It's been and frankly still is a crazy summer, but in some of the down time I've found I've been considering trying to both sell off some of my 40k armies and using the resulting funds to support finishing a Skorne army that the owner of the Wizard's Keep hooked me up with a few years back. I'm not as fond of steampunk aesthetics that permeate Warmachine, but the Skorne aesthetic is deadly and gaudy, so it seems like some mixture of Dark Eldar and Imperials. The unit choices and board size (4' x 4') push the game toward melee combat. While I know Godfrey has made close combat work in 40k, I've generally been leery of its viability in that system. So not only am I getting into a new system, I've got an army that doesn't believe firearms are honorable in warfare, so I'll let Bill handle my first impression.I think I'll be sticking with this game for the foreseeable future, so this post will just be about the differences between Warmachine/Hordes (WM/H) and our beloved 40k. I'll be posting soon about how to get into the game and then get you some battle reports. This will be a shorter article, so please be kind to it, it doesn't have the same amount of time behind it that Corvus' article did.
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