Now I must say that as of RIGHT now I much prefer Fantasy to 40k ( I still bought the Gamers Edition of 6th!) and I love 8th edition more than just about any previous edition I have played (I started back in 2nd edition, with the High Elf and Goblin box set!). I am not a serious gamer by any means. For me the joy is trawling through background, creating any army and then proceeding to play a game and throw a bunch of dice!
I love the narrative that naturally comes out of a game, for example in the Storm of Magic game I played, my friend took Dwarfs and then proceeded to add a Fimir, who did very little, except miscast and blow himself and his fulcrum to smithereens! Just goes to show that the Dwarfs should have put their faith in the Runesmiths and not tricksy daemon-spawn!
Anyway I digress, after this game my friends and I worked out a few more rules for a campaign weekend we want to run soon, and I began mulling over what army I could take! I was originally going to take Tomb Kings, but I need to buy a few more things for them and I want an airbrush to finish painting them.
One friend is going to borrow my Ogres, so that rules them out, so what could I take?
Then it hit me! Knowing we were going to have a great big 4 way Storm of Magic game I could dust off and reboot my Lizardmen! I always loved Dinosaurs, and have dabbled in Lizardmen since 3rd edition!
Even better, next to nothing was painted for my Lizardmen, as until recently I could have cared less about actually completing an army! I have enjoyed working with the new Citadel paints and bright colours on the Mondrian Necrons, and wanted to keep going with that.
A quick flick through the army book, new and old and I had landed on doing a Sacred host of Tepok! Purple dinosaurs! And sadly I just then realised that I will have to name one of them Barney (sigh)
The frog who went to get the milk, his Palanquin was already done, so I just popped him off and gave him a fresh coat of paint! I will most likely run him with Light magic, the bonuses to WS and I sounds very solid buffs for Saurus!
Engine of the Gods!!!! I love this thing, so much potential and takes a few hits and focus away from the Slann!
Not entirely sure how effective this guy will be, but I have always liked the idea behind the cloak of feathers, and a Slann taking over his mind to cast spells!
I haven't got a spot in the list for this guy yet, but a Dinosaur named after the King of the Dinobots? Yes please! At the very least he will see action during the Storm of Magic game!
Still on the bench to paint are 40 old school skinks, 10 Cold Ones, 40 Saurus and 16 Temple guard and an old school stegadon! Then to get some chameleon skinks and I will be where I am happy to have some variety and choices putting a list together!
And in between all that I will have my "counts as" Executioners Thusla Kane arrive, 6th edition of 40k to pour over and signing up to finally do university (only been a "gap year" of around 13 years in length!)
Phew!
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