Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

In high school I was a voracious reader, but since coming to college I found that my time goes everywhere else first, and reading is just an afterthought for a plane ride, or while waiting for the doctor. Recently I’ve found the time to get back into reading, and have been enjoying spending time with a good book, no 1’s or 0’s involved. My choice of literature ranges from epic poetry (Beowulf being the most recent) to “classic literature” (such as Pride and Prejudice) to science fiction, my choice in high school. But I’m not here to talk about my history, rather to write up the first book(s) that actually made me want to write a review. These come from the Black Library, the publishing house for Games Workshop, maker of Warhammer 40,000 (40k), and are part of the history of 40k. I expected a nice “history” lesson, since I like to roleplay when i play any game and now I could really curse the foul beings of Chaos, but got literature that is coherant over the entire set, is well written, and deals with many themes that are extremely prevalent in our society today.

Well, in case you can’t guess from the title, it’s been exactly a year since I started this blog. To be more specific, it was November 20th of last year that I registered the domain. This post also (totally not planned, I swear) happens to be my 100th. Again, to be more specific it’s my 100th page… pages include things such as my warhammer picture pages and the others you find under “Pages” on the right. So, this’ll be a fun past, five days in the making, about all kinds of things dealing with the past year. ((Published a second time, I apologize))

Well. Yesterday I found out about a mega battle going on at the Games Workshop store in Arundel Mills Mall in Maryland. Its only about an hour jaunt around the beltway, which at certain times, takes on 30-45 minutes. So, I came up, and brought another friend because I heard there was no points limit. I have about big army, when I actually gear them out, and think about how I put it together. So, I played my Imperial Guard (for the 120″ range on the Basilisks… the table was 120″ LONG), and gave my friend the Space Marines. I had no real army lists drawn up, which was a mistake. Anywho, our table was the center of three, and there was another off to the side, so we were the center of the line. It was humans against aliens, 40,000 point battle. Very, very fun. I won’t write a full bat-rep here because the game lasted about 2 and a half hours, but we lost the center big time. Luckily, we held them long enough to let other tables finish up and come to our aid, resulting in a human victory! Needless to say I will be here again next week for the end of the battle. I will have army lists, and I will be ready to go. Main reason I wasn’t ready here is I spent 4 hours this morning base coating 100 guardsmen.

Those of you who know me, know I just turned 20 years old. Those of you who don’t, well, I just turned 20.
The party I had was a LAN party at my apartment, with the first person arriving 1 pm Friday, and the last leaving ’round 2 am Sunday. We had serious game play from about 6 pm Friday to 6 am Saturday, then again from 12pm Saturday to 1am Sunday. Games we played were:

Ok, really long post I had on B&C about what I want my Marine Chapter to be. Please, someone comment on it, as I’d like to get a lot finalized before break.

Well, thinking about the paint scheme I have right now (the 122nd Cadian) for my Imperial Guard, I realized I’m gonna need new paint.

Well, deciding to forgo my tattoo for a little while I’ve made a few Warhammer purchases.

We got crushed. Now, I wasn’t able to get pictures (which I guess isn’t too bad as only my forces were painted, and it was on a piece of plywood), but I will write up a short battle report, and provide links to my army lists. The First Company is the main bulk of the [...]

I put up a pictures section using a WordPress plugin. Its on the right under “Pages”. I need to fix the spacing, but that’s gonna wait until I have real pictures to put up.

The title says it all.
Also, tomorrow I’ll put up a battle report of a 4500 Space marine/Eldar Grudge Match. Hopefully we’ll have a digital camera, and it’ll include pictures.