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Here come the final reinforcements for Battlefleet Vastus, for now at least!

The showstopper is obviously this awesome 3D-printed Emperor-class Battleship, the sister to Invictus. Look at all those launch bays.

She’s not arrived alone, but the rest is below the fold.

Stay tuned, as the ships of Battlefleet Vastus will be sailing en masse very soon!

Here are three new cruisers to reinforce Battlefleet Vastus, along with the escorts in my last post.

I am working on some new ships to reinforce Battlefleet Vastus, and the first to leave drydock are two squadrons of escorts: some Firestorm Rapid Strike Vessels, and some more Cobra Destroyers:

The veterans among my readership may notice that the Firestorms are not the frigates from Battlefleet Gothic released in 1999, but the cruisers of the same name from Space Fleet, the forerunner to BFG, which was released in 1991.

Stand by for more BFG hobby content in the near future!

Towards the end of last year, some of us in the North Kent Legions Imperialis group started talking about Battlefleet Gothic. A few of us had either played it in the past or were interested in starting. And as a result, last night I was able to haul Battlefleet Vastus out of drydock and launch it into the Void to bring the Emperor’s retribution to the filthy Xenos!

2025 was a busy year! In fact, it might be one of the busiest hobby years of my life. Here are the stats…

These tanks both look awesome and are awesome on the table. I think four is enough, even for the Covenant of Ruin!

I have some Mastodons in the queue, and will definitely get some Saturnine units and Fellblade/Falchion/Glaive squadrons, but my main priority for Legions Imperialis for now is building out my Dark Mechanicum army, so stay tuned for updates!

Here is the latest edition to Legio Crassus, my homebrew traitor titan legion. To be honest I am not an enormous fan of the Dire Wolf as a miniature, which unlike the other titan classes, is neither posable and nor very detailed. Still, I think it will be useful, and I will try to fit it into my list for my next game of Legions Imperialis.

I magnetised the carapace weapon and the two hydraulic arms which hold it in place, so I can switch out the weapon (you get three). The arms and waist are push-fit, and I will leave it that way to keep it easy to transport.

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I have just finished the last base of battle automata for my Dark Mechanicum. I think it’s fair to say that these tiny, multi-part models are about as hard to build as it gets. But they look great!

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At the moment, Legions Imperialis and BattleTech (plus the occasional game of Space Hulk or Gaslands) are absorbing all my hobby time and interest. For now, 40K, with its neverending treadmill of new editions and new codexes, and constant churn of “meta”, holds little appeal for me and most of my gaming friends. In fact, over the summer I actually put both my 40K armies (apart from my Reaver) into cold storage as they were just taking up space.

But when GW announced a new model for Vulkan He’stan, Forgefather of the Salamanders, I decided to pre-order it, firstly because I have never been very happy with the version I painted more than a decade ago, but also to give myself a palate cleanser after more than 18 months of only painting 8mm miniatures.

As he is a figurehead character for the Salamanders army, I decided to put a bit more than the usual amount of effort into him, and I am quite pleased with how he’s turned out. Definitely an improvment on what I was able to achieve back in 2014!

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Unless you’re playing a pure Collegia Titanica list, it’s rare to take more than one titan in the average game of Legions Imperialis. But the game I’m playing on Thursday is just such a game: four players (2v2), 4,500 points per player! So I have plenty of space in my list for a few titans.

This prompted me to pull my finger out and finish these two, which have been in my pile of shameopportunity for a few years. I will be taking a list consisting of a Warlord, two Reavers and two Warhounds, supported by Dark Mechanicum stalkers and an assault force of Word Bearers (we’re relaxing the 30% rule on allied forces).

It should be loads of fun, and I will report back on how the action played out!

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