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To those that know me know that I am a die hard Eldar player. For a time I branched out to Blood Angels and IG to try something different. So it might seem odd for me to all of a sudden pick up Grey Knights as a new army and possibly dethrone Eldar as my primary army. While my close friends who read that last statement take a moment to recollect themselves after such  blasphemous words, I will go into what drew me to this army. The main pull that brought me to this has really little to do with 40k at all it stems from my other all consuming hobby, pen and paper rpgs. In truth my very first exposure to 40k was when I went into the local game store looking for a DnD group and saw it being played. Where this ties into 40k and Grey knights is the main two character types I almost always played were Mages/Magic-users and Paladins/ Knights, so naturally when the two are rolled into one army it is almost like a dream come true. In regards to 40k the GK have powerful psy-powers, good close combat, good shooting and some tricks that put the opponent off balance or surprise them. All of which are things I enjoy in my 40k armies.

While I know a portion of the forum users on 40k sites have a very different opinion of the fluff in the new GK book, I on the whole quite enjoyed it. Was it the most amazing fluff ever written? No but it isn't the worst either. But as to not get into that kind of debate here I will simply say it still gave me that impression that the GK are the Shield of Mankind set down by the Emperor to protect man from the true evils. I find that notion very enjoyable as it plays back into the whole rpg aspect I mentioned above. Where this , I believe, might dethrone my Eldar from my favorites is that for a reason I cannot explain I am putting an almost obessive level of effort into making the Gk the best I can make them. What that means is that I am going to try to do the whole nine yards, custom bases, custom display board, the highest quality paint job that I can summon forth. I have already started work on some test bases to see how well I can do so here are some of the test shots.

I am thinking the tiled one of the far left is going to be that of my purifier squad and the paint on it will be like a mosaic tile of a church. The bullet pocked street tile of the center will be for my strike squads with a general theme of advancing forward in a demon infested city and the one to the far right with the grate work and hoses and veins will be that of the purgation squad in the midst of a infested building clensing it with holy flame.

If you have any ideas for bases or comments on what I have done so far feel free to post.