I started assembling heavy weapons earlier this week. Finally used the crouching legs I'd been holding on to and learned that many heavy weapons really don't work well on Marines in crouching positions. I still managed to produce a heavy bolter, multimelta, and two lascannons, all on the crouching position. Add to that some more standing heavy bolters, plasma cannons, lascannons, and pretty much every outstanding missile launcher I have and I managed to get 19 heavy weapons built! Good for me!
So a window in our really crappy weather opened up a couple of days ago. So I thought it was now or never (at least for a month or so). So I got out there and whipped out the spray paint. I ended up missing a couple of heavy bolters, so that brings me up to 17 heavy weapons primed. And while it was on my mind, I whipped out a few old school tac squad jobbers and primed them, too. I still need a couple more and a couple Sarges, but ultimately, it means this: my Seventh reserve company will soon have two full Devastator squads to help fill it out. That means I'm two Tac Squads (which I have) and an Assault Squad (which I have the parts to assemble) away from a third full Company. And the extra heavy weapons for other new Tac squads don't hurt either. Maybe I'll just hold back four of them for the first Dev squad of my fourth Company. Woot!
I'm feeling pretty good. Several things are getting done, slowly but surely. Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by how much I have to accomplish. Sometimes I get a little down because I have no earthly idea when I'm ever going to get a chance to put them on a field. But, in the end, I'm creating. And that's what matters the most.
