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…

“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?”

One day I’ll realise that trips to Warhammer World can get expensive. That and I’m a hobby butterfly that the half dozen barely-started projects that have been left languishing in boxes or half finished on various desks, tables and shelves can all attest to. Maybe one day I’ll stop.

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…