Introducing a new author: Swags

Well, folks of the internet... The Inferno continues to grow.  I wanted to introduce you to our newest writer: Swags.  He is a helluva' Hobbyist and  a pretty cool guy to boot.  Without further ado, take it away Swags. -Duke When Duke asked me to contribute to his blog I was honored, but I also knew I would need to introduce myself to a new bunch of people. So I thought I should take some time to do up a little hello/bio for the blog to start things off. Lets start with some real life stuff. Originally I am from Illinois, no not Chicago, the other Illinois. Think cows, corn, red necks and 40K, yes 40K lives in the rural Midwest. Think about it there is nothing else to do. I started playing with some great friends there around 2004, I think. Its hard to say because since I began all concept of time and space has been distorted. I am hopelessly addicted to 40K and that's...OK. In 2007 I moved to sunny Florida and quickly found some stores and good people to game with. I am not part of any club per say but I am an official friend of the 40K Wreaking Crew and I still count myself as part of my original store crew the Capitol Imperials. Now lets get to the good stuff! What army's do you have? First and favorite Chaos Space Marines, love to hate them! About 4000 points painted and 1000 new in box, it never ends with Chaos. Next, Tau baby! My second army and biggest force yet. 7500 points painted including Kroot. Kroot you say? Yes, I'm in the 0.05% of people who have a independent Kroot Merc force. 2500 points of unplayable joy! Daemons, more hate to love. Or was it the other way around? Rockin something like 3000 points at 90% painted. Done yet? Not even close, up next Necrons. This is the only force that I didn't paint myself and that's OK too. Like 4000 before the new codex and 100% painted. Lets talk Marines now, currently painting 130 or so of various regular Marines and building/painting my Grey Knights as well. So...That puts me at "off the deep end" status in the collection range. What else is going on you might ask? Well, I am always looking to improve or create on the existing game and all around aspects of it. This is how Duke and I got acquainted and what the main focus of my posts here will revolve around. I'm not going to go into detail now because that would spoil the surprise. OK now that's out of the way, how about some fun facts. What was your most WAAC moment? Geez...Not long ago there was a 2500 point team tournament that had an open FOC for each list. I played with another CSM friend and we came up with a 4 lash, 17 obliterator, 4 or 5 MSU nurgle marine force. Needless to say we took that day and reallyy felt bad about it. The worst part was when we traded lists in our first game and one opponent playing Tau said to us "What are obliterator weapons?" After that the store put a limit on FOC for TT's. Got a favorite award? Glad you ask, more so to prove I'm not a total jerk after that last statement. I made it to the finals for Ard Boyz in 2008, so I made the trip to Baltimore and got shut down. But I also stayed to play in the GT that was the next 2 days and came home with a 2nd best sports award and 5th place overall. And I was playing Daemons no less! (Important because Daemon players are not typically known for their sportsmanship IMO) So that's it, just a short bio type of thing so we can get past the awkward butt sniffing stage and get down to some real business. I am looking forward to putting out some diverse, involved, sometimes complex posts that I hope will excite and motivate you to enjoy the hobby even more than you do now. Thanks for listening, your boy Swags! If you have any questions or whatever hit me up, I can talk about 40K for days on end.