Raptors 8th "Air Assault" Company

Welcome to start of new series of Talking about the Planned Units for My Raptors army. 

From The  Raptors Wiki :

"The Raptors are known for shunning the glory of close quarter combat favored by many other Chapters for the simple expediency of the clean kill from afar with ranged weapons. Like their parent Chapter, the Raven Guard, the Raptors make extensive use of their Scout Marines dispersed throughout their task forces, and maintain a sizable contingent of Land Speeders of all types as well as a core of diverse armored vehicles. They prefer to employ these assets, along with their assault units, in precision strikes to overwhelm an enemy at strategically crucial junctures in battle after determining the most effective pressure point at which to break the enemy."

The 8th "Air Assault" Company is one of the many companies that will be heavily supporting the 10th on Khymara. The squad members of the 8th Company have be broken into to smaller units and assigned to various Vehicles to support the 10th Company's mission. 

Lets look at the vehicles of the 8th:

-Relic Javelin Land Speeder with two lascannons and 2 hunter killer missiles. Reason I am choosing to take one is my army will be lacking lascannons so the ability to take 2 on a land speeder would be nice plus the 2 HKs for more fun. I will leave it with a heavy bolter. Number Planned: 1

-"Retro" Land Speeder. Love the design and I will probably use the normal land speeder rules for them.  Not sure if I'll go Multi Melta or Dual Heavy bolters.  Number Planned: 1-3

-Land Speeder Typhoon and Tornadoes. Heavy bolters and pending class Typhoon Launchers or Assault cannons. Number Planned: 3 of each

-Land Speeder Tempest. Not quite a flyer and not quite a land speeder. No load out option changes. Planned Number: 3

-Stormhawk Interceptor. Crewed by the 8th company in my fluff. Still not sure final loadout. Planned Number: 1-2 Depends on Stormtalon

-Stormtalon Gunship. Like the Stormhawk, crewed by the 8th and not sure the load out. Planned Number: 1-2 Depends on Stormhawk

WIP Vow #3 Kite I and Kite II update #1

Update time

So this has been sitting around for a few days and i finally got around to taking pics of what I got accomplished. The side step was an intentional break as it was not sitting flush. 

Crew In

Crew out

Pilots (bare head will be for Typhoon "Kite I")

so if you notice that the bare head pilot has a black strip running down his shoulder pad behind his unit designation marking. That is something I am planning to do for all my Veteran Sgts, while veterans will have just the yellow strip on their helmet

 

So the pilot of Kite I is the Veteran Sgt for the 8th company, 8th Assault company (all my typhoons and tempest will be crewed by the 8th assault squad members)

Dread with his Veteran stripe

Veteran Techmarine

Veteran sgt

I am still waiting on order I placed for tarantula Hyperios launchers, tempest and thunderfire cannons to arrive (3 of each) and at least my Telion and Damocles command rhino parts are in the states....just not my state. 

The more I work on this army the happier I am with it in modeling terms. Lots of future conversions planned for this army.....even with me getting a 3rd Brotherhood Master Voldus for my Grey Knights, still seemyself working on the Raptors above any other Chapter.....sorry Sisters of Battle and Crimson Fists.

Hopefully the new "40k munda" aka Shadow War: Armageddon wont suck as I have plans for my Raptors in that game too.....SCOUTS LEAD THE WAY

Until next time

There is only the Emperor!

WIP VOW #3 Kite I and Kite II

Vow #3 has started as 2 Land Speeder Typhoon Squadron 'Kite"

Kite II and Kite I

This is the first time in a long time I have built a land speeder (Storms don't count). In fact last last ones I built were plastic/ pewter hybrids when they first came out. These were a lot less annoying to build then them but still had annoying factors. Overal happy with the build for them and a nice addition to the 10th Company of Raptors. Only grips so far is the decals or the lack of them....I need 4 assault marking per vehicle and only got 1....😠

After these are completed, I have 1 more vehicle to go.....Land Speeder Storm and the 1000 pts will be built and vehicles painted.

1000 Points Raptors List

Chapter Tactics - Raptors

HQ

Captain Voss- Warlord, Power Armor, Relic Blade, Ex Tenebris (Raven Guard Relic) melta bombs

Elites

Dreadnought Owl I- Rifleman load out

Troops

Scout Squad III Felk- Melee, vsgt power maul and melta bombs, Land Speeder storm Multi melta

Scout Squad IV Tomez- Shotguns, camo cloaks, vsgt melta bombs power maul & shotgun

Scout Squad V Helios- bolters/ missile launcher camo cloaks, vsgt melta bombs 

Scout Squad VI Archlift- bolters/ missile launcher camo cloaks, vsgt melta bombs 

Scout Squad VII Venze- Sniper Rifles/ heavy bolter, camo cloaks vsgt sniper rifle

Fast Attack

Land Speeder Typhoon Kite I- Typhoon missile launcher Heavy bolter

Land Speeder Typhoon Kite II- Typhoon missile launcher Heavy bolter

Heavy Support

Predator Destructor Vulture III- Dozer blade, heavy bolters sponsons, and storm bolter

thats the goal....get this all painted to play a game....but will it before 8th edition