Hobby update

Man. My School Systems spring course has been eating up my time, almost forgot about blogging.

A bit of an update.

I played the last game of this step of our 1000 point escalation league and came out with a win. It looked close for some time, but I managed to come out on top. Terminators are frightening, plasma rifles are terrific.

Construction wise I've managed to finish off building everything that I have left to bump my army up to the 1750/1800 range. I've also painted up another squad of firewarriors and a stealth suit with a fusion blaster. A bit of a wasted excersise when Kroot are my infantry of choice and I'm still on the fence about stealth suits, but my eyes have been bleeding from painting so many battlesuits that I needed a break.

For my 1250 step of the league, I'm looking to drop a devilfish, drop the shield drones on my HQ and take a pair of broadsides, another crisis suit and a stealth suit team. I'll post the list up shortly.

Army sizes:
I've heard lots of talk thrown out about army size. The north american standard is 2000 points, while Europe favours 1500. Still not convinced what I'd like to play. What I do know is that the game is playtested at the 1500 level, which means it's likely most balanced at that level. 2000 points does let you bring more toys - especially for an elite army like space marines, but vehicle spam, or unit spam in general becomes more prevelant at those levels. Honestly I think it's going to come down to some experience playing at both levels before I find a happy medium I suppose.

I've been keen on getting my orcs and goblins put together to try out the 8th edition fantasy that just hit. I think I'll just slap on a basic paint job to make it happen, just one highlight and shade maybe for now. I can't possibly go crazy like I do on some of my 40k models.

My child will be born in the next few weeks. That's exciting :). Wonder how it will affect hobby.

Army update

It's been a while since I have posted anything related to hobby on my blog, so I thought I'd share my latest addition to my Tau force. It's the first of a pair of XV88 broadside battlesuits. I'm hoping that they will help put a nice dent in enemy heavy armour. We shall see.

Also in the works is some more XV8 battlesuits, a Deathrain (Twin-Linked missile pods) and a Fireknife squad (missile pod, plasma, multi-tracker), but only the deathrain is near completion. I'm finding painting battlesuits to be a bit tedious lately though, so I've also been working on getting some more fire warriors painted. While I don't see myself making use of more than I have in the army at the moment, it gives me some flexibility try out some different types of armies.

I hope to pick up some more Kroot soon as well, but that can wait.

XV88 - Front

Side

Rear