Game on Part 2

Well, here is part 2 of that fatefull gaming night. We ended last time with 2 wins for my Orc's, and here we have the final chapter of the evening.

I did help my friend re organise his army of Dwarfs to be a little more offensive, so he had a different list this time. My other friend took Vampire Counts, to give them a whirl. We played the Battle Royal from teh Rule book (appendix section) as we wanted a 3 way game. It was an objective game (all of our objectives were in the centre of the table), then there was a roll off, the lowest being deployed in the centre. I rolled the lowest, so I had the honour of deploying my whole army in the centre (least I get first turn though!).

Just a note about the pics, they were taken by a phone, so they aren't the best, but I thought I'd post them anyway just to remember the game.  Here are the pics...

 Battle field set. Please note my army sandwiched in the middle of 2 others, and the only painted board section off to the side where it plays no part in the game.

 Waaagh! Gorbash deployed in the middle of the field, with my Arrer boyz bunkered down in the ruined watch tower.

 The Dwarf throng deployed for battle. There is a runed cannon, runed grudge thrower, 25 GW warriors, 20 Warriors with shields, Runed Runesmith and a tough Battle Standard. I was not looking forward to facing this (my fault as I told him what to take).

 Vampire Counts. Think there is a spirit swarm, Vargulf (I think), 30 Ghouls, Vampire Hero, Master Necromancer behind them and a spirit swarm on the right.

 

First turn doesn't see much action, so second turn here sees my Big Un's Waaagh Charge into the ghouls and vampire, he does likewise against my rock lobber (Should not that battle Royal has each player take a movement turn, then magic then shooting and combat one after the other, very different but interesting).

 Dwarfs charge my Wolf riders who were trying to eliminate the grudge thrower. The big unit of GW warriors and thane didn't like that idea.

 This here is my friend taking off all the Vampire Counts. Why? Well, in the shooting phase, the cannon snipered off the master necromancer, and then crumbling happened. The vampire took back control, only to be beat down by Warboss Gorbash. One army down, just one to go!

 Unsurprising the Wolf Riders were destroyed. No big deal, least they did a couple of wounds against the Grudge Thrower, and tied it up for a turn. Here we still see my Arrer boyz in the ruined tower, controlling 2 objectives. I wonder what they will shoot at...

 This turn I move my Big Uns towards the Dwarfs, magic is uneventful as it is Dwarfs. Shooting, I only have my Arrer boyz left, I go for the Grudge Thower as it only has 1 wound left, If I'm lucky I might just kill it, and panic off the cannon and GW warriors with the Battle Standard thane even with a reroll.

 Guess what happened, worst rolls ever, even with a reroll.

 The Warriors with shields advance down the hill for vengeance. These boards don't have a lot of traction hence why there is jusr 1 model there.

 Big Uns charge!

Orc's win! Waaagh!

Three games and three wins for the Orc's! I feel a comeuppance coming! It was a fun evening and just to set the record straight I did provide beer for all involved so I'm not all bad! Still, looking forward to the next evening, and I'll try and remember to take my good camera. I also think they may be a bit of 40k next time, alongside fantasy of course, so should be good.

Painting wise I have just being working on my Big Uns and I have also finished another board section. Hopefully this time the painted ones will see use.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers.

Game on Part 1

Well, as I previously mentioned I had a gaming night with some friends last night with Warhammer Fantasy. I took along my Orc's and Goblins, and yeah had a good time. I did remember to take photo's (as well as my friend), so I actually have something to show for it.

For all of the games, it was 1000pts, and just for completeness, here is my meagre list I took for all my games, no matter the foe.

Lords (218pts)

• Orc Warboss 'Gorbash' (218pts) 
• Shield
  
  • Magic Items BRB - Armour of Destiny, BRB - Crown of Command, BRB - Sword of Striking
    

Heroes (225pts)

• Orc Big Boss 'Gitkilla' (125pts) Battle Standard Bearer
  
  • Magic ItemsBRB - Armour of Silvered Stee
    
• Orc Shaman 'Skabz' (100pts) Lore of da Big Waaagh!, Magic Items, Wizard Level 2
  

Core (385pts)

• Goblin Wolf Riders (65pts) Musician
  
  • 5x Goblin Wolf Riders5x Shield
    
• Orc Arrer Boyz (70pts) 10x Orc Arrer Boyz
  
• Orc Big 'Uns (250pts) Boss, Musician, 25x Orc Boyz
  
  • Standard Bearer BRB - Standard of Discipline
    

Rare (170pts)

• Goblin Rock Lobber (85pts)
• Goblin Rock Lobber (85pts)
  
  

My first game was against my friends Night Goblin list. It was a special scenario, where I was raiding a town he took over. Basically he had a few units already garrisoned in some buildings but he had 250pts less than I. The game was about building control. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photo's of this game, but hopefully you can believe it was a win for my Orc's.

The next game was against my Dwarfs which another friend was using. Essentially he had;

25 Warriors with GW

20 quarrellers

10 miners

Cannon

Runesmith and a Dwarf Lord.

Here are the images of the game with some attached text.

 Waaagh Gorbash deploy for a scrap with the stunties.

 The Dwarf Throng prepare to defend their realm.

 Turn 1, wolf riders advance down the flank.

 Good ol Foot of Gork, first time I tried this spell, I wonder if its a good spell?

 Not bad ;)

 Another stomp.

 A costly magic phase for the Dwarfs. Hnady that the Foot of Gork didn't scatter.

 The Dwarf's didn't achieve much in their, turn, so turn 2 we see the Big Uns advace full speed and the wolf riders ready to kill the cannon.

 the miners turn up to ruin the day for my back field.

 This doesn't look good for me ;)

 The Dwarfs turn 2 sees the great weapon warriors and Dwarf lord attempt a charge on the Big Uns for some vengeance. Unfortunately they fall short.

 The Miners chase afater my Arrer boyz.

 Turn 3 Orc charges, all in! Even remembered the Waaagh ability on my Warboss.

 The Dwarfs put up a Stalwart resistance.

 But to no avail.

 The miners clear one of my Lobbers.

 The Big Uns try to chase down the 1 quarreller left and the Runesmith.

End game. Didn't get to catch the Dwarfs, but ended in an Orc victory.

So two games in its two wins for the Orc's. We played one more game that evening, and it was a 3 way free for all, using the appendix scenario Battle Royal from the Battle Rule book. Next post will see what happens in that game with some attached pics.

Hope you enjoyed the pics.

Cheers.

More Big 'Un's and decisions...

I had a productive evening last night, and managed to polish off the last two members of the front rank of my Big 'Un's unit. So now I can take a shot of the whole rank, as intended. Looking mighty and fine if I do say so.

 

 You may have noticed that I am doing checkers on the weapons. I figured that the Big 'Un's would be big enough to bully anything smaller to do that for them, so I'm intending to do that for the whole unit. When I finally get some normal Orc Boyz, I don't think I'll be that keen (all checkered out and all that).

I've also been thinking on what to paint next. I had in my mind that I'd do the first rank, and then move on to something different. Only thing is that I'm still awaiting some models from old ebay to arrive, which is most vexing. Ahh well, I'm sure something will come to mind.

I've also thought about my army list, as I have a game this Saturday night with some friends. Its only 1000pts, but it will need to be an all comers list, as I lack the model variety to do anything else. I have a few ideas what to include from my practice games, so we shall see. At least this time there will be someone to officially take photo's! So i'm told anyway!

Back to painting.

Cheers!

Big 'Un's and Realm of Battle boards

Working on my Orc's and Goblin's for an upcoming game, I put the finishing touches to my Big 'Uns standard bearer. I've slowly be doing more and more freehand in my models, so I was quite keen to give freehand a go on a banner. The choice for me was obvious and classic. That big red face on a yellow background. Painting so many Imperial Fists means yellow comes quite easy now, so it was merely the freehand I was worried about pulling off.

I put a fair amount of detail on the face, including teeth and spots, though the camera doesn't always show that. Either way I'm am very pleased with how it turned out, and can't wait to use them in a game.

Here he is...

I have also put some time aside to painting the battleboard we use for our games. I think its a shame we have some cool painted models, but are still playing on grey and undercoated black Realm of Battle boards, so I made a dent in one of them. I still have about 7 more to do at some stage, but this one only took a couple of hours, so hopefully it will be easy to get them all done. I added a lot of washes to add some colour and depth to the cracks. I quite like how it turned out. I also wanted some moss in there, so I watered down some Castellan Green for it. Finished it off with a varnish. Will see if that holds up after the next lot of games. Hope you like.

I used a lot of artists acrylic for this, as its far cheeper than buying the individual pots. Goes a long way too.

At the moment, on working on more Big 'Uns, and am aiming to at the very least have the first rank painted before the next game. I'm also working on a 1000pt list for them, so will share that when I have made a few changes.

Anyways, back to painting.

Cheers!

The Waaagh gathers...

Well time certainly flies. Didn't realise I was so slack posting here during August but there you go. I have been up to things though, so hopefully this month will be a little more productive.

In case it wasn't clear, I've been working on my Orc's and Goblin's. A while back I posted my completed Warboss and Orc Shaman. Since then I've been busy, but I finally got round to adding some more things to the force.

Firstly I assembled my boxes of Orc Warriors. I had three boxes but I only assembled 25 of them. The reason for this is that a) The sprues didn't have enough of the weapons to give them all additional hand weapons, and b) I literally hurt my back bending over scraping and assembling these brutes. Henceforth they are known as the 'Brackbreakaz'. This unit is going to be my Big 'Uns. I have modelled them all with extra armour in the form of shoulder pads, and they are all going to have shields on their back, just like Warboss Gorbash himself. I thought it was a cool idea.

So, I assembled them and my Arrer boyz in the form of Rugluds Armoured Orc's, as well as purchasing from old ebay two of the old Rock Lobbers that have the Orc crew. I thought it would match my theme of having predominately Orc's, plus I'm a sucker for old school models, especially at a good price! So I can't wait to use them. I also managed to procure some old Kev Adam's Goblin Wolf Riders as scouts for my meagre force.

So not only have I assembled some models and spent some money getting more, I've also painted some. First up is Gitkilla, my Tribes Battle Standard. His job is to carry the pole carrying Gorbash's trophy's (the ones that won't fit on his back banner, cos you can never have enough trophies. I made sure the Dwarf was in my Hold's colours as well, just for continuity. Hope he looks proper!

 This model is of the old metal standard for the Black Orc's. I thought it wold work well as a Battle Standard, at least till I can get my mits on the ForgeWorld one!

 Added some freehand to the gutplate to try and make him stand out. Next to the unit standard of the Big 'Uns he doesn't really, but we shall see if this helps him stand out.

Poor Dwarf Clansman. What a way to go...

I have also painted the Big 'Uns champion. This is using the spare bits that was left over from the Warboss conversion. Yet to be named!

So, not only have I assembled (so, so many orc's) and painted two whole models, I've also managed to have some games with these guys. Now I know I say this everytime, but I forgot to take photo's, again. There has to be a better system than me relying on my own memory, but I can't think of one at this stage.

Anyways, I got an opportunity to try out 1000pts vs Vampire Counts with these guys, and It ended with a minor loss in one game and a win in the other. Not bad. I learned a lot, not least of which was to equip my Warboss better, and what works in the game. Rock Lobbas are kinda cool, especially two of them so I'll definately keep them in.

Still, I got a game lined up in a week and a bit, so I'll take the greenskins again, and hopefully remember to take few action shots.

Back to painting!

Cheers!

Chaos and a touch of Slayer

Well, it has been awhile since I have update this, but I haven been quite busy. I played in a nice 2 vs 2 game last weekend using my Chaos against Night Goblins and Empire, with Dwarfs as my ally (as my friend wanted to try something without magic). Pretty strange match up, but we went with it anyways. Needless to say, I got wiped out by turn 3 I think. Good times. I deduced it was due to my unpainted models, whereas my painted Dwarfs that my friend was using, just would not go down. Lesson learned!

So here is some of the Chaos I have painted since then. First is my mage, Tormentor, using the Avatars of War model. Very cool model, and I use it as a lv3 Sorceror Lord, as Throgg or an exaulted champion take up my Hero slot. Hoping now it will do more than fail to cast!

So now that is all my characters painted. Next up I have finished my unit of trolls. I'm only taking 5 for the time being as I've dropped Throgg and am trying something else (my Exaulted Hero on a daemonic steed). Hoping now they will do a little better!

And the full unit. 

Just incase your interested and I don't forget, here is how I painted them.
Skin
Midnight Blue
Nuln Oil wash
Dry brush Midnight Blue
Dry brush Shadow Grey
Dry brush Space Wolves Grey

Belly
Steel Legion Drab
Ushabti Bone
Agrax Earthshade Wash

Mutation
Khorne Red (drybrush)
Blood Red (drybrush)
1:1 Blood Red and Troll Slayer Orange (drybrush)
 Agrax Earthshade Wash

I have also not neglected my Dwarfs and finished a Troll Slayer standard. I've now got 18 painted.

 In progress I have a killer unit of Chaos Warriors on the way. I hope to be able to show my first rank soon. Oh and of course more slayers to paint.

Cheers!