With 8th
edition just around the corner, I should probably knuckle down on
getting an army ready for it. That is originally why I started
cobbling together a Flesh Tearers army from random Space Marine kits
I had lying around.
Flesh
Tearers are a personal favourite of mine, though I'd be lying if I
said half the appeal wasn't their very simple, very easy to paint
colour scheme. There's also the fact that they're Blood Angels and
thus have access to so many different Dreadnoughts. I love
Dreadnoughts, they are one of my favourite things in the whole of
40k.
I'm also a
fantastically biased player in that I love me my assault phase. I
like red. I really like red but I don't like how Khorne armies play.
I also
really, really like the background the Flesh Tearers have had for the
last couple of editions. The idea that, faced with certain knowledge
of their coming extinction, they have just decided that by the time
they're gone the Imperium isn't going to have any enemies left. They
now range ahead of Imperial armies and by the time the army arrives
at their destination the enemy are dead, the local animals are dead,
everything is dead and a small note is pinned to the skull of the
enemy commander reading:
“We won.
Yours, Gabriel Seth.”
I'm not
overly fond of the Black Library fiction for the army but I can
pretty much just ignore it since its almost exclusively about Seth
and his immediate circle.
So, the
current state of the army: I have a single Tactical Squad, a
Librarian, a Death Company Dreadnought and a Contemptor Dreadnought
painted. I have a bunch of other models built, mainly infantry. First
job, the, will be to see what I actually have and how to cobble it
together into something approaching a useable 1,500 points army.
Second job is to come up with some characters and a mission for them
to be pursuing.
All in all,
I'm rather looking forward to returning to the grim, dark future
where there is only war.
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