In a few hours I will go to Florence, Italy with my parents on a short city trip. This means I won’t be blogging till monday since I’ll be too busy visiting the leaning tower of Pisa and all sorts of other cultural goodness. Anyhow, I am definately looking forward to the trip.
For my warband, I have some updates planned, but I haven’t had the time to write any proper posts yet. School seems to be getting the best of me lately :S.
Okay, I’m off to bed. See you in a few days, guys!
So this is where the fun begins, I actually started putting together my warband! I’ve included a few pictures of two Gor models I’ve been working on.
I figured Beastmen mostly live in the woods so I wanted to give them forest related bases. I’m not sure about my Warbands Chaos affiliation and which God they worship yet. I am thinking of either Nurgle or Slaanesh. This will also dictate my painting colour scheme so it’s something I have to decide on soon. Perhaps you can help me out here since I’m somewhat new to the whole world of Warhammer / tabletop wargaming.
Welcome strangers! Let me tell of the latest battles around here. One of those stuck up the ass Bretonnians came in here a few days ago. He needed supplies, his Lady Goddess gave him a vision to destroy some Wyrdstone near a temple. Well, the Knight and his warband came back a day later, bloodied and beaten. The Questing knight himself was more dead then alive, screaming with fury for revenge.
After a few ales one of the peasants told me what happened. They were looking for Wyrdstone near the old Sigmarite temple when suddenly a band of Orcs ambushed them. The Bretonnians put up quite a fight but during the battle their leader was battered down by an Orc wielding two cleavers. This sight finally made them retreat.
A day later the Questing Knight walked down from his room. Swearing an an oath before the entire inn that he will take revenge on the Orc leader. Never seen so much anger in a man against an orc. Something in Mordheim must have really snapped his mind. Ah well, Mordheim tends to change people. Another ale lads, no Wyrdstone taint, I guarantee it!
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Yes our first battle report on the site! Jerodar’s Orc’s vs Artinam’s Bretonnians (First Campaign battle was Koen’s Skaven vs Jerodar’s Orcs, win for Skaven).
We rolled the mission and got Wyrdstone hunt. We set up the table (temple of Sigmar in the middle), and put down our Wyrdstone tokens.
We deployed and my Brets took the first turn.
Basically the Bretonnians surged forward, entered the temple and prepared the arrival of the Orcs.
My (freshly painted) Squire armed with a bow, climbed a ladder and could shoot trough the (now) broken window at the Orcs, but managed to do little the entire battle.
Jerodar felt very confident, perhaps because of the Fungus brew he had been drinking.
Orcs surged forward to the gap and a single Goblin (the legendary Skystabbah) took up a higher position and also saw trough a gap. He actually managed to take out a single Peasant with his bow proving his Sky dominating skill.
The first squigs and Orc boys surged trough the gap and my Peasants were the first line of defence and charged in, while the brave Knights functioned as a second wave of reinforcements if the peasants couldn’t handle it. The Questing Knight ran to the altar in the temple, getting the Wyrdstone token and preparing to charge an Orc boy, lobbing his head off with a critical hit.
Some peasants get eaten by squigs as such the Knights charge into action. The Questing Knight runs towards the Orc boy and skill-fully dispatches him.
Another boy charges the knight and knocking him to the ground. A squire charges the Orc to save his master but easily gets dispatched by a Big ‘un charging trough the gap.
Seeing half my peasants dead as well as two heroes, I voluntarily root and the Orcs win.
Afterwards my Squire gets an old battle wound, and my Questing Knight gets mentally scarred and from now on hates the Orc Big Boss (could have been much worse). Jerodar’s Orcs win, and an Orc boy is deemed to have leadership talent and becomes a hero. Furthermore he finds a light armour on a corpse. Almost all his henchmen level up, giving all Orc boys WS 4 from now on (ouch).
Dear visitors,
Last weekend our group (except Koen), met up and worked on our Warbands. First off, my apologies for the quasi bad pictures, I am still finding out how the camera works best and I made some pretty decent pictures while some lack enough light (playing at night doesn’t help).
Vince made some great progress on his Beastmen. he has made some great bases and a very good looking Shaman.
Jerodar finished painting his warboss (Grimgor model),
and I finally (semi-)finished my Questing with Great Weapon on foot.
Furthermore, Jerodar and I played a ‘campaign’ battle. This is our first campaign and is more a lot of random battles so we can learn the rules better. Check the Standing Stone Bar for the Battle report!
I’ve been thinking of what to do with my
For most crafting related stuff I tend to just grab whatever I need and start painting / cutting / glueing / etc. until I either get bored or I end up liking the result.
Not for my warband. Some time ago I made some quick and dirty sketches of some conversion idea’s I’ve been having. Soon I’ll blog more on the actual miniatures themselves and how I’ve started converting them. The text in the images is in Dutch, but it’s just a basic description of what’s in the pictures. Here’s some snapshots of the sketches:
Here’s a bonus picture of a Minotaur I drew.
So why play Mordheim anyway?
Unlike the great loremaster Artinam, I have never played Warhammer before.
So what got me to play this game? Why would you, our dear reader, play it?
What attracted me the most was the fact that you take your characters with you to the next game. Read the rest of this entry »
Why would you pour your soul into making these great miniatures when they are just gonna be Soldier #163? In Mordheim, every single model will be a character of itself, even the grunts (well, most of the time). For example, my goblin warrior “Lucky” Skystabbah, earned his name by recklessly jumping down a 5 inch tower. And he didn’t just survive, he managed to make a lunging strike at the black skaven standing below, finishing him in one blow! Now these things motivate you to put just that much more effort into your miniatures, because what would you rather be painting? Soldier#163 or “Lucky” Skystabbah?
