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Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:54 am Posts: 70
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Well insomnia's in full form so I thought I'd ask you smart folk a few questions that I've been indecisive on.
With Epic:Armageddon I want to start a new army that I can playtest with and such. I have several armies (LOTS of space marines, Eldar, Chaos, Orks, and Knights) dating back to Space Marine 2nd edition, but they're pretty dated. For starters the paint jobs are pretty awful (Blood Angels = Red Guy with little black line hopefully over his gun). They're all very much a product of their era as far as appearance and organization goes... they just look antiquated and visually uninspiring.
Since then my painting skills have significantly improved (I seriously tried dunking my blood angels in red paint at one point), and more importantly my desire to get involved with the aesthetic side is significantly more pronounced. So basically I want to start a new, pretty army, built around EA's force organizations.
All that long-winded exposition boils down to this:
Chaos. I'm almost positive I want to start a chaos army, for a number of reasons:
* I've got all sorts of ancient metal chaos stuff, like Lords of Battle and Magnus the Red and Daemons back from when they were really freaking tall
* With all the unbased plastic I've got, I have something like 10 different basic marine infantry units. Being able to have such dynamic stands is just really, really cool.
*I likes 'em a lot.
The problem is, Chaos seems to be a bit of a mess currently, with an uncertain future. The Black Legion list seems like it could potentially be an abortion, and people seem(ed) to be whining en masse about how it's really unbalanced. Currently, no one seems to really be discussing the list, further implying that its gone down the tubes. Even worse, Chaos is scheduled dead last to get full support.
Some of you guys have been following this more closely then I, so my first question to you is if you think starting a Chaos army this early might be a bit premature or unwise. Is Chaos, at this stage, really a feasible and balanced army?
Second question: If you look closely at the 2nd edition Chaos Plastics, each of the four primary traitor legions is represented. Has anyone ever tried to specifically use those models to represent that legion? Specifically, since Thousand Sons have got some mention in here, how do you represent the 1kSons' whole headdress thing? I'm looking for ideas on how to do a Tzeentch legion since thats what I've mostly got, and 'cus TZEETNZTNTNCH IZ KOOL.
Third Question: I'd like to rebase and repaint some of my mini's. How do you guys rebase infantry, and how do you guys go about stripping paint from 6mm's? Do you just let the guys individually soak in your solvent of choice, or do you keep them on the base?
Okay, bye bye.
-Periodic.
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