From GregB - Sons of Horus Tactical Squad #2 (100 Points)

With their trusty Sergeant in the lead, another squad of Sons of Horus marines prepares to Make the Imperium Great Again...

Nice to be back posting in AHPC XIII! I had to miss a couple of weeks due to travel commitments, but the brushes were still sawing away, and I have some more things to share with you all today now that I can catch up. The first submission is a second 20-man Space Marine tactical squad for GW's "Horus Heresy" setting, another set of fine fellows are painted in the colours and livery of the XVI Legion Astartes, the Sons of Horus. These are all multi-part plastic figures from GW. 

A good officer always has some scrolls handy, for, you know, Age of Darkness reasons...

Are there ever enough Space Marines? What a stupid question! Of course not. As I have raved previously, I love GW's newest range of plastic figures for the Horus Heresy setting. Space Marines wearing Mark VI power armour (with the famous 'beakie' helmets) and trudging into a grinding, no-quarter battle is what "makes" the setting for me, and I quite love it obviously. 

The comms trooper adds almost no value, and is a real pain in the ass to assemble...but since I have one for the first squad, I need one for the second squad...

Close up shot of some of the marching poses.

As with the first squad I painted earlier during this edition of the Challenge, this band of merry fellows is equipped with their trusty bolt guns and chain-bayonets because these sorts of things come in handy when you are utterly crushing all of the blind fools and morons who refuse to recognize the glorious destiny the Warmaster has in mind for humanity hard at work creating "green jobs" and affordable housing for oppressed groups across the galaxy.

Have to have a skull in your communications array - I mean, it just makes things work better, right?

These huge 20-man squads are great fun on the table, so having two of them on hand will be even better! Can't wait to deploy them on a table where they can carry on their mission of, er, "improved intergalactic governance". 

Horus for hope! Chainblades for...um...change...yes, that should do...

For scoring purposes, we have 20 figures at 28mm size, so that should be good for 100 points, bringing my points target a little closer, which is no bad thing, as we are approaching the final stretch of this edition of the Challenge! We also pick up TWO more skullz! That's all for this bunch, but stay tuned for more posts later today...

Good to see you back at the Heresy again. As always your beakies look the business and with that many of them hopefully some of them will be able to make contact with the enemy and properly educate them on their unconscious bias against warp based entities.