Theming: Making a unified them (not army composition)

So, The next FTW collaborative post is on making a unified theme for your army outside army composition, here are my thoughts:

Theming: Getting the ballance right.

So, I have been looking around and have been trying to take my armies up to the next level. so expect some none metallic metal and lighting sources to come. I have also looked at themes, this is a big thing for lots of people out there. I'm not talking about just a simple colour scheme compared to a complex one but full on themes like converting all your marines into halo esque models or having an orc army with scratch built trucks so they look like monster trucks.

the think I've found is that you have to find the balance, to much theme and you lose the fell of the army, to little and it is just lost after a couple of people saying ''cool conversion'' and ''nice job''.

So I thought up a few simple, if vague guidelines:

1. Don't change the weapons too much unless they are already registered as weapons by GW (like converting lasguns to autorifles).
2. the level/quality of armor should stay similar, so no giving guardsmen 'power armor'.
3. Don't go too wacky or it will become a joke that is hard to understand.
4. Don't use a theme to make your job easier, it should enhance the model and normally will take more work than just straight out the box guys.

If you think of any more please tell me.

thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Army Lists: Does everyone take a top build. In my area the answer is NO!

Is it just me or does it seem that on the web everyone thinks that there is a lack of players that just play for fun and don't always take the max build. I mean fantasy in particular because I know that touney scene better from podcasts. I mean Dark Elves are supposed to be the end all on the tourney scene but a lot of players think they are very weak and that the hydra is too expensive in lower points! What a difference is that.

Lash is still a bigish deal and people think it's neat in my area but we just stick in rhinos or blast away at the princes. There is also a lack of double tyrand and double prince lists.

What I'm trying to say is that not everyone takes a tourney build some people just take something competative but not OTT.

So, what do you take. How is your local area in comparion to the tourney scene. Tell me please!

Themeing: Next weeks theme! Background and Narrative.

So, I thought I'd theme next week to see how it goes. remember in my results post I said occasionally I would theme my weeks! So, next weeks theme will be...

... Background and narrative. I thought I would release some of my own. Find some and give some tips on other things. This will include some fluff for my wolves, maybe a book review, some interesting thigs about 'fun' styles of play and maybe some other stuff.

I do still reserve the right to post about important other stuff too!!!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob!