Empire vs High Elves Warhammer Army Project battle report

 Firstly, I must give a thanks and an apologies for those wonderful people that have left comments on some of the posts I have done. I am unsure, but for some reason, I am unable to at present to comment on my own posts! A big thank you non the less.

As is customary for me, it has been awhile since the last post. Work, regrettably has consumed all my spare time, however, I have taken a much needed break and am on holidays for a few weeks. So I invited an old friend over to have a game of the greatest of all games, Warhammer Fantasy. We decided to do an old 5th edition scenario, Ambush. My Empire (2000 points), being ambushed by the neferious High Elves (1350 points).

I will add some rough commentary of the major events from the game in the photos I took, rather than a full blow by blow account. Hope you enjoy!

 

 Battle ground is set. We decided that General Heimerdinger was keen to pry the gems of the old High Elf mansion with his Runefang. The High Elves, naturally, were quite affronted by this callous disregard for their heritage.

The Empire marching column. Great visuals, with the High Elf ambush in full swing.

The old scenario in question. The war machines section meant that my War Wagon couldn't do anything until Turn 3. It does say that in turn2 on a 4+ it can act, but I knew that wouldn't happen, and I was right.

Empire react to the ambush. I lost 4 Reiksguard knights to the elf metal magic. So the remaining knight charged alone towards the enemy mage, though he did get hacked down by the Dragon Princes.

Chariots charge into the Reiksguard on foot. Unsurprising, they held the line and eventually beat off and ran down the chariots.

My lovely War Wagon, unable to move or do anything. The halberdiers got off a cheeky charge against the flank of the spearmen. Though clearly the energy required to get there was too much and they fumbled big time the attack.

Reiksguard Foot knights stare down the Dragon Princes. The Draogn Princes would charge, but over a few turns, the Reiksguard would hold there own and eventually run them down.

The Outriders (in yellow) took a terrible toll on the elves. Two great eagles and a unit of archers would die to their volleys. They were incredible. After this photo, there was only a couple of thins left for the elves. The Knights Panther charged into the spearment (this is after they wiped out the Swordmasters and elf mage), and that was effectively game, with the elves only having some archers left. 

I was a lovely game with a great opponent with fully painted armies and terrain. I think next time I will get more light to take better pictures.

We also had a chat about future games, and are planning in 6 weeks time to start are long awaited Eltharion vs Grom campaign. Here is the link to the old battle we played from the Warhammer 4th Edition starter set. I hope to progress this campaign here, with our take on the scenarios and forces used. 

Anyways, thanks for looking.
 

The Crusade musters...Black Templars part 1

I really haven't felt like painting for ages, so I was glad to get enthused about a new project. I have been eying off these guys since they came out, though wisely I waited to see if I would just bounce to another new project or if the fire really did burn brightly.

Fortunately, I felt the pull even now after the release so have decided to plunge into a primaris army, one of Black Templars. Being such a fan of Imperial Fists, and Sigismund in 30k, this isn't too much of a surprise. That said, my friends were shocked to see them on the field of battle. 

I was also inspired by De Hoofdwerker's blog, especially how they achieved their bases, which is such a homage to John Blanche's famous 3rd edition box set painting. So using this tutorial for the bases, and this one from Tale of Painters for the other parts, I had the basics of painting my Templars.

So with the hobby fires fired up as it were, I finished this model today to be the start of the Crusade.

 

Quite happy with how this model has turned out. I have also been fortunate to have played two games already. Hoping to get more under the belt before 9th is history.

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For the Wolftime A 2nd Edition 40k project part 1

 Long ago, in the depths of time, I started my hobby journey with Sapce Wolves in 2nd Edition 40k. It is my first hobby army and the oldest. I have kept it for all these years, with the intention one day to finish it. It wasn't until recently, that an old friend got back into the hobby and wanted to play 2nd edition again. This seemed the perfect time to pullout the old wolves and freshen them up.

For the most part, I just touched up my old paint jobs, both for nostalgic reasons and for time reasons too.

These is how far I have got so far.

The big four. I loved Ragnar Blackmane back in the day. His whole story was epic. I think I used him in every game.

Rune Priest in Terminator armour. Cool model which I just fixed it up. Not sure how often I sued this model, since I had Njarl Stormcaller.

Strangly enough, I didn't use Long Fangs back in the day. I was more of a Blood Claw fan, charging in with beserkers. Still, it is such an iconic unit so I am glad I got them painted. I hope they can do well in their first game!

The Land Raider. I wanted this model so much in 2nd edition. You just couldn't get it anywhere. It was only years later i picked up 3 of these for my Imperial Fists Heresy project, as it was way cheaper than the Forge World ones. Not that this is the case anymore! Since my Imperial Fists already have 2, I was quite happy to use this one for the Wolves. Someone on the 2nd Edition Facebook group suggested that the reason they were not around for 2nd edition, even in the UK, was due to the mold be broken. Not sure if that is true, but they were never around.

Not a lot of bling, but happy with it anyway.

Wolf Guard Terminators. Suffice to say, they were a mainstay unit of mine back then. Great unit, and so happy they finally have paint and transfers!

The lastest model I have painted. It is amazing that despite this model being essential to the army in order to unlock vehicles, I never attempted to paint it. It was far too intimidating to me back then. So unlike a lot of models, this one I painted from scratch. Awesome model with lots of details. Kept it pretty close to the original.

That is where I am up to at present. Quite a photo dump. Next on the table is another unit of Long Fangs to fix up, then of course whatever strikes my fancy. Still plenty to go when it comes to the Wolves.

Anyways, thanks for looking!

Slaves to Darkness army picture

 Got round to taking an army picture. Very happy with how they have turned out. 

So I have painted:

Daemon Prince

Chaos Lord on foot

Sorceror Lord

Darkoath cheiftan

1 unit of 5 Chaos Chosen

1 unit of 5 Chaos Chosen

1 unit of 3 Ogroid Theridons

Not too bad given how long I have had models in the past. Of course there is not a lot of variety, so it will need some expansion at some stage. Still, from the games I have played so far, they have done well once I got used to the rules.

The next project on the table is an old one, being a 2nd edition 40k army. Hope to have pictures soon!

Thanks for looking!

Slaves to Darkness 5 Project done...for now

Well I managed to finish off my StD army box. I have also managed quite a few games with it as well as a number of friends were happy to play Age of Sigmar for a bit of a change from 40k. I think it is because 40k has devolved into a massive amount of cognitive load to play a game, with all the army rules, faction rules, unit rules, strategems and turn by turn phase rules. So it has been nice to just push models around and roll some dice without all that.

Here is my second unit of Chosen, differentiated from the other unit by white cloth hafts.

I spent more time dry brushing the glow this time and I am much happier with it. I also redid the other units glowing weapons, as it was a little too strong.

This unit took me awhile to paint, as I was unsure how to proceed. Got there eventually though.

That finishes the boxed set! I do have plans to expand it, though I have no spare funds these days for any hobby so it is not likely to be soon.

I will try and round this off with an army pic soon. 

Thanks for looking!

Slaves to Darkness 4 Chosen!

Finished my first 'regiment' unit for the Slaves. Quite happy with how they turned out.

Hoping to make a start on the next 5. 

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Slaves to Darkness 3 - Mibyllorr Darkfang and Slaine!

Finished the last of me heroes for my Chaos. First up is Mibyllorr Darkfang. Great model. I will need to get round to doing the familiars at some stage.

 

I also managed to finish the model that reminds me of Slaine. I did have to fix the models backside and undercarriage with green stuff, but I am very happy with it.

And that is the last of the models for 2022!

I am planning, between beach visits, to start work on some actual units, so I will see how I go.

Thanks for looking!

Slaves to Darkness 2

Make a quick turn around on the next model for this warband, Holga Clovenhorn. Great model that was a pleasure to paint.

 I didn't stray too far from the box, though with my own little additions. I will probably use this as a Chaos Lord in AoS.

Thanks for looking.

Finally some motivation Slaves to Darkness 1

Well, I haven't felt the pull of the brush for a long time. Unlike other times, I just welcomed the break, and knew when I was motivated, I would paint things that I wanted to. And that moment finally happened yesterday.

I finally finished assembling and priming my boxed set of the new Slaves to Darkness and felt inspired to paint the new Daemon Prince. I have been fortunate to play a few games against my friends Nighthaunt in the online campaign, Milarki.

So far I am not doing amazing, so hopefully some paint will change my fortunes!

So I finished painting Ommadon, the Daemon Prince.

Very happy with how he turned out, especially since it has been a long time since I did any OSL. I am now feeling like I will paint some more from the set.

Thanks for looking!

Eldar update

I find it very weird that I only have a couple of posts about my eldar, but they are by far the most played army I have and I have painted a lot of it.

A month or so ago, I managed to finally finish two pieces for my eldar, the new Avatar of Khaine and some rangers. Since the new 9th edition book dropped for eldar, all my troops choices I had painted up, are now elite. So I needed to paint some to field a fully painted force again, and I just so happen to have a pile of metal rangers. 

First up though, the avatar. Loved this model, and of course for nostalgia reasons, had to go with the classic look. I remember playing against this model tons of times in 2nd edition and it was always so hard to kill. To celebrate the finished model, I actually played a game with it recently against a friends Space Wolves, and this thing annihilated agressors, Bjorn, a redemptor deadnought and most of a Blood Claws pack just on its own before it died. An absolute beast.

The rangers I wanted to try sponging on camo for once. Kind of happy with how it turned out. Notice I have the crouching observing ranger which got released ages ago. They also did well in the game against the Space Wolves, sniping Ragnar before he got into combat. 

So there we have it, a bit more complete for my eldar. 

Lately (in the last week or so), I have been getting excited for 2nd Edition 40k. A friend has asked to play it so I have been updating and fixing my old Space Wolves. I will endeavour to post the updates here when I can.

Thanks for looking!