A Bearded Newbie

So, I was pretty excited about my games this week, and they were both really good. First, Friday game was at the local GW shop and part of the Vigilus escalation campaign. I was matched up with Iron Hands, but since the player was late, I played a willing Space Wolves (SW) player. The first round of the campaign was 500 points; this was my army: The game started a bit slow, but I wanted to get the boys stuck in so I raced Doomsbasha up as far as I could. The grots and the weirdboy were holding objectives. Using the battle wagon as a hand to hand monster was fun, but the next turn when the boys spilled out and the big mek, Rekksmasha, stayed in to use the Reder armor for mortal wounds. It worked well, killing all but one. The one SW turned into a lone wolf, but then died in combat with the boys. The SW leader got stuck in with the boys, and was taking his time to finish thim off, until there was down to two boys, a slugga and choppa and the mobs Bossmob with a power klaw....

It is 7:05 AM Friday Morning and I went to bed last night at 1:00. Today I will play in my first Escalation game at the local GW store. And tomorrow I will play maybe another Escalation game, but also a 2k game against my Knight friend here at home in the Scrap City. Hobby update : I am slowly rebasing miniatures as I use them. I am finding it easy to remove the base on most of the flat plastics. Some are slota-bases both plastic and metal. Those are easier to remove, but hard to glue back on the bases. Also, I got some paint on some boyz. I got 8 shootas, 1 tankbusta, 1 grot oiler, and my evil suns weird boy. This took me about 4 hours of painting to get them from black primer to painted, highlighted, washed, and flocked. I feel pretty accomplished. And I am looking forward to do more. Army list : So after getting smooshed by the Kinights last time, I am making a list that will hopefully do better, but it does rely on shooting. I have lots of command points and ...

As I start this blog anew, with the focus on 40k, I am a bit overwhelmed. There is a new, great codex for my favorite army: Orks. All of it looks good. I figure I have aver 4,000 points in Orks, with just about every data card represented. I played a quick game against a buddy to show him 8th edition and he is hooked, again. I won that game, possibly the first ever for my Orks. The next game he played a brand new knight army and I was squished, but more about that in a bit. The feeling I have being overwhelmed by the game, the hobby aspect, and time management. There are so many parts to 8th edition that I don't get yet. I need to play more to get them, and against different people. I have always played in my own bubble of friends, and it was fun, but if I want to play and be competitive in a tournament, I need to expand out a bit. With Orks being so new I am riding the wave of not knowing what's best yet. So there is a curve there that again, will just take games played to h...