Prepping for 10th - Word Bearers

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Warhammer - 40,000 - Word Bearers are a pretty cool force, way back in 3rd edition I had a force that I loved playing being able to summon daemons mid-game was really fun. Since then they’ve had a bit of an up and down in regards to their rules feeling like the story describes them. Between 3rd and the 8th edition codexes many rules variations were attempted but nothing was really inspiring. The current 9th edition book finally really captures the feel of each of the traitor legions and the crusade rules let you take that to the next level. It’s really a shame that Games Workshop finally nailed a good Chaos Space Marine book and is invalidating it this summer with the release of 10th edition. Hopefully some of that flavor can come through in the new edition because what has been released as far as how the game works looks promising. I personally have really enjoyed 9th edition mostly because the narrative crusade rules don’t really suffer from the ups and downs of the rapid rules changes that attempted to balance out the matched play tournament scene.

Anyway this Word Bearers force was created as a crusade force with a focus on playing boarding actions. It has been converted from the Horus Heresy line and has a really unique look. All the crusade advancements have been focused on making them more daemonic and it’s really flavorful. Also being on the receiving end of some pretty nasty loses it is also very good.

Getting Ready for 10th - Chaos Marines and Thousand Suns

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Warhammer 40,000 - I’m really hoping that some version of soup makes it to the new edition of Warhammer 40,000. There are some armies that just love to be mixed with others like CSM and Daemons. It’s fluffy and I miss the days of old where you could summon a unit of daemons with an Icon or Spell.

I’m sure everyone has a bulk of new unpainted chaos stuff sitting around since many of the most recent updates made some unconsidered options viable. Sure it’s a little late in the game to be jumping on the new hotness but I’m guessing the revised unit cards are going to be similar to the Indexes of 8th edition where everything was pretty playable early on.

Getting Ready for 10th - Orks

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Warhammer 40,000 - A new edition of Warhammer 40K is due out this summer which means it’s the perfect time to get your armies in shape and painted up so you can start the new edition with a fully painted force. Now knowing that EVERYTHING is going to change you can’t really focus on exactly what you plan on playing but you can take the time to get that grey plastic pile of shame up to snuff.

This is the first of several batches of Orks that I’m painting up, ultimately it will be an entire collections worth of stuff but I’m batching it out to avoid getting burned out. Most of these are newer kits so it’s unlikely they’ll be invalidated by the upcoming rules changes.