First post. Let's see how this goes. In this blog I'll be covering my painting and playing, variously, Warhammer 40,000, Zombicide, Bolt Action, and assorted other games as I collect them. After a few, personal, catastrophes, I only have a bare remnant of my Warhammer 40,000 armies left. Namely, my beloved Imperial Guard Kasrkin -the 745th Grayson Drop Regiment- and a few Orks. One day I'll have the time and patience to reconstruct my Space Marine collection, Ork horde, Renegades & Heretics army, Epic forces, Bolt Action Heer... God Emperor... So many projects to restart. The terrain to rebuild. Come, join me on my journey as I wend my way through the hobby madness.
First up, have a picture of my Storm Troopers blasting away at the Armageddon Steel Legion in a closely-fought battle.
Hmmm... That's pretty potato-quality. No promises that photo quality will improve; all I've got is a cell-phone. My Lady is the photographer, after all.
Mechanized infantry with a tank platoon against drop troops with Valkyries. A very tough fight on both sides, that I'm very proud to say I won by a point. I'm Infantry and he's Armor, so the entire game was a running commentary on what the actual doctrine says we should have done or how a firefight should have gone down. Honestly, a tank platoon against (space) Hind-D's should have been easy meat, but instead two Valkyries faced down four Leman Russ almost the whole game. "Gunner, MPAT-air, two-hundred meters, fire!" Of course, the Russ he took had every gun possible to bolt on, so the actual gunnery command would have been a paragraph long.
If you've ever played a game with two fully-painted armies on well painted -okay, decently painted-
terrain against a sportsmanlike opponent, then you know my joy at a game like this.
Next project for me is a few more command-types for the Storm Troopers. Orders in the Imperial Guard are what make basic Humans (okay, really really elite Humans) the finest troop choice in the game, in my humble opinion.
I like the regular Kasrkin Sergeant model. I think I might use it too often. But hey, variety is the spice of life, right? This bloke carries a totally-not-Desert Eagle to represent his krak grenade, and in the other hand will be a swagger stick. The doggo? That'll represent the extra attack from the chainsword. Remember: in the grim darkness of the far future, there is still the goodest boy ever.
First up, have a picture of my Storm Troopers blasting away at the Armageddon Steel Legion in a closely-fought battle.
Hmmm... That's pretty potato-quality. No promises that photo quality will improve; all I've got is a cell-phone. My Lady is the photographer, after all.
Mechanized infantry with a tank platoon against drop troops with Valkyries. A very tough fight on both sides, that I'm very proud to say I won by a point. I'm Infantry and he's Armor, so the entire game was a running commentary on what the actual doctrine says we should have done or how a firefight should have gone down. Honestly, a tank platoon against (space) Hind-D's should have been easy meat, but instead two Valkyries faced down four Leman Russ almost the whole game. "Gunner, MPAT-air, two-hundred meters, fire!" Of course, the Russ he took had every gun possible to bolt on, so the actual gunnery command would have been a paragraph long.
If you've ever played a game with two fully-painted armies on well painted -okay, decently painted-
terrain against a sportsmanlike opponent, then you know my joy at a game like this.
Next project for me is a few more command-types for the Storm Troopers. Orders in the Imperial Guard are what make basic Humans (okay, really really elite Humans) the finest troop choice in the game, in my humble opinion.
I like the regular Kasrkin Sergeant model. I think I might use it too often. But hey, variety is the spice of life, right? This bloke carries a totally-not-Desert Eagle to represent his krak grenade, and in the other hand will be a swagger stick. The doggo? That'll represent the extra attack from the chainsword. Remember: in the grim darkness of the far future, there is still the goodest boy ever.
-Six out.
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