Last Updated 10.18.04

October 11:

My proposed list:

HQ

312
Wild Rider Chief, Power weapon
5 wild rider kinsmen 2 cc weapons, family banner
- This unit will be part of my assault unit. I know they are fragile, but their extra attacks as well as toughness may make them worth while. Also with their high speed I can attack from a fair distance away.

160
Baharroth
- I'm taking a big unit of swooping hawks and this model is so cool. Basically I'm building an eldar army so I can field these guys.

TROOPS

195
5 guardian jetbike squad, 1 shuriken cannon

195
5 guardian jetbike squad, 1 shuriken cannon

130
2 vypers w/ Star Cannon

65
Vyper w/ Bright Lance

65
Vyper w/ Bright Lance

280
5 Shining Spears, Exarch, PW, skillful rider
- These will support jetbike squads in combined assaults.

ELITE

241
9 swooping hawks, Exarch, Web of skulls, sustained assault
- The second reason for fielding an eldar army. Also support assault group.

TROOP

205
10 guardians (storm/defender), Wave serpent W/ bright lance
- Don't know if I'm using storm or defender squads. Also not sure if I'm using bright lance or starcannon.

1848 TOTAL

This gives me:
21 bikes (10 guardian/5 shining spears/6 HQ)
4 vypers
9 swooping hawks + phoenix lord
10 troops + Wave serpent.

October 12:

There were some major focus points when i decided to do the Jetbike
army list.
1. I'm sick of being slow
2. I'm sick of being slow
3. I'm tired of space marines of all types...

Ok and with those thoughts, i opened my great GW book of figures and began to browse the 40k section. Lo and Behold, one model has once again jumped from the pages of the great book of GW: Swooping Hawks and in particular their Phoenix Lord.

It was settled...i was doing an Eldar army.

So i got the first unit out of the way, which limited me on what i could field. no Black guardian army, no Iyandian army.

this left vanilla, Saim-hann, and Biel-tan. I instantly ruled out vanilla. while i love the wraithlord model (and would not mind having one on my side rather than across the board), i didn't want to do the hoards of guardians, which would result in another shooty army. this took me to thought 4. no more shooty armies!

This left biel-tan/Saim-hann.

1. Grace has a biel-tan army
2. Swooping hawks don't count as troops for biel-tan
3. i don't care for striking scorpions or dark reapers. (don't care for the models)

OK, that leaves 2 aspects for troops...not to good so this left what i consider the "prettiest army in the game" Saim-Hann jetbike list.

THOUGHTS ON ARMY LIST

I wanted both a pretty army, and a themed army. As you all know, i like cool armies rather than "winning armies" and by this i mean to give my excuse as to why my thousand sons don't win very often. hehehee. So as the core of Saim-hann list is alot of jetbikes. 21 in my case. 2 units of 5 guardian jetbikes, 1 unit of 5 shining spears, and a wild rider chief(of course i'm taking the chief) with his 5 kinsman (wielding the massive family banner...well, at least my banner is going to be massive if i can get away with it!)

Next comes vypers. 4 of them to be exact, wielding bright lances and star cannons (2 of each) this will give a bit of fire support and tank hunting.

third comes swooping hawks...the reason i chose this army. a big unit of 8 plus 1 exarch. and of course i need their phoenix lord for my second hq choice. why, because they look cool!

well after all that, i'm almost out of points. i used up all my Fast attack choices (which count in place of troops for this army) and my HQ's don't have much more options. I noticed the Eldar boxed set was a good deal and contained good figures for my army...so why not use them all. Modify the falcon into a wave serpent and use 10 of the guardians and viola...1850 points.

this leaves 6 guardians for various conversions/baggage/techs to work on the jetbikes/whatever...

On that note, tonight i picked up the swooping hawk (minus phoneix lord) part of teh army and will proceed to get those done soon...er than later. ;)

October 18:

OK. Wwooping Hawks ver3 is finished and i think this is what i'm going to stick with.

The first verson of the colors was a pastel blue base with ice white armour. (brant saw this version) however he noted that without washing or blending, the figure lost alot of details. so in ver 2 I gave the entire figure a blue wash...didn't like it, so it got a purple wash... was better but looked like it was heading in the direction of purple and white...not that their is anything wrong with purple and white, but you know...(girly colors...hehehehe jk)

So ver 3 started with a white base, then a black wash. (don't ask why). then a heavy dry brush of true blue (the color of my 1000 sons). then the gems got painted a light purple. then a lighter dry brush of periwinkle blue, then a lighter dry brush of ice white, then finally a light skull white drybrush.

The sash (which i'm pretty proud of) was warlock purple, to crimson gore, to blood red, to firy orange, and finally skull white.

This will be the scheme of all 8 swooping hawks, with extra detail going to the exarch (#9) and finally even more detail going to the Phoenix Lord (#10)