Warhammer Triumph and Treachery: Kislev, Goblins and Troll Horde

 A trip to the Island of Men for our Annual SteveFest event. First up a game of Triumph and Treachery with 1200 point armies, which we reckon is the sweet spot. T&T works just fine with Warhammer The Old World - there are a couple of the cards we remove from the deck as they reference old rules, but for most of the rest it works fine and we just muddle through or make up any irregularities we find.

I took my Kislev forces, the Renegade Crowns rules from Settra's Fury give a reasonable approximation of a Kislev force - you can't quite do Kossars, but everything else kind of works. Stephen took a Troll Horde army and Kenton had his Night Goblin force.

The goblins had lots of bouncy, red friends along

The Troll Horde had plenty of Orcs too

Proud Kislev stood ready

The Troll's tame giant thundered into the red masses.

And was met with swirling squiggy fury

Meanwhile River Trolls had snuck around the Kislev flank

The winged lancers found this tough going

And fell beneath Trollish axes.

Horse archers found themselves in a stand off with Trolls

And the Kislev foot archers too...

...were staring down a smelly Troll barrel

The stand off ended inevitably

Elsewhere the Griffon Legion had run down some archers.

But overran into a less than ideal position.

The Trolls continued their murderous rampage

Yum, yum, tasty archers

Yum, yum, yum...

The Goblin horde thumped home into the Griffon Legion

Stickin an a stabbin as they went

Bouncy lads found themselves some Orc archers to chew on

The Orc chariot ran down the Kislev axemen!

And, with left over Orc dripping from their toothy mouths the hoppers bounced into more horse archers.

With predictable results.

As the game came to a halt the Night Goblins had harvested themselves a whole Hag's Worth of material for some new trousers and claimed the field and the victory!

Great fun, colourful game.

Then we stopped for refreshments. 
Next up High Elves come to the party....

Swollen Purple Ghoulies

More Forest Dragon Ghouls for my Warmaster Vampire Counts

Lovely little models - washed and Contrast paints doing the heavy lifting.
Alan has furnished me with a few Skeletons (thanks Al) so it's full speed ahead to get this army ready for Winter Warmer.

Warmaster Grave Guard

 More Forest Dragon prints for my Warmaster Vampire Counts

Slowly my force is shambling forward.

The Other Partizan 2026 pictures

 I was at The Other Partizan on Sunday. James had invited me to help out with the huge Hastings refight using Midgard rules and Pete's Paper Boys soldiers. Apparently I was to provide my rules expertise. "In the kingdom of the blind..." and all that I guess.

Between pointing and saying things like "twelve dice, looking for fives and sixes, re-rolling ones" and "you should probably charge them in the face" I had time to wander round and take some pictures. 

Lots of lovely games on display as always.

Tricorn stuff - I do love a Tricorn

I enjoyed this cannonball whizzing through the sky

This was part of a Sharp Practice game - no idea why I *only* took this picture

WW2 - Chain of Command I think.

This was the Boondock Sayntes 

("Boon-dock Sayntes, Boon-dock Saynyes, Boo-boo-boon-dock Sayntes")

Big Midgard Indian game. 

I do love their stuff, always visually appealing and a bit mad.

Good to see mythic elements to the game!

Some Sudan camel riders

Tercios, pike, probably Tricornes too

Maybe not, these look floppy to me.

Warhawk in flight

Little Bighorn - this was using the forthcoming Bugles in the West rules. I have half a plan to do this in 10mm next year...

Russinas?

More WW2

Tricornes! Hurrah!

Think this is some more of the floppy hatted period.

Steve Jones' excellent Eutaw Springs

(Eu-taw Springs, Eu-eu-eu-taw prings)

Late AWI (tricornes, huzzah) so apparently both sides were pretty competent by this stage.

A filthy Focker

Russians in WW2

Errr, Prussians?

Sicily WW2 20mm using Rapid Fire.

Loved the look of this.

I took very few pictures of th game I was helping with and the ones I did take do not do it justice. But here they are

Great day out catching up with folks looking at games and adding a few things to the plastic pile.