Hey Guys,
Ok so anyone who reads White Dwarf will know the deal with this.
Myself and 3 friends have rather foolishly decided that as part of out New Year's Resolutions we will take part in a "Tale of Four Gamers" style challenge beginning 1st January 2009 and finishing 1st August 2009.
So the plan is for each of us to assemble and paint 250pts per month for 6 months resulting in each of us having a 1500pt fully painted army at the end of the challenge.
We will game on the first Saturday of each month with our assembled forces, awarding each other points in the style of the White Dwarf article.
We will then have an overall army list and painting competition at the end of the challenge which I would like 40kOnline members to vote for.
The four of us have many years of 40K experience, having all started with Rogue Trader way back, but find it difficult to get motivated to paint and play games on a properly regular basis, especially as we all hold down full time jobs. The idea is that this challenge will focus us (me in particular) to get an army finished but also play some games along the way.
So the challengers are:
Chris Parsons (me): I will be assembling and painting 1500pts of Ultramarines. This is because I want to be able to assemble and paint an army that requires little conversion work and has all the models from the Codex available. This is mainly because I am the slowest painter of the group and rarely get things finished.
Lijah_Cuu: Will be assembling 1500pts of Chaos Space Marines (mainly Plague Marines). Lijah_Cuu is well known amongst our gaming group for his particularly nasty Army Lists so this is quite an appropriate choice (in other words he always whoops me!!). He is however going to be assembling his army using a ton of Forge World bits so this should be quite an interesting (and expensive
) army.
Stuart: Stuart will be assembling and painting 1500pts of Daemon Hunters (mainly Grey Knights). I think this will be a fairly straightforward army although Daemon Hunters gives him a lot to play with so again this should be interesting.
Yan: Will be assembling and painting 1500pts of Imperial Guard!
I think the man is crazy to pick IG for this challenge but I have faith in him and know that he has already been beavering away on Infantry Platoons, but I think of all of us Yan will have the biggest challenge. However he will also get a nice new Codex halfway through the challenge which should be interesting.
The monthly scoring is as follows:
Models Painted on time = 5 points
Game won = 3 points
Game Draw = 2 points
Game Lost = 1 point ( to encourage players to actually turn up and play )
At the end of the Challenge there will also be 10 points awarded for Best painted army and 10 points for Best Army List. We would like these to be voted for by 40KOnline members in July/August.
Players have 250 points to spend on their armies each month and may carry over unspent points into the following month but may not exceed the monthly point maximum.
Players need to have the mandatory 1xHQ and 2xTroops completed by the end of Month 3.
The aim of this thread is for the four of us to provide Work in Progress details of our armies, tell you all about our games and get feedback and tactical advice from you guys about our lists.
Hopefully it will also be a learning process for us and a kind of motivational thing for anyone like me who struggles to get anything finished.
So to get the ball rolling my first month will be spent as follows:
Assemble and paint 5 x Marine Scouts: 4 x Bolter 1 x Heavy Bolter
Assemble and Paint 5 x Tactical marines: 1 x Bolt Pistol and Chainsword 4 x Bolters
Assemble and Paint 1 x Space marine Rhino with Pintle Storm Bolter
Total Points spent in Month 1 220 pts
And to prove I've been busy:
So that's one squad down.......
Any suggestions for the challenge would be greatfully received, as well as feedback on our army selection, tactical advice or general Comments and Criticsms. Obviously it's early days but as the months progress hopefully the four of us will have lots to show you all.