The 40k Bug

Yes, I'm back on 40k again. Pure excitement, isn't it?

One thing that I decidedly enjoy more about 40k is the variety of things. Warmachine is nice, but Warmachine armies are almost exclusively character driven. People announce their armies as faction-Warcaster, and you know generally speaking what the army consists of. If I say "Cygar - Stryker" you know pretty much immediately what the army is going to look like, because Warmachine is a game of synergy and it rewards you for taking Warcasters and armies that work together in concert with one another.

40k is a different animal, in my mind. My Word Bearers army doesn't really match any other Word Bearer armies out there that I have seen. I have all infantry. No Daemonbomb. Multi-role squads. Bloodletter Assault waves. etc. I like it, and have fun with it when it works right. And mostly have fun with it when it works wrong, too.

Anyway, the point of this is not to really compare and contrast the armies in the two games.  This is an ongoing look at my armies, how I am enjoying them, what I think they need, etc.

After my loss and win with the Tau yesterday (report and commentary was made on the Disorderlies list) I took out my Mech Guard and was eyeballing them.  After some consideration and playing with Army Builder (it's so great to have that on the laptop downstairs) I realized that I am very very close to having a fully painted 2000 point army - the remaining Chimeras need to be finished, but after that, I just need the two Sentinels (who also need some bitz), two command squads and an Officer painted.  And then I'm golden.

It's not really an orthodox IG army by any stretch.  But the sight of 8 Chimeras, 2 Leman Russes and 1 Leman Russ Demolisher rolling at them ought to be enough to give people serious pause.  I haven't played it yet under 4th edition rules, but I have high hopes.  And I haven't even tackled the issue of whether or not I'm going to keep the infantry mounted in their Chimeras or set up as a gunline.  

It'll be something to test.

Next on the review list:  Dark Eldar.

I want my money back

So in my new quest to organize and improve the Gaming Mecca, I'm clearing my way through stacks and stacks of comics and magazines and CCG cards and whatnot.

And man, what a fool I've been.

I'd like to send a message to myself-of-the-past, and inquire what the hell I was thinking.

Did I REALLY need to peruse Wizard magazine? Did I NOT see Inquest Gamer did, in fact, suck like a hoover? Why in the world was I picking up Command and Strategy and Tactics - I have no recollection of actually READING THEM.

And on the CCG side. It was my practice for some time to pick up a deck of pretty much anything, to explore the mechanics, check out the art, etc. I'm not sure if I thought I was going to have some pithy discovery from these investigations - I sure did NOT have one; but what I DO have is CCG cards that could feed a small third-world nation.

That is if they could find nutrional value in Magic: The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings, etc.

So. I'm sifting through the piles and boxing it up. I haven't got the heart to sell it. I don't even imagine there is a MARKET out there for back issues of Game Trade Magazine or the Duelist.  (Was there ever?)    It'll go sit in the back room for a few years until I go into a "What IS this stuff?!" sweep and toss it.  In the meantime, I guess, it just gets to take up space, like the stuff that I'm currently sweeping out has done.