Here we go again! Bit earlier than usual due to a slight technical hitch with the old thread.
The last year of gaming and painting could probably be defined by 3 several main themes:
* Epic - the year of the Banana Marines and the Bright Green Squats
* Renaissance - through Irregular Wars rules
* Fantasy - some painting lots of playing with our home brew rules following a major re-working to cut them down (Hordes of War)
* mini Epic - back to epic figures but with cut down rules
* Williamitte Wars - the excellent League of Augsburg figures, mainly painting, rather than gaming
Home brew rules dominated the year, with a strong preference for simplification and activation rolls - but activation rolls that succeed nearly all the time, rather than 50 or 60% of the time.
Two key achievements were getting my Araby Heavy cavalry painted, and a brigade of WWI British. Both of which had been sitting in the To Do list for far too long. One thing I said I would try to do, but didn't really, was to take proper photographs of finished stuff.
The painting thread was very successful (even if cut short in its 11th month :'( ) with 883 posts and nearly 32000 page views. By far the biggest of my annual threads.
As to this year's aims. Well I'm not certain, 6mm sci fi and LoA should continue. More terrain feels sensible. But there are a lot of unpainted figures sitting around.
Links to the previous years
2016 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13401.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13401.0.html)
2015 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11148.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11148.0.html)
2014 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,9178.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,9178.0.html)
2013 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,6626.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,6626.0.html)
2012 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4379.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4379.0.html)
As to working out what I have and what I should get on with I did a bit of sorting this afternoon.
I gathered the combined boxes of (most of) the lead/plastic pile together (there is a drawer each of Orcs and of Empire / Landsknechts that stayed put)
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Then spent a while sorting them out - fortunately within each box the trays are fairly well organised. It was a strange mix of interesting and overwhelming!
Not quite finished - as it got quite cold in the conservatory - but basically there is a stack of 28mm, a stack of 10mm historical, and stack of 10mm Fantasy / Sci Fi
The historical stack is certainly the heaviest. One thing that is deceptive about the RUBs is that they can seem quite full, but actually not have that much stuff in (by weight)
The contents of the lead mountain (possible undiscovered peaks may exist)
28mm Sprues
* Perry WoTR (armoured foot, bill and bow, cavalry)
* Fireforge - Foot Sergeants
* Frostgrave adventurers
* Gripping Beast Un-armoured Dark Ages Infantry
* Ancient Greek Infantry
* Mantic KoW Salamanders
And on its way is the Reaper Bones III KS...
28mm in Progress
* Fireforge Crusaders
* Perry 8th Army and DAK
10mm Historical
* WWII - lots of 6mm aircraft, and early war troops (German Paras, French Infantry, and British tanks)
* WWI early - French Infantry
* WWI late - British Infantry, Tanks, and Guns. German Infantry and Guns
* Jacobites - a part painted deal - still loads of Scots to paint
* LoA - Lots of troops!! Some of my most recent purchases were additions to this, towards building the forces for the Battle of the Boyne.
* Renaissance - Lots of bits to make more units for Irregular Wars, including various Irish troops and lots of pikes
* Renaissance Meso-American - Conquistadors and Aztecs (not Pendraken) these are probably 12mm
* Mongols - still about half of these to paint
* Late Romans - loads and loads - these really are struggling to make it up the painting queue - probably due to lack of gaming opportunities for them
10mm Fantasy
* Empire / Landsknechts - loads of these to paint (even though I have loads painted). Might even build a second pure Landsknecht army.
* Orcs - loads. Kind of happy to sit on these as two gaming mates have Orc / Goblin armies
* Elves - only a small tub of these to paint - put I have so many painted, I'm not sure if these are needed - and several sprues of BoFA plastics
* Araby - still quite a lot of these to paint, although I have a pretty good army painted.
* Evil Men - from the KS - with extra ogres and giants. These would be nice to paint, but need to decide a theme
* Dwarves - copplestone - they were on sale! - getting these painted would give me an army as I already have cannon and gyrocopters painted (need some shooters)
* Beastmen - only a small army and lots of them undercoated - bought to extend the Centaurs and Minotaurs to make a full Taurian army
* Lizardmen - only a few left to paint, mainly infantry and a few flyers
* Dungeon Critters - lots painted, but even more still to paint
6mm Sci Fi
* Marines - a few bits and pieces to finish off
* Squats - several infantry formations to paint, and various vehicles
* Tyranids - various bits left to paint including the big bio-titans
Quote from: fred. on 22 December 2016, 07:00:09 PM
The contents of the lead mountain (possible undiscovered peaks may exist)
A prudent but probably unnesseccary qualifier considering your audience. :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 22 December 2016, 07:42:01 PM
A prudent but probably unnesseccary qualifier considering your audience. :D
Well, better safe than sorry. Its as much a note to myself that there might be bits I've not really worked through yet.
More Banana Marines - 30k vehicles(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vY_GF_wB3Z1CK4z23t79K3UhFEU0PUm626Nscvm-AFqnqgx8R_CSCtZLKVKQEkGyS87NzC0lAXjOYw=w2560-h1440-no)
A bunch of Vanguard miniatures tanks, in various stages of painting.
These are good models, delivered very quickly, and the initial painting has been quick too. This Imperial Fists army was supposed to be a small army to play a bit of Epic, a handful of painted units bought off eBay. It really has taken on a life of its own!
more yellow, and some dark grey
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Looking good, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Definitely different
As may gaming buds were all busy with family Xmas stuff tonight (and my missus had gone to the theatre with eldest daughter), I decided to give Dragon Rampant a solo play through, using 10mm figures of course. I went with a High Elf and a Men of the West (aka Empire) battle. I had been planning on using 4, 40x20mm stands for a unit, but after doing the army lists and seeing how few units were on each side (4 Elves, 6 Men) I went with 6 stands per unit. For infantry each stand was worth 2 Strength Points.
The Men definitely had the numerical edge. Deploying in a long line from the centre to the left table edge. The Elves deploying second went to the opposite side, deploying their Elite Rider leader on the right, the archers next, and their Elite Infantry in the middle. The Elves rolled double 1 for their first command, so decided to see what the Men would do - not much, they only passed a couple of commands. Back to the Elves who managed to move everyone forward, and next turn for the men was similar. Both forces facing off against each other.
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The Elven bows started firing - chipping off a couple of stands from the Men's Riders (blue knights). The Elven Leader's cavalry made their way around the wood, and where in position to get a Wild Charge into the Men's Spearmen, who hadn't been able to form a Wall of Spears. A Wild Charge is a bit of a mixed blessing, it is good as failing it doesn't end your turn. But you tend to end up having to repeatedly charge each turn.
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The Elven knights charge home, both sides rolling 12 dice, the elves needing 3s to hit, the spearmen on the defence needing 4s. But the Elves have much better armour so need 4 hits to score a wound on them, whereas the spearmen suffer a wound for each 2 hits. 5 v 1 to the elves - ouch! The Spearmen fail their courage test, but just retreat, as they got a +1 for being near their leader.
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Just after the above combat, the blue knights have been forced to retreat by shooting. The Men have struggled to get their infantry moving on the left, while the Elite Elven foot are stomping forwards. After this it became quite random with lots of failed activations. The two leaders and their Cavalry ended up in repeated wild charges against each other, often getting a counter charge in. The Elite Elven foot stomped into the village, and smashed the crossbows, the other unit of crossbows tried to shoot them in the flank, but they had effective armour of 5 in the village, so shrugged this off, and stomped through the village to finally catch the Men's Leader's Elite Cavalry and cut them down.
While I liked the subtle differences in the stats, with different attack and defence values, and the differences between infantry and cavalry due to the different Strength values and Courage values. What really controlled the whole game, and made it very random and reactive is the activation mechanism. You are typically attempting to roll 6+ on 2d6 to activate a unit this means you fail a lot. And not only does that unit fail to activate, you turn ends, so quite often you activate 0 or 1 units. Or sometimes you are lucky and activate the whole army.
It feels that this random factor is far more important to the outcome of the game than anything else. The smaller elven army was favoured as it had to make fewer activation rolls. I think the Men would have been better sitting together in a big blob to absorb any attacks that came their way.
I don't think DR was in any danger of becoming our main rules - but I did want to see how it plays. I'm now a little concerned about how The Men Who Would Be Kings will play as it is from the same stable as DR. I think my main change to DR would be that when an activation is failed, play switches sides, but can switch back again when the second player fails (or activates all their units) so both players get a chance to activate all their units each turn.
Cracking game and report sir!
Is that all ?!
IanS
Lovely looking game and you certainly have a lead mountain that will strike a chord with quite a few of us I'm sure :D.
8)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 December 2016, 08:04:34 AM
Is that all ?!
Well I do try to keep it under control - and paint as much as possible.
Quote from: Steve J on 24 December 2016, 08:15:43 AM
Lovely looking game and you certainly have a lead mountain that will strike a chord with quite a few of us I'm sure :D.
Thanks. And yes I think we all find it quicker and easier to buy than to paint!
Been reading up on the men who should be kings, and there you just go to your next unit if you fail, there is no turn end.
That's good to hear. Also i understood there are actions that are auto successes.
Enjoyed the BatRep, Fred.
Curious about a couple things:
The church building in the last pic appears to be purposely tipped at 30 degrees - don't know many wargaming conventions - is that signifying something?
Also - there is a flag in the human line that appears to be the Commonwealth of England and the Tullys (fish) - is there a story there?
Quote from: fred. on 24 December 2016, 01:02:58 PM
That's good to hear. Also i understood there are actions that are auto successes.
From what i understood of it, they can do one action that fits their type of unit. So regular infantry can shoot for example..
Quote from: d_Guy on 24 December 2016, 01:56:57 PM
Enjoyed the BatRep, Fred.
Curious about a couple things:
The church building in the last pic appears to be purposely tipped at 30 degrees - don't know many wargaming conventions - is that signifying something?
Thanks. It's moving the buildings to fit the troops in. We normally play that the area is the terrain so individual buildings or trees can be moved. Or the church wants to be in Pisa...
Quote from: d_Guy on 24 December 2016, 01:56:57 PM
Also - there is a flag in the human line that appears to be the Commonwealth of England and the Tullys (fish) - is there a story there?
As far as I recall these flags are historical 15C European ones, so more likely they are the inspiration for the ones you recognise. They were chosen for their colours and design.
6mm Sci Fi Buildings
Part of my Xmas haul - some Brigade Models buildings. Sprayed Desert Yellow, grey detailing, some black windows.
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and some more
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Very cool
That's a fairly large city ;)
Quote from: petercooman on 24 December 2016, 02:45:26 PM
From what i understood of it, they can do one action that fits their type of unit. So regular infantry can shoot for example..
Yes, that's the way it works. Unlike Lion Rampant, units' activation roles depend on their leader, not the action type so the free actions bring back a bit of flavor for units.
Very nice, Forbes,
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps. There are a couple of buildings aren't there! But the foot print of most of them is fairly small.
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 27 December 2016, 04:09:18 AM
Yes, that's the way it works. Unlike Lion Rampant, units' activation roles depend on their leader, not the action type so the free actions bring back a bit of flavor for units.
I've done a fair bit of reading of TMWWBKs in the last couple of days and like the look of it. My only concern is over fragility of units as most take 1 wound per hit compared to DR where it's always 2 or more hits to cause a wound. But I suppose this is easy to change if needed.
I'm thinking of using 30mm square bases (or maybe 40mm squares). For 30mm squares use 4 infantry or 2 cavalry. And units would have the number of trooos for the 28mm game i.e. 12 European infantry, or 8 cavalry, so 3 or 4 bases respectively. If I went with 40mm bases the base count would stay the same, but the figure count would go up - which means more stuff to paint.
Very nice indeed Fred. Brigade Models also produce a small range of 10mm sci fi buildingso
Take care
Andy
Sci Fi Buildings
Got these finished off today
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Then as I was tidying them away spotted one that had escaped the photo-shoot, at least it was painted.
I'm pleased with how these have turned out, with a fairly limited colour palette. Ready for some city fights now!
For my benefit the colours used were
Army Painter Desert Yellow, main colour
Green Grey for flat roofs and other light grey areas
Neutral Gray for vents and fans
Medium Sea Grey for metal shutters
Dark Prussian Blue for domes
Nicely done Forbes.
Can I ask a favour? What size are Epic objectives meant to be?
Very nice, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps
Quote from: mad lemmey on 28 December 2016, 08:02:00 PM
What size are Epic objectives meant to be?
I don't think it is defined. We tend to use 25mm to 40mm round bases for them.
Thanks
30k Imperial Fists
Did a quick bit of finishing off of these tanks - mainly tidying up missed bits of yellow, and dry brushing gun metal on the bolters, and grey on the tracks.
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For the Tyranid floating spores highlighted the red.
Very nice indeed, Forbes !! :)
Cheers - Phil
I really like the buildings. Especially the simple but not boring color scheme.
Thanks, they do seem to have come out well, and very quickly.
Had a bit of a think about what painting I could progress that would get me units on the table, that would add to current armies or quickly make playable ones.
This was the rather long list that I came up with:
Farm animals
Beastmen
Squat AA guns, rhinos
Nid Warriors, carnifex
Marine tracks
Hedges
Trident realms - crossbows and bolt throwers
LoA cannon and commanders
Araby archers and crossbows
Lizardmen basing, flyers
These are probably in order of likelihood of happening.
Quote from: fred. on 22 December 2016, 05:52:54 PM
As to this year's aims. Well I'm not certain, 6mm sci fi and LoA should continue. More terrain feels sensible. But there are a lot of unpainted figures sitting around.
I'm going to be selling a painted Kraytonian army, a painted Pax Arcadian army and an unpainted Andrayan Army in the new year. There will also be quite a bit of sci-fi terrain going up for grabs too.
What scale old chap?
Anyone know if Dark Realm Miniatures are still in business? There's a new looking website that doesn't seem to work and their figures seem to be vanishing from other companies webstores. Was after a few more Skyth just wondering if I need to start scouring EBay or if I'm missing an obvious alternate website - perhaps my Google-fu is not what it once was.
Nosher - I could certainly be tempted by some of those.
Lemmy the models are 6mm from DRM, hence Ithoriel's post
I last bought from DRM in Feb. And I'm not sure what is going on with their website, the old one was a bit odd, but worked and had photos, the new one seems very incomplete. Have you dropped Doug an email? It would be a shame if they have gone, as they have some nice stuff.
I tried buying from DRM but their PayPal didn't work! :(
All I wanted was a snipe pack so I could do a couple of stands! :'(
Quote from: fred. on 30 December 2016, 03:00:33 PM
Have you dropped Doug an email? It would be a shame if they have gone, as they have some nice stuff.
Do you have an email address to hand? If not, I'll rummage online and see what I can find. Thanks.
drm@darkrealmminiatures.com
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 December 2016, 03:31:51 PM
I tried buying from DRM but their PayPal didn't work! :(
All I wanted was a snipe pack so I could do a couple of stands! :'(
Hello ml
Came cross this post http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=31825&p=600939#p600939 (http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=31825&p=600939#p600939). Post was from Nov but hopefully still relevant.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Thanks Forbes
I will take some pics over next few days of the DRM stuff and the sci-fi terrain I have. Need to offload them as they are simply not getting any table time due to not being able to find a rule set I am happy with.
Quite a lot painted in the last couple of days
Headusemen - these are quite old figures and a bit rough round in places - but look suitably imposing and brutal
Goats and sheep, and ducks and chickens from the new farm animals ranges (aka Uncle Phil's petting zoo) - these are very nice figures. The rabbits and cats are bloody small though!
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Basing still needs finishing - which seems to make the figures camouflage into the bases rather a lot.
Quackery Forbes!
The "Zoo" looks stunning all pained up and based! Like the kitty herding the geese. :)
And the one contemplating the chickens ;)
I overlooked the rabbits completely in my first look, the finished basing will hopefully make them more noticeable
The cats and rabbits seemed better added to other animal bases, rather than being based on their own.
Quote from: d_Guy on 31 December 2016, 08:05:36 PM
Like the kitty herding the geese. :)
I'm not sure that cats ever lower themselves to mere herding, I think it is just observing, and letting its presence be known.
Last figures of 2016 (even though its the 2017 thread)
Haedusmen
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Codes, FHA2, FHA3 and FHA4 - I particularly like the big shields on these guys
And next the farm animals
Goats, with a few sheep and rabbits
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Gone for a mountain goat style, with quite sparse pale flock
Geese & Chickens (with the odd cat)
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Gone a bit greener with the flock, but kept it sparse as chickens always seem to eat everything
Struggled to blend the bases of the chickens, I think partly as the figures are so small
And a shot with some LoA figures for size
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Chickens
Nicely done Forbes! 👍
Awesome work on the barnyard animals.
Thanks chaps.
Happy New Year Fred. Love the animals. Must get some for my farms, baggage raid scenarios, camps etc.
Thanks Leman, and a happy new year to you too.
Super stuff, Forbes !!
Cheers - Phil.
:-bd =D> :-bd
I have some animals accompanying Pierre the Shy's latest 1914 order that I will be using for variou AWI scenarios amongst other uses :)
Thanks chaps.
Big Christmas Battle - Dwarves vs Skaven
This game was on the 29th Dec, but just getting round to some photos and words
We wanted a fantasy game, as we have been playing lots of Sci Fi and wanted to get some of our Fantasy 10mm troops on the table. The two armies selected were Dwarves (largely Kallistra figures) and Skaven (GW Warmaster figures) - neither army was mine. The scenario was the Dwarves were holding two towers and the Skaven were attacking them to capture the bells. The Skaven had a 50% points advantage - it turned out that the skaven player could only just field the 7500 pts needed despite having huge numbers of figures, and the Dwarf player who we though might be short of figures could easily make the 5000pts needed - I think this is in part due to the relative costs of 1 unit.
The left flank (commanded by my ally)
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Note the dwarven gun battery on the hill and the line of crossbows and warriors behind the hedge. On the far side the mass of skaven infantry choose the long route round - while Dwarven Ranger's wait in the woods
The right flank (my dwarves)
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On this flank the tower had already been lost in a pre-game Skaven sneak attack. But slightly surprisingly at the start of the game the 3 dwarven defenders easily pummelled the 6 skaven attackers, regaining the tower. Here my troops are advancing to re-take the tower, and holding the hill in-front of the left had tower. Quite a few Skaven are advancing...
Mid Game
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UIIbf9xS67ELZPlMEMN54IdfL9-ZJWIeZ_JUZcxPYIov1E05Plm2Lp5bUUEv2zMZK1xyO6Xs0NsMfMYOHvrOcTWAIi_PQ0wo5SYuD3dFU37b2mCFgM4bowtRS4NA_sCN3_gr4girk0kx5eaOQwEAwnI2kh1VaKFxRHYQ3Vzqm1l19x1VgDgDcMDXoXG97OlFRqxBanys1XM2GTLPnAi5D-d4NbqAhsFNTFz7HUOs036GmFkQJnwiGC4fQQjD4wr476ImDKsEDsQv282-cwviWav7cITzqdCnAgAKFsiJQduSsYOUkQQv-4v4G1qVEb9KQiBPsgv01VEjycXOTTzXGcgsCXgKyIAPHOUdYGeYU5bWDe_1DubZRG6acOpiTtTcd3uyXxefpA0Rwxgz6oE8wDlM2KXzw4LHY0ForrjR1Vzvyqjk048E56LgpGDg0bOPDs5CXxlbJHy0a2AACITNV5d5pq8uqAS3eb4UYQCVOqcqP0xDBwHCvuvPJjhHc3zGqJ68TZRpZt-68xosxVMxEiryea9EPg5sb2qzUZMTgka_T6BpOfIpIBt-VoTfVk70P6Jmk5poZBuK1bkaPD1Sxqm2bHsE7gyAGDhm3nx91fvfOFka=w1403-h1150-no)
The skaven hordes push forwards across the line. On the hill in the middle the first wave of Skaven Plague Monks has been destroyed - but they have severely damaged the Dwarven defenders. On the far side the mass is struggling to dislodge the Rangers from the woods.
The second wave arrives
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xW0m_09WW7pXycDLv510892VUKIU8AnReQEocUJQxgehVGlMtyAtvzG9ZIOTm8N6KGWdTCYbvmJ7KmhtluQK2Y4zT6oRe51MEmBMRBTSDt1H27mBchgsmQQ7sq_Q0OgC0Jyg2P_lnhWOvtzaS6HJF8K426mlZwzzcmqQNWr_-eQkLdm3UD4HdHhqM7jPnARc1BWPtKxjM0V3WPRc6sjE8EmvURewc7yiMY9DHK0i2p-ug95h3OP24gx-POcaxxk9HVriK9z5sWVuObTZHPsZ-faqWEchL-NKoMqMKJNI3fenNgJq2IXyoOGNU-zX-0ZCwtYyfDq9OFRFN4yynLKjvHQlVafmTbbcgKddKF5wnakFjkpFJQkBpoYyT9SXfBWojcXVf-aYARgn7Oli2J-1eNzO9Xer38s_9HdCLsZEHx4J5ZM3aT9dOw2Lx72NsDIRUFiR2Via5rXxjO9Q8OSdZ6lGArS0_RQoU_B9tYiBr8wd7Vgm42JkrjAr7g2tvzFQlToLM2WR-xapcFymh9ZTVPtNM6cNaYYAlMNdH7GKvbYoCVuF7xrjOwQ9PnGnvmvQOKn5-i56dheUqegrTqSyY8LZZxwXCFPf2c36B3WYx-mZS2yRJKz-=w1427-h641-no)
The second wave of skaven attack the hill near the left hand tower - the Doom Wheel had already killed several Dwarven units infront of the tower.
The right hand tower - re-taken by hordes of skaven
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The Dwarven Cavalry and Gyrocopters proved fairly ineffectually against Rat Ogres and Doom Wheels, allowing the mass of rats to swarm over the tower.
What I don't have a photo to show is that on the left flank the Dwarven cannon and infantry line were still sat in their starting positions, resolutely defending an open field!
It was a Skaven win, in an asymmetric scenario - it was much tougher for them than I expected, even with weight of numbers. They were unable to make their numbers count, other than through wave attacks. Shooting from both sides was very ineffectually during the game - I think the Dwarven cannons made the Skaven choose another route for their attack. With so many cheap troops they probably could have braved the cannon fire. On my flank I think I over committed to holding the right hand tower, which stretched me too thin, allowing multiple waves of Skaven to overpower the tough Dwarves.
That looks rather spiffy, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Beestmen
Making good use of the last couple of days of the Christmas break to crack on with some painting - more nice simple paint schemes
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jIWdQT7SBb7udDjL_WJ9ajz7aJroJhcr_fINL5r3YWvcGIOyB4-vGw5Fkw2IT3_KXo4n1WE5bltivzT6nACFX8Qwy9JlZjYZwZIHtmQB9K4WmJMnD-YoxqKUdV04dCQtryZPAGE62d8ut0Y5ukR2PgSW4DJ6XQftoCZ469ZzqOLjJvGZVdYsEIHyZ8YxBa7pTMx3K2lf_bve2WfdElqaT6mXHPTJkPBZ-j2Rq1V7ZFC77kIKq9O2SAbQkNqEepN9g_uYo3_08xUTDYeqeTlIYyU8BhmyYd4RGuhWjxY6dusK6v_QwZF5g6aQLH8Rh8c1HH2WlG3i44oitatraxYhuS8UGRwHeiM-GOSsgR5jKsD6usfWAvaeckz87WJrhSHL81LgncXEc3fRs9XfT-Hx87ZSYcwX0EZpudaex_ao5-6LZ9RUkk9ItDkeBA-9AZ6_h7LVSgV1AlMWz3KLoNBLedSXAQVCFCKx5zoKSvNVuhak3GXWJUzhFzBS2xXypKGaHoeNsqcd9dReB_7mCqBfHD9HMP3xgWcSXJb4-YogAb2n0gSavEDiTvIgv3F71ksg3YqwnuvjHA99r0cIYSgOURjFq0njWwXOgOtXpyvvF5wDioKDk-BtAKTSkb5QFIV2F2FTaCplYnbI6F0jWBhDbEqj30astbE5KPMrfRfQtQ=w1427-h1071-no)
3 units of bowmen FBE3, and 2 of spears FBE2
Had a quick count up of the other figures I have for this force:
2 units of spearmen
4 units of swordsmen
4+ units of headusmen ( I thought I would get 9 of these on a base but only have got 6 on the ones I did the other day, so have more units of these than expected)
2 giants (part painted, lurking in the background of the above photo)
:-bd
Cheers - Phil
Nice Forbes
Ta.
How many photos are people seeing in the first battle report post on this page? There should be 5, but I'm only seeing the last one on some devices.
Just the one, Matey.
Cheers - Phil
Same here, just 1
Just the last one on my iPad :(
Last 1
Weird - they are all in the same album on Google Photos. I will have a fiddle with settings latter.
Big Christmas Battle - Dwarves vs Skaven (take 2)
This game was on the 29th Dec, but just getting round to some photos and words
We wanted a fantasy game, as we have been playing lots of Sci Fi and wanted to get some of our Fantasy 10mm troops on the table. The two armies selected were Dwarves (largely Kallistra figures) and Skaven (GW Warmaster figures) - neither army was mine. The scenario was the Dwarves were holding two towers and the Skaven were attacking them to capture the bells. The Skaven had a 50% points advantage - it turned out that the skaven player could only just field the 7500 pts needed despite having huge numbers of figures, and the Dwarf player who we though might be short of figures could easily make the 5000pts needed - I think this is in part due to the relative costs of 1 unit.
The left flank (commanded by my ally)
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Note the dwarven gun battery on the hill and the line of crossbows and warriors behind the hedge. On the far side the mass of skaven infantry choose the long route round - while Dwarven Ranger's wait in the woods
The right flank (my dwarves)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u9eW3AVsCFodx78HsmfjjdbUHqdcOzYYxeq_ypuGZV9hH_lHVrsqxhwOUXnjTF6WC8V3a8o4ov8_OiSidPqT1kiYJWW-smYQ6MCNkHcsu_iDZMlCLOrOEabuOPF6SptRre5m_6rp5BuyMvQAm8ht7ZRiY3riYaJQmJQ8Yaxds9vhJ4RjEsQ-StuK8ZcoyC6ARITnDiH5jrMGi5mr_2mrUcLBZ2GRdn1CEE-n1ztLrHq7FWisuOTXmHUXgjKHOF381ahwZKqVFzVk2wOLYrhcTli9X6rU0BhV2o-2DoezOKDgGvB_jO4nhvkA2R9AvUw18Fwr5XTP0_YODwllRwnrBHuh7NvjHDO2oHHqMJxTis7OLJyI8okyG6-wNsaIkH8hghhAeSz2hl0Yz4vQSJLix0lCMSUvAM-E7zCeIBvBB0IhM7gxMLf_74SNe74e9F-ey0fPaCOjQYYxyPRrxuwukwH9PQU9MynqhlNZK9CD3VMBN4xdXznXY6o5nL-jqQ9w7DpuVip3ItfRBmg1A2qJGd59brOR2FpeMiSfZ1tJe-1VdNVWw1xWsGhApjbaPD9mmlUcGLaQS3qXzSd67ojyEEEtdhvT69nks0qODbgZAb1gEUydxDcSgkJuI67JyGtuXVFKrdJchcrKptK6Fwlir4rfR5I_7Ckt-gshTD6GjQ=w1427-h754-no)
On this flank the tower had already been lost in a pre-game Skaven sneak attack. But slightly surprisingly at the start of the game the 3 dwarven defenders easily pummelled the 6 skaven attackers, regaining the tower. Here my troops are advancing to re-take the tower, and holding the hill in-front of the left had tower. Quite a few Skaven are advancing...
Mid Game
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3QtEh0fpmzp95uIkQL0tWORUp-mjVE69n1OndRTRJVtnuANimkILr5vBJDRMxFnftkZ2flyNPi-8LFvJOieJIdk3qV4lQgtbZ_W_a_RefxMIqrlswcuuoUQZWT8qJCkQrMEJS7vzr3fMV-FEsj3Evl5SlxLjw-XTGIXwRSsL3OueubOFn7MgQ3ZayCUU1J3kEW5UOP1njyxQCaxU5fhRDsR4Zhrnep2PiZEzBw7W4wGPFT2AoLdxWIdiqLfZ2unvYnrYa3xFyHUjrFXSIdXxrY2eDIbeuMgZ7MU4xwaeQW_P__Hj7ghlmMcM3wG_kqwhcUx6Z8K7-kggerg7wJCY2Ln3mWYKQKnIgm8Cak_zSXfAfkMmW_Xzr1KDW0DbRIizWeyny1_cnmjhCCFLghjbJeWkMHffXtMZR4lUwIC9hwTKWU0uk3SiGH_oLkEMmqvWCce_vOBH_5_CIYXXsqgpq3g9fK2ULpYCKBTF3vF5gbeSqGTZuojwE26AOZ6cQFG4lx0zKK9c9ONdORuI9HneucNmgT0k9c0iWFLTx8QkpnoRiBTDbQJfU1SPv1EAWmACiX4LkBWOSvqFxEr9xcVvdTBP-zmMKHSAlO1tFDRiUhluKBPfoezHKePQXWQMbbwO13-A6JKI7m-o5CjjKW1fqu1ikoz1-4t5hXDjAL1IGg=w1403-h1150-no)
The skaven hordes push forwards across the line. On the hill in the middle the first wave of Skaven Plague Monks has been destroyed - but they have severely damaged the Dwarven defenders. On the far side the mass is struggling to dislodge the Rangers from the woods.
The second wave arrives
The second wave of skaven attack the hill near the left hand tower - the Doom Wheel had already killed several Dwarven units infront of the tower.
The right hand tower - re-taken by hordes of skaven
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oXGBvXiWhkoc_sWTZa7Dcl7BXY3tOaker2j6v4vJ-imP_dmWNRAIBg1lE_47bNbbriYIjfK3jDlu0fNMXxRYOcumampFxRfQzEEPyyP7ElTS45vRnAcvhs9ozbVgT9A6sEIgvHuQaoNTMiMoLUSF3lbd2fJLvrMhBUNedp9Vz6XWu7D_6kE84SL1Jp4uUgSU-P6p73U1EvuV1xQZrh_3twEHo27R8OUO-nzfjUDh90qHwdT78aGLSMIcKeq7KV1jD8z3Lr6bIEdsJ8_E16mCUmZEROpWSr2S6tZzJ89l5SauGroPNeqIo6J2pusND_TcKwcBd36p9O9c_ePNue00sRafevDEQs5E-NDHOJWBNnS4slBaoDoiEHWSuZTdBhBM8fd2Bd0oqA6kSPH-XtGESjfDC1qbgsGlQItpiY6R273VnLfr9-nrF8-5KAv6Lz95QScALXAwd6m72FLTPdYLh8DeWHITWQ_nMFgHjEWocaewsD1Di8zgpe8V_1D9abie_9sBfyKKTQ_Kx5sGZOzgE5vFU1CDUUfUXDnOTB9t09gbRYFhKg8gAwiMw4eXazTmCqc6N2USv2aXyk3p2DyrHNv6LclVIPh4TecdS8Mauvazfunr3z504fCzEHmxse5JljmR2ukW5P7rF5u3zg2WZok2BcWHO5m7FE7tvbcWAg=w1427-h1071-no)
The Dwarven Cavalry and Gyrocopters proved fairly ineffectually against Rat Ogres and Doom Wheels, allowing the mass of rats to swarm over the tower.
What I don't have a photo to show is that on the left flank the Dwarven cannon and infantry line were still sat in their starting positions, resolutely defending an open field!
It was a Skaven win, in an asymmetric scenario - it was much tougher for them than I expected, even with weight of numbers. They were unable to make their numbers count, other than through wave attacks. Shooting from both sides was very ineffectually during the game - I think the Dwarven cannons made the Skaven choose another route for their attack. With so many cheap troops they probably could have braved the cannon fire. On my flank I think I over committed to holding the right hand tower, which stretched me too thin, allowing multiple waves of Skaven to overpower the tough Dwarves.
Definitely betterer
Good - not sure what was up. re-uploaded the photos and they seemed to work.
But it must have created a new photo, as the link is different, as the initial report hasn't magically shown its photos.
Second lot all show for me as well
:-bd =D> :-bd
All fine here, too. :)
Cheers - Phil
Looks awesome!
Is that mat you are playing on vinyl or textured?
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 02 January 2017, 09:17:01 PM
Looks awesome!
Is that mat you are playing on vinyl or textured?
Thanks!
Its a Deep Cut Studio cloth mat. The look is all from the printed pattern. The bright green hills don't really work on it, but nearly all other terrain works well.
Piggy Piggy
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9TPOJU4jT3MuentXzQUuGHdx5TCwd68GmqU9EkUyUynkCfex5R_OojO3cjf7FokMWKtfArb6-bvU2dCbVRFVZgei1gYsTp11ZLmJWKKFu6oaAYt1QAco9eKT2RpnAiWo8gku3fhAfv3LHJk66ojWp7MMY2rDqrvggy7mX0folX_hveG0-8SVstBVZV2_4dVG01XpL_30Hf15wZgmAyz1SmikHpn8lTnbvXlnlIJjDlfi2yLK-elhc_xlgCDM6BkEuCip0iaHGzHtD4hneXYqyUI8s2cmEVPk1hg8gCCAQxYZrss95oQPiQH30uF95zu9myf_9ND7uAMQUFT7nWP4ahj5wMKZX9dNnSKImU5Jgl3XzAzJrwLQHF5DoQx-i6_-DIvR-bPdIS4zIftbxPc95xgEQ7vjg4Y7sCdXOWnGQTIv2oV2Vi0VO-ZkY8HCiVOn0N_PWiBg5zD9-AUXzFtPcUtjP-hgsmcQvQbSmU9EMD-G44sSy_KDNazufQp7JilcSZGNeaHwENyPYYPd9RAtlHqoI_pSJ_Ijsn6JTmC_jdLUc8VE0fEcHk52F_DmyqH1kYsHRgg3m6mlSwchIJcbpwy3UGJ2wjAdRD9GiRtJkn8cl2vIkjTTA-Pl3njlvpdB-sWwR2yy5e8PQliQBHG9EYPUWpaw_HOVW9Gmm38l0Q=w1427-h832-no)
More quick paint jobs - gone for a muddy base style
:-bd
Nice work again, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Sweee
Hmmm....
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9TPOJU4jT3MuentXzQUuGHdx5TCwd68GmqU9EkUyUynkCfex5R_OojO3cjf7FokMWKtfArb6-bvU2dCbVRFVZgei1gYsTp11ZLmJWKKFu6oaAYt1QAco9eKT2RpnAiWo8gku3fhAfv3LHJk66ojWp7MMY2rDqrvggy7mX0folX_hveG0-8SVstBVZV2_4dVG01XpL_30Hf15wZgmAyz1SmikHpn8lTnbvXlnlIJjDlfi2yLK-elhc_xlgCDM6BkEuCip0iaHGzHtD4hneXYqyUI8s2cmEVPk1hg8gCCAQxYZrss95oQPiQH30uF95zu9myf_9ND7uAMQUFT7nWP4ahj5wMKZX9dNnSKImU5Jgl3XzAzJrwLQHF5DoQx-i6_-DIvR-bPdIS4zIftbxPc95xgEQ7vjg4Y7sCdXOWnGQTIv2oV2Vi0VO-ZkY8HCiVOn0N_PWiBg5zD9-AUXzFtPcUtjP-hgsmcQvQbSmU9EMD-G44sSy_KDNazufQp7JilcSZGNeaHwENyPYYPd9RAtlHqoI_pSJ_Ijsn6JTmC_jdLUc8VE0fEcHk52F_DmyqH1kYsHRgg3m6mlSwchIJcbpwy3UGJ2wjAdRD9GiRtJkn8cl2vIkjTTA-Pl3njlvpdB-sWwR2yy5e8PQliQBHG9EYPUWpaw_HOVW9Gmm38l0Q=w1427-h832-no)
I can see myself now working on converting Pig Wars to an element based system :)........
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 03 January 2017, 08:51:56 PM
I can see myself now working on converting Pig Wars to an element based system :)........
My work is done.
First day back at work >:( So needed some painting to decompress. Did some proper painting on these two giants (Copplestone 15mm figures IIRC)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jeN2sX50A29pfNPJARiuFacdXPdpcjhEdhaHyWlkxJwRNkFjYL50CMqI02x32Jc2nVaIkdMeGqxsaMpP3baAdyMPGJ-k42zgUTy1_i__ulCfHJqNT_VF-67U6xQxTuR8OBhimrLACsX5EYtRto7j1IWreCoz2L6xurP5TRSAS9MDFf1As0o7lQ2EvQM0Ctz7WBfJ9FxqrVILEflIeTBi9RN_-8FvfUeZZXhi6kLp9350epbxs-tR-EJWbwqczi1ncbbbseVTz6obUNTuC286Iqhs2woVH9dBbyR1AYoe8-9tPVrdHd3xwRziuOQ6vqd8nxKGPY7NZ2CAnpJmZjbFVDCdRpsoPiGgwnX9V5B4IVEbJcy76avFdpkApwCUEnTuasgthPUnm2aPWCG_l92dHg1W5iOXol6EjsTmFVyg96eDjPTJJIeu71TK4YqgqOoWLY0wxH7UXFBeClXru19C7Dob6g4hRhOuDT7xW16yniCjHMArSi3niEpVLBB5vLS2gl1kpkMGiMfA_uGoCcE43cR1vsfd_Z59YIrFYSMVh_Ug76B0MH3NZyLXkhlONujq8g6MGsEdb9-XK0QWDeTMOWnXdNLtyKvJs6gJxM1Mqa9jGxgJ4w0UKxQzrh0iVjqHVxS2esXXtLRdol3Y7QwX02BDmtN1LiGDGnwjbztz9A=w1576-h909-no)
Now can see a horrible mould line on the left hand one. Bah.
If you hadn't said about that......
Looking good , though, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Frustrating when things like that only show up late in the process ~X(
And now you have seen it, it will always standout >:(
Its not as obvious in person - but as I've only put one colour on the arm, I'll probably clean the mould line off.
I can see it on both arms & maybe in the hair...
Dark Elves vs The Herd
Played a good game on Friday night - lots of Pendraken figures on the table, heres a couple of photos for now
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Yup, that is a lot!
Looks good Fred
Take care
Andy
Very nice, indeed, Forbes. :)
Cheers - Phil
Nice work and a great looking game. What rules do you use, as it does not look like HotT?
Terry
Thanks chaps.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 January 2017, 10:28:33 PM
Yup, that is a lot!
Unfortunately not really, I seem to have far more troops for most armies than I need. This is good because I have lots of nice toys, but it's bad as many end up in boxes too long.
Quote from: Terry37 on 11 January 2017, 06:05:40 PM
What rules do you use, as it does not look like HotT?
We are playing a home brew set, kind of a mash up of Warmaster, Kings of War and Irreguar Wars, with some other bits of our own thrown in. It's been a couple of years in gestation, but is now pretty stable on the rules front. But army lists are taking a lot more working out, and balancing between lists.
Forces of Nature vs Demons and Herd
This was our game on Friday night, using our home brew rules. The majority of the Forces of Nature (FoN) are Pendraken figures.
I forgot to take photos at the start, so this rather jumps in at the middle! The setup was that the FoN had to get an artefact to the stone circle. I gave the artefact to the unit of Unicorns as they were the fastest of my tough units. I was tempted to go with the Tree Herder (a super ent) but decided although he is super tough, he was just too slow.
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This is probably the end of my second turn, and on both the left and the centre I have won major combats destroying large blocks of enemy troops. In the centre I managed to flank a block of Herd infantry, with my fanatical sylvan kin, who generate a lot of dice. Following their win, one of the sylvan kin was able to flank the brigade of Demons on the left. These had already been engaged by the salamanders and a water elemental. This caused the demons to evaporate under a hail of blows.
The unicorns (with the artefact) had started on the left flank with the centaurs, but when I discovered that the big green demon was really strong, whereas the big purple one on the far flank was just a mage, I decided to lateral the unicorns to the other side of the table.
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The next turn - the big block of archers in the centre has died under slyvan kin and elementals. On the far side the Demons had chosen not to charge the summoned Earth Elemental, but when it charged them, along with a flanking Fire Elemental and the two salamanders it all went rather wrong for the Demons. On the near side, the half-gaints of the Herd got into contact, and killed a couple of my units, but not without losses.
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On the far side, rather surprisingly the fire elemental lost to the flappy demonic bird things (they may have a proper name...). But they are lined up for charges from another fire elemental, and the centaurs, and salamanders on the fire side. Hopefully leaving a gap for the unicorn to progress through.
On the hill in the centre, a unit of half-giants charged up, hoping to catch the Sylvan kin in the flank, but they were able to turn to meet the threat.
Nearest the camera the big green demon failed to charge (after being left out of command the turn before) a bit of a flaw in the demons plan to only bring 2 commanders, when there most expensive unit sat around doing very little. The other half-giants charged the wounded salamanders, killing them but taking a lot of damage in return - the big block of naiad crossbows were likely to finish them in the next turn. The giant wolves engaged the earth and air elementals, rather ineffectually on both sides. I was happy to play a holding action on this flank - and had 2 fast centaur units in reserve, should they have been needed.
At this point we called the game as it was late, giving victory to the forces of nature, as we couldn't see how the light demonic forces on the far side could stop the FoN troops. While their remaining ones were tied up on the near side.
It was a good game, and went surprisingly well for FoN - I was lucky that my high attack, but low strength Sylvan kin fought against the low armoured Herd troops in the centre, a perfect match up for them. And on the flanks the salamanders with fewer attacks, but strength, were against the tougher demons. We did feel that the Druids ability to summon in Elementals was bit too good, so are toning that down so they can only summon demons of their own element.
Nice looking table
Take care
Andy
Good looking scrap, Forbes ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Great idea for a scrap, good looking table idea.
Does read as a little one sided? But then the victor gets to write the history!!! ;D
The scenario is from the Age of Sigma book - basically played as written.
It did turn out very one-sided. Not entirely sure why. The two defending players didn't coordinate much. And I managed to get good match ups. Dice came into. The demon player rolled badly early on while I was rolling well. Later game I had some poor dice rolls but it mattered less by then.
Actually did some painting tonight, in what feels like the first time for ages.
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Some work on various Druids/Elementalists for my forces of nature army, who are proving hard work to choose colour schemes for. And some more Headuesmen - who are nice and easier to paint, with simple colours and big areas!
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Nice Forbes!
Looking good, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps.
Got some work done on the bases of these chaps last night
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Very nice
Yes indeedy !
Cheers - Phil
Got lots of stuff painted and based on Sunday afternoon:
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Quite a lot of it is actually Pendraken, yay!!
You're not wrong!
Wottalottamodels ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Fred, I think I am just seeing your thread here and it's delightful! Love your variety of figures and your games look like great fun. Of course it's obvious that which ever side gets the goats is going to be the winner since they also have rabbits!!!!! :)
Great work and very inspirational!
Terry
Thanks Terry for your very kind comments!
The farm animals were fun to now just need to find ways to get them into more games.
Fred, I love painting animals, and one of the best uses I've found is doing the armies of Narnia. And then the animals can talk.....although you might have to talk for them if you know what I mean!!! :) of course if you do Queen Jadis, then you have more of what I would call demons and creatures.
Anyway, I try to fit animals in when ever I can, and have two other armies that will feature animals when I get around to finishing them - Redwall and Watership Down.
Terry
I hadn't really thought of doing a whole army of animals. But the smaller animals very much lend themselves to fitting on command bases of almost any army.
I've just included some cats in my last PD order with a view to trying to use them as cheetah's or lions with my 6mm Sumerian stuff. We'll see how that goes!
Why am I now thinking of "Team America"?
(https://catsonfilm.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/teamamerica031.jpg)
Oh yeah. That's why.
Awwwwwww....
Fishmen with crossbows
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Got some more of these magister militium fishmen painted up - they are super fast to paint, and give me another 3 units of crossbows, and 3 bolt throwers, which use the Pendraken Goblin bolt throwers.
I'm also soaking the ones I did previously to re-base them on sandy bases to go with the rest of my fishmen army.
Nice work
Wot Will sed ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Looks really nice but I can't help but feel that the artillery should be mounted on the backs of sharks.
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 27 January 2017, 12:06:36 AM
Looks really nice but I can't help but feel that the artillery should be mounted on the backs of sharks.
Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? :)
A bizarre army, Fred, but fun and looking good!
Indeed. Or the closest genre appropriate equivalent.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 January 2017, 12:22:27 AM
A bizarre army, Fred, but fun ....
It is bizarre, but had proved fun and effective on the table.
Shark mounted ballista is an interesting thought....
At least it's not ballista mounted sharks!
I'm now thinking of the squid gun from Minions film
Great stuff.
Trident Realms - 10mm crazy fishmen army!!
As seen above, now that the second batch of frogmen crossbows are finished I thought it would be worth getting all the figures out, and taking some photos of the army in the pale winter afternoon sun.
The whole army
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This army is derived from the Kings of War Trident Realms of Neritica army - but adapted to our home brew rules, and to 10mm figures. The basic theme is various sea living creatures, that able to survive and fight on land, giant crabs, fishmen, squid, frogmen etc!!
Its a bit bonkers, but has been fun to put together, and very quick and fun to paint.
Overhead shot
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QKPjZmsxmjMmfPCeEmSjh6khWSn9uagaUFGV_bQHNVzPmEfwMJq13bp93Pxqa9oy4UuVuQUsK3VR3q6VtKDGZ5xNIVwCKGltMhW_QvRen0LuehYRzA5tU1u3EJAM1thYo11K555cL79QzI-ZXSqiiuaF6oAj-pKbNhe6dBq9O0HsGdnMEabpb5G-UuxbnUSw1lQ7JYLAt_kJayUIZWeiIB1wjaGbKjob3Yt7srGof5SDb07KAyZtQJUJcqtDVoVlKrE6x5Mp7ZBIlsuhwbBUrg4odMC7WE3cwXis9WeBY9JmnkTE4Q0EqQSxTuevp5rfpDSPAdNaGDAtVmECWHCAasbGVbv2M37kI6pQesKRVv3GIMVTaT8GNo3pEn1sAiEvg0XEGf2-AVNfQhYTQEsohU7JJSrhyeloP5fRqZxkdVFzF4w108mRu6EjyyY5B_vUIAdFqGG_2ryiomijWqj80-8R0lKeduPLl8q4sZgnzh0uF2dKJTztuuUzsebqdgHhnwHFxCaTAMfMyKg7-79GyUaen6SixTQvt2030mKU9HEPaLJLJ-UyFxMTZcxqKVYyn7fEMOEkDkyMNT1u1M8Hu_uJbSisP5xio36BJuYtBsYiX06VlH0WV7n0wssQM0KBdILkkv1PrXDt0pS99Zebt19btXcQRv_k92VGddaP1g=w1024-h607-no)
The giant crabs basking in the sunshine
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cxd1NNVBDOm37vbqEm1G_0Zxt6WvFMcse6cn5PWCMw82Plrnd4qblixQz2dGkSMKzFpPj85UrTnA82MtmluZwyjBQLMztFE_kSlJ4oSZYaS6zhi2XyD-3dkZ_x9VYDNZo6amUA1WRL2jf5hMaqZs99p8X1L8YB8YnE-0iQ9naQ8aQTlpPeGR-NeWtkmb7---q9akApvZ7Co1yZoxoMRKCjv9YJh4Rm_jnhSOneANeg-Z1FMUruOl-2gvMrqCYPOkOi_apkt_HlvLHYfMBcswPKZlosp7aR7xWFLDilCokiPBN7heeAc7IbujFK0OPdZ8V6NT8XIITV3xNtfl2jr_qTGErkmQ5xo6Kqf8fJAffPt_Q2XBgfwOON1EZLgRXOcQqvXWXLCEiDEXt3BprFgmfpySm_QqBDQFnbj_L9O0ZE8a1K7HTAjtwx9X5WcMVKpL1V89BFwDMgzMDdSBB1MWBUoNqzkajpMp_OmZsNKnEamTXtQZnlz6mgSXg5ttuIt1rqQjL0yit-505yT5A3HokhDih1kpN7p9BNCStQImSDMRGS1CnGINoJkb1QlfFiNO0TEdOEg2pGrnjxX0WtsNUIdMmeSeei_JPQqznE0gdwOwdizKaIE8j23Dsg34wiLmnduRRBNsEle1eYEQ5k1SzSEsj1tmLCP46vp8cK99Zw=w1024-h611-no)
Now the individual units
Naiad Heartpiercers
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mYuyNSQnINmPAw-hUckhSo6e3tnbtk8y2RW7xZjutik5ZOpkHb-rOlQKUJdaURNd4i868nu_TfNOd0U8akeJSWgZnUoIysalT_VK1btgwbkSebjS1MkkyvHfISR6OfutFuTcZcg-skF4w2dSHHjt0GPPVNg87lcz6D6QI29IN99W7ixr7w6-3Q27DkNHwEhn8m8pig-0DY5JONvSdf5gtGKEHaM8m4xhYM0j6lU0xCsi9cdsGY07hf6lWINQ1KIOP6x3Kazn80G6ZLB9dMX1BYoaP3tXwLCmGO7HdJ40xNDitwjxZ_0w4okYlzDrlGZ_FpkDQyn5yITyK-xEM8snfrw7iZr0BOVDyqcmtD3P6F-hKRfzzsnuq5TqVMG-a1v7rqfASkt6aRxCn2h5uJYy1aaErRRGfVYyt9yd7yUjfqMUw08T64hpoO-TfNPMcce9kQdfqdQpox-x3qkLYE5NDhPInFfEgoTnmqTrYpuKZs04yHtmbl-M0fms-aV9FJSXmFn__uR50X19MjJD8QhRDeBwdPYG5bS14vs7jAW5BtkW2a9hAafqGWuE8HpknTnkMhYo2ObODqXhBWmY04uLYqNlLXLTtpFjV7IBr3oAEQa3vo9YyVGnveSZ5z_ognYVDR0njm3-WWrV5EE3g67VAbUK55XaUMCTSLN8WZcl2A=w1024-h648-no)
aka Frogmen with Crossbows, these are Magister Militum figures. These provide firepower for the army, despite their lack of army they are fairly resistant as they regenerate lost wounds.
At the front are Leviathan's Revenge, high powered bolt throwers. These are Pendraken Warband Goblin bolt throwers with some light conversions of the crossbowmen as crew.
and a close up of the Heartpiercers
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/z42Dnbvbc8KrIsfGFaoiZo3kDKhfu65wtAcHmon3CMVmwmNVAoIIg_hgk5Ury7jBMbPHFn7LT_szKBC7CBFovhXICG2WjkYjOAxCP34s74unsHPECeZlt27cpd4zfVo4Tgis38fVbfy71_VPYKv9GyJQc8Fe0isOBBIBthxGMCKk9c8dVzurW5u8P_SkTyg0jb1EwceNzFuYW8ytQ59Wfw4nW7q0AKbVyBk1NYGffbv04c3zjDbi7cHrEldNWPttm5bSagiMjS4LERhESyRgNurPJvlxsC6eYi9kOv040e9-vNPo7zufJYkyjlFhegJxayU-sUHYN6pCBUTWERQ-FxNnbv06EWVRvvvWw0Jesuw37CH4BNLUivVnW_GLo6o9Ndw_hwAFtOW-k2C3suZGPytoayEl79_C7XcNpp4fek0rhzXKXK7O3N_K2L8tdVIfZ2u40CaAyKrChPeMCsMqONP6me3DA2AKsdUdtQdDuW9wE0p_NchausWH2wgKq1zQ0UurwqlHJetiRWigcGkIHJ2WDoP8frHuadGBQXUALeV8dXWzAzdGQExv-g5WTVSgCQrrL3sAsmMx0DpRMaBYuYl0izePIAyocH0SUCvqfejE_1J5gcPyhKn-D7pv5Ehe55z67zlPYVdGSwBEGIJtkf-Ye9yHJ-C7eKp0De_idQ=w1024-h637-no)
Druid and Nokken
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jGe_EtzrRL5LYurrW_3slMmpEgsNmpddZ2H-lxWqhCokYF6m8kvEo5UkN_FW9OdYN5EuOVjvzbCRekngvy1PRRhjE7bSdWzT3yvF_AHYRqMYp5FlLN-V58yXmN0_S4O_i7DMSrGSq3SJJyGvH_ftqHqqGPW5GoGdEnI5jA8sQUk4YMemr2pWOpg7TzRI7x7BO2O-M0jJnyRCGGI0qy0Auee4LslmrZCVr-gIzFlO3OmNKmLWY4GNrM5afD0mdocSAZfx_7jdpSPzG-tcJ9yE2PWyq3qTi0H3Ce0ZzHrwxKp1ax8NdZx0ziQJpnFI-tvCP082V_ROsg7iX91tgn6e0GDenCKIwJ2SA8WYEHotBjqFn5Pt5KHjxDw9UhXJIu9s13ml4eMXapM7xJtYgTsxxj1IOaWraZAulrKxA9AgJmaxHO4slVh1uzTvQxLr4c3DvUXFHfiHe7NgXDy7QYdEtcf-j8XAgy_7s_HWoShuwSbUFvokdDN-5AR1vUigwbNgLAO8-dT4e4Z2aE4mFVN9M6TmudWCI4_8g9SaoS3YuoO_8jJdmW2vJB8dnRnmfL6xriVG8qQ18Ar3fKeufE_4uie1q32PoCktlGvsvACOkLsDehUO1PGVI2fmZS7zl9tD6ipHlB1Bk3OGUIl2dKhVRQN8nlqlmSIvoz2KD7cT9A=w1024-h731-no)
The Druid is a GW Warmaster figure from the Albion campaign. The Nokken are 15mm Magister Miliutm Sprites.
The Druid is a key to the army's performance as he can summon in more Water Elementals. The Nokken are act as skirmishers with short range jets of water attacks.
Giant Crabs (aka Gigas)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EdilLYVOgGEJM987VORdtv5xh3ULp3oLkrXy_u4RaJ2YBuwoGLWRiZDUNbZa85UhfFrgUxsgdEp8h9vLHVXLhal1ZZ7d9mKSnDLWstaCJCdWebYQ-cTaL-1oajnDoT-p28WZP1OpAjE30jgmuZunqJTQYUYA-r6l1wB-egE9qWpixd5oEbarXiT8ejlWgcZEiOmvtkZ-xwQ0yuddL6nYJFs6Yp8NNRnBs1VR7cBWeVXDdg-6XFGIAcNWMkb-A5eehN-KfCrMrXVozZeFm9zGhEmq6UNedAkL2siHXU3PO3GwO1MHxh1YfAiuPDD2dhhQObfK4JXeVSoZMpoOUEEUOABgXQt4gsIiUtjso-7IeS4wfLSV8EB6uLgjmz_w-fvFxNXUV0TYDaWr1eEVx064SimILsApIWI0KuEM5sKRSH9e_Uyz-AIfgk04CjIrVVz4kBTwhnKRf_LLs1D0F-IbGbJk9BzJiONKipmLnkLq3Ug-lCXbWecRedmWP7w6BvnIoR2Oj1yNuzIrpk_XSxl60WZxNjfkMUICr7ZJ3CpP_afMcoeVtjV4A_dnu67-6zS5RzXIHjD2j6B4H_OVme0SHf4mXOkFnSRmzp0Yxx2BpOcDip_n6Q3fISWBfcjqvnvUtilpPN0kbds22DE5nOs6phY-5pMUJ04mpOzNXsm3yQ=w1024-h707-no)
Pendraken figures - probably my favourite units in the army - big pincers great armour, but rather vulnerable if flanked
Placoderm Defenders
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LITxpi_k37oVsMHUVLny2BtfutRP5sdWlG6hpwhyTEAerTj3OFJFyiYgfbb0tPUm09Nu8h-YscuctOgn28KBrBeAKixmyZEAPLxYqpXlM1k8cM39O8NfFJho0PyqGBujGjysffWa4AnD_OiRmrOw8NJuj5eS268WzqBgswO__dg6S7YFLF5rtsaxXQNFk-j2odoNoaBmpVL34eg_UzlY6zRp0l5pXjaNSh1cBSwHt8SoXUn_39G4myMwxUr4I_hLBR8YQPLzwmccODfa_oV_b9W3L72WGcsmA_jjS57ftLKJqsypPfd7vy5OvSpx9f4hdqwRUsR-Fc9QEs4i5jCo4raMs4O7sDVV1FOgk5Brd7ZSHsZOG2jcjmzCJOB5GYfEytDt9XfO5Ef9VZjn2TYmymTd6Qgp_3lnk8opYpv67_1nNscF4V94bebfkjVzKAi5fBENEHzK_7nAlfMneec5SpkfVzkpKhK1UIInd6pBqJgER_VeGH5ozO-j5r33B8qVSmtl5aciw2DiMsXq-MLT7ZcBGJe-_mg5772zQN4E7AjQs7FtCO6C59AUD6115cMLj8db1acg3JGivPWgSfZ61kb233xzBJpXG7NxE9m4aT7f8w6lHRRUtSdt_scWAyelF8qAfbl9rLlBIGJHw-0jfL2j113uYW66ug-hp2O79g=w1024-h745-no)
Pendraken Fishmen, armed with Tridents and Nets, great defensive troops as they disrupt enemy charges and have tough scaly armour.
Water Elementals
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lCa7QfI6DGsY-Xo6vPwu3gY6N_qlRQY_pGqUum51BccJAFvQQJJAZNyRUIhdtCo9M5RuzaRPGow5hHdajFEaYoi78_IaPFHc-EqNQhdPaDk6HWxMEjpqxpkVpgElF7ybqAzs7rKe6WcSUwMO01PY15D5jFdA1p-7toGUy5-6qopRhcoWNa0kftQDWy-qgXjALjofFvcRLtTdHWYKjVd85mtP5ChH8mv5B7ZL32KeLAStn8myNTp-qNboVEG-7Z5Q3FHCxMhFPFGcf404Q5T6ytcUHzehAeim7E-QWTASeG80tQWaayCvmmWmoJ1mnkZlqe5mF8btCJnA1-IwdANL9C-INRjU_LBfHQn_zJX4re-AUvSFDStYbh0u4cUZE3LduJVq1S3aaGaRUOPrSKoT1PUXAkXyeBTvciDPMwBFPvrLb1bcyTRaN50quzUqGI2o-G_HXgai36HYcS8KqFxXM0z0mpAD84YT-tezpElzfbfjEpbKj1LoK9EjbROjIjm2017_zlHtT3DGDKjfbFLv-lErS91NKa_9j7XKV_n-dpZsg1uglPpWnFKYLVw415XrDcW9Zsy5m7r6MY2ELcmrOZ9S_0qIa2_zaYUfihci62uLI2LWvmMSd6QIHmTkGEjJd30BSYQWNSTZvTmMjh-GYA5OX_Zx_Tk6vtJ9dDvQ4Q=w1024-h625-no)
Mainly Pendraken figures, with some Kallistra. The back-bone (if rather mixing metaphors) of the army, fast, tough, pretty hard hitting, and can be summoned on to the battle field, so don't have to slog through enemy missile fire. I have rather a lot of units of these, and their basing is different as they originally (and still do) form part of my Forces of Nature army.
Coral Giant
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oX_NwHLo4xtrQ6w_d35f6XLpYgQOdtHmzlosJJd7NMg_xNzCVdCwbBH7vj5LqKEmgsNX2ZKLymDZ8AYP2pIWSAp-HIS75lyejvbbTro49SCePyfaDxTBbVPyVHvovBpS9OE1s64-GaTi8J5Qx2YjgUfbSIr3eO86jI2WIy0JiV00zGqJjLqpja_ilInUE8BWBhZa_RBe7VIEhyqRWjblZM_s0Zvyhiiv6Nlw0RxwPO85cTsU-eXbex9ynO32J5Mwy2zCqrP5WpgYObUOc5Ic9Wqbwt9hkGQ9WODQ5jpYBJ46HiLgNUWo2uHMjKaEdxQgf8VaS7wqD-nGj7DThE_L54y49q_diW8Yg2L-DVKFbQcrorXBqFN5Fqx5w_DmMkuQ3Lc3zEAuoKNC_tNiRikKP37fz1QeKqm-1Uky4zSJco9TVpnH2kCUULiLUp3BRrvqHpFqzk-1Nr5P5FhEyxG4At_ovAH_V7Yk9ZciCnFkqvsdGVycltYsV4yQ2kg4gRmtT-HlNHy25gB_9Q5JCxW2B-tVOPldjxj88cS7LBXXMwRk9Go1EhhEBWxvcxY6EqnDfmyYRmJd9z0al6Nalc-gmWiw_B1a0tY7sBKwbvI3w0O3ANUXbyMFPN3DSjFF8rFaGDddAkykoHwlVAF5Tp0XlFrQQCad-6qbIKWoaDQTCw=w1024-h1012-no)
Still work in progress - a GW Battle of Five armies giant - a really great figure.
The one unit I am struggling to find figures for are the Naiad Sea Serpent riders, so any leads on that would be appreciated.
Very impressive looking army
Take care
Andy
Great looking stuff. The water elementals especially.
When I saw that Pendraken had this aquatic force in 10mm I immediately thought of the Nereticans.
However, I doubt I could do an underwater force without using the Bones Shipwreck Golem. Whenever that finally arrives.
It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men, everywhere I go....
Hello Fred
Been thinking about the naiads on sea monster. You could use so.e of the Dark Elves raptor riders. I dont know if you have access to Safari Lucky Mini animals but they are in a softer plastic and are about 25mm long:-
(https://www.safariltd.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/454x454/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/4/341922-Chinese-Dragons.jpg)
(https://www.safariltd.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/454x454/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/5/354122-sea-dragons.jpg)
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Thanks chaps.
And thanks for that suggestion Vic I will investigate.
Great looking units, Forbes ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil.
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 29 January 2017, 12:52:10 AM
, I doubt I could do an underwater force without using the Bones Shipwreck Golem. Whenever that finally arrives.
Is this part of the Bones 3 KS? Because I've got that coming, but I don't recall that figure.
Really great to see your seacritter army!
Quote from: fred. on 29 January 2017, 09:16:08 AM
Thanks Phil.
Is this part of the Bones 3 KS? Because I've got that coming, but I don't recall that figure.
Yeah, it's this thing (https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/013/207/253/fc33a37ba7d65a3281269ed234f1ea2a_h264_high.mp4).
Quote from: jchaos79 on 29 January 2017, 10:02:33 AM
Really great to see your seacritter army!
Thanks Jorge, it's a bit of a different style to the one you did.
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 29 January 2017, 02:46:11 PM
Yeah, it's this thing (https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/013/207/253/fc33a37ba7d65a3281269ed234f1ea2a_h264_high.mp4).
I didn't notice that figure as part of the KS, though I don't know how I missed it!
Not done much painting recently as been busy with work and other stuff
But received an order from CP Models today, which while the stuff is nominally 28mm, it will add to my 10mm fishmen army. Got the figures cleaned and sprayed tonight, and even got a few with a bit of colour on the Squid Faces - hopefully ready for a game tomorrow night.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dh1F2HILf8_i8cy3uuvZFGUIMqdVr-gtmleHCa2RUDdh-UAyMdIbuQdey9PY1xxByjC5F2S0Sf2Bwhu1k8vsQIyXmZfCYWm5QSokujjP9QLoIJ_6W_zdbJq7OZqCbN-_mDuPXCD3rO9xYNkm61WDu8a08N_xN6rXmtuHDldG6dIe1gIz-AD-oXJI7FIeZHoibFEOu7run6oE1E_2oynalIRbn-EJlt5b01KIJKnW22PsppqBE4RUWMDHA4-T999v5msXOOUY9oYgzZGL1qsyJ2szI4d71AchNdFR7_lolcvjf5k_nOcwSe7o_cWn11r9ifWzeNGYzGW_cNV9qSTKhwXwNVXB7Yooz_b3PyU1hU7ehSQjyJBD-G2UnJdavVS5-PvHO1dCoAtyHRLjlG_oFsRwnzzyTbrGCOiwST5I4nQJQw0tkdHsgfmKs_-BOYH1e012M63-0IDSJ4PtQKJ0mW0IopXxBX2RvtFC6rTZE1gjyOeNqvsqT6r6WxLQMCjMH6EioA3bi-vC6Xymu0_hexkD_pZFkptxpxd3lxH2k8gFPrrr7TDOY_aOdbRBGp4te886uEs0V2KmwP8vPDwWG9j0_2W42ThOBMyqs76gvOVfcaHmPEqT9RIWSV1S3czdPYq636QMhZKc_FTS7k4KkYEQdt-1N-r-OBOl6ovBew=w1435-h942-no)
Those trident wielding fish crack me up every time. Too cool.
Very cool.
Looking good, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps. Hopefully get them painted properly over the weekend
Nice one Forbes
The Squid Faces and swarms got their first outing on Friday night, and while they generally died, they were on the winning side. Not only did they have to contend with being freshly painted figures, they also are the squishiest part of the army.
Got some more paint on them this evening:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cySQBdtjXGqMnn3AEWTsYYM6V_RGDhAkVU2bRoY632lyBmbumLdTgC6emqm0v1-1CpoFjUguxS2QQrmaFDVxzlvjXM0ltG0m5eU2fj6sGCvbYTHu4OsBc5gjT_SFYxdYXYtaXw-1GgqvilCObBZWZ7o9UqX0wnzEm_SaKAD_Up5mpJ99siNmYVrD_LR2GPTD4jiEI-8ainqAwXqZg7LuEE63uR_gxYugc94ZzdZiws79_dgcVfRDaPbCOpXhUVuD50R1hPQU1WOf83uEiOqxgkbVgnJ2J5W0vncLChrboEmmwFLghtgup23OMWBfg_t-5QoeU6n0dnCWPa5Q4K-ow7qgwDe2sJxgDlNG8Ah8AVeuOZLRlRn0ueGQH9I7nVeeZXfer7CbchP9Huqm0ZAsvAiEZh3O5n1c2fvTLIwf6Puc-kTWxVKC69wVrJAQD6l6FEsR_EH7OmdvhvBfMHUsw-Tc9SIZD-bi2_Ai-xWvqKuqPdkkr1i6R9NN9KYtVVUpk9DiZqAt_-zg5oGEYfXkfAnUVTBE2_jYGWkXFChb6mXAOMZonyd18MHDP6m5oUzJG_o-nMZPBkBLTsUa2jCTgDp6oTH9s9AywSngE2KCZPtDcIWMm7nG0bJ5QPXRwiUYRLv8sR41hrpkP84sSZwmP2FiX2oeRnqJgvUJ1AYi3g=w1435-h898-no)
Not entirely sure what colour to go with on the Squid Face's claws?
Keep the green, black stipple at the tips, blend lighter green to white at the bases.
I like that idea, ta.
The Men Who Would be Kings
Had a day off today, and was able to persuade my eldest daughter to try out TMWWBK - due to figure availability it was rather more VSF than colonial, figure wise it was Lizardmen vs Naval Brigade. But stats wise it was Zulus vs British. As it was our first game with these rules, we kept things simple and went with standard leaders across the board. The leader rules are quite detailed, and this will perhaps be the hardest bit to represent in 10mm - perhaps I will introduce separate leader figures. Each stand represented 4 figures, irrespective of the number of troops on it.
The scenario was the suggested introductory one Just Passing By, where each force is trying to exit the far side of the table, casualties inflicted are a bonus but not key to winning.
The Lizardmen as a tribal force were the attacker, and as Tribal units get Move as their automatic action each turn, they are also not slowed down by rough terrain. I had 3 units of Fierce Warriors (the larger warriors) who are +1 to hit in Melee, and 3 units of Veterans (with more shrubbery on their bases) they are +1 Discipline, so they activate more easily, as Tribal units they are 16 figures strong.
The Naval Brigade, had 3 units of regular riflemen, 12 figures strong, whose automatic action is Fire. They also had a maxim gun, which was perhaps a bit of a liability in this scenario, as it moves slowly, but it gets +1 to hit when shooting, but doesn't get an automatic action.
The Lizardmen had the first turn, and making use of their automatic success at activating to move, ran forward en mass. I rolled for 1 veteran unit to double, and they moved laterally into the jungle area. The Naval Brigade troops then failed several activations (only needing a 5+ on 2d6) so kind of stood around. The next turn or two carried on this way, the Lizardmen pressed forward on the right flank, with the Naval infantry moving across to try to engage them. The maxim went forward on the left flank, and got some long range shots at one veteran unit, pinning it (this unit is out of shot on the left). But while it was doing this two others were moving up under cover of the ziggarat.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sdastuNkPgwwunYgtbiiPuo2NrWYL2HOok9fWEU7DSP7L0Z3PWr9q4Z5ncNcJhOfumijcth2uU5eRhfcCyZR9HtAjC2wu82hBvrbie4ay6pwN4Npl8dmCMtOI3ICpocoWpnUyHKifCTX7syGl4eGONB-bR2-sHpdyBkMlXxCUCKkV6MHnaekAg8glMjUS-iTsWfXtftzvujEUN2oNWXLgkXptPXqOfgoUt4ao2EX4FwmSLWSFuiflGa-HoxPTe00oRSmYzTiZ8gKBWdkn2hlYyAIiH70R2FjJtMTUJdo0SsQjmWNYTRdJhM7woE_rZj8aVNcWZi2PhX1oyrABAvUp37U7b7uY6dQc0HU9YtZshUgQk498Ju8bFk2iDzhJS0n6-GVi_dMWUxD8FMjlTkXqiOaulFSr0C-wD6PAwhjiGJptnDNiPM7G12p7x6gDSpxrkaEpRlz8TxmGFgE9pv9-7MZ7cXlQ_nb6JqxEivNHwfxxZIB1hjGBwvmRXXYCmsaEx-9rqZB-xYAocIo1Jh0qwxZoOF2VcXj-j5Z3XeF3ZioKJbWEbMTbYaMgKluGtsdwegOMekSdW5D1YK4h_sfat54OOo1NKnTjvXJYmSS8C04eXfcAALfhdoidk4KM__-HorB6sPUIVyyYu4kBIMeNiqF2HD2neDavbkN_7u5Gw=w1435-h1009-no)
At this point the Veteran lizards on the ziggurat charged the maxim gun - as you always need to roll to activate to Attack an enemy, for Tribal troops you may as well always Attack at the double, gaining 1d6" of movement. The Lizardmen rolled 16 dice needing 4+, the maxim rolled 4 dice needing 6+. The maxim crew managed to take 1 enemy with them as they were engulfed in spears. This suddenly cleared the far flank.
On the near side another unit of veterans moved forward to threaten a unit of Naval infantry, but weren't close enough to charge. At this point there were so many lizardmen units near to exiting, the Naval troops concentrated their fire on those trying to exit, shooting two units up, and pinning both of them. But this allowed the other unit to charge in the dice rolls favoured the lizards!!
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This left the unit hanging on with just 1 figure left!!
The rest of the lizard units poured off the table
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The thin blue line did its best, shooting up two units, causing repeated pins, and finally killing them. But it was too little too late.
The final score was 10 - 2 in the lizardmen's favour.
The Regulars suffered from failed command rolls and relatively slow movement - if they had been able to get on top of the ziggurat and shoot from their it might have gone differently. Though I suspect the lizards would have kept away from them, and chanced the long range shooting. With the speed and volume of Tribal units this seems a difficult scenario for the regulars.
We were going to have a re-match with alternative sides, but it was tea time!!
:-bd
Cheers - Phil.
Nice looking table
Take care
Andy
This is a great looking army, and of course I'm not sure what rules you set hem up for, but I usually see everything as HOTT.
I wanted to mention that you might look at some of Rebel Minis (sorry Leon) sea creatures as he has a few others that might work. He also has some Capt, Nemo 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea types to fight them maybe. They're 15 MM, but a smallish true 15 MM so you might be able to use some of them.
http://www.rebelminis.com/15mmseawitches.html
http://www.rebelminis.com/nehein.html
http://www.rebelminis.com/caneandelgu.html
http://www.rebelminis.com/15mmdeepones.html
Again, I really like what you've done!!!
Terry
Quote from: Womble67 on 17 February 2017, 12:15:06 AM
Nice looking table
Andy
Thanks Andy and Phil, it was good to get in a quick fun game.
Quote from: Terry37 on 17 February 2017, 04:23:09 AM
This is a great looking army, and of course I'm not sure what rules you set hem up for, but I usually see everything as HOTT.
I wanted to mention that you might look at some of Rebel Minis (sorry Leon) sea creatures as he has a few others that might work. He also has some Capt, Nemo 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea types to fight them maybe. They're 15 MM, but a smallish true 15 MM so you might be able to use some of
Again, I really like what you've done!!!
Terry
Thanks Terry, it's been fun putting together the Fishmen army. I'd not seen those rebel minis figure snefore, the deep ones look like they would fit in. Unfortunately postage from the US is now very expensive for small orders - I had been looking at similar figures from Khurasan but the postage doubled the cost, and then the parcel is likely to get hit with import duties at this end.
Lizardmen
As the Lizardmen got a run out the other day, I realsied that some of them still need some flock and tufts adding to their bases, so that was this afternoons little project
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This army is pretty much done, I have about 60 warriors still to paint, and a few flyers and bowmen. And I might get a few more Wizards and Commanders, from the new Warband ones. And I have a few dinosaurs to paint. But those are more finishing touches than anything more! They barely take up 1 row of a RUB.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cHbx2B-zAwospNCcHPyy-5bwuns15SpgxFgl4oqcEtdQ5zdMAgXldMy21u61nWfm0hrZijSg7aQpep4WPe9rbYp8uZttFxJMFO3dTt7Nkt-xhpeI42H4RF3sE0L-jkShkov4RqYzh-0TnA1cTOaSW7VC-gCkjwvyxkQMsGVUc_EPskLT6RR9r1b8_A5BNRCm9wMSUDgx_S8or-LsYX66FwqRg8aokac8QSOJy6BGLSi-ELfzrnIN4RALaAkQ76q7He93BkwSRNbfCILz6X07teEg4L2wUyUjiTTHHBlmeU5vCMjGCOUFrRyhgi1idwfFiZBaFpaDi3OkV6o6YyoICh4Su2INA9Rd70b6w21jG9JqPBQ6S53MXed-XZuGRpkgUaxppMKgIH-Np0hfcHB_COOj6e0fXSDQ10_mCfyGrhHPD3seC0JGT2-dtCb8NnZVIT__Ql9_BDyQKXspm6EIxgM-pnuqpwpcEMofca1Co5hm_SUn03M9hbrW9n2u6tdQPQURXGZNxoLcn3LPZraLvdSnkyVkaa8_rmr2qVVrPEEIMCDj7wG7POmGWCRSXKPmXx2cY3wuFVymCnO8n_afOLFKAeA6m4e2Xe9w-aTuU8ByqRNQB_AXIds_GRhIodjkn8qPC7h9nTCiOQlaSYirbizfP4XLD0GXASaz8xp_Qw=w1435-h887-no)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4FY7V_1TT3BD5L5m4FkW3MtVgNy-0HUYXTO9Z47DSs5P4BgcxKA6yaAUyt9l0-Ngv13hbSpvxZF_bw54bw7L854C0myAFdpxT_awIVopsIyq9_As-unMceZthah3B7aWQ3R6kVASRcK6OPtGh0qtN7F6iZM48QKrubWm5r6C0qYi0UMzANTaY1boUw6N2whaL_mO-8HPwPFi6iVkVg08DwLUjpIyzhrIYG_tmDV9zAxm5QMTDbS7PxxzGq7wf1btPnvWfrGCiUIOpjaMwfFALggEHadHq5Ff2PsseJrPtwFFD3mdxoMXvjzxQ2ZPfshAJHZpOq5XmnEJ1Mpjd_BwLBfa0FuIgsmKAzFdErTdo-BIts71pcXIc29Wy9sIrCWLujpJnma2Ev3ivYm3iqvqVg8eoG9_EmIHBk-JGpComIe5WiXXpyIYeKpSObwW3Huw0HKbf8jEYr6uyG7cI_3qfmxqqj70RjXXdY9PWqbBFyxQ9TtO_R4QRFdn_O4D9XeE-gxkiw86Cce0_A-Dbm-GUcw0C-iZb4iTTvowTppZnxuzZZ4lgaQIbW8OD2bNoL5xzN67-m904mre3M0qN-motPDvhdPEp8N3GEq6bvcPKAYcNJYluIJVNuH9nsGcMg9f6YawxA-2u6nf5vyXd0blAxwzTa3daa0ol6jlwxQfAw=w1301-h1150-no)
What rules are you going to game these with? They sure look a lot like HOTT basing?
Terry
We currently play with our home brew set, Hordes of War, which uses 40mm square basing. Lots of our troops are still based 40x20mm due to the Warmaster legacy - but obviously 2 of these together make 1 unit for HoW. A key part of our own rules was being able to use WM based armies as we have huge amounts of these figures within our group.
They DO look very spiffy, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil.
Very colorful! Really cool army.
Thanks chaps
Very nice indeed fred
Take care
Andy
Jungle Shrubbery
Sticking with the jungle theme, made some jungle trees / shrubbery from various bits of aquarium plants, snipped apart into small pieces.
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Attempted to glue them to the coin bases using hot glue gun - many took more than one go, which seems to be typical for hot glue, which doesn't seem to be the most sticky of glues :(
Nice trees!
I always sand the coins a bit, they tend to have some grease on them.
I stick the coins through the dishwasher!
Otherwise, love them
Those are quite the lizards and quite the jungle too!
I find that gluing soft, bendy plastic to always be hit or miss so I don't have any advice in particular.
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 19 February 2017, 06:54:46 PM
Those are quite the lizards and quite the jungle too!
Thanks Chaps.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 February 2017, 06:46:06 PM
I stick the coins through the dishwasher!
This appears to be your general approach to cleaning all gaming stuff! I'm sure you have recommended it for resin buildings and removing old paint!!
I guess I'm used to super glue sticking to coins fine - I might try peter's sanding suggestion. I also wonder if it was because the coins were cold, so the glue was cooling very quickly. The glue stuck to the plastic plants fine, it just popped off the coins very easily.
Yup. My wife gets hacked off with it, but it works! ;D
You're brave ;D ;D
Trident Realms
I've been working on these reinforcements for the last week or so, and I think they are now pretty much done (except the giant)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NBB0pBAQ1P3cVluBH6twR29KwC5lzGJqvh-jMrq3WbfQhRkACL6UZP7CfsWh9uQr3oTsF9hUN57p-ZWXrkiHoimZxOkn2Hc0cjeiiaHCkJFxM-LH3JdwpWwfgvRFx3m8O6bqZf8ucb7z-AnuSaGaC71Xca4Y_ZADb-bFx9lz98p9qbWZ0Cwx1j7n9I9ZX1eLTBZWvW2wwgUzwYQKgKR293mkpx_pPt_c3DHRBDexyfHOMr5fvgMhCAAZDrt5d55ZIPIyj4QH3Rv4NUl_TfWzClfg_XRU6fbp5wu1ZF808kt9LWmoBIaxQ6IMhNzXOauISPtFJi93rB8SNsUKbHdIpo3-cAdGFUe1TB9KmCSyulJyxcpaN4-WNTXBsRgxAChCkrq4P0C_K7fwcJPcOoG69JDRQBIUGN72LWv0-5acGzmaZGPDTX1VRdK7sQFGuOvpIoGo3Khd4g_9-RVF32qNpwcNyu42htNeI_Dc9NXb9nuPRgyZvqEOfRLrJ0ajGIBVsdOO9MzutoIP8fqSrrqcLu6UMivjKHvMZF-TZQqV8UGvnYcxvdHxvfSoR7OdjPXqYlcMT5TWNYie0oNr4ApFNeTivfREhru00pDW3mIUtm3mR_WueKZdWW0_avmTVb9sfEaDfwdg-m5a9PzzfHRTgkoKA-Kjk2l_y0OiQS6U-A=w1435-h864-no)
3 bases of Deep Ones (from CP Models), Coral Giant (GW), 3 bases of Tidal Swarms (CP Models), 4 bases of Nokken aka water sprites (Magister Militum) and some Druids (Pendraken)
I did go with the suggestion of black mottling on the Deep Ones claws - but not sure if it shows in the photo.
Still look great
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
I am currently in Florida and can confirm that those are highly realistic models of the local wildlife.
Thanks chaps 8)
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 19 February 2017, 11:05:50 PM
I am currently in Florida and can confirm that those are highly realistic models of the local wildlife.
:o I'd stay out the water then! ;)
Very nice, again, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil.
You can see the claw stipple nicely when you zoom in on the shot. It was either the zoom, or the dishwasher...
Basing
Got magnetic sheet stuck on lots of bases this evening
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Then flocked some of the bases too
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Really liking your beastmen!
Great stuff, Forbes. 8)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps
Quote from: petercooman on 22 February 2017, 12:00:17 AM
Really liking your beastmen!
They have come out well for a simple paint scheme. They are nice chunky old school figures.
Very nice work Fred.
Ta, Sqrl!!
Inspired by a woodcut of spanish tercios over on LAF, I got some figures out to attempt to recreate the look. I'm using rather earlier figures (mainly Landsknechts), but it still gives the same overall look.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JcM5jMH5sf5VcDQMKin0YsXiU8_Xkr67GiTrdP1a2kW4AT7b87EaxijfCCStXIPKi-Gx7Myugf3qfsPU1UJzE_KBW-jeCwVmV1wHie3MmM8GOBbLTVXaMHqv8eIB-eAU4994gzgaLon6_pmgjDD4HtDEBG-WPSpul7Gsmift1X2fF1P68EE2GIcpcsx-O2HRCE4qWSVlWdrAaZ1a9WtUt-KHNhwFzUGBnAYbqlBxQoClcZZ0NqVvWCRt923Hdn6-yfvECVJALOfwQjMrUIMLonEVOQiSJKLSeSUfbLdsyLMOJdC-eLSQEv80d7UMiEN_m5RF4dxFjXFrMkARmYBk94HajR64H8D61F6bzAH4zSvOv3K9yhfJPOvN3XLeVsoaXFCIEFB-3IYSXDr3o86RQejhw8D9cuJZ9ov7wa2lkswzZVh4QtWo5QDCYRyP_YiaDTHvdqEkKtBXnhCgz0uvgy9KteiocQAInTj9SrwoGWZuMSl3xRM-moFjXcNZkaIR5mF61BSZJnUb4-QrkWvwWggJYBQMEp1B64NMMqZANNEIp-VO240FWu2nDvE8QPiYmC4nrdSbxb-RbMf_SebuBb_xPxFFtWyf_wQEYFV_uv_2LPzQNRPA7ugI275TflV1WD1NC6CAaud5aOYGCQAddGrg12qlNdwjJG_RPi2oyg=w1435-h913-no)
And a more overhead shot
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A right mix of figures, the pike are Pendraken, the lancers are Kallistra, some of the shooters are Warmonger, most of the rest are Warmaster
This is the woodcut I was imitating
(http://historywarsweapons.com/wp-content/uploads/image/Tercio.JPG)
Almost 1:1 scale!
Looks amazing.
Certainly does !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps!!
Played another game of The Men Who Would be Kings on Friday (more details of that later) which was another great game, much fun was had.
This made me have a rummage in the bits box for figures, and I found a pack of Beja and one of Mahdists. So with a little painting last night, and a little tonight, they are already coming together
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jjS78qpx4Zu1Y_MkkJ1wQ1Bi0mE2SvdHfYe6hVR5LZC73n7TcMT4yEoS7FmLbOMcVhQVUYKpLq07mud-r6O0TpiJO8ujH_Pm7KvcMHzThaADR02Cq3tYlQrklnR2lOdrH_vydUEKS1scSMqwaFQm3SYADmQI-61pyDiHCPk6oj_tpWub5pp4EyVwipX8xcyg5j4ytTniuTqYl2aecfxUNxHeBTVTC56Mj1KX8BK5Ao99u6vQLm3O3r7qzhc2tm8Plj6f_ivzKFGNpgc6SwNfGkf5OkTAI0ED_oRm7KdWHEa-DUwKdp0aEvRPnG7pF7ssmLl6T-DZ6GQmcrSOCLEPa-ACe8n2kQ9Ax8ayXq5BjGxQoPiTW6_fQOUOHkRy8gv-_KgtprrbaDCdBhU7ltM115ZFrqywv-4eYwcFo_tLZ4gsLSquW7xggmznLoMx9IXs1YKHcIKZBKDkfcQDop0r_-RkfZrsY28MRePYKXHKIsSu31pjSmorLedZDEgcD8ad85By7iPOUJsCKg4vgmLGw0VG9Tuny3znpRhpduO9GONZOEPBl8BnR-emJk_YYcQehn7zi8WvC9ogepYL8oFby2lhuIDwFB3W0ogqoRIIDY6nul5iUI5NGNlnja_-Sis5ow-hgc6RmjvlbFQoQWoLpEuc4QCKZHim31ywye7Yipk=w1435-h999-no)
This lot (with a couple of extras, thanks Leon!) will make 4 units of Tribal infantry for TMWWBK - which along with some already painted camelry will give me a Mahdist force.
Not quite sure whether to go with the coloured squares on these guys - most pictures seem to only show these on troops wearing tunic and trousers.
Looks great. How did you do the shading on the white cloth? That gave me enough trouble in 28mm.
I've only looked at these Sudanese long enough to see what figs could be conscripted into an Ethiopian army but I seem to recall the same situation as far as the colored patches go.
The shading on the cloth is very basic - I painted the white across the sculpted folds, so that some of the black remained showing. Also for the white, I avoided white and used pale sand or ivory.
Looking good, Forbes ! :)
Cheers - Phil.
Nice batch Forbes. 8)
Thanks chaps.
Got these chaps tidied up tonight, and stuck on bases.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HCOWj-DthU15xq4oCMUP-gMkH08CB1nSrW0YpMEvFOe32urbQta5AP3EHwk3_xDRZHMGV25q1IJAcyz6D_30TUHQ31RUGvSFoiw3XZbna9V5iurs5n5vm1gdSurnPknC_fmwIhzDwXPeZOiX-Ykbw-xKIRRCX5rb0Pb7krmlu4Uw7shHyG0Up6t0oSoKNeZJsEFA4QowuW2FHohsXNnYa6ZQRu6dpVQokIy-wa7R1KhMSJaszSXd0GnOEyTLvGte3HAZp6FaET2vZisSfq4rmxd_UJAUGVvcSIAPxpAgYp-iSQoQGfDSL2c3X2YKt6kXrzqpTRIb0vmFarcbbuK_l8CMhT-hp5PSt3W1Ci5NQ82VpefV9NDprjkXhcYs8IlWUZzpDLWo8e3twwQwN11Kn6T8Ll1UtWjiHDCtTNXJFO6lIUXEaImXoaT5FqeROMS0lFM4ccuXf5C4PiWiNXAS5z2O5qAalVgOJywcPZXX2u1VdE2yaBQHPs9ae1f-I1XxGPMPwWG3m7y1fPQjyYlVa7xgkDJKRvT3sNDpmHzg8_jys1fC3mF3NnMEmT0FE0nEZUjtG0ClZbDz_PILZdhodMkRJdGrQhwUcc2-Lk84tvzHItmeOgcqJdtwggiSvXHGnxNDz3dzCC1-8JbLlCzxxv15oRxX6-FULECdn_XxWAA=w1435-h925-no)
I'll see if they need a bit highlighting tomorrow - they are currently a bit shiny from the wash.
8)
Cheers - Phil.
Looking good!
These have got me thinking about my possible Sudan project again ~X( ;)
Thanks chaps
Quote from: paulr on 07 March 2017, 06:32:49 PM
These have got me thinking about my possible Sudan project again ~X( ;)
Go on, you know you want to. They are dead quick to paint
Looking good Fred
Take care
Andy
Played a game of epic on Friday - 30k Heresy era, so lots of Space Marines
Left flank were my allies the Red Ketchup marines attack the evil white marines
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ozCeQ17IxLpzf7ft1Vp-5XST0otaf3PcgJfr7ODN33GTGi5JwiZdxi6_NoVCPo-r0aGnIxeZaZRqAnyvCp7jkqe59-o_2GUvZE65ORhBgKlnCuwiHDkIxi0ONpCOArf-cKNHH0Qu1ol5Vr_QQRU5sO-evDt8XcK2eSeR7zsBiotVjKi8tHmPvN1POAnawvkPAr0wM6UHc6GRQiEUTDHajm92ap0yUnf3BzRYIp6POgm4CGRa8oiP7h7tzx2ezFNtlmdzJUEGkZdE7vFcDsZU-zRDR_JDx7rwjUfKCm0DPOWQGe8hr7L4-XEXKvubKia5I4ehusCpnWcHtpj48zafMkqrrbXfOUS8ZZLPGVHg9Rwz09wf9ogeGyH6SDMwRuGH29hJwSwbir19RhIg1pXUeabdjflz-l7EgHgSLuH2exkx4GfCUvrEEq8dGCMBnvp2DqGWQcuFnhkt8ggFWM6PjDOUgJzjQ-MEx-b0LsIb4jc2QFAd9fjxWnLo45NW-9fXompLoyjXaKf_fSuOr2gsk_zZ63prBfY7-YQWPZWJZGoMWySI7faaF2mDTTQEOnHca-3Hn7yzVYagEWrAiYjrddDtxpvh-1w2LFoqEceQ_pCx3i5-LO5qdm0l34-XFzM-VrnqXa1pvihX40lnJ8bBODYC2DO_fxWgs0JgsEBV33A=w1435-h658-no)
My flank where the Yellow Mustard marines attack the green meenies
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Today I based up some more stuff for jungle terrain - various plastic fish tank stuff - probably about £5 worth in total!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JgzBfgfXx6l3ieQIuFAykhjSYVyX5V2l8eUwqjmVP4DuLgtdgL4BIKuZbzpHIwo1N3uBr7uLZErvUApUQ0HnkRuMwjD0ozPFjXh6rBiBH3gDId5y_ZYwJl3_tiPtLw7p6Xg0iNUvMrlDfBuS1J3b3Ux9leTkTGsV7wgVIn9AXyTJ-KQdxVOt4nyCocTmQ5GBCUDt5LM3xyZ4mws0GGBYwJYPFI0K3WoUZgJX55_d5jEVxokJC4RkbYcEVJlGzaQLE2twrXmwgLL5-2xNhswIt3p-v2XDut0Ds1I8Nd5WiqfossQidshq7KT2R1VHf50ZFaYH_z18YhqgcbbV3Y7aDuPRlhrlprR03ca-KBeRgME72Z9HH1BAte2jQksGqK9LOtH1wOHfZ_yO4-elwHiCEcdpmNx5LaayK3MUVSltsIlQCdl1tRhy4fbUDhBL7lov8QXogFm0okOTF2-Zyw1xYYYrafYK_6DMbJ37nXXKRqAD3K9SURsm_tlFcKwcOkxoIcdRZTFdiuHFLW9WCZugHpedZlYgPuw-UpX7zoudo1NZyKIyC97YZFcpK16l6zHPJNuu3Yhy8Z068m5giPkrBng05b6RxELisqHQ_V3fbOHQqkRd6aHayLhGCgnACXJ-ry8_L3XE5rnaIB3p6ob6pAVpr4__bTA1kxGZ8Y8cJSI=w1435-h1134-no)
Those ketchup and mustard marines are quite the combo. Meanest force of Condimental Marines ever known!
Good stuff, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: DFlynSqrl on 12 March 2017, 10:56:43 PM
Meanest force of Condimental Marines ever known!
;D ;D
So the evil white marines are actually the white mayonnaise marines? :)
Great looking battlefield, Fred! You have recently turned me on to using aquarium/terrarium products. Cheap and effective!
Great looking game! I am a big fan of sci-fi and have a couple fo armies in my HOTT sets.
Terry
Thanks guys - the table isn't mine, this was round at a mates
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 March 2017, 12:48:12 PM
So the evil white marines are actually the white mayonnaise marines? :)
You have recently turned me on to using aquarium/terrarium products. Cheap and effective!
And the Green Gerkins - which means we have Condimental Marine Civil War. Which probably makes as much sense as the GW Hersey stuff any way.
The aquarium stuff is good - takes a bit of searching to find stuff with smallish leaves. But most of it is really cheap, especially if you are willing to wait a couple of weeks for delivery.
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 March 2017, 12:48:12 PM
Fred! You have recently turned me on
Now that's what we Call pulling out of context :P :P :P :d
Nice looking Battle!
When does the Mint Chutney horde begin their WAAAAAGHHH!?
Good question. Based on Friday night's performance they will be having an extensive rest and refitting exercise, as they lost a huge amount of vehicles and a fair number of marines. The worst of it being their Thunderhawk gunship with terminators onboard, doing a very ineffective pop-up attack against 3 mustard Cerberus, who in returned melted it, and most of the passengers.
Quote from: petercooman on 13 March 2017, 06:01:49 PM
Now that's what we Call pulling out of context :P :P :P :d
;D
Yes, context is critical! Nelson's famous message, flow from the first floor window of a Cheapside bawdy house would take on an entirely different meaning.
As would the term "flag hoist" itself, I suppose.
Shell Holes
Received a couple of packs of the new Shell Holes - I really like the look of them, as they are nice and small and give the look of broken ground following shell fire, rather than the huge ones that some other manufacturers produce that look the the results of a mine explosion. Not sure whether to base them or just leave them loose.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/80DCTb5VRrB0cVklM1pGuv5tcomAgD8ISS-nMntsVETm32caupEKY6KeJJQbP8QwoSLnUQAUQkZ3bIneGoCz20Ipt4SL2q8pu-4rEn5g4r9enec4mayZyfHVSeY-A4AYahyJXHW4Dn-5juzBoTD5GQwylz1KpBtQmcYyKXIaTH0a887YwMhDsbG3JgIdoV5K2z3AVgazYa4iTRpxY_n_h-38ga4uFAbvcELxs0RG27uKYeUYIGera0qtdfnrbuMK7XXueB-X7wis6nW8RKLGEY84xM3n3jqABLoTNdbhWjqldqpZ5rMk19siTuQ7paZJYcsbJI8nGuYFFOBYVCN0QRrunjWoYC2O6qdcMd2ndK3Io79V3iKENKRqjzfxEPJ8MkDdnDc-_M0RrbNb94T_jze0QjXk92xFLiyKX-KaRLQwHxMlmrYLnoWKXffK-H8RNWV807lZ9zl6qbIF_2_DuLiaMtt7Jawye6gLhjRdN9QELec4sukEI05CNIeJKO4OwWOsISKfFHDJ5Oy-vWuz8-kX2BbZjRuvD4eenj3kKStREVOieoE1qR7i4tJtobFJ9YIvHYb11SMQPsbn-DNr9eN0lUP04OwK_gohaNB_MrKnkFIXXR-B8bF781_CFsKQEkvvLKaenoHEkQCjcy66AazaOK1oge5V07kuCs-dMuA=w1435-h1058-no)
They will also work well with 6mm stuff too
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/noR3WwzEjQaX_g5yj5wUCQEB-4cC7YwPxczGCBZvYPPyUbIUfyiMnJibKkatUfvo7fGlBRD17_MPZlbIHg2unfimi2CMP3sIrfGT21CdD2U6IwL4kkGBmccXnv_FuGtxZcn38QyeJRh1cel56iN2146NalStG7ri-3GtVRr5n02cO7sboINEhpRQRK7pU-UhicQa7H3yvK-KrY0JJDzwbWmSuxRpfe5065QvCVaUSDIxcnoHDFVZuE38P-JymKUTPk-08GIyEuN0UfNfUGXvsHXavQcksaNu2f5dvvQeRUtLcHsRAuxHO2YMlcLIuMPFFCnnYTAjSD1QqdplScpaxo0eFcyM3T_JQXSyYJIREniRTVpQ5waRw7qiK5dtZOjbgXzfWyCY7ctOheQY40p9MuYEYMoveTXfaeoabIEhf0ZJsyM03KrW5TSBa3bBBY-wWLzHAfEGoyHRm3v5LPTBKysmw_mNfqwokiOVQihapkLMrWaXetlS4vIL0y9kAPm1gf-4w0VQoO2qe-4XAsUuHnZf8-xrSabqSX7UY8PYDEd2SE01JnP6gyAPG8W9P4I7GU5qYJNW4VnLSLwJRaqy5PNv-suDajNT3MHg-XZvIKbjjrI6ZEBSkdi3hscHYNLK2_FB_HBmRY1RW0FussVnmE2C3sQY2dbFKtegtzhW3v8=w1435-h991-no)
8)
Part of me thinks base them....The other part says 'leave 'em be'. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil, very helpful ;)
Epic Game
Played another instalment of the Condimental Marine Civil wars on Friday. The former allies of Mustard and Ketchup were now in conflict. I'd had a delivery of new toys on Thursday, so there are a few rather shiney models on the table. But most of them are now an attractive shade of yellow!!
A couple of early game shots with the Ketchup marines swarming forward.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nLQAI7fY7VXJB-OeNIcEAfeUPvwTPQjLXLyVbdR4wqf10e1YTMxiXyVMNf3ALpBh94CPoCRjCY3yu-gUcIed8wKZtTkH5w9iqCLBBPhMAMKWdk-qNGt4mgcd46XXGmA5DFUhBJPziNzSfLnI0INNe2CTslbMMdjZ8jcrWxll8eDvuBzGXhR95eXwYb7WXZOvelovuuQuP8U1afa0ZJ46AxnKrsiy6kewIX4irz94Df8TJSTSe-vfndgC89E_Mv-NkvA1tDB3dd_mxh1ESG30579QL8qxsyUuOvSXzP07p71-rWWZu8UBwwGDWDU_ulGrwNoRXsW5nxJJc1cDPkih9r3w3D_S9QwWGkRm1DeoPeIt760hmGXdksowLMNYcAWliezoc9AQ-m-IPBYuz_ck6lHtwEa4uAvAnbwLmQ6fYOqCIKw3HIdoWf0GDsL6udy1kh0nYtt8_HrcanHvzpib_Qoslj8eurpHOUPF66r0htM3YLk94yA49lJPB3nXifS08lsutHtZrSdbmUH99_REWDZ4wI8Kx5lTxgWcys6EqQFtHnzrrEdGhoagY90PqOA8Dl3F1xz-DnDOgLEdWT3CzZXMLp57PA1CLdnOaBTy5MKRcgPWQoWOsFJM4wX46ftWQgxXP_XWldWgsYyX_fJxjOf83kU9nn6KrTgsU92J5KY=w1435-h1083-no)
A fun event was the Ketchup Land Raiders advancing, then popping smoke to give themselves cover. The Mustard Cerberus heavy tank destroyers then advanced and shot at them into the smoke, needing 6s to hit. From 12 dice my ally rolled 6, 6s. This rather wrecked the Land Raider formation!!
A bit later, probably the high point of the Ketchup attack
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bffTFWcaIQWgm7uFXRxF27SmpT5TAPQJD9AzGBAP44UHWCme2KsX13gOE4eMkxqv74bVq6kFCwMMYunSHcZpzr6UMcl_kW6I745x0d3v5UWpiJXF3An28-vIP3NBL58JMKlfrkbwWUj2wWk-F7NrWNQ7beszVbegfCAOptZkR4LGAFsA122x0PJ2u9sHi6_GTH_blMGOQnOohIeEmJtXOgHMpoosxWIQIXDFk9Cvgk1M9v2eSGMNlrP53aXXVWZE8CqryqCAN_7p3YAndocOoG3mhm8CSAwqGYBRtPRp8O4aVLfz6yXuYJ4oaCVL8fFVeSiF787kPpzdUz0dHF3K5ZnuHS3wyr9X4rVQd8QBGvO26liWlUCwp_RxgXO5xHVI4oVI5cjyMo4IZ3YIzWgRFF5R0ZUFt-laZkQYhKgDAs0vvJynyLiuLwrXWDFJJ72dahMHV3UmU3onVZb1SZyzCytMKvNyQLBG2nM193lU9IKFlaW6WzfKZQEd40x5_UK2qBJInMklzYu-ls2HdNjo3zHqKeb_rluJliZ9i4Bt5RH7C4EHzMpP0kw88k9QFsHypLpLBrYj-YBt-IEHIlPOxLwqr69eUips71rhpcx6SJb2yaivQvmJ8nU2xxQMCdljDueofUQpDLJNeY0yxAblwRSUG1uC9XSM5vikGJjKQvg=w1435-h886-no)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dVYMf9VQr86r4tTaSOC4AidUDcCU1E6uOpPasR72lRCZN8xM7J1WIasj5VAbjgb5glI_dOuSIg04L4F9NyE6e0ZKxKGdVN5SyOCk15CuPXyxTw0N4Cy2nDd-80jtG2Mb4i5CTMRlVxC20gEw86JMsZOMiYa4NyeiQV2Sb__hMBuf0Eym75-gi--3RhSizqGPG_NT9Zi5UXr7CtXdDVX_7beDIJYXvsI8OP6SWfy0ASA4Vr46z-02dSAiwFgiklnWH8GqZY75fPfsHJiJxE6f2WFRWAM21-8TrzNhLFlR2Indj0tB6APNXrCOr_L_T7wPDIjRrVJ_xcTG7IN99A3N159KZ3_vU0Vv7lVGiS24iNwfb6-nn6j5reM0jOXBmEtgb97QxURYjACOBu0bHzXjyx0klSOssf3USeHF2lUMI4WEK-knWEvYoa5vqFvfI79Hmr_fRyAy4qaadlZWyyntc1SYeE-q23VHV7XkK3BezSfJlwdXWL3X4Bs-Jslc8rDOQt5HTkwtHdaE-oYPWWbFjZ43Oc1EBrHOezT7AD8k-Pf8tr1UdI2HqHYhU4WGtmX-hAikiliJomJBlLTRUzzzQHp-XFNHxFa6qmXBr--MIDMFzu0IlBGetuJyAyvv9x1K9k9tBwVDe0gukcNUC4XumGQ910M2Ks9eFavvz4xHlOI=w1435-h818-no)
Although the Mustard marines had taken quite heavy casualties early on, they were now tipping the scales back in their favour, with their heavy infantry counter attacking on both flanks. I'd teleported in a couple of units, and initially thought they were doing badly, but they ended up distracting the Ketchup forces and forcing them to move back to counter them. So they seemed to have more value than initially thought.
Action shot of the 3 not-Typhons cresting a rise
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Quote from: fred. on 19 March 2017, 08:16:13 PM
Shell Holes
Not sure whether to base them or just leave them loose.
If you base them,I would try to get them on very thin bases. Some steel ones or something. IMHO I think mdf bases will make them "rise" too much.
Good looking game, like the craters as they are.
The game looks very impressive. I would also not base the shell holes
Take care
Andy
Another vote for not basing the craters
Great looking game. I'm enjoying the Condimental Wars.
Quote from: DFlynSqrl on 20 March 2017, 01:59:46 AM
Great looking game. I'm enjoying the Condimental Wars.
Thanks all. I'm pleased with the table setup, and the colourful armies always look good.
Quote from: paulr on 19 March 2017, 11:03:19 PM
Another vote for not basing the craters
I can happily go with this, as its less work!!
The gaming butterfly flaps its wings again!!
A couple of weeks, another game, another scale...
For some reason* I have decided to build 8th Army in 15mm for the early part of the North African campaign. I already have an army for this in 10mm (of course!) and have some 28mm figures too. The best reason I have is that my mate has 15mm Italians, and I fancied building some plastic tanks.
First platoon of infantry, and lots of support options painted and nearly based.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/X-I9pmsY0p2hixuIQqAEXUhWtxlBaW4HdNvY7EP_nkj1_EQPMxQqKkrpZjZtvHoixKl4V5bzdQb8WAvxiH5NHVNzFqULTRpA4DVAdMxn8_6m12jv-lbTMh-DTWy25o-1JTMfpjQJyHIcOTng3U_E63yIuGajDXB7htn2rXPc5dYiZNO_H-XHcKJCxVSrh1PcbQzNov6vMPVi3OQ0sB3yM9ZEKNokHU1U7Ln0kMFgNf7JsfSuFh5W4CDIN25dFQOjmyn1USKQ4_qbG5uua_W4KaP0-e2IJHik7dKvWSGaVRyY8oSACJNGRlhQfuyYHh9qWWpoEQOtK4EOrS2Vlkq127oUyXPtvJ1GYLajwXi9qQgIebhih8-qJ_eTXVgDl-2Ai_zKlLdjv-m_A2u4C4P4H68MhKL8U7D-ps8_vKBE7QeLzExb-XTmSZBqBibkiYRiHw76VewcV-ZhEXhHvIaj2DEek7Z2BZUAVYFM9aWoOObb9coml2HKIdO49LNSxl-QKWn_mOnJFsIJxcrlq_rgiUF8UQS6x1I99OdMOVFUvniZHEM7xHK3PQ0JkJO9RYxSkAVYNsJALgGqhaAOd82kNvVDC2Z_lXSYiIqRUBn5cSmBgN1bTYFPiA=w1576-h709-no)
And lots of tanks, all tin cans with pea shooters!!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qJ_iTnQpLznCRIRaQ1zL7_OzSqu6vguNFFaz-BMXuy0JX4kQoKUD_rFdWcg-ZJ1pKow7nfnkhN9sWW1sfGgbCrQGAevMPSTwlxxs9ZCE7nHLfibrKcrKQl_pxTJnh37BFQmhUdZINPdSc2LeS_gygNkn7ZkpVsmeGcvRyU_u22r-Aa11ZB-WVFT22aCHpAxBOoZh4eytGenIGp1i9IuZQu-INvJ2mixdUHgmzuOTd-TWpGqFhTmF1EWWPQxnw526NTyDF7mhaeW5BFN4WIrvS33yyKFi9WyP6Hs8BcQXUaROrf8w5Yo_DJMlxBEVPd8rLkpGSBXbRlK5CU3nfokifA1SGbR9n0Ic9s6B1ls_5PvwbsW78R8osmQT9E1OXNzKgZgrgWE959IBcR4lhD0i0LEqi6sXYx7cYP3FHkVFJNPjyRom_AgR-osxo-UZosdUkpYH4D_C0jV9EBBqRWIlhgNp96cCxpPUNy-DlbEK9KiBC_M5eoEBj-FWBnJq_Y05nwRHW_plIo6vZLPfWdIkeZ-nBwjdZVDSbUViawV9v4R3nCP5XSv5Bz6faY-44pT5WL1oQ0DnHI954WnwACgklnptLAUv43b6pLHEglzaeMwvUC5qqg=w1576-h1092-no)
I have made very good use of a can of Portland Stone spray paint from Monster Paints.
Hello
The pics of the 8th Army didn't show up for me. Do you have a Google privacy setting or something?
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Same here.
Third
Fourth
Odd, I saw them when I was at work earlier. Now that I'm at home I don't see them either.
Odd. They don't show for me on my iPad either.
I don't think I have changed any Google Photos settings.
Another go.
I suspect I copied the link from the wrong album
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/X-I9pmsY0p2hixuIQqAEXUhWtxlBaW4HdNvY7EP_nkj1_EQPMxQqKkrpZjZtvHoixKl4V5bzdQb8WAvxiH5NHVNzFqULTRpA4DVAdMxn8_6m12jv-lbTMh-DTWy25o-1JTMfpjQJyHIcOTng3U_E63yIuGajDXB7htn2rXPc5dYiZNO_H-XHcKJCxVSrh1PcbQzNov6vMPVi3OQ0sB3yM9ZEKNokHU1U7Ln0kMFgNf7JsfSuFh5W4CDIN25dFQOjmyn1USKQ4_qbG5uua_W4KaP0-e2IJHik7dKvWSGaVRyY8oSACJNGRlhQfuyYHh9qWWpoEQOtK4EOrS2Vlkq127oUyXPtvJ1GYLajwXi9qQgIebhih8-qJ_eTXVgDl-2Ai_zKlLdjv-m_A2u4C4P4H68MhKL8U7D-ps8_vKBE7QeLzExb-XTmSZBqBibkiYRiHw76VewcV-ZhEXhHvIaj2DEek7Z2BZUAVYFM9aWoOObb9coml2HKIdO49LNSxl-QKWn_mOnJFsIJxcrlq_rgiUF8UQS6x1I99OdMOVFUvniZHEM7xHK3PQ0JkJO9RYxSkAVYNsJALgGqhaAOd82kNvVDC2Z_lXSYiIqRUBn5cSmBgN1bTYFPiA=w1576-h709-no)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qJ_iTnQpLznCRIRaQ1zL7_OzSqu6vguNFFaz-BMXuy0JX4kQoKUD_rFdWcg-ZJ1pKow7nfnkhN9sWW1sfGgbCrQGAevMPSTwlxxs9ZCE7nHLfibrKcrKQl_pxTJnh37BFQmhUdZINPdSc2LeS_gygNkn7ZkpVsmeGcvRyU_u22r-Aa11ZB-WVFT22aCHpAxBOoZh4eytGenIGp1i9IuZQu-INvJ2mixdUHgmzuOTd-TWpGqFhTmF1EWWPQxnw526NTyDF7mhaeW5BFN4WIrvS33yyKFi9WyP6Hs8BcQXUaROrf8w5Yo_DJMlxBEVPd8rLkpGSBXbRlK5CU3nfokifA1SGbR9n0Ic9s6B1ls_5PvwbsW78R8osmQT9E1OXNzKgZgrgWE959IBcR4lhD0i0LEqi6sXYx7cYP3FHkVFJNPjyRom_AgR-osxo-UZosdUkpYH4D_C0jV9EBBqRWIlhgNp96cCxpPUNy-DlbEK9KiBC_M5eoEBj-FWBnJq_Y05nwRHW_plIo6vZLPfWdIkeZ-nBwjdZVDSbUViawV9v4R3nCP5XSv5Bz6faY-44pT5WL1oQ0DnHI954WnwACgklnptLAUv43b6pLHEglzaeMwvUC5qqg=w1576-h1092-no)
Hello
Alas and Alack. Still not showing on Firefox or Chrome. Not showing on my phone either.
GOM
Very strange. In the second post I think everything is the same as earlier ones.
Are earlier photos still showing up?
Will need to do more settings checking tonight.
I'm back at work and I'm seeing the pictures in both the new post and the original.
Pictures not showing on Safari.
No piccies here. :(
Cheers - Phil
Nor from my ipad
Test 3, straight copy and paste of Google URL into the image tags
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And the other photo
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tZillWqtD-abAqqLL0RezQ1QZAzEgwqaiOvUOecbMnpgHEKx_j5y4MBpSA9AmA0TUWUw5x2EjWkwoPx_Ez_e4ZLBBP_FK43lcFa0wzLxm93_TyIobVbDI_ztKWxt6DaCdYirs9zW8WxQAFWdthmQHFhQ3CRi1nr5US1kMBLzt1NB5clr2NQgxIbbS7N01oyG64plGswN3F3CvSryZ0QtcK4lqEPzPa28Y4eyDm-cG0EKKSa0K5JS850kfsJJwp1HYVMmEdFZiL-LOtgvxLha-2LFHutljOU-df47pXfJiQi3XjjFyPl7-o0GFHdWPHukPAgXv70LoxqmAHT-GqFY0-jibtAMyYMolOwS7HhucnSCLkuzTM3Xj5OA0lcyWMNXJApPVCpTr-MvGOrYmnN9usH3ZXXE56BIofb8p7K0OMfC3jsrTCl-eJc5ygj1p1ckDYbts55FeUBVWATfqdsMdLG8yZxatvdpOFgzY-mwm7sRU99vlsnyszt-hyx32Pl4BWCFqsqHf3Uh0CdrQ_fr616eeriY-G1fDj1ESvVUjrIl_VO4zT3Dj4D3h_sNv-wxhNLQ2XobOh05y-z3hGx_nPkoCjL9ibClPq1FIq-BX58gxqkY9TW9Z6vt5OxbqJxipoT0rMOXfXg8Bd7DVgiumr2a51y-QSnK7WFfv2H1rbY=w1216-h547-no)
This is very weird, if I have the info side bar showing in Google Photos then copy the Image URL, it works. If I don't have the sidebar showing (on the same photo) it doesn't work. No idea what difference it makes having the side bar showing or not, and I certainly didn't have it showing when I setup all the other photos on this thread.
Huzzah !.....I can see the two above, Forbes. :)
Cheers - Phil
Those are lovely Forbes! 8)
They are great looking. So crisp and clean. I guess these are airbrushed?
Thanks chaps - it took more effort getting the photos up than painting them ;)
Quote from: d_Guy on 18 April 2017, 06:18:02 PM
They are great looking. So crisp and clean. I guess these are airbrushed?
Just spray painted with a rattle can - nothing much else done on the tanks yet, other than the commanders.
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Worth waiting for :D
Yes, that's working.
Got the 15mm 8th Army troops based up, and spray varnished. Really liking how these have come out, and for what was a fairly quick paint job too (thanks to coloured primer!!)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Q6TUrO46JyA6yApgT-PgDUknnQzwB8xelAzBeOXrSXYtYcFwdl01lLypq-xJMHc8WRK8jEzqCEGPDD-N2wNQBwcHwVDVJVZNtwFo2LVtNKXmUQwrVPjTs61PtsVftSrInkRouk2YhCRrLaebWTjub4PQCaR9JOQabe8UCv72hVtW7uEyq3hzWezqwzCRBtL4WiNK2U-wmxsWMOLkiQC7G35wgSCdVf1ALO73ojVnciQS7DTQHUDutaZSHf68QsgwK2pWK5muxkshD1Hl5kQkBUAaxUGTBCnxGKp7-vxgILvXYuITFuzbaJYmJaLCn-3g3CFC5s5qMXZxrq_m-fFWxBqGymK1rIP86_carr5jTYG6UDO14_0yU7OkKn2s_kGSt_qsACU6at-fn7rDXOj2PC6tu69kDBR8f_QA9tw3RcuqgSrJWhpBWzqGbt1veVj7cEbxDPXlyXasBOUN9i74qhWOkF-MEvBuqOCxHF-tnVQr8dX-7Z3aBYJH4OJuTj0oWZdpknZ92DQ0WIhapN4QFj-iErqWxKICZEQXGnP5ZvdKgHsep5_KZ4SA2aCvMoTas-DCQMTX-X3wIZtQd4P66S6OFVHkt2wGqYS8suuCzstysQw6iRyLNzVo_m_ZUQcC1emlq7tPGp_Mso5crOGw59pQPcdb1H9Zzf8xZGyBO7o=w1099-h669-no)
(lets hope this photo posts better than the previous ones)
Superb Fred! 8)
Nice! And the pic shows up!!
Lovely, Forbes !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks chaps
Not really my period, but my goodness they do look really good.
Those look great Fred!
Well real life (TM) has rudely interrupted painting over the last month or two.
But I picked up some goodies at Phalanx last weekend, including the rather splendid Total Battle Miniatures Desert Fort, from young Leon's clearance table. And managed to get it sprayed the next day.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0hmhA9o-5Z_IQiRYV-wosdG6GWLVQmYera0xuG-V5szxTNl0rL_Ne7W7gCKUdjtkF5EkkcfKddWRRShp4qEMQ2xsda2lviRja5OtY8_aLYAeBA_8lAHqie0yjYz1p74R1OA6bOJ-LvTQqoUgHsfy9IfBZ-mwXWEbqGxTL0H2yShoXAEOOCwxGOyTpXO5vDH20tcavtru7kE9YXK4RfyHyDI5-4qUgmi1AlDN4nw1BbxhSipho7FwjourclaAEM3pSk_sfwjj0qgjQMD-adYMYt3GEAXrZGvSHy3sJ5n6Zm6_NQOy4kXSW940nZhpcQANz5AjoASfaSdhfU4xzIUDlkMfRfAlc0-ArIOAwDkXnSgjaVy2fNM08yj_zLLzZ-1ea4DXFO6D0SvgVCHBQp8yNVwjQkDDYKnyaII57gwMRXrDAoZRlxvr54_cRUmJY23YfHrKeebo5_Fo1WecPgG4nXGsLrG_9cetPARvz0YbS4H5OXOUw66fGzO9_vQ7uxsRQKHr_GpQEZEaWHcH96AvJhjK0HhhTtoPZsS5EmTgZO5PBOZlVw5oNBV_JWdFMC6OoJ-_DuycyRiY9_Nuxy_R-yTHyOnNymR7yJZgmAagocMCevqHdKBd1DYqujUwD0pG1Ywzxe546kSgfHsPUhAQtxWMH5EHxzGzblKdcHfG8dA=w1248-h969-no)
And with some handy stands of Lizardmen to give an idea of the size of it - it is impressively big!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DLHGv6xdwtmXj2CcPVjxKF7RG6lz6A6R-A1P_-RY4HKznmdbdwZ_vKSajYuye1bSi709od8FvtNTp-jufuVodgV7ukHGLt_hpv9aRhLeoFWwbFmKNYKJbcT7-_mGS9YR0oWiHq1Hk7ZQ-zBkKvZp6x-jHRSHStrEu1SEzsi087rFL5UY1tzkKk7lIFF-pxCR0Yd6bDe-AfcyyKdcDgiSp4GymsuueE9NrlgBdp9L1qaHdnuoKAnatbEEjhkxndfDQIGz8D8RVY63P0uCNm__Bfv39gl2geajU-2n7USKEFPvPnpLeoSmDkp6QEek68S1LiAwM6BlPCMhFmxuptl1SizGluHy2mAXOCeGiy4m8t8EhX8rYPce1GpJlcIw_6tcdAWOhYiSr1RAJmfcQHHw4LMWULa_8BZun_2diuU_h0xGwhmhzB8RY8HC1gh3RUFCbYtbab60Ox5GJY79DqJebk9HGJlSglWiHDq7ZNIwh151m3RPb6wfr98_LlowFye4dR4_Jn6RCgBStPbUjiQDWe-4s3RYzk9zH0tXQerV9pOJXiH6HjQNRDadGGFuxBhjAKccjeyjpESGFHPIVNuJfzGTnguWJ6S3RTTcnNIfHU-6a_-zrjVbnkNcDiYmHkuBP8XOst-tYiBvCW8ekvx7k0o3AZxYwicBASdcvY6haEo=w1248-h954-no)
The next stage feels like a lot of dry brushing of walls. Then some detailing.
That's really cool looking! The Lizardmen (or whoever) will be living in style.
Sweet Forbes!
Clearance table?! Damg nabbit!
Nice :)
I'm not sure the Lizardmen will be the future owners!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 22 June 2017, 08:38:42 AM
Clearance table?! Damg nabbit!
You snooze, you loose!! ;)
I like that fort.
Excellent buy from a 'clearance table'! :o :o
Mollinary
Quote from: fred. on 22 June 2017, 04:17:08 PM
I'm not sure the Lizardmen will be the future owners!
You snooze, you loose!! ;)
I wasn't there - sadly! But if I'd spotted it at WMMS six months before it was on ;)
Made some progress over the weekend
Saturday - some dry brushing of sand on the walls, and tan on the base
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Today, lots of windows painted, and the doors, plus a wash on the walkways, I think these will get lightened up a bit more
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ODJAjwOppmdCoYNqCXE1uGAtH3MWvSTOlXGXfkvvm5cuBZUqiVNQyZl_s11d-12cIVHhmfnh2GEkqugwiYFZOEg3LTtik2tGPiOeuhAeLGE7Pf5WdnpGZiy4QnXbZVt11YQ8zpYsbuuZyLrZU-HUktWIcRl8qCR7Mq-dmbac-sZ4BE1wz0yFCuD0jgFx1j9zXMCrZPVePpK5tgeO1cD94272risWpMfa_ucTZDIFjNJOOG4zytTrtj7g_CNdAjLjeY-04YSNbG9U-Vh8XbeVq6NSBX_EaEAvGaQg7ceMjyZQ3vXLdJh4H7eaYkKdKqdDGUakme8MRN3XgnDjoHyyyYbAKyOWXsXR-QoOzG7R7sc7CrIsuCCsIeu9sgeARLqJpYn7gzzfoab5bkhkYiT69LOskef3vyW4yLJymjvj4l50z5racANyjD9CdKvWlmgQzJBa9GFtu3dtyUnQ8VHskbxPYFtp0tZh9R9tGWr0wCvOvfiIKkvYp9PofE00yJS74MUlq1h4DqVt7hZeIfjquWSiRVwu99gFE8Ym2DkfLy_HCHX_iOHt5kLg0xMlpQ_NnDvqKuHhPgYqJ2xts4lM4NsuYA6Zqkd3eDNozTn9J3eladCqfsBRBjneTftGsHVa6Criw5RQhbWrXoC9P0GBg2r5oFWatls3r7r-s9uGJqU=w1248-h982-no)
Beau Jeste in style!
Hey, look, pictures of the range!
http://pendraken.co.uk/inter-war/1910-20s-french-foreign-legion/
Looking good so far :-bd =D> :-bd
Great fort, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks chaps.
FFL could be an option...
Played a game on Saturday night - Dark Elves vs Lizardmen
Lots of Pendraken figures on the table (although some of the DE are probably Kallistra)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u5HF24a2m1wNIY4wtqQQ4GLDcJh_J7A1INjV4tiL7_nDggPcwD-_h5-oAKpbl7N7KdmsQtwpFc9Y4v5EWdwjlntN-W3-pio_NhqAAIM7TIbejkbQNS66o1vP_JQUb4VNUGhMkznc5UWl-GM3aFP0HHIFccRGyvOSGQMhh-GBjnwMVO21rW_CIWkj8D7NevkADWOIvQlllnr69hyATVb1aU8MYHlTZfRCuke1r4hMUFXa8FAp51KMBEeC4lxHS-iZOS2AiYDgN-c7eLDZOnOj09-6rODZ_2jjEUfj0qbIarZVQ7aF9rEK0ZQ5NkBEQHdHmchN4Ve5aB69C-1ZYnslOpchrgKmro0aDfs2UoURKU6QANNpJRxn1QiULiLJ3yYkXu7wA84xWY1EYcPRI_08ufQaafF8ZE-SpkNNXB0Kv0-MDWkCktlQ8tvq4-qPHHNic4Fgp0FWDnxTFJ26kbG7CH9t6bCY0Xtfiv8SFOGdR-rupkW525Sxb8R6KJu3Jfg0tLQnaWMDnm4CqMRmYfXHzJM71V3wybBSlgBFvtBKQ6XwdpWkjjNMoYsGpd7u6bS4sqCeIUnrUZBO8EIMG2Vvc9e24UzfLpAJU2FiuHNGTPcNybA6OO-CWPtYBWjgZaCR4EFOsObdPa3P99iE6QSe0MrIoeRZRr7q-R05C50y8LI=w1248-h876-no)
Early game, the DE Hydra rushes forward - and my Lizardmen mages freeze it and zap it, and the skinks throw javelins. Resulting in a rather dead hydra.
Mid game
Turning into a classic turning battle - the DE infantry are charging uphill into a solid line of lizardmen and Kroxigors (think lizard ogres)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GzwajqhX-PYGNA9G5X2RhYiWeLSIK8PQsye7SWN6zIz82Mew-J67bjIbQXf1gxyME0ErXt0fF2BuMJl3cD3Gd-Q1nhpmGqR4K22KERJFbs7rnqvObF0RyKTg4FKFmt6y3J6LF40LpLhZzj32bg0GCdN1kPOlupJTeopvWNb0MA1SD_7ECyHnJBaFAPNyNhmKPXQFV3XsoVIPKloo_46YTvcKL0VwRDVtVoWxhpOGBPNXMSYD1bgN9ziugO3_Zy5p6NPChdFiXVBLgsGzAw3nhfb56AbRIfJ9YW4YHFoT1oJ_g8alNkFjD2QvxWQYubfH59euePXNMYgQsPSXP_js-ul54zFXvtAURDVxXoKP8xnuFnw32xhlEhTXrvUZX_RrLj4BtOrzooYhKGZ4hGZwRYgcsfx5bpi5EaiDxmgiEoh09iEoRW5CVYWCGKrZENqAsgTYiIBLujpj2NJOIeo-aUM_Yakuzq6F2lhpkixObY-4mRNwGp-Cg3RG_EHFAb-DNjuZ4B1zTX1JqGnZj8cXYy27ttTliYAPVYhbnnyvTSQNyNEx9v3mPzVaUAw3ucxj-_bCtUXhdCYgHa50gVzX8n61KQS5dDt82FG9PaE0Y26DWQeQOFHcPWPPvTMVCxeFQg6ULR5YYOCWxcuDq44Zjm3nG6qgJxiET1eV84g9Krc=w1248-h832-no)
The DE spearmen where annihilated by the uphill lizardmen - so badly that virtually the whole brigade was killed.
Mean while in the middle the DE where being whittled down.
Ended up with 75%+ casualties for the DE, and less then 25% for the Lizardmen, I think 7-1 in VPs at the end.
Perhaps the DE where too far out their snowy comfort zone in the jungle :D
Very nice, indeed, Forbes ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Sweet Forbes
That looks like a lot of fun!
Thanks chaps
Thought I'd managed a stealth post at first!
Very cool armies, and battle.
Just missing the snowy twin peeks of Mt. Killahighelfjaro to make the dark elves fit in a bit.
Still not getting much painting done, thanks Real Life!! >:(
But did manage to get a game in on Friday, which was good fun with 2 players a side. We reprised Dark Elves vs Lizardmen, this time time in the Desert to move both armies out of their natural habitat (and I wanted to get the Desert Fort on the table).
The scenario had both armies deployed on the left to the middle of the table, with a big open flank on the right.
Early on
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Both sides have moved their main forces forward. They have attempted to throw mobile troops out to the right, but have generally failed command rolls for this...
In the middle the Lizardmen have attempted to charge the Elves on top of the hill - but needed a good success to get a double move in, but ended up short.
The Elves have managed to get quite a bit of shooting off so far causing a fair bit of damage to the LM, but nothing serious.
The right flank
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Not a lot happening here...
The dark riders zipped forward and shot up some Skink skirmishers, and that was about it.
The Elves got flank charges into the stranded LM, killing them. But leaving themselves open to heavy counter attacks. Taking out the cold one knights and quite a few spearmen.
The Manticore attempted a long charge, didn't make it and was cut down by kroxigor and saurus warriors.
The Stegadon shambled into contact in the middle.
Out of picture on the left the DE Cold One knights have smashed the Salamanders
Mid Game
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Its a bit empty in the middle now following the above carnage!
On the left the LM had redeployed their Cold Ones, who charged the static DE Cold One knights killing them, while the Kroxigor made short work of the Witch Elves, suddenly tipping the left flank back to the LM.
In the centre the Stegadon got into the archers - which was messy. The big DE brigade of infantry was struggling to move, and was finally charged by Kroxiogor and the Saurus, who caused many casualties.
Over on the right not much was still happening. The Spider riders charged through terrain into the Cold One knights, and rather surprisingly held them for a couple of turns.
The Dark Riders choose to charge the Terradon Riders - probably a tactically poor choice as they would have been better shooting them. The Terradons slowly whittled the dark riders down.
In the end another big win for the Lizardmen. Once the Lizardmen get into combat they seem pretty unstoppable. We aren't quite sure what the DE need to be doing - perhaps its just a match up that doesn't suit them.
Looks good Fred
Take care
Andy
Quite some fight Forbes! 8)
It was pretty brutal!!
Fun looking game!
Despite not fully understanding the subtleties of who is who (or, maybe what is what) I like looking at you games because they are colorful, violent and fun! :) :-bd
Quote from: d_Guy on 11 July 2017, 03:31:38 PM
Despite not fully understanding the subtleties of who is who (or, maybe what is what) I like looking at you games because they are colorful, violent and fun! :) :-bd
;D ;D
That cheered me up after a crappy afternoon.
In this report its extra confusing as both sides have Cold Ones (big lizard cavalry). Also not really helped as lots of units have bespoke names, which I'm sure means little to anyone.
I'm now thinking colourful is an important criteria in a battle report, and will aim to ensure this happens as much as possible.
Great stuff again, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
Actually got some stuff painted - even if it was just with a spray can!
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Some Pendraken Lizardmen, and flying snake things, large craters, some MM Djinn and Giant Snake riders. And some 15mm tanks and trucks.
Even managed to get a blue wash on the Djinn a bit after taking the photo.
Certainly an eclectic mix!
Coming on nicely
Take care
Andy
Looking forward to seeing those progress, Forbes. :)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps
Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 July 2017, 10:42:29 PM
Certainly an eclectic mix!
For me its fairly coherent, just 4 projects...
Game - Lizardmen vs UndeadAlthough painting is fairly limited at the minute, I am at least getting in regular Friday night games, which are a great unwind from the week.
The Lizardmen got another outing (to see if they could extend their winning streak). This time against Undead of the skeletal kind.
We tried out some scouting pre-game rules, which the lizardmen with their many skirmishers and flyers won convincingly. This allowed a new scenario, where the looser of the scouting game (the undead) had to deploy in a cramped 3' zone. Whereas the winners (the lizardmen) had the full length of the table to deploy into.
I deployed fairly few troops on the left, as the river cut that side of the board, a lot of infantry in the middle, and some infantry and my cavalry on the right (out of shot). I didn't want to spread out too much, as the lizardmen seem to do better when kept as a big block that can chop up the enemy in combat, rather than swanning around the flanks with lots of maneovering - leave that to the Elves!
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This is the end of the first turn, with both armies having advanced, and the undead trying to unbox themselves a bit.
At this stage I was a bit worried - I was outnumbered 3:2 in units (although points wise the armies are the same). I thought I would loose the grind of combat.
Battle is Joined
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Lots of combat in the middle, going in favour of the lizardmen. Lots of low quality skeletons 'killed', but its the 4 bone giants that are the worry to me.I lost a few units to the long range shooting of the rock lobbers, but nothing too serious.
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I'd ended up pulling my cavalry back towards the centre, while the undead ended up spreading themselves wide, without ever really doing anything.
In the middle the Lizardmen where snapping bones of the skeletons. I'd managed to take out the two bone giants on the right without too much trouble.
The End
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The undead through in the towel at this point - we had gone with slightly too big a game so ran out of time before a definite conclusion.
But in the middle there are virtually no undead units. On the right flank, I have flanked the infantry on the hill, and my infantry is available to attack it from the front.
On the left I have blocked up about a dozen undead units with just 2 of mine (and the river).
It was about 2:1 in casualties in favour of the lizardmen.
I think the size of the game was against the undead commander, who had far too many units to deal with, and struggled to make good choices. This size of game would have been more suited to 2 players a side.
Great stuff, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Good report Forbes!
Thanks chaps
Looking back at those photos they are a good example of why auto white balance isn't a good thing for photos!
Hi
Great report and it's probably just my eyes but I couldn't fault the pics :).
Good to see that your rules set is progressing.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
A really great looking game. Makes me want to get out my Narnia army or my LotR army! Or my Halloween army would be fun too!!!
Your armies look great too!
Terry
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 18 July 2017, 11:02:28 PM
Great report and it's probably just my eyes but I couldn't fault the pics :).
Have a look at the different 'colours' of the base cloth in the four pictures and the river in pictures 1 an 4
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 18 July 2017, 11:02:28 PMGreat report and it's probably just my eyes but I couldn't fault the pics :).
Good to see that your rules set is progressing.
Thanks. The rules are working well, we seem to have finally got somewhere with magic. The key ingredient is that we get lots of toys on the table and the game cracks along at a pace.
Quote from: Terry37 on 19 July 2017, 02:04:32 AM
A really great looking game. Makes me want to get out my Narnia army or my LotR army! Or my Halloween army would be fun too!!!
Your armies look great too!
Thanks Terry. Glad it makes you want to play some fantasy games - your armies sound fun. I'm wondering to give the Lizardmen a rest this week, and perhaps go with the Fishmen, or the Beast Herd.
Hello
Quote from: fred. on 19 July 2017, 06:39:01 AM
The key ingredient is that we get lots of toys on the table and the game cracks along at a pace.
Yes, this is the main aim after all.
Be interested to see what you've done with magic. I've tended to take it down to be basic and generic rather than overly complicated.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
The most significant change with magic is to make a lot of the buffing spells area effect - this makes it feel a lot more useful when you can give 3-6 units a +1 on their defence. We are still working on the spell list - I think mainly to cut it down as some spells get used a lot more than others.
We also allow casters to attempt to teleport before casting, this allows them to get into position better to cast the spells (most of which are quite short range). But you can only teleport to where you can see, so if you only get a single success on your teleport you can be quite restricted to where you go on a busy battlefield, with 2+ successes you can get to most places.
Game - Empire vs Demons
This is becoming more of a games thread, than a painting thread. But thats kind of where I am with time at the minute.
This battle changed things up a bit. To set up the table, I rolled for habitation, getting a 10 (on a d10) and hillyness getting a 2. Which made a very different table terrain wise. We are trying out some new scouting rules, the Demons managed to out-scout the Empire convincingly, and choose a scenario where they were able to deploy forwards, while the Empire was in a fairly narrow deployment area.
Left flank end of turn 1
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I've managed to get some light troops out to the flank, there is some Demonic cavalry lurking behind the buildings. The Demons have generally run forward. I rolled a lot of 1s for command rolls, so my troops stood around. Or held their carefully chosen positions ;)
Right Flank end of turn 1
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Again I've managed to get some cavalry out to the flank. The steam tank has trundled forward and combined with lots of other shooting has managed to kill one unit of demons - hence the two green demon units stood strangely apart.
I then forgot to take photos for much of the rest of the game...
I was plagued by bad dice rolls early on, failing lots of command rolls (1 of a d10) and one wizard repeatedly failing to cast (needing 6+ on about 6 rolls). The demons milled around alot, really struggling to come into combat. I'm not entirely sure why - partly due to spreading out, then not having commanders in the right place. Partly due to the terrain, and partly due to Steve worrying about hiding units that were wounded so they didn't get killed.
End of the Game left flank
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My light troops held up the demons long enough on the left, for the knights to finally get over, and engage where they smashed the remaining demons. The cannons had been doing sterling work shooting over the pond killing demonic units. By the pond my skirmishers had caused enough delay to allow the cannons to shoot stuff. I think all 3 demonic units visible were quite badly wounded. In the centre the demons had got into to combat, but had taken their time to kill the crossbow men, and my halberdiers had the best of the demons nearer the village.
Right flank, end of game
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Much the same story - I got enough units forward to stall the attack, and allow my shooting to cause lots of damage.
In the village the demons inched forward in to volleys of fire from the hell blasters and hand gunners. The steam tank was engaged in melee for many rounds, but the demons couldn't batter through its armour. On the flank the demons where initially successful, but the knights counter charged clearing them out.
The giant green demon finally made it over the hill - and my mage zipped forward and cast a stun spell - which stopped him in his tracks, just as he might have done something useful.
Steve through in the towel at this stage - but I'm not convinced he had lost at this point. His cause wasn't helped by having left 300 points of troops off table to be summoned on, then not being able to summon them, as his giant demons are also his casters, and they were busy doing other stuff - like fighting, or hiding behind a hill!
A good game, with a different feel - very tight and claustrophobic - due to the terrain and the scenario.
Looks great
Looks brilliant Fred
Take care
Andy
Thanks chaps. Always good to get the Empire army on the table as they are so colourful.
Can anyone spot the stand of Pendraken figures?
Edit - There is quite a bit of Pendraken terrain and animals, but they don't count.
Zippy ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Very colourful. It sounds like the poor dice throws at the beginning didn't spoil it for you.
Martin
Thanks,
Quote from: Smoking gun on 23 July 2017, 07:56:41 PM
It sounds like the poor dice throws at the beginning didn't spoil it for you.
No - it kind of kept my troops sitting where they deployed. Which wasn't too bad. The enemy suffered bad dice rolls later, which probably hampered them more. I think with any activation mechanism its good that you can fail to move stuff, but you don't want to be in a position of failing to move too much stuff!
Had a play with setting up a blog yesterday, to try to capture what I do on an army by army basis. This is to complement the painting thread, which is chronological.
Its early days yet, but feel free to have a look: https://fantasticalarmies.blogspot.co.uk
Six posts already and lots of great pics! Welcome to blogging. :-bd
Looks great :-bd
Thanks chaps.
16 posts, I'll have you know ;D
The worrying part of this exercise was making a list of my armies - and getting it wrong the first time, and finally getting to 17!!!
And this is just the 10mm Fantasy ones.
Chunk of progress on the blog over the last couple of days, now up to 39 posts, but still only covering 14 of the 17 armies...
https://fantasticalarmies.blogspot.co.uk
All 👀ing good Fred!
Coo !
I shall have to go back and look at that properly, Forbes.
The little I've checked out looks brilliant.
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks chaps.
It's largely a rehashing of many of the photos on the painting thread - but grouped by type, and mainly ones of finished stuff rather than WIP.
I'm quite enjoying putting it together as it reminds me just how much stuff I have painted (and bought...)
Actually did some painting tonight !!!! :o 8)
Started working on some fantasy figures for making camps, but as I had the red out, decided to do a bit more on some Zulu war British
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Looking good fred
Take care
Andy
Nice Fred
Very nice
thanks chaps
Played a good big fantasy game last night, using our home brew rules - Hordes of War. This time it was Undead vs The Herd (kind of Warband Taurians)
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This is the end of my first turn - my whole battle line has moved up. I have a reserve flanking force off table, it will eventually make an appearance on the right flank (but the undead player does not know which flank it will arrive on). The Undead are in a fairly cramped deployment - partly due to the scenario, and partly due to having taken a force filled with cheap skeleton spearmen.
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A couple of turns in - I managed to get some Beastmen infantry through the middle, and charge the scarab beetles protecting the spear-throwers, and then follow-up onto the spear-throwers. But unfortunately the spear-throwers had a bone giant on their flank, which tipped the fight seriously in the direction of the undead. In the centre the two armies are moving towards contact. My Giant Eagles have swooped in on the flank of the big block of skeleton spearmen, killing one unit, but then deciding to sit around and crack bones, rather than ploughing into the rest of the block - leaving the bone giant with a tasty flank charge. On the far right, my flanking troops have entered, and are making good progress (as we played on the full 8' of the table, rather than the normal 6' they had rather a lot of distances to cover).
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A turn or two later - on the left, my two units of Minotaurs, and some Centaur Archers (out of picture) are doing enough to hold up the huge flank force of skeleton spearmen - who had been deployed against a potential threat, that came in on the other flank. Part of my plan was to refuse one flank, and attack on the other, as the undead are pretty slow so struggle to re-deploy. In the centre my Wargs did a long distance charge into the spear-throwers and are steadily ripping them up. Further across the skeleton spearmen had charged the line of Headusmen and Minotaurs - and died horribly. It was a total overkill from my troops who trashed the attacking 4 units, then in my turn charged onto the second line and splintered them.
On the right flank my forces have got into contact, with the Rhino Herd trampling the skeleton archers, and the centaurs and hawks getting in the rear of the caster and giant.
Forgot to take a final picture - the Undead rather stuttered in their turn. And I was able to isolate the giants and kill them with flank and rear charges (in our rules flank charges cause an automatic wound, and rear charges cause 2) this is a very effective way to take out isolate big monsters. The rhinos continued to stomp forward trashing the skeleton cavalry on their back line. While in the centre the Headusemen kept going forwards.
We didn't add up VPs, but having done a quick calculation now it was 5 : 1 in my favour, and if we had played the next turn or two it would only have got worse for the undead!!
Steve is off to have a think about what units he selects for his army - going with hordes of skeleton spearmen doesn't seem effective, they just can't kill the enemy, and can't manoeuvre well enough. There are some much stronger infantry units, and I think the undead need to make more use of their cavalry and flyers to take the battle to the enemy, as otherwise they are just large blocks of troops waiting to be attacked - which lets the attacker concentrate force.
Good report Forbes, nice to have the further thoughts too!
8)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps. Much of the Herd army is Pendraken - photos of units can be seen over on my blog https://fantasticalarmies.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Herd
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 August 2017, 09:11:10 AM
nice to have the further thoughts too!
Its good that Steve is having a think about how to build a different army - as the normal approach with home-brew rules is to tweak the rules or the armies!!
Nice looking game Fred.
Hello Fred/Forbes
Great report and pictures. Nice to see the herds playing Hordes :D. Have the rules had any substantial changes from the set you sent me in May?
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
No the rules have been pretty stable for a while now. There has been the odd tweak, we have re-introduced counter charges, and are playing with some expanded modifiers for shooting (mainly so that War Engines have different modifiers to bows). Magic has been the main area of re-work and we now have a system that we like and that seems effective (finally!!)
Hi
Thanks for the info. Will keep playing around :D.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Camps
I've been putting together a couple of camps for Hordes of War
Araby - this is about 50% Pendraken figures, 50% GW, with a couple of Magister Militum thrown in as well.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AcIJp0ydh-iR2k_3P4F6dSGGXNexsmG1gnqF-UDq5Txe8TavTC_BjtTP0Syzk9z3PatJp_lDnCealtxo8xRoZP8ZEKuSIuRp_y_-2G24LTf3QDYlc9nFLJrf0Yvu2qk6mjcHilYV8pm4PPjtURmW0ARiIDoi5IWX6gEeRuc7Leaz5U7EWg13XGTtBnTfbyBDtfbnDrSb6536NTbe8wxPOoNs67F79rOoe0lMDnFoHPDj0fHLELxav33h-KVxR8Twh9y85-QE4l1C5MqBGM1YqRc4YLHV7kuEBFpzaORZtnFMkC9ry6MMmKpcLeEIcrxfPJxeTodaOVU9RDI6T3X9FY4hlysy7s37QmEiKL7UzhyvCxYWAnm4rjyqPjq8-Sz98jPHAc8k79wHnstZWTZqM6px1vRxV7htPr4LW-z6J5_1FQrdJ32eN880Dm3Df6ptELCMTcTRP7rtSICBIxLblTy35H5mcD_ArLXdHPQuNaUVXmgTqMex-ltQBS3QCqvdpXDFa0fuHyMN5MN3CHML1ez_BZid-2yKlpsAvwy0x2tydZkBtL6cau6QCndNL3C-I-IFDgrdIH3cewPxMPgYEWxNSWTFS7sYID9WjuYCMflB64TdQ1N9jrE1wRviPlYJhXG3ny0e1J5D8wHpg1Y3okRhE1-sA8U5cX4GNTobRHshxkc=w1117-h837-no)
A couple of bits to finish, but 90% done.
The second one is for my Empire army - This time mostly GW figures, but a few Pendraken ones, especially towards the back. Gone for a more military look to this one.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mKGzEfkK4ZimHO-YUpVjmCmhARkLqpNJRdN1GPlFJ4taeA9VATW_Pke8zpB0gpooGewZOqO0qyrkwKEBdj-FUUGV6YD5hO_w-3rc3UmgCwOSuZHQkFER__HiVIIFKQlFuB3zHLf_N7ZRUc-vn_9pbxTYtOp4DIS-w98XTKAIulQc5HgfHAYQ5RX9SKtanCOXK9AGNMjzOxUX2RO7qzQXoWUKK0ufXHNo-dSF9O-vRyeI-O46hQMxckBwUIBnEfU271IlZfrLEnEMdkcvoVbJ7DiEE4831rkxdQ0vp8NaywnFeEgyEsMJ7aTcZ42t-eC6Mb5f2Fg356NQOzH68JnsoF4jucP9_NxqThH4u2rZZhJuJOHarSZc9g0CbTzuaH02_p85xS3l0w-XVw6TWGXYw0cG51TfPYXpioLn5t7r3WGfZ0JTalpaEIvh4UNLdIOZjOc4wdWRH6xsVOk0nJ05ipqoalVdp6xSseHW27uBfwCZb2pZhxs3HkFzA-Sll67URh9J574eoSBYDzMFAlsEo3B79g0_Vp4Ht3zL3vR_sc8RAU4OvXaAiDfhs_HJfeYunpM5Vp1GE1g6yT_LvDNx701GD0rQ9MPitNUu2Xaan90VnuV0tC36KdCD5txQLcNRE49cASsx6U9IbKfLU33oYrmhTw_k9BauRaDef5g4SQYapZA=w1117-h884-no)
A bit of painting to do on this still, and quite a bit of basing work too.
Very colorful and atmospheric. I particularly like the hog wallow! :) :-bd
Quote from: d_Guy on 23 August 2017, 09:34:56 PM
Very colorful and atmospheric. I particularly like the hog wallow! :) :-bd
In an Islamic army? Are you trying to promote your position on ISIS' list of targets?
Pretty sure those are cheap on the araby camp =) =) =)
Absolutely love them
Take care
Andy
Would make perfect Strongholds for HOTT armies! That's where you really get to do some fun modeling! Very creative and nicely done.
Terry
Really nice work, Forbes.
Very colourful.
Cheers - Phil
Glad you like them chaps. They were a good way of using the various figures from GW command packs and the Pendraken civilians and accessories.
FK - I think you will find it is our Germanic friends who are stockpiling the hogs / pigs (along with gun powder...).
The Araby base has sheep, goats and camels.
Nice work Forbes!
Very nice work 8)
Quote from: fred. on 24 August 2017, 06:14:51 AM
FK - I think you will find it is our Germanic friends who are stockpiling the hogs / pigs (along with gun powder...).
The Araby base has sheep, goats and camels.
True. I am a wally.
WWII French
Managed to get quite a bit of painting time this weekend so made significant gains - this lot went from bare metal or just undercoated to finished in the weekend.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DhI5qn9oqFye8q7v5hfsKiZ8LjBgSpXL1jaiKwTi-6ANz308dB4bkrNu_2aXdS9etQ1Y4CoFVQGy8Dtyi3ElmB_bv1zHrue8oEYPNsuxQBwTFDGiNBzeTkD7o44DqH2xj2Rly5kMzJkacHMObDXrTGou_Mvdo7Rai4M9aZeB_o5PTgbURZ8Oa-aiKWbpkp30oSHYK_TfbzWJGRCaCNNnV2pMFDYH33quWy5WxJU8VtyoAme-xdybnHukBPZtAqXrnRiM6u2jHoBXDOyem6Me93FNutVNr8eh-IM7-ZfEJWtR-oxsOA24OWPI-DH-lNE7hzcesLYP6LomQ6IK3qylHXCnaOR75MGVXw5klIHP_80OEWBC4wdrL2O7YA44lIACVY49EuWkWKgdMD4lYMftydVWFk6p6SinDKGQ3gvaI849iNL5WT57Qc8Dr6RFEv-Yr_NvrGhvpq6qGgBPtc5lVoG6-UYgqP8O527toq97jpluW7eap6S6tNoweqs-FXD_FnVeLZF3HVt7Ukb2Vr6LbtLITpNstKcny8E8cYx_3N6rd8jOic1X7q7F_TMXmBs9qJCxiltiP-A9YBYSKkm6NkmIpJPgAdau4iV5yAMbw1a88xahEoRuS7n8m7Y5eXISZn4wfwH6Bc4x33JEaoBaJ18N--c8X4W9REUCncgosMSKjTs=w1183-h794-no)
Having played Rommel on Friday night, I wanted to get my French 1940 forces up to a playable state - basically they needed lots of infantry adding to the piles of tanks!
So this lot is what I got painted, (mostly Pithead figures)
2 Laffley trucks with Dragoon Portee aboard
4 Cavalry (I think these could well be Poles, but its 10mm and they have Adrian Helmets)
3 bases of Dragoon Portee motorcycle combos (these are Pendraken and very nice figures)
12 bases of Infantry
So this gives me the a good sized French Battlegroup
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I still have a bit more infantry to paint - mainly Pendraken Dragoon Portes.
Wow Forbes! Good effort chap. :)
Really nice work, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Very rapid and impressive work =D>
Superb stuff, well done!
I take it you're a fan of "Rommel" then? Any comments in light of the game on Friday?
I'm considering getting the rules and using my 3mm stuff for that and staying with 10mm for BKC.
Thanks chaps - I did get a lot of time to paint this weekend, and was quite disciplined in actually doing all the stages to finish these (though I've now remembered I need to spray varnish them).
Rommel - I did enjoy the game, not quite sure if I'm a fan yet. It did feel a bit generic, I think partly because its very high level and because a lot of the chrome is part of the 'battle board'. But also it was a basic introductory scenario so slightly limited on units and with no advanced rules. A full AAR is over on the Honour forum http://www.sammustafa.com/honour-forums/general-discussion-and-announcements-46/operation-brevity/msg27154/#msg27154
But the great thing about WWII is that most figures can be used with most rules. My armies where initially built for BKC, for CoC I converted a lot of multi-based infantry to single based. Then for Battlegroup most stuff just worked - with the option to add a few specialist units. And if I hadn't single based so many troops for CoC my BKC stuff would have just worked for Rommel, as it is I need to do some more infantry so I have enough single and enough multi-based troops.
Looks great!
Played Rommel again this last Friday - full AAR over on the Honor Site http://www.sammustafa.com/honour-forums/general-discussion-and-announcements-46/operation-epsom-first-day-(sort-of-)/
We all enjoyed the game a lot more this week - I think as the rules are so different they take a bit of getting your head around, and you end up over thinking stuff. But with a second game, you start to get it, and then just play the game.
So I did more WWII painting - this is my painting 'tray' in the good daylight in the conservatory over the weekend.
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Its frankly a bit of a shambles - but there was still a couple of inches of space at the front to fit in more figures!
* On the left are the newest troops - some Minifigs Italians, just waiting on Leon to supply them with some Semovente assault guns. Their artillery is on the right hand side.
* Along the front are older 8th Army figures, Pendraken and Minifigs, which where getting a bit of a refresh and finish off. On the sand painting strips are a few more 8th Army figures, who where based last night.
* The black painting sticks are WWII French, mainly Pendraken Dragoon Portes, left over from last weekend's mammoth French painting session.
* Then there are a handful of yellow space marine vehicles (drop pods and long range artillery) which have been kicking around for months - which just need a wee bit of basing to finish them off. Really need to get them out of the way.
* Further back are various High Elf figures to make an encampment.
* Quite what is behind the 28mm 8th army figure - its probably best not to ask!
Looking good, I can see geese!
I can't. :(
Very nice work, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
That table is almost as messy as mine !
NOW I can see them.
Cheers - Phil
Did some faffy adding of small, very small bushes to the bases of the Italians, tonight.
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Painting these chaps did seem to be a variety of shades of beige!
This gives me a Regiment for Rommel, or the core of a Battalion for BKC, or a couple of platoons (at most) for Battlegroup.
Nicely done Forbes!
They look really good Fred
Take care
Andy
Those ARE spiffy.
Super work, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Very nice!
Lovely work and a true gentleman's painting area.
Lovely work but one question... what are the small red 'thingies' some of them are holding above their helmets?
Cheers,
Rob
nice. :)
Thanks chaps.
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 14 September 2017, 10:48:04 AM
Lovely work but one question... what are the small red 'thingies' some of them are holding above their helmets?
You're brave asking a question like that on this forum!
But in the interest of decorum I'll give the proper answer. They are grenades - the Italian M35 grenades were painted a nice red colour. Perhaps to be like dynamite as seen as supplied by Acme in cartoons!
or this...
(http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/vitamin-bomb-apple-grenade-fruit-picture-id155415493?s=612x612)
:D
Not that sophisticated
(http://inert-ord.net/italrd/0812.jpg)
Inspirational!
My next batch of Dragonmen units are almost in, and I havnt gotten far on the initial order....
I'll be painting tonight!!
Quote from: fred. on 14 September 2017, 05:34:48 PM
Not that sophisticated
(http://inert-ord.net/italrd/0812.jpg)
I could have sworn these were Rogue Trader era Citadel paint pots!
Quote from: ErHo on 14 September 2017, 06:15:31 PM
I could have sworn these were Rogue Trader era Citadel paint pots!
;D ;D
Quote from: ErHo on 14 September 2017, 06:14:22 PM
Inspirational!
Glad to be of help - if some WWII Italians can inspire you to paint Dragonmen, so much the better! But I'd suggest not painting them beige.
Quote from: fred. on 14 September 2017, 06:46:54 PM
;D ;D
Glad to be of help - if some WWII Italians can inspire you to paint Dragonmen, so much the better! But I'd suggest not painting them beige.
Im further behind on my Skeletons, this is useful for me and the desert basing I went with!
Quote from: fred. on 14 September 2017, 11:50:19 AM
Thanks chaps.
You're brave asking a question like that on this forum!
But in the interest of decorum I'll give the proper answer. They are grenades - the Italian M35 grenades were painted a nice red colour. Perhaps to be like dynamite as seen as supplied by Acme in cartoons!
I actually wanted to ask if they were sticks of dynamite but I felt that might be pushing my luck... :D
Thanks for the explanation though, I'll never forget that from now on!
Cheers,
Rob
Ha ha!
I only found out about the grenades when I came to paint them, and realised that I had no idea what colour they should be. And was quite surprised to discover they were red! Apparently the British called them Red Devil's as unexploded ones had the tendency to explode when moved.
Quote from: fred. on 14 September 2017, 11:50:19 AM
But in the interest of decorum I'll give the proper answer. They are grenades - the Italian M35 grenades were painted a nice red colour. Perhaps to be like dynamite as seen as supplied by Acme in cartoons!
I'm always impressed that i can pick up interesting snippits I wasn't previously aware of....mind you I have to wade through a sea of nonsense to find them! ;D
Not much painted this weekend, as I may have consumed a beer or 3 too many on Friday!
Did get a few stands of 8th Army infantry finished off, and a couple of 105mm guns for the Italians (all Minifigs).
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p4F2sKLid8CmHdR8-7YoYO69WaE7wqpmA9Tk994q5DnI0R_NToMUoc1Cg53-Yr_eU3YVSou3HoFI5ZH_kQ0HGsD7iQ95m9EVsIFBrn1LBeEzzgjkLJuqHhg7SdK8PuYDRfYtRxlHm6hJgN5Jc8uAv5w5GkBz0IRtKIMyUnqp5tqSM7a-DnCxj0_9giPKAjj3IrQGK39pQJuCi42mtAHsOT49iBPvZhOQ0KNQnRQVFwpiYsT4aFwFvGHnFpm69QJ41D7b8rYDq3AxFj3zIKu2f7L0dASDfAUMK1RTweGL1pGATxvzbx0JIn6xlXWcheiq8raO5YEOfFaO72H_rFW6CbQk3yxNHVSI0BhwbmFGcX__jjvvuvlln7xcsM23Hixl45zQv_b4S4R4gYGG_sWMi0FCahoG8HvJs7O3PX101c4CCNepToc5VZdpl7nf8EZrtzsDfp7O6GjZG3SMS8ookeMqGWw9y4RU6SNAbx5WgaQbTe5l0lC66EaRwf_mphJ6mbCGM4JCagWj-CUDKofVLr1ZITjjkVHp3ULrlUeHwQeFK-y1yacEsUVq5eyqfx1vQ3FMFNbSW4Jsi86MS9OBp77LyvfsFTWkQO_WYRJ_vpmjQqE-rYufwffFwC2F0kO1owiv-36ZWl3uVBXMsIcYnFbmhHd3Cq8bbvKL=w1019-h712-no)
The Italians are still hoping Generalissimo Leon will supply them with their Semovente assault guns in time for the next big offensive.
Top looking stuff Forbes!
+1
Cheers - Phil.
I think I've missed a couple of updates in the last couple of weeks - I've painted the Semoventes for the Italians, which Generalissimo Leon graciously released to my forces just in time to get into battle. And I've pained some Zulus. Will try to find photos of both of these.
Rommel - Battle of Deir el Tarfa
Went back to the desert with Rommel, and had another really good game. I think the problems we had with the first game were probably just due to over analysis while getting to grips with new rules. But new we have played several games in different periods of the war, and they all produce good games.
This battle was a crushing victory for the DAK, pinning the British back on the first turn, and slugging away at them from the front foot. Full battle report over on the Honour forums - http://www.sammustafa.com/honour-forums/general-discussion-and-announcements-46/deir-el-tarfa-plus-sized/
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Lots of beige tanks on the table, including a fair few Pendraken ones.
Miraculously, the freshly painted Italians survived pretty much unscathed.
Have another go, hopefully the picture shows now.
Rommel - Battle of Deir el Tarfa
Went back to the desert with Rommel, and had another really good game. I think the problems we had with the first game were probably just due to over analysis while getting to grips with new rules. But new we have played several games in different periods of the war, and they all produce good games.
This battle was a crushing victory for the DAK, pinning the British back on the first turn, and slugging away at them from the front foot. Full battle report over on the Honour forums - http://www.sammustafa.com/honour-forums/general-discussion-and-announcements-46/deir-el-tarfa-plus-sized/
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wwPFNiosPoQ9-xDHCv1dqBjdc6xkZTo2ABxFGdUqr5vxcgyM7wKlhn7eleVjsT_Orr9oTdKpB04Aw0C3-yBOkgZ03lmDQQ-aNvdTPXYC_Gy8zi1eAA1e1N1Q3CEoA-uvJTLXUTDQDNbo8up7ynNpWv6R5RhFTKjxj-c9CDj0UGZ1pKcJ0x-Or90eeFjEPI_7DzK2LZG90xLKQa4OrSi53hHEtpzRjGQPkBIMI2D_SFmn8iPliGU8o8Ru4hgWWAUrxmdAexJHR1Kil3e9h_7IHVnqbs_RS80DAQlDBafQtoj4IIwFwnCj_vrVOwo1SnNRI0w4PK-12TiM4h9rwtBjBIZT4RT3mSOCr3RsZZvlKTo7oAuQEJJQMZEZV7wTCDe-fhNp-zAW74fmuIQqOQkAzoDg74C7VegcG8kbzz8XuRMHNv5uPvt7iFpCzE0HjtmP5whnRlR8t7bN0GZOZjmO8AK3TNvbC-tPFPxcwp5fu9xsuwpm-JJ8xgJ1KaJaKUKR82vZDcGsCs_zw9L5PoOKmQFfYoLZId8U9JyMJBAQKxcS2Ahhp3-rwtLrU_vM66Kt_LwbmL9xv7duHgjsrW669MasLVU3ORS2Zr3vaICf8-FK9L_ZS2efnJfLJFIQqip59LFrk05sNQUdf0bAR8GIJEuTMq-ENThYXzxi=w1320-h799-no)
Lots of beige tanks on the table, including a fair few Pendraken ones.
Miraculously, the freshly painted Italians survived pretty much unscathed.
Zulus
When I got The Men Who Would be Kings rules, they seemed a great little set of rules for Colonial gaming. In 10mm it would be quick and easy to build a force, as they comprise of 4 to 8 units, with units from 8 to 16 figures each. No force is more than about 100 figures strong, and most of the European ones are half that.
But someone was selling a pile of Zulus, they were cheap. My mate was willing to have half of them. So I now have a great big pile of Zulus. Last weekend I sprayed the first small batch of them, and got a couple of layers of dark brown on them. Then during the week I've done weapons, shields and loin cloths.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Lsda490g9MkR6sIF3bLRqUDUFJOZQXalXUOQiakb8XtlHF7quVSrhRABQhSF3AV5NSgafZ7twhML2t1L-ZOCM-kc2QdFSJ01np_85_5w2OsI8DeW0kPpFO6ArmZr1ERQ5xGlbErBtbUnT4fzNUKeVhfbtN1OhOo24fAISpcbOj5gAPpD04rjVmlXRveE0bbSnySM570jy76loThfS-tQmnWDwBw-as8sRfxqlwcDBOAZjx3aUOuErbqGPliemGSgVzqzmDeW7YiO-leTAsIl6tQu58rAOxzExKMjug9sKBsRfIadstQttGU2l20ITn_tg1afT7E5gzYEbnZPVDklVrR3LEDI5HyS1l8K-cbxmNKh-LyhyMjDHFvCnxmTHgz1My2dPBQAgL2oLE0etsKhpttxzEOnOjGJ19sJDHcwRTPUbgPL2k9dzKR-t2lIspDmo_wwWVkwZo9WQMOB_AwcJfcS6qxFCzLCi8jk9CFuRA141HmX-tOAWtc9t51-q6cUTeutgIi3MIOHDkpvLwOHzAKUVosI_5Hydztr2RXajGin3qn1U5GERK4qxEKFDAtmltldkouK4ioX3n4y-T3Em4iO58dNwCc95ahYPp4kCY8mbcus5MvjJHyYHIXRm2GGzfw6YCv0gbc5kr7ZxaQfwjVDACZrC7vakFtN=w1320-h822-no)
Then this evening I got the basing started.
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I'm ultimately going for lush green bases - as this seems appropriate for the time of the campaigns (and its what the Osprey I have shows!!) Also green should set off the dark tones of the figures well.
Not certain of the manufacturer - I think they are Old Glory. There are a couple of Pendraken command figures in there as well.
:-bd, Forbes.
Cheers - Phil.
Top work Forbes.
Thanks chaps.
Got the basing finished today
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bBoamgFFUvUC1DxGKTSrFmvMup4MFgoCSI5Y3wL93jM20AS4IxD2tRRqIcZ23zPobtQV8JRXXwtUfZ94o-90bPqm3IgNqlocVUcYB-nMDR876GxTimYBOBfYV95qc5c-fJ84U2JPBtPjmRnhLU2pxhipkyjXf-h6yhKaV3fGetsfuPGKpb2OmUxwWjz1y16t4uMrqgYmTVgn23jI9MV0bI2PJZwnQMAC72Fk3jSWKgSJEsSeB0vhnNv2vlWhT20H5RhmgkSFCVrTQi1gH1NXwmo3txh41iDmiJrFQdUNTRKK1inJRw1rJOPH_E6OAioBFbdjCwULVaPf7HV6Q8ny8E9ja8GbJrICfMA0fb8l0My9Xupqy7UnLbtnwZAv3m5qUeWRPdig6THyPfsayhjli69F9ZPbYgDPo_iHetngslqJNKOlVr16taJExKZKV1dmXt-ATxLyq25rij7dNk-2xMQTF8DwNnFWls8TdCo268eOLpi90_mGvrNvL-GROaA6UGBl98oxoA_b0FsxTPPaRb1qy2QkW4nIPM-TYE5-UDxpeQb6qFHOrEYGbb5PNMyjXa6q86cxh4CiwfZxvILanyw3XGpXcS17vlLAV3w4BabR-9UyDgnOHc4VdoBYsxFcHa84lbPtqNXkTq6UiZTYBFPw1Kcy20C12waz=w1320-h888-no)
Some verdant greenery added.
Not entirely sure about the tops of the heads, and head bands. Are these fine in dark brown, or should they be different colours?
Looks great!
As far as the headbands, didnt they like wearing cheeta fur for headbands and such? Im not sure about pulling that off at that scale!
:-bd =D> :-bd
Others will know the right colours for the head bands but I think they would look better if they added some more colour or even just contrast, a light tan perhaps :-\
The green grass definitely sets the figures off :)
Thanks chaps.
A peruse of my Osprey book makes me agree, that a tan colour would probably be good for the head bands, in the drawings they are often shown as leopard or cheetah skin (not doing that in 10mm). Or in photos in a pale plain colour.
I also think I need to do hair in black - which is annoying as I went back and added brown to the tops of heads, as I thought they were sculpted bald!
Those look brilliant Forbes, top work
Ho, Yus !!.
Excellent stuff, Forbes.
They do look the biz. 8)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks chaps - the basing does really bring them together!
They look Great
Take care
Andy
Whoah there! Before splashing paint around, those look more like the head rings worn by married warriors. I seem to remember they were a darkish colour. I'm assuming this is for The Men Who Would Be Kings, in much the way I multi based 10mm figure for Dux Brittaniarum.
I'd be pleased with that as an answer, as they look a pain to paint.
I'll do a bit more research.
And yes they are for TMWWBK - bases in a unit need to stay close in the rules, but exact positioning isn't too important, so this gives me movement trays, without them looking like formed troops. I will base my red coats on square bases, so they can line up all neat and tidy!
They look tres Bon, Fred! The basing really sets them off :)
Quote from: Leman on 03 October 2017, 02:48:21 PM
Whoah there! Before splashing paint around, those look more like the head rings worn by married warriors. I seem to remember they were a darkish colour.
Looking at the pictures on the front of the Warlord Married zulus, they do have dark coloured head rings.
This feels like the wrong way to do research - but the figures I have do look very similar to the Warlord ones, and trying to find real images is proving hard to find anything consistent.
So I'll add some black for hair, and try to miss the head rings, leaving them brown.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 03 October 2017, 06:36:11 PM
They look tres Bon, Fred! The basing really sets them off :)
Ta TP
Quote from: fred. on 03 October 2017, 08:41:29 PM
Looking at the pictures on the front of the Warlord Married zulus, they do have dark coloured head rings.
So I'll add some black for hair, and try to miss the head rings, leaving them brown.
Don't forget the careworn expressions.
;D ;D ;D
Sorry dear, I've GOT to go, I can't let Shaka down, he's organised everything, and there's the other side as well they'd be really disappointed if we didn't turn up to the battle. And I DID put it on the calendar so it really is your turn to look after the kids!
*runs off to war*
Have you seen me head ring anywhere, love?
'That disgusting sweaty, greasy thing with the hair stuck to it? You know I always hated that thing. Why can't you wear something decent when you go out like Mr Mkwala from next door? Anyway; I threw it away... But we can go shopping for a new one Saturday...'
If Zulu (or most other SA) women would speak up like that when their husbands are being impossible, my dear old country might get one of its feet a bit out of the swamp.
Anyway...
Saw some Vietnam stuff for sale over of LAF - some nice US River boats, house and lots of ground troops, mix of Pendraken and Timecast
http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=104074.msg1297474;topicseen#msg1297474
Might be of interest to someone - not getting much interest on LAF, probably due to it being 10mm
Lovely collection and a very reasonable price too... if only I had the money! :(
Thanks for sharing though.
Cheers,
Rob
I think they look fantastic, Fred, and the basing and sabots are very well done! As to head rings, I am too ignorant to have an opinion. :)
Vladgothic, from the Midlands? I do suspect that's a chap I know! Watchmaker by trade, so his attention to small fiddly detail is superb, great painting skills - shame it's mostly bare lead but the boats are cracking :)
Got some painting done today - some figures that have been sat nearly finished on painting sticks for months
Zulu War British Redcoats
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2 units for TMWWBKs - and the crew for a gatling gun - but not the gun for some reason! There is a lot of fiddly detail on these figures, with the white cross straps, and cuff details.
Space Marine - Breacher Squads
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Kind of at the other extreme a bunch of Epic scale Space Marine Breachers - doing the edges of the shields in black was a right pain - I thought it would be easy just following the edges of the shields, but I seemed to get paint everywhere! These guys still need a wash.
Both are looking good!
Very nice!
Where do the Space Marine Breachers come from? Never seen them before...
Cheers,
Rob
Thanks guys. The Breachers are from Vanguard who now have big ranges of sci fi stuff often with echoes of newer GW stuff.
Looking cool Forbes
Quote from: fred. on 10 October 2017, 06:36:35 AM
Thanks guys. The Breachers are from Vanguard who now have big ranges of sci fi stuff often with echoes of newer GW stuff.
Thanks! That might come in handy.
Cheers,
Rob
The Vanguard stuff is very nice - well worth a look as they are bringing out lots of new stuff.
Sudan
Thinking of doing some British troops for the Sudan - and they certainly used a lot of different uniforms! The three main options seem to be
* Grey
* Khaki
* Red jackets, blue trousers
I can skip the Red jackets choice, at least initially by using Zulu war troops.
I had been planning on going with Khaki as the main troop colour, but now having done a small amount of research think that Grey may be more useful for a longer period of the conflict. I know the ultimate answer is do both, but I have some troops I want to get painted (they are code NW1 if that makes a difference for the cut of the uniform).
You might find this Perry guide useful, https://www.perry-miniatures.com/pages.php?page=sudan-uniform-guide (https://www.perry-miniatures.com/pages.php?page=sudan-uniform-guide)
If you google "perry sudan uniform guide" you can find the pictures the article refers to.
Ta Paul - that's what had moved me away from my initial thoughts of khaki. As it seems to indicate grey was very common early on.
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Battle - Lizardmen vs Beastmen
Back to some fantasy gaming, my Lizardmen (green) around the outside, vs Jon's Beastmen (brownish) in the centre. On the most colourful of gaming mats!
We used the new(ish) Warhammer AoS card deck to generate a scenario, it worked well. Giving a basic kill victory condition, an interesting deployment with the defender in the middle, and the attacker in the 4 corners. I choose to stick to just two corners, as I didn't want to spread out too much, and the heavy woods on one side would have slowed my troops down a lot. The twist was a magical storm, giving all casters a +1.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/seB1DEcm0ZX3vial0E4QYa1GLsjKroQhWv8_nwdDAM7p1G-Wnn7z2dq-7KvnDFsm6K2_UsaX8sJTvyI6_KQ7PFM76qyneC-0Xn2Y3GxRPVOsp68yhr1nWhNcy7VgwndV5Dj0JUb6N1AOxi0fDJG_KjHZqo8z4yHWAIYoE0uB8kncytmQTuK4gsTt_cCer-jy6FUAF_3bIq1lnnZMIhqYf5GZBo8XvvLpXvjuxHaQytDW_Qdt81FAr63WZLU1R_lW4U-rVFipG5u0EZXzvhBlNTl7CtVVpfr8oD8PvFQ-TOt_uFM5vYFcOgk8F4afnnapYnNC-DebQlZYAWLES-JFRCeBc9wseGWhS4r8J7QSx3uZD5svoWX6htbR5xgiqFPFeYdUgRz635K1D_yaGVY16TGiPo5e-IrD6wlEObknNjwEuqAuIWUUxVFC6iGz-_Jfqm8aDYpSeKyc17upGA5M9AqirB7UwgstKxISLB09A2fvkMbdclh7anReTt0Cha-MsW97y206O5eEwqVoLTfHDInUYfmbv8t6aFoHPYFSObcNo1zwLs0SIq7ZzFGwva7z2QBjmnENKMwSn8m-j-qzFiksNk3seTiMcPZUfCO4YWPKwRyU-t5ZVNVDp5ncqhd963s0VcbYZxw2sLd9Ipbrc-9hr3q3aeMLsiWO=w1508-h998-no)
This was mid game. On the left it was all a bit cagey. With a few of my better quality troops holding up rather a lot of lighter beastmen.
On the right (top) the Beastmen heavy infantry are making rather too good progress. At the bottom right, my cavalry have been engaged by the beastmen cavalry and a giant. My cavalry dispatch the enemy cavalry but the giant smashed them up in return, before I was able to surround it an bring it down.
The battle turned out very bloody, with huge casualties on both sides. I won by about 200pts (out of 3000) when we did the final count up. My Stegadon (large dinosaur) hadn't done much during the game, but in surviving it denied a lot of points to the enemy!
Sounds good fun, Forbes !! :)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil. Was good to get back to a fantasy game, and the game cracks along at a good pace, 30 units a side, all over in 3.5 hrs including setting up armies and packing the whole table away.
Finished off basing the Zulu War British this week
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And got the first 3 colours on the next batch of these chaps last night.
Also painted these giant sand snakes during the week
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With liberal use of washes and dry brushing
Nice work chap
Wot Will sed. ;)
Cheers - Phil
:-bd =D> :-bd
What size bases are those Zulu War British on? I'm thinking about the Sudan again (would use one of our current rule sets, V&B )
30x30mm
I've got some figures ready for the Sudan.
LED Light box
Received a small LED Lightbox today - I got mine of ali express (about £5, two weeks delivery).
Empire Camp - desk light
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Empire Camp - light box
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Both photos have had minimal post production work, just cropping and an auto balance.
In situ
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7VmXKlcaiAlK_sfgoKkVJeoyfjYJWhis5xUOhLwTEI70Lnaxp05SSFIjPKunuCnQjze30VshqsTOj3kqvymwfnJsRKdEO5_gpt5sWYuxPqsVigAjTgcuuJ-ie9QW7wFdEl_znf-LondcjuzLk5BH_XZuZtrwnc4ZxjahVsuKP-c0Y519dqrQIthsK3uYuPSry_7T4ZP6R2YJDpl7UI7kBxmUxX7eaPbgP1GyIRLb3Vv4MXuXcDawgAnM6m0nBOvDh6tYJ4HYDFeXkCQukuHShH6YmgM3V8do0KjZtraCSu82mFeE2NDOrL4rbOfYX8jboeEkZ9n367KjnpPSO4O1m7VuDhqd_EiADrdAHnKU8cpj3m88hIsB3Na_PRhQMw6BDn4Xqe58gpsHOL3q_oyjQ7C9dzDCrdosPBC6dswjRgN_OAVfmxLUB__W9grbmity6TDOO0I8Oqtkqx5_kBdBCoAFDJaFwkKVEG-sVUW3gk_ULoYwqEZIfeBF7TjzAk4IA53AMevNh43rWSp1Fxmtg8sC1peFewC-bUGhUtz0n5vlb5lQhZu4HvhXttI5s0G6AHDVSYHa6QYyoGTfdWlHkBhnOOlSuiKsXLvGe96XgHxMatlgh5TRJvVWyMo56bziPsnkrabB1fYGVaBfmrOOxm9cd25iE71sj86M=w1418-h1063-no)
Giant Snake Riders
Desk
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Light box
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Good results Fred, especially those snake riders!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 06 November 2017, 11:54:50 AM
Good results Fred, especially those snake riders!
Yes - I'm thinking the same. The snake riders look much better in the light box. The camp less so, but the light box gives a more even light.
I also like that as it is higher up, I am taking the shot from the figure's height rather than overhead.
What I don't like is that I am seeing so many messy bits of painting and basing with supersize photos :(
Oh Ghu alone yes - I look at painted stuff, think I've done a nice job, take a photo and look on the phone, think it's still decent, look at it on a decent monitor and cry :D
I have to remind myself that it's 10mm, and blown up to 1/32nd it's not going to be good ;)
The camp's come out better - the rider in the first shot looks HUGE, far bigger than the other figures but the angle in the second plus I guess more even light makes him less IN YOUR FACE so he's in scale? The bright tent and flags do look a bit subdued tho.
The rider is Kalistra so is big. The troops at the front are GW, so pretty comparable with Pendraken historicals.
Ah, he's twelve going on fifteen, and the foot are ten going on ten then :D
Yeah, ok, no wonder he looks big!
Okay, need
Nice comparison shots, Forbes.
I think I'll have to invest in one of those, at some stage.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 06 November 2017, 03:14:11 PM
Nice comparison shots, Forbes.
I think I'll have to invest in one of those, at some stage.
Cheers - Phil
Go on, its only £5.50, delivered https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Portable-Folding-lightbox-Photography-Photo-Studio-Softbox-Lighting-Kit-Light-box-for-iPhone-Samsang-Digital-DSLR/32824251578.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.NiGAEU
Best Brown
Making good use of the local Homebase closing down sale, I picked up a big pot of brown emulsion - claims to be chocolate, but not sure myself.
I'd got some sheets of A3 MDF a while ago to make terrain bases, to replace the rather basic bits of funky foam I have been using.
So I painted the MDF, when you use a proper decorating brush (2.5" in width) not a tiny hobby brush you can paint a lot of flat stuff very quickly. Very glad I painted these before cutting.
Decided to paint the ovals of bright blue foam I use for hills too.
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This was about half-way though. The MDF has had a coat of paint on both sides, and I have added sand to the still wet top coat.
I have given the hill ovals a coat on each side. They eventually got another coat to cover the blue fully (and to cover the edges).
Once the sand had stuck, I gave another patchy coat to 4 of the boards to use for temperate ground, left the other 4 for desert. Then added a dry brush to al the boards. And decided the desert ones were too dark so added a couple of heavy dry brushes of sandy shades to them.
Very interesting at the top of the page - today I acquired a Warmaster Empire army, which will be joining the ranks of my Italian Wars stuff.
The camp? Yep GW Empire generally works well for Italian wars. You may need to file off a bunch of skulls though!
My Empire stuff can be seen here http://www.kerynne.com/games/WMEmpire.html
Nice one Forbes!
A fantastic array. You do wonder what GW were thinking when they cancelled those ranges.
Zulu War British
Got these chaps based up this evening
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ctgf5qirlwDadHGqAOHUSQoEBxPwxVnCrTGbDrkSgNT_HiKSDDDN1JlpYLnpPiZsqw0C8m_N7wq5VfrYSPwT8sHBLc0ao_fDJCrB-kyokSCMtRzWJn4dvhxknvciFpzu24TYUKxVDI076URMQyHz_So80rYTM4uGh0q3FBlMBO1Y3rIvkws35OjyWneZ9JJ4jr87tdqXIlusZnWpyNxEYg_yOtN8ZeWhXyKXjq-WJSURzWAJSUzBBWEoRTq48eAd43ptYSG_2H-8x1gnQUs1Q6rrUIRh53L4FS50dmL_egGOc_m4Z_qdCODgKHTRiw4I4bUKC_W-BcBnDy9XXTpoxIHO4-9TVTbcRsWBZWxFPTae9vdJ-cCwD21Apvv7SXTk0Fj4Khir_aqQXd4kRgvgLJXOuR6o3RL_6nYX6VhIrwR3UjML6KQFjFwYy124LBzfxipe9sp0xhFkQYDvIKnZvOv0RbrehLr0S0jDZ48k514c9DSX4HLxlK0l1GrgmyiEdq8Lno9ahUnSkX18PLMsbHXFrKbzBYtCruVdTZB7MqrItQLam7j2CWuioKf8rNZHmtF0FoNJrBsa5i96id5HG-nXIERymMoCoyeDcWucwpATso1qZpcomS7V9U3CSg3bf1U1Be55OfZm4irK6K_me1rSuKcQgVMiMYR8=w1351-h976-no)
This gives me 4 units of infantry for TMWWBKs along with a gatling gun, and a heliograph team. The heliograph has no in game rules, but its cool. So this gives me a good force of European Regulars.
Now need to get a few more Zulus done.
You can never have too many Zulus!
by the way Forbes, don't forget the painting competition.
Good point. Better remember to take some pictures tomorrow.
Nice troops!
:-bd =D> :-bd
Heliograph 8)
Lovely stuff, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Looks very good. Why not enter those above in the wargames army category.
Thanks chaps
Quote from: Leman on 19 November 2017, 11:34:53 AM
Why not enter those above in the wargames army category.
Might do that - I had been thinking of entering my fishmen army, but when I separated out the pendraken from non-pendraken figures, what was left was a bit small to be an army. Though these chaps may not number many more.
Made some progress with the sheets of MDF shown on p28
Cut most of them up into rough ovals / circles to act as bases for loose terrain, such as trees and rocks, and possibly to act as rough ground on their own. Add some flock and grit to the darker ones, still have the lighter desert ones to do.
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I would like to add a few more 3d elements to them, such as small bits of clump foliage as bushes, and tufts etc. But I can see two potential problems with this,
1) storage - I was planning just to pile these up in a box, but if they have sticky up bits, they probably need to be stored in a way that stops them squashing each other, which suggests on their edges, with some spacers.
2) in game the 3d bits will get in the way of bases of troops, and to a lesser degree in the way of the terrain pieces.
But I think adding 3d stuff will make the bases look better. Too much gaming stuff is flat.
I just received 12 hard foam baseplates by ziterdes.
https://www.fantasywelt.de/Ziterdes-Bastelplatten-6mm-4-Stueck
I already have some and they work really great. Just paint and flock. Bit high for 10mm, but they sink I the fleece throw a bit.
I made some 3d stuff as well, but put it on very thin steel bases, so I can add whatever i want to the plates without getting in the way of movement or storage.
Also forgot to mention I keep 3 bags of loose lichen to add to the table here and there, to "break up" the surface.
For 10 mm vlliages and towns I have some bases with attached hedges and walls, but not too much because storage is indeed a bit harder.
I've got a couple of the Total Battle Miniatures village bases, and these have hedges and walls cast into them - but they are a latex type material so fairly flexible.
I might just go with the random scatter of bits of lichen or clump foliage. I also like the idea of doing some small sub bases of stuff - might do this for rocky areas, as currently I just used some pieces of stones, which work OK, but I think would look better based up.
Yes I think rocks and such look better when based up and flocked. Otherwise they just look like they are sitting on top of the terrain instead of being part of the terrain.
I must admit a fully made and fixed terrain base looks better, but having the flexibility to represent whatever terrain feature you want by mxing smaller bases of 'stuff' on the larger area far outweighs that (for me personally). It also means only one stack of area bases to store, and the trees/rocks/rubble/shrub/whatever you want bases stored in a tub/box in the cupboard :D
28mm British Airborne
Something a bit different today - some Warlord 28mm British Airborne, I've been building these figures this week, and today had a chance to start colouring them in.
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Got the main colours done, and half-way through the brown camo on the smocks. Then they need a good strong wash to tone them down!
I'm quite surprised how quickly these have painted up. Which is good as this is less than half the total force.
Looking zippy already, Forbes. :)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil
28mm British Airborne
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Got some more done on these chaps tonight. Strong Tone wash across the bodies and legs - you can really see the impact of this, as the centre chap hasn't been washed yet.
Then boots & weapons with black, woodwork in a mix of Light Brown and Beasty Brown (also used this to add some highlights to the smocks), flesh base coat, and on the right hand four webbing done in Russian Uniform.
Next step is the webbing on the rest of these guys, then hair, which should but paint on everything. Then washes and highlights. Then back to the other six to finish their smocks and webbing.
Ho, Yus !! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Lots of progress on the 28mm British Airborne - and they are now pretty much done!
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_MJnmrTTBHX-ZL4tosrs34cgtzSqjKchXBPricuBM9bL4J2Zwq59d9v4lEur2OelBP1Nd_8b4yTf8d5ts708UeL1ULBvs_gY9XCdl9-gXQM53PZHSi0qso0CInePE8nlU1-I6mVI8QZP4T2R_MeRp5nO-uFYaFcGCjzTRHx-0itnEVkDyz5iauiUGOQE2VicaHYGytv2pEUNa2Y-ET-nTq1Mw0JOUz4Cryx_j_u3oMk_Bi867ZcJgjKXuwqV6lelk5FjJLw3BF0jzVuToLOFOJm--yvgi4eb7OZyWOVDWDEy0t2TdpUGHeTXk1W3JsMGqG39URrVHcDGygTsYQJxZcrZ8mtSDDsJNmBVJJQPFzAcSXRrkIZyEnj8xU7mhgYuipr6eIALGrBdy35deIofrxvRcCxqSuccU8QxMNtVN_pVLDnGs4FbOymM8BEqX28LT-uf-gSoSRNX3emv51ctR1NFpin_OYu3ZmwinLvT1lqteoVHbMRK2uDY4kgRmCRRQqldMHTHbFMcfU9ULVwV7U4b3ulHEaypjM9OjqvgNpOH3nnqyiTV44Zh3p1Is7HGgJrdgpH-nTSK3N8RsFYrlTKeCgcsIN5C_n4cEFSKyH7JTcMaJtnOioA49bQAcb3hxxyshDzLQvFKy5qyPo-aFNF_ezXj1w7uxv6=w1323-h853-no)
Looking great!
Are those the warlord ones?
edit: never mind, said so on the last page!
Thanks Peter.
Yes they are (the plastic ones). They go together very nicely, most weapons come with both arms already attached - which looks a lot better than some of their other kits. The only arm that seems to be 'missing' is one carrying the Bren, or even just a loose Bren, this would have allowed some moving poses too.
Yes the newer sculpts with the arms molded onto the weapons are way better.
They do however, as you say, limit the possibility a bit. I know what you mean, I have assembled 60 of the buggers last week (USMC and IJA)
They are cracking! Very tasty.
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Super work, Forbes !
Cheers - Phil
Top work!
Thanks chaps, I have enjoyed painting these far more than I thought I would. I normally get a bit bored doing 28s
They are very nice.
I think it's been about two decades since I painted anything larger than 15mm.
Epic - Traitor Guard (red) vs Squats (green & grey)
We've been back on the epic wagon the last few weeks (using our own home-brew cut down epic rules)
This week it was my Squats (who have been generally unbeaten) versus the newly painted Traitor Guard (many of whose infantry are still very much WIP)
We have been using the 40k deck of war scenario cards, which generally produce a interesting scenario. This week we had deployment across the narrow width of the table, in two touching diamond shapes. The scenario was to capture the supply cache - which was 1 of 6 objective markers, which you would checked each one in your control at the start of your turn, and on a 6 is was the supply cache, and this become the objective to hold at the end of the game. The twist was it was night, with an initial 45cm visibility, with a 50% chance of increasing by 15cm each turn.
Turn 1
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Traitor Guard tanks advance and take some fire. The Guard had a lot of artillery that was rather redundant early on, and their super heavy tanks where less effective than they should have been, due to the night rules. I was hamper by these rules too, but not as much.
a couple of activations later, from the other side.
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Early skirmishes give advantage to the squats - the Leman Russ formation on the far side has been heavily damaged and is broken. The Mechanised Infantry in the centre has been pounded and broken, and the other Leman Russ formation on this side is starting to take fire. I had a significant activation advantage, so was able to let the Guard advance, then move forward to shoot them.
At the start of the second turn I won initiative, and on checking the supply caches, I discovered it in the objective near my baseline. This gave me the game, as I had blunted the Guard attack, and they had a lot of ground to cover into my troops.
Turn 3 or so
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I decided to take the fight to the Guard, more to make a game of it, than for any strategic reason. And started to suffer a lot of casualties! As although I had broken a number of guard formations, I hadn't actually managed to destroy any. The Guard player also realised that is SP artillery was fairly mobile so could bring it up and start shooting over open sights.
Looks great
Thanks Will.
Squat Reinforcements
As these Thunderfire proxies and the rhinos have now been on the table several times in just an undercoat, its clearly time to get them painted
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dcSwaxpH7PezDKpfCkx-dJqGVjASgELXMGEc-AGWmoUTnHRBcl1dFQm9BY6pLnKFePUZXuAXLuZx4etiGXppqxlf7sVJb21yTHly8c8Tcn1WjHB0IQWuque7vww25_1ggK53qZtF1gAbhTzmI6spE05tQTU3N3ZlALywJrbEFJXP9n1XHC_gE0B4Mfsqx9ypDcHf2GFg9BhsLMp9IdsCDQPwHIyjZW9EAQIAHW1zh4FVOJFQPNYWMyn3AuFUr5wApiMQB1rfUP7VjgYcx7Ur0NFZq4mAQRnmb7oUoOowt9yq7A0KvpNR_vW9-5g6YklpFpNBw4xwGNf4EVp-PqSpbDb8m01rlCXNVIr8LjppmbQUt4Od5H_QtyO80HWXXRJ9zkc76Lk-ehEwDczNAVrDHd5qLswLLY8v5V0TzYQOolGDE2YI5vkKD9yACV7VK_7dfbHdERYT8Zzb8NK-CpDpUhd0K_WV_y1hcflZlOIMd-_8ySxO7ngKbnDbcnL4zx7BtntiLM6yjwSuvypH-zEHjHJ0L_L4dSoRgO9m5-kzYMx2upmHBscizl-wf9NR4XUdoxcf1lXgpIh3ijIr9UbSrWUO08DbNEoknaNjsU2A4c69L93NHaQj_Uc-GojdHXiRLzF4cqk2SLJ95OO8aEW9CXvAXYn_Umm5NA=w1414-h961-no)
So got these pretty much done today. 6 thunderfires (vanguard miniatures) and 9 rhinos (+1 original)
Not sure about basing the guns, part of me thinks I should to tie them in with the rest of the army, but the main downside is that due to the cruciform legs, they will need huge bases.
Those are superb Forbes!
Ta!!
Not sure I went bright enough with the highlights. They looked very bright when they went on, but especially in the photo they don't show up too well.
They look really nice! Brings back good times
I still have a ton of old Epic marines, they need to release a new base set or I need to sell them off
ErHo:- http://epic-uk.co.uk/wp/rules/
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 December 2017, 10:20:28 PM
ErHo:- http://epic-uk.co.uk/wp/rules/
You dont even know how incredible this link is!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Quote from: fred. on 18 December 2017, 10:01:03 AM
Epic - Traitor Guard (red) vs Squats (green & grey)
Table looks really good
Take care
Andy
They look brill, Fred - highlight is just about right, to me!
Quote from: ErHo on 18 December 2017, 10:24:31 PM
You dont even know how incredible this link is!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
My pleasure boss!
Thanks Chaps
ErHo - there is a huge amount Epic stuff available online now. The hardest bit is working out which version you want to go with - genrally this decision is mainly influenced by what version you played back in the day!