next on my painting table is my terminator squad. I don't know why I find it harder to paint terminators fast, compared to normal marines. Might be that I enjoy it more and take a little more time when I am doing them :) .
Finally! The tyrants are done. I feel happy with the end result. But no time to waist. Let's continue with a new unit :) .
Slowly getting there. I have had a lot of "life" between me and the painting table. But I am making some small steps in the right direction. Hopefully finishing theses guys before the weekend is over.
After some flue and a stressful period at my job my army progress have almost come to a halt.
But some progress have been done nevertheless. Almost ready to start with the cyclone launchers.
Hopes that this unit will be done early next week :) .
Work continues with my tyrants. This will take me some time before they are done. Have been waiting on new cyclone launchers that finally came late last week. But we are slowly getting there :) .
The final havoc squad is done. Slowly working my way through the infantrys. I just might make a tank or something in between the squads space marines. Just to mix it up a little. We will see :) .
In the beginning of October it is time for our next step in my gaming groups small escalation campaign. This time we are up to 1500p. I have been unsure about what army I should bring. Word bearers was the army I committed too in the beginning of the year. But after I have played with them a couple of times i have felt unsure about the army. I almost made up my mind about it all and pretty much put my word bearers on hold. But after I have had some time to think about it I kind of want to finish what I started. Trying to focus on making a beautiful army above anything els. The fact that I am not that far away from 2000p kind of motivates me to continue as well.
what I have had problems with is a little lore and a little game play related. I see my self as a medium bad guy when it comes to games. And have a hard time to relate to the word bearers super villain status. I also wanted to make a smaller army. Not having masses of infantry and bodies thrown at the enemy. More a smaller foot print army featuring a lot of monsters. Now this tactic have not been to successful and that is okay I guess, even if you don't want to give the game to our opponent before the first dice have hit the table.
But playing with lists and trying to come up with something a little more hard hitting a realized that word bearers probably want to be a mass infantry army supported with big guns and monsters. Tip of the day is too understand what you committ to before committing.
Any way, I like to look of the army and I will continue to finish what I started. Once finished I can always take the army in the direction were it excels.
A lot of words to describe that I like what I do and will continue to do it :) .
I started my black shields right after book 6 was released. I love the freedom and the creativity it enables. From the beginning I made up my own lore and story about my force. And got a couple of games in with them. I really liked them on the table top but despite that I never really played with them on a regular basis.
The problem I had was simply my own lore and explanation for their existence. Not until I read betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden I got the idea that would make me come back to my black shields and continued what I once started.
In betrayer you follow word bearers and world eaters as they burn through the ultramar system. In that story there is a world eater dreadnought that are "summoned" at times of need. So thanks for this he gets a good picture of how the world eaters have changed over time. From the time when they were called warhounds until the world eaters that they are after istvaan.
It is never spoken out loud but it seems like not everyone are on board with Angrons ways and the dreadnought heavily implies that the world eaters lost there honor and sense of brotherhood. It never gives an example but the feeling you get is that there could be world eaters that deserts ther own legion and leave the slow deterioration of there own legion.
Endryd Haar who is a named character in books 6 further supports this idea because he is listed as an renegade world eater. And follow the story that are emplied in the book betrayer.
So with that I decided to change my black shield force, from an unknown space marine element to renegade worlds eaters and warhounds.
The force will still use the black shield rules. The only thing that have changed are color scheme and story.
i feel really excited about this and are making some small plans on how I will continue with this force.
The force will of course be lead by Endryd Haar and I will build the rest of the force around this idea.
Fist havoc squad have been updated. I think I will do one more and then break off with a tank.
There, the last tactical squad is done. Time to move ahead with my old havocs :) .
So here we are. First twenty tactical marines are done. On to the next ten. I try to take my time with the units. Making sure I don't need to go over the army again for at least another two years ;) .
After going through my first and primary legion, (my iron warriors) I have decided to go back over my old paint scheme and update it. Theses models was painted about two and a half years ago. Even if I am not any golden demon painter I think my skills have improved over the years. And the IV deserve an update.
So pretty much every other project are on hold until this are done.
I feel quite excited about this endeavor. I have no idea how long this will take but it will take as long as it have to. I really love my bitter friends in silver and chevrons!
Here we are. Done with the two rhinos. Like the dirty look. I also finished up a centurion. Moving on :) .
Got some more work done on the rhinos. I like how they are coming along. Will look nice together with the rest of the force.
I think I have tried 8th edition enough so I can give my final verdict.
And my opinion have sadly not changed from my first game.
There are a lot of good things in 8th. The core rules seem fine to me except for some of the vehicle rules that I feel are to simplify. But that is more a question of taste.
I have more or less been running a very standard space marine list. Some tactical squads in rhinos. Land raider and terminators. Predators or other heavy guns at the back and buffing HQs to give added value for the units in the army. Taking and equipping units for specific tasks and then trying to apply whatever tactics I can muster. Focusing on competent builds with as many command points as I can get.
I never expected to win any of the games. It is after all a very generic space marine list and you can face a lot of stronger builds out there. But I did however expect to do something. Get a good game or two and maybe even challenge some of my opponents.
The best game I had was against ad mech. I got tabeled turn 3. After taking out one knight and a handful of skitarii.
In all games I have played the humble space marine preform poorly against anything I have faced. Power armor don't seem to hold up. Bolters have a hard time to kill anything and the list just seem to have a lot of deadweight in it.
The thing is this. In most games I have scored a lot of objectives and have been in the lead from the start. But all the points in the world can't win me the game if my army gets blown of the table turn 2-3 .
Now I might just have had bad matchups...but then again I was under the impression that bad matchups was a thing of the past. 40k was supposed to be super balanced and play tested. The sad thing is that I have not even faced any broken or abused list with my army. Well okey I faced one list that was broken as hell. But we are not talking about that game any more. But for the most part I faced very generic lists with a little of everything. But no matter what I did I was out gunned from the start. With less power to punch back with from the start it was pretty set to begin with. In every game!
And yes, of course, if I had replaced the ordinary space marines with the cool new primaries and changed some of my HQ for Gulliman or some other power house leader. Replaced some of my heavy guns for big fliers or the awesome new toys just released from GW, the outcome might have been different.
Remember what I said in the beginning. I did not expect to win but to put up a good fight. That's what's really are the problem. I just don't own anything that can bring that level of punch to the gaming table. Half of the index and sadly all the stuff that I own can easily be thrown out of the book. And what would be left are a competent number of units that would be competitive enough to make a handful of fun and powerful lists.
So I feel a little sad to be honest. As it feels right now, if I want to play 40k and have a "good time" I need to invest in an all new army. Even if I just are going to play space marines that I already own tons of. I just don't own the "right" units.
I would normally not react like this to be honest. I never take things to seriously and I still love my painted toy soldiers even if all will sit on the shelf for the rest of my life. I am not a rage quitter.
But it was all this talk from GW that fueled me up. Infantry are valid again. Everything can die. Everything will die. Both army's will only have a handful of models left on the board. Every turn will be brutal for both opponents. Exiting. Best edition ever. 40k are back etc. But from were I am sitting everything that have been said is a straight up lie. What is true is: "buy the new stuff to this new edition and you will enjoy an awesome game". Now that have been the case for 40k for as long as I can remember. So why I get surprised now is beyond me.
I feel that this is turning out to be a straight up rant and I don't want to go down that road.
I will just acknowledge that 40k changed and that is a good thing. It changed in a direction were some army's are awesome and some army's are less awesome. This time it is my turn to feel the cold hand and enjoy a little less glorious army and that is okay. I can always start a new army and join the fun and I don't need to be a big baby about it... Or I can just stick to 30k and all the other games I have and are enjoying and let 40k be for the time being.
So yeah I don't review the game that high from my point of view. But that's just my opinion and I would encourage everyone to try it out. Most people I talk to are really enjoying it and I am happy for that. It will mean that GW will make a lot of money and we will see even more spectacular models in the future. 40k is the classic and should be king of the hill even if I don't play it.
I will however follow the new edition closely. A lot can happen and this is just the beginning. In one year the landscape of 40k might look a lot different.
Let's hope it dose, for me and my small plastic dudes.
Currently I have vaccination so hobby progress are slowed down a little. But I am making some progress on two rhinos that will feature in the next step of our escalation campaign. Want theses to look like they came directly from calth. So dirty and weathered :) .
So, i played my second game of warhammer 40k 8th edition.
I dont really know what to say. Again i had a great time playing with a friend. But the game it self did not add to the enjoyable parts of my game night.
This are some of the thing that i hear from most gamers.
8th have:
Great balance.
Feel more cinematic .
More deadly.
Everything dies.
Infantry is back.
Tanks are playabel.
What bothers me is that i feel the opposite. It is weird. It is like i am playing a different game from everyone els. I came to the gaming table without any expectation and leaves with a feeling of sadness . I am really really trying to like this game. Most players i talk to are so happy about the changes and here i am being that guy that don't get it.
The basic rules are fine. Alot is great, it runs fast and smooth but something is missing for me. Just those extra small rules would take this game a long way.
I dont want this to turn in to a rant simply because thats not me. I have always been the that guy that says "if you don't like it, stop cry about it and play something else".
The only reason why I am still trying is because I love 40k. It is the reason I started with miniature war games to begin with.
So, I will try 8th for a third time. This time I will take an army list built with love. We will also try power levels. This is a feature that I really like.
So my hopes are that with this third game I will be all in on the new edition. Or I just have to accept that 8th is noting for me and go and play another game.
bammm Done :) . Took some time but now them are ready for action :D .
High time to finish these guys. Nothing more to say but, iron within iron without.
Here are my Word bearers preator. Finished him at last :) . Cool dude that just sits on his thrown. Built him from one of the objectivs in the space hulk board game box. Cant wait to put him on the table.
