Warhammer 40,000 Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons: Part 3

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Heavy Weapons Sprue: Side 1

 

 

 

 

Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Heavy Weapons Sprue: Side 2

 

 

 

Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Head Sprue

 

 

 

I recently purchased the Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards Heavy Weapons Set, which allows you to build six heavy weapon teams.  The box set includes three heavy weapon sprues and two optional head sprues.  The heavy weapon sprue contains options for a heavy laser cannon, a three-barrel autocannon, a mortar and a four-gun pod; there are two types of mounts available for the heavy weapons: a wheel mount and a tripod-style mount.

 

 

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons Teams: Painting Stage 1

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons Teams: Painting Stage 2

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons Teams: Painting Stage 3

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons Teams: Painting Stage 4

 

 

 

Aexe Alliance Heavy Weapons Teams: Painting Stage 5

 

 

 

I used the components from one of the heavy weapons sprues (plus a few of the heads from the optional head sprue) to build two heavy weapon teams: a mortar team and a four-gun pod.  I painted the heavy weapon teams as part of the Aexe Alliance (from the Gaunt’s Ghosts series), and have added photos of these miniatures to the Aexe Alliance section in the Old Guard; a Warhammer 40K fan site dedicated to the Imperial Guard regiments of Old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

The Old Guard: An Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard Fan Site is a website dedicated to Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40K universe, with a focus on the classic range of Imperial Guard miniatures of old (the second edition of the game).