Sunday, 13 January 2013

Start of an Empire (army)


During the last few months of 2012 I was thinking that I should focus on a single Warhammer army. Start it from scratch, assemble it, paint it and start using it in tournaments. Many armies tempted me but in the end it was the Empire that won me over.

One of the big reasons Empire was my choice was they already have a new book, I won’t get an army going and then a book comes out and changes everything. Reading through the book I quickly realised they can do a bit of everything. This gives me a good scope not to get bored with running the same list over and over.

I already have a lot of Empire miniatures sitting on my hobby desk ready to assemble and paint. I am hoping to get a full day to sit and assemble some miniatures then another couple of days over the next few weeks to sit down and get some base coats on a lot of them. The basic plan is to get a basecoat, wash and a simple highlight on everything then later I will go back and try my hand at doing some finer details.

Hopefully next post I will be able to dig out my camera and get a few decent shots of my work in progress army.

Till next time Happy Gaming.

Matt

Saturday, 5 January 2013

Welcome to my hoard

Welcome to the hoard.

First things first let me introduce myself, my name is Matt and I am a table top war gamer from Australia. I have been into wargaming, namely Warhammer Fantasy Battles, for around 17 years now. For much of that time I was only a very casual gamer only playing a few times a year but since the release of 8th edition I have started playing a lot more. I am even starting to attend tournaments whenever I get the chance.

If I had to describe my play style it would be friendly but competitive. I love the social aspect of gaming more than the idea of winning. Part of the draw to tournaments for me is getting to play against new opponents and meeting people that share my interests. That is one of the reasons I have decided to start this blog.  It is a way to extend my hobby even further and hopefully make friends that share my interests world wide.

On this blog I plan on posting general Wargaming hobby talk about battles I have fought, chronicle my building and painting of my armies and I am even going to try my hand at making some terrain this year so there may be some posts about that as well.

On occasion there may be other Nerdy topics creep in, things like movie reviews, talk about TV shows I like and books I have read. Hopefully everyone will like what I have to say, but good or bad feel free to leave feedback,  let me know what you like or dislike or if there are any topics you would like me to write about. All Feedback is welcome.

With that I will sign off for now. Hope to have you back soon.

Happy gaming.
Matt.