Time to get heavy

Hell Blasters 

Probably my favourite heavy support unit is the Hell Blasters. I know I do love my Devastator Squads, but these guys just always seem to do great work for me or other people when I see them played.

They are always able to blow up units quite fast, and work as a distraction unit as well. My opponents seem to always want to attack these guys first fearing their fire power.

I have equipped mine with just the basic gear they have from the Dark Imperium box set, since these are the mono pose models from that purchased from eBay. I have not tried them with any loadouts from the Codex yet, just used them as is. Most recently I tried these guys over a Stormtalon Gunship, and found they seemed to hit a bit harder, but that could have been my dice which were on fire.

Devastator Squad 

The deadly Devastator Squad. I love these models, and enjoyed painting the, This is only one of my squads, the other squad has the same loadout, with the exception of the sergeant which has a lightning claw and grav pistol instead of the combi-melta.

These models were a blast to paint, but putting them together I did run into trouble being an amateur model builder myself. I thought it would be real cool to have the heavy bolter marine kneeling instead of the missile launcher like the instructions call for (I have enough missile launchers already in my Tactical Squads). So I did need to put him on some cork, cut and hack away at the magazine where it connects to the backpack and lots of glue to put him into the position he is in now. In the end I am happy with the pose and like how the squads turned out.

I have not had much luck with the Devastators on the table top however, they seem to die quite quickly, even when sent up in a Razorback, and the best game I have had with them was the doubles game detailed in a previous blog post, but maybe I just need to learn how to play them (and remember to use the cherub).

The Predator

Ahhh, I love this mode, but I still have yet to play it on the table. I saved this model from a friend and managed to get most of the glue(?) that was on the body of the model. I did a bad thing (or at least most players would probably say it is) and glued the autocannon on the model instead of leaving the option for the lascannon (currently in my bits box). I felt that with the lascannon sponsons that the turret could be an autocannon, and not to mention it is already expensive enough in points to put on the table top.