Steel Legion Motto: "The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a half an hour"

As I said below, I've been around the houses with the Steel Legion.

I've had my current Guard army for over ten years. I'm always in the process of expanding it, tinkering with it, and I very rarely get to show off my models to my friends from my old gaming group. Part of the reason I'm doing the blog is to do that.

But - I want to do a new army this year.

Why?

Well, don't get me wrong, I still love my mechanised infantry. But after a full tournament season with them, I want to rest the mech competitively for a while and want a bit of a change - to grasp the new Guard Codex with both hands and push it to the limit. With Shotguns. And Rocket Packs.

I'm entering the GT again this year, having had an absolute blast at it in the previous season. I'm intending to do an all-new, all veteran, all Steel Legion, all airborne army.

My ridiculously ambitious goals are:

A best army nomination.
To be in with a shot at winning the GT.

This blog is going to log my attempts to get there. I'm going to put everything from tactics to modelling & painting updates on here.

In the long term, I'd like to turn the blog into a repository for all kinds of Steel Legion related articles, links to the original board games which inspired me, modelling articles by other players (especially Ork players - don't feel left out just because you're Green scum!) - in short, in a year, I'd like to look at my blog and have it look like this one.

Oh, but you haven't come here to hear me waffle, have you? You want to see pictures of model soldiers. Well, ok, here's a sneak peek:



See? I meant it about the rocket packs...



And the shotguns...

See you soon!

Steel Legion for Life

Armageddon and I have a history. If there's a fictional place I know better than any other, it's not Middle Earth, or Castle Gormenghast, or the City of Rapture, or the town of Silent Hill, it's the Hives & Deserts of Armageddon.

I've been involved in defending it (in various incarnations) since 1992.

18 years, man and boy. That means, in two years time, I would have enough experience to be mustered out of the Imperial Guard, and given a pension. And probably bionic legs.

A year or so ago, in this blog post, I declared "I was always a big fan of the human defenders of the planet. At the start of the game, they have everything stacked against them; they are outnumbered, outgunned, and they live in a place which even the most dedicated tourist board would have trouble describing favourably..."

Well, that's a mantle I'd like to take on.

Welcome to the Office of the Armageddon Tourist board.

Stuff Coming Soon

This Blog will be full of model soldiers. Just you wait.