Re: COMMENT: what price victory?
Posted by General Biakal on Feb 07, 2011; 1:04pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/COMMENT-what-price-victory-tp5956717p6000213.html
TANKS for the memory...
i have a lot of stuff... a lot of models. but iv not got all of them through normal channels. there have been lots of wheeler dealing and stuff in the last few years that have let me create a big army in a short time.
and on saturday through another one of these deals i dropped on FOUR leman russes... two complete on sprue and two that i had to use the internetz to buy a few bits for.
now this leaves me with SEVEN russes
which is like THIS but in 40k scale...
and the opportunity to start a a brand new kind of army... THE ARMOURED COMPANY.
the 2009 IA update from ForgeWorld had a free and interesting AC list which frankly scares me a little with its sheer smell of AWESOME. and now, pending a mail delivery from bitzbox.co.uk it is within my reach.
the best bit is, you fuckers thought that i was joking...
so i now have an excell document with a 1750 point AC army on it, featuring no less than 6 russes, 2 chimeras, a hellhound, a basilisk, a Destroyer and a Vendetta. 5 of those russes are troops choices...
yes, thats right. you heard me.
im my mind i have run through a few scenarios and to be honest the ONLY army i cannot see it totally rolling over is a MC heavy Tyranid list. there is more armour 14 on show than a Land Raider showroom and with 7 large blasts a turn, most of them at least AP3, only Terminators are a worry- and iv got a surprise for them too.
but the title of this thread is: WHAT PRICE VICTORY.
with absolute power comes a little responsibility. is this list fair?
well, to be blunt i really dont give a fuck. what bothers me is will people enjoy fighting it? winning or losing are sort of irrelevant, but being fucking drop kicked out the room in a cool fun way can be as good (if not better) than winning with a boring "I win" list. I was thinking this as I saw a friend at Lenton on saturday with a mech/melta/vet list, not too different from mine (but much MUCH worse- at least i still have SOME fluffyness) or the million others...
so getting your favourite unit drive by melta'd AGAIN by a slightly different list is dead boring. the sad choice is tho, with IG the smart money is on this cookie cutter mech list. so we all take it, and win hard.
which isnt fun, often, even for the victor.
but this AC list, which actually seems well thought out and sensible, is almost having a brand new codex out... very few people will have played it, won't know its strengths or weaknesses and might therefore be a bit stimulated, have a laugh and a bit of fun...
i rekon thats fair, dont you?
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/COMMENT-what-price-victory-tp5956717p6000213.html
TANKS for the memory...
i have a lot of stuff... a lot of models. but iv not got all of them through normal channels. there have been lots of wheeler dealing and stuff in the last few years that have let me create a big army in a short time.
and on saturday through another one of these deals i dropped on FOUR leman russes... two complete on sprue and two that i had to use the internetz to buy a few bits for.
now this leaves me with SEVEN russes
which is like THIS but in 40k scale...
and the opportunity to start a a brand new kind of army... THE ARMOURED COMPANY.
the 2009 IA update from ForgeWorld had a free and interesting AC list which frankly scares me a little with its sheer smell of AWESOME. and now, pending a mail delivery from bitzbox.co.uk it is within my reach.
the best bit is, you fuckers thought that i was joking...
so i now have an excell document with a 1750 point AC army on it, featuring no less than 6 russes, 2 chimeras, a hellhound, a basilisk, a Destroyer and a Vendetta. 5 of those russes are troops choices...
yes, thats right. you heard me.
im my mind i have run through a few scenarios and to be honest the ONLY army i cannot see it totally rolling over is a MC heavy Tyranid list. there is more armour 14 on show than a Land Raider showroom and with 7 large blasts a turn, most of them at least AP3, only Terminators are a worry- and iv got a surprise for them too.
but the title of this thread is: WHAT PRICE VICTORY.
with absolute power comes a little responsibility. is this list fair?
well, to be blunt i really dont give a fuck. what bothers me is will people enjoy fighting it? winning or losing are sort of irrelevant, but being fucking drop kicked out the room in a cool fun way can be as good (if not better) than winning with a boring "I win" list. I was thinking this as I saw a friend at Lenton on saturday with a mech/melta/vet list, not too different from mine (but much MUCH worse- at least i still have SOME fluffyness) or the million others...
so getting your favourite unit drive by melta'd AGAIN by a slightly different list is dead boring. the sad choice is tho, with IG the smart money is on this cookie cutter mech list. so we all take it, and win hard.
which isnt fun, often, even for the victor.
but this AC list, which actually seems well thought out and sensible, is almost having a brand new codex out... very few people will have played it, won't know its strengths or weaknesses and might therefore be a bit stimulated, have a laugh and a bit of fun...
i rekon thats fair, dont you?
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