Epic Empires

Well after promising myself I wouldn’t buy a loyalist army unless they re-released the Daemon Hunters, I went back on my word. Well my buddy Frank has decided to quit 40k and made me an “offer I couldnt refuse” for his Space Wolves.

Space Wolves, for me, are probably one of the coolest chapters of Space Marines. While they are not Grey Knight Terminators – I love the “Wolf Theme” and the color scheme. If I were going to do Space Marines – these are the guys I would do.

So now I’m the proud owner of about 3000 points of Space Wolves. I don’t know where I will fit them into my retinue of playing, right now I am still concentrating on my Khorne Army… and I think my heart will always belong to Chaos now, but I love the collecting aspect of this hobby and I feel like I could do Space Marines “right” now that I have learned more about painting and such.

So in just figuring what I have base points wise – this is pretty close to accurate. It doesn’t take into account the sprues given to me which have several more pieces on them to make probably an entire other squad – guess it’s a good thing my Devastator Squad sprue didnt sell… it also doesnt take into account any equipment they are armed with (Power Fists, melta guns, plasma guns, etc.). It’s just the base cost.

I also got a Battlefoam Bag and the SW codex along with the purchase… oh and a sprue of Khorne Berzerkers… You can never have enough Khorne Berzerkers.

Tuttle out!

I have been looking for a cheap way to display my models and today my buddy Gary mentioned that he had a friend who bought some rather inexpensive cases from IKEA. Turns out, they run about $60. So for the price of a Land Raider…

Turns out I’m going to need a second one though. Ultimately I am going to have to reorganize this room from the ground up.

Tuttle out!

Well everything has arrived from The Warstore and from Forge World now. Time to start assembling all of my World Eaters. I wanted to run Kharn The Betrayer with them – he seems like a pretty cool cat to know. He also seems like he would be a lot of fun on the table top. There was only one problem… The model for Kharn sucks. It sucks bad!

So that just wouldn’t do. I mean, what good would it do to have a great looking Forge World Khorne Army… only to have some crappy HQ associated with it? I was hoping to kit bash a personalized Kharn out of something when I stumbled upon THIS THREAD on Bolter & Chainsword.

In particular Dezartfox had a really nice conversion, putting together many different pieces which, when assembled (like Voltron) would make an AWESOME Kharn The Betrayer. Well it turns out Dezartfox also does some commission work. You can check out his stuff over at The Vanus Temple.

After I reached out to him – he agreed, for a very reasonable price to go ahead and convert the model for me. I have thought about doing it myself – but honestly I think, while my painting skills are up to the task, my conversion skills would result in the destruction of an $18 metal model.

Ultimately here is what he is putting together for me:

Now THAT ladies and gentlemen… is a Kharn The Betrayer to be feared!

I’ll do the painting – I just need some help with this awesome conversion. The only drawback is that he appears to be in The UK. That’s all right though – I think the end result will be totally worth it.

Pictures of my World Eaters Army will be coming soon.

Tuttle out!

As my terrain collection has grown, I haven’t done much to get it organized. Invariably what ends up happening then is that pieces of terrain get chipped, damaged and (Gasp!) broken. After Kentaro pointed me to the show “Hoarders”, I freaked out and decided that I needed to get this stuff organized.

I had been storing most of my terrain in a plastic tub I had bought for that purpose. However, it was always necessary to pack it super-carefully and inevitably things would get hooked on other things, etc. Well that is all sorted out now. I spent the afternoon today assembling this storage shelf we have had in a box in our garage for some time. Now my terrain is safely put away.

But what’s that you say? There is open space on the shelves? Why there sure is! I guess I need some more terrain to fill those spots…

Tuttle out!

Ok enough is enough – I need to start winning some games!

I played this Friday Night against Geoff and his Salamanders… and once again I found myself on the losing end as the game finished. I think the final score was 7 to 5 (we did a combination Kill Points + Objective mission).

That said this was the first time I played at Game Kastle and they have a decent set of terrain. It’s not as nice as Endgame… but what is?

We put together possibly the most crowded terrain board I have ever playing on! My Land Raider was literally unable to pass between certain buildings. Unfortunately I started with him just WAY too far out of position.

In retrospect I know what I would have done differently, but as they say… hindsight and all.

Either way playing Geoff is always alot of fun and his new list was pretty awesome to play against. I wish I hadn’t sold him that command squad…

Anyway – good game Geoff! I look forward to our rematch!

Tuttle out!