Meet the Dynasty #4: Ref-tek Jahksehn

"Ref-tek" Jahksehn has worn many hats during his career.  In 5E he enjoyed wielding the many cool gubbins Crypteks had access to, he is still a little mopey about the 7E changes to his wargear.  On the other hand, he can now get a phase shifter and squad-wide 5++, and he has two wounds!  So it's not all bad, not at all.
Ref-tek was and still is the somewhat under-appreciated support for the Lahkers royal court.  In 5E, he and his proxy-Crypteks would tote the eldritch lances, teleport Kobeh around with the Veil of Darkness, blind the enemy with the Solar Pulse, re-roll dice with the old-style Chronometron, and occasionally pull a Look Out Sir for an overlord.  Currently, Ref-tek takes the new Chronometron and hangs out with whoever needs an invulnerable save, usually a warrior blob.

In the dynasty, Ref-tek's job is to be the judge and/or impartial adjudicator when the Triarchs aren't around.  The Lahker lords rely on him for a balanced point of view when solving their disputes, if by "balanced" you mean "whoever funds my mad science projects the most gets my tiebreaker vote".

Ref-tek is being repainted at the moment.  I first painted him almost two years ago, and my painting skills have improved a lot (I hope...) since then.  Plus I was never truly satisfied with how I painted him in the first place.  There will be an update once he is finished.

Moments of Glory: Surviving the CSM deathball that laid Kobeh and a whole warrior blob flat, wielding basically all of the 5E Cryptek wargear at one point or another (not all at the same time, sadly).

Ref-tek has seen this view far too many times.

Near the glory, but not quite in the spotlight. So goes a Cryptek's job.

Ref-tek helps an irate Kobeh direct traffic on an especially congested battlefield.

Workbench #4.1: Painting Lychguard/Praetorians

Been busy painting up the Lychguard and Praetorians the last few days, they're turning out great.  I'm also building and painting a few more lords, overlords, and the custom Cryptek as well.  And the gauss blasters you see there are for the Immortals in the back.  They used to be my tesla Immortals, but since I have literally used tesla only once or twice since the dawn of 7E, I'm switching them to gauss blasters.  Effective, WYSIWYG-accurate, and way cooler.

Plus working on these guys was the perfect excuse to buy more paints.  I'm a recent convert to the Game Color line, for its nifty eyedropper caps and for the quality of its paint.  It flows really well straight out of the bottle, it settles into crevices well, and it's not so fluid it just goes everywhere.  (Like, say, super-thin superglue.  Boy, have I learned my lesson there.)

Detail on the rearmed Immortal and a Warrior who has been my guinea pig for a standardized painting method test.  It has been very successful, I'm planning to do a how-I-paint post in the near future.

More second-hand Destroyers, because I'm irrecoverably addicted to plastic crack you can never have enough Destroyers.  Looking forward to fielding a full-strength Destroyer Cult with these dudes.

Working on the Venerable Dread my pal Ike gifted to me, and my "come-on-and-slam" Pariah-turned-overlord model.

Hopefully all these guys will be fully painted and up in batreps soon.

Workbench #4: Elite Reinforcements

In the last month I've been able to buff up my elites and HQ sections.  I found a squad of secondhand Praetorians and Lychguard to complement the squad of Lychguard I bought to magnetize.  And the secondhand Lychguard came with a Lord and two Overlords.

Yeah, that was a deal, all right.  The guy on the near right is a custom Cryptek I bashed together last night.

The Lychguard have already had their first game, in which it took nearly 1750 points of Dark Eldar all six game turns to wear them down and kill them.  I can't wait to get them all painted up and really ready for action.