So
Forge World have announced that they'll be bringing a new Imperial
Armour book to Warhammerfest (aka Not Games Day 2014) and it'll be
called War Machines Of The Lost And The Damned.
First
off its nice to see Forge World doing something other than Horus
Heresy for a change. Fair enough, its a cash cow and I don't blame
them for milking it but there are more things in this damn hobby than
yet another bloody set of variant Space Marine armour marks.
Second,
given the nostalgia kick GW have been on recently with doing a
unified Undead army and revisiting Storm Of Chaos I can hope that
maybe we might see an old school Lost And The Damned army list in
this one. The Siege of Vraks lists were nice but, given the nature of
the books, very specific. I'd love to be able to take my old Lost And
The Damned army out for a game. Well, I'd like an excuse to re-do the
army since I am frankly ashamed of the laughable efforts I was
willing to call a finished paint job when I was nineteen.
Don't
get me wrong, the old LatD list swung wildly between unplayably bad
and horrendously broken but there were some great ideas in there. In
particular, I liked that you could take up to three Chaos Space
Marine Aspiring Champions as an HQ choice and attach them
individually to mortal units. Also, random units of Chaos Hounds and
Spawn.
Mutants
were hilarious in the shooting phase: up to thirty rapid firing
weapons with the Gets Hot special rule. There were games where I blew
up more of my own troops than my opponent. Heehee.
As
I say, this is all nostalgic wishlisting but GW has recently started
looking at some of the odd ideas they once considered unworkable and
thought “That could be fun to bring back!”.
No comments:
Post a Comment