WHF Battle. . . . . To the last wound!!

Had a lovely surprise Sunday when I walked into Lano's to find Anthony in residence with his gorgeous Beastman army.

Yer this one below. . . . .

I plonked down my semi - painted Ogre army.

Pale by comparison to Anthony's I know but I'm getting there.

First turn and I boil my Leadbelchers down off the temple . . . .

and straight into the Chaos Hounds. . . . Neil made a valid point that their bloody leadbelchers . . . .They have CANNONS . . . you could just SHOOT them! 

Yer I guess I was born to be an Ogre player.

My semi - painted Iron Guts crash into a horde of Gors. . . . and go through them like a hot knife through butter!

As an Empire player it was a nice sensation rolling so many die.

Over on my left my Mournfangs and Chariots collide!

My Leadbelchers rip the Chaos Hounds apart and thankfully over run out of the charge arc of the Bestigors.

In a effort to stall out my Ironguts Anthony charges in with (another gorgeously painted miniature) his Chaos Spawn.

Suddenly Anthony's Bestigors feel a little outnumbered and a little outgunned!

The Chaos Spawn gives Anthony enough time to get the charges in with his Bestigors and General.

Which ends in the mutual destruction of both parties!

This battle is turning into an absolute blood bath.

The last of my Iron guts turns to face the last standing Beastman on the field!

Unfortunatlely the last standing Beastman happens to be a toughness ridiculous Beastlord on a chariot!!

The Beastlord finishes off the last of the Ironguts.

My leadbelchers open up with both barrels into the now exposed Beastlord . . . . To little effect!

So my Ogre Bulls charge in so Anthony does not get the impact hits.

The Beastlord boils through my Ogre Bulls.

I finally commit the last of my forces to the critically wounded Beastman.

It comes down to a final roll of the die as our last two miniatures are reduced to one wound each!!!!!!

Anthony rolls the final die and wounds my last Ogre with his final roll of the die!!!!!

HOW BLOODY CLOSE WAS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

In Her Majesty's Name. My first purchase of the year.

So this landed on the door mat this morning . . . . . .

I have only had a chance to read through the Introduction but I LOVE IT . . . . . Absolutely LOVE the feel of the book and the sense it should be played in.

With 'Riotville Live' coming in Febuary there is no point in buying the miniatures . . . . YET but I do see myself making something related to this in the future.

One thing it did do was make me pull this lot down from the shelf.

and I have just bought 2009 on eBay.

I guess you start the year as you mean to go on . . . . . buying crap you don't need! ;0)

Happy new year and cleaning house.

First post of the year is a couple of terrain bits I finished up over the Christmas break.

First one is the WHF card building I picked up cheap.

I feel the proper roof tiles and extra building bits really add to the building.

Overall very pleased with how it turned out.

 The other piece is a lazer cut effort I picked up for £6 (including p&p) from eBay.

It looks a bit like a Christmas decoration but took the paint well and is perfect for a bit of cheap terrain filler.

I also picked up a inn type thing and that is currently in the garden drying out so we will see how that looks.

And here is the two together.

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I am running a 1850 point WHF (8th edition) bring and battle day on the 5th of February at the Redhouse Beefeater in Ilford.

It is £5 for the whole day and that includes the free drinks that can be won!

There is also a 100 pts Regiments of Renown campaign which is run as a side campaign. The ROR battles will have a minor influence on the main battles.

More then happy to lend out figures for a ROR warband for anyone who is interested but does not have and miniatures.

Any producers miniatures are welcome and the forces do have to be assembled BUT not painted. The house rule is painted miniatures will have hatred towards unpainted miniatures!

There will be more information in a later blog post but for now muster your forces and keep the 5th of Feb free.

Last post of 2016. Titan forge Anchor Bashers.

I just wanted to post the final finished miniatures of 2016 so I can post my tally for the year.

Another set of gorgeous sculpts from Titan forge.

Decided to give the fella above Bermuda shorts with palm trees to complete the beach vibe.

And for the final time this year lets do the numbers.

Miniatures painted / sold this year = 194 (silver tower does not count)

Target 100

Miniatures bought 30 (damn you BOYL!!)

I had time to have a proper recount and wished I never bothered!

459 miniatures to go!

164 in the black this year.

Smashed my target of 100 miniatures painted or sold this year by 94!

I have managed to resist Bloodbowl as it has not taken off in my gaming circles so there is no point flogging a death horse. Unfortunately when I went to buy Space Hulk it is no longer available and I cannot excuse now paying eBay prices. A shame but I know in my heart I have dodged a bullet on that one.

Not sure if I will bother setting targets for next year as I need to buy some new minis for my Undead Mordheim Warband for our new campaign and I REALLY want a Giant for my Ogre WHF army (more on that later). Might be more of a case of concentrating on finishing off forces rather then hitting targets.

This year I have cut deep into the grey shame and truth be told I do not miss any of the miniatures that have moved to better homes via eBay so it could be a big selling year especially if the painting really slows down.

Do not think I will be doing a year in review thing as I'm back to work Tuesday and have completely ignored any paperwork over the holidays.

Want to wish everyone a prosperous new year.

What every zombie should fear . . . . . .

 . . . . a stunt dog with a shotgun!!

Played Dead of Winter yesterday with the lads at the Creative Biscuit.

Got to be honest it's a cracking game combining combat, resource management and double crossing (my favourate bit).

Somehow I ended up with 'Sparky' the stunt dog armed with a shotgun defending the compound against a horde of zombie!!

Happy new year one and all!

Peace on Earth and good will to all men . . . . But NOT Rats . . . .Definitely NOT Rats!!

Christmas Eve Lano hosted a WHF 1850pts 'Seasons beatings', bring and bash in his garage . . . . With drinks and nibbles . . . .all very civil.

I set up opposite Phil and his new Skaven army.

Got to be honest with Jiri returning to his homeland and Russel MIA I did not expect to see Skaven again.

I finish setting up first and win initiative.

First thing I do is line up my cannons in the Skaven Stone thrower . . . . . .  

Saga battle report. "Who the bloody 'ell threw that?"

This Thursday Macca and I locked horns over a game of SAGA.

Problem was we had only played once (maybe twice?) this year so the game was not played at what I would call break neck speed!

Thankfully the rule book is a lot slimmer then others out there or we would never have got finished.

The field is set with an orchard on the left, ruined church in the centre and a farmstead on the right . . . . and then I remembered about the bloody 'Sons of Dana'!

So have you ever wanted to punch a Warhammer TV bloke in the Face? . . . . Because it turns out I have!!!!!!

As regular readers of this blog know (all three of you), I used to compete in Martial Arts at quite a high level.

For some reason Britian was a hot bed of Stick Fighting talent and I would regularly have to fight TWO World champions in order to win a domestic title!

After a couple of years of this I decided to stop the heavy lifting and drop down a weight category. . . . and I cleaned up. . . . like dominated. . . . . .

. . . . . and then one year a young bloke from Nottingham called Rob Symes walked in the door and caused me an absolute nightmare!!!!

That was pretty much the end of me winning any more domestic titles!

Thats Rob on the left and me on the right.

I did get my own back when Rob started fighting in the minimal rules stuff as he was an expectional stand up fighter but I had a stronger ground game. If I could grab hold of the fella he was in deep water and I was a shark!

I fondly remember several top scraps with the bloke.

And then two days ago I saw the video above and thought the bloke looked familiar and yep it's the same Rob Symes I fondly remember punching in the face!

Just to state the obvious this is not a trolling post as I have always considered Rob a top, TOP bloke and an excellent Martial Artist. It also turns out he is an exceptional Warhammer player who now works for Warhammer TV.

Small world!!