Colour Scheme for my new Cadre |
This
post was sparked by a post on face book by a friend. His post got me
thinking about the many aspects of our hobby, and how varied it is.
There’s
something in our hobby for everybody. If you’re a gamer, it’s sufficiently
complex to provide a competitive challenge, if you’re a painter you can create
some beautiful minis, if you’re a modeler the scope for conversions and terrain
modeling is endless, and if you’re into the fluff, then you can immerse
yourself in the grim dark world of the 41st millennium.
I
think what some people forget is that there is no “right” way, there is just your way. Forgetting that
leads down all sort of anger soaked byways, none of which end well.
But
here’s the thing, you can enjoy all of them. Last year I got really into the
competitive side of the hobby going to many (many) tournaments. I had a blast,
got better at playing the game, and met a lot of interesting people. But it
culminated in Cally this year. After Cally I felt a little “burned out”. I was
beginning to tire of optimised lists, Flamers and Screamers, Wraith spam and
Night Scythes, and Biomancy Tyranids. (BTW - I’m not complaining about people
using lists like this – it’s a tournament, of course people will bring hard
lists - it’s just that it gets a bit stale, and ironically I avoided all these
lists at Cally!).
But
the beauty of the hobby is its variety. I could “retreat” from the competitive
side into other aspects of the hobby. “Beer and pretzel” gaming at the non-club
on Wednesday nights, father and son weekends away at Throne of Skulls, painting
and modeling my SM bike army etc etc.
And
of course the new Tau Codex has reignited my “love” of the fish folk. But it’s
interesting … in the past I’ve focused on playing my Tau competitively (if that
isn’t an oxymoron!), optimising lists and only bringing the most effective
units. However, what I’ve decided to do with this codex is build a completely
new Cadre, and I find myself wanting to field units “because they’re cool” and
getting really motivated on the painting and modeling side.
And
that’s the point, there are so many different aspects to the hobby, it never
gets old. If one aspect gets you down, you just move onto another.
Since
the new Tau Codex came out I’ve enjoyed working through all the various
options. At the moment I’m enjoying the creative process of building a new army
- coming up with a new paint scheme, thinking up cool conversions, and modeling
thematic bases. But in the back of my mind I’m list building, and in due course
I’ll start to hone and refine “my” list for some competitive tournaments in the
autumn.
And
the latest “project”? Well the other night at the non-club a friend and I sat
down and built some models. While “chewing the fat” we came up with a cunning
plan to build an “uber” board using a modular tile system. The idea is that it
would be the non-clubs “showpiece” when we run our gaming days. A couple of
years ago I build all sorts of weird and wonderful terrain for a campaign I ran
with Little Geek and my brother. It was great fun at the time, but after
spending hours (and hours) building everything from a simple ruined building to
a massive gothic cathedral, I got a bit sick of building terrain….. but now I
feel my enthusiasm for creating worlds returning.
There
is so much variety in our hobby, that it would be difficult to get bored with
all of it!
EYIG
4 comments:
An enclave army?
Using that colour scheme (almost), but probably not farsighted. I just don't see the Bomb being very effective. I've got a post planned on a farsighted list, essentially asking folks to explain to me how to make it work!
EYIG
Actually I was going to throw up a Farsight list I've been using with some success and that I'm taking to a small tournament next week.
Looks great - excellent paint scheme and paint job. Well done!
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