Website tweaks incomming

I am in the process of planning out some new additions to the site that will hopefully encourage me to post a little more frequently. I will be definitely providing a section on army lists, primarily focused on Dark Angels, Grey Knights, and Eldar.

I intend to start working on a gallery of my completed minis as well as organize some of my more identifying pieces. I intend to turn Being Gamist into an ongoing article series about maximizing ones use with the rules system, sometimes at the expense of common sense or background. The focus is to educate players on how the game works with undisputedly legal rules interactions, particularly those that are not intended by the designers. The hope is these efforts will bring awareness to both the community and GW, and so in the future GW will be better prepared to put their intentions into valid rules.

I'm still messing around with Grey Knights, but I am quickly getting a feel for them, and I like what I'm seeing. I'll be posting up my thoughts along with a Being Gamist article about how some of the poor wordings on a few units work currently as written and where i think the changes should be made to correct these issues.

General Updates: Tournament Results, Podcasts, and more!

It has been a bit longer than I expected to get an update in. I wanted to do this on Monday, but work has been extremely busy, and I've been pounding through some modeling stuff at home. Here's what I've been up to recently:

Where has all the time gone?

This post is mostly an "I'm still here; don't go away" kind of post. I have started back taking classes at the university to grab a Master's degree in software engineering, so all of a sudden some of my free time has been eaten away. I do have some things in store, however, so here's a teaser of stuff to come in the next couple of days:

• Tournament Information & Army Lists
• Planetary Empires: Campaign Update
• Playing Eldar: My experiences so far
• Playing Dark Angels: Series Debut

The Playing Dark Angels segment is going to be quite long-winded as I go over the ins and outs of using the codex in the current edition (according to my experiences). This is going to be an ongoing series describing the different facets of list building as well as strategy and tactics behind the units. The list alone is worthless if you're not using it properly, and for the Dark Angels, that is something more deadly to the player than the opponent's army (much like the Eldar, I'm finding)

I will cover deployment options, timing, meta-game decisions in list building, and the benefits awarded to this army. They do exist, and I find after having played for over two and a half years with them that I do much better with these units than their counterparts in other Space marine codices. I will discuss differences to those codices, but will emphasize how to make Dark Angels work for you rather than bashing on wargear options and rules that haven't been brought into parity. I will also show how Dark Angels line up in the grand scheme of the typical tournament scenarios and scoring.

Fancy new banner

After about 50 minutes of fun in photoshop, I have constructed a banner for the blog. I'm still debating what sort of standalone pages or other things I will be adding, so I'm going to refrain from setting up any extra navigation for the time being. I'm going to modify the stylesheets a bit more to get the basic colors where I want them, and then I will get onto proper 40k material.