Marines... One Week In

So it has been a week already since the Space Marine codex was unleashed upon us. What have 7 days taught me:

1) it is a wonderfully varied Codex and is definitely a step up from the previous edition.

2) I love Imperial Fists. Hands down my personal favourite chapter tactics, possibly because I am forever rolling 1's to hit.

3) I am a Centurion Convert. From pictures I hated them, now I freaking love this cool tin cans!! And also in the one game I have played I fielded 2 units and they were devastating (specifically the assault centurions with flames and hurricane bolsters against a blob of guard- messy!)

4) I like grab weapons in limited amounts. I am using an anti-infantry devastation centurion unit with 2 with heavy bolsters and hurricane bolsters and the sergeant taking gravcannon and grav amp twinned with an omniscope. Allowing him to separate fire to deal with something slightly more meaty.

5) the Iron Hands regenerating Raiders will be common I fear. A Master of the Forge in side it repairing a HP each turn on a 3+ and then Land Raider having It Will Not Die so gaining another on a 5+. If anyone puts more than one master of the forge / techmarine in it I will genuinely scream!!

6) the Raven Guard got a bit screwed over. Bonus to jump packs are nice, but stealth to all non-bulky models isn't that characterful given the fact that everyone with a jump pack is bulky....

7) I like the Hunter. It is dirt cheap and is a stupidly reliable piece of anti air. I don't like the Stalker's double firing gimmick- too unreliable personally.

8) GW are not unreasonable. Because the army builder part of my iCodex was not ready we got more free stuff. They added all the apocalypse data sheets for space marines in to the iCodex. I appreciate this. I now have half an army builder, they are yet to add the elites and fast attacks and a few other bits are missing. Once it is complete though I shall be reviewing it.

Sorry again about the haphazard and lackadaisical postings recently guys!!!

A Slight Aside!

We now have less than 24 hours until the Launch of the forthcoming Marines Codex. I won't be jumping on the Bandwagon, in fact I have limited myself to 2 purchases. The first of these is the iCodex, I want to test out the GW in built army builder thingamajig. The second is a box of Centurions. I have recently been blitzing Tau (update soon I promise!) and fancy a challenge. And these fugly models are screaming challenge to me! I want to see if they are actually as bad as the pictures seem. I will update on Sunday with a verdict, some pictures and some random ramblings guys....

First Experience: Trial By Fire!

OK so last night I attended a "local" gaming club (20 miles isn't too bad!) for the first time and had an absolute hoot. Numerous friends have been going for years and since I finally bought a car (well 2 but it's a long story!) I thought I'd get some experience in with my Tau getting ready for Blog Wars. Matt and Toph are going to a doubles event later this week and were getting in practice with their 1200 point force (2 x 600 point forces with full force organisation options there are also no ally limitations for this) and let me say for a start they are going to do well. They are doing a Tyranid/Imperial Guard Combo that is justified using the term "Genestealer Cult". At 1200 points they had found enough room to take 2 Leman Russ Demolishers and 2 Flyrants!! That is Filth!!!! there was also plenty of guardsmen and a tiny unit of gaunts and some lonely lonely lonely Rippers (this unit gets my vote for Entity of the Match!).

Let the Climb Begin!

Ladles and Jellyspoons I have Tau!!!

I have not yet decided on what the army will include however I can say this, I have never been a WAAC competitive player- the mindset is anathema to me. So what have I started work on?

After browsing the Codex and scratching my brow I just purchased a swathe of miniatures I could see myself using (Fire Warriors, Broadsides and Riptide to begin with). I aim to make the army quite Farsight-y so Battlesuits aplenty I feel. I am also going to be "cheating" and using my airbrush for all basecoats- here is what I have done thus far....

Red!!!

Stay tuned for more soon though!