Painting Lore: Miniatures Inspired by the Story

This was a fun little project that let me use a few  unique elements and recreate one of the more famous scenes from the early novels of Battletech.  Here I did my best to recreate the early hours of the Gray Death Legions landing on Verthandi - nearly shot down in there Danais class dropship the legion was attempting to unload as many of there supplies and war machines as possible when they were attacked by a lance of Duke Ricol's household guard, as well as an aero-lance of Slayers.  To make matters worse they also had a whole company of Galleon light tanks assault there position. In the end they are able to slip away with a group of rebels and keep there dropship intact - mostly.  A fair amount of plot armor in this one I think. The slayers are both 3d Models I picked up at some point and scaled up by about 10% with a little thickening of the model to bring them in line with the current CGL scaling.  The Galleons are all the modern version, these printed real...

  Following the Ozawa Campaign in which the 3rd Crucis pushed the 5th Sword of Light back from its conquest of that world the Lancers withdrew to Markab for rest and refit.  The respite was short lived, as the 5th Sword of Light sought to erase the stain of there defeat in another action against the 3rd Crucis.  A bitter fighting withdraw took place as the 3rd Crucis struggled to maintain its unit cohesion under the surprise attack. In the last moments of the retreat the Crucis Lancers were in a difficult position and there regimental commander Colonel O'Malley decided to lead a last ditch defense against Sorenson's company to hold them at bay long enough for the dropships to finish loading.  As last stands go, having an Atlas handy is a pretty good way to do it. In the scenario presented in Sorenson's Sabers the defending forces are described as basically what ever survived the previous battles; the previous two scenarios have Sorenson's sabers fighting already dama...