I recently had the great pleasure to play another game of Legions Imperialis; I’ve written about some previous games here. This time I brought what I expected to be a decidedly unbalanced and thoroughly uncompetitive, but hopefully fun and destructive, 2000pt list.
Since the start of the year I’ve been attempting to paint every day, even if only for a few minutes – and, in truth, on most days it has only been for a few minutes. But that’s fine, and I also forgive myself on the days when for one reason or another I don’t paint at all. The point is not really what I do each day; the point is building habit, and breaking down mental barriers that make me imagine things as more difficult than they really are.
Anyway! What I’ve been working on through January has been some additional detachments for my Imperial Fists. These are all units that featured in my last battle report, but at the time they were “reinforcements from allied White Scars”, i.e. primed in white and otherwise unpainted. I’m currently working on the first of two Mastodons, though today we will be looking at a Xiphon Interceptor and a trio of Kratos heavy tanks.
During Death Year 2025 I acquired some TTcombat MDF terrain: an epic-scale industrial construct dubbed the Ashworks Foundry Ashford Pressureworks (I’ve written and said this name many times and still cannot get it right – senility is clearly setting in). I believe this is discontinued, though it’s still available via 3rd party sellers if you’re interested.
I believe it’s designed for TTcombat’s own game Dropzone Commander, which I’ve not played (interested, you know, but it involves a lot of resin, plus getting stuff from the UK is non-trivial these days) and is 10mm scale. I play Legions Imperialis which is 8mm scale, but what’s 2mm between friends?
It’s been a slow year for hobbying, following on from an even slower year for hobbying. Aside from something really stupid (which I did finish and I do really like, so I might eventually finish writing about that and share some photos) I can’t even recall what I might have built and painted last year. That despite moving into a new apartment, large enough to dedicate an entire room to hobbying. Thin gruel indeed, but life has its challenges and hobbying, after all, is a luxury.
So in comparison, 2025 was a highly productive year, and it was thoroughly dominated by one game: Legions Imperialis.
Over the last few months I’ve been lucky enough to play a few games of Legions Imperialis, Games Workshop’s 2023 epic scale game set in the Horus Heresy (aka. that time all the chads and chuds in powered armour were slapping one another about). I actually picked up a copy last year, but it took me a good six months to build and paint everything in the starter box. Life is hard, ok.
My opponent for both games was the inestimable Michael Halila, and he’s written some great battle reports over on his blog, Freodom. I won’t attempt to recreate the wheel, but I will summarise a few of my own thoughts regarding both games.
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