Warhammer 3rd Edition - Empire Army

I'm undertaking a fairly large project at the moment: painting my first Warhammer army. Yes, I have posted a small solo game with Empire facing Skaven before, but since then I have convinced a buddy that Warhammer 3rd Edition is where the action is and we are both preparing for our first game. It has also reminded me that it has been many, many years since I have played a game where each player provided their own army. Most of the time one person has supplied both sides or the games have just been small skirmishes or DBA. In fact the last time I had my own army playing against someone else's was playing Man O'War in my teens. Craziness!

So I am pretty psyched about this upcoming game. The date is still to be determined, mainly as I need to paint my army and buy some wooden boards for a 'proper' 6x4 table. It's pretty cool to feel excited in this way about the hobby again, it definitely has the feeling of recapturing something of my youth.

Skaven were my first choice of army, but the amount of painting for a 2000 point army was a bit daunting, so I decided to expand my Empire force, my other favourite army. Here is the work I am facing:

• General and 9 Temple Knights
• Champion and 14 Halberdiers
• Champion and 14 Halberdiers
• 14 City Knights
• 10 Handgunners (including champion, musician, banner)
• 10 Handgunners
• 10 Crossbows
• 12 Crossbows
• 9 Foresters
• 2 Cannon

That little lot comes to 1997 points. It actually looks a lot less typed up than it does in my notepad and it certainly looks a lot less in any written form than it does in physical form waiting to be painted!

I've decided to post progress on my blog as a form of motivation and you can look forward to hopefully regular updates. So far I have nothing on that list completed, although I am only 4 halberdiers away from completing one unit! I have a cannon done too. Hurrah!

So, I want to really work hard and get this done. I have an army of elves to beat!