Welcome to the 41st Millenium

The 41st Millenium is my place to post my thoughts, feelings, and experiences with Games Workshops Warhammer 40'000. I will also be posting miniatures I have converted and/or painted for other people to view.

This is my first blog so bear with me as I learn the ins and outs of making a great blog.

About me:
I have been playing Warhammer 40k since the start of 2nd Edition. My first army was Chaos Space Marines and I played many many games with them before finally trading those for a friends Space Wolves. In 2nd edition, I also had some Tyranids and some Eldar. When 3rd edition dropped, I was heavily in to Space Wolves and converted wolf pelts for all my terminators from greenstuff (a very poor job compared to my standards today!).

In third, I also had a small Dark Eldar force as thats what came with the Basic starter set and I had expanded it a bit before giving it to my brother in law to get him in to 40k. I had traded my Tyranids off for something else I cant remember now, and given my Eldar to a friend to get them in to 40k as well. When the local GW store went out of business, I got a Chaos Army box set cheap and restarted my Chaos Space marine force. This was also about the time that metal Grey Knight figures came out for the first time (and they were amazing so I had some!)

After a few years in third, my interest in the game started to fade and I stopped playing for several years before getting back in to 40k.

By that time, we were on 5th edition. I had skipped 4th edition completely. What got me back in to 40k was the Space Hulk box set with those incredibly awesome Blood Angel Terminator models. I started a Blood Angels army and quickly had more than I could hope to field in a single game (but choice is good!!). I had decided that I was done with Space Wolves (despite their incredibly broken codex!) and worked on modelling and painting my Blood Angels, as well as my Chaos Space Marines. I also started a Tau Empire force (Currently about 2500 points) and after reading Path of the Warrior and Path of the Seer, I built up about 3000 points of Eldar. About a year and a half after the Grey Knight Codex came out, I picked up a couple boxes of Power Armored Grey Knights and started a force of those guys (Love the fluff, love the models, love the codex as long as you play by fluff and dont spam overpowered units). I also built up almost 3k of Tyranids.

Dark Vengeance saw the start of a small Dark Angels force. I was able to pilfer several units from my Blood Angels to quickly expand to an (unpainted) 2500 points. Those guys are really awesome, and I remember back in Second Edition I had a friend playing Blood angels out of the old Angels of Death Codex.

October 2012 brought me back full circle and Chaos Space Marines are the army I am looking to expand upon now. I love the way this codex seems to work really well in conjunction with itself and doesn have any clear 'winning' units at this time. Its completely unlike Grey Knights but I think has the potential to be better than Grey Knights in many ways, but more on that to come!