As the seasons turn, as so do my gaming tastes. 40k and Uncharted Seas are the flavor of the day. I recently made an awesome trade via Bartertown where I traded off a chunk of my Hordes Circle of Orboros army for a crap ton of Tyranids. I never really wanted to play Circle in the first place (I had gotten them via another killer deal on Bartertown) so I wasn't too down for getting rid of them. On top of it, I still have enough to play a decent sized game with them. So they aren't all lost. In return, I got plenty of bugs to make my growing horde a happy one. I now have enough gaunts to entertain a horde style army and enough genestealers to go that route as well. New Hive Tyrants give me the flexibility to try alternate builds while new Carnifexes will let me experiment more on their various uses in the latest edition codex.
So far, I've only gotten in a couple of games with the new Tyranid codex but my last game was probably the most enjoyable (even though I got slammed). My Mycetic Spore pods I got from Target (Mega Bloks Dragon Eggs) worked great! They are a perfect size and when they enter the game, their attacks are still useful (so they don't just become pretty pieces of terrain). I forgot various rules which came back to haunt me but overall, I had a lot of fun pitting my bugs against the might of the Orks & Space Marines. At one point, I charged a full unit of Orks with choppas with my Swarmlord and retinue of 2 Tyrant Guard. Naturally, I died but not after about 5 rounds of combat and the addition of 3 Killer Kans entering the fray. I was very impressed!
In other news, I'm starting back up in Uncharted Seas again. With my Ralgard fleet built, I finally got around to priming them. Course, I am the world's worst primer so I had to go back and basically basecoat all the models by hand. But that wasn't all a loss as the paint scheme I found on-line that I really liked calls for a lot of black so having that darker, more uniform coat of black actually works out for me in the end. I get to give them their first test game tonight against the Mac and his Shroud Mages. I will take the time here to flatten my tires and say that I have yet to win a game of Uncharted Seas even though I've played in every game my game group has played in the system, lol. But to even the score, I have followed Colonel Lou and invested in 16-20 Game Science d6's. No longer will my ships die prematurely due to rounded edges and lop sided die!
Anyways, I'll post up some pics of my Ralgard ships once I get down to painting them. I need to get some new brushes this week as I need some fine detail ones for these suckers. I should have some preliminary pics up by the weekend (provided I remember to update). I should also have a bat rep for tonight's battle up later this week. I'll also try to get some game shots as well.
