Wednesday 14 July 2021

Warhammer 40K Aexe Alliance (Gaunt’s Ghosts): Part 1

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)


Featured in the sixth novel of Dan Abnett’s Gaunt’s Ghosts series, Straight Silver, Aexe Cardinal is an Imperial Agri-World made up of different nation states. For forty standard years, a war has waged between the Loyalist nations states, known as the Aexe Alliance, and the rogue nation of Shadik. The forty-year war has resulted in the battlefields marked with blasted trees and muddy crater marked earth. Vast trench networks are dug along the frontlines, with both sides fighting a long-drawn war of attrition.

The soldiers of the Aexe Alliance are armed with bolt-action autoguns, solid round weapons, primitive tanks, and propeller-driven aircraft. The Imperial Guard, which the Ghost’s were part of, were sent to Aexe Cardinal to reinforce the Alliance to break the stalemate. Unbeknownst to the Imperial Forces and Alliances, the armies of Shadik were being reinforced by the Blood Pact.

 

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Sprue: Side 1

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Sprue: Side 2

 

 

 

 

I recently purchased a box set of Wargames Atlantic Death Fields Les Grognards miniatures.  This set allows you to build 24 miniatures, with several options for customizing the figures.  A total of 12 sprues are included, which includes eight ‘Les Grognards’ sprues and four optional head sprues.

 

 

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Aexe Alliance: Painting Stage 1

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Aexe Alliance: Painting Stage 2

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Aexe Alliance: Painting Stage 3

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Aexe Alliance: Painting Stage 4

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

Aexe Alliance: Painting Stage 5

 

 

 

I purchased the Les Grognards to use as proxies the Imperial Guards (Astra Militarum).  I divided the miniatures up into two groups: The first group will be used to represent the Aexe Alliance from the Gaunt’s Ghost series; the second group will be used to represent the Vostroyan Firstborn.  I selected the pith helmets and patrol caps for the Aexe Alliance and bearskin headdresses for the Vostroyan Firstborn.  So far, I have finished painting the first six Aexe Alliance models.

 

 

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

 

 

 

Straight Silver, the sixth novel of the Gaunt’s Ghost series, takes place on the Imperial World of Aexe Cardinal.  The Ghosts are sent to Aexe Cardinal to reinforce the alliance of nation states (Aexe Alliance) against the rogue nation of Shadik.  Dan Abnett creates a World War 1 feel in this novel, where the battlefields are characterized by vast networks of trenches and heavy artillery.  When building and painting these miniatures, I wanted to give the figures a World War 1 trench warfare look, with soiled battle worn uniforms resulting from long periods of fighting in the trenches.

 

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance (Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards)

 

 


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