To my surprise, I'm playing in a by-the-book fantasy 8th ed Badlands campaign.
Three games in, and three losses. My friends took the campaign a lot more serious than me, and my fluff army tends to wiped from the table. We're now upgrading from 1200 points to 2250 points, and the armies are allowed to evolve a lot.
That sounds like a lot of fun! Will You be taking Demigryphs and Halberdiers? Also I'd love to see some pics! 
Don't have the time to build or paint DG. Especially since I won't build them from the box. But I'm hastily building a STank and a Hurricanum. Still hesitating between Halberdiers and Spearmen. Our meta has a lot of shooting and killing spells, and Halberdiers are no better than Spearmen there. Cheap spearmen probably work as the anvil-bus I need.
AS 1+ IC Knights can survive a lot and do the killing job. With the Hurricanum, they'll be hitting most things at 3+ or 2+, and have S6 on the Charge. Add Hate from the priest, and they'll likely destroy or rout weak and medium units whenever they get the charge in. The unit has to be fairly big to endure some losses. If it survives the mid-game, it will survive till the end and also defend its points.
I hate myself speaking like this. This, I find, is the wrong spirit of the game. But I'm tired of being swept from the field... I'm playing
against my friends, not telling the story of the armies in Old World. The campaign is totally secondary, no-one else thought much about it, and now I don't either. This has evolved into competitive list-building and competitive gaming.
Oh yes, I'll add some pics of the minis here. Or on the Facebook site. But not of the games, I think.
-Z
