Warhammer Kislev Winged Lancers

Anyone remember Kislevember?
Well, nearly six months on...

They need shields - six months is long enough for things to go missing.

Of course near the end of the process I realised my mistake - I should have done a unit of six, then I could use them for Dragon Rampant.

Kallistra WW1 Late British (9)

Eight more stands of the lovely Kallistra WW1 Late War British infantry.
This brings me to 48 stands of infantry - which is what James and I need for the game at Partizan at the end of May.
Just need to finish some additional MGs and artillery and make a command stand or two and my bit of this game is done. So, All Over By Christmas Easter.

Another Ork 3 player 40K game

Back once again to the Ilko Gaming Hut for more escalating Ork action.
Again I'm not sure I can really remember what happened.
There were extra points to be had for capturing objectives in the central town, a foetid, crumbling inhospitable dump known as Derbi.

 Ballruum Klan ladz, marchin' along like Goffs or summink

 Genitalmen start ur enjinz!

 Ginganutz ladz standing back an shootin' like pansiez

 Waaagh Gruzzkup!

 Ballrumm ladz mob into Derbi

 'ere we ...etc. etc. etc.

 Ginganutz ladz fightin'? Must be a mistake!

 Maybe a deff dread can deal wiv MegaNobz (He can't)

 Da KongaLine of FIRE!!!!

Gruzzkupz ladz prepare to do several thousand pounds worth of improvements to Derbi

In the end Warhammer 40K was the winner.

And also Steve was the winner.

Hills for TMWWBK

I have made some hills from insulating foam offcuts.
Taking pictures of scenery is a challenge - I tried these outdoors in the sunshine - not sure it worked.

They look very pale in these pictures, they're a more creamy brown colour in r/l. Intended to be rocky mountainous stuff for Pathans to sweep down from on unsuspecting plucky Brits.

Orks 'n' Orks 'n' Orks (again)

Sorry blog I've been neglecting you a little. Been quite busy with that dull so called "real" life. And also been on holibobs to France - which was lovely.
Anyway, I do have some stuff to report on.
Starting with this the AAR of another game in our 3 player Ork 40K escalation campaign.
This (I think) was the 700 point game.
Unfortunately I've had several sleeps and several bottles of wine since this was played, so I've no real idea what happened - so you'll just have to look at the pictures and make some stuff up.

 Waaagh Gruzzkup get ready to burninate stuff

 Waaagh Ballruum sneeks fru da jungle

 Waagh Ginganutz pushes up

 Da Ballruum Klan Metal Munsters!

It was around this time that Stephen and I realised we had nothing in our armies capable of dealing with Mega Armoured Nobz.

Fortunately they're very slow and had been deployed out on a flank.

 Da Ginganutz Deff Dred takes to da hillz

 'ere we go. 'ere we go etc. etc.

 Da Ballrum ladz mob Gruzzkups trukk boyz

Da Ginganutz sneekily pick on wots left!

Sadly the battle didn't go well for Gruzzkup as he was the meat in the other Orks' sandwich.

At the end of a fun and furious fight it turned our Waaagh Ballruum had won! Much

to everyone's amazement - not least General Ballroom himself.

40k Orks v Marines

My wife's colleague has a son who's just starting out with 40K.
So while she cracked on with her PHD dissertation, me her son and the Gaming Heir had a game.
The two youngsters combined their Marines to take on the might of Waaagh Gruzzkup.

Here follows some pictures

Much fun was had. I'm not sure any of us knew the rules much better by the end but slaughter was dealt out.
And I lost. Inevitably.

Warhammer Orcs v Empire

General Ballroom remains indisposed so Steve and I were able to return to our first love proper Warhammer (8th ed).

I took my greenskins so Steve naturally went with the traditional enemy the Empire.

Steve began by pushing a big block of Pistoliers into the centre to draw out my fanatics, who failed to reach them.

With traditional Orcy subtlety I just ran forward. Steve attempted to get the charge in but rolled a double two for one unit and then a double 1 for the second. Tee-hee.

Unfortunately my trolls rather fluffed it and were beaten up by the Hippogryph rider things.

They then failed ther leadership test. Twice. Ran away and were slaughetered.

My chariot however did some serious damage to the swordsmen.

The Hippogryph things bore down on the Night Goblins

The chariot remarkably hung around.

The hippogryph things crashed into the poor Night Goblins. To everyone's surprise they hung in there.

The pistoliers had chased off the Night Goblin archers. But they rallied. And then failed an animosity test and charged the pistoliers.

The hippogryph things ground on  into the gobbos and eventually killed enough to chase them off.

Meanwhile the second chariot wreaked further choppy death on the swordsmen.

At this point we called a halt and declared a draw - though Warhammer was the real winner.

Steve and I really like playing Warhammer - it's ace.
If only General B hadn't turned into a wrong 'un who likes Age of Sigmar.
*sigh*