Mordheim. Game 7. The enemy of my enemy is ..... well Neil!

"PARLEY!", the booming voice of the Witch Finder resonated through the ruined hall of the Great Library....."PARLEY!", its authority bringing the swirling melee to a sudden halt.

'Bob' pulled Eric to his feet and watched as Eric rested his head against the barricaded door to stop the room spinning. "Go on" Eric said in his young voice "Eh....... I mean GO ON!" he repeated mimicking the former Lord Crashhart.

"Taxi !!!!!"

"Crashhart I've heard your nothing but bluster and a thrusting cod piece, BUT even a fool like you must recognise the threat of the approaching undead. Further bloodshed will only weaken our bands further for the approaching scavengers!"

Eric took a deep breath and was thankful the door blocked anyone seeing his hands shaking so badly he could barely keep hold of his sword "So what do you propose, Lord Witchfinder?".

Both Warbands awaited Shannow's response with bated breath. . . . .

The calm before the storm?

See! Told you I was an Ogre!

Took the kids to the Aquarium last week. Just uploaded this photo....

If your struggling. I am the one on the right!

Talk about seperated at birth!

Mordheim Ogre. Arnold Leggenbreaker. WHF

Having decided I needed more muscle for my Warband I reached for an unopened box of WHF Ogres I bought in the Miniature Empire closing down sale.

Bit later I ended up with this....

Grrrrrrrrr

I have always had a desire to add a load of Ogres to the 1st Lustrian as an allied attachment. The idea is they are a pirate crew preying on coastal and river trade not displaying the personal seal of General Custoras.

While painting this fella the 5 year old walked in with a silly grin on his face and asked "Daddy why are you painting yourself?"

Ugly face, facial hair, pot belly, gruff demeanor, likes smashing stuff, aggressive attitude and loves eating. Yep I pretty much tick the lot so I guess I'm an ogre, and that got me thinking..... Is it time to start painting tattoos?

The answer was yep!

This is supposed to be a Tribal Spider

A photo from my (happy) fighting days

note the spider tattoo

This is supposed to be a celtic Dragon

the dragon is on the left arm

One more down. 381 to go!

P.S. Don't believe what teachers say. Fighting solves EVERYTHING!

Next meeting of the Armoury 28mm wargaming club will be 19th of March @ the Creative Biscuit, South Woodford

Just wanted to announce that Tim at "The Creative Biscuit" will now be hosting a Wargaming night each month at his shop.


The Shop address is;

Creative Biscuit Ceramics Cafe

61 George Lane, 

South Woodford, 

London, 

E18 1JJ

Next meeting will be the 19th of March at 7pm.

Hope to see you there

Shop website with map is HERE 

If you want to know future dates and what we plan to be playing please check out the Armoury forum HERE

The Dread Lord Crashhart. The Forsaken's new leader

With the death of Lord Crashhart on Thursday I had some thinking to do...... Do I chop up Crashhart to make him look more like Eric or do I go for a new figure to add to the painting tally for the year?

I quick check on ebay shows the miniature I have for Lord Crashhart goes for between £10 to £20.

Well that answers that question, I'm not chopping him up, so a new figure it will be!

This is what I come up with

The inspiration for this one is "The Dread pirate Roberts" from The princess bride book (and film).

I figure I will go with Eric taking on the persona of Crashhart much like Wesley did in the Princess bride.

It's only a quick kit bash and my first green stuff sculpting in a LONG time so it looks a bit rough but with the speed my warband are dying I do not expect to be using him for long!

Even with that being the case I am surprised how much like the "Dread pirate" he looks when I compared the two pictures.

Even up close I have not done too awful a job and a decent paint job should cover up any roughness.

Even had a go at green stuffing on some hair.

The way things are going I will have my Empire Militia detatchment painted up in no time, OR run out of miniatures as there were only 20 in the box!

Mordheim game 6. "Norf of the river at this time of night? Are you mad?"

This Thursday at the Creative biscuit Macca and I set out our small warbands to contest the Wyrd stone find at the North River gate. I won the roll and decided to play Scenario 1; Defend the find. Macca had the smaller warband and  set himself up within the central cottage and I set up my Forsaken in the South West corner.

I had decided to split my Warband into 3 kill teams. I figured Macca would stay shut up tight in the central cottage allowing my to station my Markmen in the upper floor of the over looking cottage while my other two teams would skirt round both flanks of the cottage to charge in and finish off any Rotters which survived the barrage of arrows.

Full house at the Creative Biscuit, South Woodford, for the Armoury 28mm Wargaming club

Just a quick post to thank Tim at the Creative Biscuit, South Woodford for letting his shop be used by the reprobates which are the Armoury 28mm Gaming club.

We all had a great time and thank Tim for his hospitality!

We had 15 point, Warmahordes action!

We had Mordheim!

and 1000 point WHF action!

Who knows when the next session will bring.

Please check our forum for upcoming dates and games.

 

Dungeon questing AKA trying to find Dark Sphere gaming store, London

So with all (?) the painting at the moment I was forced to enter the belly of the beast........ Dark Sphere gaming store to buy some more paints.

Repeat after me "NO NEW MINIATURES, NO NEW MINIATURES!!!!!"

At first I had a squeaky bum moment when I walked up to the original shop on York Road and saw this.......

"Hang on there is no 28mm Disney table top games.... something is up!"

Thankfully there was a note on the door explaining they had moved to new premises a 10 minute walk away.

The following dungeon quest is the honest to goodness directions (the sarky directions are mine) they gave;