Welcome!

Hello everyone and welcome to Way of the Dice. In this blog I'll be talking about Warhammer 40k, Malifaux, and possibly a little bit of D&D 3.5/Pathfinder. I hope to post lots of battle reports, list ideas and tactics for the armies I play (Chaos Space Marines, Eldar, and Orks for 40k, and Guild for Malifaux). Unfortunately I'm not the best of painters, so there is unlikely to be much in the way of painting tutorials, and due to me also being a fairly slow (and lets face it, unmotivated) painter there may be a unit or two in my battle reports that will be unpainted, and may go unpainted for awhile. If this turns you off then this may not be the blog for you.

First things first, I should probably give a bit of background about myself. I started playing Warhammer 40k about ten years ago at the tender age of twelve. My first army was Chaos Space Marines, back in the glory days of the 3.5 codex. I started with a group of about four other friends, only two of which still play today. After a few years with my CSM, I began to get bored of power armour and went looking for something different. I liked the idea of Eldar due to their relative "squishiness" compared to my traitor marines and thought that their way of war was pretty neat, so I ended up getting a codex and a few models for them.

Around this time my gaming friends and I started to get into playing D&D 3.5, and as a result 40k fell to the wayside. We would still occasionally do a bit of painting together or set up the occasional battle, but we never really knew the rules all that well to begin with, and so these went slow and often unfinished. This went on for about three or four years where I hardly looked at my warhammer at all.

One day I was cleaning up my room and I came across my codices, and remembered how cool the models and the fluff of the game were. That night I read through all the old stories (for the newer players, there used to be a lot of cool stories and stuff in the old books) and fluff and decided to get back into the game where I left off. I recruited as many of my friends as I could and we decided to get a game going in a few months time at our local game shop, in order to give everyone time to get acquainted with the new rules that had come out (4th had come and gone and I believe we were about halfway through 5th), and get any painting and stuff that we needed to do done.We ended up having a two on two battle. My Eldar and one of my friends Tau, against my two buddies' Dark Angels and Necrons. It was a good time, and  we did a few more battles in the months to come, but by this time we were just graduating highschool and so two of my buddies went off to college, and as a result went on another haitus.

The Tau player and I continued to play fairly regularly and I began to play some games at the local shop against some people there, and one of the owners. Since then I've tried to get as many of my friends into the hobby as possible, to little avail for the most part, and as we moved into 6th edition have gotten more and more into the game. One of my old friends returned from college and I've managed to convince him to get back into the game, and one of my new friends has also caught the bug.

Recently my friends (the Tau Player and the New Friend) and I have started to get into Malifaux as well. I ended up getting the Blind Justice box (the one before the recent update to the models) and some Guild Guard, an Austringer and some Riflemen, while my group have gotten the Marcus box and The Dreamer box. We have yet to play a game but hopefully there will be one next weekend, and maybe a bat rep or two will follow those.

If you have any suggestions for things you would like to see, please feel free to leave a comment.