A Tale of Dakka Gamers...

This follows roughly the guidlines that is set forth from the popular white dwarf article named "a tale of four gamers" where they started with a set amount and used roughly half each month to build their army. This series originally ran for a couple of a months each month they would report their findings on what was effective and tweaked their list or of battles they have had.

I've always wanted to do guard, but i never quite liked hte whole "ave emperor" type thing so instead i decided i wanted to do a lost and damned force, honestly it was the white dwarf that had those neat mutant conversions but soon after converting a mutant squad i lost interest as my group went into full on fantasy mode... The Lost and Damned was named "Last and Damned" by myself and a couple of my friends.

When 4th ed. hit or more precisely when marines got their new codex my hate for them increased ten fold and I decided that i MUST make an army of traitors. Most people would think why not just make chaos marines.. Well because they would still be MARINES! And i've always been one to favor hordes of low quality guys over basically anything in power armour.

Although i didn't make a solid list (i have a couple of plans but nothing concrete) i did know that i wanted a couple of traitor squads and vehicles because once i do most if not all of my Lost and Damned squads i want them to be able to "cross over" to my Traitor Imperial Guard army! Thus giving me two armies for the cost of 1 and 1/4 always a good thing these days with the price on the rise... i heard we are beating crack now a days.. dont worry its just barely kids!

Dont have any real fluff yet but i do know that they will have urban camoflauge or atleast a rough version of it. Of all the sites online that i've been to most people said that on mini's camoflauge isn't all that realistic because you want to model to stand out, rather in real camo you want to be able to blend in and disappear. Makes sense and allows me a bit of sleep at night so i dont spend hours making the scheme too "realistic" and more superficial than anything else.

Next i was thinking of modeling the aspiring champs instead of chaos marines to be comissars or officers of the army... maybe if i take obliterators to make them corrupted/infested adeptus mechaincus that fell to the machien curse/virus. So many ideas.. but for now i'm off to bed... tomorrow i'll post what i'm buying/bought with my money along with a few pictures! so stay tuned!

~Andy