Goatboy’s 40K List Thoughts: 10th Edition Means Tackling Your Pile of Shame
Goatboy here with some thoughts on what to do with your Pile of Shame when building your army for 10th Edition.
Looking at my Pile of Shame I know some of the things I want to work on to help “shore” my gaps in the army. I get the feeling everyone will need find something new to “fix” their current armies and get ready for all the changes in 10th edition.
From the stream games you got to see my lovely Daemon army on – overall the game amount of models is a bit more than last edition. It’s a heck of a lot easier to fit a nice troop unit, fill out with some characters, and build up on the army you have. You also probably need to look at your armies main hero character and see if it fits with the new 10th Edition rules.
With any new edition we all know the focus of an army will most likely change. You shift into new directions and try to fulfill the pieces that are suddenly – decent again. With 10th Edition’s removal of the old sub factions – it gets even easier to “fill” things out with what is the best units for your current play style.
If You Play Marines Or Tyranids
IndexHammer is going to stay a bit for a lot of armies too – certainly over a year for some. So while there is always the worry you are building something that becomes obsolete we do appear to have a good deal of time with most of the army codexes. Tyranids and Marines appear to be some of the first stuff out the door, so feel lucky is those are your armies. The new models that came with the shiny Leviathan boxed helped shore up new holes in their rosters. We’ll see if anything else new comes out too – but Tyranids especially have a ton of new stuff that isn’t just updated models.
For Everyone Else
If I was a new player that isn’t starting Tyranids or Marines – I would first pick something out of your Pile of Shame you would want to paint or at least have someone else paint for you. This games now seems to have moved back to the idea that your army is a personal choice for how you want it to look. So getting started means figuring out a selection of looking models with a paint job you can either stand to do yourself or pay some poor painter to complete is the way to go.
Right now my only real desire to paint stuff up is looking at filling out some of the Chaos stuff with updated models. I have a new Daemon Prince sitting on sprue that is calling out to me to figure out a scheme. I plan on using that as a “gift” model to myself if I can knock out more of these Astra Militarum for a client I have sitting on my desk.
In the next few weeks will see me go over some of the different armies and their rules and try to “breakdown” a cool list that fits into their themes. It is a whole new world out there for Warhammer 40K players. Especially with how you build armies, it is a completely different outlook than what we are used to. I am not sure how it will all wrangle out especially if we see the 40K Missions get tweaked for force choices that might not be the best choice right now. That Pile of Shame wont get any smaller on its own.
Are you excited about the new game? Are you ready to throw down on the tabletop?
