Another project - Skaven

Yes I've got another project/folly - a Skaven army for WFB/Ratkin for KoW. Added bonus is that I can use the minis I'm now starting to paint up for Advanced Heroquest which I've had for a number of years but not played (I did play it back in the day when it came out). Anyway here are the first two figures out of a heap that I plan to paint over the coming year - in between other projects of course!

Plague censer bearer - I love this figure

Advanced Heroquest Skaven

I was really happy how these turned out as both only took a couple of hours work over a couple of nights - gives me some hope that I can paint an army up of these in a fairly short period of time. Well short for me would be about 12 months to paint the hundred and forty odd skaven figures I have. And as I go I can use the figures I've painted for Advanced Heroquest!

It has been a while but I have been busy

Busy painting but not busy posting or playing games. I finally got around to taking pics of the figures I've painted up since my last post which was just over a month ago - I'll post these up in the coming days. First batch is my latest lot of humans/Bretonnians - these being a mix of citadel figures and ex-citadel figures from Foundry:

Ex-citadel retainer

Ex-citadel retainer

Ex-citadel retainer

Citadel C-series man at arms

Ex-citadel retainer

Ex-citadel knight

Citadel Knight

Some more evil minis

More undead, an evil sorcerer and mud elemental. All fairly straight forward, neat paintjobs really. Fun nonetheless.

Pretty crappy pose really but the figure serves it's purpose as a unit filler

this one had a miscast foot - so I painted it as if it had been ripped off

I love this range of figures!

a mud elemental for frostgrave

More slow burn projects

Two more figures for my slow burn Kings of War armies/allied contingents projects and another heroquest figure:

Heroquest Mummy - the undead from the game are now done

Marauder Ogre

Marauder Chaos Dwarf

I finally got off my butt and took some photos of figures I've finished

The title says it all really - I've had a number of finished figures sitting around waiting to be photographed for this blog and I finally got around to doing so. I'll share pics of them over the coming days. Here are the first few:

Blood Bowl 2nd edition Dark Elf Thrower

Blood Bowl 2nd edition snotling

Space Slann

Blaster Bellamy

Just a single mini today - this one is the first figure I've painted from the excellent (and very collectible) Judge Dredd range citadel did in the mid 80s. I have quite a few of these and plan to paint them up slowly over the coming year. Anyway here is BB with his golden pistol:

A game of Kings of War - using my oldhammer minis of course!

Managed to arrange a game of KoW down at the local gaming club with Greg. Greg chose Ogres whilst I used undead. Instead of randomly choosing a scenario we picked one we both were interested in trying out. The scenario we chose was loot - you place 3 loot tokens in the mid-line of the board (one right in the middle and the other two at least 12 inches either side of that midpoint) and you try to capture the loot. The player with the most loot at the end of the game wins. Now the tricky bit is this - only units (not heroes) can capture and carry loot and once a unit is holding a piece of loot it's movement is restricted to a maximum of 5 inches a turn. So no easy scuttling off the board with your loot. Oh and wind blast and surge spells cannot be cast on units that are holding loot. So you can't use spells to get around the 5 inch movement limitation.

Anyway the battle was closely fought - I ended up winning by capturing and holding two of the loot counters with Greg having the other. The game really was a tale of two halves of the table - on one half I managed to dominate whilst on the other Greg did. So much so on each half/flank was clear of opposing troops. I just happened to clear the half that had two loot tokens in it.

So what did I learn? Well I stuffed the placement and use of my wraiths badly. That is the second time I've misused such good units in a game of KoW. I would also take a second horde of revenants next time to help shore up a flank as the one unit I had did an excellent job of that. So I would ditch the regiment of skeleton spears and horde of undead trolls next time I use undead. The revenant cavalry and vampire knights were brilliant though - those units won the game for me in the end.

Anyway I've crapped on enough - here are some pics with the odd comment as applicable.

Early moves - the side I got cleaned up on

Early moves - the side I cleaned up!

A major scrap

The ogres made a mess of my trolls and spear armed skellies

What was left of Greg's left flank after my vampire knights (I used chaos warriors for these) did their work

My skellies before they broke - they did get rid of a horde of ogres and held up another legion of them - so they did their job

I have control of two of the loot counters (in yellow)