Warriors of Chaos II Warhounds

Thought I make a quick post before the insanity of Christmas hits. Finished these off on the weekend. Originally I was going to make them both blue, but decided to make it a bit more interesting and have one of each. Makes it easier to differentiate on the field, and wasn't boring to paint.

Enjoy

Next I'm trying to finish off the last 2 Chaos Trolls for my unit. Once I have done them, then I have painted every unit for my Chaos other than the Warriors unit.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers.

And now for something completely different...Warriors of Chaos Characters

To keep things fresh for the Dwarfs, I decided to work on some of my Warriors of Chaos that have been neglected in their box for awhile now. Quite neglected in fact that when I did open th ebox I found that a lot of the painted Trolls and characters were broken when I opened it. Apparantly my wife moved the box, but the damage in their is more consistent with the box being kicked across the room.

However, not one to pause, I glued the Trolls back together and made a start on fixing the characters. For one of them, the Daemonic mount character, I really wanted him in the list, as I love the model and its also painted, which is a big bonus. However to fit him in, I kinda had to make him a battle standard. Eventually after long thought, I found an old Dark Elf banner, and used that, so all I had to do was add it to the saddle, and make a banner. I hope you find it disturbing (bonus points if you can decipher the Black Tongue on the back).

Astoroth, BSB of the Sightless Eye

 

 Next up is the revamped Tormentor, my Mage of Nurgle from the Avatars of War range. 

 Lastly I have my Daemon Prince, Ommadon, using the Be'Lakor model. 

 Lastly, a group shot. 

So this is all my characters painted for my planned 1600pt Warriors of Chaos army. Doesn't look like much, but I am happy where they are at. Next up, if not Dwarf related, might be Warhounds and more trolls.

Cheers!

Garagrim Ironfist

I mentioned that after I finished the Longbeards I was going to paint another model just for a break. Well that model happened to be Garagrim Ironfist. My friend Cail was kind enough to give it to me when we played our siege game a week and a bit ago for the campaign, and I thought I might take the opportunity to get him done. Didn't realise he was stark naked, but there you go!

A very cool model, from the Storm of Chaos era. Next up will be some more Longbeards. I know I've said this before but they take a long time to paint!

Anyways, back to it.

Cheers.

Longbeards part 2

Finished the next 5 Longbeards. Glad to finally start making a dent in this unit. Let me know what you think.

Quite happy with how they turned out. Next I'm painting something else for a break, then I'll be back painting the Longbeards. Only 20 to go!

Cheers!

Siege!

Last weekend my friends and I got round to playing the end of season game for our Blood in the Badlands Campaign. The game originally had a few boards being played on at the same time, however due to on player not being able to make it, we only played on one board. So it was a siege game of 2400pts. My Dwarfs were up against 1200pts of Night Goblins and 1200pts of Lizardmen. What follows are some pics and comments from the game. I do hope I remembered it right!

 The siege is set. The objectives are all at this end of the castle, so I put all my Dwarfs and siege engines there. My artillery claimed the hill to fire on the castle. I made sure they were out of bow range as well.

 The amount of magic I was going up against. I'm sure there were some kniving plans being made.

 The Dwarf army arrayed for battle. I took a siege tower to bypass the fortifications and a siege ram to have a go at the gate section. Then there is 30 Warriors with Great Weapons on the far left, 32 Iron Breakers with Grimwald and bsb in the middle, and finally 30 Lond beards with Great Weapons in the siege tower.

 The Dwarf artillery consisted of 2 cannons, 2 grudge throwers and 2 bolt throwers. Their objective was to get more dice for the pre game artillery turns and then attack the enemy warmachines.

 Lizardmen Temple Guard at the gate surrounded by warmachines and saurus warriors to the left. At this stage I didn't know how tough saurus would be in a siege. A little spoiler, they are tough.

 Dwarf 1st turn sees two charges get off, my warriors rolled very low, and just sauntered a few inches.

 Combat saw my Iron Breakers bounce off the temple guard and the long beards bounce off the tower due to a lucky steadfast roll.

 Enemy turn sees them move a few units around the battlements, and the others at the other end of the caste, suffle along.

 Dwarf turn 2 sees more assaults going against the walls. All my units bounce off, though the far left tower is ready to fall to my 30 Warriors next turn. The Iron Breakers just do poorly against the Temple Guard again. Not enough strength to get the wounds through.

 Artillery on the other hand do very well. The cannons got removed in the pre battle phase, but since I didn't rune up any war machines, I just went for quantity. The grudge throwers by turn 2 have effectively wiped out the enemy war machines.

 Enemy turn 2 sees more shuffling along.

 At this stage it looks quite good for the Dwarfs, still lots of models. I'm sure nothing could ruin this...

 Here you see my forces at the end of the turn 2 magic phasse. They got 1 spell off, a Curse of the Badmoon with Irresistable force. I effectively lost 1/3 of my army. The warriors took the brunt of it losing 23 models.

 My turn 3 I try and see if there is any point in continuing. Close combat sees the remains of the warriors claim the tower (at last). Whereas everything else fails to do anything significant.

And that is where I called it, 3 turns in. Undone by 1 spell in a magic phase! Ah well, it was great to see the castle in action and have a siege game. It has been a very long time since we have had any games like this so I'm sure I've done things wrong. In the game I thought that those in the castle have stubborn or steadfast, which made shifting them very hard. I also think in hindsight that the Iron Breakers just were not strong enough to do any damage, perhaps Hammerers would have been better? Still, some things worked really well, such as the vast artillery which does a lot of damage on those walls. The siege tower as well proved a worthy investment, though perhaps next time I'll put another unit in there.

Still that wraps up the Spring campaign for now. We might get another campaign turn in before the ned of the year, but we shall see. Still it was a very cool and characterful game. One of these campaign games has to be a win for the forces of order? Surely!

Well better get cracking on painting.

Cheers.

Battleboard 4 complete!

Just a quick update here, with a photo of the 4th Battlebaord for our group. This is the halfway mark. Very pleased that this is done, so now means that we will have one gaming table fully painted for the next gaming night. Also my youngest son Max helped paint this, so it was a nice bonding moment that wasn't at all spoiled by him painting the table as well ;)

Hope you like!

Dwarf Longbeards

I've been deciding what to paint for my Dwarfs as I believe I have most things covered, and I thought that its been awhile since I painted a regiment, and thought I might tackle the old metal Longbeards that I've had assembled and primed for about 6 or 7 years.

I must say, that these models are really nice, so much detail on them! I hope they won't be ditched when the new Dwarf models come out however I have an inkling they will be which is a shame. Just as well I got some more recently and perhaps before the release I may increase them to 40. These were a lot of fun to paint, and its really great to see all the gems and that these old Dwarfs have there priorities straight with all the drinking mugs aplenty.

I'm also painting up this unit for the Bugman's unit painting challenge, so that will give me some extra incentive to keep at them. Hope you like the look of them.

Love these models. Get them while you can!

Cheers!

Battleboard 3 complete!

Here I present in a very short post of the 3rd battleboard. My friend Cail has been very productive with the campaign map and tokens, so I thought it be only fair that pick up the slack and get some boards done. Here it is in all its glory and apologies for the bad photo.

 

Despite some imperfections I really like this board piece as my son Alec added some brush strokes to it as well. Not bad for a 3 year old! Will definately get him on the other board pieces as well. 

Thanks for looking 

Cheers!

Fuergil Firebeard - Lord Of Legend

Finished off a character for the Badlands campaign. His name is Fuergil Firebeard. I'm still thinking of his background, but I think either way it will involve flames and something extra spicy.

Anyways, here he is and I’m glad I finally managed to paint this Lord of Legend.

 Still thinking of what to paint next, but either way it will be Dwarf related. Thanks for looking. Cheers.

Blood in the Badlands Campaign map painted!

Just like the title says, my friend Cail was very productive and managed to finish off the campaign map. Not only that he has also painted up some flags, so no more jellybeans for map counters (just eating!). I think you will agree he has done an amazing job. I especially like the river effects he used for the rivers. This map follows closely with the battlebaords I have been painting up as well. Guess I better get cracking!

Enjoy!