Another One In The Bag
It's hard to believe but the third season of the 2nEdAC has finished! Since I have been remiss in posting monthly updates, I will roll out the big picture here first and then add some blog updates with the indivdual units completed. A little reverse order roll-out due to being so busy with gaming and hobbying that typeing about those activities has fallen behind schedule. My low model count, high points value army has successfully been finished. I was also able to add a bonus model this time which was a first for me. Thanks to the good Dr The Viking and his fabulous challenge I now have 3,000 plus points of fully painted Dark Angels, all in a gorgeous technicolor 2nd edition style. This is the largest fully painted army I have owned in 30 years of gaming and is exactly the kind of army I wanted when immersing myself in the 40k universe via reading White Dwarf in the early 90's.
In addition to making my army buidling dreams come true, the challenge has opened up a new community of gamers for me to enjoy games with as well. As I write this post I'm preparing for a game against my usual challenge opponent, the Wachtmeister. My panoply of characters from season III will take on his most recent contribution, a few Valhallan squads and a BANEBLADE! New challenge participant Valhallan Winter also lives in our area and will stop by to see how our tanks versus heroes challenge will turn out. Stay tuned to this space to see if you can use 7 second edition characters to kill a super-heavy tank. Thanks for reading after such a long hiatus, and be sure to follow all the links in the texts to check out fun contributiuons to the great hobby!
Congratulations on completing another challenge!
ReplyDeleteI've been watching the monthly updates over on Dr the Viking's page with great interest as it, along with the Old World Army Challenge are really inspirational to watch the armies so many hobbyists have built over the months.
I also look forward to seeing how your characters tackle the Baneblade!
Thanks Spacecow!
DeleteThe game yesterday was both epic and silly, a battle report should be coming soon. No Spoilers but it will involve stabbing a superheavy tank with a sword :-)
So fun to see how you've brought these venerable models to life. Thanks so much for sharing the journey!
ReplyDeleteThanks DAM. Painting these models in the style I aspired to as a young teen has been great fun, but the real suprise has been the expansion of my gaming communities as a result. In addition to 9th edition and 2nd edition 40K, I now have opportunities to play a wide variety of historical games as well as classic Space Marine and Netepic Gold. I would not have expected at the start that playing a long dead version of 40K would lead to so many great new games to play.
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