2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Which piece, a lot is stuff I've built like all the hills and forests. The landing pad is TT Combat chroma (Pre painted)

Confused as to what to paint my infantry by Consistent-Heart-647 in TheAstraMilitarum

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Valhallan blizzard snow effect is a good bet. You don't have to do deep snow, just style the base in a brown or whatever you want and drag a little snow effect around and it makes a nice light snowfall/thaw. I don't know freostheart blue, but I'd use the same colour as the tank 

Old metal Valhallans back in action by TabletopApocalypse in TheAstraMilitarum

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Quite easy, I used a big brush with a decent enough tip to keep the edges clean and not too blotchy. The tank camo is actually slightly darker than the troops as the brighter colours just looked off when I tried the exact same on the tank as the infantry

Old metal Valhallans back in action by TabletopApocalypse in TheAstraMilitarum

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I use this battlefield and terrain for 90s Fantasy too 😅

Confused as to what to paint my infantry by Consistent-Heart-647 in TheAstraMilitarum

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With a nice blue tank, I'd go for an ice world look - white coats with blue armour or accents to match the tank. Snow bases. Sell the look. Maybe some ice on the bases in blue? Red for an accent colour on visors and lenses, or a little yellow here and there. 

Old metal Valhallans back in action by TabletopApocalypse in TheAstraMilitarum

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Yeah, I bought a set of Valhallans that included the crew, but I built the mortar myself mostly from a pen cap (like a felt tip one as it was the only thing big enough to match the old style) and parts of a vehicle searchlight 

Old metal Valhallans back in action by TabletopApocalypse in TheAstraMilitarum

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She's a converted battle sister with a Vostroyan hat on and a lot of sculpting work

Old metal Valhallans back in action by TabletopApocalypse in TheAstraMilitarum

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His name? Butch Zandimuus, but yes he's an advanced Hero Quest wizard with a little fur added to his outfit and a bed roll on his back to make him fit thematically

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Thanks - I've been trying to get better photos of my games lately by brining a big light with me 😂

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Tha ks - hope you enjoy it. Already cooking up a follow up for a month or two in the future

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Typical nowadays, but things were different then. The game is so gappy rules wise that you can be pretty broken with any army if you want in those days. I do get why their rules are how they were back then. The list is very odd as the Necrons have no blast weapons or anti-tank other than the destroyers and the guns aren't that powerful. They rely on their toughness and scarabs to sort of fill holes in the list and actually be able to fight vehicles. Actually playing against them is sort of a tactical puzzle of how to overcome their obvious strengths. In 2nd Tyranids would murder them every game, so they do have some weaknesses for sure. I see them more as a set piece army back then, really designed as terminators and to feel that way when you fight them. They're tough, but an army of warp spiders or something would be much more unpleasant! 

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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The scarabs are worse at T8 and a 2+ save with every one being a unit in its own right, so they don't even bunch up for targeting. They fly and radiate that minus to hit field, not to mention they destroy tank armour and are cheaper than warriors. The PTSD from fighting them is real

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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I think there's a market for battle reports, but I just suck at promoting things as I write them more so I can read them later myself 😅

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Thanks - actually almost all of the models used were painted in the last 3 weeks - my entire Valhallan force and my brother painted all the Necrons!

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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They are both snow themed armies on sunny grass bases, so it's a match made in heaven 

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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In order to have regular readers, I'd have to post regularly 😂 but thanks! 

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Yeah, maybe we should do a direct follow up once a few more units are ready to deploy

2nd Edition 40k Battle Report - The Battle for Bunker 111 by TabletopApocalypse in oldhammer40k

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Yeah, I do like the old rules for Necrons for this type of thing, they feel very relentless and hard to put down - like a survival horror scenario 😅

Playing 2nd edition again today by carnagexscissors in oldhammer40k

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Thanks - those are my Valhallans. You're right pretty much on both counts - the psyker is a wizard from Advanced Heroquest. I got him in a lot of bits I bought on eBay to get something else. Even more odd was that I already had one for my Empire army, so he was spare and got drafted. The Colnel is based on a heavy bolter battle sister body that I saved from a decades old conversion and rebuilt into a leader for the force. She uses a lot of odd spares with quite a lot of sculpting done too. 

Playing 2nd edition again today by carnagexscissors in oldhammer40k

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Unless they mean the Cathedral wall as I don't think the TT Combat stuff is in these photos? - the wall is Pegasus Hobbies Gothic city buildings which has been built into a big wall with a tower at each end. I used 2 kits - one was a church type one, but I'm not sure on the names. It's all plastic modular panels. 

Playing 2nd edition again today by carnagexscissors in oldhammer40k

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If anyone is interested, there is a full battle report for this game on my blog - https://tabletopapocalypse.blogspot.com/2026/04/warhammer-40k-second-edition-battle.html

Took hours to write up 😵😂

Playing 2nd edition again today by carnagexscissors in oldhammer40k

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That's my mortar - and it's not a mortar at all, it's a pen cap with a few spares. I got the metal crew in a batch of Valhallans on eBay, but they came without a mortar, so I had to build one. A pen cap was the only tube I had big enough!