tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655986553938534450.post5178820748445321509..comments2023-12-28T18:30:28.647-05:00Comments on Rites of Battle: Making 40k Your OwnHeretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998180583172670653noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655986553938534450.post-85649141748353763542010-06-26T01:39:10.923-04:002010-06-26T01:39:10.923-04:00I let competitive games/tournament games determine...I let competitive games/tournament games determine my army's backstory. I mean, Tyranids? Their backstory is "kill the shit out of EVERYTHING." So basically, as long as shit is dying, it's solidly within the Tyranid fluff. But writing every single game I ever fight into my backstory would get tedious realy quickly. So, for my army, I typicaly say that each tournament battle is a battle in my Hive fleet's backstory. I occasionally include a noteworthy non-tournament battle within my backstory, because everyone has "THAT ONE GAME WHERE X HAPPENED."<br /><br />Claiming some sort of token from a major battle (like the oddball on the base of my Fyrant) is super fun too, and gives your army a bit of a backstory without having to actually write much of anything. I'd at some point like to get my hands on a a couple of stray models from various other armies to use as doods dying on the bases of some of my MC's, and have them painted in the scheme of various people I know's armies.<br /><br />I guess I like to say that my army is young, and my backstory is ongoing. It's also, for the time being, an oral history, as I don't have anything really written down yet. One day...one day...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com