Rant/wish list.

BOLS latest post is rumours that Black Templars are possibly after Necrons. YES! Another marine codex! Good to see that the recent FAQ updating them to current marine wargear costs/stats will get outdated before long. Must've been so hard playing a broken, outdated army. Sucks to be those 3 guys who play Tau and before their new dex that one guy who was rumoured to play Dark Eldar.
It's good to know there's as many different marine chapters as there is Xeno's in the galaxy. Isn't it? Good to see so much variation in the game. No need to have those other variant armies.
Lets see what's been taken out.Chaos legions, Harlequins, Kroot Mercs, Ork warbands/feral orks, geenstealer cults.
We even have useless entities that can't really field an army (till Matt Ward got his hands on the last grey knight codex) in GK and SoB. Why not add other small/useless things? PDF, those things that defend the forgeworlds, arbites. Why not Crone Eldar or Corsairs? At least Forgeworld is adding that option.

Thinking about how much marines piss me off in general, got me thinking how interesting/fun it would be if GW broke 40k up into 3 different time periods.


40k as is now just take away the divergent marine dex's and have C:Space Marines. Add in some more interesting Xenos races and get rid of the SoB.

30k: Heresy. Here's where you can add as many bloody marine variants as you want. Wolves, B/D Angels, bring back the chaos legions. Marine players would love this shit. Options to take Primarchs that I see so much wishlisting for. Just marine on marine action (which so many games are anyway coz of the over abundance of them). Take out all the Xenos races and include the Emperor and his bodyguards. A way to balance things out would be to have codex: Wargear. As its the same time period everything would be the same. This way players have to buy two books so GW gets more money, I'm sure it would be a hit. Iron and Crusade armour does look pretty cool.

Ancient times (not sure what to call this). This time period is when the Necrons were battling the Old Ones for dominance of the galaxy. Races would include:
Necrons (obviously) lots more options as theyre at the peak of their empire, also more C'Tan. Don't think Pariahs would be around though.
Old Ones.
Eldar (nothing like their current versions, as they all fought using psychic powers and probably didn't train much for speed or close combat).
Orks - similar to current day orks I'd say.
Few other races the Old Ones made.
Devourer demons - created from all the turmoil going on through the warp.

Bring movement rates back for 40k and Ancient Times to better show the difference between races, currently I think it's pretty stupid. I think this would be great for the hobby, lots more variety and balance. GW would make a killing from being allowed to spam Space Marines during 30k Heresy. 40k itself might die though as I'm thinking most Marine players would want to use their own Chapters from the Heresy and Necron players wouldn't be able to call upon their full arsenal in 40k as theyre still sleeping - though I'd be happy for the fluff to change to say theyre fully awake.

Thoughts vs IG

So tonight I had a game against Imperial Guard 2k pts. Kill points, spearhead. My theory was if I slowly advanced the hydras wouldnt take out my skimmers as easily. This kept 3 of my shuriken cannons out of range and when my infantry ended up blown out of their vehicles they were useless.
I think in the future I'll try and rush them, give the hydras only one round of shooting. Get in amongst them, use the dire avengers to take out the heavy weapons teams and use the scatter lasers/shuriken cannons to stop the chimeras heavy flaming me all over the place.

Live and learn I suppose. I need to play against other races more, playing just verse Chaos is boring.

Dear neglected blog.

It's been a whole month since I made a post and still no new photos sadly. Well I've accomplished several small items off my to do lists. Ive got the next step in my swooping hawk colour scheme, 3/5 shining spears are finished in their final scheme, 3/5 reapers are also finished. Forgeworld avatar is 3/4 done. I've got a new design for my Warp Spiders and 2 of them are finished. I've also attached a pennant onto my banshee exarch, I'm not overly happy with it but its growing on me. I think I need to touch up the rest of her paint scheme really.