Website down for a month or two

I'll be taking the site down at the end of April/Start of May whilst I decide how to move forward with it. The address is no longer http://gredus.blogspot.com it's now http://combined-arms.blogspot.com/ Cheers for all the visits over the months. Combined Arms will be ba...

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Like a rubber ball, I come bouncing back to you..

As of Thursday 26th April all my Tau will be sold. I've thought long and hard about it and decided that when Tau get updated I will be returning but there is a few conditions attached! Number 1 -Pick a colour scheme and follow it through My last army had about 3 different colour schemes that made it look more like a mercenary group that a unified elite Combined Arms force. I have an idea in my head for exactly how I'd like Firewarriors to be with a new scheme, but haven't been able to visualise it on a Crisis Suit or vehicle yet. At the most my army will only consist of 3 colours. This amazing guide by Freeloader on Advanced Tau Tactica...

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Goodbye Tau, It was fun while It lasted

I must have wrote and re-wrote this about 5 times. Sadly with each new army book becoming more and more crazy and more and more Spas Mareen books, I've totally lost all enthusiasm for my Tau. In my last match took a particularly nasty beating from Space Wolves which made me question the "fun" aspect of the game and why I was playing it. I was played off the board not by better tactics but simply much better units and weapons that could tear my army apart - (Jaws of the World Wolf vs Broadsides...3 units of Longfangs vs Crisis Suits are 2 prime examples) - It wasn't that they were just strong counters, they could also beat the crap out of...

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Mechwarrior Online announced

For anyone that has missed it. http://mwomercs.com/ I've added the Press Release below, if you know the universe it's set 1 year before the clans invade. From from I've read about it so far it looks like it might play kinda like World of Tanks/Chromehounds.  Looking really forward to this. "- Piranha Games brings the long-awaited MechWarrior® as a Free-To-Play PC game - MONTREAL, QUEBEC, October 31, 2011 -- Infinite Game Publishing Inc. (www.infinitegamepublishing.com) and Piranha Games Inc. (www.piranha-games.com) have announced MechWarrior® Online™ (www.mwomercs.com), the first officially licensed free-to-play title in the long-standing...

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