My first foray into wargaming as a whole began when I was around 8 years old, when I was given the Warhammer 40k 2nd Edition starter set, amongst a few other things. I'll admit, my actually miniature collection started a little earlier, as my older brother had previously given me the Catachan battleforce which I had assembled and even mostly painted with a large amount of help from my dad - a long-time avid wargamer himself.
This collection was further boosted by the arrival of a 2nd edition Space Hulk, yet again featuring the Blood Angels chapter in the form of the gritty, heavily-armoured and tenacious 1st company veteran Terminators. With that, I was fully hooked, and despite them not being my first 40k models, I always regard them as my first Warhammer army and have always held a great fondness for the red-and-gold warriors.
Fast forward a decade, and I find myself watching all the new 7th edition codices being released with increasing anxiousness. I now possess a hefty Chaos warband, a stupid amount of Imperial Guardsmen that still have yet to be fielded, a small mechanised Tallarn force (minus their Chimeras, because as with most of my projects, lack of funding and other distractions drew my attention away too soon) a respectably sized Ork Mekmob, and a small Dark Eldar raiding force.
However, by far the largest army I own is my Blood Angels force. Over the ten or so years I've been wargaming, they have always been my constant, and moreso than any other army I always find it incredibly easy to add yet more to them. At this point, I own over 12,000 points of Blood Angels in varying states of completeness, including the entire 3rd Company, along with large elements of the 1st, 4th, and 10th Companies. But I'm watching the new releases for other factions, and I'm nervously awaiting the inevitable announcement of the new BA codex.
Finally, we come to today. I sit in front of my computer, writing a blog post on one monitor, the other screen with the Google images tab of "Blood Angels Terminators" I was gazing at last night still open. Shield of Baal has been and gone, and I was lucky enough to pick up the Datacards and copy of Deathstorm to split with a friend, although I can still see the box of Tyranid sprues and bases denoting the fact he hasn't paid me for his half yet. I'm still excited to get my Blood Angels codex, and the new Terminators kit - perhaps even the Terminator Librarian if my funds can stretch that far. And even now, over eleven years since I first started wargaming, I still want to add even more models to my enormous Blood Angels army, even considering the possibility of one day possessing the entire chapter, model for model.
Perhaps a little lengthy, but I could write far more on my history with this particular band of little plastic men, and my fondness for them above all others. But enough history, let's talk about the present! Here is the current state of my Deathstorm models, built as per the datasheet in the box. First up, the Death Company boys along with Cassor the Damned, the last remaining Troops Dreadnought. Clearly he didn't get the update memo, but I'm not complaining!
And here's the Shield of Baal himself, Captain Karlaen of the Blood Angels 1st Company, along with the dead Terminator from the newer Space Hulk sets, who'll become a much-needed objective marker eventually. I've become infamous for forgetting my objective markers for games, so hopefully some themed ones will help me remember them!
I still have the Terminators to build, but as I said in my previous update, I'm holding off until I've got a box of the BA Assault Termies to bash with them and make them look a little less vanilla. I'm also keeping an eagle eye pealed for a set of the Space Hulk Terminators for sale so that I can further boost my 1st Coy. collection. Did I say that I liked Terminators?
In other news, I'm hoping to pick up an SD card for my camera on the weekend (sorry for procrastinating, I've just been too busy!) And I'm still writing up the Hail Caesar Battle Report from the other week - lots of (dodgy) pictures this time! Yay!
That's all for now, so be sure to check out my next post. Until then, happy gaming!
-Mike
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