I could never do an order like that today with today's prices, these days in the hobby I have to buy everything a little at a time to spare my budget (and mind) from exploding into chunky salsa. I saved up and spent around $800 to purchase a dozen vehicles, about six squad boxes and some blisters of heavy, stormtroopers and special weapon teams. I bought my Legion all at once in a big order from The Warstore (I think it was kinda new then). I bought them when 4th Edition was brand new and The Steel Legion had just been released as the new Guard army. They are my first army and every piece painted by me, lots of hard work and nostalgia are invested in them. This did not come to pass thankfully, I've always known I could never sell my Steel Legion. I hate to admit it, but so low had the Guard sank on my excitement list that I had traitorous thoughts about sell them. My Steel Legion collected dust, lonely and forgotten. Soon, thereafter, I was using all my time and money to upgrade my Chaos army and continue my path of assault play style, so thus, my excitement for Guard was short lived in 2014. I made some plans to upgrade my Guard but it was all for naught.
When the new Astra Militarium codex hit I was excited, bought the new codex and liked it a lot. I think I might have played it once in early 2014 - maybe. As a consequence my Steel Legion got neglected, not even touched. Anyway, I was having fun and I didn't want to run a shooting army anymore, melee was the way forward for me. I had my ups and downs, mastering melee isn't easy (and I'm still far from a master) and there are some armies that will always own you when you bring a knife to a gun fight, at least that is how it went with my Chaos army.
I was hooked, I was tired of shooting, it had gotten stale, assault was bringing the fun back for me.įast forward to 2014 and it was my year for the assault army. In fact, that was around the time I was starting to discover assault and experimenting with melee armies for Chaos and Space Wolves. At that time the Guard was getting long in the tooth and I wasn't winning games with them anymore.
The last time I played my Guard army was in October 2013 at The Redstone Rumble. If someone would have told me a couple of months ago that I would be planning a huge campaign with my Guard this year I would think them crazy.
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