I set up late last week to play a guy named Shawn who has been hanging out at Games To Die For lately for Sunday. We didn’t really decide on points level or even what time we’d both be there, so I think it was assumed we’d play as big an army as both of us can cover and meet near when the store opened. When I arrived at about 12:30, Shawn was already there waiting with his Tomb Kings army. (more…)
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Warhammer Fantasy battles – First game with my Ogre Kingdoms
2009
10.26
10.26
What I’ve been working on
2009
10.16
10.16
Well, first of all, there are two Blood Bowl leagues being run in the stores I go to, so I have gotten a plastic Human team mostly painted. They’ll be finished this weekend, I think.
The main thing I’ve been working on is my ‘proxy’ army for Warhammer Fantasy Battles’. Here’s the post I made on Warseer: (more…)
Warhammer Fantasy Battles – Some progress on the Ogres
2009
07.28
07.28
Just wanted to post the progress I’ve made on the Ogre Kingdoms stuff I’ve purchased. I have 2 units of 3 Ogre Bulls with Bellower and 2 units of 3 Ironguts with Bellower assembled. In progress now are two units of 2 Leadbelchers. I got some Gnoblar Trappers in the mail yesterday and I have a unit of 25 Gnoblar Fighters to throw together. Along with all of that is a Maneater and a Butcher still in their packaging. The things I need to pick up still is another box of Gnoblar Fighters and a Tyrant. I know that will be more than the 1,000 points Brian and I agreed on, but I like options and I like assembling figures.
Warhammer Fantasy Battles- I bought in…again!
2009
07.21
07.21
Seems like I can never get away from Warhammer Fantasy. After I get rid of one army (Lizardmen), something else makes me buy back into the game even though I don’t play it all that much (though I’d like to). This time the impetus was having a gift card to The Game Preserve and not having anything to really spend it on. I just sold my Lizardmen army, but Brian working on his Dark Elves made me start thinking abou thte game again. At the Keystone branch of the GP, I saw a discounted Ogre Kingdoms Battalion. I then researched on-line as to whether it was a good deal and whether the Ogre Kingdoms are a decent army. The more I looked, the more I liked. No, they aren’t an uber-competitive army, but they are more of a finesse army than one might think. So I purchased the battalion and a Butcher model, which was also discounted to $25. I basically spent $100 for about 1,000 points worth of Ogres, which is about the point value Brian and I had talked about playing. All in all, a great deal. I’ve already started cutting the models from the sprues this morning. Excitement abounds!!
Lots of Gallery Updates
2009
05.11
05.11
I finally finished lots of figures this week. Namely, from Pulp City: Six Feet Under, Mourn, Red Riding Hoodoo and Solar. This brings my “need to paint before Gen Con” list up to 50% done. Since I had the camera and lights out, I decided to take pics of some old Confrontation stuff, some WIP Space Marines and Lizardmen, and an almost-finished Apebot (just the base left!) that I started work on today.
Go check out the Gallery here.
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Warhammer Fantasy – 1000 Points – Lizardmen vs. Daemons
2009
04.22
04.22
At our local store, Games To Die For, one of the players is running a Warhammer Fantasy campaign. I didn’t get to play in the opening mega-battle, but I was able to get a game in with a gentleman named Bill. We met up yesterday at the store at around 6pm and got started soon after that. We were told by Aaron, the guy running the campaign to place an objective on the board worth 200 points to the player who controlled it at the end of the game.
Here is the list I played:
- Saurus Scar-Veteran w/Charm of the Jaguar Warrior, great Weapon, Shield, and Light Armor (124 pts)
- Skink Priest w/dispell Scroll x2 and made Level 2 (150 pts)
- Saurus x19 w/Hand Weapon and Shields and Full command (239 pts)
- Saurus x20 w/Hand Weapon and Shields and Full command (250 pts)
- Skink Skirmishers x10 w/Blowpipes (72 pts)
- Kroxigor x3 (165 pts)
Bill’s list went something like this:
- Herald of Khorne mounted on Juggernaught
- Bloodcrusher x2
- Bloodletters x15 w/Full Command
- Bloodletters x15 w/Full Command
- Flesh Hounds of Khorne x5
- Screamers of Tzeentch x4
This game actually went pretty quick based on my experiences with Warhammer in the past. First turn, we both inched forward trying to stay out of charge range of the enemy except for the Skinks who moved in and took shots at the Flesh Hounds, doing no wounds. The Screamers moved to my left flank, the Flesh Hounds moved somewhat toward my right.
Second turn, the Screamers passed over the Kroxigors and one unit of Saurus causing me to lose one Saurus and one Kroxigor ending up behind both units. The Flesh Hounds charged the Skinks who killed one of them by standing and shooting. They subsequently lost combat, ran and were destroyed by the Flesh Hounds. His Bloodcrushers moved down to my left flank.
Third turn, We both inched forward some more and I lost more Saurus and got some wounds on the Kroxigors thanks to the Screamers. I turned the Kroxigors to help out the unit of Saurus on my right.
Fourth turn, his Bloodcrushers and a unit of Bloodletters charged my Scar Vet and Saurus unit. The other unit of Bloodletters charged the other Saurus unit. The Champion and his unit were decimated while the other Saurus unit destroyed a number of Bloodletters in Bill’s turn and then finished them off with the help of the Kroxigor on mine.
Fifth turn, Screamers killed more Saurus and wounded more Kroxigors, leaving me one. In my turn, the Screamers were charged by the remaining Saurus and destroyed.
Sixth turn, the last Kroxigor finally died in combat with Bloodletters and the Saurus fled from charges to the rear from Flesh Hounds and Bloodcrushers.
We called the game at that point giving Bill a victory.
In hindsight, I should have taken more Skinks to be able to shoot at the infantry units and reduced the number of Saurus just a bit. 1,000 points is difficult to build an army in sometimes and I never really like tailoring an army to my opponent.
All in all, a really fun game.
Warhammer Fantasy Battles: New Lizardmen Stuff!!
2008
11.11
11.11
Rumour has it that the Lizardmen will be getting a new army book and models come February 2009. Man, I can’t wait!! I loves me some Lizardmen. Here are some preview pics I found while scouring the ‘Net.
New Stegadon - Closeup
New Stegadon
The new Stegadon looks pretty sweet if you ask me, even though it looks a little exaggerated. Supposedly, he’ll be modular such that he can be used as a regular Stegadon, an Engine of the Gods (from the Lustria book) and as a character mount for a few different kinds of characters. The supposed retail price will be $40. I’ll likely end up with a couple.
Temple Guard
Terradon and Kroxigor
I’ve never personally used either of these in any of my Lizardmen lists, but the lure of plastic Temple Guard just might pull me in. I think I’ll stick with my old 6th edition Kroxigor. The new Terradons don’t look too bad, though the buck teeth are a little weird. Too bad they don’t look more like Pteradactyls.
Supposedly, the cost of Saurus is going down by a point or two, which a lot of people like. I always felt like they were the heart of the army and have never played a list without them. There’ll be some new models called Razordons, which people are speculating will be kinda liks Salamanders. We also expect to see a nerfing of the Salamanders as well. Some new characters are coming out, one of which is named Thictac’to. The silly names are a little off-putting, but it seems like something they trow in every once in a while for kicks.
I’m definitely looking forward to February and I expect to be working more on the Lizardmen in the near future. I gotta get me a Slann to go with those spiffy TG and some Salamanders so I can complain when they get nerfed.
Miniatures: Painting: Bretonnian Update
2007
11.08
11.08
Over last weekend, I got all 16 of my Knights Errant, Knights of the Realm, and Pegasus Knights primered and based (except for static grass) and their bases painted. I also got my custom movement trays “flocked” with sand and a few of them painted as well (also no static grass yet).
Pictures later.
Gaming: Warhammer: First Game With Bretonnians
2007
10.26
10.26
I went to the Game Preserve (Fashion Mall) last night with the intent of making someone there (hopefully someone I knew) re-teach me how to play Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Back about 3 years ago I played Lizardmen and helped my eldest son with his Empire army. I haven’t played at all under the 7th edition rules, but I had heard about some of the rules changes.
Jared was there, but had just started a game vs. a Wood Elf player. Jared was playing Dark Elves. His army was highly mobile with 2 units of Dark Riders, 2 chariots, a unit of Cold-One Knights, some scouting infantry, and mounted characters (one was a sorceress). It looke dlike a pretty even game, but Jared came out on top, I believe. Soon thereafter he and I sat down to play. Here’s the list I brought:
- Damsel (Lvl 2, Warhorse, Lore of Beasts, 2x Dispel Scrolls) – rides with KotR
- Paladin BSB (Virtue of Empathy) -rides with KE
- Men at Arms x25 (FC)
- Peasant Bowmen x10
- Knights Errant x8 (FC)
- Knights of the Realm x8 (FC)
- Pegasus Knights x3 (Musician)
It was a quick game that I was pretty sure I was going to lose anyway. The Lizardmen never really had a lot of cav and I didn’t have that great of a record with them anyway. During most of the game my leadership tests, even with LD 8 most of the time, failed usually by 1. Bowmen ran off the board after getting to shoot once and 3 of their number dying. PK took care of a Dark Rider unit, but not without being held up by its sole survivor. The other units all got flank charged and subsequently destroyed. Something I did forget about with the unit with the Damsel was the Magic Resistance, which I don’t remember if that might have helped. Either way, it was a good re-introduction into the game that I used to really like. I look forward to playing more in the future.In fact, I’m pretty jazzed to get started painting the Knights.
Gaming: Warhammer: Bretonnian Army Assembled!!!
2007
06.25
06.25
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.
