A VETERAN PLAYER'S TALE
Ken Kennedy has been a Dwarf player for over a decade. Follow him as he drools over the new Dwarf miniatures and decides how to revamp his old army.
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Ken: When I first got into the Games Workshop hobby and Warhammer way back in 1990,
I was into Wood Elves. I had spent a bit of time playing
Elves in popular role-playing games, and I was a big fan of Legolas from The
Lord of The Rings trilogy. In Warhammer, I liked the fact that Wood Elves
could turn my opponents' armies into pincushions before they could cross half
of the battlefield. I
was pretty successful with this army, and I thought the party would never end.
Then I ran into my friend's Dwarf army. I poured arrow after arrow into these strange, stunty warriors, and they kept on coming! Very few of them died, and they didn't have the sense to run away when a few of them did fall. After playing a few games against Dwarfs and firing thousands of arrows into their ranks, I grew to love the rugged nature of these grim and fatalistic warriors.
My main Warhammer army became (and still is) a sturdy Dwarf force. I was collecting Dwarfs for about 10 years before I began working for US Games Workshop. A few months after I arrived, the current version of Warhammer was released and shortly thereafter the Dwarfs. When the new Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs and a completely new miniatures line came out in early 2001, I scooped them up as fast as I could. Quickly amassing a solid collection of new metal soldiers, I began slowly painting the army. When a staff tournament was announced, I became motivated to sit down and paint in earnest. A few months later, I had a hardcore 2,500-point Dwarf strike force.
Since the creation of my current Dwarf army, I've had successes and failures on the battlefield. I've discovered that my Dwarfs are almost unbeatable in a one-shot game, but don't do so well in a sustained campaign. In a campaign, I can usually win the first game or two, draw a few, and then things get ugly for me. Unfortunately, once my opponents figure out my one-trick pony strategies, I'm in trouble. Try as I might, I rarely get back into the winning grove.
Now, Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs has been revisited again, and many of the problems that I've had with my Dwarf army in the past have been solved by new and upgraded rules. Not only that, but a whole plethora of amazing new metal and plastic models have been released. Now is truly a golden age for Dwarf players!
