Traitor Guard Formations - II

Ok so what is one major aspect of both Iron Warriors forces and the Imperial Guard/Traitor Guard?

Artillery.

Yup. The big guns of inaccurate mass death. Who doesn't like them except for the guys getting killed by them? So of course if I want a full Grand Company or even just an enlarged army for Apoc battles I need a heavy duty artillery section or two.

First off is the near omnipresent basilisk. I happened to have procured 4 boxes of 3 bassies each some time ago so that is where I'm starting but I'm not just going to build 12 plain bassies cause that would be boring an uncreative.

3 "Standard" Bassies.
3 Enclosed gunnery compartment Bassies.
6 Earthshaker gun emplacements.

The "standard" bassies are so straight forward the only personalization in them with me the chaos iconography and the paint jobs. The enclosed bassies are going to be mildly modeled after the FW variant though I'm not gonna make them opennable and I'm going to scratchbuild the guns as a challenge and to save the earthshakers for more fun. The earthshaker emplacements are pretty basic and I'm thinking about casting the base crable after I scratchbuild one so I can make 5 just by casting then maybe make some for friends.

This does leave me with 3 spare earthshaker guns and 6 spare chimera chassis so I'm trying to come up with uses for them. I'm considering Putting together a couple trojans for things like an ammo carier for a Bombard but I wanna get other units done first.

Traitor Guard Formations - I

Ok so I have been working on some traitor Guard formations for a while now. Yeah it has been since 4th Edition so now the plans I had have kinda been kicked in the ass. It's all nice and good to say it's more to support my Iron Warriors in big apoc games but I think we all know apoc games are not the norm.

Now I know some people might be thinking you -can- use the Imperial Armour Vol. 1's Armoured Battlegroup codex to include armoured fist squads to fulfill that vita objective claiming role but as I have said at least 100 times before I hate weak ass little Imperial Guard foot sloggers. They aren't really useless but to easy to kill in my opinion and when you want to spend most of your points on tanks like is the point of an Armoured Battlegroup a couple weak units of infantry are easy targets.

Now I have considered using Storm Troopers for infantry roles but the metal Kasrkin just don't tickle my interest. The style of them and parts of the sculpts are great but the static over done poses and their poor workability being metal just sucks. I haven't heard any solid rumours about when GW will get their act together with some plastic storm troopers but i'm hoping they will have some out soon when they redo the Guard codex cause there are so many uses for them really and I myself would probably buy at least 60.

So for now I'm just working on units that will remain largely unchanged and better suit the support role.