Who let that idiot in here?

Some of you should remember me… hopefully in a good light! For those of you that don’t my name is Phil and I am one of the founding members of the Underground Gamers. I have been playing Warhammer since very late 3rd edition and 40k since the Rogue Trader days. I have pretty much played everything GW has put out and a few more games beside. Nowadays I am living in Germany working as a Product Manager for an online games company. The works fun and I have finally gotten to dip my toe into the field of Games Design. Currently on my desk are a set of seven gods for our latest game that I need to check and approve; a short summary of a huge list monsters we are planning to have pop up in the game and the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I rescued the book this morning from the postman. I was walking up the stairs in work and glanced out the window. The postman was carrying what looked like the right size of box so I turned around and headed down to him. To my horror we started trying to lever the book into the postbox. I covered the three flights of stairs down in seconds and despite my lack of german language skills I gave him an earful… Thankfully the book hasn’t been damaged unlike my warmachine rulebook. It actually had its hardback cover split halfway along the binding and across the front cover. I still have no idea how that could have possibly happened.

Really Warhammer has been the game I have spent most time with. The last edition though finally defeated me and I just wasn’t able to play anymore. Seventh eventually became a game I didn’t enjoy. I am pretty nervous at the moment as I believe that eight will make or break Warhammer for me. If the edition is good, and remains good despite the tournament players and the compers, I will be delighted. My first real army was night goblins. The ones that came in the 4th edition boxed set. They were fantastic though if you put your hand in the wrong place you would end up with half the regiments spear tips embedded in your palm. Back then the game for us was all about big regiments and massive monsters. We did back them up with the most terrible characters however. The old magic system really let you cheese the army up. Victory often came due to some combination of items rather than skill. The Crown of Command (ld10) and Standard of Battle (+d6 Combat Resolution) generally won me my games. By sixth edition I was very much a hardcore warhammer fan. As my spending power increased so did my number of armies. I still think I have about ten. Anyway Empire was my first army of choice and I went with an all mounted empire army. The thing was I had just gotten a decent job, as an archaeologist if that can be called decent, and I had some money. One evening chatting with Heff, whom some of you will know, I decided I would try to collect an army for under €100. It only needed to be one thousand points. From that money I bought three regiment boxes of knights and a wizard. It got expanded a lot and eventually abandoned. My main opponents of the time were Beastmen and I was fairly able to roll over the top of them. By seventh I had gone through Ogres, Undead and Dwarves. However the game changed. It was almost back to a point where I was with the fourth edition. It was the combinations of items/characters that was winning the games not the regiments.

I am currently working on my Warriors of Chaos army. The increase in regiment size has really knocked my plan to pieces. Almost everything I had painted in the army has doubled in size meaning I really have to get my painting going. The first project to ease myself in has been Chaos Hounds. I don’t know why but I want a big enough regiment of these. I am going for twelve in tournament style lists though I think I will go even larger in friendly lists. I don’t know how them being beasts works in the new rules but it would look pretty cool! Anyway the shots here show what I have already done. Despite the final arrival of the rulesbook I can hopefully get the last ones done this week. I will keep most of my painting on my other blog Subject to Stupidity. Anyway I look forward to posting my thoughts here for you! Please feel free to comment and ask questions.

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