Hello World

Hello blog world. I don't expect anyone to read this for a while, but I figured I would go ahead and get started.



So a little about me. My name is Ryan Holliday and I live in the Northern Virgina area. I've been playing wargames since 2000 and started playing competitively in the last couple of years playing both fantasy and 40k. In the last year or so I've been pretty consistently winning or placing high in local tournaments so I've gathered a little bit of a reputation as one of the better players in the area. I just got back from Adepticon where I wanted to stretch my wings into the larger tournament scenes. I did very well in the fantasy side of the house and my 40k was still up to par with the "best players".



However, one thing that really hit home is that I need to step up my painting skills, and build my armies differently if I want to win the wacky scenarios. First off the inclusion of "soft scores" in tournaments is an unfortunate fact of life. I can bitch about it all day long, but in the end you have to play by their rules to win the huge prizes. Maybe I'll rant about it some day if I ever care enough to do so, but really I don't mind doing an awesome paint job since it looks so freaking cool. I have been inspired ;). Secondly, the scenarios at most events seem to be getting wacky recently. I noticed this in local tournaments, and it seems to be carrying over from the big national GT's. Nothing really "wrong" with this per say, but I really don't want to have to customize my army for every event because of one extra bonus point on scenarios two requires 3 elite choices. I've been building armies that can win easily, but I really need to go back to building armies that can table people reliably.

So with that in mind it's time to start a new army, and make it look beautiful. I'm going to do a blood angles army because I think it's going to be one of the new powerhouse builds and with enough in your face close combat punch that I have a very good shot at tabling someone. I also want to make the army look amazing by doing lots of conversions and really make the army just feel different.

So with that in mind I'm starting this blog. Mostly so I can keep track of how my army is progressing and starting to take shape. I'll post a couple of tactics, but I don't think that's going to be the primary focus of this blog...at least at first.

So without further ado, hello blog sphere.