I've also got a bunch of the Omnibus books here too. (What's the plural, omnibuses?) I'm excited to start the Enforcer series next.
My head is always up in the clouds with Warhammer and it seems like I'm never able to sit down and focus on anything. Its probably the product of never really sitting down to do anything. There's a foamcore terrain, model painting, conversions, reading and finding new fandexes all on the agenda and all the others seem more interesting than the one I sit down to do at the time.
Speaking of Fandexes (fan-written codices) I played a great game today using Codex: Ecclesiarchy. The link goes to the mediafire page but the forum thread on dakkadakka is here.
My thoughts on this were pretty mixed at first. I've read a little bit of the codex background to the Sisters of Battle in the 2nd and 3rd Witchhunters in addition to the current codex/books. There's always this big stigma on the Adeptus Ministorum having any military,
"One of the first acts of the new High Lords of Terra was to pass the Decree Passive, which forbade the Adeptus Ministorum from controlling any 'men under arms'. Never again would the Ecclesiarchy threaten the rule of the Administratum."
So yea, all females pretty much coming from the church. But putting aside the space-nuns-with-guns feel I thought it was important to echo what the OP Necrosis said about the codex.
"Also during times of war and during a Holy war, the Ecclesiarchy is allowed to raise an army to defend itself."
Reasonable enough! I like it! After clicking through and eventually printing it out to read. I saw the entry on Pontifex Guards. I hadn't even heard of these before and the rules immediately suggested 300 Spartans to me, probably as intended. I would add it to my laundry list to get either some Scibor SF Spartans or the Hoplite warriors from Crocodile Games.
But after some digging I found an image for the Pontifex Guards created for the Deathwatch game.
Pretty cool, huh? Yea so the rule for them is that they raise their shields and gain, Slow and Purposeful/Feel no Pain for the turn and also must be in base contact with one another. But otherwise a normal-esque Elites choice for an otherwise pretty two-sided SoB section. So yea I would take it and roll with that.
Armies!
There's a conversion artist on Warseer named Proiteus who is pretty much a wizard at making models from scratch or having a brainchild with bits. He's done a couple armies but the Zanatorian Machine Cult caught my attention over the weekend. It's a counts-as Chaos Daemons army and I was totally enthralled going through the project thread.
Lord of Change
Pink Horrors and a Changeling
The reference sheet
I thought this was cool. Even though I'm recounting these things in the reverse order I saw this before the Pontifex Guards and that's what gave me the creative drive to get going on something as cool as them. I personally like the googly Plaguebearer the best.
Oh yes and something for the new-to or learning-6th players, I was rolling my warlord traits and I picked the first category, Command Traits from the list, rolled a 4 and got essentially fleet for 12" radius of the Cannoness. Thinking I would roll 2 more dice for Personal and Strategic traits I suddenly realized, "You need to choose which table to roll on at the start of the game," oh no! It ended up not being so bad but I would have rather rolled on the Personal traits table because it was a small objective game.
Forums!
I've mentioned dakkadakka and Warseer already in this post. I've got accounts at Bartertown, heresy-online, 40kforums, librarium-online and bolterandchainsword too. Just to say it now, I do browse a lot of reddit /r/warhammer but I'm a much bigger fan of the organized, courteous groups at dedicated forums. The qualification is that everywhere you go it seems that there's a lot of guys who are very knowledgeable about fluff!
In terms of the other stuff I'd be interested in maybe filming battles we do and posting some battle reports. Like I said, there's a lot going on and I'll get more jumbled if I think of writing it down.
