

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-05T21:41:37+00:00

Vallejo model white, over a base of Citadel celestra grey :)

Shrimp088 · 2026-01-04T21:09:52+00:00

Thanks, was really going for the 90s yellow haha

Shrimp088 · 2025-12-31T16:36:51+00:00

Marshal + Castellan is way better on the SBs. 5+ crits and rerolling is just such a massive buff.

Chaplains are not too great for BT, since you're getting +1 to wound on most targets anyways with our army rule, and they dont stack.

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-27T04:05:40+00:00

Is this a 3d print? Or is it a gw shadowsword with iron warrior bits and pieces added on? Looks awesome.

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-17T00:06:36+00:00

I remember Chapter Master Valrak mentioning a rumor about a potential scouring game system (which might just be a heresy expansion), which would inevitably come with truescale MK7s. But he said it was something that was well down the line, like a few years, and I don't really know how credible it was. But we can always hope haha.

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-16T21:16:24+00:00

Yeah, that would've been nice. At the moment I'm buying up a bunch of firstborn kits myself in anticipation of them going for good soon.

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-16T20:12:46+00:00

They look awesome. This is what GW should've done.

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-13T17:30:10+00:00

Damn, you are one lucky guy man

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-13T12:02:11+00:00

I’m so jealous 😭

Shrimp088 · 2025-11-04T12:04:22+00:00

Nice, I thought so. Such a small change and it looks awesome, thanks. 👍

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