Introducing Darien Vasco

Hello! I am Darien Vasco of the IIIrd legion and I am extremely delighted to be the latest member of the Battle Bunnies! This blog has been a daily read for myself for the last few years and now having the opportunity to contribute to its hallowed pages is very exciting!

I started in the hobby whilst I was at school, around age 12/13. Two of my friends had started collecting and I thought it looked awesome and joined in. One collected Eldar and the other Orks. As for me, I went for space marines, the mighty ultramarines in fact, well that is until I decided I wanted to do my own chapter. So as I had no concept of maintaining detail on the models I sprayed over the blue and turned them black. To top this off the defining feature of my marines was the orange shoulder pads. Needless to say this idea of my own chapter quickly faded away and I moved on to Blood Angels! Unfortunately lacking in painting skill, patience and my friends slowly drifting away for the hobby, I stopped collecting and packed everything in a box and filed in the loft. For many years they sat in the loft forgotten and cursing my poor painting skills. Until one summer when I was at college and we had a large clear out at home. Everything came out including the box full of blue/black/red marines and a Leman Russ. Nostalgia over took me as I looked at the hideous mess I had made of painting them, however this was short lived and I believe I said to my Dad 'Yeah don't need this any more', as I proceeded to add the box to the pile for the dump! (I have come to regret this decision since getting back into the hobby. I mean I had Calgar, Dante a few other characters, scouts, bikes, marines and the Leman Russ!! Quite a few of which haven't changed at all over the years!) Some more years past and whilst at Uni a friend of mine set a small flame alight after I discovered he was an avid 40k collector. This small flame burned away and every now and again I would take a look on the GW website and admire the models but I resisted. However the flame turned to fire one day at work when a colleague of mine showed me what he had been painting and after I showed an interest he offered me up his Orks from the Assualt on Black Reach box for free and that was it, I was in and hooked!! 10k of Orks, 3k of harlies/eldar and a sizeable Sons of Horus legion later and we reach today!

My Ork Dread Mob!

The Heresy addiction started when FW released Angron, I was just in awe of the model. My obsession with all things heresy really kicked off once I purchased the beautiful Betrayal book. I ended up spending many hours deciding what legion to collect, World Eaters, Emperors Children, Iron Hands and then Horus was released! His model is amazing and that was my decision made! The Heresy era is so deep, I love the story, setting, models and gaming! 

For the Bunnies I will be taking command of the Emperor's Children and adding reinforcements to the Sons of Horus (updates coming soon!) and eventually World Eaters. My Orks and eldar will make appearances over the course of the Great Crusade campaigns as well. I am really looking forward to getting my models into the fight and making our own stories in this awesome universe! 

I will leave you with a picture of my Harlequins as I'm really proud of them and as they were not present in the Great Crusade won't be featuring on the blog! 

Darien

Battle Bunnies: Who are we?

I have just realised that we have not as of yet introduced ourselves. So this page will hopefully fix this oversight.

Battle Bunnies is a fledging Warhammer 40k Gaming club out of Milton Keynes, England. We were founded around October 2011 if I seem to remember correctly. Currently there are 8 members (who will start to post shortly), and we meet 2 or 3 times a week at my home (currently), for Battles and fluff discussions. We are all between the ages of 21 and 29 and really don't take ourselves seriously.

So Why Battle Bunnies I hear you ask; We originally wanted to be known as Bunnies with Bolters with an eventual aim of world domination. But as Bolters and Boltguns is Copyrighted by Games Workshop we settled for Battle Bunnies. The Bunnies aspect came in through a mock argument my brother and I had (which stemmed from a Cartoon called Fosters home for imaginary friends
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5YSGT37xg ), originally I wanted Flaming Bunnies. Khall agreed to Bunnies after surmising that as they were "fluffy" and we love the fluff of the 40k universe, the naming seemed apt.

We are not Tournament gamers. In our opinion there is nothing worse than a list which completely contradicts / makes a sheer mockery of the canon of the 41st millennium or the Horus Heresy. Players using lists such as the Cron Air list or similar are bad for the Hobby in our opinion and are only in it for the win. That is why I think the Horus Heresy Books really appeal to us. Everyone singing from the same hymn sheet is a blessing.

We love narrative and conquest based games and Campaigns (see our Karrus sector Campaign which we are aiming to start soon), where battles seem to be part of a bigger picture.

We also love Titans. . . . Some more than others . . . .

We do have a  few rules.
1 - Cant play it if you don't paint it. We all make a conscious effort to get Minis painted to a decent standard before they are allowed to grace our battlefields.
2 - Battlefields need to be prepared aptly for the coming conflict. If  it does not make sense it cant be used or needs to be rearranged.
3 - No Tournament or lists not fitting with the beautiful canon of the Warhammer universe.

At the moment we are looking at setting up an actual Gaming Club venue in Milton Keynes for Warhammer 40k and The Horus Heresy, where like minded gamers will be welcome to game and be part of the community we want to be able to build. But first we need names. We need to know who will be interested in gaming once a week in Milton Keynes at a decent venue.

If you are interested you can comment below.