Titans of Minerva

Getting into Adeptus Titanicus during the summer was not the plan. I was intending to focus on Aeronautica Imperialis with the Space Marine and Eldar being teased back in May. And potentially the new Kill Team. Weeks passed and with no releases in sight I thought I should use the time productively and had another look at AT.

When AT came out in 2018 I was interested collected releases and picked up the yearly battle forces with a view to playing it sometime in the future and, as many, hope that GW brings in some Epic system eventually. So I have amassed quite a lot of stuff in boxes which I am fine with. Somehow I talked myself into thinking that the rules were difficult and not for the casual gamer that my long suffering wife is. Sitting down and reading them properly showed that actually its pretty straight forward and its one of the tightest and clearest rulesets GW has produced. 

The other reason I delayed getting AT to the table was because of the models. They are fantastic, but it’s intimidating to do them justice. Magnetising, and who wouldn’t, isn’t difficult, but requires time and experimentation to get right. The fear of messing up and the desire for perfection is a real barrier – for me at least.

Ultimately though time has a value too and if you don’t do something you can’t have fun. Realistically getting 2 fully painted forces to the table would take until the end of the year at the earliest. The new AT starter set is a good deal and I’d get more value out of having to buy a couple of extra boxes to field some interim grey plastic forces than waiting around for the day when everything is complete.

So I stopped worrying, got half build forces to the table asap and we’ve had fun playing small scale games these past few months. 

Family photo. In retrospect I could have left off the main armour panels on the other Reavers and Warhounds to make painting them easier later. I did only glue the torsos to the legs with a tiny bit of superglue so when it comes to painting they can go into the freezer, come apart into two pieces also making it easier to paint. Need to finish magnetising the various weapons left still and then this first phase is done.