100 40k Posts WOOHOO!!!
This is a cool milestone to hit, though its taken me a while given my long period of very intermmitent posts. Anyways thanks to everyone who reads this blog, My goal is to reach 200 posts before this time next year, ambitious I know but as long as I keep making new stuff to post about its doable.
Normally most other bloggers add some large expansive retrospective monologue about how much their blog means to them and reviewing works they've done over time. Rather than do that I'll just say that this blog has been a cool way to show off my work and that its nice to see how my skills have improved over the last few years. I could also talk about my feelings towards GW's products as well as other games, but the summary is GW's games really aren't very fun to play for me anymore and haven't been for a number of years. The game's become a series of fixed outcomes where half the time there's really no point in playing out the match, you can just look at your opponent's army and know exactly what will happen before either player even sets up. By contrast X-wing is a great game which very much relies on and rewards in the moment decision making and player skill is the single most important factor in who will win.
So to compare in my opinion the outcome of a 40k games vs a X-wing game are determined by:
40k X-wing
List Building: 70% 30%
Luck: 10% 20%
Skill: 20% 50%
Again that's just my opinion based on my own experiences. I love 40k's lore and 30k is a lot more fun, but playing matches of 40k nearly always tends to be a big let down. The game could improve with time, and seems to be right now, but in my view the core rule set of of the game needs some dramatic changes as it has a lot of anachronisms left over from 3rd edition which no longer deliver the experience they were created to deliver.
Oh and oddly if I really wanted to boost my viewership I should just post articles and conversions of X-wing stuff. My most viewed 40k conversion posts have about 300-500 views a piece, and every x-wing post has between 1,800 and 3,500 views. Does anyone have any advice on how to draw more eyes from the 40k community?
Ok enough of that, onto the actual post!
Truescale Batch #3
As I mentioned before I decided to make a number of MkIV armor legionaries in this batch for variety's sake and for the challenge of it. I'm very pleased with how this batch came out, all of the poses work and I've refined the anatomy quite a bit. I have come to the conclusion over time that the arms are about 15% too thick, and this has been causing some issues when posing the models. Now that my molds are officially worn out I'll revise the masters a bit and decrease the arm thickness for future batches.
Here are the individual models.
MkIII Helmed Sergeant #2
While fielding a 20 man Legion Tactical Squad is awesome there is the issue of needing 2 compulsary Troop choices, that and a 20 man squad can be quite unwieldy in smaller matches. So I made this guy who can either count as a sergeant or as a standard model depending on how I decide to run them in a match.
His pose screams "Casual Badass"
