Mar 18, 2017
Army Overview
I wanted to show these off, but that means that I have to upload them first, so time to eat up some internet bandwidth and share these here first. Here's my Thousand Sons / CSM Tzeentch army in all of it's glory as it stands right now.
Enjoy.
I'm going to have to do this in chunks. . .
Enjoy.
I'm going to have to do this in chunks. . .
Jan 31, 2017
Power Gaming
I think that I have lost the vibe of power gaming, in fact tonight I really learned to hate it.
Tonight I got to oportunity to talk with a power gamer for a long period of time, and it was painful. Everything was about min/max, everything was pushing something that should have been a game to its furthest details and trying to break everything.
To him it was fun to try to push the boundaries and find just the perfect way to power game and twist the rules.
To me, it was anything but fun.The entire deal he was taking way too serious in my book. I know at the same point he's most likely saying the same thing about me. He's upset because I just don't care about what he obsessed over.
The best part about the obsession was that he had to have the perfect blend of everything. He had to have the perfect minis, the perfect army, the perfect strategy, the perfect fluff, and everything had to e the best that it could be. He had explanations for every thing that he painted that wasn't typical, and he was doing his best to understand every army that he could go up against and the full hundred year history of his unit of guys and how they worked together.
Then he looked at my army, andasked what my back story was for my army and why they looked so different. My explination? It loks cool so I wanted to do it.
I don't have some crazy background story about the fluff of my units. I don't have their unit history of who they are and where hey come from. I also have never read a single 40k book ever. I play the game. I enjoy the game. I enjoy painting them too, but that's about it. I don't need 40k to itch the scratch of story telling for me. for that I've got a novel.
Tonight I got to oportunity to talk with a power gamer for a long period of time, and it was painful. Everything was about min/max, everything was pushing something that should have been a game to its furthest details and trying to break everything.
To him it was fun to try to push the boundaries and find just the perfect way to power game and twist the rules.
To me, it was anything but fun.The entire deal he was taking way too serious in my book. I know at the same point he's most likely saying the same thing about me. He's upset because I just don't care about what he obsessed over.
The best part about the obsession was that he had to have the perfect blend of everything. He had to have the perfect minis, the perfect army, the perfect strategy, the perfect fluff, and everything had to e the best that it could be. He had explanations for every thing that he painted that wasn't typical, and he was doing his best to understand every army that he could go up against and the full hundred year history of his unit of guys and how they worked together.
Then he looked at my army, andasked what my back story was for my army and why they looked so different. My explination? It loks cool so I wanted to do it.
I don't have some crazy background story about the fluff of my units. I don't have their unit history of who they are and where hey come from. I also have never read a single 40k book ever. I play the game. I enjoy the game. I enjoy painting them too, but that's about it. I don't need 40k to itch the scratch of story telling for me. for that I've got a novel.
Jan 29, 2017
Shopping List
I've been stocking up on gift cards, store credit and whatever else I can get my hands on and I've been growing up a stash of things that I can't put in a bank account, but can buy me stuff. The list of stuff I have in order is actually sort of impressive.
For the record, I'm thinking about buying the following things . . . all for under $80.
Magnus - $130 -
Occult Terminators - $60 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/scarab-occult-terminators
Exalted Sorcerers - $60 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/exalted-sorcerers
Tzangor Enlightened - $35 - (I wanted bonus exalted sorcerers, and that's what I'm going to count them as) https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tzaangor-Enlightened
Start Collecting Tzeentch Daemons - $85 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Start-Collecting-Daemons-of-Tzeentch
That's a total of $370. I even did the rough math, and it's looking like over 2500 points worth of stuff wrapped up in those guys. I've got something around $290 in credit and stuff floating around which means $80 plus tax is coming out of pocket. I could have skipped the Enlightened, but I have a really big goal to field the OVER the top formation of Magnus + 9 daemon princes (I have three) and/or exalted sorcerers (I'll have 6 once this is done). I could have even stuck to just thousand sons stuff, but they just came out with the tzeentch box, and that was the next army (outside of harlequins) that I was actually thinking of fielding because of fluff with my army, so it was an easy buy in.
Either way, I'm getting a 78% off discount on NEW models. I think I'll be okay.
The only other news to go along with this? I've got only a few weeks to finish up painting everything that I've got in that army (which isn't that much honestly) because right now everything in that list (except magnus) is either pre-order or they're out of stock so I have to wait. But let's be honest, it's a shock to just about everyone that I didn't buy Magnus the week of release. I main his army. I'm just really hopping that soon the focus goes away from Tzeentch. I picked the army because I liked them, not because I wanted to buy all new stuff. They look awesome, but my completionist would really like to not have new models thrown at it right now.
For the record, I'm thinking about buying the following things . . . all for under $80.
Magnus - $130 -
Occult Terminators - $60 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/scarab-occult-terminators
Exalted Sorcerers - $60 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/exalted-sorcerers
Tzangor Enlightened - $35 - (I wanted bonus exalted sorcerers, and that's what I'm going to count them as) https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tzaangor-Enlightened
Start Collecting Tzeentch Daemons - $85 - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Start-Collecting-Daemons-of-Tzeentch
That's a total of $370. I even did the rough math, and it's looking like over 2500 points worth of stuff wrapped up in those guys. I've got something around $290 in credit and stuff floating around which means $80 plus tax is coming out of pocket. I could have skipped the Enlightened, but I have a really big goal to field the OVER the top formation of Magnus + 9 daemon princes (I have three) and/or exalted sorcerers (I'll have 6 once this is done). I could have even stuck to just thousand sons stuff, but they just came out with the tzeentch box, and that was the next army (outside of harlequins) that I was actually thinking of fielding because of fluff with my army, so it was an easy buy in.
Either way, I'm getting a 78% off discount on NEW models. I think I'll be okay.
The only other news to go along with this? I've got only a few weeks to finish up painting everything that I've got in that army (which isn't that much honestly) because right now everything in that list (except magnus) is either pre-order or they're out of stock so I have to wait. But let's be honest, it's a shock to just about everyone that I didn't buy Magnus the week of release. I main his army. I'm just really hopping that soon the focus goes away from Tzeentch. I picked the army because I liked them, not because I wanted to buy all new stuff. They look awesome, but my completionist would really like to not have new models thrown at it right now.
Jan 6, 2017
Thousand Sons Rhino - Warhammer
I've been working on big pieces lately, and going right along side the helbrute and maulerfiend, my thousand sons are finally getting a ride to get around in.
The front-
Left - and yes I know that's a mark of Khorn, but you get what you get from ebay and you work your best with it. We're rocking it as a thousand sons army, and we're doing it with pride, so don't ask too many questions.
Rear -
Right-
But wait! There's more! I have enough thousand sons that on a good day I could easily fill up one of that first one, so we need a second one! (I have a third on my shelf, but it's not done and not exactly necessary to have at this point in the point value)
Front -
Left
Rear -
Right -
Like I said, I've been doing a lot of painting since I last updated my painting. I've just been too lazy to put up pictures about it. I'm thinking of putting up my army for my 1250 point game coming up, because it's sort of awesome, and has all of the new toys in it. But either way, there you go, some thousand sons rhinos that are going to make pushing my guys around a table significantly easier than their stupid slow 6 inch movement.
The front-
Left
Like I said, I've been doing a lot of painting since I last updated my painting. I've just been too lazy to put up pictures about it. I'm thinking of putting up my army for my 1250 point game coming up, because it's sort of awesome, and has all of the new toys in it. But either way, there you go, some thousand sons rhinos that are going to make pushing my guys around a table significantly easier than their stupid slow 6 inch movement.
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