Random Wargames Pics.

I've been playing allot of games lately. For the most part, its has been Warhammer and a sprinkling of Mordhiem. So, here's a few of the pictures just for fun. The only game I'm missing pictures for is a 1k. Kin-strife between the Wood Elves and my freshly painted High Elves. It was one of them reserve games and "1's" were plentiful at the time... leaving most of my army off the table. The ambush that followed was swift and brutal.

This is from the Mordheim game that Z. and I play last night. The sinister Skaven made way into the city of the Dammed for the first time. The struggle that followed was won by the Rat-men. The Rozenritters have vowed revenge....

And finally,  my Escalation League from last Thursday. I won this game, but I felt kinda bad afterwards. We were both still new to 8th. Edition and things got screwed up more then once. Brent was great sport about everything, but it always bugs me when stuff happens. These are definitively not the kinda "wins" that you enjoy.

Random Furies

Just a quick update. I mentioned in my last post, that I was gifted a bunch of free models recently. Besides, the horde of Guard Infantry, the other half of freebies took the form of some old Chaos Furies. Ten to be exact. My Dark Elves need more units to build up for 8th Edition. These guys are prefect for "count as" Harpies. All I need now is few more Executioners and the army will be set for the new edition. 

Warhammer Whining

Let’s see... the pictures of the Orky War-machines turned out rather poorly. So, I’m going to give it a second try latter on today.  Instead, I will use the Internet for it’s most divine and true purpose... to complain. Here’s my list for Warhammer the 8th Edition.

Where’s the “news” on the new starter set?

It may be my memory failing once again, but I swear, we had more concrete info when 40k was switching over.  We have all sorts of rumors, but  GW. is still holding out! Is there even a release date for the box? Where are my pictures of cool new minis?

As it stands, my two present armies are curse words in certain circles. I’d like to start a third one, so I can play a game with-out getting flack. Here's to hoping, that one of factions will be opponent friendly.

Where are my leaked rules?
This is what’s going to hurt 8th the most by chasing away old players. It is my opinion, that the leaked PDF for 40k 5th edition, gave everyone a long adjustment period to the new system. This time let everyone get comfortable with the new changes and kept the general interest during  the transition.

This time, all we have is rumors... solid ones, but the past few months of uncertainty  hurts the game. We should all be playing 7.5 right now, and trumpeting up momentum for the new edition.

Karl Franz doesn’t like waffles?!?!
I don't know if that is true or not, but it's fun to say.

That’s all I got. I’m looking  forward to the new edition, but I really do believe that they could have gone about it in a better fashion. If they want to copy the success of 40k? Games Workshop should  follow the same pattern that helped the game succeed.

WE and DE face-off

Not a whole ton to say, except that everything died. The Cauldron allowed a stupid amount of saves on the hydra, who, with the help of the chariot, saw off my Highborn and Dragon. (I got revenge on the hydra, dealing the last few wounds with my mounted Noble). I shot the manticore up right before he finally made it to me, but the guy riding it scared a whole unit of Glade Guard off the board, and followed them because he was so pissed.

We both had inbetween 650 and 700 left after 6 turns. It was one of the most enjoyable and hard fought games of Fantasy I've played. Here's the list I used, followed by end-game pics. Hopefully Larry will post his for everyone to check out. Hope you guys/gals enjoy this mini-report! (more pics next time - I get distracted by playing lol)

Note: We are aware that Lords are used at 2k and above, but allow them now because I am still working towards owning the models I need.

571 Highborn riding a Forest Dragon
Light Armour, Enchanted Shield, Stone of the Crystal Mere
Spear, Bow of Loren & Arcane Bodkins

145 Wood Elf Noble w/HoDA
Elven Steed, Light Armour, Shield, Great Weapon, Helm of the Hunt

187 Lvl 2 Spellsinger
Elven Steed, 2x Dispel Scroll

240 Waywatchers (x10)

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

129 Glade Riders (x5) w/Musician

129 Glade Riders (x5) w/Musician

144 Dryads (x12)

1798

Dark Elf Witches

I'm ready to be done with the girls. The whole "natural flesh tone" thing is not my strongest of skills. Who's ever heard of a tan Ork? The witches were a excellent chance to use the new flesh wash. Make sure to water the stuff down and work in layers is my advice. Not the best effort, but not bad for stepping outside my comfort zone.


This gal is my assassin, till I can get another model more suited for the role.

Dark Elves 1850

My dark elf list... Please note that when I started the army, I bought the models that I liked, before the internet could tell me otherwise. The list is set at 1850, but if you add it up, it's a little short. I'm still not sure if I want a unit of cold one knights or if I want to try out two smaller units of Witches and Executioners? That will be a game-day decision.

The overall plan seems to be for the army to move in mass while the range units clear the path. Dark riders should be deployed together to threaten one of the flanks. The Manticore is held back to counter-charge the dragon. Hopefully the beast will do some damage and if I'm lucky take the monster down after softening it up with the bolters. The sorceress goes with the spear unit along with the assassin. I'm really geeked to play with this guy! He's got 5-8 poison attacks that always strike first. If I wanted, I could add on the killing blow ability and really scare some wood elves.

25 Warriors -215
Shields and full command
War banner

5 Dark riders -117
Musician
Cross bows
2 units for 234

10 Cross bow warriors -100

1 Cold one chariot -100

2 Bolt Thrower -200

1 Cheesy Hydra -175

Dread lord -400
With Manticore, Caldor's bane and Armour of Darkness

L2. Magic lady with Tome of Furion-150

Assassin -121
Extra hand weapon and Rune of khaine

Any thoughts?

Now I remember why i hate Warhammer...

Cavalry.


Two for one, is motto of the mounted unit.

Sure it's only one model in the game but, my paint brush doesn't see it that way. This thought popped back up in my mind, while I was touching up the dark riders. If they weren't so incredibly awesome on the table. I probably wouldn't have ever bothered.

However during my dark elf research putting the army together. I discovered that they are a staple. So i made two units out of the Glade Rider box sets and some DE torsos. For the touch ups, I fuddled around with the horses and did up the cloaks. This strong dislike for the horses, explains my attraction to the rat-men and the bearded folk.

Thinking about Tyranids

Well sort of...

While I am very excited for the new Nid codex and eagerly waiting to putting the bugs back on the table. I must admit that rumor of plastic gargoyles has me pumped. The idea of a kit with multiple wings could lead to all sorts of crazy conversions . If I had some plastic wings, I could go grab a box of demonettes, then make up some harpies for the Dark Elves. I don't think it would be to much effort to build the models up on rocky crags, then slap on the wings. If not it's time to break down and shell out the clams for these lovely ladies

Cold one Knights

I think cold ones are green or something, but I paint green in my sleep. Besides, my favorite color is blue. The lizard riders act as decent heavy calvary if you don't mind risking the stupidity tests. Leadership 9 is pretty reliable and a bare-necked unit of 5 is less then 150 points. These guys are in all my lists.

Executioners pt.2

Here is a bit of an update on the executioners from a week or so. I have been taking my sweet ole time with this unit. The banner has gone a few changes. I freely admit that I don't do allot of free hand. It's just my own pure laziness. The model did not leave me the option of skipping out.

The banner ended up being very shiny. All the ink and washes that I used left a terrible glare. The solution was a few coats of very watered down Elmer's glue. That seemed to help matte it down.

So after all the time put into the little unit and it's banner dude. I discover that it's not recommend to give small elite units a standard. It naturally draws attention and possibly give up easy victory points in a bad combat.

Up Next... Blood thirsty Witches.

The Evil Dark Elves

I've been slowly doing some touch up work on my 2,000 Pt. Dark Elf Army. Making some movement trays and painting up a few spear men. Lately, I've been trying to stay in the fantasy mind set and reading up on the books.

I have come to the conclusion, over the last few games. If I am to improve my understanding of Warhammer? I need to stick to just one army for a while. Until I know it inside and out. The flipping back and forth is allot fun, but I'm just confusing myself while learning the core rules. The Dark elves have the potential to play in all 4 phases of game, so they seem a better choice for grinding my teeth. I keep playing around with different lists, but I can't decide... monsters or magic?

Wadda we do till Then?

It's been kinda quiet around here. Fall is starting to settle in and I think it time to move back indoors. I have been digging though the old Skaven books and rumors, getting all geared up for the work that lies ahead. It's going to be so much work and the really bad part is the bugs are right behind them.

In the meantime, Dark Elves. Executioners to be exact. I don't have a full unit yet but I can use my Witch Elves, that are collecting dust, to fill out the ranks for a small unit. They should make a good counter attack for when the tree men start coming around.

The battle rages on....

Right before the Eldar painting bug bit me. Mr. Ilg and I manage to play two more games a few weeks ago. The first one was a 1,000 Pt. rematch from the time before. Once more the Dryad and countless Archers spelled doom for my army. The high point for the Dark Elves was a single chariot running down two units in the final turns of the game. Go Lions....

How ever the next game was set up at 2,000 Pts and promised to be a great game. Still putting the finishing touches on my Dark Elves left me with a bit Hero-heavy army. Most of my points sunk into a Level 4 mage with D. Pegasus and the Hydra. Mr. Ilg brought his own Monsters as well in the shape of 2Treemen.

This game was a total disaster from the get go... then end was a loss well earned. Mr. Ilg took advantage of my errors and played a good game. Making my dark elves regret ever raid the woodland in first place.Thoughts....

1. If you spend a quarter of your army list on a single model. For love of Gawd... protect the model. Do not expose such units to unnecessary risk. If the model is a mage do not expect the magic phase to go the way you plan. The first turn I really thought between her and two units of cross bows could at least panic if not cripple a single unit of Hawk Riders....

Wrong!

I've lost a lot of games in my time, but never on the very 1st. turn. It nearly happened here. After the mishap my reward for such hopeful optimism was a return charge form the Hawk riders on my poor magic lady. Only a freak chance of luck does she live and for some reason. Mr Ilg ran away after the failed attempt. I would have stayed and locked her down for the rest of the game...but i think the Hydra sitting to her right there... panicked him at bit.

2.The Manticore is very squishy against the Wood Elves and there not much i can do about it other then use the table to my advantage while i cross the board. Maybe the Ring of Darkness, but thats all the hero's magic allowance. Only once has it made it to wood elf lines... the other two it was blasted from the sky.3. Tree men... not much to say here other than two will make short work of the Hydra every time. Mr. Ilg used them wonderfully and much to my dismay. Solution...Fire magic and Bolt thowers. Even with the charge they just are too tough and have too many wounds.

Great games both, and learned even more about my army each time we play. We have plan up one or two more before he returns to school. I let ya' know how they go.