Well since I really don't play much WFB anymore,(please see my previous post Here ) I have migrated to both 40K and to Warhammer Ancient Battle. Specifically Early Imperial Romans is what I am putting together right now with a Gallic mercenary contingent. Even though I have over 2K worth of an army according to WAB rules, I know right now that this army will be a lot larger over the years. I dont plan to be as into 40K as I would be with WAB, but I will leave that to a post of its own. Now I don't think that I will have much trouble finding any opponants for 40K, but Warhammer Ancient Battle can be tricky to find opponants from what I gather.
A "Roman Toga Party" it is not around here.
The good news is that I do have a few good friends and veterans of WFB who want to start playing, or already are playing as well. I guess that the problem that I am experiencing is finding the variety in play. The only guy with an army ready to play is another Roman army, and the rest either are taking their time putting together their army or are in a completely different period. Now I have no problem playing the Roman Civil Wars but the guy that playes the other Roman army guy has an army that is rather booring. What he fields is basically Wargames Factory plastic Romans and a few Celtic slingers, not exactly what I call a varied army. We have not played in a few months so he may have made a few additions, but I doubt it. I guess that I will offer to lend him for the game a few of my units that would give him some variety. He is usually a good guy so I doubt that I would be overstepping my bounds if I do that.
The newbies that are assembling their armies will be barbarian armies, so I am definately looking forward to playing them, but I have also not talked with them for a while so I have no idea where they are at. I only have less than 1000 pts. of Celtic and the vast majority are still being assembled. Even assembled I dont think that it would be exactly what I would use as say an introductory army just yet. I think that it needs a few units for it to be more viable, and something that I would offer to play anyways as Romans seem more forgiving. Given the penchant for disenchantment with WFB, I would not be suprised if I will be playing a few introductory games with people over time so I should be prepared I guess.
I have as of yet tried to play out of period. I have no problems with doing that, however I have only gotten a few games in with the new edition so I want to get some experience of how my army works with different armies in their own period let alone in another period. I can see a few periods that I actually want to try with my Romans and see how they work out. I want to try the Parthians from the Byzantium book with them, as well as the Shieldwall book with them. "Hanibal and the Punic Wars" is another period that I think can have a few interesting interperiod games that I want to, but not with the current Romans that I have exactly.
The thing with WAB that is a double edged sword for me is the variety in the periods. I am a kid in a candy store with WAB. I have no idea exactly which project that I want to do next, but most likely I will be making my celtic contingent into an actual celtic army. Since I just have the generic Celtics from Warlord Games, I have no idea exactly what I want to do with them. It seems to me that the sky is the limit as far as the projects that I would be interested in doing. I guess that should be expected once you break out of the paracholism that is Games Workshop.
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