Well it seems my corner of this green and pleasant land has been overrun by hordes of flesh eating undead… And yet again my painting plan goes out the window.

As the ‘chip off the old block’ and I were planning our next game in our ongoing campaign, especially how to incorporate some games with his school fiend who will be staying with us for a while over the summer holidays, when, probably due to late night cheese snacks and watching too much ‘Walking Dead’ on TV. The future of my Genetic code and survival of my family name, casually announced..

“You know what we don’t have enough Zombies in this game”.

And after due consideration I had to agree with him after all – you can’t ever have enough Zombies in anything.. As we had not quite decided what Chaos was actually doing in our campaign the next logical step (for insane maniacs, obsessed with anything dead and rotting) was to have Fabius Bile try to release a plague on the planet, infect the populous and harvest and the results.. Great Idea, we thought , we’ll have a small game first were Imperial forces have to stop Fabius releasing the virus into the ventilation system of the main urban complex.

Of course the Imperials are going to fail – there’s no fun otherwise – we want hordes of zombies disrupting the games in future, attacking all sides.

So I needed some Zombies GW’s were as usual a bit expensive @ £2.50 for 20 however I got some Mantic – Undead – Undead Zombie Regiment were a bargain @ £16 for over 30 from Triple Helix Wargames (great Guys – prompt service, cheap as chips and free delivery – can’t say better than that!) So painting list abandoned Zombies on the rampage.

I’ll post agin soon when my zombies assembled and painted.

I hadn’t realized it has been so long since I posted anything here – I’ve been so busy elsewhere my hobby has taken a back seat – unfortunately it seems that back seat was with Thelma and Louise – straight off a cliff….

Anyway since the north of England has been turned lately into a giant swimming pool – with more rain forcast – more, where the hell is it going to go?? – I mean I know that noah had to contend with 40 days and 40 nights – which in Lancashire is considered drought conditions – but this is ridiculous – doesn’t it know it’s supposed to be summer?

This does mean however that I can spend more time painting and gaming rather than working my way though THE LIST – jobs that SHE WHO MUST BE OBAYED has written down – Hercules never had it so good!!!

Any road sideways – I digress – to optimize my time and keep to the plan outlined earlier I have created a list of models for each army I’ll go across from left to right and vary the armies and models I paint to avoid boredom – some of these are already painted and some just need tweaking to bring them inline with the campaign.. 

Meanwhile have fun and buy an ark

Hi 40k world sorry I’ve not posted anything for a while but real life intruded and I’ve had to spend some time earning the money I spend on 40k..

However time out for a month has given time for reflection and although SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED is very tolerant of my obsession, she does object, slightly, when the dining room is taken over by a massive gaming table for days (weeks) on end. Consequently my son and I decided we needed to play smaller games more often – as it happened I had been re-reading my Gaunts Ghosts Omnibus during my lunch hours – I find it easier not to interact with members of staff when I’m contract working – it saves the embarrassment of them clinging, weeping to my ankle as I claw my way to the door when my contract ends….

Anyway moving swiftly on..

Gaunts Ghosts inspired me to change our campaign slightly and have small infiltration missions which can be played on a 4′ x4′ board – quickly set up and just as easily packed away. As we also realised that our armies were a long way, in galactic terms, from their comfort zones – so a change was needed – an evolution so to speak. Therefore the campaign action switched from one end of the galaxy to the other. Pavonis – which is on the Games Workshop map of the 40k universe – down in the right hand corner – not far from the action with Gaunt and the Sabbbat Worlds. This is getting so geekish – but all the races we have armies for, are down there in various forms.

A quick potted history we decided on as a background: Pavonis is a valuable Imperial mining world, on the border of the North East Sector. Inhabited by 500 million souls, most of the population is centered around the ore extraction mines, the processing factories and the major cities. There are 3 spaceports, a number of manufactoriums and small outlying farms to the south.

It is well armed due to it’s proximity to the Orc world of Alsanta and it’s regular raids. The old and well respected Govorner died over three years ago and his succesor – his son (the self styled Valdro The Subjugator) is reported to have a more ruthless regime. This is not normally a problem for the Imperium, however an initial Inquisitorial investigative party was sent to ascertain the truth of rumours about excessive brutality, violance, disorder and possible trading with Aliens. The party were never heard from again. Now Inquisitor Colm and his Imperial forces have entered the system to investigate.

Pavonis Planetary Defense Force: The PDF or the Blooded Brotherhood, as they are now known, follow the orders of the governor but he never knows until battle is joined whether his troops are true worshippers of the Chaos Gods, or are looking for the first chance to run away or desert.