New Empire - New toys.

So unless youve been sleeping under a rock. Or just dont bother much with GW these days then you'll probably know that this....

Hit the shelves today. Yes its the new 8th Ed Empire book. Now Ive had many many armies over the years but Empire are the only one I have ever kept hold too. Hell untill about  3 weeks ago they were my only fully painted army....ever! This is also the first army Ive had to get a new book released. I usualy jump on the band wagon then sell up as n when Im bored.

Yorkshire Opens 2012 Finals - Results.

So its over for another year, and its nearly time for me to start another army project.

First off, just want to mention how great the Wakefield Warriors home turf is. Fantastic venue and awesome terrain and boards. Its actualy quicker fore me to drive to aswell, so you may see me popping over to it more often.

Army shot.

Lets get to the nitty gritty eh.

Blood In the Badlands - Game 2

The Map!

Key

• Ogre Kingdoms - 3 Relics, Iron rock (may include O&G forces in any of your army's), Mine +20pts items, Random event = Dawn attack
• Beastmen - 2 Relics, Barak Var (+3 Fort bonus), Mine +10pts items, Random event = Stacking the odds
• Tomb Kings - No mines, Random event = Plague
• Chaos - Mine + 150pts army, Random Event = Stacking the odds.
• Orks n Goblins - Mine +150pts army, Random event = Sappers
• High Elves - 1 Relic, Mine + 40pts items, Random event =  Secret tunnels.
• Empire - Mines + 300pts army, Random event = Stoking unrest.
• High Elves - 1 Relic, Mines +30pts items, Random event = Dawn attack
  

Heirotitan conversion

Finaly found a use for my 'nids! Heres my mock up of a Heirotitan.



Needs a staff, some scales and a little greenstuff work. But otherwise, what do you guys think of it.

Pose ok?
What do you think of the 'wings'? 
Size?  It does slightly spill over a chariot base. I may move it to a screaming bell sized one.

Blood in the Badlands - March

This is my Vs Jon. Rolled Blood n Glory. Two magic heavy forces faced off. 

 Anuk-su-namun and her archers got ground into the dirt by a charging ogre bull deathstar. So badly was she disfigured that she will walk with a slight limp for a while and is now -1M. Her unit was utterly destroyed, it will take many months of incantations and rituals to restore them so they are out of action next game too.

 

Proving they are not quiet as dim whitted as they appear the charging ogre unit appeared to of learnt from that battle. They are now a RoR and have devistating charge! His wizard on the other hand wasnt so lucky. He spent many many turns trying to death snipe my Heirophant, to remove its wizard levels, and just be a bit of a git. The butcher however fled from dying his unit, was eventualy caught and then devoured whole by a Warsphinx, who was then promptly blown to pieces by the cannon upon the Ironblaster. Suffice to say, the butcher is very much dead..... 

Awesome game, love the way how its played out. The rolls for the end of game results just appear to exactly fit what happened too. Awesome stuff! :D

So my army retreats back towards it capital.....

Blood in the Badlands 2012 - Overview

Im running a BitB campaign with a few mates, and decided to video report the games I play. But first a little background about my 3 campaign armies and their leaders


General

Pharaoh Seti I - The Tomb King of Hamunaptra. Murdered when alive by his vizier, and now his second in command.... Liche High Priest Imhotep. He wandered into the Bandlands looking for an ancient power that was stolen from him many many milenia ago. A relic so powerful it could reverse the Curse of Nagash and return him, and his people to life. The Book of the Dead.


Lieutenants

Mathayus - Also a Tomb King of Hamanaptra. Bested in combat by Pharoah Seti I, but now stands beside him as his right hand man.

Anck-su-Namun - A Liche High Priest and Seti's mistress. All other men are forbidden to touch her - those that do will suffer the curse of Hom Dai. If someone trangresses this law his tongue is cut out, and he is buried alive with a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs.

Heroes of Legend

Imhotep - A Liche high priest.  Doomed forever after falling inlove with Anck- su-Namun and thus suffering the curse of Hom Dai as punishment. Brought to life by the Curse of Nagash, he plots his revenge. To kill Seti and take the Book of the Dead for himself.

Video Batrep - Tomb Kings Vs Warriors of Chaos

I fun game I had with Niel the other night.

Just to point out, I play warhammer using the full rules when I am  at home. So D6 + 4 pieces of terrain. All rolled for on the chart. This game we rolled 10, and as you can see, Neil isn't used to it

Liche Priest

Last night I decided to do my Heriophant. Please ignore the base, the whole units will get done together at the end.

Have a great new year guys! See you all in 2012!

Video batrep - Skaven Vs Tomb Kings.

For Christmas this year  I received a lovely little Kodak Mini camcorder. At first I was kind of stuck for things to do with it. Then a friend pointed out I could do a video battle report of the game we we're about to have..

Here's the result.  Its 2000pt game, we rolled for terrain and the scenario (Blood and Glory) before I started filming. I apologise for the lack of models and paint on my part. I'm still building the Tomb king force ready for an event in  about a month.

Return to the Vampire Coast

First a little background. Return to the Vampire coast is a campaign style weekend event at Maelstrom Games run by these guys. Not all armys are represented but there is a campagn pack explained what is and isnt alowd. You may even have access to brand new units. This can and does usualy mean your army/enemys force wont play exactly how your used too.
Now a few of you will remember my chaos troll army wich I took to another of their campaigns back in the spring. If not, heres an image or two to prompt your memorys.

A general army shot whilst out on display after being nominated for best painted.

Project Dorf - Slayer bases

Works started on the Slayer bases. For those that asked this first shot is the  AoW plastic slayer next top a GW miner. As you can see they are pretty much the same size.




Heres the base.



Work in progress. Learnt things from the miners base, no crappy plasti covering every tile. You need to be able to see the bases for templates. Also left the front middle 4 bases plain so I can swap about FC with characters and not destroy the look.

Storm of Magic

Storms of Magic is the latest Warhammer Expansion, enabling battles to be fought amidst devastating magical events as wizards unleash cataclysmic spells and titanic monsters clash in earth-shattering battles.
Storms of magic are epoch-shattering events that unleash terrible and all-powerful arcane energies, unbridled power that allows wizards to shackle titanic beasts to their dominion, or deny their enemies mystical forces that could destroy whole nations in one huge spell.

So the buzz is all over the place at the moment. Storm of Magic is comming, and I'll admit it. I cant wait! I a big big fan of 8th Ed Warhammer and anything that can mix it up a little is welcome.

Youll be seeing more SoM stuff in the future so keep checking back

Cold One Knights - Review.

With Project Dorf on hold for a while, I decided to get cracking with those mini's I always wanted to paint. But didn't have an army for. First out the gate Cold One Knights.

First impressions. 
 The sprues are packed with option. Not just the usual command pieces. There are also extra heads for both the riders and cold ones themselves. As well as different crests for the helmets, multiple shields and 7 different lances. Plenty of choice. On closer inspection I did notice that there are only 2 different cold one torso's. Making them all look like that are caught  in the same freeze frame photo, the different heads do help to make them look individual when assembled though.

Assembly
Assembly is fairly simple, and it has the usual GW instruction pamphlet. The mold lines however are very bad.  I don't know if its a bad batch I have but it just looked like the 2 sides of the mold just didn't line up correctly.  The Cold Ones legs and tails had a huge amounts of flash that needed removing. A pain considering the amount of detail on these models. Unfortunately removing it resulted in a  loss of the detail in those areas.
On on seperate note, why give them the massive plastic oval tabs for feet?  Why not use the usual GW method of the 2 bars and the slotta base? The tabs are hard to mask on the base due to the size of them and they look clunky.

Painting
Ive yet to put brush to plastic, but they look fun to paint. The Cold Ones look amazing when ranked up. The detail on the mounts more then making up for the lack of it on the armoured knights. The chainmail robes of the riders do block a large portion of the cold ones side. It will probably be easyer to do the usual mounted unit thing and paint the rider and mount individualy.

Overall score
A slightly above average 7 out of 10.  Nice models let down by poor molds.

Base - Done

Ok, base is done. Now you can have a propper photo, not a CCPP

Just need some action to happen on it, and a lick of paint or 2.

Project Dorf

Or Dwarf, your call.

This is my 8th Ed army, and Im trying to push myself, and take it to the next level.

My general idea for these bases are its all one massive dwafen dig site / mine. They are trying to uncover some ancient technology to aid them in futures battles. Probably something from the 8th Ed book if the rumors are to be believed. Giant stone constructs / golems.

The first off the post is this unit. 25 Miners. Well, the start of its basing....  CCPP's as standard

Its mostly a learning curve. So Im hoping it will advance my skill both as a painter and a modeler.  More will follow soon :)

Trolls - An update.

So I thought I would update you with what Ive been painting.  All for this campaign Im taking part in this weekend. All these photos are CCPP's

Galrauch

5 Trolls

Started BSB on chariot.

Lots to do, youll get more piccys soon.

Toying with a 3000pt High Elf list

Im trying to not buy anything new, and go back and revisiting all the armys I have but never finished. Wich is pretty much all of em.
Ok heres the first try at a 3K list. Im enjoying playing games at that point level, so I'll be aiming all my armys for that level. Im after a mounted / swift army. So youll see alot of cavalry units and chariots. This makes them stand out from my other fantasy armys.

Lords
[281]Prince - Dragon Armour, Shield, Giant blade, Helm of forune, Talisman of loec, Barded steed.
Expensive I know, but a combat monster and a character killer! 4 ASF attacks at str 7 rerolling to hit and wound and making you reroll passed armour saves. He also has a 1+ save with rerolls to any that fail.
[360]Archmage - lvl 4 life, Seerstaff, Talisman of preservation
Standard Archmage build pretty much. Can choose spells and a 4++ save.
Heroes
[180]Noble - BSB, GW, Dragon Armour, Dawnstone Amulet of light, Barded steed.
A bit meh but not bad for a defensive BSB.
[155]Mage - lvl 2 shadow, Dispell scroll
Its a mage, nuff said. Shadows there so I can swap him with the Archmage should it ever look like he would be in trouble.

Core
[345]35 Spearmen - FC, gleaming pennant.
In a nice 5x7 formation for that steadfast boost. Gleaming pennant as they will be at the back protecting the AM and away from the BSB's bonus. Will be used to charge a unit getting close holding them up for a flank from the mounted units.
[148]13 Archers - Musician
Archers, nuff said.
[137]12 Archers - Musician
A mage in here
[137]12 Archers - Musician
A mage in here

Special
[240]14 Swordmasters - FC
flanking unit
[220]Whitelions - FC, Banner of Eternal flame
Hydra, Hellpit, whatever has bloody regen or is sat in a tower hunting unit.
[192]8 Silver helms - Mus
A means and ways to get my Lord into combat, nothing more. That rank will help me disrupt units when I get the flank. I hope!
[150]5 Dragon princes
Awesome unit, but not the Lord unit. They have a reputation and will be gunned down first.
[85]Tiranoc chariot
Something to support the charges from whatevers close by.

Rare
[100]Bolt Thrower
[100]Bolt thrower
Not great these days realy. But can still be fairly deadly. Specialy if theres a nice Shadow Debuff on its target.
[50]Eagle
[50]Eagle
Warmachine hunter and redirector.

Total - 2984

So got about 15 points to play with.... I would realy like the banner of sorcery too. But Im not overly bothered. Thoughts on the 3K? 2K list on the way soon.

Warshrine Progress

 This is my progress on the Warshrine  of Tzeentch.  At the moment it's about 50% done

Ive decided to go with this colour for the ogre skin. It stands out from the trolls and I can tie in the purple theme in other ways. Like the Tzeentch icon. Hopefully this will be finished tomorrow!

Project Throgg

In about 6 weeks I'll be attending a local campaign weekend, which is all about the fun, and not the win! So I've revived  a project I started about 2 years about. A Warriors of Chaos, troll list.


Heres my first attempt at a colour scheme.

 

So what do you guys think?

The Dark Throne

My next thing to do.

http://tempusfugitives.co.uk/pdf/wfb/The%20Dark%20Throne.pdf

Thats the rules pack. As you can see its a narative driven story. Played over the weekend. I wasnt overly taken by it till I realised I can finaly field my trolls at something, and not cry too much when purple sun wipes them out.

So I need a 1500 point list, a 3000 point list incorperating the 1500 and a watchtower. Now the big thing... I need a THEME!  Something different for them, every bugger goes SNOW!

Here are the lists.

1500

Troll King Throgg
6 Trolls
6 Trolls
3 Dragon Ogres - GW
3 Ogres - mus, standard, GW, CA
Chaos warshrine of Tzeenthc
Hellcannon

Main downside, no BSB. I just cant fit one in and keep the theme.

Heres the 3000.

Troll King Throgg
Galrauch
Tzeentch Hero - BSB, Chariot, extra handweapon, talisman of persiveriance.
6 Trolls
6 Trolls
6 Trolls
3 Dragon Ogres - GW
6 Ogres - mus, standard, GW, CA
Chaos warshrine of Tzeentch
Chaos warshrine of Tzeentch
Hellcannon
6 Warhounds


So, now I have a BSB.  Problem, he breaks fluff. But I can fix that with a rhinox rider counts as. So thoughts? And any ideas for a theme or base style ect?