Agggh its friday already?!

Its been a CRAZY week for me getting off of vacation and getting caught back up at work. Monday my legs felt like 2 lead pipes that just didn't want to move. Tuesday I got a game in at the store with nurgle and his guard. (hes gone all Eore on me and started ranting about how he cant play his guard the way he wants now. Sorry man my DE are just not the cookie cutter army to play against.) Wednesday i went to a meeting to try and set up an Alumni Association for my HS football team and stayed out wayyyyyyyy to late. Yesterday consisted of me coming home and falling into a coma too early in the evening and tonight I was running around everywhere.

BUT!
I have started on the Khorne army. The bloodcrusher/thunderwolves are built and I am finishing painting on the last 2 out of 7. I have got 5 bezerkers painted and have converted up all the bases for the next box. My melta guns haven't showed up yet so that is why they aren't done yet. Saturday i will get to the store and hopefully they will be there.

Saturday I have to work because the powers that be decided that me reading meters on the beach was a great thing apparently so I will be dragging my stinky butt to the store late. Probably no gaming for me so more painting will be done. I did play a quick game with a guy out here in my town who found me trough this website. (yeah I didn't know anyone read this either.) and I have made a battle report for it that I will post early next week.

Other than that I am going to bed to let the recovery commence.

Goodnight all.

Bald and Screaming

Alright I'm back from a week long vacation and ready to get back into the interwebz again. So here it is, another instalment of 40k as I see it. (Or a weird look at the history of 40k)

40k as I see it.

I was on the phone last night with the woman and i said. "I don't know what to write about on the website I'm just drawing a blank." She suggested that I talk about the different armies there are in 40k and soon I had morphed her response into a sick and twisted version of a review article. So here is the first installment of it.

Next army ideas

So the Dark Eldar are done. I have 2000+ points that I am happy with until they officially release venoms.
So with that in mind its time for a new army because I am addicted to plastic crack. I have decided on a fluffy style army because I need another army for the noobs to beat on in the store when i am trying to teach. The deathwing is getting a revamp due to the new FAQ so they might someday get semi-competitive. So without further ado here is the new direction.

A gem from goatboy

Alright I hate doing this so much. (tearing things from the pages of BOLS) but lets face it as far as 40k on the Internet, that's a large part of it. But today Goatboy came out with a post that tried to justify his new "counts as" Spacewolf chaos army.
The post wasn't written very well and halfway through it turned into him trying to justify the army to himself mostly. The comment section was a great read. (the comments over there are always good. Never on the topic but good to read.)

First video battle report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnGMlOaMOCI&feature=player_embedded#


Alright as promised here is our first battle report.

Also we now have a group on facebook. If you want to keep up to date with all the happenings with Guerrilla Games just go here.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guerrilla-Gaming/189310054421412

A tribute

I saw an article on BOLS earlier in the week talking about Outriders, the now legendary tabletop gurus or games-workshop. In it the author spoke about his fond memories of his local outrider and the impact they had had on the local gaming. I have to admit reading this got me a little teary eyed for the good old days. So i have decided to tell the story of the legendary Outrider John.

Back in the early days of the 2000s I walked into Omniverse hobbies in Ft. Myers for the first time. There I saw a man jumping up and down whooping with his arms over his head. "What is going on here?" I asked myself. Immediately wondering what could have a grown man acting this way i went over to the table they were playing on. There I saw what looked like a version of the russian army taking on something called 'corn berzerkers?' I must have looked a little lost because immediately the man I saw making the commotion earlier looked over at me and said. "stick around this is going to be a good one."So I pulled up a chair and watched as the red armored dudes assaulted up a hill held by the russians and all the while this guy was screaming 'Blood for the Blood god!'

After the game was over and all the 'corn berzerkers' were standing in a pile or twisted steel and broken bodies the guy started to talk to me. I was a little shy as I had never been here before and didn't know anyone.

"Hi I'm John, you play 40k?"
"nope but I think I am going to."
"Let me tell you about it."

That's all it took. John talked with me for hours about the fluff and history of the 41st millenium. He spoke with a passion I have rarely seen since. He loved this game. He even went out to his car and brought back in all of his different armies to show how each was different and explained their back story.
He had his bitz box there and I didn't realise what he had until many years later. In there he had a full armorcast reaver titan in parts just sitting on the top. (Who does that?)

After that day I went back home and told all my friends about John and Omniverse hobbies. From that point on he took us under his wing and taught us how to paint, how to play, and how to win. He guided our growth in the hobby that he loved, not for money, or competitiveness, he did it because he wanted to see the hobby grow and mature in us.

I never forgot the last game I played with him. My imperial guard against his chaos. It was a blood bath and I had lost 90% of my army but when the smoke cleared I still had one commissar with a single wound left holding onto the one objective in the middle of the board. I had finally beat the master. He wasn't bitter about the loss. He was happy for me and shook my hand and said "now you are ready, go forth and conquer." The next week I left for college and when I came back Outrider John was gone. The Outrider program had been scrapped and Omniverse hobbies had moved to a new building.

I never saw that man again.

So Outrider John I don't know where you are or what army you are playing but this one is for you my friend.

*SALUTE*