My Historical Journey continues

After about a good 4 years of AOS and some 40k, I am back in doing historicals.  First a minor update on my kislev

Well, I did not paint this but i did eye Ebay once a while, and when I noted this original Kislev unit at a decent price I snapped.  No I am not going to repaint it as there's too much work and I definitely cannot do it as well.

Next will be the main meat of this post

I have finally met my KPI.  For years I lamented that as a historical player, I do not have an army of my own race.  Finally when my friends want to start BA, I jump into the opportunity as that game has rules for China. 

I had actually, technically, finished my army 3 months ago (was working on them from August 2019 to December).  It was an amazing three months effort thanks to contrast paint and my improve techniques (I paint almost every day or at weekday after all).  However I need to quantify that the army is small at about 60 miniatures and I have not based all of them.  As I am working on expanding the army from NRA to PLA/PVA (In Korea), I used the opportunity to base my old squads while adding new units.  So here  they are, those squads with decent pictures to date.  I will add more photos along the way as I am preparing for a big game.

BA China, despite pains with the rules (that are due to unfairness or sloppyness by designers rather than the historical context, is one of my favourite armies.  Simply because of my background.  Always like the idea of ww2 chinese fighting, with scant resources, against their stronger rivals.  This is especially true in BA as my opponents tend to play late war units.  Sadly a lot of the local players in the community do not care about history at all, they fit units from different era together for the sake of efficiency.  This is the problem of BA, which trades historical correctness for coverage and playability. 

I also started FoW and TY as 15mm is my real interest when I move to play at BQ. I still prefer the look of 28mm armies but Warlord miniatures, though characterful, tend to be of lower quality.  This is especially true of their weapon teams with lots of badly casted parts that you do not know what is flash and what is model.  Battlefront Miniatures on the other hand tend to be of good quality.  Gameplay wise, BA is more sophisticated while FOW and TY have more interesting and more historically correct army construction.  I find FoW/TY gameplay to be a bit bland though as it streamline a lot for large scale play.