A quick re-cap:
The last few weeks have seen me dust-off my Scouts and prepare them for a few outings on the tabletop – I also picked up five more Scout bikes and three Landspeeder Storms for them, and yesterday saw their first outing as a coherent force.
After seeing how terribly effective Scouts can be at Calneage, my interest in my own scout army was once again brought to the fore.
Ever since I saw my friend’s Raptor Scout army (waaaaay back in my Maelstrom Crew days), I was inspired to create my own. It began with the metal scouts I had already. DDWG were having a campaign involving Space Marines so I got around to re-painting my scouts. In the beginning, they’d had this horrible blue, red and white colour scheme which really didn’t help them when it came to sneaking up on things. They then went over to Codex Grey, but I felt this was still too bright for infiltrating in. Finally, I bit the bullet and mixed my own dark grey using Codex Grey and some black ink.
Going with this vibe, i repainted all of my scouts (at this stage, only comprising of about 15 metal scouts) in more appropriate colours, whilst still remaining in keeping with the colours of my other Space Marines.
With the release of plastic scouts during the short-lived 4th edition of 40k, my plans for an entire army of scouts were realised. I picked up quite a few boxes of them and began formulating an army of scouts. Of course, the 4th Edition codex was a lot more forgiving to ‘custom’ armies such as this, and so my command squad was able to take such skills as Infiltrate, which really kept things in theme.
Alas, that’s changed now in the 5th Edition codex, although it has allowed me to bolster the ranks of the scouts by taking Scout Bikes (finally in plastic) and the new Landspeeder Storm, which, as of last night, I now own three of.
I’m planning to run a few games with the Scouts and see how they fare. Of course, I expect them to lose horribly. Watch this space.
