And the hobbying continues

Whats up guys?  So I have decided to move forward with building my next army.  After doing some clean up, I found a surplus of models that were just collecting dust or new in the box or blister pack.  Among these models were 5 completely built drop pods, 2 storm ravens, 20 death company armed with ccw and bolt pistols, 2 furioso dreds, and 30 tact marines.  Well what to do?  It would be a shame to just get rid of these models and so I decided to go ahead and paint up a dual purpose army that could be run as either a codex space marine drop pod army or a blood angels army.  In order to do this, I plan on painting the army a little differently using colors that dont match any established chapter so that I could run them as my own chapter.  Of course everything will be what you see is what you get so anybody playing me will not have any issues with recognizing what each unit is.  I am first going to concentrate on the blood angel side as these models are already built an all I need is an HQ to lead them.  I will probably start with a reclusiarch as a cheap HQ or librarian which i might be able to build using some spare parts.  30 tact marines will fulfill my troops selection with dedicated drop pods and the 2 furioso dreads with magma cutters, melta guns will provide some cc and anti tank punch.   For the codex space marines part, it will still be a drop pod/storm raven army as its base but I will be adding a beater chapter master, 1 or 2 thunderfire cannons and will be using the red hunters chapter tactics as next to the ultra marines I find the most flexable.   Not going to add bikes in as my Nightlords army will be my biker army.  Pics are my works in progress of the 2 10 man tact squads.  I am hoping that by next post, I will have some more updates for the army.

Going On Campaign ..

Its that time again to run another campaign. I've been reading through the Badab War Imperial Armor books and got inspired to run another campaign with my local group. Like the Badab war campaign I plan on making it based on points where each type of game is worth different points from playing boarding actions to apocalypse games. I might do a unique character mechanic where your HQ will gain experience points for each game played with the added benefit of getting to buy USRS with their experience. Below are the details I'm thinking of including..

- Make this a team campaign with teams of 3-6 a side
- Basic sides would be the forces of the Imperium vs. the forces of Chaos/Xenos
- The back story I was going for is of a Space Marine chapter or Battle company that has turned its back on the imperium who they feel turned their back on them. As the imperium starts closing in around them with superior odds, the captain looks to anybody for aid including Xenos and the forces of chaos. So one of the players will need to play a space marine army who will play the role of the fallen battle company. If nobody will take up this role, I could definitely take it using my Chaos space wolves or even fallen Black templars, but I leave it open to anybody.
- The campaign will have 4 phases with each phase lasting 2-3 weeks. During each phase, players are allowed to play games with other players (as many as they like)and as mentioned above, depending on type of mission/game, they are worth a different amount of campaign points. Each phase will have a special mission though that needs to be played by a chosen champion from each team. This mission will be worth the most and can only be played once per phase.
- winning a phase grants a benefit to the winning team for the next phase. For example if Team A wins phase 1, then in phase 2, Team A gets a minus 1 to all reserve rolls etc.

Thats pretty much it, my goal is to keep it simple in order for the campaign to basically run itself with only needing me to keep track of campaign points and not maps, territories, etc so that I can play. Let me know what you guys think...