Dragon Rampant in 10mm

I've been enjoying a few Dragon Rampant games over Zoom with James and Martin. So I decided to get my tiny toys out and have a solo game. Although there are some solo DR rules out there with a nice looking AI I decided I'd just play both sides - the activation roles provide more than enough "fog of war" to mess with plans and make for a fun game

I used my Warmaster Chaos and Dark Elf collections. I stuck with the three stands per unit that Warmaster uses and marked casualties with a dice, removing a stand as appropriate (after 2 or 4 casualties depending on the unit strength). I played on a roughly 2'x3' battlefield and measured in cm instead of inches.

For a scenario I picked one from Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargames - in this case scenario 5. The Dark Elves would start with one unit across the bridge. Other forces for both sides would feed in as the game progressed with the Chaos forces entering from random points on the board.  The river is impassable, except via the bridge.

The army with most units on the Chaos side of the bridge and within 12cm of it at the end of 15 turns wins.

Forces

Chaos

• 3x Offensive Light Foot (Marauders and Daemons)
• 1x Elite Foot (Chaos Warriors)
• 2x Light Riders short range missiles (Marauder Cavalry) 

Dark Elves

• 2x Light Foot (Spearmen)
• 2x Light missiles sharpshooters (Crossbows)
• 1 Heavy Missiles (Bolt Thrower)
• 1 Scouts (Harpies)

The Game

Initially I was going to have the Harpies deployed across the bridge - as scouts it made sense - but in the end decided having the shooting power of some crossbows might slow up the Chaos forces more effectively.

First to show up for Chaos were Marauders and Marauder horsemen.

Dark Elf spears began a slow trudge to the bridge.

More Marauder horse and their Daemonic chums showed up.

Disastrous Dark Elf activations meant the crossbows were soon surrounded with no help in sight.

The Bolt throwers were slowly wheeled into position.

As the Chaos Lord arrived with the last of the Marauders.

Spear elves finally made the bridge, but too late to aid the crossbows who were shot to death before the could even move.

The Daemons charged the elves before they could form a shieldwall.

But were driven off with casualties to both sides.

The Chaos Lord trudged onwards.

More spears began to arrive at the bridge.

And the bolt thrower was finally able to drive off some of the horsemen.

The fresher unit of elves took the fight to the Daemons.

Both infantry units were soon wiped out - leaving the Harpies as the (unlikely) last hope for the Dark Elves.

The Chaos Lord looked on and laughed.

Boldly the harpies pushed up

And with a flurry of pointy rocks managed to drive back the Marauder horse.

Bit it was too late - with two undamaged units in range of the bridge the Dark Elves knew the game was up and the field belonged to Chaos.

That was a fun and quick little diversion.

Enjoyed seeing my Warmaster models out again and Dragon Rampant gives a fun little game without being too taxing.

Frostgrave scenery

These have been sitting about, half finished for a couple of years now.

A (not entirely successful) attempt at a snowdridt.

The walls are either foamcore or polystyrene ceiling tiles. Snow is a mixture of white paint, PVA, bicarbonate of soda and filler.

Well, well, well

 Actually three holes in the ground...

At one point Stephen and I were going to play the venerable Grudge of Drong Warhammer campaign.

Possibly we still are, who knows and who can tell?

Anyway the first scenario I think requires some mineshafts that drunk Dwarfs can fall down. So when Stephen and I began playing the Doom of Belegar campaign I decided to make a bit of underground scenery for flavour and thought that maybe some mineshafts would be a good plan. Dual usage you see. Anyway, pandemic interrupted the campaign but I guess we might be starting again in a bit so I finished these off

This one has a simple ladder for ascending and descending

I *may* make some winching gear or something for these as well. Or I may not.

Warbases bases with stones glued to the edge, then all painted with emulsion tester pots.

Cerberus

Having painted Hades I knew I needed a canine companion for the god of the underworld in my Of Gods and Mortals games. It was tricky to find one that I liked, probably because the anatomy of a three headed dog is very tricky to sculpt pleasingly. In the end I settled on this Reaper Cerberus that I ordered (along with the Cyclops) from Mighty Lancer Games. Sadly not available in Bones material he's a metal beasty.

Another pretty quick paint job with Contrast Black Templar doing most of the heavy lifting.

Cyclops for Of Gods and Mortals

I wanted a cyclops for my OGAM games. After all, nothing says Greek myth quite like an oversized mono-eyed bloke.

I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for though I was quite tempted to follow James' lead and use the very nice ones from Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago however I was in the process of buying some other Greek myth figures from Mighty Lancer games (of which more to follow) when I searched (not for the first time) in the Reaper Bones range and turned up this chap.

Lovely model - slightly cartoony perhaps, but I like him that way and an absolute bargain for four quid.

Painted almost entirely with contrast paints, so he was also super quick to do.