So here's the plan...

I started buying the Grymn figures I wanted before I had any sort of cohesive idea what the army was even going to be....in fact, even before I decided that I'd use 40k as the basic system.

(Note on 40k: Let's face it, for all the bile I'll probably throw at Granny in this blog, 40k is still the most widely played pure Sci-fi skirmish style game around. There area fair few players around here, and so if I ever get the urge to drag myself to a game table rather than just enjoying this project for the joy of building an army then I'll easily find folk to beat me soundly.)

There are several ways of using the Grymn in 40k. The most popular are apparently Guard, Marines and the Inquisition.
Inquisition immediately appealed...because I love the Eisenhorn books (though I thought the third one was much weaker than the first two). Unfortunately, a glance at Granny's website put me off the idea. Too tricky to build that sort of army with what Kev White - the man behind Hasslefree (as if you're reading this and didn't know that) - has produced....so I went out and bought the Marine codex.

Now, when I first started playing Granny's games all those years ago I bought her magazine and it was chock full of these cool warrior monks in armour. That has ALWAYS seemed cool to me, and the first miniatures I ever bought were that wonderful set of 30 plastic beakies, and a metal attack bike. I painted them matt black. They looked AWFUL. I later collected a HUGE army of Metal marines, before Granny did her first major Goal post shift, made half of my stuff obsolete and killed my interest in further playing of her games for a while. However, the love of the regimented, uniform, proper military look has apparently stayed with me, because when I started playing Warmachine my first army was a Khadoran force that focussed on the heavily armoured models. That sort of theme gets me. Disciplined ranks fighting together.

A friend (the one collecting Eldar actually) has the Guard codex. I looked at it and dismissed it as not something I wanted to play or collect.

So, it was locked in on marines. I visited http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk and ordered the miniatures I needed for the bulk of the army I sketched out. Then I completely changed the army. So I have some figures already, more on their way, and a nice list of what I want to buy...that should make mr White and his family happy.