Grey Knights, New Army

For the past 4 Warhammer 40,000 tournaments i have attended (run by the awesome folks at Tolworth 1st Founding) i have taken my 'old guard' the Iron Lords Codex marines, every time i took them, i had painted at least 80% new models versus the time i had taken them before.

So i would basically swap out most of the army and usually keep dull things like Rhino APC's, painting up new models for the vast majority of the army, and out of the 4 tournaments i attended with them, i came away with the "Best painted army" trophy 3 times, something i am incredibly proud of.

The last time i went with them and won again really struck me as being their Swan song, i had a great time at the tournament, but i just wanted some new codex toys to play with, anyone familiar with the current tournament "scene" for 40k will know that Grey Knight armies are pretty common right now.

When the codex came out for them i wasn't too enamored with it straight away, despite being a huge Grey Knight fan and having already played a Grey Knight army back in the "Daemonhunters" codex that i absolutely loved.

As i walked around looking at the Grey Knight armies, they were pretty much all the same, 3 "Psiflemen" Dreadnoughts, Paladins, Draigo, yadda yadda.  There wasn't any character to them either (apart from one pretty cool golden army of Grey Knights, which i thought was pretty smart)  but the most shocking thing for me?  No dreadknights.

This didn't make sense to me, the models are amazing.  I love their rules as well and personally, i've never been a big fan of spamming anything in an army, i can't even bring myself to play more than 2 rhinos at a time, it's like a weird form of Army list OCD.

Anyway, the long and short of it is that i've decided to do a Grey Knight army in a white colour scheme, with gold helmets and a smattering of the "Half-Helm" style heads seen above throughout the army, the inspiration for the colour scheme comes from the "Imperial Rottweilers" from the ABC Warriors comic "Khronicles of Khaos".  It's thoroughly awesome, and if you haven't read it already i fully encourage you to check it out, Warhammer 40k borrows a lot of ideas from 2000AD era comics and the Imperial Rottweilers were 2000AD's little wink to acknowledge that they had helped inspire the Space Marines of 40k.

Anywho, I'll go into more detail about the list and so on in another post soon, but needless to say, i'm basing it around 2 Dreadknights,

They'll make it onto a gaming table if i have something to do with it.