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.
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