Remaking my First Ever Warhammer Army! Pt. 1

[@judenewlands6693]

As a fellow Aussie warhammer player your videos mean so much to me in this crazy world we live in, i hope you have a bloody great Christmas

[@TabletopTime]

Thankyou! Merry Christmas hope you get some time for hobby!

[@SlyLilFoxo]

My vote goes to the defiler. Always loved them in DoW back in the day, and I'm one of the seemingly few people that actually kind of likes the weird crab monstrosities, haha

[@bigcheese4740]

Maybe their bases should be a martian red desert, considering in your custom lore they have close relations with the dark mechanicum, maybe they're on a mission to steal stcs from Mars itself. Just an idea. Plus, the colours might go really well together

[@sora3]

Same Dave! I found my old Chaos army in Word Bearer trim at my parent's place when cleaning out the garage. I decided to revise the Chaos army but this time, I went Emperor's Children instead of the Word Bearers. And as a challenge, I decided to use the Sisters of Battle as a base with various Chaos Marine backpacks, weapons and some basic conversions. Bought the old and cheap Combat Patrol with the Rhino along with another Sister Squad with the bits from the old Chaos Combat Patrol. Currently finished the Dark Apostle, Havocs and the 10 man Legionnaires. The Hellbrute has been a challenge and it was a blast to make. Once I've done this simple Combat Patrol, I'll start with the advanced conversions after having some experience and hard lessons learnt. Thanks for inspiring me to revisit my childhood and getting back in the game itself.

[@TabletopTime]

YESSS! One of US!

[@timidwolf]

Alpha Legion: "WE'RE ALL ALPHARIUS!" Aspiring Sorcerer: "I'm not."

[@kylerogers7633]

I really love the reason for this series. As someone who only discovered WH40K as an adult, I missed out on the slow collection and nostalgia. These types of videos allow a little vicarious nostalgia with the genuine love and memory behind them

[@Fishandtoadgaming]

For bases you could do the same as your traitors as they could have been deployed to help or reinforce some of the traitors

[@aGothpancake]

Maybe a nice urban basing scheme would work? For my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, I use .4mm cork board, torn and glued at odd angles, then slather on a layer of Pro Acryl Concrete Texture, and once that dries I add a layer of Agrellan Earth. I fill the gaps with Stirland Battlemire and UV resin tinted with neon green paint for disgusting, Nurgle-y slime, and then slap a few chunks of torn up cork and chopped sprue bits for rubble and debris. Paint the whole thing in your favorite grey and add some white or yellow road markings, but then the finishing touch is posters; I found a PDF of imperial propaganda posters and print them out at about 50% scale, and they look great as detritus littering the streets of some forgotten underhive.

[@Mm-nx2rs]

Love a army refresh

[@sammmarru9105]

Hey! Just wanna say I absolutely adore Tabletoptime! You got me BIG into warhammer... and other gamse! Tabletop wargaming in general. Many of your videos have been the backdrop of kitbashing and painting sessions, and have sparked many ideas. Currently, I can't support you like I wish I could and what I think you guys deserve, but when I can I will!

[@TabletopTime]

Watching and commenting is amazing support! Thankyou for viewing and your kind words - glad to have been there with many of your hobby successes!

[@philipheng3876]

Always love your chaos army Dave!

[@capkaempfer]

Thank you Dave for bringing your Alpha Legion back! I love to see it and it even inspired me to build my very own Alpha Legion army, in a similar way like you did! I would love to see how you would make Mutilators cool, since to me they always looked bad...

[@axelhackbarth9559]

I love this type of video. I wouldn't mind if they were just one unit each with more details how you do the conversion... for example how you did the markings in on the pages of the tomb. I don't know how non-Alpha-Legion players care for these videos, but I love them despite my models looking completely different. ...and as a non-native speaker I love being able to learn a bit of your Aussie pronunciation on the way (I still sound like a caricature though).

[@conman33]

I had the same idea to use Horus heresy predator in a 40k death guard army, it just creates an obvious difference and makes sense lore wise too. Yours looks awesome mate, it will be smashing when painted, I'm sure.

[@harigarou]

My first CSM were also Alpha Legion, painted the same dark blue as yours! Just less blood :P Love a salvage project, very cool to watch you glow your old army up. Some day I'll get more paint on my own CSM 2.0 ...

[@GuildMasterChance]

I love the metallic effect on the armor of those models

[@mistalina13]

The aspiring sorcerer is probably my favourite of the ones in this video it's a really cool pose. I do love the homage to your old models with the canon too. Excited to see more parts as you work through the rest in the new year. Have a great holiday.

[@adamschorsch2358]

I like the advice you mention about painting a vehicle, charater and squad to make sure you like a paint scheme. I'm a vehicle nut and I've come up with awesome paint schemes on several vehicles, only to have them look completely underwhelming when applied to trooper models...

[@bunkernuts6293]

These look sick. I’m excited to see that crab in the new scheme.

[@B1ackSwordVids]

Hell yes, Dave! I absolutely love seeing you guys building your armies. Tale of Three TableTopTimers? Hmmm maybe you could take this re-imagined Alpha Legion dream army and take it to Ark40k next year?

[@shocktrooper2152]

I can't wait to see the rest of this series! The defiler is especially exciting.

[@MrSharpshobbies]

what an absolute glow up, such a clean and well executed idea and scheme.

[@angelx9724]

I am excited to see your refresh!

[@Paranormal-Stupidity]

Great work. You did an amazing job on the painting. I think you should go with red desert bases, but I am often wrong about what looks good. Thanks for sharing!!

[@Ogrekin]

OMG! I love the Havok Launchers! I want! Defiler please!

[@boop2908]

For basing: Put them on some kind of off white marble to represent them infiltrating the upper spires of some Imperial hive city.

[@Lament_the_VVitch]

Absolutely loved this video. More in this vein please!!!

[@jasonhall8882]

Cant wait to see more conversions, it's a lost art as such so showing how much fun and how much more you can get from minis is great!

[@borjaslamic]

They were so chunky and kinda adorable.

[@vlad3967]

Amazing idea with recreating the old army, loving how they're coming together Dave! For the bases I'd suggest some contrasting colors, and if you don't want desert, how about lush jungle, with muddy ground so that you can pigment then up to their knees! Thinking like the first planet in SpaceMarine 2.

[@MikChaos]

As a fellow old school chaos marine player I look forward to seeing what you do with the defiler, a favourite model of mine.

[@jajsem1109]

Your old army looks like something I would paint today. MY wife told me, I will have some models under the tree, so I can butcher them in a few :D

[@omnissiahGaspar]

I'm currently making a chaos army purely out of old scale models, so your old army would be my dream army funnily enough. My cutoff point is Dark Vengance, vehichle wise i'll get a defiler and a predator and rhino

[@archchase__3881]

I absolutely love the old sorcerer minis they look so sick. A wicked video idea and I can't wait to see what you do next!

[@daviddefalco4190]

Huge fan of Alpha Legion, the only true Loyalist Marines. Love watching your videos on them. Very excited to see what you do with this army rework! One of my old dreams was to do a full Alpha Legion space marine conversion army which is recently finished(to my own ability at least, lol). So best of luck to you!

[@yvesdado9545]

Waining enthusiasm in 40k? hes literally me

[@jbamatrax3001]

I'd love to see what you do with the defiler, love the scheme too

[@simonwilsher8308]

Merry Christmas Dave and to all at Table Top Games

[@gkiyo]

I'd love to see what kinds of conversions Dave does for a couple of obliterators. I've never been that happy with the present day obliterator sculpt, I think a TTT-quality conversion would be great.

[@kennyclaing4923]

In my opinion, conversions videos are the best !

[@AnubisX1]

Awwh I love it! I am also on a crusade to rebuild my childhood 2nd edition Iron Warrior army. Which you have seen on Mini review. I don't know about you but the fun memories that flooded into my head when i was working on my updated army of all the fun of making that 2nd edition force with help from my grandad. You can't beat it. With the release of Knights i am going to add some to my army also loved the idea's you suggested in the last mini review! thank you :). I can't wait to see what you do with the defiler, as i have one to do as well but i don't want to use the kit, as its over 20 years old and has never been updated by GW. So excited to see what you do for that!

[@doctorstormchaser]

I think Defiler. It's the big project and a great incentive to get it done.

[@joelarem8445]

I think a big design choice on the models in your old army that is lacking on these models is the blood. I know the army is not the bloody, crazy kind of chaos, but i think its a good design choice to make it really scream chaos. Maybe something for the bases? I dont know, its your atmy and you should design it however you feel like suits it!!

[@justWorrik]

i was waiting for this. i always love you guys custom army content.

[@vacmatt2604]

I feel like having them standing over some type of molten red hot crackly lava bases would look epic.

[@thomascharters7516]

One of my favourite videos - amazing work

[@TheThewhatnow]

Do urban bases, that way you can still use some brown and warm red rust pigments for the contrast, should be easy with some cork and some old resin supports.

[@oppannoawaterbender6564]

How many points is this army

[@TabletopTime]

Back in the day - a lot more than now. CSM were expensive and elite, you could buy so many upgrades and veteran skills - Now... well, its probably like 1000 points.

[@Willqer]

​@@TabletopTime I'm only collecting, but had to check out of curiosity and it's not that bad. Keep in mind though, that I don't know exactly how list building works or how to buy character enchancements, made some proxying assumptions and could make more mistakes. Full units: 1 Chaos Lord Terminator - 95p 2 Sorcerers - 120p 1 Defiler - 190p 1 Predator Annihilator - 130p (Destructor is 140p) 5 Legionairies - 90p 7 Plague Marines - 125p (you can take 5, 7 or 10, for 7 they are 1 point cheaper, than expected - Nurgle number gives powerful boons :D) 5 Terminators - 180p 5 Noise Marines - 85p (FW unit as of now though) That's 1015 points I think units missing models need to round cost up 1 Obliterator - 160p (2 models - 80p per model) 3 Legionairies- 90p (5 models - 18p per model) 3 Terminators - 180p (5 models - 36p per model) 1 Daemon Prince - 165p (in parts, technically missing model, also Prince with wings is 180p) 3 Noise Marines - 85p (5 models - 17p per model) That's 1695p (I left out single, sad lonely death guard model out of the list :(. Just add him as 4th Legionaire). You could technically go like that: 1 Termi Lord - 95p 2 Sorc - 120p 1 Prince - 165p 1 Defiler - 190p 1 Pred Annihilator - 130p 5 Legio - 90p 7 Plague - 125p 5 Termi - 180p 5 Noise - 85p 2 Obliterators - 160p (I assume you add one, proxy it with 50mm base model, or Termi with base extender or smth) That leaves out 3 Legio, 1 Plague and 3 Noise Marines you could field as 5 Legio for 90p (or maybe 7 Plague for 125p, 35p more) That's 1430 (or 1465) points.

[@Abrownie4me98]

When I think of a warm toned base I think of trench debris. So the warm toned woods and the grimey brown dirt, I think would work.

[@diegotorresdasilva7480]

I want to see the whole army completed! the defiler first!

[@overzealouscrusades]

Just another continuation of a big part of the reason i even started this crazy hobby! LETS FREAKING GO GUYS! Have a merry Christmas TableTop Crew, looking forward to what the new year will bring you all and us all as we ride aling with you!

[@Beelzebufo_ampinga]

The defiler is my favourite model ever

[@spencerwaters9645]

That Predator is so cool

[@Jayson1988x]

For the bases, maybe do an interior scene? Either inside a building or spaceship, that they've infiltrated

[@BabaNAS]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May next year be filled with a lot of success.

[@AvePonies]

Defiler FTW! Giant Enemy Chaos Crab! :D

[@LucarioGaming94]

basing idea; rubble city bases but on a planet that compleatly dryed up and deserty . that way you can get bases that are city and rubble but paint them in desert colours and years od sand storm have just turned everything sandy

[@alekburman3719]

Maybe rusty metal floors could work well for the bases. Like they are infiltrating a factorum or some other hive city location.

[@positivegeekery]

I would go for city ruins for the base. You could even link it thematically with your traitor guard. The guard fight in the wastes whilst the marines take the city itself

[@TheHairyBeastie]

Dave - Cracked lava bases!

[@Enverath1]

Would love to see the defiler as I want to work out how to convert one up for some world eaters

[@NicotheEmperorsChampion]

A friend of mine based his Alpha Legionnaires with a kind of dark tile theme to invoke that sneaky aesthetic the Alpha Legion has

[@dmeep]

Adding more trim to a chaos army because you just cannot get enough of it to paint. you dont see that every day

[@moelongside9612]

As a absolute Base enthusiast, I would use a nuclear-dessert city theme. Old industry covered in gray/sandy dust, with one or two bits, like a mutated plant or a glowing cristal or something like that in neon colours as a kontrast.

[@JarkMason]

Hey guys, love the content and reimagining your childhood army. One of my biggest regrets is getting rid of my 2nd edition Dark Angels because the 3rd edition models were so much nicer and I had no monies left to 'start again'. In a childish move I abandoned the hobby... well... I was a child after all :p I did restart my DA army during covid and pretty much every video and project you and your whole team has worked on has been an inspiration and i've really enjoyed falling back in love with the hobby. Just as an idea for your bases, an overgrown city might be kind of cool. You could have green mosses/plants inbetween destroyed structure bits. Think 'The Last of Us' but 40k'd. I think the greens would work well with the purple and suggest a general camouflage motif which I am sure Alpharius|Omegon would approve of!

[@MrReaper1171]

This is great and I wanna see more

[@NA-zs4xi]

Man dude i gotta say id love to see the defiler, not a model you see enough of

[@BLiiNKentertainment]

By the Gods, we would've been friends back in the day! I had nearly the exact same CSM army back in the day. Defiler, Terminator Lord with Terminators, CSM with the sergeant with powerfist and all! Even have the old metal Obliterators as well! But my pride and joy, was a converted Slaanesh Daemon Prince made using the Deciever model as a base with Chaos possesed bits to daemon-ify it up! Great to see a refresh happening too!

[@TabletopTime]

Oh that sounds awesome! I miss the days of my terminators slow marching and my enemy praying they could kill enough of them before they hit combat otherwise they were rolling the entire battleline

[@TheDerwish]

My childhood chaos army is still my main army to this day, 15k points of Emperors Children and counting. Can't wait for the new releases next year! Definetly do the defiler! We don't see enough of them now because the kit is getting a bit old.

[@cfussdamisner7851]

Great video!!!

[@warpwingminis]

Could go highly rusty metal bases, oranges yellows rich browns. And the Void war bases aren't too expensive and give good detail

[@alexanderlambert295]

Really hope this vid does well and we get more of this. Love seeing you going back and making your old Alpha boys shine like they deserve. Well, metaphorically. Shining alpha legion probably wouldn't be very good at their job.

[@John-g9h6d]

I think the defiler would be cool.

[@kongilian]

Another comment for the algorithms. You had a traitor guard dozer with a half a guy on front, do something simlar with your marine vehicles. Throw some unfortunate Sakura Tau on it like theyre being plowed up off the ground.

[@GeorgeHaynes-i8u]

I am here for this!

[@freedomgeek2097]

Looks fun

[@Trevante32]

I think to harken back to the classic warhammer feel you should do a forest base

[@elliottdelo7033]

Maybe do the bases like a nice autumnal forest floor?

[@SomeDudeOnYouTube]

Me: *watches random hobby video on youtube* video: "Hello, today I will rebuild the army of my childhood. Here are my models from when I was a child" *shows army* Me: *feels old* *feels older* *goes crying in a corner*

[@CynUnion-ji9uj]

2003 Chaos Lord looking at Omegon like: he just like me, fr fr

[@bryceneuberger3460]

I've fallen off being a regular TTT viewer and it makes me sad. I don't know why I'm not auto clicking on every video anymore. But the videos that really grab me are the custom army passion projects. The Arthurian knights, the chaos guard, Jen's sisters, and now the alpha legion. ❤ Don't cater to me, but know that working on your passion projects is really getting my attention

[@BSomme]

I really like the colours you used for your 1st Chaos Space Marine army and this new improved army is so AWESOME! Will look forward to part 2! Like button festively smashed! ✌️🎅🖖☃️🎄💗

[@gregmccormack5709]

I love this type of Vid I can't wait to see the paintjob and all the conversions❤👍. Happy Holidays Tabletop Time!

[@Maximus-40k]

Try a red sandy desert base as an idea

[@MakeItSoAC]

Just dropping a comment for the Comment Throne. Loving the paint scheme on those marines and looking forward to seeing it on the tank :)

[@paulofreire7520]

They look pretty awesome. Just keep them coming. Seasons greetings for all the TT team 👍🏻🎄

[@tacnogion]

I would like to see the defiler project. I also think you were more passionate when talking about it. I see a lot of people in different hobbies feeling a fatigue with the modern releases of things. Do what you love.

[@Therealblacktux]

definitely the obliterators!!

[@Wrathchilde]

You should get the defiler body from EonsOfBattle and use that as a base for your conversion!

[@matthewjohnson1415]

Orange always contrasts well with dark blue / purple, so a Mars orange sand style blasted landscape for the bases?

[@Ratlingstream]

For first army, it is really gooood painted! Like my first army….😂

[@CSK_T.]

kinda makes me want to redo my old Space Marins... already repainted my old Lelith model, light as well work on those alongside TTT 😊

[@pv_hobbying]

Basing. PVA, Sand, Goblin green.

[@JustAdam3D]

Spirit of Oldhammer, do goblin green bases

[@acledfloyd]

Oh yeah, give us all the Chaos stuff you can.

[@Grompulous]

Hmmm maybe mars type red bases or maybe a warm coloured cobblestone type thing perhaps 🤔

[@noahdefrancisco2911]

Excellent content and painting as always!!! If I may make a recommendation, because your Alpha Legion Warband is so closely related to the Dark Mechanicum, what if you used Castellax Automata as proxies for your obliterators??? Just a thought!! Have a great day and take care of yourselves, Happy Holidays!!

[@LiliaArmoury]

chaos isn't my thing but you've done well and with how much trouble the deimos kits give me i might have to ass some banding to cover gaps though making that work for sisters will be interesting (turning a scorpius into an immolator

[@lucasathus]

Very nice video. More I loved that you showed the minis and painting more, and less of "face takes" with talking about the minis Very nice! Gonna follow this series close

[@TabletopTime]

We agree the balance had swung too far away from showing not telling

[@lucasathus]

@TabletopTime such a nice thing to know. Because you guys are such competent artists. It's nice to know I'll be able to see more of that

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

I'd like to have myself some older Chaos Space Marines