My darling wife is super excited about this, as she's always been a titan fan. We need to have a chat about who is going Loyalist and who is playing the Traitors, but otherwise I'm just looking forward to some nice meticulous modelling and painting. The game play demos I've seen also appeal, with resource management per titan, tracking sheets, and lots of lovely crunchy stuff.
I've been meaning to get into Age of Sigmar forever. I think it probably merits it's own dedicated post at some point, as I probably need to rationalise the projects I've got and focus on something in particular. Right now, I've got Chaos, Order and Goblins, and that's probably too much. Working out what to drop is proving a challenge, though.
So, I love the look of the new edition. I haven't played it once. Part of the problem is, I think, playing Guard is proving to be a challenge in terms of storage space and getting stuff to a game. Originally, I'd planned to get over this by moving to a mixed Imperium force with tons of bits and pieces from all over. Unfortunately, the easiest way to get a balanced pick up game when you don't play very often is to use the matched play rules, but they've updated those rules to remove the ability to use the "Imperium" keyword to pick an army due to an assortment of abuses in tournaments. I'm left not really sure what it is I want to be doing in 40K...
While Warhammer 40,000 requires this big bucket of effort to get the army out, find time to play, and all that stuff, Kill Team is looking like an excellent low effort alternative. Less space to store, fewer models to paint. I hear it's pretty balanced too. Definitely one for quick games with my wife after work.
Necromunda
Basically, everything I just said about Kill Team above. Small units, I can use the same terrain for both, and you can get a game done in a reasonable time frame. It's mostly just a case of working out what gang I want to run and picking it up... I used to run Cawdor back in the day, but both Orlock and Van Saar look tempting today.
Shadespire
Again, a nice looking game with pretty miniatures, small cost of entry and minimal storage requirements. What's not to like? Once I'm moved, I'm keen to get a demo game in to work out how quickly to get it, but its definitely something I'm excited about.
Blood Bowl
The only real question is what team to get. I ran a Blood Bowl League in my school when the last edition was released. It's stood the test of time and I adore it. I still have my old Skaven metal team, but they may end up getting sold on - the new Chaos cheerleaders are tempting me towards a more fighty game than a running and passing one.
Warhammer Quest
I have Silver Tower, and the Hammerhal version also looks like it's Even More My Jam than Silver Tower is. Plenty of gorgeous models to paint up, though it's quite a few to paint in one go before you can start play, so likely to be something I do after getting one of the games with a smaller barrier to entry done first.
Aristeia!
Like Shadespire, but in the Infinity universe. I've been offered a demo game down at HATE, which I hope to fit in at some point. The base game comes with 8 models, and you need a team of 4. These are the sort of painting numbers I can feasibly achieve. Very tempting!
Malifaux
The announcement of Malifaux 3E has both excited me and persuaded me to pause on my Infinity stuff for now. The game had been suffering from bloat, and play had been dropping off a bit, too. I'm not painting anything up until the new edition drops, so I can decide whether to stick with my current faction or switch to another one. Collodi, my main master, has dropped from tournament play, which is where I get most of my games. While I realise most UK tournaments will include the "Dead Man's Hand" rules to allow the lost Masters to be played, this edition change would be the best opportunity to switch factions.
As more information about 3E comes out, I'll pull together a few thoughts about which way I'm pulled to play, and what I'm considering.
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Infinity
In the language of the modern youth (I believe), Infinity is bae. It's my gaming love right now, and I'm really enjoying it. ITS Season 10 is around the corner in September, and my Druze Bayram Security will be taking the field for it. Expect more photos soon of Aodhan's brilliant paint jobs.
Decisions, Decisions
I'm not pinning myself down or committing to anything until the move is done. At that point, I'll pick up some small hobby projects and start working from there. If the blog is a bit quiet, the move will be eating into my hobby time, but I hope to try and keep semi regular posts up in the meantime.
Nice! Spoiled for choice, it seems - Regardless of which you choose, I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
ReplyDeleteI strongly suspect the first pass will be "what can I play with what I already have?"
DeleteI've been really grooving on all GW's smaller scale games recently. Shadespire is probably the best of the newer ones, but Neromunda and KT are fun, too.
ReplyDeleteThe 40K Big FAQ didn't actually kill off your Army concept. You can still have "Imperium" as the only common keyword for the Army as a whole, as long as each individual Detachment has a more specific Keyword in common across all its Units. So you can have an Army with, say, an Astra Militarum Battalion and a DeathWatch Battalion, but you can't take a Brigade and use cheap AM Units to fill in all the slots you don't want to shell out for DW Units in. It's a good change, still allows a lot of flexibility, and almost everything it cut out was kinda cheesy.
Yes, you can have three detachments with different keywords, but it really heads off having random single units of cool stuff that I painted as the mood took me and mushed up into an army. It requires an additional level of planning and commitment I really don't have for 40K right now!
DeleteI can understand that. There are also a bunch of "mini-Factions" like Assassins, INQ, and Sisters of Silence that get kind of screwed by it.
DeleteThat does sound like the best argument in favour of allowing "soup" Armies that I've seen, tho :D
I want to be able to impulse buy a box of models that look cool and paint them and be able to play them without needing to wait for another three units before I can - which I might not be as keen about...
DeleteSure, Kill Team helps with that, but there's plenty of awesome not in Kill Team models and units I'd love to paint and get use out of.
Now that's a fair few games to get involved with.... Definitely start with the smaller ones and move forward. then at least if you find you don't have time you haven't sunk too much into the games you don't get time to play!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely one at a time! There's no way I have time for all of them at once.
DeleteIt's the limited edition Druze Killer Hacker. She came with the Human Sphere book pre-orders so there's a reasonable number of them around if you look.
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