It was a quiet year for me hobby wise, I dabbled with running some RPGs and that took up a fair bit of my time. But there was still Warhammer…
Games



I played 20 games this year and won 82%, which might sound impressive but I wasn’t playing especially competitive games. This is a higher number of games than in either 2020 or 2021, we’re hopefully the other side of lock downs now.
I did play with the Terminus Est Assault Force an awful lot, I think that infantry only armies can work quite nicely. It’s also a reaction to my continued problems taking on Super Heavy enemy units. I just don’t really try and go toe to toe with them, I just play the mission.
I also played mostly Tempest of War missions using the cards, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t play any missions from the Warzone Nephilim book at all… I’ve really enjoyed playing the cards, they seem a lot fairer than the 8th’s Maelstrom of War cards were.
Painting



Only 26 models for me this year, it was very much filling out some of the hole in my army. I think I’m particularly pleased with the Possessed and the Deathshroud. This does reflect that in many ways my army is pretty much “complete” and that I don’t want to start a new one. So I think I’ll continue to add in some odder models and things to help my forces be more WYSIWYG.
Aside from the Death Guard stuff I also painted some other bits, including a barrel and a Space Marine to mark the 35th Anniversary of 40k.
Death Guard (537pts)
- Plague Marines [12 PL, 147pts]
- Plague Marine w/ cleaver [21pts]: Blight grenades, Great plague cleaver, Krak grenades, Plague knife
- Plague Marine w/ flail [21pts]: Blight grenades, Flail of corruption, Krak grenades, Plague knife
- Plague Marine w/ plague spewer [21pts]: Blight grenades, Krak grenades, Plague knife, Plague spewer
- Plague Marine w/ special weapon [21pts]: Blight grenades, Krak grenades, Meltagun, Plague knife
- Plague Marine w/ special weapon [21pts]: Blight grenades, Krak grenades, Meltagun, Plague knife
- Plague Marine w/ special weapon [21pts]: Blight grenades, Krak grenades, Meltagun, Plague knife
- Plague Marine w/ special weapon [21pts]: Blight grenades, Krak grenades, Meltagun, Plague knife
- Death Guard Possessed [6 PL, 120pts]
- 5x Possessed [120pts]: 5x Horrifying Mutations
- Death Guard Possessed [6 PL, 120pts]
- 5x Possessed [120pts]: 5x Horrifying Mutations
- Deathshroud Terminators [9 PL, 150pts]
- Deathshroud Champion [50pts]: Manreaper, Plaguespurt gauntlet
- 2x Deathshroud Terminator [100pts]: 2x Manreaper, 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
My Goals for 2022
- Get that airbrush out! – I undercoated one of the squads of Possessed with it and used it on the barrel, so I did give it a go.
- Keep up with the conversions – Done, the two units of Possessed and the Plague Marines both needed a bit of work on them.
- Get to grips with the Terminus Est Assault Force – Oh yes, I did this one, and it was a lot of fun.
- Decide on the future of this blog – I’ve been going back through my old images and resizing them to save on disk space (I was on 88% a year ago, it’s dropped to 86% now), I think I’ve got some room to grow now and don’t need to consider paying for this 🙂
My Goals for 2023
- Stop dodging the Mission Packs, give the new rules and objectives a go.
- Keep on using the airbrush, I’ve got a big vehicle underway now that will have to use it.
- Give Daemons a go! The new Codex allows you to take 25% of your army as Daemons without losing your Death Guard contagion. There’s got to be a way to get my Nurglings back on the table 🙂
- Attend an event. I’ve been dodging events for years, and I really do need to try one out.
- There’s been some talk between Cadian Shock and I of giving a campaign a bash using the Patrol rules, that would be something different.