Praetorians...Faasands Of 'Em...Well, 536 Anyway!

It has been a while since I worked on the Praetorians and with my rotation off coming to an end, it's time to take stock of where they are now.

As an aside, a lot of the third party miniatures that previously featured in the Blog have been moved on to create space and funds for more purchases. As a result, what's on the table is GW product. It's even laid out on the old GW paper 6ft by 4ft Cityfight mat that I've recently got my hands on.

There have been new additions, promarily new characters for the Imperial Guard support units such as Psykers and Priests that came with games such as Blackstone Fortress.

Some stats first:

536 painted Praetorian Imperial Guard.
37 Mordian Iron Guard.
41 Ventrillian Nobles.

They've been seen before but the main Commanding Officer made from a converted Finecast Commissar Lord (not counted as one of the 536).

As a Supreme Command, I've borrowed and repurposed Creed and Kell along with the Ogryn Bone 'Ead I use as Nork Deddog.

Both use High Command red Chimeras.

Astropath, Fleet Commander and Master of Ordnance.

The original Yarrick, first painted in 1994.  The oldest model in the army.

A big army requires a big Commissariat.  Some old Rogue Trader models there but they're now bang up to date with a Severina Raine in all her big base glory in the background.

The psykers have also been reinforced with a new model from Blackstone Fortress.

Two new additions to the Ministorum also courtesy of Blackstone Fortress.

I reintroduced the Black Library Ephrael Stern a couple of posts ago.  Here is Inquisitor Silas Hand who accompanied her in the Black Library diorama.

The Tech Priests are on the scene with, again, a new addition from the Blackstone Fortress expansion (or the Combat Arena game if you're in the US).

Moving on to the main meat of the army now, the massed ranks of the Infantry. The Heavy Weapon Teams are not permanently attached to the bases but I mass bought a pile of MDF 60mm bases so they at least look the part for the current rules for heavy teams.

The Redcoats have six 55 strong platoons with the sixth one being completely Chimera mounted.

The Armoured Fist Platoon.

Three sets of Sentinels.  Two are three strong with a lone Lascannon equipped Armoured Sentinel for backup.

My original Rough Riders and the new Ogryns along with two Mortar squads.  The mortar squads are part of the support to the Redcoats that also includes three Lascannon and two Special Weapon squads shown in the following photos.

The main platoons are backed up with two Special Weapon squads.

As a result of Redcoat fatigue setting in, the more recent miniatures have been painted in alternate schemes.  The 55 strong platoon below are transported by Mantic Veer-Myn Tunneler vehicles ( not shown) are  loosely based on a British army khaki colour scheme.

Mounted in Taurox transports, these four Veteran squads are based on the original 95th Rifles colours of dark green.

The newest additions, only 25 strong so far but look out for future posts, are based on Kitchener's Camel Corps from the Sudan Campaign.

Heavy armour now.

Amongst the rest of the boxes I rediscovered another Leman Russ with the Command upgrade radar and comms so I have six, not just the five I featured in an earlier post.

The Stormlord in all its glory and accompanied with its dedicated 40 strong contingent of Veterans.

Not sure its been featured before but I also have a Deathstrike launcher shown here along with three spare Chimeras from the motor pool.

By moving on the third party models, there is space again for my first Imperial Guard army, the Mordians.  Much reduced from their original number once I started with the Praetorians, I still have the units shown for sentimental reasons.

Finally, the new boys.  The Ventrillian Noble platoon and their scout Rough Rider unit.

The army will continue to grow though. Wait until you see the unpainted pile!