Busy as ever...

So busy, I've not posted on here for ages... is that busy... or just lazy? The latter I feel.

Well to a degree, I have been up to a few things... one of them being helping fellow blogger, gamer and mate Dezartfox set up a new website called The Sin of Damnation. Which can found here.

In addition to this I have finally been working on the air cav. I've been painting the first ten man vet squad and I've really enjoyed it. It has taken me ages to actually get myself to start... but once I have I don't really want to stop. This first squad is armed with 3 meltas and upgraded to demolitions. For the meltas (within this squad I'm using the Elysian Lascutters), I know when I get to tourneys I may get some stick as the rest of the force will be using standard looking meltas. I just thought the lascutters looked so cool that it would have been rude not to use them.

I've also devised myself my 1000pts list. This is my first target for painting too... It then means I can actually start playing sooner rather than later.

1000pts air cav option 1

Command squad 70pts
Flamers

Guardsman Marbo 65pts

Vet squad 115pts
3xmelta, demolitions

Vet squad 115pts
3xmelta, demolitions

Vet squad 115pts
3xmelta, demolitions

2x Valkyrie 260pts

1x Vendetta 130pts

1x Vendetta 130pts

Marbo won't be in my 1500pts force (I'm aiming to attend the Throne of Skulls tournament in November), but I think at this size of game he will really add a nice little distraction. Seeing as most of my force have demolitions, he won't add much in the way of tank distruction, but he may jut make any back row objective campers think twice.

Pics will come shortly... I promise,..

Feeling removed from the hobby

Wow, life has been absolutely chocka block these past few months. Work has been busy, home life full of jobs, chores and events... leaving minimal time for the Elysians.

However, I have not totally avoided the hobby completely. I had a gaming weekend a few weeks back, a few buddies came round.

Mart007 brought his Orks, TheApe brought his Mech IG and Dezartfox brought his Sanguinary Guard force round. We hit a 1750pts limit as we have Open War coming at the end of the month of May so practise was in order.

All the games I played were from the Battle missions book, and I've got to say I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them. I will come back and perform a proper review at a later date.

Anyway, apart from getting some games in I've been painting some more Space Wolves for my wolfwing list.

Enough Jibber Jabber... I've got some painting to finish!

So here we go...

Well here we go, the first ever post of the Elysian 205th.

So why have I started a blog? Well I've always liked the idea of blogging and I've really got into reading everyone else’s blog’s and I though why the bloody hell shouldn’t I well that could be one route of reason or it could be because I have taken up a real challenge with try to produce as an effective Elysian Drop Trooper force as I can with the new IG codex.

So what’s the plan for the blog?

Well, I really want to be able to try and track my progress with the 205ths and my various other modeling / painting projects. I find that I suffer from serious real life issues that just stop me from doing anything. This is a mix of normal life stuff my family throws at me… and I love to make sure things are sorted and a serious position of laziness.

So who am I, and what’s my background?

Well I started gaming back in the days of Rogue Trader. I was way too young (9yrs old) to understand such a complex game. I started because my brother did (you may know him or heard of him, most notably on minus1modifier – Mart007). We started the game, but didn’t realize how complex it was… I mean a games master to run a game of 40K, so anyone that moans the rules are rubbish now – should have gamed in those days.

After the RT days, which thankfully we joined at the end, we got going with 2^nd Ed and by george was it a much more intuitive game. It truly was the start of the game we know and love today. I played orks, I started with them in RT with the plastic space orks box set… and as Mart007 will happily tell you, I painted a head yellow and black and called the plucky chap “Nuke”…

What a Noob!

My brother had started with the metal guardians, but quickly switched to space wolves when they originally arrived. When 2^nd Ed came he quickly switched to Orks as he fell in love with their crazy out there nature… well naturally I grabbed the opportunity to grab the wolves and that where the love for them started and flourished.

And that is history and this is now! I still very much play the space wolves, though in a slightly different form… I still have normal PA wolves, though they need some adjustments for the new rules… I currently run a wolf wing list. It was relatively successful at GT: H2 2009… considering it was my first ever tournament.

But this is predominantly about what I’m doing now. So I plan to return to GT: H2 2010, but this time with Imperial Guard. Ever since I saw the Forge World Elysian models I wanted a run an air cavalry force of them. However, I bought one of the forge world valkyries and it was a shockingly bad model. Needless to say it put me off. Once GW released their all-plastic valkyrie model I knew the time had come.

So the 205^th were born.

Over the course of this blog I will look at the army lists I’m considering using… and boy do I hope to receive some feedback… painting, modeling, tactics and a host of my other hobbyng antics.

I’m also hoping that I can wrangle in the help of a few of my friends.

So just to finalise I would like to say welcome and put your feet up. And here’s a few sites to read whilst I get things here going.

Minus1modifier.com

The Vanus Temple