“How do we prepare for 2nd edition without knowing what’s coming?”
“What do I build to be ready to play day 1?”
“What should I build from this box of mk 3 plastic marines?”

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.

A brief summary of the Horus Heresy if you’re coming in from Warhammer 40,000

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…