This week I have mostly been painting ....
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Harry
Baron
Up next some pictures of the last GROG game ....
As a boy we could not afford all the toys we would like but we would get together and put all the toys we had on the table and sort them out into a couple of sides ... Good guys and Bad guys .... we didn't worry too much about points ... it didn't matter if one side had more dragons than the other .... we just wanted to see what it would look like with everything we had got painted on the table.
Well the Gloucestershire Retro and Oldhammer Gamers (GROG) decided to do just this.
We took as many painted Empire, Bretonnian, Dwarf and Elf Minis that could form any kind of a unit as we could find and put them at one end of a table. We then took as many Orc and Goblin, Undead, Skaven and Nurgle guys as we could assemble ... and sensibly fit on the other end of the table ..... and we had at it for two solid days of Glorious oldhammer gaming.
My thanks to Paul, Chris and Ben for helping to re-create the fun fueled gaming experience of my youth.
I am a bit rubbish at the whole battle report thing .... but I have lots of nice pictures.
As a boy we could not afford all the toys we would like but we would get together and put all the toys we had on the table and sort them out into a couple of sides ... Good guys and Bad guys .... we didn't worry too much about points ... it didn't matter if one side had more dragons than the other .... we just wanted to see what it would look like with everything we had got painted on the table.
Well the Gloucestershire Retro and Oldhammer Gamers (GROG) decided to do just this.
We took as many painted Empire, Bretonnian, Dwarf and Elf Minis that could form any kind of a unit as we could find and put them at one end of a table. We then took as many Orc and Goblin, Undead, Skaven and Nurgle guys as we could assemble ... and sensibly fit on the other end of the table ..... and we had at it for two solid days of Glorious oldhammer gaming.
My thanks to Paul, Chris and Ben for helping to re-create the fun fueled gaming experience of my youth.
I am a bit rubbish at the whole battle report thing .... but I have lots of nice pictures.
Harry
Baron
Here are a couple of pictures from the HUGE siege game I played at the 'Oldhammer games day' ... "Bring out your lead 2014". It absolutely dwarfed the GROG game. Ridiculous number of miniatures involved. (All beautifully painted by the various folks involved)
Another fantastic weekends gamimg.
Another fantastic weekends gamimg.
Harry
Baron
It was for this game that I started painting my Bretonnians.
This is what I took to this game:
The Grand Army of Bretonnia. (3,000 Points)
General, Wizards and Standard Bearer:
The Grand Duc a l’Arange w. Lance and Heavy Armour / Riding Hippogriffe. (155)/200 355
The Army Standard Bearer. The Viscomte Bisquit. (80)
2 x Wizards (Amorciers) (60) 120
1 Cleric (Prior Gilbert) Amorcier (60) 60
Knights:
6 Chevaliers De Notre Dame De Bataille with Lance and Heavy Armour. (29) 174
Retainers:
Baron with Double-Handed weapon and Light Armour (34) 34
20 Retainers with Double-Handed Weapons and Light Armour. (9 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 189
Baron with spear and shield (34) 34
20 Retainers with Spears and Light Armour and shields. (9 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 189
Baron with Bow and Light Armour (34) 34
20 Retainers with Bows and Light Armour. (9 points)
Inc: Champion and Musician: With Horn of Valour +1 to Fear tests. (25) 214
20 Retainers with Crossbows and Light Armour. (10 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 210
Baron Ludwig Von Sapponatime. 33
14 Retainers with Spears and Double-Handed Weapons Light armour and shields. (11)
Inc Standard bearer and Champion: 165
Baron Boeuf de Bourguigon with Sword and Light armour riding horse. (35) 35
8 Retainers with Crossbows. (8)
Inc: Champion with Crossbow and Light armour: (10) 66
Brigands:
Gaston L’Grand.
15 Brigands with Crossbows and Light Armour. (10 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion. 160
Count Hertz Vanhire with Double-Handed weapon and Light armour. 109
9 Brigands with crossbows and Light armour.(10)
Including Standard bearer. 90
Jac
6 Brigands with Crossbows and Light armour
Inc: Champion. (Jac) 60
Feudal levy:
(Baron) Robert fitzHarding with Bow and Light Armour. 34
40 Peasants Bows (No armour) (3)
Including Musician and Champion(s) 60
Allies: Wood Elves:
Animal Handler (13) 5 bears (20) 113
Animal handler (13) 5 Wild Cats. (21) 128
Animal Handler (13) 2 Boars (12) 37
Animal handler (13) 5 Warhounds (4) 33
2 Treemen (280) 560
Characters 4-16 (Max 50%) 923
Rank and File: 50-100% 1477
Mercenaries/Allies: 25% Wood Elves 871
Total: 3271
Extras:
3 Unicorns (40 points) / 1 Pegasus (14 Points) / 1 Zoat (275) / Life Elemental (1000)
This is what I took to this game:
The Grand Army of Bretonnia. (3,000 Points)
General, Wizards and Standard Bearer:
The Grand Duc a l’Arange w. Lance and Heavy Armour / Riding Hippogriffe. (155)/200 355
The Army Standard Bearer. The Viscomte Bisquit. (80)
2 x Wizards (Amorciers) (60) 120
1 Cleric (Prior Gilbert) Amorcier (60) 60
Knights:
6 Chevaliers De Notre Dame De Bataille with Lance and Heavy Armour. (29) 174
Retainers:
Baron with Double-Handed weapon and Light Armour (34) 34
20 Retainers with Double-Handed Weapons and Light Armour. (9 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 189
Baron with spear and shield (34) 34
20 Retainers with Spears and Light Armour and shields. (9 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 189
Baron with Bow and Light Armour (34) 34
20 Retainers with Bows and Light Armour. (9 points)
Inc: Champion and Musician: With Horn of Valour +1 to Fear tests. (25) 214
20 Retainers with Crossbows and Light Armour. (10 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion: 210
Baron Ludwig Von Sapponatime. 33
14 Retainers with Spears and Double-Handed Weapons Light armour and shields. (11)
Inc Standard bearer and Champion: 165
Baron Boeuf de Bourguigon with Sword and Light armour riding horse. (35) 35
8 Retainers with Crossbows. (8)
Inc: Champion with Crossbow and Light armour: (10) 66
Brigands:
Gaston L’Grand.
15 Brigands with Crossbows and Light Armour. (10 points)
Inc: Standard bearer and Champion. 160
Count Hertz Vanhire with Double-Handed weapon and Light armour. 109
9 Brigands with crossbows and Light armour.(10)
Including Standard bearer. 90
Jac
6 Brigands with Crossbows and Light armour
Inc: Champion. (Jac) 60
Feudal levy:
(Baron) Robert fitzHarding with Bow and Light Armour. 34
40 Peasants Bows (No armour) (3)
Including Musician and Champion(s) 60
Allies: Wood Elves:
Animal Handler (13) 5 bears (20) 113
Animal handler (13) 5 Wild Cats. (21) 128
Animal Handler (13) 2 Boars (12) 37
Animal handler (13) 5 Warhounds (4) 33
2 Treemen (280) 560
Characters 4-16 (Max 50%) 923
Rank and File: 50-100% 1477
Mercenaries/Allies: 25% Wood Elves 871
Total: 3271
Extras:
3 Unicorns (40 points) / 1 Pegasus (14 Points) / 1 Zoat (275) / Life Elemental (1000)
Harry
Baron
So next up ... some more vintage nonsence .... Gnomes.
A party of Gnome adventurers.
(These guys were painted for Gnomevember ... and I have only just got around to basing them up).
This last guy is the Gnome cleric .... can't think of a suitable image for his shield ... any suggestions?
A party of Gnome adventurers.
(These guys were painted for Gnomevember ... and I have only just got around to basing them up).
This last guy is the Gnome cleric .... can't think of a suitable image for his shield ... any suggestions?
Harry
Baron
So here is a bit of a change from my normal Fantasy stuff.
We have played a couple of Rouge Trader and some other Sci fi Role playing stuff and we got to talking about a game where you were the captain of a cargo vessle knocking around in a fairly low tech **** end of space scratching a living from the odd bit of salvage, a bit of haulage work and the odd bit of crime ... all very Firefly.
The idea would be that each 'turn' a card would be turned and another job would be available which one or more captains might go after .... and chaos would ensue.
The details of the game are not important ... indeed at this stage they have not even been written.
Meanwhile I have painted up a few ships.
These are plastic space ships from EM4 Miniatures. They were originally produced for a game called Silent Death released back in 1990.
You get twelve on a sprue for a couple for pounds!!!!!
Here is what I have done with them:
We have played a couple of Rouge Trader and some other Sci fi Role playing stuff and we got to talking about a game where you were the captain of a cargo vessle knocking around in a fairly low tech **** end of space scratching a living from the odd bit of salvage, a bit of haulage work and the odd bit of crime ... all very Firefly.
The idea would be that each 'turn' a card would be turned and another job would be available which one or more captains might go after .... and chaos would ensue.
The details of the game are not important ... indeed at this stage they have not even been written.
Meanwhile I have painted up a few ships.
These are plastic space ships from EM4 Miniatures. They were originally produced for a game called Silent Death released back in 1990.
You get twelve on a sprue for a couple for pounds!!!!!
Here is what I have done with them:
Harry
Baron
Finally I dug through the bits box to find some old Citadel spaceships .... see you knew there was some "Oldhammer" in there somewhere.
This is one of the very first Citadel Miniatures I owned.
It was one of their early range of spaceships ... I think this one was the John F. Kennedy.
It is pretty good for size ... although I suspect the scale in mind was slightly different:
and then I found some of their littte fighters ... these are great because the original spaceships are really single and double seater fighters but having a few of these makes all but the smallest of my EM4 ships into fighter bombers of small transport size ships ... much more of where we were going with this:
This is one of the very first Citadel Miniatures I owned.
It was one of their early range of spaceships ... I think this one was the John F. Kennedy.
It is pretty good for size ... although I suspect the scale in mind was slightly different:
and then I found some of their littte fighters ... these are great because the original spaceships are really single and double seater fighters but having a few of these makes all but the smallest of my EM4 ships into fighter bombers of small transport size ships ... much more of where we were going with this:
Harry
Baron
Finally needed something badass and huge to be a big Military vessle for that scene where the plucky rouges are about to be borded by the Imperial Navy ...
Anyway I picked up one of these OOP Bandai plastic kits that seemed fit the picture I had in my head:
Then we need a lot of floating bits of space junk and a few moons and I am all set.
So bit more painting and modelling to come.
Will post updates as they happen ... including whatever rules we come up with.
Anyway I picked up one of these OOP Bandai plastic kits that seemed fit the picture I had in my head:
Then we need a lot of floating bits of space junk and a few moons and I am all set.
So bit more painting and modelling to come.
Will post updates as they happen ... including whatever rules we come up with.