A Journey of Return

I have a confession to make. Games Workshop was my first love as a wargamer.

There, I've admitted it.

Sure, I played D&D and a collected a few ancient figures (Maurikian and Nikephorian Byzantines), but rather half-heartedly. White Dwarf first appeared when I was at university, and I collected (almost) all of the early issues, I even ended up with a subscription for a while. That pushed me on down the RPG route, but gradually they developed the Warhammer universe, and it was a pleasure to watch it grow (even if it was a little quirky at times).

But no matter how I tried I could never really get into their beaky Space Marines© (sic), or WH40K in 28mm in general. Family had come along for me by this time, and I lost a few years somewhere - years that included the release of Adeptus Titanicus - but in 1989 I spotted the release of Space Marine and I was absolutely hooked. So much little 6mm goodness! I then duly picked up Epic 40,000 (1997) and Epic Armageddon, but work and family (and disenchantment with the GW way, perhaps) diverted my attention from wargaming and I even missed the elimination of the Specialist Games brand in 2013. Sic transit gloria GW.

But somewhere in that time I collected mountains (well, small heaps) of Epic scale miniatures of all sorts. Lacking an opponent my collection was totally unfocussed, but Orks were quite prominent.

Recently I chanced on the NetEpic and Epic UK sites where Epic is kept alive, and may even  be stronger than it ever was.

So I'm hooked again. I must now finish a 3,000 point Ork army. Probably more, as I have to somehow include the many gargants (including a scratch-built one, of which I am quite proud) which I should get onto these pages. Then there's the IG army that I kinda foisted on my son (not that he was really that interested, and still isn't), whose models are mouldering somewhere. Space Marines? I wrote up a whole backstory on the Aspides Basilikoi chapter (did I mention my flirtation with Byzantines?) which I need to resurrect or rewrite. And the Tau look really cool - a whole different set of tactics!

Anyway, this blog will get updated as time permits, but at least it gives me a place to record and solidify my thinking.

Enjoy!