Warhammer The Old World: Orcs v Beastmen

Stephen braved leaving the 1950s on the Isle of Manly Men and journeyed to modern times on a flying visit to Nottingham.

So we had a game of soldiers. Well actually we had two games of soldiers, but this is a post about the first one. He bought his tournament honed Beastmen and I took all Orcs.

I had a big block of Big 'Uns, plus some Chariots.

Big Un Boarboys too and quite a few Arrer Boys.

Big block o'Beastmen.

Some skirmishers and minotaurs.

Converted Harpies.

The lads rumbled forward.

 

Boars crashed in to Dragon Ogres. Stephen was carefully positioning his troops to take full advantage of my lads impetuousness.

The Beast Chariot thumped home.

The lads tried taking the fight to the Shaggoth

The annoying harpies charged the chariot in the flank.

Arrer lads are no match for a chatiot.

Or a Shaggoth.

But the other Chariot at least drew with the harpies.

Next it was the turn of the "board and sword" lads to take a chariot in the face.

Meanwhile the Big 'Uns were getting stuck in.

This went rather better for the green lads.

The Shaggoth meanwhile pounded the chariot to matchwood.

And the Harpy Chariot dust-up ground on.

At last Big Algernon got to grips with the Minotaurs.

And started handing it out.

The Big Uns were making decent progress against the Gor

Big Algernon continued his work.

And still the chariot and harpies ground on their fight.

Dragon Ogres came to help out against the Boys.

And another Beastman chariot evened the odds for the fight in the centre.

Freed up, the Shaggoth turned to look for fresh green meat.

The Big 'Uns were grinding down the Gors in the centre.

However they were overcome and the remaining Gor fell on the Arrer Boys.

The last of the Orcs were surrounded by the Beasts.

The remaining Orcs roared their defiance as the net closed in.

The battlefield belongs to the Beasts!

Great fun game and good to get the Warhammer toys out on the table after a long break. Stephen's been playing a lot more than me and is generally a much better player so I was always on the back foot. 

Want to paint some more Greenskins now.

Warmaster Pump Wagon

After taking a beating from some Goblins at Warmaster i was, quite naturally drawn to painting some more of my own, If you can't beat 'em...

So I dug out this fun little model

Not as pink as it looks in the pictures, definitely red, you know, to make them go fasta!

Greenskin Miniatures model from ROK Miniatures

Lovely model, my only mild criticism is that in the background they're crewed by Snotlings and the crew on this are very definitely Goblin sized.

Midgard: Picts v Late Romans

I am rather behind on things, so this game took place over two weeks ago. James and I got together for a little light Midgard using mostly my models (he provided some Romano British commanders). Just a small 300 point game ahead of Partizan.

As I have had many sleeps amd much more besides since we played I'm not really going to attempt to talk through the battle - just show the eye candy in roughly chronological order.

It was a bloody clash - the dual duel of Champions at the start saw both sides lose heroes. The Picts made better progress in the main and eventually punched through the middle but at not inconsiderable costs.

A victory to the hairy northern barbarians!