Dwarf Army - for BOYL, TOW and beyond - progress reports

Had a game of TOW at Powder Monkey Gaming last night against an army of Dark Elves. The objective was to control a magical hill (represented by a pig sty!). I decided to field a few new units that I had been preparing (gyrocopter, organ gun and miners) and the army was lead by Grombrindal, the 'White Dwarf' himself! My rangers quickly took control of the hill, but were then at an epic stand off with a semi-invulnerable Elf Chariot, the gyrocopter reigned bombs on a unit of Elves before being pinned in combat with a unit of skirmishing Dark Rider cavalry. The organ gun took out a few more elf halberds before engaging in combat with another unit of cavalry, the crew amazingly held their own forcing a retreat before the Elf general on manticore ploughed through it and all my war machines. Grombrindal continued his challenge with the chariot slowly damaging it, but the rangers he was leading got flanked on both sides by the general and halberds. Fortunately the Giant Slayers charged in wiping out the halberds and a unit of cold ones who had been held back by their stupidity and whittled down by Thunderers’ gun fire. The miners finally turned up on the battlefield taking out the enemy baggage train (just about justifying their point cost!) as Grombrindal eventually fell in battle. The cold ones chariot drove away as the remaining slayers and Dragon slayer engaged the Dark Elf general. A narrow victory to the Dwarves was agreed before calling the game over!
 

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So cool! I love that there are based/partly painted figs on the table. This hobby is hard enough without doing that Looks amazing
 
We are a pretty chill group as far as painted armies go. I wouldn’t play mine without the prime and zenithal, but some of the others have bare plastic. Its fun to meet up and play without the pressure/expectation to be fully painted.

I get plenty of kudos for my metal minis, majority of players have more recent or new plastic models.
 
Brother Meredith said:
We are a pretty chill group as far as painted armies go. I wouldn’t play mine without the prime and zenithal, but some of the others have bare plastic. Its fun to meet up and play without the pressure/expectation to be fully painted.
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The only rule my old group had was your army had to be a bit more painted than it's previous outing if the minis are unfinished, even if it's just priming one mini. Kinda like a friendly nudge to get it done. Worked well for me, ppl payed me in pork pies, ale and the sweet leaf to basecoat their minis to get them on the table faster.

The only reason why we put the rule in place is because we had that one dude running unpainted marines with no special or heavy weapons glued on, so one turn it's a flamer, melts next turn. He was a bit of a meta chaser as well.
 
Mentioned it previously, but our campaign tournament bestowed extra victory points for painted units.

Weather has been dreadful today, so not ventured outside to spray prime these folk… However I have had delivery of a Grudge Thrower (which I will need to rebuild as some wonky gluing) and more thunderers (who are having a Dettol bath to clean off previous owner’s paint job).IMG_0829.jpeg
 
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Slave to Darkness said:
The only rule my old group had was your army had to be a bit more painted than it's previous outing if the minis are unfinished, even if it's just priming one mini. Kinda like a friendly nudge to get it done. Worked well for me, ppl payed me in pork pies, ale and the sweet leaf to basecoat their minis to get them on the table faster.

The only reason why we put the rule in place is because we had that one dude running unpainted marines with no special or heavy weapons glued on, so one turn it's a flamer, melts next turn. He was a bit of a meta chaser as well.
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We weren't overly bothered by WYSIWYG, but if you were using a proxy where that level of confusion could happen, or were a cheaty wotsit, then flags were made from cocktail sticks and blu-tack (sticky tack), with the detail written on it. So, for example, the skeleton warriors couldn't suddenly turn into wights (for a second time at least!)
 
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