We are the Necron Army
My son has recently discovered Warhammer 40K - a tabletop wargaming system immensely popular with a generation or two after mine. Takes me back to my Napoleonics figurine days.
The 40K refers, not the exorbitant cost of the pieces of plastic, but to the setting - the 41st century. The galaxy is being overrun by [choose favourite alien] who threaten [choose appropriate horrible fate] opposed only by the forces of [choose appropriate staunch defender].
My son has chosen to play one of the evil aliens. Good on him, I say. A chip off the old block.
So we are now building a Necron army - vicious robots awakening from a sixty million year hibernation (they don't think small in this game) and preparing to rid the galaxy of all those pesky organic lifeforms.
Children are great. They remind you of things you have half-forgotten - just how much fun you can have with world-building and imagination and not just in the context of books.
I can't help it. I've started working on a set of scenarios where the Orks (think Tolkien orcs with tanks and rocket launchers) discover a newly-reviving Necron Tomb World (don't ask) and attempt to eliminate the Necrons before they can get going properly.
The only problem is I now have Tom Lehrer's 'Folk Song Army' running through my head all the time.
We are the Necron Army...
The 40K refers, not the exorbitant cost of the pieces of plastic, but to the setting - the 41st century. The galaxy is being overrun by [choose favourite alien] who threaten [choose appropriate horrible fate] opposed only by the forces of [choose appropriate staunch defender].
My son has chosen to play one of the evil aliens. Good on him, I say. A chip off the old block.
So we are now building a Necron army - vicious robots awakening from a sixty million year hibernation (they don't think small in this game) and preparing to rid the galaxy of all those pesky organic lifeforms.
Children are great. They remind you of things you have half-forgotten - just how much fun you can have with world-building and imagination and not just in the context of books.
I can't help it. I've started working on a set of scenarios where the Orks (think Tolkien orcs with tanks and rocket launchers) discover a newly-reviving Necron Tomb World (don't ask) and attempt to eliminate the Necrons before they can get going properly.
The only problem is I now have Tom Lehrer's 'Folk Song Army' running through my head all the time.
We are the Necron Army...
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