How is it going?
I guess a brief little piece about myself is in order as this is infact an introductions post.
First up the real names Ash and I hail from South Australia. I have been wargaming for just over two decades now and that time has been spent mostly on Games Workshops games. I have huge armies for both Fantasy and 40k and warbands/gangs/warriors/things for pretty much all of their 'specialist games'. I also play systems from other publishers including Flame sof War, Warmachine etc.
When news of 'Mantic Games' a new company making plastic models came rolling about I was massively excited but that excitement died when I saw the first pictuires of the Elves. I hated them.. they were too skinny, spindly, anemic looking. I actually had real problems and was not afraid to voice my opinions on them. However one magical day about a year ago I saw some of the elves in the flesh and instantly took back my words and ate my shoes in the process. The elves were not so bad afterall, the kit was good they were just different. I think it may be that I was not used to seeing miniatures in a less exaggerated scale than what GW uses?
When the undead models started to be released I bought up loads of them. I had always planned on doing an undead army for Warhammer but did not really want to spend the megabucks on another horde army (I have 10000 points of Orcs and Goblins!) Mantics brilliant prices and great sculpts almost forced my hand and my grand undead army began to take form.
I like to play BIIIG games and when the beta rules came out I was absolutely awestruck that I could play huge games in a smaller amount of time with less rules to get in the way. My club loves BIIG games too and our 40k Apocalypse battles are to be seen to be believed; the most recent one was 105k points between 8 players
I only just started looking at the newest edition of Fantasy and bought all the usual stuff; the ridiculously big (but cool) rulebook, several copies oif the starter set and all the flashy counters, magic cards, templates etc. I have played three games of that edition and have chucked it in. I am now only playing Kings of War for my Fantasy fix. My club will also only play Kings of War for their Fantasy fix. Hell my girlfriend loves Kings of War as she absolutely destroyed me in our first game using the Mhorgoths Revenge starter set (she completely wiped out my army and in return I did 5 wounds
she used the dwarfs by the way)
So I'm selling all my GW Fantasy stuff. Being an Orc player I am more than thrilled with the prospect of Mantic releasing Orc models in the very near future. My girlfriend is slowly building up her Dwarf army but really hopes someone puts out a Skaven/Ratmen list soon.
So thats the gaming side.
What else about me... I hate painting but get it done cause a painted army is an awe inspiring site. I love conversions. I used to run my own wargaming forums but recently gave them away. I used to run a cool series of themed modelling competitions which I may talk about here at some stage if people are interested and admin is willing
Oh and Zombies... love the zombie apocalypse theme... so much so I have my own set of rules in development...
Anyways I look forward to spending a good amount of time here and seeing what everyone gets upto Mantic Hobby wise.
Any questions?