Hey you. Yes, you the one reading this, it’s time to give a brief introduction to my wargaming history. I started out in 2008 with Warhammer fantasy back during 7th edition. My first army was the Beasts of chaos, a glorious army that drew me in as the models appealed to me, as I’m sure most beginners do when they select their first army. Unfortunately, however the issue arose that at my local GW there wasn’t much of a Fantasy crowd at the time, so games were limited to introductions with the…

I’m Ben, and casual is both absolutely correct and simultaneously way off the mark in many ways. I made my first ever model (a rather shockingly successful Airfix M1 Abrams) at 10 years of age. By secondary school I was deep into 40k with a Tau army, which changed to a guard army because I was persistently told ‘The Imperial Guard are useless’. By age 15 I discovered Forgeworld, the Vraks series, and that combined with a love of WW1 era imagery led me to becoming a Death Korps nut (a…

I am Alpharius.

Hi there! I appear to have been nominated as the resident evildoer on the team, despite there being traitor players running much less pleasant factions that I (looking at you James and the Night Lords). I started wargaming when I started secondary school in September of 2009, back in the glory days of 5th edition. I was drawn to Necrons at the time, purely because of the clear green rods in the guns, but also because I thought the monolith pyramid tank was super rad. Their 5th edition codex came…