Adventurer's Guild

It all started with a very nice evening. I was enjoying catching up on some Facebook things. Brother-in-law actually painted the kegs he is using for brewing some beer a very distinct way that conjured images of the Bad Moons in my brains. Was chatting with a friend about a nerdcore show in Charlotte coming up at the end of the month. I felt for a brief moment everything was right in the world. But I got a little excited when I saw Goatboy just did an article about Space Marine scouts. See I love the idea of highly trained inexpensive troops. My guardian based army has always been one of my favorite things. I like pulling in other troops and mixing up the builds when I run Eldar, but Defenders with Shuriken Catapults are only 9pts each. They were probably not designed with horde-army in mind, but wow a hundred of them is only 900pts. Someone had told me a long time ago that space marine scouts were awesome with terminators. You have inexpensive troops and really expensive tr

Well the word is out on 9th edition: summary To me it sounds like a cool idea. I mean I can't speak for everyone. I can really understand someone looking at all these models they have and getting pretty upset that the miniatures they bought might not work the same. But let me wander down this path a bit. My brother and I got into the game a really long time ago (has it been thirty years). We didn't have a ton of money, but we started collecting. A lot of our gamer friends started collecting as well. Some of the earliest kits just didn't work and as time went on we had our struggles with collecting and staying current. Here is a brief list of a few of the biggest gripes from our standpoint. First off is units that just disappeared. Chaos dwarves with crossbows and Chaos Thugs with long bows disappeared. In the early days chaos was human, beastmen, and dwarf. Or at least you could have dwarven allies. Undead was a single faction. Collecting undead was super coo