Post by Nick P on Jan 27, 2015 8:51:21 GMT -6
After my tyranid project for 2014 was only about 60% successful thanks to planning a wedding (worth it, I promise), I've been looking for a fun project for 2015 that would be a lot smaller scale, more of a casual collecting of a new ~2000 point army over the next 12 months instead of aggressively collecting 1000-2000 points per month.
I've played a lot of marines in my day, so not really feeling that route...Still love the Nids, but don't have a desire to do another horde army, so Orks and IG are out. Dark Eldar are awesome, but too close to Eldar so I don't really want to go that route either...that kinda only leaves me with Daemons, Tau, or Necrons. And I am definitely not playing Tau, we have enough players with Tau already (plus its in our new name, no Tau).
I'm really leaning towards Necrons, especially now that their new book is dropping them down from OP status to the normal ranks of 7th ed, ala the DE, Orks, Grey Knights, and Space Wolves before them. Much more fun to play against given the nerfs they're receiving.
And on top of that, you literally couldn't ask for an easier army to paint...so if I don't get them finished, I literally have to quit the hobby and sell everything I own, because I don't deserve fun.
Thoughts? Anyone with experience with Necrons, what's a good place to start in terms of a collection? I want to focus on the newer models as much as possible, so I'm thinking of doing Immortals as core instead of Warriors with their old-school green rods, and I've heard that even with the points increases the annihilation barge is the heavy support of choice...and I know I want at least one stalker because they look damn cool, but other than that I have no idea where to go.
I've played a lot of marines in my day, so not really feeling that route...Still love the Nids, but don't have a desire to do another horde army, so Orks and IG are out. Dark Eldar are awesome, but too close to Eldar so I don't really want to go that route either...that kinda only leaves me with Daemons, Tau, or Necrons. And I am definitely not playing Tau, we have enough players with Tau already (plus its in our new name, no Tau).
I'm really leaning towards Necrons, especially now that their new book is dropping them down from OP status to the normal ranks of 7th ed, ala the DE, Orks, Grey Knights, and Space Wolves before them. Much more fun to play against given the nerfs they're receiving.
And on top of that, you literally couldn't ask for an easier army to paint...so if I don't get them finished, I literally have to quit the hobby and sell everything I own, because I don't deserve fun.
Thoughts? Anyone with experience with Necrons, what's a good place to start in terms of a collection? I want to focus on the newer models as much as possible, so I'm thinking of doing Immortals as core instead of Warriors with their old-school green rods, and I've heard that even with the points increases the annihilation barge is the heavy support of choice...and I know I want at least one stalker because they look damn cool, but other than that I have no idea where to go.