As before, a small note ahead of today's post. New miniature galleries are complete, this time featuring both Orc factions and the Lions of Alahan. I'll have to admit that this journey of investigating and uploading of the galleries has started bearing fruit. The whole process of diving into one specific army and being surrounded by it makes me somehow appreciate it more. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that this would be possible for the Lions, but I've grown somehow more tolerant of them. I've recoiled in disapproval every time I saw their models previously, but now I come to realize that there are some interesting sculpts within their ranks. Miracles do happen! Though I'm fairly certain that my disgust for Dwarves of Tir-Nâ-Bor will remain steadfast. We'll see soon enough!
Now onto the meat and potatoes. Previously when I planned out what I want to post on the blog as far as my collection updates are concerned I just wanted to show what I have from specific armies. Which, I come to realize, in the long run doesn't make much sense since I'd have to repost some armies over and over again as I acquire more, since let's be real, every army I have is not fully complete. So instead, now I decided to group my purchases and do a monthly summary of what I've managed to snag. And oh boy, this month was a big one!
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| November haul! |
Big, beautiful boxes! And I would say a pretty important milestone achieved in my collection. Some would argue that AT-43 and Hybrid are the best things Rackham ever released, rightfully so. I haven't delved into either deeply enough yet to deny or confirm this, but finally holding them in my hands I can definitely say that both are insanely impressive. I plan to do more thorough posts for both games sometimes soon, so stay tuned.
The Damocles purchase came with an extra army book for Therians and the Operation Frostbite campaign book. I was extremely happy with the addition of the army book, since Therians are visually my favorite faction in AT-43. Not only that, but the box itself came with a few extra Therians, namely some Assault Medusae, a few Golem Specialists and two Nano Generators, which I forgot to take out of the box for the photo. Needless to say, a great purchase for yours truly, made even greater by the price tag on the whole lot which was a whooping 30 euros.
Hybrid and Nemesis both came unwrapped, but all the contents have been untouched inside. It was a bit steeper price tag, around 150 euros, but still a great deal considering that just the core box goes for that much at times and not at all in NIB condition in most cases. I think only the French version of the game is still available at Rackham-esque prices, which is extremely commendable thanks to the efforts of the French community.
The two Cry Havoc magazines and the Aarklash world book I picked up for crazy cheap, around 2 euros total. Sure, the CH issues didn't come with the gaming aids booklet and the cards, but just having them on hand for so cheap was worth it. Especially neat in my case is that both of these issues have some terrain building tutorials which I plan on recreating, so these will be workbench copies which might get stained and messy along the way. The extra Aarklash book is nice to have as a reading copy, since I've heard these have notoriously bad spines with pages falling out often if used regularly.
And that's it for the month of November! As of this post, we're already a few days into December and I've already landed some hefty new purchases, plus I'm already writing several other upcoming articles, so a lot of things are cooking. Stay tuned and thanks for reading!
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