For six years, I worked at a gaming store.  Over time, I naturally got dragged into the Games Workshop games that we sold – Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, and others.

I stopped playing for a while after I left the store.  In part, I didn’t have gobs of spare time to assemble and paint the models.  I also didn’t have a good place in my tiny apartment to do so.  It was really convenient painting and assembling models at work… until I didn’t work there anymore.

Now that I have an entire house to fill with junk, and an “office” where I can set up my painting/modeling supplies, I think I’m going to get back into it.  First project: Chaos.

New Chaos Army.  January Tournament.

I’ve always wanted to play Chaos, and I never got around to it.  Now that they’ve re-done the book and they’re re-doing some of the models, it seems like a great choice for jumping back in.

I was planning on doing an Empire army previously – Games Workshop had just released the new Empire stuff when I left the store and stopped playing.  However, at this point I don’t want to commit to assembling and painting that many models.

The best thing about Chaos is it’s expensive – so your army isn’t going to have 2-300 models.  Oh… Skaven, how I hate thee.

The store has a tournament planned for January, so my goal is to assemble the models and test them out by then.  Painting will surely take a few months after that, but hopefully I can get a playable army done in two months or so.

I haven’t worked out a specific list, so I’m going to start by assembling a hodge-podge of core units, and then working it out for there.

Shopping list:

• 2 x boxes of Chaos Warriors
• 2 x boxes of Chaos Knights
• 2 x boxes of Maurauder Horsemen
• 2 x boxes of Maurauders