It’s been a good year for us here at Apostates Anonymous.
Bede and I started this blog to document our first foray
into the 40k competitive scene, since then we’ve had just over 19,000 page
views and written exactly 100 posts. Considering we were hoping to average one
post a week I’m really pleased with what we’ve accomplished.
Over the course of the year we both had success individually
and as a team and whereas I can’t speak for Bede my level of 40k play has
improved considerably.
Part way through the year Embrace Your Inner Geek (EYIB) was
brought on board to provide a different view point and cover armies that Bede
and Myself knew little about (namely Tau). EYIB has provided excellent content
throughout the year and at a rate that far outstrips my own. If you’re reading
this article but haven’t read his Tau in 6th series you should. I
consider it required reading for any budding Tau general. The dice gods rewarded
him with his first best general at Games of War this past December and let’s
hope they continue with a new Tau codex this year.
Part way through the year Bede had to put 40k on the back burner
to focus on his studies but will hopefully making his triumphant return in
March this year.
As for myself the latter half of the year saw me branch out
into two other games: Warmachine and Malifaux. I haven’t really written about
either game, but I’m still actively playing both systems so expect more content
in the future.
With regards to Warmachine I’ve picked up the Legion of
Everblight faction. I really liked the models and the fast, glass cannon nature
of the play style. I haven’t begun to play Warmachine competitively yet but
once I have a better feel for the game I’ll probably start entering local
events.
40k wise I’m still playing my Dark Eldar predominantly but
they are being pushed out a little bit in favour of the other systems. I think
they are still competitive but I’m struggling to find a build I’m really happy with.
I feel I’m almost on the cusp of solving it but I don’t have the time to play
as much as I’d like to anymore.
I’ve been thinking about getting a new 40k army for a while
but nothing really took my fancy. I was looking forward to starting a Night
Lords army but I was a little disappointed with the new Chaos codex with regards
to everyone’s favourite terror troops (Warp Talons, really!?) so they went out
the window. There is light at the end of the tunnel however, after playing them
at blog wars I’ve settled upon Nids. They are completely different to both my
Dark Eldar and Blood Angels in terms of play style but are still nice and aggressive.
Throw in some big monsters and biomancy shenanigans and I’m sold. I’m in the
process of building up the army but expect more info on it in the future.
I’ve also began running my own Warhammer 40k tournaments at
my local store, Games of War. I’m hoping to run one, 2 day tourney, every
quarter with maybe a doubles event or 2 thrown in for good measure. The next tourney
will be 2nd-3rd March. Check the Games of War website for
details.
That brings us to Malifaux. Out of the three systems I play
Malifaux is by far my favourite. Unfortunately there is little to no Malifaux
player base in the North East. In fact I believe I know most of the people with
models personally. In terms of regular players there’s only myself and a good
friend of mine named John who play on a regular basis.
This would be a good time to mention the yearly project.
Last year was dedicated to playing competitive 40k as much as possible. There’s
not much of a competitive 40k scene in the north east so Bede and I decided to
travel around the country to test our mettle against new and highly skilled
opponents in as many different locations as possible. On the whole this worked
pretty well and we got to meet some great new people along the way. A shout out
here should go to the guys from Sons of Sanguinius for helping us on our way.
Cheers lads, it was appreciated. The year has however ended so a new project is
needed.
After much deliberation I’ve decided that this year will be
the year of Malifaux. I’m taking it upon myself (along with my assistant John!)
to raise and develop a Malifaux player base here in the north east. I’ve had
the opportunity to get in far more games than usual over the last couple of
months due to working in Cardiff and therefore being able to spend my evenings
at the fabulous Firestorm Games. This has helped fill in some of the gaps in my
rules knowledge left over from when John and I were teaching each other the
game.
As luck would have it there is a Malifaux event happening in
York 3rd Feb that we’ve signed ourselves up for and in a strange
coincidence on the same day we decided to dedicate ourselves to getting other
people playing this amazing game, a random member of the public, interested in
Malifaux asked if people played the game at our club. It’s…almost….like…………fate.
Since the start of the New Year we’ve gone from only 2
regular Malifaux players to 6. Hopefully that will continue. I’m going to apply
for Henchmen status after the event in February and with any luck should be
running Malifaux events in the summer.
As you can probably gather from the above, expect a lot more
Malifaux related content on this blog. I think I made a mistake not documenting
my first forays into Warmachine and I don’t want to make that mistake with
Malifaux. I’ll try to put up regular lessons learnt and new strategies I’ve
discovered and had inflicted upon me. I’m also planning to do something which
for whatever reason has not really happened on Apostates Anonymous and that’s
put up pictures of my own models. I think there are a few pictures of my Dark
Eldar knocking about but that’s it. I’ve got a lot of my Malifuax painted now
so when I start talking about the different models I use, I’ll make sure to add
a picture of my own miniature instead of grabbing something suitable from the
net.
On behalf of all of us here at Apostates Anonymous thanks
for visiting our little corner of the web over the past 12 months and I hope
you’ve found our articles useful.
If you have a topic, army list etc that you’d like us to
cover drop me a line at gregpiskosz@hotmail.co.uk
and one of us will get back to you.
Sir#67
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