Hello.

I'm finally starting a blog to document my 40K / tabletop gaming exploits.  This is something that I meant to do a long time ago, but due to the bar (read: Dark Souls) and several other considerations, I haven't really had much time until now.

I don't really expect all that many folks to be regular readers here.  This blog will mainly serve as a medium to reduce my thoughts / match records to writing as they happen.  I've learned a lot about the game in the past... uh... gosh, since June, so four months since I've started playing.

A little about my 40K history:  I'm a Necron player.  I started assembling and painting my Necron army in summer of 2010 at the behest of one of my friends, who was confident that he was going to start assembling an Ork army.  We both got off to noble starts, but seeing how I was employed and my friend wasn't, he quickly ran out of money to finance his prospective horde list.

I, however, kept going.  I first painted a pack of Warriors, and that prompted me to buy the Necron Battle Box.  From there, a Monolith, and from there, generally whatever I could get my hands on.  By the end of that summer, I had around 1500 points of Necrons, totally painted.  My unusual burst of productivity was helped along by the fact that I was i) in southern west virginia, ii) living with my mother, and iii) away from my girlfriend.  There wasn't much else to do.

At the end of that summer, I took some pictures of what I'd accomplished.  Thankfully, I still have access to these, as I posted them on forums.somethingawful.com, which actually has a pretty respectable Model Painting thread, which can be found at http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3210214.  I'll copy and paste my post from that thread, with pictures, here in a subsequent post.

As much fun as I had at my Beckley FLGS Lost Legion Games and Comics, I never got to play there.  Most of the guys who frequented the shop... well, I don't know really.  It was weird.  Everyone loved to paint, assemble, and theorycraft, but I could probably count on one hand the amount of times I saw folks actually playing the game that summer.

I feel as if I should throw out a disclaimer: Since then, I've noticed several facebook posts and other mentions that folks are, indeed, playing a ton of 40K there now, so if you're in the neighborhood, you should definitely stop by.  Not to mention, they're usually well-stocked with 40K stuff, and the employees are very knowledgeable / helpful.

Anyways, what I'm getting at here is that I didn't really start playing until I heard of an Escalation League starting at my Morgantown FLGS, Four Horsemen Comics and Gaming in June, 2011.  I somehow thought it'd be a good idea to start playing a few weekly games while in the midst of bar prep.  It was.  Playing in the league got me out of the house, and I got to know a lot of really cool people.  Since joining, I've become a (semi) proficient Necron player, and I'm anxiously looking forward to the new Codex / Models.

Let's see how this goes.