A.W.O.L.

Ah life. She is a harsh mistress, no?

Anyhow, I've been gone long enough. I won't bore you with the emo-drama. I'm back now.

Basics of the Budget

So I covered my first budget army and started thinking of others. This got me thinking about the basics of the concept of a "budget" army: points-to-cost ratio. Granted, this ratio can be skewed with the use of conversions or counts-as (such as I did with my Space Wolves Thunderwolf Cav), discounts, currency conversions, etc. But it's a good baseline for determining the "value" of your models.

Now THAT's what a hamburger's all about

YEEHAW!!

Andy, you and all the killjoys can go eat somewhere else. :P

Budget Army 1

This is the first in what I hope to be a series of articles. Not about tactics, but about building an army on a budget.

This came about as a bit of an accident, when I decided to do my Space Wolves list. My objective was to put together a good looking army that didn't cost me an arm and a leg.

Veteran's Day

Just wanted to take a second to thank all those currently serving their respective countries in the military, and of course the veterans.

Major thanks go out to:

Both of my grandfathers

Three of my uncles

My brother Greg (and hopefully soon Derek)

Andrew

The guys that serve or have served from Mind Games: Micah, Greg, Pete, Challis, and anyone else I missed

About half my office, including currently deployed Bryce - come home safe from Afghanistan

And hundreds more I'm sure I'm missing forgetting

Just want to say thank you, and recognize the fact that I probably couldn't bitch about my country if you guys didn't defend my right to do so.

ThunderHOOF Cavalry

So I decided to do a Space Wolves army. I wasn't planning on it, but when I got the Codex, the Thunderwolf Cavalry called out to me - and who am I to deny?

I'll post more as I get stuff done, but here's the (extremely basic) conversions I've done so far. There's no Thunderwolf mount, excepting the inane Canis model - so I looked and looked and decided that I didn't have a viable option that wouldn't force me to take out a 2nd mortgage to run. After that, the decision came down to WHFB Chaos Knights' horses and rider legs or WHFB Dark Elf Cold Ones - and I'd get to find biker legs or do heavy leg modification to get it to work.

Immolator Spam

You've probably seen this before. I've posted this on Dakka and YTTH previously, but since this is my blog and the Immolator Spam was my brainchild, I thought I should bring it over here.

I took this army list to the 2008 Las Vegas GT and did quite well with it, going 4-0-1 with 82 Battle Points
(2 complete wins, 1 major win, 1 minor win and 1 "winning" tie 13-8). I could have done better, but the cost of the army prevented me from completing it until two weeks prior and I didn't get much practice in with it.