Monday 18 March 2024

Warmaster Daemon Beasts

Chum Matt just loves playing against my single unit of these, so I thought I'd paint up another - I'm nice like that.




They are fearsome in the game to be fair. They're also a whole heap of points. And I can only take this second unit when I get to 2K points - so I best finish off a few more regular type units.


Sunday 17 March 2024

Midgard March (6)

 Another dozen of the Gripping Beast plastic Picts - with one or two Westwind metal heads added for variety


There are some metals to base up now and a few more in the painting queue.

Saturday 16 March 2024

Friday 15 March 2024

Midgard March (5)

 A half dozen Pictish crossbowmen.



I do think the crossbows are actually a bit big for what the Picts likely had, but what the heck, they're on the sprue.

Thursday 14 March 2024

Midgard March (4)

It's not all just finishing things off - I've built some slingers.


The slings are from the old and not at all lamented Wargames Factory Celts box. and the metal heads are from Westwind.

I'll probably blast these with White Spray and give them the Contrast treatment to get them finished quickly.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Sunday 10 March 2024

Warmaster Revolution Daemons and Dark Elves

Matt came over for another Warmaster game - I'm keen on getting to grips with the Daemon army and he decided this time to take Dark Elves.

Just the 1500 points as that's all I have for both these forces (though I hope to get the Daemons to 2k in the near future).

The line of battle



The evil Dark Elves



The cavalry launched themselves at the Dark Riders


However they disgraced themselves and could only draw.


On the other flank the sorcerer kept blundering - one of which resulted in the Daemon flyers charging other Dark Riders again with mixed results.


My centre was stalled as a result of blundering. 


My right was also somewhat disarrayed.


The Witch Elves were forced to charge the flyers


Finally the Daemon centre got moving.


The big maggot monsters failed to charge home.



And the Khorne hordes found themselves surrounded.


With devastating results (those dice are the hits!)


Inevitably the monsters were cornered.


Finally the second horde brigade made it in to combat


In desperation, with my break point fast approaching the Greater Daemon launched himself in to the Cold Ones.


The hordes struggled against the defended elves in the woods.


The Greater Daemon flubbed his attacks and was driven back by the Cold Ones.



The hordes had bounced away from the woods and suffered more Dark Elf shooting



The Greater Daemon was duly surrounded.


And dragged to his doom


Big win for the Dark Elves.
I was handicapped by some very poor dice - the sorcerer blundered twice in succession! But also i think Daemons are hard to use at this point level plus the Greater Daemon is not a good choice at less than 2k points.

So it's back to the painting table to get some more hordes and cavalry painted to take me up to proper sized 2,000 point games.