Well that’s a big Yellow¹ party bus. Let’s take a quick look at the model and then talk about it.

DON’T PANIC EVERYONE, DON’T PANIC! Okay, maybe a little more panic than that please. Good? Good.

As mentioned in my intro post I, amongst a wider variety of projects, am setting up a Sons of Horus force for a 1,350pt Zone Mortalis themed event in July. Furthermore my intention is to bake that list into a larger 3,000pt force for GW’s event at Warhammer World in July. But before any glue put to resin, I needed a list, and a theme. The aim of this article is a bit of insight into how I personally go about list development, for both a narrative event, and for a more competetive scene.

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…

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