Back To The Beginning!

Due to my inability to choose an army and follow through. I'm headed back to the first army I ever had. Dark Eldar. I sold a lot of stuff at the Empire Games Garage Sale, and hopefully I'll sell some more at the Imperial Outpost one. Regardless, I used the store credit I got to buy most of the army.

I picked up:
Dark Elf Black Arc Fleet Master for an Archon
Succubus
2 Boxes of Warriors
2 Boxes of Wyches
3 Venoms
1 Razorwing Jetfighter

This, along with some kits I purchased earlier is enough to cover all the troops and elites I think. Now all I need to get to 1500 is about 4 or so Venoms.

My goal is to get 500 points built and painted before playing with them.

The first 500 is:
Archon
4 Trueborn with Blasters in a Venom
2 Squads of 5 Warriors in Venoms

A bit cheesy perhaps, but it's a solid base for the rest of the army.

Krooty Progress

I've been trying to figure out a color scheme for the Kroot for a little while now, and decided to make a rash decision and just paint a Hound last night, and I think it payed off.

My main problem with my original idea (dark grey and yellow), was that I didn't like the lack of contrast between rider and Knarloc, or Kroot and Hound. So I decided that the Kroot were going to be painted similarly to a Harris Hawk, while the Hounds/Knarlocs would be lighter, almost coyote-esque.

So, here is my first test of that idea and I'm quite pleased with the results so far. It's also fairly quick to do, so the 20 Hounds I have left shouldn't take too long. I figure I can get 1 done a day in between jobs, maybe 2 or 3 if I don't have to work both.

First 7th Edition Game, Rousing Start

 Played a 500 point game with my Dark Krootdar against my friend Justin and his Vostroyans. It was the first game of 7th, and I was fairly soundly beaten.

I took:
14 Warriors - Sybarite, Blaster, Splinter Cannon
5 Scourge - Solarite, 2 Blasters
3 Beastmasters - 10 Khymerae, 2 Razorwing Flocks

He took:
PCS
2 10 Man Squads
2 Special Weapons Teams
Heavy Weapons Team
2 Armored Sentinels
Hellhound

I was pretty much wiped out turn 4. Beasts got pinned turn one, Scourge mishap-ed, and the warriors got worked down to just the Splinter Cannon. The Beasts managed to wreck the Hellhound before being quickly removed from the board.

Re-Trying, Part... I don't even know.

Alright, going to see if I can hold myself to updating this once a week, like my buddy at asteadystreamofconsciousness.

My current project is a Kroot Mercenary Force, using the Dark Eldar book primarily.

Current stock of models is:
64 Carnivors
21 Kroot Hounds
3 Knarloc Riders
1 Scratch Built Skiff (Raider)

In the mail, I've got another 3 Knarloc Riders, and a Greater Knaloc. Hopefully the quality is acceptable. We shall see.

Current goal is to get to 1000 points fully built and painted. I'll be drawing a bit of inspiration from Oaka on DakkaDakka/KompletelyKroot.