Totengräber's Workpläce

I spent most of this weekend assembling the Bretonnian figures I’ve bought over the last couple of weeks in hopes of getting to play on Saturday. That didn’t happen, which was no big deal, but I have this great feeling of accomplishment at having gotten it done. Well, technically, it’s not all done. The Knights and Men At Arms are sans shields and the Battle Standard Bearer is sans standard right now until I at least primer all of them. The bases will all get some little adornments as well. But for now, I’m counting it as “done” since I can play with it now.

The list of what is shown here is as follows (from left to right): Lance of Knights of the Realm (8) with Bretonnian Lord, Men at Arms (16) wih some Empire Swordsmen recruited temporarily, Bowmen (no command figs), Lance of Knights Errant (8) with Paladin Battle Standard Bearer. In the back is a mounted Damsel and the single Mounted Yeoman I have right now, and the Pegasus Knights (4). All the movement trays were homemade by me with sheet styrene and strips of bass wood.

The Pegasus Knights were probably the biggest pain because with the bases and such GW gives you, you’d never be able to rank them up in combat. I went to Hobby Town USA and picked up some thick brass rod, which was a pain to cut, and mounted them as you see there. The biggest trouble was trying to keep them from leaning one way or another. I think some are still leaning just a bit, but I’m not messing with them now.

At this point, I think I can field around 1300-1500 points. Next purchases will be 3 more Mounted Yeomen, another box (or two) of Men At Arms and another lance of Knights.
A trebuchet (or possibly the recommended 2) may come later.

Bought a unit of these today:

I felt like I needed some ranged support for my army and most places I posted the lists I made agreed with that. So, I bought them. Hopefully, this will be “it” until I can save up more cash for Gen Con. It’s an addiction, I tells ya!!

Yesterday I got the following for $35 from a friend of mine:

Bretonnian Lord w/Lance (assembled)
Bretonnian Paladin Battle Standard Bearer (assembled)
Damsels – one mounted, one on foot (assembled)
16x Men-At-Arms (8 partially assembled)
8x Knights of the Realm (Horses assembled)
2x Mounted Yeoman (1 assembled)

My army is now a bit over 1000 points. Sweet!!

So I have bought my first Bretonnians. I have a box of Knights of the Realm and a single Pegasus Knight. Guess I’ll be starting to get them assembled soon.

Well, the commitment has been made, the gauntlet thrown down, etc. I bought the Bretonnia book last night. It’ll probably be a litel while before I get some figs or anything, but there it is.

And based on what I have found out from others, the Lady of the Lake = Wood Elf Queen thing is true, but not in the way I understood it. So, I’m okay with the way it was explained to me.

I have been working on painting the whole group, but my camera has disappointed me, so I stopped taking pictures after the Ghulam. I just have their skin, pants, part of their boots, and some armor done on these.

The paint jobs look so much better in person than they do here. The only iffy part, IMHO, is possibly that the skin is too “red”, but I still think it looks Middle-Eastern.

I guess my next “project” might be the purchase of a new camera.

This Tuesday I played again vs. Katie. I think maybe I’m one of the few that enjoys 1000 point games anymore, so that’s why she wanted to play against me again. Who knows? Anyway, here’s my list:

• Warwitch Deneghra
• Nightwretch x3
• Skarlock
• Iron Lich Asphyxious
• Deathripper x2
• Deathjack
• Bile Thralls x10
• Mechanithralls x10
• Brute Thrall
• Satyxis Raiders x10
• Sea Witch
• Soulhunters x4
• Pistol Wraith x2
• Bloat Thrall

1000 points exactly

She played a Irn Man list with Nemo and Darius, which included 3 Lancers, 2 Hunters, Thunderhead, Centurion, Hammersmith, and 2 Juniors (so, technically, not Iron Man).

It was a really fun game, one of the better ones in recent times. I deployed the DJ to the far right since she’d deployed the Thunderhead to my left. I had laid out my infantry first so that when I placed the Bloat, he wouldn’t be too close to them. I still say that was a bad idea as my Jacks all got messed up in their movement as did the Soulhunters. I feel like I cam pretty close to winning. I had a few PW shots at Nemo and a couple PW shots from the backside of Darius. I believe by the time we called it, Nemo was down to maybe 3 boxes and Darius down to two. Another turn and I think my DJ and Asphyxious would have finished off D, but I think Denny was in a position where she was pretty much doomed. All in all, a very fun game.

The pressures of money have now convinced me that Dark Elves are not the army for me, at least not until possibly fall of 2008 when they get new figs.

In the interest of only looking at armies who have had fairly recent figure updates to plastics, I have now decided on Bretonnians. The idea is that I will paint them like one of the houses of the George R.R. Martin “Song of Ice and Fire” series, probably Baratheon, possibly one of the families from Dorn.

The only thing that bothers me is the rumor that the Lady of the Lake, the figure on which the whole of Bretonnian religion is based, is a Wood Elf queen who duped a knight in the woods. How crappy is that? Perhaps they changed that in the latest edition…geez, I hope so.

Well, I ended up losing this one despite her boasting “By The Numbers” and playing an Iron Man list, I still couldn’t keep her army out of my deployment zone and have mine make it to hers. No worries, though, it was a good game.

Seems everyone is trying to get in final games for the league this weekend. I missed going to the usual games day this past Tuesday, so I was planning on going to Jeff’s place anyway. Katie has challenged me to a 1000 point game. She says she’s going to be bringing a fun list. Well, games with Katie have always been fun, even if they’re frustrating due to Cygnar’s ability to pump out a ridiculous amount of damage sometimes. I told her I’d try to make a fun list, but she wasn’t getting the Iron Man list that was just plain crazy.

So, here’s the list:

• Iron Lich Asphyxious
• Deathjack
• Deathripper x2
• Skarlock
• Skarre, Queen of the Broken Coast (epic)
• Harrower
• Leviathan (bonded)
• Nightwretch x2
• Pistol Wraith
• Bile Thralls x8
• Mechanithralls x8
• Brute Thrall
• Satyxis Raiders x8 (Elite Cadre)
• Sea Witch

996 points / 33 VP / 37 models