Tale of 7 gamers: month 2

So, month 1 is done and we progress to the next stage!

For the end of June we all need to have 1000pts ready to rock, which means I have some serious catching up to do...

Blast from the past: Nurgle

Some blasts from the past from my 40K Nurgle themed army. Really hoping the new Chaos Marine codex allows properly aligned theme lists again, all my units are 7 models!

 

Greater Demon of Nurgle

 

Forgeworld and Green stuff converted Rhino

 

Converted Demon Prince of Nurgle

Plague Marines Unit



Nurgle Terminators

- rob

Tale of 7 gamers: month 1 done!

Hey, guess what I did on Friday? That's right, played my first games of Warhammer in a very long time!

The tale of gamers gang all rocked up to 4Tk Gaming to show off our motley collection of 400pt armies and we all had a blast learning the rules and some of us even won some games!

In the end we ended up with some more players: Chaos Warriors, Ogres and another Orcs and Goblins player have also joined the fray, taking our total up to 10 players. It made for a great atmosphere in the club and in general everyone approached the games in the right spirit, not a power gamer in sight - though that could've been because Phil didn't play any games this week! ;-P

The one thing I didn't do was take any pictures. Unfortunately a recurring eye problem has made me rather light-sensitive (yes, yes, really I'm a vampire) and spending ages taking pics after playing 3 games of WHFB wasn't what I really wanted to be doing. I promise at the next one I'll take lots of pictures and post them up here.

Personally, I made some reasonable progress on painting (well, reasonable for me at least!) but still have a long way to go. Painting regiments is definitely not my forté, which is something of a drawback in a game that benefits players with large blocks of troops!

To give you a sense of the groups progress, here's a break down of where everyone seemed to be with their painting:

• Danny, Wood Elves: All rank and file painted up nicely, just a hero not painted, but I understand he won't feature in the 1k force, so we can forgive him that (no we can't);
• Jonny, Beastmen: All painted up from what I saw
• Rich, Skaven: did a great job painting up a tonne of rats and some nice rat ogres
• Jim, Orcs and Gobbos: mostly painted two big units (these horde players are really putting me to shame!)
• Nic, Vampire Count: late to the part but still had a big group of skellies and zombies painted up, top work!
• Phil, High Elves: didn't play but already had stuff painted, pretty much a loser here tbh ;)
• Me, Empire: errr, well I have some men with paint on them, but very much still at the 'blocking in' stages unfortunately :(

We also had painted Chaos Warriors from Ian and some unpainted Ogres from Matt.

In terms of the games I played they were lots of fun, but reminded me that WHFB is so much more like chess than 40K has ever been. Placement of units (preventing overrun into units behind by getting angles right), shooting the right units to make sure you have whittled down ranks on the scarier units before you have to engage them, choosing the right target with your cannon. Far more interesting games, but you get punished significantly harder for your mistakes than with other games. I came away with a win against the other Orc and Goblin player and a loss against Chaos Warriors (ack!) and Vampire Counts.

It's certainly made me think hard about the next game and the bump up to 1000 points. I'm going to have to start using detachments properly and am considering using more artillery and a master engineer to get around some of the horrible artillery dice rolls I got (60% of my first artillery rolls must've come up with a '10' and massively overshot the target!)

Had a brilliant time though and am plotting away for the 29th June and 1000 points (wizards now allowed!)

- rob

Blast from the past: Trollbloods

Thought I'd start a bit of a redux series, here are some of my Trollbloods (some not previously on the blog):

Hoarluk Doomshaper

 

Without doubt one of my favourite Trollblood models and paint jobs. Enjoyed painting him a lot!

Dire Troll Extreme Sculpt

Sooo much skin to paint on this one, was fun to do in the end though
and always draws nice comments when on display

Impaler

The most recent addition to the horde

Earthborne Dire Troll

  

  

Had fun doing the base for this, expanding on the 'smashing the ground up' theme already on the model.
Seriously need to re-photograph this model as the lighting on these pics suck!

- rob

Flames of war loveliness from @rob_norman

So "the other" Rob had brought his stunning Flames of War modular terrain boards down to 4Tk Gaming last night. I only got a few phone pics, but these are sooooo nice, lovely work Rob!

- rob

Quick picture update of #whfb #empire progress

So, I made more progress last night, right arms all painted red (as per my colour scheme choice) and started work on the Witch Hunter's cloak as well. Slow progress, but getting there!

Will take it all down to 4Tk Gaming tonight and try to make some more progress, ready for Friday and our first Tale of 7 Gamers playing session!

- rob

Progress update: Empire #whfb

So I made some progress on my Empire stuff this weekend. Finally decided to include a cannon in my 400 point starter force (120pts in one model, I'll buy that, thank you very much!) so the breakdown is now:

• Witch hunter (2H weap)
• 14 Halberdiers with full command (lead by Witch hunter)
• 10 Crossbow men with a Musician (for the free re-form)
• Cannon

Should provide enough variety to play around with :)

Got some paint onto the halberdiers last night, blocked in all of the metal areas, will move on to tunics, etc. tonight hopefully, 4Tk Gaming committee meeting allowing (we're planning the final details of the Summer Open Day tonight, so watch the skies for more definite news about what's going on!)

- rob