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Pendraken Rules! => Warband => Topic started by: Big Insect on 24 April 2019, 08:25:36 PM

Title: Fish
Post by: Big Insect on 24 April 2019, 08:25:36 PM
Is anybody out there? If so, what armies are you playing with?
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 24 April 2019, 08:55:28 PM
Frequently. Out of the 12, I have:
Hill Dwarves
Barbarians
Gobbos
Hugh Elves (Like High Elves, but more polite)
Dark Elves
Taurians
Vampire based Undead
Eldrich Undead (underway)
Dragon men (x2, one good under construction, one evil)

Various on my reports are scattered across this board and my blog: https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/03/10mm-warband-search-for-treasure-dark.html

No fish armies though...
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: fred. on 24 April 2019, 09:08:03 PM
I've got a fish army - they haven't been out for Warband though.
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Wulf on 24 April 2019, 10:26:01 PM
Quote from: fred. on 24 April 2019, 09:08:03 PM
I've got a fish army - they haven't been out for Warband though.
Shouldn't they be a navy, really?
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: FierceKitty on 25 April 2019, 12:17:57 AM
I've got many pikes in various armies.
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Techno on 25 April 2019, 06:58:09 AM
 X_X

Go and get your coat, again, Alexander. ;)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Orcs on 25 April 2019, 09:17:54 AM
My WW2 germans have "Cod mitt Uns" on their belt buckles.
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 25 April 2019, 09:24:30 AM
OUT NOW
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Westmarcher on 25 April 2019, 09:34:45 AM
Nothing like a fish army to tip the scales.
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Orcs on 25 April 2019, 10:20:25 AM
I have trouble "FIN"ishing my armies, I suppose most of us can tell that "TAIL".

Mrs Orcs does not nag me about the time I spend on them, I suppose she knows her "PLAICE"

( I hope she does not read this otherwise I will be GUTTED)
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Techno on 25 April 2019, 10:53:54 AM
What's it worth not to tell her, Mark ?
Davy....You can go and get your coat, too. ;)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Orcs on 25 April 2019, 01:04:06 PM
Quote from: Techno on 25 April 2019, 10:53:54 AM
What's it worth not to tell her, Mark ?

Cheers - Phil

Absolutely Nothing, Zero, Zilch.

Mrs Orcs is an absolute diamond. She never complains about the amount of time I spend in my Den Painting, or doing wargames stuff. If she has been out she call out "are you in the usual place",as she expects me to be there. She also tell me to go and paint, and has already asked if I have sorted the figures to take to Florida in a couple of weeks, so I can paint by the pool.

So far this year I have had about a dozen all day games, and a game almost every Friday evening.  last week I had two day games and a Friday night game, so I cannot complain at all.   
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Big Insect on 25 April 2019, 06:04:59 PM
Sounds like Mrs Orc is a diamond  :D

Thanks for the replies folks ... the title of the post was really to see what I might 'catch' by way of Warband players ... and I am fishing for insights

I'm afraid I am a 28mm Warband player - don't tell Leon or he'll drum me off the forum - I have the following Warband armies:

1). a Mordor Orc (plastic GW LotR orcs + cave trolls and spiders) - which plays as a Goblin (to their huge disgust)

2). a 'Feral' Elf army (metal Foundry Nymphs and Copplestone/Grenadier Wild Elves) - that plays as an Elf army

3). a Rohan army (again GW plastic LorT figures) - lots of nice charging horse etc.

4). and finally a Beast man (or should I say Beastwoman) army which is metal and is mostly 28mm Maidenhead Miniatures (from Australia) ... the 28mm massive Woolly Rhino and crew were what drew me to build it ... I picked it up on a Bring & Buy at a show cheaply and then spent a fortune importing the rest of the army to match.

The Orc is however by far the most successful on the table - that 'exploding' Shaman is a killer ... liturally.

I was just wondering what makes other Warband players like the game so much?

Cheers

Mark
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 26 April 2019, 06:33:35 PM
The fact it is hilarious, always gets a result and always produced a good narrative for me (especially when my regular opponent with a +2 general never gets his troops moving)!
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Luddite on 27 July 2019, 10:48:32 AM
I play regularly, mostly with Dwarves, Goblins, or Taurians.

I rarely win, but its fun losing!
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: d_Guy on 27 July 2019, 04:37:57 PM
It sounds interesting! Maybe I'll get into it just for the halibut.

Yes, the horse has already been flogged but I'll claim the time-difference waiver of which I still have three remaining for 2019.

Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Dr Dave on 27 July 2019, 07:08:26 PM
I might collect Prussians for Waterloo. But which commander... Pirch?  :'(
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Techno on 28 July 2019, 08:12:29 AM
It just gets worse and worse ! X_X

Cheers - Homer S
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Ithoriel on 28 July 2019, 01:37:08 PM
Got the rules, don't have an army, played a couple of games.

The games were fine but, as a group, for quick'n'easy we prefer HoTT and for all-afternoon/ all-evening we prefer Warmaster (the original, not the abomination that is Warmaster Revolution).

Different strokes ...
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Big Insect on 30 July 2019, 05:11:14 PM
What's wrong with Warmaster Revolution Ithoriel - not that I have played it or the original.

Mark
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: Ithoriel on 15 August 2019, 01:56:19 PM
I dislike the attempt to "historicalise" the rules.

For me, Fantasy is not historical armies with dragons, it's a whole different animal with a whole set of different underlying principles.

The sources are not Arrian, Anna Comnena or Aeneas Tacticus but rather Tolkein, Gemmel, Jordan, et al, or even (Insert favourite fantasy author here).

Cavalry are queens of the battlefield, grinding the grubby little ground pounders into the mud (except when the ground pounders are the heroes and have some cunning plan, possibly involving turnips, to turn the tables).

Archers have muscle-powered SMGs.

No author I've read seems to understand the difference between a javelin, spear or pike - a pointy stick is a pointy stick.

Likewise, none of them understand how skirmishers work and most don't seem to know they might exist.

I like the uncertainty created by the command system and the constant attempts to shield players from the consequences of their own actions frustrate me.

Other people like the new version, and more power to their elbows, but they are not for me.

 
Title: Re: Fish
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 15 August 2019, 08:38:36 PM
QuoteNo author I've read seems to understand the difference between a javelin, spear or pike - a pointy stick is a pointy stick.

Likewise, none of them understand how skirmishers work and most don't seem to know they might exist.

The same could be said for plenty of contemporary (ie Ancient) historians, playwrights and authors.

They all tend to follow a similar track.
* A pointy stick is a pointy stick, and I won't go into great detail about its length (How were the Hypaspists equipped?)
* Heavy infantry covers anything from a Spartan Warrior, Roman Legionary to a Gallic Infantryman.
* The only skirmishers worthy of note hail from Mediterranean islands, or ride horses.
* There's never much detail about how the opposition fights.

Title: Re: Fish
Post by: FierceKitty on 16 August 2019, 12:17:13 AM
May we add the idiocy of calling a halberd a pike? The noirest of betes noirs.