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Showing posts with label 10mm. Show all posts

Friday, 25 October 2019

Empire Halberdiers: AWL and long overdue


What does, 2 new horses, permanent employment with weekly travel, 2 house moves, and a new partner with munchkin in tow equal? Absent Without Leave from wargames and blogging for nearly two years!

And, it's only been 18 years since I started painting my Empire Warmaster army, but I have just completed another, entire single unit: Games Workshop's Empire Helberdiers.

This also completes the first full brigade of halberdiers for the army, of which 3000 points worth were purchased and nearly 1000 points worth have been painted. Extrapolating (because we can), this means the army will be finished some time between 2058, or at one unit per eighteen years,  2559... hmmmm.


I went for the additional skirmisher stands for the first brigade, although not sure anyone ever used them.


There is however, an amazing amount of detail on them as there is on the halberdiers themselves


I was nonplused by the time I'd mostly finished the unit and left for eight months requiring shields and flocking to be completed. But once the unit came together with the other completed units, I was happy with the result.


Not bad for 10mm figures at all and with an entire brigade finished, maybe its time to actually crack out another few units to complete a 1000 points.

Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Warmaster: Empire Crossbowmen


Yes, Warmaster - fantasy at that.  Continuing on with the Clear the Desk painting challenge, I found a unit of undercoated Empire crossbowmen sitting at the back in one of the alcoves.


These figures and Warmaster itself are fantastic, although long OOP - but one can hope. The rules are now a 'living rulebook' and available for free online at Dark Press, and Rick Preistley has his own site, but more focused on ancients rather than fantasy.


You'll notice that there are three units finished, even though I only found one in the desk. Well, it turns out I forgot how many figures made up a unit and painted half in blue dominant scheme and the other red dominant. Then counted. Then went - "oh dear" (I didn't really, but the expletives used do not bear repeating).


So then I went on the hunt for another blister, found one, got confused as to how many I had, then had a panic, then found another unit I'd bought painted from the interweb, amongst the finished Empire stuff.


Greatly relieved that I could still field 3000 points when I finish  the rest of the army (its only been 17 years!), to go with the finished Tomb King army, I realised that the painted one looked a little dull compared to the new units, and touched it up.


Had an 'OMG! These guys are so cool!' moment when I uploaded the pics. So cool... so single... :)

So, that's one alcove of the painting desk completely cleared of prepped figures and now the home for glues. On to the next alcove and I see two 15mm armoured behemoths from GZG undercoated, washed, and drybrushed - and I ask myself why didn't I just finish those megaliths of death at the time?

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Warmaster: Empire (so far)


Like the previous Tomb King post, these are some old shots of how far I got with painting the Empire army before everyone stopped playing :(

The General and army standard bearer

Knights!

Pistoliers

Handgunners

The Cannon!

The ranks await engagement for the coming battle

Drummer keeps time as skirmishers are deployed


One day I will finish the full 3000 points awaiting me in their blisters, to go with the 3000 points of undead. Then I'll be able to force people to play, whether they want to or not! Whahahahahaha!

Warmaster: Tomb Kings



Here's a quick look at some old pics of my Warmaster: Tomb King army.

The army has grown considerably since these were taken, almost by another third.

It's still an awesome game sixteen years after its first release and clearly the embryo for Hail Caesar and Black Powder. In fact last year it was the game I played the most.

Tomb King & Priests

General's levitating pyramid (chariot mount)


Liche Priest on Zombie dragon (flying mount)

  
The priests, lets face it, the real rulers of the undead empire!

Rank & File

Undead Hordes


As with all GW miniatures these are excellently designed, sculpted and produced.

Even the 'cannon fodder' like these ranks of skeleton bowmen are excellent figures for 10mm.


The Undead Bows


Chariots & Cavalry

These guys rock, missiles heading in plus bonuses for charging and just for being chariots!


Great sense of movement with these cavalry.

The Train

Skullchukkas! When in the field, its customary for the train to chuck screaming skulls into the ranks of the enemy to disorder them.


Or if piercing multiple ranks of infantry is your thing, you can't go past the Bone Throwers!

The Monsters!

Terror from the skies with undead carrion. 

Ah come on! Its just not the same without the mighty Sphinx!

Or the horror of giant undead scorpions (used as Sphinx)

And finally, slowly, dumb as two sticks, the bone giants. Thump, thump!

If I get a game in during the coming months, I'll post some more pics of the rest of the army.
:)