Today's topic ties loosely to last week in that it's about forethought to creation of an army or force. Only today it's more about your feelings on creating your own Do-it-yourself army with fluff and colors of your choosing or creating an army from the Army book of your chosen faction.
I've been of both minds at different times in my hobby career to this point. Early on, I was much more interested in creating something wholly unique. It was all about the freedom that painting an army of my own offered and the ability to come up with my own back story, reasoning, and with the ability to model things as it pleased me!
As the years wore on, and I gained more knowledge of my games, I've come to enjoy taking an force from the official cannon of the game at hand, and making an army that stays true to the fluff and ideas set by the writers. The armies still have personalized touches, but they are always done with a mind to what the intent of the texts.
So I open the floor now to you. What is more rewarding to you? Do you enjoy creating your own force or creating one from schemes and fluff in the books for your army? Is it a dead heat? Comment, reply, converse!
