This week I have mostly been painting ....

Harry

Baron
So I need to paint some more rangers so more players can have their own regiment.

So I have made start on some of these:

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... and I have put together a Regiment of what I consider to be Kislev Dwarves or Kislev Dwarf Rangers. I imagine this game to be somewhere to the far North on the Kislev border.
Only three variants of Marauder Dwarves and command figures so I have done a few conversions on helmets to add a bit of variety and make them look a bit more 'Kislev ... although in fairness the hats they are wearing do most of the work.
I will be going with the classic Red and Black theme.

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Harry

Baron
Meanwhile Dwarfy themed game means dwarfy themed scenery and this project gave me the nudge to do a bit of scenery I have wanted to do for a while.

This is a Gormity (Sp?) plastic toy.

Here it is, all glued together, after a bit of green stuff work and some more harsh language. :grin:

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From the moment I saw it I thought that would make a great bit of Dwarf scenery and I a manged to pick this one up on ebay for £10 along with 5 other other Gormity 'castles'.

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You can see it's not bad for scale:

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Spray painted black:

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Dry brushed in a few shades of grey .... Jobs a good un.

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Needs a bit of basing but not bad for a couple of squid and a very warhammer dwarfy feel to it I think you will agree.

Here it is amongst my other Dwarfy scenery bits. Looks even better. Just needs that matching base to tie it all in.

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Harry

Baron
It's that time of year again ... It has come around to my chils' birthdays again ... and that only means one thing ...

CAKE! :grin:

So my boy ... like many eleven year old boys is into computer games now.
Currently he is lost in the world of Minecraft ...
Here is his Minecraft Birthday cake

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Seriously mate, your son is one lucky individual!

If my dad had as many (any) awesome minis around when I was growing up I think they would have been destroyed via playing with them...do you have them under lock and key or does your young un know restraint?

Brilliant work (as usual) Harry :!:
 

Harry

Baron
Thanks fellas. :grin:

Count Von Bruno":1ypp99ef said:
Seriously mate, your son is one lucky individual!

If my dad had as many (any) awesome minis around when I was growing up I think they would have been destroyed via playing with them...do you have them under lock and key or does your young un know restraint?

Brilliant work (as usual) Harry :!:
He is not that interested. He is already lost to the evil of computer games. He has played the odd game of quest and space hulk and enjoyed himself ... so there is still hope. :grin:

My daughter shows a bit more interest in the painting side of things.

It was her Birthday this weekend.
She is a lover of animals ... currently into fish.
This is my attempt to recreate "The Rainbow fish" in cake. :grin:

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Harry

Baron
Flip-a-doodle.
I have not updated this thread since before Christmas.
You may have seen some of this stuff on other threads ....
.... but I will post everything here as a complete record of my painting efforts.


So here is what worked on next .... bit more work on the sledge and some false antlers on the ponies and the job's a good 'un.

Can you tell what it is yet? :grin:

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Then there was the game itself:

So here is what I got up to over the Christmas Holidays ....

Welcome to my home for the Christmas gathering around the tree of G.R.O.G. The Gloucestershire Retro and Oldhammer Gamers.

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This is our second BIG game.
It was actually the fight just after Christmas ... but that's not important right now.

What follows is not so much a battle report but a story in photos f the events of G.R.O.G.s latest BIG battle:

The basic story was simple ... The naughty Goblins have stolen the Christmas presents. Despite poor weather forcast the Dwarven rangers are sent out to find the presents and save Christmas.

Unfortunately the Dwarves have got lost in the Blizzard and the ranger captains have lost all their rangers.

We get a few brief moments to make a map of the terrain before everything is lost in the snow.

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Then everything is removed and we start with a completely white table.
Only as we approach an terrain feature as we move around do things reappear on the table..
Each turn we have the option of blowing our horn. You risk alerting monsters to your presence but it is the only way of calling your lost rangers back to you.
What we also quickly realise is that their are a lot of goblin wolf riders out and about this night and each time a horn is blown the wolf riders (also lost in the snow head towards the last blast of the horn. So each turn you must measure the benefits of calling more dwarves against the enemy of bringing more enemies in your direction.
In addition each turn we draw a rune from the bag and this has positive or negative affects for that Dwarf for that turn.

Enough of the chat .... on with the pictures ...

My game started well.
My first blast of the horn brought a level 5 hero from the blizzard to rejoin my ranger Captain and my first rune resulted in my making an unlikely alliance with some Elves who we hugging a tree.

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Meanwhile at the other end of the table one of the other players was also making friends and found a unicorn in the Blizzard.

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On approaching a Statue of a forgotton king

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... a small band of Knights Templars came to the aid of one of the players only to be chased of the table by 5 Goblins ... The shame!

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Meanwhile back at the other end of the table ... all my horn blowing had attracted a bunch of Drunken Dwarves from the local ... slightly less helpful than the Elven rangers!

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However they struck up singing Christmas carols under the tree and inadvertently drew the Wolf riders away from me.

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Next I passed close to a Dwarven mine and was joined by some Dwarf miners ... result.

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One of the other players was not so lucky and attracted a Yeti ... and a flippen big one!
Enter the Yeti giant ....

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However in one of those comedy moments you only get with giants he promptly fell over.
It seems he can't take his Grog!

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However, in his defence ... we were drinking Hobgoblin!

As if things were not bad enough the next horn blast attracts a Mammoth .... but as it turns out the Yeti and the Mammoth are arch enemies ... who knew? right?

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Well this is the battle everyone had turned up to see ... Yeti v's Mammoth.

Now I like Yetis ... and I like Mammoths ... but which is the best?
There's only one way to sort this out .... FIGHT!

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Yeti head butts Mammoth ... it's a brave ref who steps in between these boys.

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However the it turns out the mammoth is as hard as ******* ... Who knew?

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The Dwarves make a run for it.

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Harry

Baron
Meanwhile .......................

I had approached the Dwarven hold in the mountains where a mighty throng had answered my horn blast.

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at the other end of the table things had started to hot up as a disabled steam tank had been discovered but it was promptly surrounded by wolf riders whoopin' and a hollerin'

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and Goblins began to poor out of a cave entrance to defend their mountain home.

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as if this wasn't enoght three Yetis and some huge sabre tooth cats appeared to the flank.

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They immediately charge into the ranger unit that end of the table ... he is slightly worried at this point ... surrounded on all sides by enemies.

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But re-enforcements are on the way:

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But just when all hope of reaching the rangers in time seems lost .... another player draws the rune that allows him to discover a secret way and appears at the enemies gate through the frozen waterfall

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The double crossing orcs who had joined them (some more unlikely allies that had joined the dwarves due to the runes) took their chance to abandon the Dwarves and head for the caves to take all the presents for themselves!

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Heres a quick shot of the action from waterfall cam:

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They have a cave troll!

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The troll charges the Steam tank (now repaired and doing significant damage to the Goblins) and bends the gun!

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Here you can see in the background one of the other members of G.R.O.G wearing the livery and displaying the knightly bearing of a true member of G.R.O.G .

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However, the ranger captain who (after drawing what was thought to be a disasterous rune at the time from the bag) and who had, out of utter dispair at their position and having lost all hope of recovering the presents ... stripped off and taken the slayer oath. Now in a freak turn of events he has turned up in a position to charge this Giant troll in an attempt to find the only honour left to him ... death at the hands of this mighty foe ... and charges him in the rear. This causes the Giant to flee and they were last seen disappearing into the night slayer beating on the head of this giant. His name will be sung for generations.

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The other player blocked the Orcs escape and recovered the presents and I mopped up the rest of the goblins with ease. It had been a huge victory for the Dwarves who had through fantastic team work and huge amounts of blind luck with the rune bag and the dice rolls managed to defeat all the enemies and recover the presents.... and saving christmas for the Dwarven children .... Arrrrrr.

In the end .... I think you will agree .... Oldhammer was the winner!

Great game, played with fine fellows and good ale. Thanks to everyone involved.
 

Harry

Baron
The next big game was planned for around Valentines day:

Well I started to get ready for the next G.R.O.G. Meet up and the next big Oldhammer Game.

The background for the next game is basically Robin Hood set in Gloucestershire:... A tale of love and betrayal in an English Vale.

An Oldhammer game set against a real historical Background.
(Using Bretonnian miniatures).

Introduction[/u][/b]

The game is set against the backdrop of civil war in England and the struggle between Steven and Empress Maud to rule England.
Many noblemen, and others with power, withhold and change their allegiances whilst others simply taken advantage of troubled times to gather as much power, wealth and land as they can.
In such times the common folk of England suffer greatly from injustice and abuse which goes un-rectified owing to the general breakdown of law and order.

In such times, when good folk are faced with the depredations of rapacious robber knights and mercenaries, heroes emerge to defend those unable to defend themselves. This is a tale of one such hero.

The History

The setting

The Vale of Berkeley. The vale lies between the Cotswold Hills and the river Severn, south west of Gloucester.
It has rich pasture lands, small villages dotted about, some hilly outcrops and a few woods.

The date
The date is 1138. Stephen has been on the throne of England for three years.

Important characters:

The most powerful man in the area is Roger de Berkeley. A Norman Nobel Owner of Berkeley castle and Dursley (Dersilege Durslea, Doursley) Manse. (A fortified manor house) Where he can usually be found. The building of his castle is not completed and Roger resides in Dursley. Roger holds his lands from the king and supports him.

Brictward. The Reeve of Berkeley. An Englishman regarded by locals as a turncoat for the way he sucks up to the nobles. This was an important position as he is responsible for the revenue from the Kings lands and holds lands of his own in the nearby hamlet of Cromhall.

Prior Gilbert. Prior of the Priory at Stanley. (44) A young and vigorous man. He handles the estates well and is moderately well liked by the locals

Robert FitzHarding (42) AKA Robert the devout. (AKA Robin Hood). Anglo Saxon … a common man who is eventually knighted for his services to the king and became Baron of Berkeley in 1155 After Roger de Berkeley. His daughter marries Roger (le jeune). His son marries Alice. (Rogers’s daughter)

Roger (Le jeune) Son of Roger de Berkeley whist he publicly supports the king … he does not support the king. Eventually Marries Helen.

Alice. Daughter of Roger de Berkeley. Sister to Roger (Le jeune) Eventually Marries Maurice fitzRobert fitzHarding. Lived happily ever after (to an old age together).

Helen Daughter of Robert Fitzharding Eventually marries Roger de Berkeley.

Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding. AKA ‘The make peace’. (18) Marries Alice Lived happily ever after (to an old age together).

Important places:

Berkeley (Berchelai):. (Population 270) A large and important village in medieval times built on a slightly raised area of land west of the Cotswolds on the Little Avon River on the south edge of the village (which was tidal and navigable as far as Berkeley) with a port, a market and supporting two mills. It was also a fording point on the Bristol to Gloucester road. It was the meeting place for a large and extensive hundred. The environs have 8 mills and a population of 2,200.

Berkeley castle: The castle was built by Earl William fitzOsbern in 1067 right after the Norman Conquest, but is not pleasant accommodation being a simple wooden fort atop a motte and surrounded by a bailey defended by a wooden stockade defended on two sides by a stream widened into a moat. In 1117 Roger started construction of a stone shell keep and stone walled ward within the bailey.

Dursley (Dersilege Durslea, Doursley) Fortified Manor House. Where Roger de Berkeley resides whilst his castle is being completed.

Longbridge. (Hamlet near Berkeley) Church where “Master Dominic” and four “Brothers” run a hospital for the sick and poor. There good works are available to any who call unable to afford treatment elsewhere. Dominic and the four brothers are, in fact, Knights Templars. (and quite handy in a fight). (OK so that last bit is not exactly historical fact. :grin:)

Frampton (Frantone) Manor and Mill. Drogo Fitzpoyntz.

Frocester (Frowcestre) Manor. Huge tithe barn. The grange houses a fat steward sent to run the manor.

Priory at Stanley (Stanlege) founded by Roger de Berkeley II (father of the current Roger de Berkeley. He invited 12 brothers from Gloucester Abbey there.

The Story

The story is that Roger de Berkeley (who is basically Alan Rickman’s sheriff of Nottingham) whilst not being ‘evil’ he is not very popular for no other reason than he is a Norman Nobel. He is not made any more popular with the English folk due that the fact that Brictward, The Reeve of Berkeley, is a complete git (Every Guy of Gisborne character rolled into one) who goes around collecting as much tax as he possibly can … and being as unpleasant about it as he can be. He was bullied as a child and now finds himself in a position of power.
Robert fitzHarding who is just a local merchant (A seller of weapons … so is quite handy with a sword and a bow) leads a secret life as an outlaw confounding the plans of Roger de Berkeley. His son has discovered his father’s secret life and is following in his footsteps. (Think Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas in the Mask of Zorro). Much like in the mask of Zorro Roger de Berkeley (and indeed everyone else assumes they are the same man when they are masked!)
Alice, who is NOT in fact the daughter of Roger de Berkeley but his ward after her father died, has fallen in love with Maurice (having seen him during a daring escape from the clutches of Roger de Berkeley following an incident involving the shooting of one of the Kings deer). Maurice has also taken a shine to Alice with the added bonus that it would annoy Roger de Berkeley.
Meanwhile Roger (le jeune) has fallen in love with a local Saxon girl … the daughter of a merchant. Helen. This relationship has been forbidden by both fathers. By Roger as his son must not marry a Saxon and by Robert because he wants his daughter to have nothing to do with the son of his arch enemy. Obviously their father’s disapproval has done nothing to dampen the flames on this forbidden love.
Prior Gilbert if very fond of Alice and looks out for her. He is very fond of Beer.

The Character’s goals

Roger de Berkeley - To bring to justice the outlaw Robin Hood and keep Roger away from Helen.
Brictward the Reeve of Berkeley - To collect as much Tax as he can.
Prior Gilbert - To protect the Priory, the brothers, Alice and to secure as much beer as he can.
Robert FitzHarding (Robin Hood) - To avoid capture, to protect the locals, to rob from the rich and to give to the poor as much as possible and keep his daughter away from Roger.
Roger (Le Jeune) - To see as much of Helen as he can without his father finding out.
Helen - To see as much of Robert (le jeune) as she can without her father finding out.
Alice - To get Maurice to fall in love with her.
Maurice - To follow in his father’s footsteps, avoid capture, to protect the locals, to rob from the rich and to give to the poor.... and he doesn't know it yet but to fall in love with Alice.

The Players

One side plays Roger de Berkeley, Alice and Brictward and tries to achieve as many of their objectives as possible.

The other side plays Robert fitzHarding, Maurice and Prior Gilbert and tries to achieve their objectives.

Roger (le jeune) and Helen are GM controlled always move their full move distance towards each other except when they come within six inches of their fathers and under their control.
 

Harry

Baron
So this involved painting a boat load of old Bretonnian miniatures.

So I made a start on Richard of Berkeleys men-at-arms:
Still WIP

Crossbowmen/Arblastiers:



Archers



Spearmen:



2 Handed weapons:



Here they are all together:

 

Harry

Baron
Brigands woth Crossbows:



a few more:



and with spear:
(I imagine these the men at arms of a poorer/rural knight)



Here they are together

 

Harry

Baron
Some pictures from the Robin Hood Game:

The Table:

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The Castle:

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A Tranquil scene in middle England:

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It all went wrong when some men in tights started shooting the kings deer!

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Wait, what's this? The old tree across the road ploy to steal the kings taxes ...

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You get the idea ....
More of the same. Much fun was had ... including the archery contest with my sons bow.
Oldhammer was the winner. :grin:
 

Harry

Baron
Posting these up I just remembered I had taken some pictures after the last game I have never posted.

I was aksed for some shots of the scenery .... so here you go.

The warerfall:

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The Mountain:

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The Trees:

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The Hills:

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The Temple:

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The statues:
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Harry

Baron
I got a couple of BONES minis painted for a game at Christmas..

Possibly my fave mini in the whole bundle

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... and finished with base.

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Harry

Baron
... and the frost Giant:

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Here she is with my standard base.
Need to have another swing at the hair on this one.

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Harry

Baron
From my other thread ... a selection Pre slotta stuff:

One of my fave minis of all time ....not Citadel but Ral Partha. (But there in the early Citadel catalogues).

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The rest are Fantasy Tribe / C-Series Fighters.

Fat Paladin.

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Topless female Greek type:

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The knights errant.
(I may put more gold on the armour).

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