Glorious Return! No BS this time!

Line of battle!

I think it’s common for War-gamers to burn out. I know that’s what happened to me. After months and years of playing Fifth edition I just wanted a break! It was a nice reprieve but now I just want to wage war in the grim dark future!

Probably the biggest development is my new-found frugal attitude. I promised my girlfriend (we’ll call her zwiss because she is a person and not a title) that I would massively cut back my spending and work through the pile of bitz and sprues I have lying about.  So since September 1^st 2012 I have not purchased a Warhammer model. I will not purchase any new model kits until September 1^st 2013 or I finish my entire collection (HA!).  No easy task! But I am making good headway.

My Crimson Fists are massively expanding as new squads and specialists are being painting and added to the army. The addition of storm talons and a bike command squad gave me a lot of tactical flexibility and blistering small arms fire! Unfortunately Pedro’s battle-brothers have been benched for other armies.

Incoming Eldar. Independent fire at will!!!

I started a Daemon army on a whim back in 2009. I never played it, built very little of it and largely pirated bits for whatever I needed. But recently I traded my Orks for another daemon army and have had a blast! Daemons are the kind of army that is just fun when things aren’t going terribly wrong. My first two games saw me blasted off the board before I could even say ‘boo”. But after some practice I managed to bring down a Grey Knight terminator army. It was a little shocking how effective Daemons are at killing Daemon hunters. I am planning on looking into this more later but my Daemons are an after-thought since my chaos army took off!

My Night Lords are getting base coated and have fought their first engagements. I love the new Chaos Marine Codex. It is so full of fun units and crazy combos I pee a little when I think about it! So my to-do list pretty much reads like a Chaos Space Marine list

Paint a Chaos Lord in terminator Armour –Check

Paint x2 CSM squads – half done

Paint x2 Noise Marine Squads – Half done.

Paint CSM Sorcerer- Not even started.

Chaos rhinos –in the mail and have been for two months!

Cultists etc etc.

Advance! 

Aaron Demski-Bowden is wholly to blame for my selection of night lords. His awesome books convinced me to learn to paint lighting on power armour!  I got to meet the man in the beanie in person a couple weeks ago.  I attended the Chestermere Black Library Expo in sunny Chestermere Alberta. It was awesome to meet the Authors and discuss their work!

So that`s the happenings in the Battle-Ranch. This weekend I am hoping for a game on Friday night and will strive to do a battle report; perhaps, on YouTube?

So sit tight until then my brave friends.

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