Zenithal is near pointless if you follow the GW paint system, leave it to the glazing lads, a year down the line.

I spent 2 days at WHW playing 40k, somehow only got 4 games in during that time. Jesus. What a bonkers system that doesn't hold up to any serious rules unpicking, yet seems basically perfect in terms of feel/lore adherence.

People bought DSLR so expect better pictures letter when they're done with them, but here's a handful

My complimentary Octopus and the narrative booklet one of the people made for us (it has our army backgrounds in)



My general and Army Background - I posted it in the writing thread too

 

Asking my new good friends some obscure rules bullshit.



Not being convinced by said rules bullshit...



A shit shot of everything I took to WHW, Mortarion never made it to the table because I was feeling too kind.



Excellent stuff, would do it again if I ever get another weekend off/get a job that doesn't make me work every weekend.

What an army! Looks incredible, Tempy. I'll get on reading your fluff.

Did someone at GW have a bad day when pricing the Fyreslayers? Love the development of the lore but fuck me if they aren't expensive and lacking in variety. I can only assume they've released the whole range too...

Hope I didn't come across as insensitive with my 'arhagh paints bought' post Tempy. I typically spend very little money most of the time so - given I'm lucky enough to be paid reasonably well - can justify the odd bit of mad spending. Can see how that might have come across a bit twatty.

Your attitude and pics are the reason I've gone in on the painting side, however. Very inspiring and I want to take a similar route - pick up a couple of models at a time, paint them up, and go from there. I've always been very anti-tournament list shit. Always much more interested in thematic armies.

Never painted much when I was a boy because I was worried about ruining the models with my ineptitude!

What? No not at all! There's a difference between buying paints to do hobby and buying £300 of boxed minis and sticking them on a facebook post expecting some kind of pat on the back. People's spending limits are par for the course, it doesn't bother me, I just dunno how people expect others to get excited for boxes that are straight off the shelf, but each to their own I guess.

I've seen so many people recently who, since the release of things like the Tau and Tyranid codex, have pulled out whole unopened armies they bought back in the late 90s/early 2000s, so I can't help but raise an eyebrow.

On the table behind me on sunday there's was a guy crowing about how great his army was with Mortarion and a great unclean on, and he max strength squads of poxwalkers and big blobs of plague marines and a few tanks and so on, but it was all grey or primed green. Conversely I could have used Morty in my doubles game but chose not too because of the imbalance. Different strokes in the end, but at least my stuff looked killer, even if it lacked teeth.

As for dwarves and stuff, sadly Fyreslayers and Kharadrons are the only "currently supported" factions. You can still buy old stuff, but no one knows how it's going to fair in this year's handbook revision and stuff, and if you're into the idea of playing pickup games, supported stuff is so much easier to get on with. If you just wanna paint a few, your most economical option with dwarves is to buy the Chosen Axes shadespire expansion, 4 blokes for around £15 from any third party store online.

£7 for a full warband, plus the pennies for bases.



15mm is the future.

Amen to all that, T.

Will likely pick up the Fyreslayer box soonish as my first main project. I just wish they had a little more variety in unit type. I have so much old stuff that I kind of just want to sell it and start afresh.

Fuck min-maxing. One of my favourite things was Steve Anastastoff (?!?) and his wholly goblin army. Much more interesting to see that sort of thing.

Tempy wrote:

15mm is a crime!

Heroic or bust, cheers

OMG miniature elitist.

Least the rules systems I play are decent.



(actual winky jest, for clarity )

Just sayin' Tiger

FranticPea wrote:

15mm is a crime! Heroic or bust, cheers

OMG miniature elitist. Least the rules systems I play are decent. (actual winky jest, for clarity )

I want my minis massive and my rules engine conspicuously absent from under the hood

@Tempy, what was the possible Epic-scale resurgence you were telling me about the other week?

Maybe he told me it definitely wasn’t happening, but I’d like it to.  I miss the days of Space Marine and AT.

I have an original Adeptus Titanicus in the loft at my parents I think.

No tanks or infantry? I'm out

AT was always Titans only, except integrating with SM right?

I worry my early 90s knowledge is a mess.

Yeh, actually I'm thinking of OG Space Marine. AT was after my teen GW era, I'd moved onto booze by that point.

Edit: Or did AT come first? I forget. I'm sure something else Epic came out after Space Marine.

Ah, was AT then Space Marine. Then 3rd edition with just Epic 40k. Think that's what I was thinking of that came after Space Marine.