This will be my first OWAC. I was originally planning on building a 2nd edition Emperor's Children army, but changed my plans last autumn. As there seems to have been so many Slaanesh armies recently, I decided to go for a 2nd edition Imperial Guard army. I got back into miniature wargaming two years ago with a few Mordheim campaigns and started collecting some old miniatures I never had when I was younger.
Second edition 40,000 has always been a sweet spot for me. I started collecting 40k at the end of 3rd edition, played mostly during 4th edition and stopped sometime at the beginning of 5th. I remember spending one summer in the mid 2000's playing Necromunda with my little brother and dreaming of one day also playing 2nd edition 40k. Already back then a lot of codices and books were quite well available as diy pdfs.
I lived in Scotland from 2009-2012. Ebay prices weren't as wild as they are now so I managed to buy the original Necromunda books and a few 2nd edition 40k books. I also bought a few gangs worth of figures. For this army I'm going for a mid 90's Imperial Guard look, but with lots of tanks. My infantry will be based on Cawdor gangers, but I haven't decided yet if they will be fanatics, heretics, cultists, or something else. I'll leave my wild card month to define their alignment with some allied forces.
The 2nd ed. Imperial Guard force organization chart is quite complex as it’s a combination of command HQ hierarchy and the standard Army selection percentage limitations.
The three Imperial Guard units and three tanks should cover the monthly requirements and add up to almost 1000pts. The Imperial Agents will be a nice bonus to get past the 1000pts. I do also have some more tanks, but that would mean quite a lot more infantry to paint.
Welcome to the challenge! It will be interesting to see how you will end up aligning them (but it's a genestealer cult whether you know it or not). Good luck!
ReplyDeleteA classic selection of figures you have there, looking forward to seeing what you do with them.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the OWAC :) Necromunda minis plus tanks seems like a winner to me. I look forward to seeing your work.
ReplyDeleteWelcome aboard! This is a fantastic theme for a 2nd IG variant force. The Cawdor sculpts really seemed to capture something of the older 40K/2000 AD cross over art. Really looking forward to seeing this project develop.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jaska though, if these guys don't go GSC at some point it will be a miracle! Maybe that could be an army mod for the next OWAC!? ;p