tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61009395078764249282024-03-05T18:54:18.936+00:00The Shire and everything afterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-53090988751364093702023-11-15T22:43:00.003+00:002023-11-16T12:49:13.977+00:00Battle Report [OPR AoFS] The Second Battle for the Ruins of Typtich<p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>"The grand city of Tryptich was destroyed in a cataclysm. Rumours abound that lost treasures lie amid its shattered dwellings, manors, stores, and temples.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Small bands of adventurers from all the races of the world now scour the ruins, battling for control of lost artefacts, and to plunder the golden hoards they find there."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.onepagerules.com/games/age-of-fantasy-skirmish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish</a> rules continue to be our game of choice at the table, and after last week’s <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/11/battle-report-opr-aofs-battle-for-ruins.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bash</a> we gathered again for another go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our resident 3D print guru had printed a bit more terrain so the ruins of Typtich grew a little this week!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Once again, we were down to three players, so we set up the table as normal and had a brief chat about a scenario. Both we’d used last week hadn’t quite been satisfactory for a three-player game so we cobbled together the idea of one objective marker each (on our home ground) and a central objective. A simple scrap would ensue with the winner being the player who controlled most objectives at the end of turn four. As it happens this worked really well and made for the most enjoyable skirmish bash we’ve fought so far.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This week I decided to bring a mixed force of Orcs with Ogre allies, to face off against the Ratmen and Chivalrous Kingdoms.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/10/ironjaws-orcs.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orcs </a>with <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/ogres-galore.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ogre</a> allies – 400pts competitive validation</span></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Brute orc boss [1] (dual heavy hand weapons, warcry) – 125pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Black orc boss [1] (heavy great weapon) – 60pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3x Black orcs [1] (dual hand weapons) – 20pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Ogre warrior [1] (dual heavy hand weapons) – 45pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Ogre shooters [1] – 55pts each</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Like last week this is a bit of an elite force with a small number of tough and hard-hitting units. It’s a type of force I’m playing about with a lot, and I quite like it in the skirmish format.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ratmen – 400pts competitive validation</span></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Battle master [1] (dual heavy hand weapons, army standard bearer) – 85pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Champion [1] (spear, caster[3]) – 90pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Night scout [1] -15pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Warriors [3] (spears) – 25pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Grenadiers [3] – 30pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Rat ogres [1] – 40pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Storm veterans [3] (heavy great weapons) – 50pts</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After deployment the night scout snuck forwards towards the centre.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chivalrous Kingdoms – 400pts competitive validation</span></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 x High Champion [1]</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 x Realm defender [1]</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 x Quest knight [1] (sergeant)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 x Men at arms [3]</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2 x Longbowmen [3]</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4 x Mounted bowmen with Lance [3]</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">10 units, 24 figures.</span><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We deployed in our respective starting zones with, as it turned out, very similar strategies! Each of us looked to defend the “home” objective and contest the other two, and this led to a very tense and action-packed battle that was surprisingly balanced.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ31WcafozEmBVsUJUQQMUqJgnQQLK0V_RDT1xv93NMM8mlrsSIje9xO8F13O4sClwa-LpPM-Ajx8-Ua8WshPAaUt49VOvJxk11PYj_QO2DEZOvZBnjFF10uIjrhSQDt7TYQ-ttQvt1nC8jqwZfnrZY2qv1XdE77Ljebwh_w9qZWvvC8Y8h_OmzdKY4kKU/w640-h426/IMG_6706.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Readhy for battle...</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ31WcafozEmBVsUJUQQMUqJgnQQLK0V_RDT1xv93NMM8mlrsSIje9xO8F13O4sClwa-LpPM-Ajx8-Ua8WshPAaUt49VOvJxk11PYj_QO2DEZOvZBnjFF10uIjrhSQDt7TYQ-ttQvt1nC8jqwZfnrZY2qv1XdE77Ljebwh_w9qZWvvC8Y8h_OmzdKY4kKU/s4000/IMG_6706.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My orc bosses “warcry” ability made my whole force “fast” so I was able to cover ground as quickly as cavalry. I set up so that the ogres would defend my home objective and the orcs would rush forwards to try to seize at least one other.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZGpE-nSfdGpuGiF31i9Bvh4Z2dW1iJNCzL77x1pKxunt765yOhbiIf_7tAQ6cGHmbNucXRPlRK8ZRWp87rfTdWVIs16Ifce9hclD8pobP-_Z6KOUDq7uSvg6ubhNV83feDAsD3Q0Y2GD89Jh381h0HpVYxymLx4P9GJe-13iuWkQBCoMjXa_ZP4B0U-u/w640-h426/IMG_6707.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ogres are set to defend while the orcs are champing at the bit to charge.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZGpE-nSfdGpuGiF31i9Bvh4Z2dW1iJNCzL77x1pKxunt765yOhbiIf_7tAQ6cGHmbNucXRPlRK8ZRWp87rfTdWVIs16Ifce9hclD8pobP-_Z6KOUDq7uSvg6ubhNV83feDAsD3Q0Y2GD89Jh381h0HpVYxymLx4P9GJe-13iuWkQBCoMjXa_ZP4B0U-u/s4000/IMG_6707.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RpkA_XK9YT2rJSTlnKcjwlps10Ulxrw0xxAMe9IBxBT1XpjovTlKvyzB-82iTmSm6S2U_txlZr4jsfqntaJGK5Mpfs5EZNxbgixSjKMl12kK_JX8SBDjK_0wuabT-LGuaA1oEPgIsm9_E3u9sSrCE-JS6Folh8p9tr3jtaEeMWUKdS-yPKem9dQPKxTa/w640-h426/IMG_6708.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loaded with scrapnel they're ready to rain death.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RpkA_XK9YT2rJSTlnKcjwlps10Ulxrw0xxAMe9IBxBT1XpjovTlKvyzB-82iTmSm6S2U_txlZr4jsfqntaJGK5Mpfs5EZNxbgixSjKMl12kK_JX8SBDjK_0wuabT-LGuaA1oEPgIsm9_E3u9sSrCE-JS6Folh8p9tr3jtaEeMWUKdS-yPKem9dQPKxTa/s4000/IMG_6708.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Chivalrous Kingdoms set up with a similar two-front approach.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkIxmp8Q8j4_Vwz1OCeFFsWeUrY8-rtVvMn0LeSufZkTXMq9iC89OcyuSZxNtmyhthYi4oiTOGMx16RTBOTr6JNNXOtUxgJFAoYedzkWnslGyy9flDISX_0AOW9lEVjRZ0ljr7AxfAzLyBkjBj6FNN_WR_ERI5hjmeXDKMLP91BHBzUKr_LOHU5GmpFfM/w640-h426/IMG_6709.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large force of bow & lance knights gallop out from the ranks of bowmen.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkIxmp8Q8j4_Vwz1OCeFFsWeUrY8-rtVvMn0LeSufZkTXMq9iC89OcyuSZxNtmyhthYi4oiTOGMx16RTBOTr6JNNXOtUxgJFAoYedzkWnslGyy9flDISX_0AOW9lEVjRZ0ljr7AxfAzLyBkjBj6FNN_WR_ERI5hjmeXDKMLP91BHBzUKr_LOHU5GmpFfM/s4000/IMG_6709.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The ratmen formed a more cautious mob, deployed to have options on their lines of advance.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXnHl9hB1-pGZSWqyx1pwcIl0yHtNe9_9uo8C1kialdYTNhK4OscHRywBDw_DqVUcObInqy_LzTqtLiCWQ3WXqwQ_NXwb9C0dCU8n-KEpZjhDpodV0NldPN21fUfMRcAN38MdXaeMHgRXHV_06nrmCYcFujUvlD0nlYTE5JW1S9q_zFUY4taqMA7fsfh1/w640-h426/IMG_6710.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Killkill! Yesyes!!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXnHl9hB1-pGZSWqyx1pwcIl0yHtNe9_9uo8C1kialdYTNhK4OscHRywBDw_DqVUcObInqy_LzTqtLiCWQ3WXqwQ_NXwb9C0dCU8n-KEpZjhDpodV0NldPN21fUfMRcAN38MdXaeMHgRXHV_06nrmCYcFujUvlD0nlYTE5JW1S9q_zFUY4taqMA7fsfh1/s4000/IMG_6710.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Turn 1</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The orcs and ratmen made a rush for the centre objective, only to find the ruined temple impeded by fallen rubble. A quick dash to the centre would be stymied by difficult ground to cross.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Chivalrous riders took a more circuitous route, sending much of its cavalry down a back alley towards the orc-held area. Chivalrous archers killed the rat-scout with longbow fire, and the orges opened with some long-ranged cannon fire, picking off a few horsemen with a hail of “scrapnel”.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTslhs8Ai_Fggg4esnswsGHRVwPRDMWoVy7HocJZfyJy2iQNkFdw22kMPHSwRVYXI87l8ERwH8ZbALxJWXC4JjloFINS8fQqev-xFLN15HsQA6nvm5UPKyqIOomlcJbKQPuM2oy0Mij6gOfeOLs4lMOXdkptlagnXprof1sygkYOZAoUoUNK-OAdEnYika/s4000/IMG_6711.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTslhs8Ai_Fggg4esnswsGHRVwPRDMWoVy7HocJZfyJy2iQNkFdw22kMPHSwRVYXI87l8ERwH8ZbALxJWXC4JjloFINS8fQqev-xFLN15HsQA6nvm5UPKyqIOomlcJbKQPuM2oy0Mij6gOfeOLs4lMOXdkptlagnXprof1sygkYOZAoUoUNK-OAdEnYika/w640-h426/IMG_6711.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An angry orc pushes in to oppose the she-rat scout.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHskN9bWUPhpg62uHBPh0uzZx84LiBw0T_t7MziJBaGZ8pRW5NNw2GwG426OONmxirgu44nTXSGntttLI6G9bBI8F8XE_hrfcKAHoSt7u4fKoZcI6X2E855YBmOMvqNt-t905BJMsBEqz7dyi5Uua5GgZaK4So1BFHIxifnsVoemIwSw1UWNmPfzKjHdcc/s4000/IMG_6712.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHskN9bWUPhpg62uHBPh0uzZx84LiBw0T_t7MziJBaGZ8pRW5NNw2GwG426OONmxirgu44nTXSGntttLI6G9bBI8F8XE_hrfcKAHoSt7u4fKoZcI6X2E855YBmOMvqNt-t905BJMsBEqz7dyi5Uua5GgZaK4So1BFHIxifnsVoemIwSw1UWNmPfzKjHdcc/w640-h426/IMG_6712.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The first of the ratmen push forwards, spears at the ready to meet charges.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXu2k0HuL_vAjljiqQXs5FVwhn3Qsu3ZRLpYhsJeYitzf67fQTwaDm8mbByEdFDdIkAHzoEAl7TCVHLyTE1M81XOm7iCW-SMDNFj-xbAskjRZT9_IYHXNFE_KSdJKvTBFsJiLJ-m9dBGfRW-xJYPq4TLd4CDFDCOdIAihIo5E7k4EWbbbo3iqEGFwmj6I_/w640-h426/IMG_6714.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The orcs push out in force.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXu2k0HuL_vAjljiqQXs5FVwhn3Qsu3ZRLpYhsJeYitzf67fQTwaDm8mbByEdFDdIkAHzoEAl7TCVHLyTE1M81XOm7iCW-SMDNFj-xbAskjRZT9_IYHXNFE_KSdJKvTBFsJiLJ-m9dBGfRW-xJYPq4TLd4CDFDCOdIAihIo5E7k4EWbbbo3iqEGFwmj6I_/s4000/IMG_6714.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkHw5OGVn2UXQM3sIYWwzL2mr5KVHSDkWhw8X9pnBBSleLz-7IV8G0Wo_hPWleuIhwsPKkCvDWyNjGwoJYy0wlKlF2txjDLqEyHj6_HPSuKPKkHNpn8J3Uhb-s3enekJuIKSz1maFkgoA1Rm_XHEXLMzu3O4EMyK0sFcGC387FeJ6pjBMSRbuu4dhkrMs/w640-h426/IMG_6715.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wall of ratmen creep forwards, trying to see how things are developing.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkHw5OGVn2UXQM3sIYWwzL2mr5KVHSDkWhw8X9pnBBSleLz-7IV8G0Wo_hPWleuIhwsPKkCvDWyNjGwoJYy0wlKlF2txjDLqEyHj6_HPSuKPKkHNpn8J3Uhb-s3enekJuIKSz1maFkgoA1Rm_XHEXLMzu3O4EMyK0sFcGC387FeJ6pjBMSRbuu4dhkrMs/s4000/IMG_6715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gCsssolMA_0FlMZaqIBICqYdLFYKvujkU-ACnmlAj1fr58ia_mGiE_DC9y4gFZl33_op7p_f5w2TXFdLJtJi6Ph_katzC8pAnlgpRZB62mUNbdYQ8zgZB2J5Y-DAKIyB6saroLRPMe8HaxsTBMnm6xoNCEXEhJUMxweDqTTSHjPcbfy5TQ8FSK6MNdbq/w640-h426/IMG_6717.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chivalrous soldiers canter in past the abandoned privvy.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gCsssolMA_0FlMZaqIBICqYdLFYKvujkU-ACnmlAj1fr58ia_mGiE_DC9y4gFZl33_op7p_f5w2TXFdLJtJi6Ph_katzC8pAnlgpRZB62mUNbdYQ8zgZB2J5Y-DAKIyB6saroLRPMe8HaxsTBMnm6xoNCEXEhJUMxweDqTTSHjPcbfy5TQ8FSK6MNdbq/s4000/IMG_6717.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruwLW5-r1B0r0o_VX_bKzHzvgmASAl_Slsq2PnOqvwpAF5o2g0-pWfC4LhGE3kerf-hZVHHueP5kcScVS-jLgVJa2WW-3FcPY4uwF6b3vEQTGTUVYnhgs65nrj3O3BiVvA4JnBuOTEpMhJO5QCIkDbfnZJmT-3zLvunH5aCjsvwd26mZjl23Ev8CM4cM5/w640-h426/IMG_6718.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While on the flank, orge cannon fire thing their ranks...</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruwLW5-r1B0r0o_VX_bKzHzvgmASAl_Slsq2PnOqvwpAF5o2g0-pWfC4LhGE3kerf-hZVHHueP5kcScVS-jLgVJa2WW-3FcPY4uwF6b3vEQTGTUVYnhgs65nrj3O3BiVvA4JnBuOTEpMhJO5QCIkDbfnZJmT-3zLvunH5aCjsvwd26mZjl23Ev8CM4cM5/s4000/IMG_6718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With the armies we’re using turn 1 was a traditional “approach and position” phase. The battle lines could be seen though, and for my part, my intended rush to the centre needed reassessment as the two enemy forces approached.</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Score</span></i></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Orcs – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chivalrous kingdoms – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ratmen – 1 objective</span></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Turn 2</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This turn became a brutal “battle for the flanks”. On my left, the two ogre cannoneers tore the chivalrous cavalry to pieces with more volleys of lethal scrap, halting the flanking ride in its tracks.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnp9u2OVz0flRHGLZqGyUvl92AHZBObD5q81gVK2hSjX7INk__spwgvphTlmh4cFRllMoxcSYvkKkFyHdPU-aAF1g6dmBD877h9B420o4IbXDjuzJ_ZsMOtewslhda3JLjGt0J45eCz_5EMJ6BRlpQj8_8a8aQsqlY9TwGaTciF8J8xS0S_TboP0TPHjx/w426-h640/IMG_6719.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="426" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And after another volley, there are few knights left.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnp9u2OVz0flRHGLZqGyUvl92AHZBObD5q81gVK2hSjX7INk__spwgvphTlmh4cFRllMoxcSYvkKkFyHdPU-aAF1g6dmBD877h9B420o4IbXDjuzJ_ZsMOtewslhda3JLjGt0J45eCz_5EMJ6BRlpQj8_8a8aQsqlY9TwGaTciF8J8xS0S_TboP0TPHjx/s4000/IMG_6719.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Meanwhile an amazing fight broke out when the insane black orc boss charged into the heart of the ratman advance. Surrounded and outnumbered, he faced attack after attack by ratmen with spears, the ratman battlemaster, a rat ogre, poisoned bombs lobbed in from afar, and the vicious lightning magic of the ratty sorcerer! Despite it all, the orc’s armour and dense flesh shrugged off all harm as he wailed and whirled his murderous heavy weapon amid the ratkin ranks! It was a sight to behold, and he was loving the scrap! He dished out wounds in return and all but butchered the ratman battle master.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKS0ud0Nqk9yhgryloO_LU-StYKkLUEeyl3xaElDoWHUUgbE6i9JadpxdHGh8JEMDG-sUXW6lv67N-146WWmx-FrFyBMFadZmYWyw7gKTphh-uAJ5UYyH9onKWB-TYyPdvCfX_pJ9K-mYhCbaDUbCUqSqYeruH6lEQeBmsDneE5KiuLH8R5ngL3akFot6o/w640-h426/IMG_6720.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most intense battle of the game begins with a near immortal black orc!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKS0ud0Nqk9yhgryloO_LU-StYKkLUEeyl3xaElDoWHUUgbE6i9JadpxdHGh8JEMDG-sUXW6lv67N-146WWmx-FrFyBMFadZmYWyw7gKTphh-uAJ5UYyH9onKWB-TYyPdvCfX_pJ9K-mYhCbaDUbCUqSqYeruH6lEQeBmsDneE5KiuLH8R5ngL3akFot6o/s4000/IMG_6720.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkHGRsS9ev2MXtXva7PLn1Ptlm_9RUS3wpTpTO3ucLlVzyj1GjdbA-IhaEPbnKcTcErj9NYPOVuUDNXn0CROHnTSc40JgcXAWems7knlMDnxt1raptaLuGJfjDo5NclDICYJEdUeWSd7cRrlI7AMudjwidyGWyS1Hzcgn4v0QIWcNUXGQZgDEgIC0v0jc/w640-h426/IMG_6722.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diedie! Killkill! Noooo!!!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkHGRsS9ev2MXtXva7PLn1Ptlm_9RUS3wpTpTO3ucLlVzyj1GjdbA-IhaEPbnKcTcErj9NYPOVuUDNXn0CROHnTSc40JgcXAWems7knlMDnxt1raptaLuGJfjDo5NclDICYJEdUeWSd7cRrlI7AMudjwidyGWyS1Hzcgn4v0QIWcNUXGQZgDEgIC0v0jc/s4000/IMG_6722.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMT3HUinmiXzTI0fEI79Egy0Xtvz_-q9HBRHsgYJSBwg6rIhEZFsdzN3_r_9FCwigGJLHZ_1DsK6Yc_Q8ZVQBOAYBu7rOyYJ84q9njwO1QJm5N3c2S9xu5mq3gkbUH5tuqtMtHANRJV7Yn8hX_k6zw0FX6YCstbMuv2hmUGxeDprt3n1paAWr3cXp3HuB/w640-h426/IMG_6723.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ratogrekillkill!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMT3HUinmiXzTI0fEI79Egy0Xtvz_-q9HBRHsgYJSBwg6rIhEZFsdzN3_r_9FCwigGJLHZ_1DsK6Yc_Q8ZVQBOAYBu7rOyYJ84q9njwO1QJm5N3c2S9xu5mq3gkbUH5tuqtMtHANRJV7Yn8hX_k6zw0FX6YCstbMuv2hmUGxeDprt3n1paAWr3cXp3HuB/s4000/IMG_6723.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6aEroEgmxMDRkIQvkM-clKnExLjfxTLQU8_Z-fS0hrxmWm2rdq0DDIhnKgawX6SgdnY3FRhV2um2R6pJkk4G0prz8sv7wNmZlGYIDuYd1R6FpSVfwaExcYCldbU9-K_TztsHBvtubkpZBBGIqqmQWjOxxa-cVKXZ-4hO8rvuYPdFFWHtOU829ccVuwOt/w640-h426/IMG_6725.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nah, yer can't kill me! *Whack* Ave some 'o that ratboy!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6aEroEgmxMDRkIQvkM-clKnExLjfxTLQU8_Z-fS0hrxmWm2rdq0DDIhnKgawX6SgdnY3FRhV2um2R6pJkk4G0prz8sv7wNmZlGYIDuYd1R6FpSVfwaExcYCldbU9-K_TztsHBvtubkpZBBGIqqmQWjOxxa-cVKXZ-4hO8rvuYPdFFWHtOU829ccVuwOt/s4000/IMG_6725.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDR258W2scw4tXNoshTvrpiwv_LT7s1etj5qQACyHm0RgQcRZvvYPMxZEY4nLEYXT91B_TSwjG4F38AZFyqqh9rJLuaPKgjh9WExrPp229Eepi65RJJ8KrsETb_MRyc0udzfaULCk3ARcwMiy94KTBa1pBplVGvOFlsEdpsomeiNOSitQ5Bj9RKxe3PpP/w640-h426/IMG_6728.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alright, I'll back off then. I need some goblins to lick me wounds clean.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDR258W2scw4tXNoshTvrpiwv_LT7s1etj5qQACyHm0RgQcRZvvYPMxZEY4nLEYXT91B_TSwjG4F38AZFyqqh9rJLuaPKgjh9WExrPp229Eepi65RJJ8KrsETb_MRyc0udzfaULCk3ARcwMiy94KTBa1pBplVGvOFlsEdpsomeiNOSitQ5Bj9RKxe3PpP/s4000/IMG_6728.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Back over on the chivalrous front, the kingdom’s finest heroes rode into the orcs, requiring the orc brute boss and the ogre warrior to step in and blunt the charge.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9cff5sgNpwB9n6ToyPpmI9Ac1cv6e5-6PypRvNA5FMS5UY8grFrrMqIdLR3z30GIZKjxh2Sy-BiBLrLYX4CFdw_IJ1qzRQghpd3qZVVbCVKMbbROxCbhAwi_AOS4gJwwB9CRMchW6Uut7RrWdygMojftkBSR-EdFzZhmNL9KMbhZxhaEnMv-GyNDNIVi/w640-h426/IMG_6726.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charge my noble knights!! Yeah Chaaarge boys! </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9cff5sgNpwB9n6ToyPpmI9Ac1cv6e5-6PypRvNA5FMS5UY8grFrrMqIdLR3z30GIZKjxh2Sy-BiBLrLYX4CFdw_IJ1qzRQghpd3qZVVbCVKMbbROxCbhAwi_AOS4gJwwB9CRMchW6Uut7RrWdygMojftkBSR-EdFzZhmNL9KMbhZxhaEnMv-GyNDNIVi/s4000/IMG_6726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjulItKMCRngn0LiQQcrnxGahGNrh3XkTmVfqy0STv6TLZFJhWDapWfeY8U1mZiUmGIgDoErMgA_Ul9ayveJowxtJ8Unc1LPx12DVrsx4BhIBvp3JeKmcsz5wFbMr_hisVyUNqja_hzfAGh1mo9iEK2Vak-E3cjlKVlpiGWB7uJh_A4Ry9YzvF92dktiGZd/w640-h426/IMG_6727.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ugh, these orcs can't do it. Let me 'ave a go.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjulItKMCRngn0LiQQcrnxGahGNrh3XkTmVfqy0STv6TLZFJhWDapWfeY8U1mZiUmGIgDoErMgA_Ul9ayveJowxtJ8Unc1LPx12DVrsx4BhIBvp3JeKmcsz5wFbMr_hisVyUNqja_hzfAGh1mo9iEK2Vak-E3cjlKVlpiGWB7uJh_A4Ry9YzvF92dktiGZd/s4000/IMG_6727.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvumUX3_SC0_PD2qykh28j_UOxxBKLX01zaHB1uJK7XQYmiYNiBbA4s9HIMpEweKePB5w1pwwFw0MfPjZAWViLQ5uEkGrI-2oPr-D8pNE_Oqd9lEiCbtSTuzQkEKb33ufqGbiE60M-uIyrbdCKD_r4QKRv7zdHuKiP1agQIpN_hlJ1yCjnJi6cLER5xFI/s4000/IMG_6729.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvumUX3_SC0_PD2qykh28j_UOxxBKLX01zaHB1uJK7XQYmiYNiBbA4s9HIMpEweKePB5w1pwwFw0MfPjZAWViLQ5uEkGrI-2oPr-D8pNE_Oqd9lEiCbtSTuzQkEKb33ufqGbiE60M-uIyrbdCKD_r4QKRv7zdHuKiP1agQIpN_hlJ1yCjnJi6cLER5xFI/w640-h426/IMG_6729.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Score</span></i></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Orcs – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chivalrous kingdoms – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ratmen – 1 objective</span></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Turn 3</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The established fronts continued their skirmishing, but elsewhere the battle developed. In the ruined temple, each force sent a unit in to contest the centre objective. A lone black orc faced a solid group of chivalrous swordsmen, and a nasty mob of moon-glaive wielding ratty elites, as they all stumbled through the rubble. I was not confident that my orc would survive!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Over on the chivalrous/ratman front, they engaged forces there, both intent on rushing the other’s objectives. Battle raged on this newly engaged area, with the rat ogre supported by rats with spears, facing chivalrous riders and longbowmen.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCwKQOb6OTMSXLGuijJaiSjbK6QFXjCXUNN-9cxfsWa5ePb-YzS5LqhupafFL6y3qfoLAWqF06yF8Nb1-Tztgom4gPkLnRKH-maem8LE6GaRyDrWTRGhZoB_13KiiIYxIk8m3iZcdjLPLfNxfcniQfTpxRf5j25yZqtINixX2uodbGianZ0E9VtLgjC8p/s4000/IMG_6730.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCwKQOb6OTMSXLGuijJaiSjbK6QFXjCXUNN-9cxfsWa5ePb-YzS5LqhupafFL6y3qfoLAWqF06yF8Nb1-Tztgom4gPkLnRKH-maem8LE6GaRyDrWTRGhZoB_13KiiIYxIk8m3iZcdjLPLfNxfcniQfTpxRf5j25yZqtINixX2uodbGianZ0E9VtLgjC8p/w640-h426/IMG_6730.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SlMnUpzyBuBMpAS-cqhA5tp5recJXKDxBFHgrm5Oj9aCnvm1hawhK-ZPslAFk6R4KcDHhZLCafBkRWSzUGsIgAM5vsMamseZkxpV2TSD2gwKFWkS84U9F44sdDKbPYvn4Oy2Gx9ea6zw5GTsYQWI-sIUPw1i4riToGSxlXZzWxu6FlIZ5D7wnMlKTZO2/s4000/IMG_6731.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SlMnUpzyBuBMpAS-cqhA5tp5recJXKDxBFHgrm5Oj9aCnvm1hawhK-ZPslAFk6R4KcDHhZLCafBkRWSzUGsIgAM5vsMamseZkxpV2TSD2gwKFWkS84U9F44sdDKbPYvn4Oy2Gx9ea6zw5GTsYQWI-sIUPw1i4riToGSxlXZzWxu6FlIZ5D7wnMlKTZO2/w640-h426/IMG_6731.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unusually by the end of turn 3 the battle was still very much in the balance. The ranks all round were badly thinned, although the ratmen were in far better shape having taken fewer casualties. They were also better positioned. It looked like the battle would be decided on turn 4 and it was possible for each of us to win, depending how the turn went.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20isMEvv8gLOTh861Ck39m09Jj6kYUsnX6bzzK1xforH7AfFl-VHXcoooVdXlSdIO2qZvhEcaMptkxambL5mKg-2gYm5lnTrXXaj84t4_Gau4RwMXcgo9pfngjDgACBeEmaHrnZD1754fvyegQjATf_WYwqLGRmmsbCNBh4vEZwufPYOKV1HzvWsQjrYH/s4000/IMG_6732.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20isMEvv8gLOTh861Ck39m09Jj6kYUsnX6bzzK1xforH7AfFl-VHXcoooVdXlSdIO2qZvhEcaMptkxambL5mKg-2gYm5lnTrXXaj84t4_Gau4RwMXcgo9pfngjDgACBeEmaHrnZD1754fvyegQjATf_WYwqLGRmmsbCNBh4vEZwufPYOKV1HzvWsQjrYH/w640-h426/IMG_6732.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgaKWeGy3Qg6Gvxl8QJ843fYgI1h0ieLR3uKgp9j4vR9PPlp3E0JnHVsC0LO3HpnDM0HYHTarZXGDOj1xlI2aoyCiWTxVnI1WTgMYuH2UoH-veWYZjT9nrJDcZn9OcdH7HspKLjHg-pJawhUJFfjuv9Y-T0UNcXWNs7gclc_zqA2JHUXat_LwBCTMx2cb/w640-h426/IMG_6733.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The battle for the centre begins in earnest.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgaKWeGy3Qg6Gvxl8QJ843fYgI1h0ieLR3uKgp9j4vR9PPlp3E0JnHVsC0LO3HpnDM0HYHTarZXGDOj1xlI2aoyCiWTxVnI1WTgMYuH2UoH-veWYZjT9nrJDcZn9OcdH7HspKLjHg-pJawhUJFfjuv9Y-T0UNcXWNs7gclc_zqA2JHUXat_LwBCTMx2cb/s4000/IMG_6733.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Score</span></i></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Orcs – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chivalrous kingdoms – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ratmen – 1 objective</span></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Turn 4</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The last turn began, and a surviving chivalrous knight galloped over to contest the ratman objective! His gallant dash was in vain though and the rat sorcerer killed him with lightning magic, securing the ratman home objective.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLg_uu6gJml-tobYoHvinRNYsqt5do5xLwtZF-BWP1C-zMj2n85EkqpoB9VBAg0r0InQ0h5vS6A1PEmbCC6fS-mu0iP-UgKZ27ypbdIsZWJrBL7mFoySki6n7JybLP1UWrbEPc2ROqF0aiRhjX6gOfrICPNfXgmA8VplB4wc9KW5lkQ0rZ3HD12ZUc50O6/w640-h426/IMG_6734.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The knight rushed to contest the ratman objective, only to die in a blast of lightning.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLg_uu6gJml-tobYoHvinRNYsqt5do5xLwtZF-BWP1C-zMj2n85EkqpoB9VBAg0r0InQ0h5vS6A1PEmbCC6fS-mu0iP-UgKZ27ypbdIsZWJrBL7mFoySki6n7JybLP1UWrbEPc2ROqF0aiRhjX6gOfrICPNfXgmA8VplB4wc9KW5lkQ0rZ3HD12ZUc50O6/s4000/IMG_6734.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRoWGswmeLlDqxckP76SarJlsa4nAAXHNvmj2n-HqFri5E0U2StLMHq2X_oHk0KGc9fuAQdDXI2QwssomrthxWhxW5WvxHbMDXv4iB8frGE020ix55t2KyZW6VgGMQlE_Nt-IYJndDty6qVKeZzX7siZepS4gdwmKTe9WrH225Ctbk55pOb7umjdhTmDM/s4000/IMG_6736.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRoWGswmeLlDqxckP76SarJlsa4nAAXHNvmj2n-HqFri5E0U2StLMHq2X_oHk0KGc9fuAQdDXI2QwssomrthxWhxW5WvxHbMDXv4iB8frGE020ix55t2KyZW6VgGMQlE_Nt-IYJndDty6qVKeZzX7siZepS4gdwmKTe9WrH225Ctbk55pOb7umjdhTmDM/w640-h426/IMG_6736.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As a countermove, the rat ogre stormed up to take the chivalrous kingdoms objective, this time with more success. The objective would be contested.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2558" data-original-width="2664" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgIr6OOfyrPG7TLOgzq6zNYV5JzdJALg7fAPZkYEHF34dFoe0zGdnfPZhhk1tk_y9wpcmUgy4hTVLhYZAs0GeHIfO9uxFxqyzpe_vvJMtfLZzeGmn4L_He5jAVPKNlLBauASEMSczFr6yQBOeUVdAiyEA7MF_aSRU7MEs8epHXpxu0SOZkcp9h7EcFuMu/w640-h614/IMG_6737.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rat ogre counters with a more sucessful charge.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgIr6OOfyrPG7TLOgzq6zNYV5JzdJALg7fAPZkYEHF34dFoe0zGdnfPZhhk1tk_y9wpcmUgy4hTVLhYZAs0GeHIfO9uxFxqyzpe_vvJMtfLZzeGmn4L_He5jAVPKNlLBauASEMSczFr6yQBOeUVdAiyEA7MF_aSRU7MEs8epHXpxu0SOZkcp9h7EcFuMu/s2664/IMG_6737.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Meanwhile in the centre, my orc was killed by the chivalrous soldiers, and then the ratmen drove off these soldiers to take the centre objective. This was not certain however, as the orcs opened a path for an ogre to advance close enough to contest this centre.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The fighting meant that at the end of turn 4, both the chivalrous kingdoms and orcs had broken and had to take morale tests. In a final betrayal by the dice gods, chivalrous warriors and the orc’s ogre allies fled the field, leaving three objectives in the hands of the ratmen!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The game went down to the final phases of the last turn before the ratmen secured a dominant win. It was a marvellous, tense and fun game.</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Score</span></i></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Orcs – 1 objective</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chivalrous kingdoms – 0 objectives</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ratmen – 3 objectives</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Another marvellous game of OPR AoFS. If you’ve not played it, give it a go!</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Comment from the ratman player</span></i></b></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“I thought the scenario was an excellent idea - basically, each controlling one objective at the start, with one in the middle and all starting an equal distance from the objective.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My plan formulated itself over the first turn or so and was to contest as many objectives as possible, and try to force morale fails.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I could see which way it was (hopefully) heading, and you will notice that I tried to avoid too much combat, only attacking when my rear line was threatened. The units on my flank were prepared to soak up the chivalrous bow fire, with the Rat Ogre hovering to charge in in the last turn.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Annoyed that I forgot to charge with my Wizard when I had tee'd it up. I got distracted, but hey ho, it all worked out in the end!”</span></i></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-11559725819910667572023-11-08T12:52:00.000+00:002023-11-08T12:52:21.814+00:00Battle Report [OPR AoFS] Battle for the Ruins of Typtich<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It’s been a very long time since I did a battle report,
mostly because I enjoy my games to the point of forgetting to photograph
them! I made a special effort last night
as we gathered for another bash at a <a href="https://www.onepagerules.com/games/age-of-fantasy-skirmish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Page Rules: Age of Fantasy Skirmish</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Usually there’s four to six of us at a session, but for various
reasons we were down to three players.
We discussed a one-on-one round robin (one of the advantages of OPR skirmish
being that you can get several games in of an evening), but instead decided to
go with a three-player free for all.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We set up and played the ‘Bear Hunt’ scenario. The bear was
revealed on turn 1, and by the end of turn 2 the game was over with a win to
the goblins, so moving quickly on, we set up for a more enjoyable free clash
over 5 evenly spaced objectives. This game would be simple. At the end of 4
rounds, the player in control of the most objectives would win. Once captured,
an objective remained captured until it was taken by another player. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Note, in
the skirmish versions of OPR we ignore the requirement for a 1” separation
between friendly units.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The Forces</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Eternal Wardens – 400pts Competitive Validation</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhDtxhUfDTBISEBBFvH3rwXALePv-fioRwILBY465S9gKt_HGlfgoZAYdYicaQZ62uO_ABfiLMrfAnWf4s3spP8g-F3I3ScYLL0Gikqs7XKFYnio25wgpoOkZKZSsirDhAhmgIJ7qih87X4ckDL2yGxCs_KqJXJknZ1lL6tzlfkM_B7FSmjGS1zAr4rs0/s4000/IMG_6668.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhDtxhUfDTBISEBBFvH3rwXALePv-fioRwILBY465S9gKt_HGlfgoZAYdYicaQZ62uO_ABfiLMrfAnWf4s3spP8g-F3I3ScYLL0Gikqs7XKFYnio25wgpoOkZKZSsirDhAhmgIJ7qih87X4ckDL2yGxCs_KqJXJknZ1lL6tzlfkM_B7FSmjGS1zAr4rs0/w640-h426/IMG_6668.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crikey lads, there's loads of 'em out there!</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I decided to try out a small but tough force and went with
my <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/stormcast-eternals.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eternal Wardens</a>. Only six figures is
less activations that the seven we consider minimum (with somewhere around ten
being optimal) so I was worried I’d struggle with objective-based scenarios.
But I deployed the following.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Guardian Elite [1] (dual hand weapons) – 55pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4x Paladins [1] – 60pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Destroyer [1] (Meteor Great Hammer) – 105pts</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Goblins – 400pts Competitive Validation</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZJcKhpHdD8dv7LjKPqrzXS8mzZpljsFNnRYAlbY3-ur42lzEVdMVkOPN1keQ6oLd-0jqsYFw3w1Uj8fLtE5d4ubV_u9sw-AzI6tXuI8TvRxGWNSFlXo510OfU9zhK7IBPUQe-BalRG5l_0-IBg1ORh8YhIpeoah7vG3BvhtZat6ENrt_b02Sdbn1bVWI/s4000/IMG_6671.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZJcKhpHdD8dv7LjKPqrzXS8mzZpljsFNnRYAlbY3-ur42lzEVdMVkOPN1keQ6oLd-0jqsYFw3w1Uj8fLtE5d4ubV_u9sw-AzI6tXuI8TvRxGWNSFlXo510OfU9zhK7IBPUQe-BalRG5l_0-IBg1ORh8YhIpeoah7vG3BvhtZat6ENrt_b02Sdbn1bVWI/w640-h426/IMG_6671.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wicked cackling could be hear resonating through the ruined streets...</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Goblin leader [1] (great weapon) – 30pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Goblin leader [1] (dual hand weapons, caster[2], pet cave
beast) – 80pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Warriors [3] (spears) – 20pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Beast riders [3] (spider riders) – 35pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Nasty assassin [1] 25pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Shooters [3] – 30pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Troll [1] (heavy great weapon, cave breed) – 65pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Fanatic [1] – 65pts</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Ratmen – 400pts Competitive Validation</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iUdA8dWdHMCXQ53A3tsZ7haS4JmEv3_7u5_PcaZ6JwwG5pevUrmewSsEccjxtvjLhiCo5XffW24490tPv8cTcAKkVceO3F2Y0GkzPZflKfS9f6Urn6ltjfgGxqpclTZ5zLNDvoXi7nne8nFT3eGoiCGBlrIf5-y_GYMRIACwQHhX8k8nXiCJXj5AiWt8/s4000/IMG_6670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iUdA8dWdHMCXQ53A3tsZ7haS4JmEv3_7u5_PcaZ6JwwG5pevUrmewSsEccjxtvjLhiCo5XffW24490tPv8cTcAKkVceO3F2Y0GkzPZflKfS9f6Urn6ltjfgGxqpclTZ5zLNDvoXi7nne8nFT3eGoiCGBlrIf5-y_GYMRIACwQHhX8k8nXiCJXj5AiWt8/w640-h426/IMG_6670.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So could the skittering of sewer-caked feet.</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Battle master [1] (dual heavy hand weapons, army standard
bearer) – 85pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Champion [1] (spear, caster[3]) – 90pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Night scout [1] -15pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Warriors [3] (spears) – 25pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Grenadiers [3] – 30pts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Rat ogres [1] – 40pts each</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Storm veterans [3] (heavy great weapons) – 50pts</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We set up the urban ruin table, and an “X” of objectives and
got to deploying. We each deployed to try to seize as much ground as possible,
deciding to deploy within 12” of the centre of a table edge. The ratmen also
had a sneaky scout who rushed forwards to immediately try to seize objective 3. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SV_Z5egtGjAlDCfQEj0rxwk0n5Gzq1HO23OsNZAHxbELANsb2XsNraHDf0fziBqdAYupJhnADG12Cuexw6g83t8Kv5KKeO5n-zF1X-4qkYu4STqmBAUIJH09d5zCFEIoDxmlWW5YSNfzh1KQQODZqkJ6HPnIiTF3I6xVbiQ5RtI-A12oZQY1UXAyjDZq/s4000/IMG_6680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SV_Z5egtGjAlDCfQEj0rxwk0n5Gzq1HO23OsNZAHxbELANsb2XsNraHDf0fziBqdAYupJhnADG12Cuexw6g83t8Kv5KKeO5n-zF1X-4qkYu4STqmBAUIJH09d5zCFEIoDxmlWW5YSNfzh1KQQODZqkJ6HPnIiTF3I6xVbiQ5RtI-A12oZQY1UXAyjDZq/w640-h426/IMG_6680.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at that sneaky she-rat tryng to win the game from turn 1!</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">At the end my Eternal Wardens felt distinctly
ganged up on! This is going to be a hard fight it seems.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9Tj8hAJoFehZ7Em4GCmSXBTyjpyOqiZV6MWL6dhK6Ug6saG325rZc8FcFbhWATP0zcwBMDGwk8n209MGJiR_-cpOUOWAXgr0QDKISeG51Zdiz2Drl8-52aan4N-kaq6uOcdguF6z1u7804jkkGXrXlt_YPdZdgSHtqagbDgzaGibowODCmNm8oMCBFvJ/s4000/IMG_6679.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9Tj8hAJoFehZ7Em4GCmSXBTyjpyOqiZV6MWL6dhK6Ug6saG325rZc8FcFbhWATP0zcwBMDGwk8n209MGJiR_-cpOUOWAXgr0QDKISeG51Zdiz2Drl8-52aan4N-kaq6uOcdguF6z1u7804jkkGXrXlt_YPdZdgSHtqagbDgzaGibowODCmNm8oMCBFvJ/w640-h426/IMG_6679.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The eternals are definitely the filling an a "nasty mob" sandwich here.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turn 1</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The goblins seized objective 4 and advanced to contest
objectives 3 and 5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The ratmen chose to leave objective 1 for later in the battle
and focus their forces on contested 2 and 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The eternal wardens spread out to contest 2 and 5 and move
to contest the centre objective (3).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As set up by the deployment dispositions, my eternal wardens
were in the thick of the fighting, with both flanks swamped by enemies. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">On my right, swarms of ratmen and their leader similarly tried to overrun my
position. The eternal paladins really held their own though and proved to be
very tough fighters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwdHUmJlVvv_DvRvAu80REMxCUGOtcIQxYmNxDmxOhW_Z9OayaX72esBhXM07LiMq6Qb4O_yxLs6vgPJ6yPz_jDsZR56WWyROEPpJyEw-NRxQBZDxnjW3BPFWcOqyl8aFFbN-ASKWbneWIp0COaaO-s3Qm1EE27ihNO2BjuTZGwloh6Ie7RXu3UJdeRSB/s4000/IMG_6681.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwdHUmJlVvv_DvRvAu80REMxCUGOtcIQxYmNxDmxOhW_Z9OayaX72esBhXM07LiMq6Qb4O_yxLs6vgPJ6yPz_jDsZR56WWyROEPpJyEw-NRxQBZDxnjW3BPFWcOqyl8aFFbN-ASKWbneWIp0COaaO-s3Qm1EE27ihNO2BjuTZGwloh6Ie7RXu3UJdeRSB/w640-h426/IMG_6681.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's rats coming through the walls over here chaps!</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">On my left, the paladins fought a desperate action against a swarm of giant spiders, goblin warriors and a lumbering troll.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlIySfRNvyPz1WuFeAreUYkvfAtIEPdPjn5CPtBXWnJeVdi8Amdihc2LJ8WVx4s7uY5b3ZgMhM8_dPpp02LkqV2cOAvQ97eZELrgJgVjzjaC8YTX-JKMXtJQ83h7JG8AhYfLHcmmLPgPTgym3zaPVT17jdcBRUZ5VN-BJ-6YYvYqD28Vy204JbTOBotzm/s4000/IMG_6682.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlIySfRNvyPz1WuFeAreUYkvfAtIEPdPjn5CPtBXWnJeVdi8Amdihc2LJ8WVx4s7uY5b3ZgMhM8_dPpp02LkqV2cOAvQ97eZELrgJgVjzjaC8YTX-JKMXtJQ83h7JG8AhYfLHcmmLPgPTgym3zaPVT17jdcBRUZ5VN-BJ-6YYvYqD28Vy204JbTOBotzm/w640-h426/IMG_6682.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Err...there's one over here too...but I'm more worried about them goblins.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All three forces sent warriors into the centre. As the ratmen pushed in a rat-ogre I decided
to send my slow-moving destroyer in to take it down and contest or hold the
centre objective.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As is usual for the first turn in OPR it’s mostly a
positional turn where each side tries to get into a solid position to launch
its main attack on turn two. This game
followed that pattern pretty closely but there was some fighting on both of the
eternal wardens’ flanks, with wounds exchanged by all sides. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The eternal wardens
‘battle wedge’ advanced in formation, and the goblins and ratmen both swarmed
forth to meet it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAtvBAsIp3mOXjtT2oiUne6J9ITzhe0IZOP8jscTtuGdVD4MYfMv_hgpArFRPm-ZuO2s4UtFvJKV2qcWG8N8IZ-xvEiw4f8SUP8i9G52dHUNloZuIdrEEP7hq0r74Co2GKDUGs2qBETeRXMnTyKRoJaikrUzLPTCetUpQvFQdTh5h3bs1ngOrqHF2kOl1/s4000/IMG_6683.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAtvBAsIp3mOXjtT2oiUne6J9ITzhe0IZOP8jscTtuGdVD4MYfMv_hgpArFRPm-ZuO2s4UtFvJKV2qcWG8N8IZ-xvEiw4f8SUP8i9G52dHUNloZuIdrEEP7hq0r74Co2GKDUGs2qBETeRXMnTyKRoJaikrUzLPTCetUpQvFQdTh5h3bs1ngOrqHF2kOl1/w640-h426/IMG_6683.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiV8b92OmS55Boeee8zL1R-_qHXuQPI_MRrWFiSNKos7KpNCm_d2rVdI0QDTFQroXkuu4STl4of1jI8adGSiPOv-WCm4rbDteM1BoRMZm3YBQrfZlYP2PrI6UefBZuiUW6cZD2-WDtEJ01hoc_uKzN7Q0H3hfbUMxoqngxBLwZFimPv7wefLPtF3b6N1uB/s4000/IMG_6684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiV8b92OmS55Boeee8zL1R-_qHXuQPI_MRrWFiSNKos7KpNCm_d2rVdI0QDTFQroXkuu4STl4of1jI8adGSiPOv-WCm4rbDteM1BoRMZm3YBQrfZlYP2PrI6UefBZuiUW6cZD2-WDtEJ01hoc_uKzN7Q0H3hfbUMxoqngxBLwZFimPv7wefLPtF3b6N1uB/w640-h426/IMG_6684.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fight begins at objective 5</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">One notable combat was between the ratmen’s leader and one
of the eternal paladins. Both had the capability to destroy the other in one
round of fighting but neither did!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xS40GUuHPImvxDr9rU2z9ipf2Eq2eXZCDgi7wZqqB4cp1wZ_OYOZjCMcT4YWbzbvaKCgtVWm8Etz43xjZNaI6BMHdTk8brXFYlC8DjeJ8H6Bzp9agiArGua082cW50Q0UZTKkEm6GaIQ7yK7s5EpZMPYRIX9m2dBaADvYELNWChgjMNeA12RuxluXNwS/s4000/IMG_6685.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xS40GUuHPImvxDr9rU2z9ipf2Eq2eXZCDgi7wZqqB4cp1wZ_OYOZjCMcT4YWbzbvaKCgtVWm8Etz43xjZNaI6BMHdTk8brXFYlC8DjeJ8H6Bzp9agiArGua082cW50Q0UZTKkEm6GaIQ7yK7s5EpZMPYRIX9m2dBaADvYELNWChgjMNeA12RuxluXNwS/w640-h426/IMG_6685.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"When he bends down, you smack his brain out with your sword"</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7Ua8evVBR9c9ptwf5MmmW2QhZ7fK6tcV09Zxz3Uvta_C-hP4G6ZvZrZ8ZxVxAwHXt8a8E7me5EM3BevzxfMhOdLdoGvlVi_OxSLa24eIV3UaoD_FNN74nSfnlf_ce35zIbMiyDKlPAm29uy_EQUtjy_2VA4zpBa4jFq_D8Gx6s8whSONdZFfsZQjQ2Yd/s4000/IMG_6687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7Ua8evVBR9c9ptwf5MmmW2QhZ7fK6tcV09Zxz3Uvta_C-hP4G6ZvZrZ8ZxVxAwHXt8a8E7me5EM3BevzxfMhOdLdoGvlVi_OxSLa24eIV3UaoD_FNN74nSfnlf_ce35zIbMiyDKlPAm29uy_EQUtjy_2VA4zpBa4jFq_D8Gx6s8whSONdZFfsZQjQ2Yd/w640-h426/IMG_6687.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></b></div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Turn 2</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The real fighting began in earnest, with exchanges all along
the front lines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYbUJgwEFb4ielT-NvA4Bt-ufgsdAlT_gKhujVZJq52KnqypXSpCwhtLYHNaDyTHxL1fstmfOPMt33eFIVJhFh6a6DpFDwAGWw_88is9keQwXuH1-WUM8P38M6R0L66NVpRbdS1YWM1eSFZdEXKE2BRmJ5cn27HZqTYMSka7UDQYjQ_pkoy4vH_0YDLos/s4000/IMG_6687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYbUJgwEFb4ielT-NvA4Bt-ufgsdAlT_gKhujVZJq52KnqypXSpCwhtLYHNaDyTHxL1fstmfOPMt33eFIVJhFh6a6DpFDwAGWw_88is9keQwXuH1-WUM8P38M6R0L66NVpRbdS1YWM1eSFZdEXKE2BRmJ5cn27HZqTYMSka7UDQYjQ_pkoy4vH_0YDLos/w640-h426/IMG_6687.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around objective two, the ratmen swarmed the paladins there, wounding him but losing a few warriors in return. The other paladin here continued to trade blows with the ratman leader in a vicious hand to hand fight.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrVKtt9ZpX7nBdWd5Vhna4Ei5klonOSce23aKdwcJTPQMKzRMLH9FQmO54SAMiBQTWDeK7J46AwFvG_0S58a9zwtyg1HWnrIlOWey5jd9tF91vcHLFbMX9k5ja4DODv1wOjuUmMEkf5EOCsfMXocOfrV_tn3TVZFa3fz_gB0rqZ-npndJszAG96oosgmp/s4000/IMG_6688.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrVKtt9ZpX7nBdWd5Vhna4Ei5klonOSce23aKdwcJTPQMKzRMLH9FQmO54SAMiBQTWDeK7J46AwFvG_0S58a9zwtyg1HWnrIlOWey5jd9tF91vcHLFbMX9k5ja4DODv1wOjuUmMEkf5EOCsfMXocOfrV_tn3TVZFa3fz_gB0rqZ-npndJszAG96oosgmp/w640-h426/IMG_6688.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">At objective 3 in the centre, some goblin warriors skulked about, while a paladin was torn to pieces by the rat ogre. In response the eternal wardens’ destroyer lumbered forwards and in a single mighty attack with his meteor hammer obliterated the rat ogre, much to the alarm of the onlooking ratman spell-caster!</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j2ZvBrPfyU49ExlvFK-cLwWhPDZm0EONPBqyGzULW70drAG_XHLQHvhq_IGkoslpT72VBwADJQ9b2PaQ9yCBYvS10bk-HvIp5pygr5H2BucZB-9xyELds7I5wJoahC9kNs7V1MOiu6m7wQCSUyfym2LnJBN2sTJLA9tYn4z5Z6My0uOUv0h08uu-PH8W/s4000/IMG_6690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j2ZvBrPfyU49ExlvFK-cLwWhPDZm0EONPBqyGzULW70drAG_XHLQHvhq_IGkoslpT72VBwADJQ9b2PaQ9yCBYvS10bk-HvIp5pygr5H2BucZB-9xyELds7I5wJoahC9kNs7V1MOiu6m7wQCSUyfym2LnJBN2sTJLA9tYn4z5Z6My0uOUv0h08uu-PH8W/w640-h426/IMG_6690.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SKWEEEE!!!! Gold boy be dead soon! Yesyes!!</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIE8e8A5cVDFAWeMdd4IzWOl9NfeNZKtNyYq308xTuuEt4n9p1qEuHoMtW781KczWUwyNu3KZ6GbSxVvJVB5j3Htw_2Pq9IafbA5KvKaoA8agqGJcBuEd4ggNaapglGeFtP_nHUzKxr1xm2II9IFTsNx1t22j1I-KpJFc7_nHzjbCkISMVIWncwKJ-76D/s4000/IMG_6691.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIE8e8A5cVDFAWeMdd4IzWOl9NfeNZKtNyYq308xTuuEt4n9p1qEuHoMtW781KczWUwyNu3KZ6GbSxVvJVB5j3Htw_2Pq9IafbA5KvKaoA8agqGJcBuEd4ggNaapglGeFtP_nHUzKxr1xm2II9IFTsNx1t22j1I-KpJFc7_nHzjbCkISMVIWncwKJ-76D/w640-h426/IMG_6691.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe so, but he will be avenged</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieAm5Z-FdcHqYb6876pqEdccodUOBJmGCl-2NH6do6ufhHKEUi0TjLQfrqe1_hVICWGRuv9HH7p-3RRTan8bebs9z035Nntq-44-lVpELHSv2755prZ7A84mLbX0KTGbTC6gWCGpQ-r00UwK1NsW01WK7lHnRdYKVTI6EmtiKWcvrhFF4SSCfMy3bGks2/s4000/IMG_6692.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieAm5Z-FdcHqYb6876pqEdccodUOBJmGCl-2NH6do6ufhHKEUi0TjLQfrqe1_hVICWGRuv9HH7p-3RRTan8bebs9z035Nntq-44-lVpELHSv2755prZ7A84mLbX0KTGbTC6gWCGpQ-r00UwK1NsW01WK7lHnRdYKVTI6EmtiKWcvrhFF4SSCfMy3bGks2/w640-h426/IMG_6692.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shocked ratmen wavering in the face of the destroyer.<br />The rat-sorcerer looks on in horror and throws some ineffective rat magic at him.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">At objective 5 a desperate fight continued with the paladin this time contesting with the goblin swarm, their troll and spider riders. It was only a matter of time for the paladin to fall, but that time was not quite yet, despite a series of relentless attacks.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QtkrFTkqq8NpmuAZQr74QTE8GfBsF5bIIhlSjwHWtSaZFRJLf8GrDrWI9gqWkYckw1fGCByJlviEvmfurrSTPhlAY0IG2I4vwUHhOWzJCn8zyE4UUSRxBN37G-aSjQdH5VhiTzSi4xYM33Do3dsq7bCqgY3qD0x7V_TVQ25TF397Wo5UHpmfeZEHFH0k/s4000/IMG_6693.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QtkrFTkqq8NpmuAZQr74QTE8GfBsF5bIIhlSjwHWtSaZFRJLf8GrDrWI9gqWkYckw1fGCByJlviEvmfurrSTPhlAY0IG2I4vwUHhOWzJCn8zyE4UUSRxBN37G-aSjQdH5VhiTzSi4xYM33Do3dsq7bCqgY3qD0x7V_TVQ25TF397Wo5UHpmfeZEHFH0k/w640-h426/IMG_6693.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure I'll survive this...</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There were a few limited exchanges (mostly goblin archery) between the goblins and ratmen.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At the end of turn 2 the goblins remained in the lead, controlling objective 4. All other objectives remained contested. The ratmen had suffered the worst losses of the fighting but most of the eternal wardens were badly wounded. Goblin losses were much lighter.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNqAC2dyO1pytibHszO9s-HZ7n_WTba6D8PcdpZ5yTilDkDuPzrVPnhrqWANm85ZWMjeTO6woZeBpzUv6m22EB9qnsbq0piHnG1k-Vatx0v8EFvX9y8pXVcd1pHtvYGeYX8dWy9rPjeWOOT5fBLnbzQzdWfrPHjQ8QfERT9qTOHYEFqCw91i_Jwo1Wp8x/s4000/IMG_6694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNqAC2dyO1pytibHszO9s-HZ7n_WTba6D8PcdpZ5yTilDkDuPzrVPnhrqWANm85ZWMjeTO6woZeBpzUv6m22EB9qnsbq0piHnG1k-Vatx0v8EFvX9y8pXVcd1pHtvYGeYX8dWy9rPjeWOOT5fBLnbzQzdWfrPHjQ8QfERT9qTOHYEFqCw91i_Jwo1Wp8x/w640-h426/IMG_6694.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Turn 3</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As ever in OPR, this was the decisive turn of the game.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The skirmishing continued around objective 2, with the ratman warriors chopped up, and the ratman leader on the losing end of another bitter melee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The combined melee attacks by the troll and spider riders, and a vicious volley of close ranged bow fire from the goblin archers, the paladins were finally cut down, giving the goblins control of objective 5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In the centre, objective three remained contested by all three forces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Losses mounted and by the end of the turn both the eternal wardens and the ratmen were testing morale. Significant numbers of ratmen, seeing how things were going, decided to slink off into the ruined sewers. The noble wardens stood their ground and at the end of turn 3 the victory conditions were pretty much set.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The goblins held objectives 4 and 5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The eternal wardens held objective 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Objective 3 remained contested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Objective 1 remained uncontrolled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Turn 4</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With the game pretty much over, we played out turn 4 with what was left.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The main two flashpoints were objective 3, where the eternal warden destroyed tried and failed to clear out the petty warrior scum around him. Over at objective 1, the ratmen rushed over to seize it, only to find the goblin nasty assassin, until this point lurking in ambush, arrived to deny the ratmen their prize!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We played out the remaining fights, and at the end of the turn the goblins took their hard-fought victory!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBw09Ew25wR-pQ7jM8hLJnvLoELdRk6s8FybMin3WB1TWgym67yCBlTv2FfeVXE6INJtdPJvlcF-WiWsKSLrC-N_a5ffe9vLBd6DBf-nxbJr1OFBs46f5r6ga9qdPr6heiQ_ZnDROrGfrC5rMOgP4Y7_lrm_8hLzreiULHQQCsvzrPSUGqOWommlY3FEs/s4000/IMG_6695.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBw09Ew25wR-pQ7jM8hLJnvLoELdRk6s8FybMin3WB1TWgym67yCBlTv2FfeVXE6INJtdPJvlcF-WiWsKSLrC-N_a5ffe9vLBd6DBf-nxbJr1OFBs46f5r6ga9qdPr6heiQ_ZnDROrGfrC5rMOgP4Y7_lrm_8hLzreiULHQQCsvzrPSUGqOWommlY3FEs/w640-h426/IMG_6695.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNLZy2BBB-DUVvJyFdjNVQh1NeY-hwc9MEFArc-cLEsrBbSFT-nt7exAFf4qLEYxPT-lReC1Iyo9GFnxnfCc8kHIk69hTLlrRwRFtldSVJ94aENIyIexiEv9qbnrlh_ZkzJeCAxR9w3yugjGx-mdQzxf5bwlKrUrlhZo2wXJTgBTz9FQPbohn6yH_haQ4/s4000/IMG_6696.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNLZy2BBB-DUVvJyFdjNVQh1NeY-hwc9MEFArc-cLEsrBbSFT-nt7exAFf4qLEYxPT-lReC1Iyo9GFnxnfCc8kHIk69hTLlrRwRFtldSVJ94aENIyIexiEv9qbnrlh_ZkzJeCAxR9w3yugjGx-mdQzxf5bwlKrUrlhZo2wXJTgBTz9FQPbohn6yH_haQ4/w640-h426/IMG_6696.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78RD9XidSzIbQcksW67szyqBvfCzVFGP1p2Vd60L2jZMmeF5KnazGdmL8y28kOtAFMI8ZweG-hCRUr1ZaDvrHr1mCAVduy4jo6Fcs_esLV1Wuq7ViUEiHFW9aa1fMlFeHWnpsvqPhA0ad392FmhI8hxVnH4UPKQ-21b4TCTR1vFM-k8t0YthWK5l45fMT/s4000/IMG_6697.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78RD9XidSzIbQcksW67szyqBvfCzVFGP1p2Vd60L2jZMmeF5KnazGdmL8y28kOtAFMI8ZweG-hCRUr1ZaDvrHr1mCAVduy4jo6Fcs_esLV1Wuq7ViUEiHFW9aa1fMlFeHWnpsvqPhA0ad392FmhI8hxVnH4UPKQ-21b4TCTR1vFM-k8t0YthWK5l45fMT/w640-h426/IMG_6697.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">After action comments</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OPR continues to delight with some excellent and enjoyable
gameplay. After a year or so of playing the larger game, we’re having fun with
the skirmish version for a while that plays differently due to the possible
survivability of the units/models. It changes your considerations and
frictions, and means you often concentrate of finishing off stunned models to
ensure they don’t recover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For this battle, as the eternal warden’s player I definitely
felt ganged up on! The eternal wardens played far better than I thought they
would, and despite only six activations, I was able to contest where I needed
to. Its interesting that a unit of three
1-hit models seems like a unit of one 3-hit model, but the difference is the
3-hit model retains all its attacks whereas the 1-hit model unit is reduced by
losses. I really missed not having a caster though. I’m not sure if they are decisive because
they are so random, but it felt wrong not to have at least one knocking about
throwing magic!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I’d planned to try to seize three
objectives. I think that overstretched
my resources. In hindsight I should have put 3 units onto capturing objective 2
and 3 units onto objective 5, secured those and then if needed, gone for the
centre. None-the-less it was a great
game and a lot of fun.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We’ve seen the goblins on the table for a few games now and
they are a good, solid force with a lot of flexibility. Played well they are a
force to reckon with.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The ratmen, like the eternal wardens, were making their
first appearance at our table. Like the goblins they seemed like a good force
with lots of options. The poisoned bomb
throwers were nasty, and two rat ogres were scary to face!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>A note on the models</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Obviously, the eternal wardens make use of Games Workshop fantasy
models, but our group now has a few 3D printer owners in it and 3D prints are
making their way into our games in force. Its hard not to see this technology
as at least part of the future of wargaming as it becomes easier and more
available to use. It does need a bit of set up and the kit won’t be usable by
everyone but still.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, our game here made use of a variety of 3D printed
models and terrain (as well as terrain from our club stock to bulk the table
out.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sandfang Ratkin: Artisans Guild - <a href="https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-sandfang-ratkins-complete-set-51-308008">https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-sandfang-ratkins-complete-set-51-308008</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Faldorn Goblins: Artisans Guild - <a href="https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-faldorn-goblins-complete-set-46-272514">https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-faldorn-goblins-complete-set-46-272514</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">PLA Terrain Sets: Philip Sinn Miniatures -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Resin Terrain Set: Cast N Play - <a href="https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-town-ruins-set-pre-supported-318365">https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-town-ruins-set-pre-supported-318365</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-67291692367858099922023-10-29T18:42:00.010+00:002023-11-05T13:18:02.100+00:00Syvaneth & Wood Elves<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">On to my next project. In fact, this is my next-but-one
project as I just finished building a <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar?N=2070689437+2779910718&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1698584040000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1698584040000%5D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Khorne fantasy force</a>. However, the paint I need for it won’t be
delivered until Wednesday, so I skipped on to the next cranny of the Lead Mountain. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I picked out a random box to find a bunch of Games Workshop fantasy <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar?N=2070689437+4201278636&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1698584100000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1698584100000%5D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Age ofSigmar Sylvaneth</a> models that I acquired in the Before Times.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsnfKE_yXBS-kUhFrii1CChpzA0pddR4h9bq3niNgDINFhvTxv7VOThLsHHy39Md5VshUM_kJkN5WEBUgRvXsyHoQQ_C1Ro07UE4VScIpwt8OLg0XttOlLCBFGa9jie7uJRujOOzb52rovDQrktUH5loP_qm1kS_Fm9ihpKyUbfh8HdcXmCaPjJEiaE5L/s4000/IMG_6626.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsnfKE_yXBS-kUhFrii1CChpzA0pddR4h9bq3niNgDINFhvTxv7VOThLsHHy39Md5VshUM_kJkN5WEBUgRvXsyHoQQ_C1Ro07UE4VScIpwt8OLg0XttOlLCBFGa9jie7uJRujOOzb52rovDQrktUH5loP_qm1kS_Fm9ihpKyUbfh8HdcXmCaPjJEiaE5L/w640-h426/IMG_6626.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First up there’s a couple of treemen, the bits for which were
spread across six partially used sprues. Luckily this time I actually had the build
instructions, so it wasn’t a guessing game to put them together. These large
figures turned out to be surprisingly delicate but unusually for Games Workshop
were straightforward to assemble. Sure, there were parts that were unnecessarily
split into lots of little bits, but there wasn’t anything too taxing.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Putting them together from the various sprues I was missing
the parts for a lower leg, so I went looking online for replacement bits. I’ve tried to get bits in the past directly
from Games Workshop, only to be told that "they don’t do that". Seems like a
missed opportunity to me but what do I know? <br /><br />Anyway, the various “bitz” seller
sites don’t seem to have the parts I’m after, and in desperation I even turned
to ebay without success. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So…well…its down to a bit of manual sculpting as I’ve
not yet jumped into the 3D printing pool.
I don’t do much of this and I’m not very good at it but from time to
time I do have to sort out some gap filling etc. so… As this was a fairly big part, <a href="https://www.thearmypainter.com/shop/eu/tl5037p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">greenstuff</a> on its own wouldn’t work well.
I’m aware that greenstuff can be mixed in with <a href="https://www.milliput.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">milliput</a> to make a
modelling clay that is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-upCMEsPw&t=926s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">greater than the sum of its parts</a>, so after a bit of
research I threw the two products together in a roughly 60/40 mix (with milliput
being the 60%). I’m not sure if I should have mixed the two products
independently and then mashed them together, but I just started with the four components
and worked them together. It seemed to
do the job so I set about moulding a very crude treeman leg. I mixed in some
plastic bits to try and spruce it up a bit.
Its not great but when painted I think it’ll be fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oh, and I mixed far too much so I made a couple of "logs" for the bases with that was left over.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAD_QRelyC_A4bIXttqRbZ4J09JuXB8BeGgyd66I8seXiWcPcKTkpOOMS8pJCNR5CNxJg0BDrd8TWyqX1BmS3-c24Y2BfBACuD1C0pfHPR3-7MAdbr0EfsTUJhSg5VD_syhVXDSHZ5jRVj2_V-Tfa1UnAm5EOeyjqMVbQIjjuJMBtCv1S24dyrbCigGHl9/s4000/IMG_6629.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAD_QRelyC_A4bIXttqRbZ4J09JuXB8BeGgyd66I8seXiWcPcKTkpOOMS8pJCNR5CNxJg0BDrd8TWyqX1BmS3-c24Y2BfBACuD1C0pfHPR3-7MAdbr0EfsTUJhSg5VD_syhVXDSHZ5jRVj2_V-Tfa1UnAm5EOeyjqMVbQIjjuJMBtCv1S24dyrbCigGHl9/w426-h640/IMG_6629.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p class="MsoNormal">I found some bits for some wood elf archers, so threw them
together with some weird fairy creatures. As I’ll be using this force for <a href="https://www.onepagerules.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OnePage Rules</a> fantasy games, these will do for units with the “warning cry”
special ability.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8EA7Eve8W6P1gm3ayV04On-ScFYSWLNZrl-UmFXQJZwXOU_nw8AHd2tU879AEPuE3kJEHhFvrNh1LD4o3Gr52edYnHtPdN96DyVl1leSorTgo84qxsYxpsiJUzUQ1QsfsrYUL2QnyHzY5rOb5FgazR-pWc7HKhm63KpZx7pm-_oMVovrqdeijeJmu_WJi/s4000/IMG_6630.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8EA7Eve8W6P1gm3ayV04On-ScFYSWLNZrl-UmFXQJZwXOU_nw8AHd2tU879AEPuE3kJEHhFvrNh1LD4o3Gr52edYnHtPdN96DyVl1leSorTgo84qxsYxpsiJUzUQ1QsfsrYUL2QnyHzY5rOb5FgazR-pWc7HKhm63KpZx7pm-_oMVovrqdeijeJmu_WJi/w640-h426/IMG_6630.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">And there’s also a good bunch of branchwraiths which I’ll
put together. Seventeen so far, but
there’s more to come. Now these things
are relatively easy to build, but again could be easier. They pain problem is that their feet are
TINY, so there’s very little contact points to attach them to their bases. So
that’s a bit of a struggle.</p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR54YotK5EXjbz73C_iJMQ-ZqN3rModvx4Oe7z734Anh5762IY3nE6HgtorD3mFHDPJi7KSsPvU1F2S2E2G8V0H8kixS8X_9cONjmDtsZUYRTfJv27GHoc6IBq6zkNAlAHB8mWgBXkkyje1A0z5x20CAkcECIkOByt746EsrV2qPVbWTbNhSbNWs2zKwWy/s4000/IMG_6631.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR54YotK5EXjbz73C_iJMQ-ZqN3rModvx4Oe7z734Anh5762IY3nE6HgtorD3mFHDPJi7KSsPvU1F2S2E2G8V0H8kixS8X_9cONjmDtsZUYRTfJv27GHoc6IBq6zkNAlAHB8mWgBXkkyje1A0z5x20CAkcECIkOByt746EsrV2qPVbWTbNhSbNWs2zKwWy/w640-h426/IMG_6631.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With the figure haul construction completed, I undercoated them in a mix of wraithbone (ivory) and white. The wood elf archers are going to be predominantly shades of green and brown so I did these in a green undercoat. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhns6LwHb8CFLOWKRPqu6Vm9xpOEpIihpKLhO98EYdTKuMWgi4HI79x4bohSvHPrQQgTi_4X2RYnKUR32Q1Y9rmFM5bzaNkwrgO8XjuFSF-sI-4Qg94PX6b8pn3YkTHhWJZLccFJ380gp-4iNlFzFwGAOtopSyggVr1NelOwda4qqU8k_3oeSjV5JWfP0jD/s4000/IMG_6632.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhns6LwHb8CFLOWKRPqu6Vm9xpOEpIihpKLhO98EYdTKuMWgi4HI79x4bohSvHPrQQgTi_4X2RYnKUR32Q1Y9rmFM5bzaNkwrgO8XjuFSF-sI-4Qg94PX6b8pn3YkTHhWJZLccFJ380gp-4iNlFzFwGAOtopSyggVr1NelOwda4qqU8k_3oeSjV5JWfP0jD/w640-h426/IMG_6632.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I have a basic idea of the colour scheme I plan to use for the tree beasties, which is intended to make the painting simple and quick. I'm hoping to get these completed in no more than 4-5 hours.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So I started on one figure with a simple colour test of Games Workshop's Aggaros Dunes contast paint. To give a bit of colour interest I'll also use Plaguebearer Flesh contrast paint to throw a bit of green in there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK9Jr2_Pfn1FqTWi9LmGyTCeOn1dRzrjU5uU75jhBnwy9B6btH_QrSEvYJAUtr84_lPJ6WWZQzI3VT4HN_I14jNQRao8i9lK3VTrnBF8_Twf3_bQI0yu4XBF79MZXklW4rahuqU0G759Jw9L2kISTj3ScfwWEAJAloTdE4RE_kIy2aCnZc4PZJu6nwEMc/s4000/IMG_6633.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK9Jr2_Pfn1FqTWi9LmGyTCeOn1dRzrjU5uU75jhBnwy9B6btH_QrSEvYJAUtr84_lPJ6WWZQzI3VT4HN_I14jNQRao8i9lK3VTrnBF8_Twf3_bQI0yu4XBF79MZXklW4rahuqU0G759Jw9L2kISTj3ScfwWEAJAloTdE4RE_kIy2aCnZc4PZJu6nwEMc/w640-h426/IMG_6633.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'm happy with the first trial so I'll press ahead.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ultimately I'll also probably use some other geen washes to mayby highlight the "Celtic" style skin markings on these miniatures, and maybe hint at internal energy glows. Maybe some Waywatchers Green, or some yellow glazes? Not sure yet.<br />I also need to decide what colour to do the little faerie creatures hitching a ride on the dryads. GW's "box art" has the Sylvaneth contrasting colour as a sort of ice blue, and blue sits very well next to brown. However, I'm thinking that I want to keep the army with a limited palette of green and brown, so maybe I'll do them in a bright "glowing" green?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Typically this is how non-historical projects will develop for me. I'll have a broad view of what colours I want, but that palette will change and evolve as I proceed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">UPDATE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After a couple of hours work of an evening, I have the dryads finished. Using Aggaros Dunes this was super quick and simple to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To give a bit of visual interest I also used Plaguebearers Flesh to give a subtle green hint on the "loincloth" that each model sort of has, as well as on the hands and other twig-like extremities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I used Waywatchers Green glaze on the faces, and a light drybrush of Ushabti bone on the obvious skulls, bones, etc. I used Tesserach Glow technical paint on the fairies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Finally I applied my simple base cover (a mix of coarse and fine sand with some grey rocks, and then dabs of static grass).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'm not sure I entirely like the finished product, but wood is always difficult to paint. We think that natural wood is brown, but it almost always isn't, so translating that onto a model in a satisfactory hue is trick at best. When the whole model is wood(!) it's even harder. But stepping back from the pseudo-artistic anguish, the wargamer "slapdash" approach says "that'll do".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLF75sco-Nvdk1FpfPVgmnKq-CJ6rhA3ib6fZdAF6qrR67YWL4AL-GZUlsYBfd-d32xKyWrP2xtYj4QccmMZH2IfiySn7kjcUiVbUedU0LweterSWgqx5fxQQXCgPjwvK7Eas4dOTkMMPCjpCqgmYzL9fiD5ewmiDt_tB8JzrzOPLVSc71o0LBNidZAm-q/s4000/IMG_6644.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLF75sco-Nvdk1FpfPVgmnKq-CJ6rhA3ib6fZdAF6qrR67YWL4AL-GZUlsYBfd-d32xKyWrP2xtYj4QccmMZH2IfiySn7kjcUiVbUedU0LweterSWgqx5fxQQXCgPjwvK7Eas4dOTkMMPCjpCqgmYzL9fiD5ewmiDt_tB8JzrzOPLVSc71o0LBNidZAm-q/w640-h426/IMG_6644.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BpSphXhHKgfify5CmH8c2J5Q8Vav4ZczKQHOzPWD-OwAG9QyGGyAu5Mt4xkGw439t44dSFUhYvY48qqapypz4digvcZUhIYa1qwKKY51tJHcKVbg2QW5cBL91FyeWaFwC986TBFdE8OWygoLiuHfyvmj_p5BsnMf9D6xXo4PYas5C2cCqWRq5QOGmQEe/s4000/IMG_6646.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BpSphXhHKgfify5CmH8c2J5Q8Vav4ZczKQHOzPWD-OwAG9QyGGyAu5Mt4xkGw439t44dSFUhYvY48qqapypz4digvcZUhIYa1qwKKY51tJHcKVbg2QW5cBL91FyeWaFwC986TBFdE8OWygoLiuHfyvmj_p5BsnMf9D6xXo4PYas5C2cCqWRq5QOGmQEe/w426-h640/IMG_6646.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9byR04KqORkLiF0LJzrw6pMS_iKdUay9W2B4hp8B5tV3OtAWyyRt0mzicGnuXaCs7e6pIKDxbMeYpFzDEOqo_YUQVHANfYW38J2vK9fz8kAZ7czJOuZYChcSLklT1TTvDspFZ1HBY9ZIcVhjN80taARcWWOtnoFpUYVAohr8-awmhrtETQ5EWAzCUfzrz/s4000/IMG_6648.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9byR04KqORkLiF0LJzrw6pMS_iKdUay9W2B4hp8B5tV3OtAWyyRt0mzicGnuXaCs7e6pIKDxbMeYpFzDEOqo_YUQVHANfYW38J2vK9fz8kAZ7czJOuZYChcSLklT1TTvDspFZ1HBY9ZIcVhjN80taARcWWOtnoFpUYVAohr8-awmhrtETQ5EWAzCUfzrz/w640-h426/IMG_6648.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With these little fairies i just gave them a wash of Tesserach Glow and called it done!<br />In OPR there's a special ability called "warning cry" that is usually<br />skinned as a watchful pet. I'll use these as markers for that I think.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next up will be the treemen, which i'll finish in a similar palette using similar methods.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I also dug out a small collection of very old wood elf figures. These are a mix of bad early-GW (1995?) plastic monopose archers (which I'll probably bin), and some nice metal miniatures from 1993, mostly archers, war dancers, and spearmen. These look like <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Jes_Goodwin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jez Goodwin</a> sculpts which is always nice! The plastic horses are missing tails so I may dump them and replace them with some modern plastic ones from Victrix. I have a bunch of <a href="https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/28mm-napoleonics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Napoleonics</a> left over from my <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/search/label/Turnip%2028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Turnip28 </a>armies, so they'll do. But I'm not sure yet what I'll do with these. I still have the four more modern plastic archers to paint. I know I want a green and brown colour scheme on them so these older metal models will most likely get the same treatment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwziizyEw82B29xjebWL3xYqTzOKoSKvLhN0N_6nxhPEhwJMRifwYXDMkIWomqxeSYBS-mAMHyK-j39m-X98wUDz4tN36G1vmVEGxhgpnmaJJhHma-volvqFApE0vjrztPfck-L6oboa7sd3IPK16ox459YuIppnubw2kvOO0p-d3q2A-lVUviZq6X_SjI/s4000/IMG_6649.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwziizyEw82B29xjebWL3xYqTzOKoSKvLhN0N_6nxhPEhwJMRifwYXDMkIWomqxeSYBS-mAMHyK-j39m-X98wUDz4tN36G1vmVEGxhgpnmaJJhHma-volvqFApE0vjrztPfck-L6oboa7sd3IPK16ox459YuIppnubw2kvOO0p-d3q2A-lVUviZq6X_SjI/w640-h426/IMG_6649.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bent and damaged but unbowed! The tailless horses will need replacing though...</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9o3O_lwq78KJ_GKBWeNidBQOZe3RoTSM4a32rHv8rVI7m2pZZC89OKirnVjBomiuTcbChL-zzaNsPOWJ7uVWv7gm4t956-jnVfFCF_vUSaYTYF-ct4MNOH0SVkIcDlKhsCJ91PxoS3xTvs05MG0ySuZZffL13dNZl143UoXYjXaULKxvyV3oZfX6KNgg/s4000/IMG_6650.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9o3O_lwq78KJ_GKBWeNidBQOZe3RoTSM4a32rHv8rVI7m2pZZC89OKirnVjBomiuTcbChL-zzaNsPOWJ7uVWv7gm4t956-jnVfFCF_vUSaYTYF-ct4MNOH0SVkIcDlKhsCJ91PxoS3xTvs05MG0ySuZZffL13dNZl143UoXYjXaULKxvyV3oZfX6KNgg/w640-h426/IMG_6650.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A treasure trove of antiques! Not all of these will get used I think.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> UPDATE 2</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The treemen are done. Interestingly I'm not sure the scheme and painting techniques worked as well on these bigger figures than on the smaller dryads, but they're done and table ready so, "much success". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyQzpuVspKnz2DmcJ1TgUeRbdKuD6LGYUXf8S5lX3KIopqLT8MZQQ2rSRAGtsT6ZD99hJXAPsmv9X8yyLGehMaJyYzG60s66ILvUpc2lOJDcbEoTodZpfqOnd64TiZkOzsJopS-U2ioG0qJOpXPS3nBfWffNEThIWwRxwOIHIjhx044DO8LLvzaduYDy9/s4000/IMG_6651.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyQzpuVspKnz2DmcJ1TgUeRbdKuD6LGYUXf8S5lX3KIopqLT8MZQQ2rSRAGtsT6ZD99hJXAPsmv9X8yyLGehMaJyYzG60s66ILvUpc2lOJDcbEoTodZpfqOnd64TiZkOzsJopS-U2ioG0qJOpXPS3nBfWffNEThIWwRxwOIHIjhx044DO8LLvzaduYDy9/w640-h426/IMG_6651.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5l4VDHcrpF9vOAJEhQLnYY-b6IUVAxsJi6Zdb8rho_So6SZwgochZgeLEm5TjTfsIAojgSIsSXfbsz0Ad2tpdm-pZiqtqQD5Hj1YafF0Bj09EVkWhD-xKGSmrBZ1w1IK3SudZXrFaUXjkfpZBEUbq5lPqiSdZjqVkM57e1D9HxsBgR_UVkxDjIFqKiPrr/w426-h640/IMG_6654.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The miliput/greenstuff sculpting has blended in fine.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjCBAqfID9wKT8eE8JLqefDYDPrVGDoEmFCpe2K_Vm_aHVcDbHnht77kwwTCjWYSYOUIMxmqfFL8DPTMohuMYhWTxzexVrFLtHbsMBpuQzm8XvuKFGBxozj0g4CUtVVhAoiXFnA-AEJmSkUXC-3DotpC3aNjAL201di1muT8DoUPfZAVdj2Ns3Kv1g6RM/s4000/IMG_6655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjCBAqfID9wKT8eE8JLqefDYDPrVGDoEmFCpe2K_Vm_aHVcDbHnht77kwwTCjWYSYOUIMxmqfFL8DPTMohuMYhWTxzexVrFLtHbsMBpuQzm8XvuKFGBxozj0g4CUtVVhAoiXFnA-AEJmSkUXC-3DotpC3aNjAL201di1muT8DoUPfZAVdj2Ns3Kv1g6RM/w640-h426/IMG_6655.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So yeah, I'm not terribly good at doing glow effects.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeopXbBr_EvKXck8yxtV5P-A65jaUaV2-vSniDMJM_XDPMuLMnFls8pO7T1De9K8Hu_RS9bdc3R14SRZ3TiMNpfe-16AVhWFuwH70GQQrWKm7XWQ5I9J4PWhZ42I8u5m7m6AbC4IC00UG8nUsrIgJZKLxibpUWf-YoFK1qEBpdRY-9sX1yVSuu6AJW__7c/s4000/IMG_6656.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeopXbBr_EvKXck8yxtV5P-A65jaUaV2-vSniDMJM_XDPMuLMnFls8pO7T1De9K8Hu_RS9bdc3R14SRZ3TiMNpfe-16AVhWFuwH70GQQrWKm7XWQ5I9J4PWhZ42I8u5m7m6AbC4IC00UG8nUsrIgJZKLxibpUWf-YoFK1qEBpdRY-9sX1yVSuu6AJW__7c/w426-h640/IMG_6656.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wasn't sure how to paint the sword.<br />I'd considered a bright "magical" green, but decided instead<br />on a dull bronze.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0CtE1ELKrY2g2WWaXnTVuzf6kMZ1k-wExObp7lo72Y_4-1_8ubDLOQkoRDFpTdUWin8nKSH_l9WLaV0ApmIT8sCI1xCJoJ7xXy2_lEdk9lr1RZN_NwkCdHrKe7q7C_dImrUHd-f5HqIX_83RvST9OvOZF7Z29_6zLxi-6qOjU2Uf3gLMFAO5etJAUPRJ8/s4000/IMG_6658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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Sort of.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEevsbCPl4etJ4J_eWjxVHc_mAbilTUhDjHlx_z3Nv-9o1Fq9maRk51ma6mm1BGO308C9JVWaDjBdoSKYABMAAWCTv832U3rhLvFByFhl9lmjUrYgR8p7mPGq5Gfsur9OcFAhzvQOxBQ9WupBseY3PrlQ_479f_oHbYuZB8NHCIhp9NbKyDF1GFvTatXU/s4000/IMG_6659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEevsbCPl4etJ4J_eWjxVHc_mAbilTUhDjHlx_z3Nv-9o1Fq9maRk51ma6mm1BGO308C9JVWaDjBdoSKYABMAAWCTv832U3rhLvFByFhl9lmjUrYgR8p7mPGq5Gfsur9OcFAhzvQOxBQ9WupBseY3PrlQ_479f_oHbYuZB8NHCIhp9NbKyDF1GFvTatXU/w426-h640/IMG_6659.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-75106387100827475892023-10-26T23:05:00.002+01:002023-10-26T23:05:16.063+01:00Ironjaws Orcs<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Continuing my journey with <a href="https://www.onepagerules.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Page Rules Age of FantasySkirmish</a>, next up on the painting table are a few <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ironjawz-Orruk-Brutes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ironjaws orcs</a> that I got in a
second-hand box. I think the box should
have contained five miniatures but there’s only four. However, I happened to have got a character
orc, which I acquired from a Warhammer+ subscription. I used to have a
subscription to Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine mostly because…err…I have
every copy of White Dwarf except numbers 1 and 2. It used to be and excellent
gaming magazine before it turned into a monthly catalogue for GW products.
Anyway, I cancelled the sub and switched the money to a year’s subscription
when GW first released their Warhammer+ account. It was very much not worth the money, so
after I got the “free” miniature, I cancelled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The miniature was called “<a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/orruk-warclans-bazdrogg-nekk-choppa-2022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bazdrogg Nekk-choppa</a>” and he
rounds out the squad at an even five.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As ever these GW miniatures were ridiculously fiddly to put
together, with far more tiny pieces needing to be glue than necessary for the
figure. When I came to paint them though, I regretted not keeping the models in
subassemblies. There were many little nooks and crannies that I simply couldn’t
get my brush into. Normally I’d cover these areas by slapping on a wash, but
with the bright yellow, that wasn’t possible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I chose to follow the box art closely, including the
recommended paint colours. I’d usually nip out to my <a href="https://northeastmodelcentre.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FLGS</a> for the paint, but as
I had a bout of Covid I ordered the paint directly from GW. They took a week to
arrive, which did not impress me. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After far more time and frustration than five models should
have taken, I finally have these ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll
add to my One Page Rules <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/goblins.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">goblin force</a>, giving a few more options for force
organisation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So…here’s the results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75sCYT-Oslcr5LrK5y11t3jLZQ2rjAuUneEf0_Hr7t-tPSwtc78ZD-StenWFrpemlcAkZf9aMm0TVbXMwRU3THH9ZoNFFA6yc6DBf-1NTq6jrr3YzKLyTDlnm8R2KJgMNB68baL7sXAQPr4ClIcaqaXmweajroikIdnhN-fefMc8EJTeDcrR20QgU2zlD/s4000/IMG_6613.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75sCYT-Oslcr5LrK5y11t3jLZQ2rjAuUneEf0_Hr7t-tPSwtc78ZD-StenWFrpemlcAkZf9aMm0TVbXMwRU3THH9ZoNFFA6yc6DBf-1NTq6jrr3YzKLyTDlnm8R2KJgMNB68baL7sXAQPr4ClIcaqaXmweajroikIdnhN-fefMc8EJTeDcrR20QgU2zlD/w640-h426/IMG_6613.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SvcdYMvUdq6As8QeE9h-lHF2ahjRVPcs9URkYrvBX1j-TXl8eV-SyreFg-He2uScewVahCSxahNIDkYaCW3G3bEU7EvQ9muiO9-5cfAUhygo6vrgtWR3WczqV-uDaqR6zNo5F02fycs4Cz_JMTzJUnFZuddEo3yWyUZZfVA_M-ScmVCMi5RKT-7XBX7W/s4000/IMG_6614.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-80003148691054796032023-10-23T10:17:00.004+01:002023-10-23T10:20:17.766+01:00Putrid Blightkings<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My painting schedule for the year continues at a pace, and after the nice clean lines a Necron army, I’m back on more familiar ground with a brief diversion into the grime and filth covered realms of a Nurgle plague force.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In this case, I found a box of <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Rotbringers-Putrid-Blightkings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Age of Sigmar Putrid Blightkings</a>. I think I bought these to use for conversions with my Warhammer 40k Death Guard, but never made use of them. We’re now playing a fair bit of <a href="https://army-forge.onepagerules.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Page Rules: Age of Fantasy Skirmish</a>, so these will form the core of a Plague warband for those games. Most likely I’ll pair them with my plague demons for a nice mixed force.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, I glued these little fellows together, which was relatively painless for Games Workshop figures, and set to painting. The main colour blocks on these are for diseased flesh so I undercoated them with an off-white base. I used my mishmash of various washes to approximate the rotten skin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I considered going with a rusted metal for the armour but decided instead to replicate the box art colour schemes, which are also very close to my Death Guard army. I did rust up the weapons though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A couple of hours work and I’m happy with the results.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Clearly Nurgle’s rot hit the camera, and these photos aren’t the best quality for focus and crispness. I also noticed that although they look fine in person, the base rims look awful on camera. Not sure why but I may need to give them another coat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here’s the result.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0VWJziUJWMvzrZ4wjwP66ky1pZ6VA-6KyZRu6XgVQVQIHBPWRej33_rU1nlY0J2Qys6jfG3fzaXOkH2EmqcbBIDsWqwFQqKFkpQbFtipRYv7RiRR_TcD46DcKami7DlPF6_qoN1ZOPit60JHakS18uMMYcTZIdezMQEJAyA8eEAjqqM8_b-kA2AvDK_F/s4000/IMG_6599.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0VWJziUJWMvzrZ4wjwP66ky1pZ6VA-6KyZRu6XgVQVQIHBPWRej33_rU1nlY0J2Qys6jfG3fzaXOkH2EmqcbBIDsWqwFQqKFkpQbFtipRYv7RiRR_TcD46DcKami7DlPF6_qoN1ZOPit60JHakS18uMMYcTZIdezMQEJAyA8eEAjqqM8_b-kA2AvDK_F/w640-h426/IMG_6599.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vglYDAQP5tPG2pMYr8-PtAJLjSzYKIszqM4ntROSDaF6jnQxcegfa3u10cfDHImzkFzeCR42gkmabgCybKxxPuN5qlwinB5zvQt-6-4lchCovmP2RDdgqWjgiWNm9dUtmnbNhfx2r7Z9I7eCbB0Hi_DTouseatVoaHV5BM9P-7MHX6j9a4yEmlDyqW3I/s4000/IMG_6600.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vglYDAQP5tPG2pMYr8-PtAJLjSzYKIszqM4ntROSDaF6jnQxcegfa3u10cfDHImzkFzeCR42gkmabgCybKxxPuN5qlwinB5zvQt-6-4lchCovmP2RDdgqWjgiWNm9dUtmnbNhfx2r7Z9I7eCbB0Hi_DTouseatVoaHV5BM9P-7MHX6j9a4yEmlDyqW3I/w640-h426/IMG_6600.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The head on this cha seems a little small to me. <br />In hindsight, I think I should have found a larger head for him.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejAGS4MrHaDnWeCIjCQdHhEUGjZhNo4ljPgoqqyE_4wFnA5aNzsTQURjgXQ8m0acQ9aG6Ly0HYPU6dfTvSnStOSEoQxKGIGtlJfLr4QVeWseR24gqBQjML5PY0Zhzno3qlI-7A-DmZXrkI_S83Gn7cDr3ZKfo6RPAzAWai2LUOCgs78rOhRTBCaH7lbyS/s4000/IMG_6601.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejAGS4MrHaDnWeCIjCQdHhEUGjZhNo4ljPgoqqyE_4wFnA5aNzsTQURjgXQ8m0acQ9aG6Ly0HYPU6dfTvSnStOSEoQxKGIGtlJfLr4QVeWseR24gqBQjML5PY0Zhzno3qlI-7A-DmZXrkI_S83Gn7cDr3ZKfo6RPAzAWai2LUOCgs78rOhRTBCaH7lbyS/w640-h426/IMG_6601.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He'll make a good "wizard" figure i think.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRfuKXnYolrnqB2eQAPmjZqyD1Am4h53PEbCUCfDX70q8TAarWNSOAet7HqC64UOWdh_YnAl5ymunY9dJ7SHpTy7_nLIRiOffXESs_skhkLRQpYOYFkgSXxu-L-h9BUPjmMpv7XtZqkSmBk-e1G-Y5rTvwieH0xkN5G-trWjhCyDLfkJDOQuHZnT47TSs/s4000/IMG_6603.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRfuKXnYolrnqB2eQAPmjZqyD1Am4h53PEbCUCfDX70q8TAarWNSOAet7HqC64UOWdh_YnAl5ymunY9dJ7SHpTy7_nLIRiOffXESs_skhkLRQpYOYFkgSXxu-L-h9BUPjmMpv7XtZqkSmBk-e1G-Y5rTvwieH0xkN5G-trWjhCyDLfkJDOQuHZnT47TSs/w640-h426/IMG_6603.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This figure has an odd retro sort of "single plane" pose reminiscent of old metal figures. Such poses were an artefact of metal casting.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RTUKjex0S3vcSpgCqGVszvwcre__-jaOfrWidTcS5pLukgIYtJdX0LTAV8re0voAAp-F4-Ue72U3efWrgijrMxyjSDAj39XdePl903RBNLtrj8DjBw-9e_EEBrVF8-dEFKNHvPGJqZzkqiVK5rmf09nZXYgwlK6hVQr2XSG8mX2EzLMQ6lXOPVwhmhMx/s4000/IMG_6605.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RTUKjex0S3vcSpgCqGVszvwcre__-jaOfrWidTcS5pLukgIYtJdX0LTAV8re0voAAp-F4-Ue72U3efWrgijrMxyjSDAj39XdePl903RBNLtrj8DjBw-9e_EEBrVF8-dEFKNHvPGJqZzkqiVK5rmf09nZXYgwlK6hVQr2XSG8mX2EzLMQ6lXOPVwhmhMx/w640-h426/IMG_6605.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like this one. He's super-iconic for Nurgle I think and the bloated leg is suitably icky!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4CCpjtz0spsvUkeuSTH8nmRf3bFVAjQTsXq403XM3e2azlN77JcxdafrAHF3fvX3ybv1qBa3s_wz88asYk1KPtz8WAxNifhWcHfp0EmR3Wr7W7jaF2HD_OBECo_HjhfWP5qCxFXKVeQ8aZNZN7hLHe1hSb9K-kG3Mx1vYixy-OiJd_dGIRE6hXqOivi-/s4000/IMG_6606.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4CCpjtz0spsvUkeuSTH8nmRf3bFVAjQTsXq403XM3e2azlN77JcxdafrAHF3fvX3ybv1qBa3s_wz88asYk1KPtz8WAxNifhWcHfp0EmR3Wr7W7jaF2HD_OBECo_HjhfWP5qCxFXKVeQ8aZNZN7hLHe1hSb9K-kG3Mx1vYixy-OiJd_dGIRE6hXqOivi-/w640-h426/IMG_6606.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirp0aopnvBK5CNeUDBnh2C1sbGJ98VY1ywdf3BJH2AcCPQAYtbEjYPVxhj-6DLsWbtNnjM1fla5Q7xrp-WKMXBJoH2sMRQk5Z4ggbrbXOpIT7Qhz5Ug7GS9Z49afAlnf9ylvwY34mQGi5kTgz52j215JyLkYT6UhR7yGMdlIURa_C3eWxM1-XVlzcHYD1Z/s2841/IMG_6608.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2323" data-original-width="2841" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirp0aopnvBK5CNeUDBnh2C1sbGJ98VY1ywdf3BJH2AcCPQAYtbEjYPVxhj-6DLsWbtNnjM1fla5Q7xrp-WKMXBJoH2sMRQk5Z4ggbrbXOpIT7Qhz5Ug7GS9Z49afAlnf9ylvwY34mQGi5kTgz52j215JyLkYT6UhR7yGMdlIURa_C3eWxM1-XVlzcHYD1Z/w640-h524/IMG_6608.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FeEpT3Ab3adR_r4XC4oGH3KFs1q2aFBuGsByBUU7rfcBNCPUZxpoEs6Ykwbcch512Rt489TW1oXQbYR_HGOImMMhA5e_mYkyNWTuQBbOiWtM12DDvrbSK_pdbMVTZxfbce3rDKjuLtCqNK4S6y_Yeii7f5XxMK-pXjFd23i8RErHtsdTwW4LiE8jBj6Y/s2944/IMG_6609.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="2944" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FeEpT3Ab3adR_r4XC4oGH3KFs1q2aFBuGsByBUU7rfcBNCPUZxpoEs6Ykwbcch512Rt489TW1oXQbYR_HGOImMMhA5e_mYkyNWTuQBbOiWtM12DDvrbSK_pdbMVTZxfbce3rDKjuLtCqNK4S6y_Yeii7f5XxMK-pXjFd23i8RErHtsdTwW4LiE8jBj6Y/w640-h580/IMG_6609.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ugh...blurred image. Its a decent enough shot of the corrupted flesh though,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-68785794027692403832023-10-16T14:54:00.006+01:002023-10-16T15:14:52.077+01:00Necrons get reinforcements!<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A few years ago I acquired a box of random Games Workshop Necron
stuff. Some of it was already built, some painted but most was still on
sprue. I really had no idea what was in
there, but figured its time to get it made up, painted, and added to my <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/11/necrons.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OnePage Rules Robot Legions army</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I fixed the broken bits and touched up the paint job on the
stuff that was painted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re the
older type of Necrons with little green plastic tube weapons and I considered a
full spray over and repaint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But looking
at them, aside from needing to tone down the lime green bits they were
acceptable, so I just did the minimum, threw them on some new larger bases and
called them done. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There were also some beefy looking Necrons with heavy
weapons already built but not painted. I figured out that they could be built
as snipers, and I had the options still on sprue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, the plastic glue welds were too strong
so I couldn’t change them over without breaking the model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, no snipers for me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For the rest, I found some build instructions online and put
everything together. As ever with Games Workshop models these are insanely
fiddly and have FAR TOO MANY little parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was constantly curing them with the refrain, “why is this in three
parts?!” Anyway, its done now so on to the painting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I stuck to the same scheme I’ve used for the pervious Robot
Legion figures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Black undercoat
(spray)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GW Leadbelcher spray basecoat, dome as a rough zenithal
effect to get the main colour down.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Tinbitz for unit commander and special weapon demarcations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Dark green for cables</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Light green/yellow mix for the glowing ball thingies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GW Waywatcher’s Green glaze to give the rough impression of
a glowy effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sort of.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Gloss varnish on the green glowy balls (to imply glass)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Simple basing with fine sand (for larger bases I added a few
tufts for visual interest).</span></li></ol><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">On the big tower things, they seemed to have stone encasing
the metal bits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d considered a couple
of options here, grey stone, black, or a dark green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To keep in with the theme/tome of the army I went
with dark green and unusually for me I did a crude edge highlight to emphasise
the greenness of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Overall, these additions will take my One Page Rules Robot Legions
army to around 10,000pts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure
if I have anymore Necrons lurking around the darker ascents of my “Lead
Mountain” (“pile of opportunity”), but there may be a few rogue singles
knocking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll paint them up to
join the others if I find any more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I checked the Games Workshop’s website to identify some of
this stuff I’ve added and turns out it’s the following.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Overlord</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5 Assorted “leaders”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">60 Necron Warriors</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">21 Immortals</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">21 Scarab Swarms</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Canoptek Spyder</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Night Scythe flyer</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Convergence of Dominion set (the three towers)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3 Tomb Blades (little flying machine things)</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here’s a few pictographs of the various bits and bobs finished off.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cj8SwNlwmssFHUf3U7IgrCKv9mKjhgucqbKHrtPzbIv2MlDUnDh1Ehnbt1d15mrp_loCKNw0qRNtR46iQifzkJahf0FTH8TXuBUQoAQXXFTcA9AyEVcspCuP5VETgfdehZhqcf2sQM7EFUQqlYoaB7-X8Bak_PZLESAPpdrTQl4q0UHkqE5VWBmf6RKZ/s2612/IMG_6559.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2081" data-original-width="2612" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cj8SwNlwmssFHUf3U7IgrCKv9mKjhgucqbKHrtPzbIv2MlDUnDh1Ehnbt1d15mrp_loCKNw0qRNtR46iQifzkJahf0FTH8TXuBUQoAQXXFTcA9AyEVcspCuP5VETgfdehZhqcf2sQM7EFUQqlYoaB7-X8Bak_PZLESAPpdrTQl4q0UHkqE5VWBmf6RKZ/w640-h510/IMG_6559.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Night Scythe flyer</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2olnqow3Fe3mIyVcLZI-5qTI1QVNGmDgo4DO6Cil4GAZCJCVs0XpK2eaCKou4e_xcTggN8Yg5Un0jQ2qKx-DCbg1r2Sf0v5cG7lGmOSDVB5E_IZRLHQA4nYD6cpQe-apBqMSLi46GXDX19e1JVTjA5JHyuRyvbFX9YIr_RX5OXbJpa8RUmi8ygaK1Xo7y/s4000/IMG_6572.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2olnqow3Fe3mIyVcLZI-5qTI1QVNGmDgo4DO6Cil4GAZCJCVs0XpK2eaCKou4e_xcTggN8Yg5Un0jQ2qKx-DCbg1r2Sf0v5cG7lGmOSDVB5E_IZRLHQA4nYD6cpQe-apBqMSLi46GXDX19e1JVTjA5JHyuRyvbFX9YIr_RX5OXbJpa8RUmi8ygaK1Xo7y/w640-h426/IMG_6572.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I imagine these would burrow up from the ground so did some<br />emerging from the sand.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Added ton shoulders make the unit leader.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj79ufF3hu9DaWL9q4JVF1sEgsu4wwiWhKe4xd3phFZoNPIBWh1RudVduac_ZHr32mVpiDnMELYHockAbAlY5rGpYb4ReCJtax3bOxNerjqNiN1-XTj2NYXKw5R3iKVVYEKXAhyphenhyphenaWAEr9CZDAs6sa4-SRukDQKYJ7y4yENDJMtuC9v_NcM8fXn6qM6RdoS4/s2444/IMG_6575.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2307" data-original-width="2444" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj79ufF3hu9DaWL9q4JVF1sEgsu4wwiWhKe4xd3phFZoNPIBWh1RudVduac_ZHr32mVpiDnMELYHockAbAlY5rGpYb4ReCJtax3bOxNerjqNiN1-XTj2NYXKw5R3iKVVYEKXAhyphenhyphenaWAEr9CZDAs6sa4-SRukDQKYJ7y4yENDJMtuC9v_NcM8fXn6qM6RdoS4/w640-h604/IMG_6575.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canoptek Spyder. Nice little model I think.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzhxq9VcQnOKpjdmoX673DGYsgKlSREsPAnzCBRcAdrQ2NGdl7sJe9mXMqLvty6SpOaykaPsU3_56NS0vlSZahozVhtbo3G8CN5WFlQXpyOMr7pD126k0Q1gZwmhq-I7lEK_FrLkpnQ-hnm13AMHVq2cUqzbi5YIGB0jC7NLEJVNeu-douITvvpaQfpE-i/s2978/IMG_6576.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="2978" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzhxq9VcQnOKpjdmoX673DGYsgKlSREsPAnzCBRcAdrQ2NGdl7sJe9mXMqLvty6SpOaykaPsU3_56NS0vlSZahozVhtbo3G8CN5WFlQXpyOMr7pD126k0Q1gZwmhq-I7lEK_FrLkpnQ-hnm13AMHVq2cUqzbi5YIGB0jC7NLEJVNeu-douITvvpaQfpE-i/w640-h572/IMG_6576.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YyiEdsnMwaS-2JSFRh8yeF1oAyAoZ8ZCVt3iCtBmeUEjJk3wG4V7ce-fmVua51Qxpxx8uJ3_FO65QJL3ANhcyxKJl7l_aZ4iBr_eUjA6m1J6TabManN8dFHpGEpAzkuLW48Gbb2DhFUUEt52x-8ESYUjxOxgXCq9h7zmtHx5Sqs4U97jYHEsiA-8VsJb/s3121/IMG_6577.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3121" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YyiEdsnMwaS-2JSFRh8yeF1oAyAoZ8ZCVt3iCtBmeUEjJk3wG4V7ce-fmVua51Qxpxx8uJ3_FO65QJL3ANhcyxKJl7l_aZ4iBr_eUjA6m1J6TabManN8dFHpGEpAzkuLW48Gbb2DhFUUEt52x-8ESYUjxOxgXCq9h7zmtHx5Sqs4U97jYHEsiA-8VsJb/w640-h508/IMG_6577.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllEcjWrBfUksstyt1SwIkGHxVWaGJvr6NGJ0daP-gloEtPn5S9Suk5ZlTRA9Wq6ncdX8zQYQ3us9vLc_9t2IM6c0nSyyrTUDfaWwbMXP-Qr8q-pSUDvRrarDcN12DuPSs5GjGuaP2lblBWFrWL9o3ljZmOMSkInHZDVY9dz8-F7ZAIpQbytwDMb2qu9QQ/s4000/IMG_6578.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllEcjWrBfUksstyt1SwIkGHxVWaGJvr6NGJ0daP-gloEtPn5S9Suk5ZlTRA9Wq6ncdX8zQYQ3us9vLc_9t2IM6c0nSyyrTUDfaWwbMXP-Qr8q-pSUDvRrarDcN12DuPSs5GjGuaP2lblBWFrWL9o3ljZmOMSkInHZDVY9dz8-F7ZAIpQbytwDMb2qu9QQ/w640-h426/IMG_6578.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrLkTmvhCWEMr4dBg7-aM8pqqNDXywUHIr-2urGBHoEEMK-SIiMuGXZZrWS-sbBYusKsfNkwqn1ajhCgGq7ZS_WR5P7jjaBZNQx31LoSOUFxUnzMhl1yPCWTi9gkR8VIreHKHqaOh6qkJ0jIur-hOCKrFu8xVwz3X3J5sBCjJTGVIuUfdh9f5zDxufKzn/s4000/IMG_6579.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrLkTmvhCWEMr4dBg7-aM8pqqNDXywUHIr-2urGBHoEEMK-SIiMuGXZZrWS-sbBYusKsfNkwqn1ajhCgGq7ZS_WR5P7jjaBZNQx31LoSOUFxUnzMhl1yPCWTi9gkR8VIreHKHqaOh6qkJ0jIur-hOCKrFu8xVwz3X3J5sBCjJTGVIuUfdh9f5zDxufKzn/w640-h426/IMG_6579.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tomb Blades. I think these were supposed to be on GW's fiddly<br />flying bases but I didn't have any, so brass rod and a decent base will do.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHKTeu8LS6_skwOlI4LzzMP_rCKIG3oy2T3AgfOXudYqfw_h5qN2uWhK3iOPBf8ulS4Onl7so_B-42FiH-p1qPeN0ANL-bq3kU6xGhaF7mGanp5Io1g1FLNstpwVfdm4yfYKG5Z9xEjNQL9hI7GCByn3_6i33fCusyDu1a3ebtU_wxVO8fjVpYDUU7FtN/s4000/IMG_6580.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHKTeu8LS6_skwOlI4LzzMP_rCKIG3oy2T3AgfOXudYqfw_h5qN2uWhK3iOPBf8ulS4Onl7so_B-42FiH-p1qPeN0ANL-bq3kU6xGhaF7mGanp5Io1g1FLNstpwVfdm4yfYKG5Z9xEjNQL9hI7GCByn3_6i33fCusyDu1a3ebtU_wxVO8fjVpYDUU7FtN/w640-h426/IMG_6580.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reminds me of something out of Star Wars.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZD3OCnJn3xJDZwjdVeGd1rKx1bc_tCNQVIyCxm2CxHF0ufil1JXLE9O78niSwZD6fOg8RSoe_4v9paBqyMpuKJwM-8OHiLQ0qL6R89tjsuQygZg60YVVkzhqrB0BasmgD35KUehgSSbsNIEs4StLe72GqlT82pKLfFczvH1r9WtnygQ1UCA-neWJQXM6/s3148/IMG_6581.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="3148" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZD3OCnJn3xJDZwjdVeGd1rKx1bc_tCNQVIyCxm2CxHF0ufil1JXLE9O78niSwZD6fOg8RSoe_4v9paBqyMpuKJwM-8OHiLQ0qL6R89tjsuQygZg60YVVkzhqrB0BasmgD35KUehgSSbsNIEs4StLe72GqlT82pKLfFczvH1r9WtnygQ1UCA-neWJQXM6/w640-h542/IMG_6581.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_vHroGxbE47wtfOby4jz_KzN1t2LuLWTPf_Vba41fms6jF-R0iabp1p1L6bNsqLYPMXO6V1BWyhDShpWj7YOgDkcV-_Rd3_U3JeoZpYAAZxq1B-lZBDwXspVULPR6BHpYulJEY2pkli8sP7auQPlnGx50h-HIx4oZqOKQ3Dx7QBsorysWw7nE-vdE5U_/s2621/IMG_6582.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2357" data-original-width="2621" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_vHroGxbE47wtfOby4jz_KzN1t2LuLWTPf_Vba41fms6jF-R0iabp1p1L6bNsqLYPMXO6V1BWyhDShpWj7YOgDkcV-_Rd3_U3JeoZpYAAZxq1B-lZBDwXspVULPR6BHpYulJEY2pkli8sP7auQPlnGx50h-HIx4oZqOKQ3Dx7QBsorysWw7nE-vdE5U_/w640-h576/IMG_6582.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the way the Robot pilot is basically welded in!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzfEP5fEE96xPI-omqdGyPc6tZa1Jd8IgH7GTFoIF-KDiPMVOr-L6j0X6V4ncaX_gDkcVVoLlzRC8XWIxWsVpYBnBNC7AQ2H0kEY8mLaEw4niIFPwOUJIQLQ_xjfK1MzaHHjjjwqmOx4NDBNX9btz2Q1TO01yylVwN8qhE72Egfupbe5AgzFllSU1UcwL7/s2700/IMG_6583.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzfEP5fEE96xPI-omqdGyPc6tZa1Jd8IgH7GTFoIF-KDiPMVOr-L6j0X6V4ncaX_gDkcVVoLlzRC8XWIxWsVpYBnBNC7AQ2H0kEY8mLaEw4niIFPwOUJIQLQ_xjfK1MzaHHjjjwqmOx4NDBNX9btz2Q1TO01yylVwN8qhE72Egfupbe5AgzFllSU1UcwL7/w632-h640/IMG_6583.JPG" width="632" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDb4YbStgHNqgI1lt9vS0_ia0iD2ues-V1GXiTP4AfYFdU3tqdWcCfBRTUcxOinFRV3hcB5z_2rGaOvBIZZj3-nKLaZbzKECSe5I8MetWt_Wv6JOcwgbg4zj17sBGJljhGkX37bcm_GxwNvNVrKbDHn1HXe2kIBIQ1n1rt59FBsOfkUUN1-1a_4Bx7xA3/s4000/IMG_6584.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDb4YbStgHNqgI1lt9vS0_ia0iD2ues-V1GXiTP4AfYFdU3tqdWcCfBRTUcxOinFRV3hcB5z_2rGaOvBIZZj3-nKLaZbzKECSe5I8MetWt_Wv6JOcwgbg4zj17sBGJljhGkX37bcm_GxwNvNVrKbDHn1HXe2kIBIQ1n1rt59FBsOfkUUN1-1a_4Bx7xA3/w640-h426/IMG_6584.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some older Necron models. I left them with the green plastic rods and just<br />gave them a touch up paint job.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUbq20TEwSSkYP7hcUmwWvjHHO6tH8reP6xnkjVobWAEuiDy2mzb8MPGsqGCyqHuRiwlAaH_bgGc5dGGfdeRHh4CLzUwrT77ySAjOubg0vGVjxjJp11sgQTTS3irxdIqGV-OyCUGcpwzy1Euf4I647GV_SpayFcK9tov5BEgZI90fxb446b73N4DVYszAd/s4000/IMG_6586.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2276" data-original-width="4000" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUbq20TEwSSkYP7hcUmwWvjHHO6tH8reP6xnkjVobWAEuiDy2mzb8MPGsqGCyqHuRiwlAaH_bgGc5dGGfdeRHh4CLzUwrT77ySAjOubg0vGVjxjJp11sgQTTS3irxdIqGV-OyCUGcpwzy1Euf4I647GV_SpayFcK9tov5BEgZI90fxb446b73N4DVYszAd/w640-h364/IMG_6586.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some "leaders"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNrDPmm-Qy2FHwZTlOQP2V9pOR-GRM5pttlbxd3YaoqF7_KfvuaMQctz9kXm5q2eeo-oCAMogRM42lKG5RFWpCXFC7Xtusj8l6FJK8oOtqA2HB_f-AdbEanHnhbzzwxNm7-t2ezljKORdTqcM_VQMOf7BK9m6Ll0SMAznSxWRKf0jOLr-vylBfKqTZ1jr/s3203/IMG_6587.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3203" data-original-width="2189" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNrDPmm-Qy2FHwZTlOQP2V9pOR-GRM5pttlbxd3YaoqF7_KfvuaMQctz9kXm5q2eeo-oCAMogRM42lKG5RFWpCXFC7Xtusj8l6FJK8oOtqA2HB_f-AdbEanHnhbzzwxNm7-t2ezljKORdTqcM_VQMOf7BK9m6Ll0SMAznSxWRKf0jOLr-vylBfKqTZ1jr/w438-h640/IMG_6587.JPG" width="438" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This chap is a VERY old original metal Necron model.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii9ChqBrwGEuR1AmEbCK5JFPZvYykqM8J2psRTs3Y8u_a3JQ6ThfIs28XkeAo6p-XSRGiyIP6OHQk1iYsJJrl4csDSN3BggZzp5cQ9Zx_DHNsK_b4oiny4HNsSuauDAAtEa5qShDB4tWiK3LJv2Lyn1UdSTQD4OP-QlQ9vmw6H294iKb0KsZ8jlQL4m1vf/s3560/IMG_6588.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3560" data-original-width="2509" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii9ChqBrwGEuR1AmEbCK5JFPZvYykqM8J2psRTs3Y8u_a3JQ6ThfIs28XkeAo6p-XSRGiyIP6OHQk1iYsJJrl4csDSN3BggZzp5cQ9Zx_DHNsK_b4oiny4HNsSuauDAAtEa5qShDB4tWiK3LJv2Lyn1UdSTQD4OP-QlQ9vmw6H294iKb0KsZ8jlQL4m1vf/w452-h640/IMG_6588.JPG" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvMdHE-kqw0ikR3IfQ40Fd5qp70yhVucFbP5H58U_vCPDMl3Co6XniZtrYb1EhW2zMnluBE3l8759JsYG7txaYAbw6JNe3Fji8ZpMxG-wMNLdP3eWB_yOj8dl_Q8VGHfdZp2ZXpEDEfTN60TlBbA4aqpKo984RkFDJnWzD7SY5Iy1qG0cz-KwXxSkk9fQB/s3621/IMG_6589.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3621" data-original-width="2479" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvMdHE-kqw0ikR3IfQ40Fd5qp70yhVucFbP5H58U_vCPDMl3Co6XniZtrYb1EhW2zMnluBE3l8759JsYG7txaYAbw6JNe3Fji8ZpMxG-wMNLdP3eWB_yOj8dl_Q8VGHfdZp2ZXpEDEfTN60TlBbA4aqpKo984RkFDJnWzD7SY5Iy1qG0cz-KwXxSkk9fQB/w438-h640/IMG_6589.JPG" width="438" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOq8qIK8iP5OvTvpb1ba9oAd7mhyL-i86hxHCHrF1hX6c9mF6LA4XkaZbFRmKsQ9XgCuMZB6eH5nqS6xkRyP06bn8YMGczCdqy43AsPJ8NuARFT4bHb70y2sPO9jB8fUlhRtPt53yI8RraPJTN3zRAakFiT1kSyDBU7m0QVViSHZMUiuZufFwt3S8bLPOj/s3020/IMG_6590.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3020" data-original-width="2131" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOq8qIK8iP5OvTvpb1ba9oAd7mhyL-i86hxHCHrF1hX6c9mF6LA4XkaZbFRmKsQ9XgCuMZB6eH5nqS6xkRyP06bn8YMGczCdqy43AsPJ8NuARFT4bHb70y2sPO9jB8fUlhRtPt53yI8RraPJTN3zRAakFiT1kSyDBU7m0QVViSHZMUiuZufFwt3S8bLPOj/w452-h640/IMG_6590.JPG" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is an older leader figure I think. It was broken<br />so I added a few bits on and called it a day. It'll do.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8cVeX1I2m7yDiWmppQX1TSzvaz01LVoVd5Qy83VrSvNFBQL7_8IVVCsil23UaxiBfiLG8RyAYZ5H1OgImBmqjI1m29mQLzETPKNOtZDqRsdGns5RtwhQGXpqJXP1ZLO7OM2u8uvemxKT07t-rvsW9jcPiCHyQmQlSq3CN08wdZYyx6uVm50ZoLpuSH8B/s3055/IMG_6591.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3055" data-original-width="1746" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8cVeX1I2m7yDiWmppQX1TSzvaz01LVoVd5Qy83VrSvNFBQL7_8IVVCsil23UaxiBfiLG8RyAYZ5H1OgImBmqjI1m29mQLzETPKNOtZDqRsdGns5RtwhQGXpqJXP1ZLO7OM2u8uvemxKT07t-rvsW9jcPiCHyQmQlSq3CN08wdZYyx6uVm50ZoLpuSH8B/w366-h640/IMG_6591.JPG" width="366" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2bYAolznjxAtyFzucpLK6QqIBjcAwiAbPXIl1Z-rP4B2gHhzAd-SdwZIPQr_xYQg-1BDDcE87fB-yg5WGFcT0In5-IcJM6B5ZVjduYoVYJhqyYHVZJtpvEYVUn060ihWPmMjKOL-nvZ4WLfNj5JU8TMsIu8EmmaLtwVm37iOcGbq44IgeziG7Juu6zN8C/s4000/IMG_6592.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2bYAolznjxAtyFzucpLK6QqIBjcAwiAbPXIl1Z-rP4B2gHhzAd-SdwZIPQr_xYQg-1BDDcE87fB-yg5WGFcT0In5-IcJM6B5ZVjduYoVYJhqyYHVZJtpvEYVUn060ihWPmMjKOL-nvZ4WLfNj5JU8TMsIu8EmmaLtwVm37iOcGbq44IgeziG7Juu6zN8C/w640-h426/IMG_6592.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of leader figures? I painted them slightly differently.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnXSqZOju1VojgilH1nq__J60OJER8Xh8nS-xU3pZ1ZNmozc7XxNsBd7ibw-scsrujCfK6hZG5vP1pY2PIyCXnHpfxwMo3UqCbNw1tJeYRUNX2RoyW3TI6YqXZlRBIYLrzB8nLP3dx5F2WW-2Rbc-yWRB3Ri-cBibqUevHumb6z8BybZKVSQ552AB3qlL/s4000/IMG_6593.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnXSqZOju1VojgilH1nq__J60OJER8Xh8nS-xU3pZ1ZNmozc7XxNsBd7ibw-scsrujCfK6hZG5vP1pY2PIyCXnHpfxwMo3UqCbNw1tJeYRUNX2RoyW3TI6YqXZlRBIYLrzB8nLP3dx5F2WW-2Rbc-yWRB3Ri-cBibqUevHumb6z8BybZKVSQ552AB3qlL/w640-h426/IMG_6593.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGrmGUiG1HwpyJyJdhfNBBVwCBuB4uwVPNC05_d_Y3hpay5JQF7jwtFXaBHlxHtGaxKrT4mtnx3lRW93DXvB3cbhml7t9Zwj1xjn7TOp7-1KvwgTt_ncVkrCcoLCNiXfmj0xHMjueQ6624yUFft3Xw8FecND8wyGGg1UIV3n9x0vmsD6ZqJp6L-PETran/s4000/IMG_6594.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGrmGUiG1HwpyJyJdhfNBBVwCBuB4uwVPNC05_d_Y3hpay5JQF7jwtFXaBHlxHtGaxKrT4mtnx3lRW93DXvB3cbhml7t9Zwj1xjn7TOp7-1KvwgTt_ncVkrCcoLCNiXfmj0xHMjueQ6624yUFft3Xw8FecND8wyGGg1UIV3n9x0vmsD6ZqJp6L-PETran/w426-h640/IMG_6594.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Immortals. Shame I couldn't change these into snipers.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSu1rDotLZnEz45JmE1k5G8NCbU7QdTRPFEWTCa4Jn0pdMYF1uF1nA6zARetn8Og4TeCrsx0hDGiYaW_KE1nyGpQbsCYaUW-eYFIV1swHabPxENX-ckn_CLm01XfwDR-VbbIOQi2xxfyLSoebYbP4VJdoT5MNyPKZ4cqU5tZdzR1cACX3fsZTc4WVD4r5/s4000/IMG_6595.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSu1rDotLZnEz45JmE1k5G8NCbU7QdTRPFEWTCa4Jn0pdMYF1uF1nA6zARetn8Og4TeCrsx0hDGiYaW_KE1nyGpQbsCYaUW-eYFIV1swHabPxENX-ckn_CLm01XfwDR-VbbIOQi2xxfyLSoebYbP4VJdoT5MNyPKZ4cqU5tZdzR1cACX3fsZTc4WVD4r5/w640-h426/IMG_6595.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD2HZCCml8cAvTjjnZXjuXrh8acPg0x_xvVl9-1F9HbpKbxanhq9zfBG_tRG8CVIaeZ_LA2jwlx8r54UB1MM7blPHaaiwiOooAEQvFmlXGVDOt1UqBYTAL28GaLO5cIb5B-3TPqCqyn_OBcTeS5bLBEh17Rx_peSTzY75n5SGwWRaen52lu4xXB83fnDr7/s4000/IMG_6596.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD2HZCCml8cAvTjjnZXjuXrh8acPg0x_xvVl9-1F9HbpKbxanhq9zfBG_tRG8CVIaeZ_LA2jwlx8r54UB1MM7blPHaaiwiOooAEQvFmlXGVDOt1UqBYTAL28GaLO5cIb5B-3TPqCqyn_OBcTeS5bLBEh17Rx_peSTzY75n5SGwWRaen52lu4xXB83fnDr7/s320/IMG_6596.JPG" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-lnEoazxCn6zNR2aqF7YzXsRfcxdvbiCOERTtbu3n6hvUhQ2rMjTswvzIg6crZf-eVE4cHyocY1lEDnGV2g3ps7CmsZItM6ShQAA53RCvBLeR8XANxO91GlEMZ54YfIb3QnsM7VkZcQb7m7-sbtKFT6SZhe4qZa74kKrmXV_p47Gj_-apPB7HPLOr_GI/s4000/IMG_6597.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-lnEoazxCn6zNR2aqF7YzXsRfcxdvbiCOERTtbu3n6hvUhQ2rMjTswvzIg6crZf-eVE4cHyocY1lEDnGV2g3ps7CmsZItM6ShQAA53RCvBLeR8XANxO91GlEMZ54YfIb3QnsM7VkZcQb7m7-sbtKFT6SZhe4qZa74kKrmXV_p47Gj_-apPB7HPLOr_GI/s320/IMG_6597.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-44838423384113759422023-09-14T23:31:00.002+01:002023-09-16T12:53:02.635+01:00Ogres Galore!<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8RblwK5KniwxqoSVgMNkA6seJiFgiqZL8-Lad4AkA8h8noVLtK8KgF9K3yFNV6VFS5zKmSJAH1zMGjYvDq3ecD0D_xr66ae6sD0Hq05YEm5oaCjpphJFxzs51gN4cnfQsK06kMPlX945InxGHIdIW8Rt2562XbDUsAclqwy_rJh0sfKn2CK8LfQUmK07/s3728/IMG_6508.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1291" data-original-width="3728" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8RblwK5KniwxqoSVgMNkA6seJiFgiqZL8-Lad4AkA8h8noVLtK8KgF9K3yFNV6VFS5zKmSJAH1zMGjYvDq3ecD0D_xr66ae6sD0Hq05YEm5oaCjpphJFxzs51gN4cnfQsK06kMPlX945InxGHIdIW8Rt2562XbDUsAclqwy_rJh0sfKn2CK8LfQUmK07/w640-h222/IMG_6508.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For over a year now I’ve been playing the excellent One Page
Rules Grimdark Future rules and continue to do so, especially now that the 3<sup>rd</sup>
edition of those rules have been released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But lately we’ve expanded our games into a bit of fantasy skirmishing
using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish rules.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, I’ve been digging around in on the northern face of the
Lead Mountain, plucking out a few small collections of as yet unused miniatures
and getting them painted ready for use on the tabletop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment,
what with summer holidays and a few other disruptions, and I’ll be away next
week so it looks like it’ll be early October before I can get these chaps into
battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I found a sizable box of ogres, which I’d already made a
start on for Warcry. However, I dug out the infantry and put them
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was actually a bit of a
struggle as their previous owner had done some weird kitbashing with greenstuff
and odd bits glued on here and there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
I returned them to the models as intended as best I could and laid down a basic
paint job.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For me, ogres live brutal lives and so they should be
carrying injuries, bruises, and broken bones, as well as big rusty, blood-stained
weapons. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I do also have a big mammoth model thing, but its really
poorly built and is going to need some serious fixing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to deconstruct it, but as well as
being poorly bult it’s also been soaked in plastic glue so bits are seriously
melted together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will get round to it sometime,
I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in the meantime, I also
found a dragon ogre, which I’ve built and undercoated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be on the painting schedule soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here’s the bloodied clan for now.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CokpgCwbzKjsDbqt2-84TLlFNWL6Gll0ssEOOhbb6EcgL3vu34MwsYZqD85786sAaXpZV8JYX2grUheVYZQYpx8u8pGWd60b4MOCvtpgnNP2dRrvFdhESTzUAP9-m5L0hz8du5rF0QJymyl_ifmhJrsbZBOVZ7ePxcSHCkBCfjNJkUfVfGXxJ9AYftUR/s4000/IMG_6507.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1548" data-original-width="4000" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CokpgCwbzKjsDbqt2-84TLlFNWL6Gll0ssEOOhbb6EcgL3vu34MwsYZqD85786sAaXpZV8JYX2grUheVYZQYpx8u8pGWd60b4MOCvtpgnNP2dRrvFdhESTzUAP9-m5L0hz8du5rF0QJymyl_ifmhJrsbZBOVZ7ePxcSHCkBCfjNJkUfVfGXxJ9AYftUR/w640-h248/IMG_6507.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHO0cH6ihcuNOWNmFdQ4KfZe8t0-WmUCaLtiEUbL4WTU-Rh80OWENSk_7fu9nROYMEcOI3JsXEoRGZg2MdlUPk1vzN-q_18WLSh9CD-ThLrSeW_V5KVJ_I4Mmw4EXgI1d1XSGWLDgzfNmrHnzWViWlD6J-Tk8rn0PXzCodQZLH3pciVd7Cw7xv0IY_8wB/s4000/IMG_6509.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Not including drying time, this took about 65-70 minutes, so not too bad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now then, I've had this model on the table for a few weeks and I'd been thinking about a green colour scheme, along the lines of the troll I'd painted with the <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/goblins.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">goblins</a>. However, as this is a dragon OGRE, I think it'll see most play alongside the ogres. A green colour scheme is an entirely different palette, so with a brief bit of thought, I decided to switch to a warmer, red/brown palette to match in with the ogres general theme and tone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'm fairly happy with the result.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4KnPdZ_UHWE_rrXuv-T7KQ7CNE1npRQ6Ul0HFJvVyHAnqM7gnQsD3UuR-DZXSk09U6FBFYckWobGTL9NgAvIMUg1JQfU_gdP8ifltHCDrvf0ACEvQ5ZdcLKDqkZTivyy5C_tuxs5C_R3Ph5e4LjEGiyTL5ezgAVKLwkVLrtkx_hbmFe7xnTQ06Ooga1lz/s3470/IMG_6531.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3470" data-original-width="2411" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4KnPdZ_UHWE_rrXuv-T7KQ7CNE1npRQ6Ul0HFJvVyHAnqM7gnQsD3UuR-DZXSk09U6FBFYckWobGTL9NgAvIMUg1JQfU_gdP8ifltHCDrvf0ACEvQ5ZdcLKDqkZTivyy5C_tuxs5C_R3Ph5e4LjEGiyTL5ezgAVKLwkVLrtkx_hbmFe7xnTQ06Ooga1lz/w444-h640/IMG_6531.JPG" width="444" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1579" data-original-width="3695" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCL5ydzBI1ncWWUCHdOo3fBLWpLfa594VIf_nGBhOEespyw0-5BMDVxKaCnzZG6mnFGSjMoCoPuAfAKLDl3cK6BvmQj_4kSJd3xlpHWU8dtjfaJ3UbLIRBroxTNee8RupX921hdys80dScfyJQG2ivR9f6X2C0Q8LqKLpvqPEv_YTUkA1wA9whVNTIZ3QZ/w640-h274/IMG_6495.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For over a year now I’ve been playing the excellent One Page
Rules Grimdark Future rules and continue to do so, especially now that the 3<sup>rd</sup>
edition of those rules have been released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But lately we’ve expanded our games into a bit of fantasy skirmishing
using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish rules.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, I’ve been digging around in on the eastern face of the
Lead Mountain, plucking out a few small collections of as yet unused miniatures
and getting them painted ready for use on the tabletop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment,
what with summer holidays and a few other disruptions, and I’ll be away next
week so it looks like it’ll be early October before I can get these chaps into
battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I happened to have a few bashed up old goblins, and a very
old metal troll knocking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had
bits missing and were generally in disrepair, so I scavenged some spare parts
of my bitz box and threw together a small force.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I think these are Games Workshop “night goblins” so
traditionally should be clad in black robes, but I wanted to go a bit brighter
than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I therefore diverged in my
colour scheme and decided on yellow checks and brown leather robes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The troll is, I think, and old stone troll and probably
should have been grey/blue (?) But for me, trolls are green so a nice bright
yellow/green scheme it was.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The chequerboard pattern took a few hours, but overall these
were quick to paint and create a viable OPR goblin force I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two units of three spears, and two units of
three hand weapons units, supported by a leader with two hand weapons, a
wizard, and another hero with a standard (in this case a horse skull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course, the troll!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll run at 300pts, but I’ll probably need
another troll and perhaps a couple of cave monsters (I have a bag of cheap
plastic spiders somewhere) will probably do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If not I can sub in some ogres…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, these were fun to paint and turned out OK I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8842VjyQghJHqvGJFHGSP9T_0-Mki4zpWgLk8LrbkJebrDO9NFB7becsrpRR6UyjjRmkt_k4hY7TYZR-uDtCIQz-X_3DBPaTmRaYm9baRZ7TJIJlJ4ta4i82yGxbhjRgxQq_DfmdfbyqOtcHykj_brsBs3pekqI3csThG6OFYlOTqG-AuqbidWQV2CcS-/s2650/IMG_6496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1761" data-original-width="2650" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8842VjyQghJHqvGJFHGSP9T_0-Mki4zpWgLk8LrbkJebrDO9NFB7becsrpRR6UyjjRmkt_k4hY7TYZR-uDtCIQz-X_3DBPaTmRaYm9baRZ7TJIJlJ4ta4i82yGxbhjRgxQq_DfmdfbyqOtcHykj_brsBs3pekqI3csThG6OFYlOTqG-AuqbidWQV2CcS-/w640-h426/IMG_6496.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Which is nice.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2UO6eAPe-R79-kUZJ0oqeq_TKi8_n4nk6utXtdwZ1qfheR6hQg7XdhXhYJwLahcXgx2-uEkXKHsy97_ZkoEgVJ2hluucknRts2w-vco-IirAbVsvdS7fO2JLV5GC_u2ddmJjQTeloW2lFlRUVnRu5TSWSk3wiBpgAu63ixSZxQR6g86NxuFx9OvXIWxV/s2783/IMG_6504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2783" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2UO6eAPe-R79-kUZJ0oqeq_TKi8_n4nk6utXtdwZ1qfheR6hQg7XdhXhYJwLahcXgx2-uEkXKHsy97_ZkoEgVJ2hluucknRts2w-vco-IirAbVsvdS7fO2JLV5GC_u2ddmJjQTeloW2lFlRUVnRu5TSWSk3wiBpgAu63ixSZxQR6g86NxuFx9OvXIWxV/w612-h640/IMG_6504.JPG" width="612" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's the boss because, well, look at him!<br />I mean are you going to argue?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_Gm0cC0P1FRlIggsF0zlb6U87EoAosREzVKIh7pohcG2m-3wsgyKPie7uj5aV3sJo9ur41SmH98-JYfhkQwTQd80dudkc3NoXQpj91FVA-13jicoNCoNm4A00xgU37mYdjBY3ZjdcbWLZWkoyjYQKxf0Ymbk8WS51kGcapoZ8g_zyqEC3w_N3AXUsetQ/s2663/IMG_6505.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2536" data-original-width="2663" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_Gm0cC0P1FRlIggsF0zlb6U87EoAosREzVKIh7pohcG2m-3wsgyKPie7uj5aV3sJo9ur41SmH98-JYfhkQwTQd80dudkc3NoXQpj91FVA-13jicoNCoNm4A00xgU37mYdjBY3ZjdcbWLZWkoyjYQKxf0Ymbk8WS51kGcapoZ8g_zyqEC3w_N3AXUsetQ/w640-h610/IMG_6505.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-74626022326916318412023-09-14T22:52:00.011+01:002023-09-14T22:52:59.976+01:00Stormcast Eternals<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdfQmmDRBtYDYoPlTf64-rvan7FLrUFCU-THS9t8Zz-A1M5auLH67ZZIcOLgumcTRUJCsET0HWHCORK37Mb7RQvKsL29wRbi_8XTBI1oKSiWjyMZm48lPm3BqDyJ4A2jTjrMAtH_Al7USG8D62o7xLKL0NAB3vzd920vrNLCkCj3lA4U53b8AIMpFXbrd/s3757/IMG_6483.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2095" data-original-width="3757" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdfQmmDRBtYDYoPlTf64-rvan7FLrUFCU-THS9t8Zz-A1M5auLH67ZZIcOLgumcTRUJCsET0HWHCORK37Mb7RQvKsL29wRbi_8XTBI1oKSiWjyMZm48lPm3BqDyJ4A2jTjrMAtH_Al7USG8D62o7xLKL0NAB3vzd920vrNLCkCj3lA4U53b8AIMpFXbrd/w640-h356/IMG_6483.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For over a year now I’ve been playing the excellent One Page
Rules Grimdark Future rules and continue to do so, especially now that the 3<sup>rd</sup>
edition of those rules have been released.
But lately we’ve expanded our games into a bit of fantasy skirmishing
using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish rules.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, I’ve been digging around in on the easter face of the
Lead Mountain, plucking out a few small collections of as yet unused miniatures
and getting them painted ready for use on the tabletop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment,
what with summer holidays and a few other disruptions, and I’ll be away next
week so it looks like it’ll be early October before I can get these chaps into
battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I happened to have a few sprues of Games Workshop’s “Stormcast
Eternal” figures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I didn’t
have the build instructions so things took a bit longer to put together, and
there was a lot of trial and error bolting the bits on. Not sure exactly what
these are but they look like high fantasy knights of some kind. As usual with
these sorts of models i like to paint them close to the “box art”, so in this
case a nice bright shining gold scheme was in order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sort of paint job is a struggle for me
as I much prefer to paint a scrappy, battle worn and rusted figure, but these
ones are bright and clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did my best
here to try to get the paint within the lines so to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came out OK I think.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It actually wasn’t too bad to paint and (not counting drying
time) I think these got done in a couple of hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I started with an ivory undercoat, painted thinned gold over
that, and threw on a diluted reddish wash (Reikland Fleshshade). I then
drybrushed a mix of the gold with silver lightly over the top.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The blue is a simple mid blue, applied in a couple of thin
coats and subtly washed with a blue wash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The red accents were a red contrast paint with a Carroberg Crimson wash.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The weapons were given a brass hilt and bright silver blade,
with thinned brown and black washes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A simple base and call them done!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In One Page Rules terms these are “Eternal Wardens” and I have
enough figures here for a 450pt skirmish force.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRI-WSIzdHNha3k9NoAe0ov1JaeVSW9QN5G4y49hMqL3VOGLwUXC_O7CsGCF5m6X_g5-SiCv5GyqqieY6_dSbJDGLOvuMGee6Qo9tQm7T1T7WeYryOrvnkVZXKEaGhotiwECPSp826-s8x8ZsNLy0IuI1n6Z7OBgYCFgPYwlwYMlEycHrZACb82PC-gNKO/s2663/IMG_6484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2663" data-original-width="2603" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRI-WSIzdHNha3k9NoAe0ov1JaeVSW9QN5G4y49hMqL3VOGLwUXC_O7CsGCF5m6X_g5-SiCv5GyqqieY6_dSbJDGLOvuMGee6Qo9tQm7T1T7WeYryOrvnkVZXKEaGhotiwECPSp826-s8x8ZsNLy0IuI1n6Z7OBgYCFgPYwlwYMlEycHrZACb82PC-gNKO/w626-h640/IMG_6484.JPG" width="626" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2YknORUr6SGIYjWc17kViDKpbGLLIQmq4fHD2DAI1PJZ58cEj55L2C1-gMhg1YeU_zx2_VQXznM81V1Q5Wm0--RBXW47kHglhxgosopvTcsOsFep5dn8lg1sw0Rbnxc5BEpgIrnSjAaqCB1pkOd9PhEon5ieCZy_Sik4ZfAt2AJIDe4_fzQVNeFuJNXV/s4000/IMG_6485.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yeah well, in 1977 Star Wars changed my little life. Before I saw the movie at the local cinema I was
obsessed with Dinky cars and dinosaurs.
Afterwards my childhood was dominated by Star Wars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, in 2018 when Fantasy Flight Games released the Star Wars
Legion game I obviously bought the core set.
And…yeah. Then, well I played it
a couple of times and then shelved it.
Don’t get me wrong, Legion is an excellent game, but at the time I was
playing other games and Legion just sort of passed me by.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With various stars aligning – a house move so that I now
have a dedicated hobby space, and my recent adoption of One Page rules as my
go-to wargames rule set, I figured it was time to paint up what I had.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not sure exactly what I’ll be doing with them, but here’s
the tally so far.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A combat droid force of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) from the Clone Wars era. This is the force out of the core box, but I also added Asajj Ventress.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUb1QsvQHQDX5Chs_7ZJ9QjHK5a_6GspBM1jR0wfdveiWwH7pvIQA5JEU1rKHJPPcxiSRB79avm2RZLLWSVcfZ2P7TuHgPa9N9y95S_IJPTQP6ZlByYEIOLaxvh_qmfDj-q4QCcpXy1oU_rH1v7bPHanXFEoSdQ_ZK0TKDr5n7AYvM9dlfi568zKjGp22/s3981/IMG_6451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="3981" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUb1QsvQHQDX5Chs_7ZJ9QjHK5a_6GspBM1jR0wfdveiWwH7pvIQA5JEU1rKHJPPcxiSRB79avm2RZLLWSVcfZ2P7TuHgPa9N9y95S_IJPTQP6ZlByYEIOLaxvh_qmfDj-q4QCcpXy1oU_rH1v7bPHanXFEoSdQ_ZK0TKDr5n7AYvM9dlfi568zKjGp22/w640-h204/IMG_6451.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The core box force is led by General Greivous. The figure comes with cloaked and uncloaked options and I chose the uncloaked version. Lightsabres are hard to paint so I went with a stylised scheme. I may add some object source lighting effects at some point to try and represent their glow.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmWVi8x2uVpnB4t69noFF1Fly163iS3Ge3LahjkJv9-5VURlXzr3KUd7nlR1xr_Kqm0TmrVKGPsWjHn-YNmpUb3Dum86O2ADSX6p68F1rETB_VvqUq7YtA5ba2_Bzt82uU70oyQDt2ed9iLnURUvI7R7lbdK81oh-6vETysRwyAUqbpZG8c2KujHCLU4a/s4000/IMG_6452.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmWVi8x2uVpnB4t69noFF1Fly163iS3Ge3LahjkJv9-5VURlXzr3KUd7nlR1xr_Kqm0TmrVKGPsWjHn-YNmpUb3Dum86O2ADSX6p68F1rETB_VvqUq7YtA5ba2_Bzt82uU70oyQDt2ed9iLnURUvI7R7lbdK81oh-6vETysRwyAUqbpZG8c2KujHCLU4a/w640-h426/IMG_6452.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Asajj Ventress is a character from the Clone Wars TV series. I painted her in line with the box art.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllfK6FuF6S4TS_LSdRBlz7c1mhmQmBOxXWi3kSsgMOilAHuYrO6-8QFghgzBakKhH4KgJ6ZVYp8sceLAS-HA-BP34Nzr_F576-Lzo1Z5dpF6dmB2vjaXFPZkQ2Iaah_l8CfsmxD22eG_Pim57dchG_fclH5oaNjEhnHXfUcIHoy-l6sB9YvOBQkzEZHLq/s4000/IMG_6453.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllfK6FuF6S4TS_LSdRBlz7c1mhmQmBOxXWi3kSsgMOilAHuYrO6-8QFghgzBakKhH4KgJ6ZVYp8sceLAS-HA-BP34Nzr_F576-Lzo1Z5dpF6dmB2vjaXFPZkQ2Iaah_l8CfsmxD22eG_Pim57dchG_fclH5oaNjEhnHXfUcIHoy-l6sB9YvOBQkzEZHLq/w640-h426/IMG_6453.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">B1 battle droid commanders. "Roger, roger!" These hard plasting models were INCREDIBLY fiddly to assemble and seem very fragile. As with most of the models I painted them as close to the on-screen imagery as possible. These commander droids have yellow marking. I gave the heavy weapon droids a red scheme too, but I'm not sure if that's accurate. It'll help identify them in a game anyway.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUs_pF3ETMb8zL_kU5c6K-bVCrb4D8F7iKdHbmEmghwxhV-eu2BqWWHPyFTMmWTL47czEuQWNmI8UJwcYgByVGSdmAHAxpbDbKrwEY9cnxrTm5H4iosudhF_36-wmkVRYTa-ZKCJx3m4gl-eNk4u5e-0bUyFqeZlK3jFvlZgSgXq4nCXLx_HeLN2zFP2i/s4000/IMG_6454.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUs_pF3ETMb8zL_kU5c6K-bVCrb4D8F7iKdHbmEmghwxhV-eu2BqWWHPyFTMmWTL47czEuQWNmI8UJwcYgByVGSdmAHAxpbDbKrwEY9cnxrTm5H4iosudhF_36-wmkVRYTa-ZKCJx3m4gl-eNk4u5e-0bUyFqeZlK3jFvlZgSgXq4nCXLx_HeLN2zFP2i/w640-h426/IMG_6454.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I always felt the droidekas were a bit odd as a robot concept. I struggled to get the colours right, but I think I got the colours pretty close. Again these models were super fiddly to assemble and they come in standing poses and also rolled up in a ball. I thing the game rules allow you to transform between the two during play - one form for fighting the other for fast movement.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSD18eqOR2YrXGymTjUdsiXv3gmf_24iNaa6U_nrSswKtI2uFvZzzcPBVJvGdhSG8uN1CiRojHDeg1ut8MXY7dYBv25ZiNKoOAYvRhpNXs2DZQYoRvw4BdK11rHJyKV-X8gESRgI4fleVc4JV-wIZbqxqOWjNZh6b-XQzJQKb5Xq_DLKk4fpkJfxkyYDc/s4000/IMG_6455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSD18eqOR2YrXGymTjUdsiXv3gmf_24iNaa6U_nrSswKtI2uFvZzzcPBVJvGdhSG8uN1CiRojHDeg1ut8MXY7dYBv25ZiNKoOAYvRhpNXs2DZQYoRvw4BdK11rHJyKV-X8gESRgI4fleVc4JV-wIZbqxqOWjNZh6b-XQzJQKb5Xq_DLKk4fpkJfxkyYDc/w640-h426/IMG_6455.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6FzT_8ehse9gE42UHkxOh1O4PiokpW-0BOVzMWNga8F0T46RP9hzOTwnegr7VGHQL5LpJQh39vTNNAy7qqa_RrS4sDv88s7OUNkre6bqpA3j1BgzxEPgWGDNj5mWB3ug62hwA-8QMWtuou6zCR0jPs86YS9_IfRnCVb2-zCAjnrT6jZVLp_OKNaWB9qV/s4000/IMG_6456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6FzT_8ehse9gE42UHkxOh1O4PiokpW-0BOVzMWNga8F0T46RP9hzOTwnegr7VGHQL5LpJQh39vTNNAy7qqa_RrS4sDv88s7OUNkre6bqpA3j1BgzxEPgWGDNj5mWB3ug62hwA-8QMWtuou6zCR0jPs86YS9_IfRnCVb2-zCAjnrT6jZVLp_OKNaWB9qV/w640-h426/IMG_6456.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next up, the clone troopers from the Clone Wars era core set. These wear phase 1 armpur with the 1930's sci-fi style helmet. These came in the older Fantasy Flight Games soft plasting so their guns are a little bendy. The advantage though is they they are basically prebuilt which i very much like. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ji0NROHwCFTAmLHaMYMxVGu0_mDxLCLk74zer2bjDDaKR8nhvUzZQzGW0z8SqO5ptsTeH71YI7e4p00lmRo0Fa8qWS5iaUCApZJPI54C-Ba5ggMADQR4vPzqZ1BDShP4615YGg77p1bES-_-2ZPC1YkcOo2bte_ia7XxfLbmUMYFuBDcE51SzPHJUN_w/s3981/IMG_6457.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1947" data-original-width="3981" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ji0NROHwCFTAmLHaMYMxVGu0_mDxLCLk74zer2bjDDaKR8nhvUzZQzGW0z8SqO5ptsTeH71YI7e4p00lmRo0Fa8qWS5iaUCApZJPI54C-Ba5ggMADQR4vPzqZ1BDShP4615YGg77p1bES-_-2ZPC1YkcOo2bte_ia7XxfLbmUMYFuBDcE51SzPHJUN_w/w640-h314/IMG_6457.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Obi-Wan Kenobi in his prime (with bendy lightsabre). I'm really pleased with the way this figure came out.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP27hRSyIOPmH93Q-n20j8Hwsj89bHpUyvkkcEIYxjOjT__8HIWjtiRg8f56GtmwsN4b0EajC_hT2Az78oZZw6Sz-xnVtvR_U3e0qhBoBa4l7WFlSRsHHcdhAT0siIMby4U5pGlki9udsvpyvpt0qpqxIR3hKUsYDf76XsQIqAGl8z8wi7BS_cIFt5tCjp/s4000/IMG_6458.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP27hRSyIOPmH93Q-n20j8Hwsj89bHpUyvkkcEIYxjOjT__8HIWjtiRg8f56GtmwsN4b0EajC_hT2Az78oZZw6Sz-xnVtvR_U3e0qhBoBa4l7WFlSRsHHcdhAT0siIMby4U5pGlki9udsvpyvpt0qpqxIR3hKUsYDf76XsQIqAGl8z8wi7BS_cIFt5tCjp/w640-h426/IMG_6458.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The clone troopers were a struggle to paint as white is really quite difficult to get right. That coupled with the need to do small neat areas of black makes for a nightmare of a painting session.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV37pwvuKsq197gYFhZCYAflmp9M68JRgS1h6Rvz5TGUZMZYjb8CgjZ7XySbycj7-HQZKRhTUHLEow17bGI2NOPk5CKHEsQBRLIKeq10MEH44O8VbRJ9CcsZmF9Anl5L06hG4cYFL8qtNz_qkwLJqvKeErEZZDbsGmwuIQU5ffSWvz2yMeSYO9lQ1gCNRB/s4000/IMG_6459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV37pwvuKsq197gYFhZCYAflmp9M68JRgS1h6Rvz5TGUZMZYjb8CgjZ7XySbycj7-HQZKRhTUHLEow17bGI2NOPk5CKHEsQBRLIKeq10MEH44O8VbRJ9CcsZmF9Anl5L06hG4cYFL8qtNz_qkwLJqvKeErEZZDbsGmwuIQU5ffSWvz2yMeSYO9lQ1gCNRB/w426-h640/IMG_6459.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I made the clone leaders sergeants, so in phase 1 armour this means that have green markings.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSSFKPhAo1VuwzkM4VX8MthsO3Py8kvpr55ypvfC42odkdeN85Vp3x_3F0m47oLB8LbAUCEikl3-xlGY0jGTSY2RmLxFFHTjvGY2PCa2aXX4BLpFAyGrNgXk7v5gU4tfGY1J-DWuyZaUj7spY09ivoeuZd0kJj48OVYinWJSmO_SBa-3RscnEeuwMx1JY/s4000/IMG_6460.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSSFKPhAo1VuwzkM4VX8MthsO3Py8kvpr55ypvfC42odkdeN85Vp3x_3F0m47oLB8LbAUCEikl3-xlGY0jGTSY2RmLxFFHTjvGY2PCa2aXX4BLpFAyGrNgXk7v5gU4tfGY1J-DWuyZaUj7spY09ivoeuZd0kJj48OVYinWJSmO_SBa-3RscnEeuwMx1JY/w640-h426/IMG_6460.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QDk7nfwuM5981akwziI7Obd-rGCZQFhKVu5UX7Rwo5IYubEmylprz3XtfOcw5b-BMerioG7RQ2pxQHA3MzPTugQtcfKuZKauIU2Vy7Zx51jOzRN5e6M7WHikWvbE4iMmbd5K-jSB0ELEVFG_hei7cjmWvNUDMOoIGI3m-Jsw6SBiKpIlumSTzNKHWNBa/s4000/IMG_6461.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QDk7nfwuM5981akwziI7Obd-rGCZQFhKVu5UX7Rwo5IYubEmylprz3XtfOcw5b-BMerioG7RQ2pxQHA3MzPTugQtcfKuZKauIU2Vy7Zx51jOzRN5e6M7WHikWvbE4iMmbd5K-jSB0ELEVFG_hei7cjmWvNUDMOoIGI3m-Jsw6SBiKpIlumSTzNKHWNBa/w640-h426/IMG_6461.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The clones come with a BARC Speeder. I struggled to find a definitive on screen colour scheme for this model so I went with a sort of light tan colour with red markings. I left the rider's torso unglued so i can swap out the weapon from a missle launcher to gun.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAOX5e-qgR50rAHmCbuTeXtXhucVGM6keaTQ6liP5REVfP9uWGcDIAJYgkBwB9G2AOt4YbZ2Q5CEmOlY6fT8lNcKXprKEszb3ORr17CRtgyZc1QAugtnDmpRp6lJUdCHIrmISF1vBu96ZUyBahexZyiw9hUwoagGrH03cATTVX9_MAcatXSXEcpUX0QqXh/s4000/IMG_6462.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAOX5e-qgR50rAHmCbuTeXtXhucVGM6keaTQ6liP5REVfP9uWGcDIAJYgkBwB9G2AOt4YbZ2Q5CEmOlY6fT8lNcKXprKEszb3ORr17CRtgyZc1QAugtnDmpRp6lJUdCHIrmISF1vBu96ZUyBahexZyiw9hUwoagGrH03cATTVX9_MAcatXSXEcpUX0QqXh/w640-h426/IMG_6462.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioQVA8dpyZWOa-g_OvIOGJM0AbRzi0kXnUGxlCgqPjZXbhqrvuguRKKjiGm_utQx8C3tFZARLvlxVdZZ8u3jqjjqg1cLCgwPfqhCIp0_FQRSQz7LwGNVJo5Hil0teT1XiSPf4EiwsGMiwxUI9aurmUqBtmhrEUcXs_aU1Q-kDRnEPBXzYgsWHWkCgd5ng5/s4000/IMG_6463.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioQVA8dpyZWOa-g_OvIOGJM0AbRzi0kXnUGxlCgqPjZXbhqrvuguRKKjiGm_utQx8C3tFZARLvlxVdZZ8u3jqjjqg1cLCgwPfqhCIp0_FQRSQz7LwGNVJo5Hil0teT1XiSPf4EiwsGMiwxUI9aurmUqBtmhrEUcXs_aU1Q-kDRnEPBXzYgsWHWkCgd5ng5/w640-h426/IMG_6463.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFVtWq4i96OC0k2BRyC1oI-JlJ61b1RebisnUvLnbDNWGVHIvJG511h9eFTkwG3rMTbMCtvgYkA8LouNcrk5qwmwj4TsR42y09Q9ZfVHZ8lOV_VICwC5J3BEPoGQtdKF478Gq78YgM6DOUT4SAQbykMkyuQbOYpWC5YYXVRb03nWdqWDpjQh30QccwWiJ/s4000/IMG_6464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFVtWq4i96OC0k2BRyC1oI-JlJ61b1RebisnUvLnbDNWGVHIvJG511h9eFTkwG3rMTbMCtvgYkA8LouNcrk5qwmwj4TsR42y09Q9ZfVHZ8lOV_VICwC5J3BEPoGQtdKF478Gq78YgM6DOUT4SAQbykMkyuQbOYpWC5YYXVRb03nWdqWDpjQh30QccwWiJ/w640-h426/IMG_6464.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Obviously I had to get the Ahsoka model (I bought Ahsoka and Ventress at the same time - seems only right for these two adversaries). I painted her according to the box art.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkhr_OrweZC90agDSi3LAXlbfwJDm4l03Wrh1jA_IOOHuT7LwgZfTFI3hNZPs28b9Z58e-hIGznGz85fDVCdwqQc9HAkm3C_NfsfwOjJUvT5H3Y41i3H5Gavjka7lliNVNJ6a70DAHTevMQJ-5K98zvY2bZuIrFGaPKQNFaBwMbxZtcTnToMgw4IuMfbP/s4000/IMG_6467.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkhr_OrweZC90agDSi3LAXlbfwJDm4l03Wrh1jA_IOOHuT7LwgZfTFI3hNZPs28b9Z58e-hIGznGz85fDVCdwqQc9HAkm3C_NfsfwOjJUvT5H3Y41i3H5Gavjka7lliNVNJ6a70DAHTevMQJ-5K98zvY2bZuIrFGaPKQNFaBwMbxZtcTnToMgw4IuMfbP/w640-h426/IMG_6467.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahsoka's base still needs flocking.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next up we move to the Rebellion era of the original movies, and here's the Rebel force.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUOjP0Yt6KzfCmwIuiG-6ZS-NK8Tpd1m4A3NklY67UCEFOQWXvxkg7-aGSuDa_N8TR_-NOSccDBxoETZghGKN9fq5CO-x2iR-5UeCLwg_4zI2xBhEpL8nBFCUgL1qtjUUphcTgX6lmUQFrpkLJDvNO9MlEicek7-8ZzrO3j0p3enLpF-_pIsh6f-X0c5k/s3999/IMG_6468.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="3999" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUOjP0Yt6KzfCmwIuiG-6ZS-NK8Tpd1m4A3NklY67UCEFOQWXvxkg7-aGSuDa_N8TR_-NOSccDBxoETZghGKN9fq5CO-x2iR-5UeCLwg_4zI2xBhEpL8nBFCUgL1qtjUUphcTgX6lmUQFrpkLJDvNO9MlEicek7-8ZzrO3j0p3enLpF-_pIsh6f-X0c5k/w640-h272/IMG_6468.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I suplemented the core box force with some fleet troopers, because, well, I like them so much. Interestingly the washes I used have turned out very shiny. I think I need to put some matt varnish on them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrE22U1CC_CZr0lQ7wnv2Yzgt2QDl_pG1eWIeIrfwTGOD1Mw52kGQ7lHCAE6d5eV7xOipgTmwgR-lnei9KtoMXDkaOcC48aEtb-cOdPEnrn94Kuhz0ApizCjonGDEhzcvVSwa-ykuLaYwEEFNyDULlPgwN9hV45ukAbe_HN_sfohdyf-rjhad6uXiWC9C/s4000/IMG_6469.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrE22U1CC_CZr0lQ7wnv2Yzgt2QDl_pG1eWIeIrfwTGOD1Mw52kGQ7lHCAE6d5eV7xOipgTmwgR-lnei9KtoMXDkaOcC48aEtb-cOdPEnrn94Kuhz0ApizCjonGDEhzcvVSwa-ykuLaYwEEFNyDULlPgwN9hV45ukAbe_HN_sfohdyf-rjhad6uXiWC9C/w640-h426/IMG_6469.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Rebel field forces, I guess heavily inspired by the Battle of Endor's Moon. The blue headed dudes are Duros.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdSBzVfT-DCM3MKC0KxUH3TASeamV4EkiA9x31hYGosj6_zPzqvbjxxeQcHXZZEEfCI5IGolUB92IwMSUtBjCT--_oMTV_m2mS0aGr81jARA877h6bBBxbcQSfjtNaUkEGA2UD_qV5FRtgxUh8DAjOvn63HFgz9nhJ3DlAFWZqW21spzPbGLn1vFj65JJ/s4000/IMG_6470.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdSBzVfT-DCM3MKC0KxUH3TASeamV4EkiA9x31hYGosj6_zPzqvbjxxeQcHXZZEEfCI5IGolUB92IwMSUtBjCT--_oMTV_m2mS0aGr81jARA877h6bBBxbcQSfjtNaUkEGA2UD_qV5FRtgxUh8DAjOvn63HFgz9nhJ3DlAFWZqW21spzPbGLn1vFj65JJ/w640-h426/IMG_6470.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Luke is the core box "hero", so I baught his sister Leia. I also picked up Sabine Wren from the Rebels TV series.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pVjnmmNRB8IjMQo_fwpmvw2D48HP4X0VvnXJM84VJ-iODXUhgo_kq7GmhRZAzDmZ4avf79khO7JfAJdc9GabkuTxCmTbfit4xJN-Rwtd_oqmeLuBpzI5f2wh6d03bMFcDMzCQcoGbSitD_IaE6vx0lxIzBCRoPA0X78zUtnADX2XRwCTHfVS-8CBBv_5/s4000/IMG_6471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pVjnmmNRB8IjMQo_fwpmvw2D48HP4X0VvnXJM84VJ-iODXUhgo_kq7GmhRZAzDmZ4avf79khO7JfAJdc9GabkuTxCmTbfit4xJN-Rwtd_oqmeLuBpzI5f2wh6d03bMFcDMzCQcoGbSitD_IaE6vx0lxIzBCRoPA0X78zUtnADX2XRwCTHfVS-8CBBv_5/w640-h426/IMG_6471.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Rebels get a couple of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All Terrain Recon Transports (AT-RT). Nice models.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj2IkNdM83PK2Trd3xhxaCdV2T1UTAArnNHUe6mzOwscrQROY42KK8nmX1L9jt4KGagnZ_CYyul9S_Q74zqdP5mmuLsNZnfzC4MB3ozva_xrmWSul7lZk0edFp8Khf4daJ7Me4klqv3P74TH8S6oqxNhIjisRUnhLSq20-e7FPYS0_3J4I02FSM81PoQj/s4000/IMG_6474.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj2IkNdM83PK2Trd3xhxaCdV2T1UTAArnNHUe6mzOwscrQROY42KK8nmX1L9jt4KGagnZ_CYyul9S_Q74zqdP5mmuLsNZnfzC4MB3ozva_xrmWSul7lZk0edFp8Khf4daJ7Me4klqv3P74TH8S6oqxNhIjisRUnhLSq20-e7FPYS0_3J4I02FSM81PoQj/w426-h640/IMG_6474.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Finally, the forces of the Empire, the classic stormtroopers led by Darth Vader.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLl4VrniEb9Y0-O48nCvtrxdWYylloMhfIWnFVAmXJVcsMuo7Gp_tWHsEkTmCxO5hYMzkh8l36IxirHBr9MCkwF-jJKlE7dn0nhJrGQ0U3NDFOpZyCsnVUWls0H27kaOwstWHMb5xK4fjt2zkAS9-IEDAaCha6zbyhN3kalgakqQlNmuzlDelLceziDqwa/s4000/IMG_6475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1603" data-original-width="4000" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLl4VrniEb9Y0-O48nCvtrxdWYylloMhfIWnFVAmXJVcsMuo7Gp_tWHsEkTmCxO5hYMzkh8l36IxirHBr9MCkwF-jJKlE7dn0nhJrGQ0U3NDFOpZyCsnVUWls0H27kaOwstWHMb5xK4fjt2zkAS9-IEDAaCha6zbyhN3kalgakqQlNmuzlDelLceziDqwa/w640-h256/IMG_6475.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Vader himself is an OK model but again the soft plastic Fantast Flight Games originally used means he has a droopy lightsabre. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-u4Mm1Bbu-9UIzkhPxKUrckzgKwmUBldtqqtEmovNYXkRdA6FVZVV7JKoUW0iMjV2T4Rndu5x1Hims3s1ZXNhCiqnZS-LEPHauYRJvS0QutuZ53Q_1f7dWHxP39BX7x1EHF5gOeiXA_0POy9cqx8vajpEVVj-vnLgWVgAkwjgn0lqc5qadyBa16K-WgBi/s4000/IMG_6478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-u4Mm1Bbu-9UIzkhPxKUrckzgKwmUBldtqqtEmovNYXkRdA6FVZVV7JKoUW0iMjV2T4Rndu5x1Hims3s1ZXNhCiqnZS-LEPHauYRJvS0QutuZ53Q_1f7dWHxP39BX7x1EHF5gOeiXA_0POy9cqx8vajpEVVj-vnLgWVgAkwjgn0lqc5qadyBa16K-WgBi/w426-h640/IMG_6478.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of course the stormtrooper leaders have to have the orange pauldron. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I found the stormtroopers harder to paint than the clone troopers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI-InG43lN5cQlcIwqGrd0bpA0Dv5gExfsFO4_fKmOaF6KNntVPZtTBKPL-HBdxvteSFYqZskVU44vO3QyiHx9sHED-CKnsm6x9sIJcUFe_hhPmP9lHVo_Dl4gKQkB462Mcr2sGNdyLeM5qdcAJa58AvWQ-CwzJgmi4bcVuyON6-4P0z8hyQfVJ0cUr2F/s4000/IMG_6479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI-InG43lN5cQlcIwqGrd0bpA0Dv5gExfsFO4_fKmOaF6KNntVPZtTBKPL-HBdxvteSFYqZskVU44vO3QyiHx9sHED-CKnsm6x9sIJcUFe_hhPmP9lHVo_Dl4gKQkB462Mcr2sGNdyLeM5qdcAJa58AvWQ-CwzJgmi4bcVuyON6-4P0z8hyQfVJ0cUr2F/w640-h426/IMG_6479.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Finally, some scout troopers on speeder bikes. I really like the way these turned out.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fAQ96ffYpVWaZj9xqbfWh-qSoLrvyv7bWQQYauwa1mBEasZzr8FX1ZWd0cGKMIDqZxA7opBOd-16zsF3AuMcwTNalURqTCzudNn9u9lB3MOvtAan7duC9UYMqUb5hOg4NdfrJ0M4otnYa1MInuhr4dsmBArLU7cDVoyxuRLxf7A4uJmwrdg8SFWpxa2I/s4000/IMG_6480.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fAQ96ffYpVWaZj9xqbfWh-qSoLrvyv7bWQQYauwa1mBEasZzr8FX1ZWd0cGKMIDqZxA7opBOd-16zsF3AuMcwTNalURqTCzudNn9u9lB3MOvtAan7duC9UYMqUb5hOg4NdfrJ0M4otnYa1MInuhr4dsmBArLU7cDVoyxuRLxf7A4uJmwrdg8SFWpxa2I/w640-h426/IMG_6480.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eJOV1IDAA3S7r3gxYtcVvvJsJ9ZnFNVfGYyOkslYG72F3kyId3Tx5jpTE5zCXcSjSmBNxCzBEynTzd-W-tHW9pIaiTGwa-MeklKfAKi-csX0_W3K4nKbSThX9nlBYgNRt0NJ4dfuzJoUCPgjH-WLaulyxAY1Cpcdk2JvklRn9uw7BYTB3EW7kYcBZ7HB/s4000/IMG_6482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eJOV1IDAA3S7r3gxYtcVvvJsJ9ZnFNVfGYyOkslYG72F3kyId3Tx5jpTE5zCXcSjSmBNxCzBEynTzd-W-tHW9pIaiTGwa-MeklKfAKi-csX0_W3K4nKbSThX9nlBYgNRt0NJ4dfuzJoUCPgjH-WLaulyxAY1Cpcdk2JvklRn9uw7BYTB3EW7kYcBZ7HB/w640-h426/IMG_6482.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-85078454500344893862023-06-21T13:16:00.004+01:002023-06-21T13:17:35.669+01:00Anglo-Normans<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgokZbgEtk7M_pE1sDELDwSlOQU1WuI0dwDCHJZ6y1Xsn7YvIllb9ivVuLDxRxhTonyglsO8jtR0NIUTDf9OfVoeDgvwXUdE2HkZ8R_btM54YwR6MTuzJ2Y4oOPulR4ygxE8QBoW6JJVd7JLQcbPy9y9ZsmZOk1p55QIP-PUKaj5AXDhQLVAuKZRHMjwYY/s3952/IMG_6362.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="3952" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgokZbgEtk7M_pE1sDELDwSlOQU1WuI0dwDCHJZ6y1Xsn7YvIllb9ivVuLDxRxhTonyglsO8jtR0NIUTDf9OfVoeDgvwXUdE2HkZ8R_btM54YwR6MTuzJ2Y4oOPulR4ygxE8QBoW6JJVd7JLQcbPy9y9ZsmZOk1p55QIP-PUKaj5AXDhQLVAuKZRHMjwYY/w640-h202/IMG_6362.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As these things so often are, the route to my latest project
was a bit convoluted and organic. My <a href="https://durhamwargames.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gaming club</a> is holding a Warhammer Ancient
Battles (<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8003/warhammer-ancient-battles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAB</a>) tournament, and my friends and I were interested in
participating. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The initial announcement
was that the tournament would be “Medieval”. We expressed our interest and
waited for more detail. As the weeks
rolled by, no further information was forthcoming, so we looked to our own
devices. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our discussions around the Medieval
theme settled on 10<sup>th</sup>-12<sup>th</sup> Century, with a couple of us
interested in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anarchy</a> (1138-1153AD) and the Anglo-Norman armies that would
fight it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WAB is an odd and archaic
ruleset, much beloved by many. But inspired
by the period, we went looking for alternatives. We tried <a href="https://www.wargamevault.com/product/287444/Impetus-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Impetus II</a>, but it
really wasn’t for us. As a ruleset we found it overly complex and when playing, we got ourselves in
a bit of a mess on the tabletop, which the rules didn’t help resolve, so we
went looking for something else. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Over
the years we’ve tried all sorts of rules and a couple of my group are still HEAVILY into
<a href="https://www.artdelaguerre.fr/adlg/v3/?/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">L’Art de la Guerre</a>, playing it at <a href="https://www.bhgs.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">national tournament level</a> to a good standard. I pitched out after winning
the Burton Doubles at <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-thing-happened-last-weekend-that.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BadCon in 2018</a>.
There’s just something about the fiddle-on with the rules that I don’t
like. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, we came across a ruleset called <a href="https://www.wgcwar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Triumph</a>. Now, back
in the mists of time we played a LOT of <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/6324/game-dbx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DBx</a> games, mostly DBM, again at
National tournament grade. I’ve long lamented the end of that ruleset's dominance, and the
fragmentation that resulted from it's fall (with tournaments devolving into using
several rulesets – DBMM, Morten et Gloriam, Field of Glory, L’Art de la Guerre,
etc.). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Triumph appears to be a spiritual successor to the old DBM rules, updated
and tweaked. We gave it a go and played a few games. Its probably the
nostalgia, and although the rules didn’t knock my socks off, they do work well.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They have some nice little addons to make the
game a bit more interesting and seem to have removed some of the micro-movement
elements of DBM, while maintaining core gameplay. So, Triumph it is!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Triumph has its armies online over at the <a href="https://meshwesh.wgcwar.com/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meshwesh</a> site,
which helps.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although this isn’t an army
builder (which is a shame); I assume it allows the publishers to keep lists
updated and affect changes quickly.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I
set about sorting out an Anglo-Norman Anarchy period army list.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">As it happens its pretty standard and easy to
do, and I selected this:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1x Knights (General)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4x Knights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8x Heavy Foot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2x Bow Levy (+2 "support" figures)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The standard Triumph army is 48pts, and the total unit cost
for the above is 48pts exactly.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll
probably use the “Bow Support” battle card option, which allows me to fold the boy
levy into heavy foot units, boosting their fighting against mounted troops (and
a few other troop types), but I’ll try out the best use in a few games.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So, I set about building the army in 28mm figures.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">True to its DBM heritage, Triumph assumes the
use of 15mm figures, but gives the options to scale up or down as
preferred.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ve always felt 15mm is a weird
scale – too big to look good en masse, and too small to look good individually.
For some reason it’s been the standard scale for many historical wargames and
periods though.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have many 15mm figure
armies, but nowadays I and my friends tend to look at the 28mm scale first and
so we did for this.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I went to my go-to supplier for 28mm historical figures,
<a href="https://www.victrixlimited.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Victrix</a>.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They really do hit the nail on
the head – great figures, great sculpts, easy to build, and excellent customer
service.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I ordered some Norman infantry and cavalry and set about building
the toys. As it happens, I forgot to get some archers for the bow levy unit,
but I did have a <a href="http://www.conquest-games.co.uk/index.php?cPath=22_52&osCsid=53rugu7ccmf0ae7h3l8ortq636" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conquest Games</a> box of “Medieval Archers”. They’re a bit
chunkier and more cartoony sculpts, but they do the job.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">With such a small army, this really didn’t
take long to complete, and from sprue to table, (not including drying times), I
reckon this took about 9 hours all told. I used my usual “slapdash” technique
to push on through as quickly as possible.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also used the <a href="https://www.littlebigmenstudios.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Little Big Men</a> <a href="https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/normans-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shield transfers</a> available
from Victrix.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s the first time I’ve
used them, and while they’re a bit odd, being a mix between stickers and traditional
transfers, they are easy to use and have an excellent result!</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll be using them again in the future.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I may need to revisit my Carthaginian army
(still in progress).</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sadly, I didn’t take many work in progress shots, so here’s
what I’ve completed for the Anglo-Normans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgokZbgEtk7M_pE1sDELDwSlOQU1WuI0dwDCHJZ6y1Xsn7YvIllb9ivVuLDxRxhTonyglsO8jtR0NIUTDf9OfVoeDgvwXUdE2HkZ8R_btM54YwR6MTuzJ2Y4oOPulR4ygxE8QBoW6JJVd7JLQcbPy9y9ZsmZOk1p55QIP-PUKaj5AXDhQLVAuKZRHMjwYY/s3952/IMG_6362.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="3952" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgokZbgEtk7M_pE1sDELDwSlOQU1WuI0dwDCHJZ6y1Xsn7YvIllb9ivVuLDxRxhTonyglsO8jtR0NIUTDf9OfVoeDgvwXUdE2HkZ8R_btM54YwR6MTuzJ2Y4oOPulR4ygxE8QBoW6JJVd7JLQcbPy9y9ZsmZOk1p55QIP-PUKaj5AXDhQLVAuKZRHMjwYY/w640-h202/IMG_6362.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-16235120376890232752023-05-26T16:13:00.003+01:002023-06-19T11:18:15.240+01:00A Very British Civil War, 1939: Battle of Nevilles Cross (One Page Rules)<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a significant hiatus due to Covid and other interests,
this week we reignited A Very British Civil War with a large multiplayer game.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’ve been playing a lot of One Page Rules Grimdark Future
lately and we’ve been talking about using those rules for a historical period
like World War Two. AVBCW seemed like a good step towards that, so we mocked up
some OPR lists and set to it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dzh4u9uvzzqco6gxx94jk/h?dl=0&rlkey=1pr3zgwshq9qd9sqljuykjl31" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Lists here.</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, picking up where we <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-history-of-british-civil-war-in.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">left off</a>, here’s the narrative for
the Battle of Neville’s Cross, May 1939.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Battle of Neville’s Cross, 23<sup>rd</sup> May 1939.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">During the long winter of 1938 all sides in the war spent
the time rebuilding defences, recruiting new forces, rearming, and
resupplying. Hostilities remained low
throughout the winter, aside from a few border skirmishes, punch-ups in local
pubs, and the war of words in local newspapers. Manoeuvres throughout February,
March, and April eventually brought two factions into the first major battle of
1939, and once again the transport line to the west of Durham played host to
the conflict. The A1 at Neville’s Cross
near Durham was troubled with the rumble of barely fuelled engines and the
ripple of rifle fire as around 9.30am on the 23<sup>rd</sup> May reignited the
war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhh-wOjvVyIMTn1fXj6sxRkOeFaSgc3PnaV6_H5tqO3JSitT6LLEFnbv2mxheDYr1_Q6_A-mw1eLSjYG5a9E95eKSPx1QpSfN1SiR0DMCnrlfZJlQaO9AL6DvPDIQ1EtNQIrUyxB_orP2kaoIcbBXETbz8EzU5ugjQvJtJW0TQGSvAxZaii6iLV5jwVA/s664/1%20starting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="664" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhh-wOjvVyIMTn1fXj6sxRkOeFaSgc3PnaV6_H5tqO3JSitT6LLEFnbv2mxheDYr1_Q6_A-mw1eLSjYG5a9E95eKSPx1QpSfN1SiR0DMCnrlfZJlQaO9AL6DvPDIQ1EtNQIrUyxB_orP2kaoIcbBXETbz8EzU5ugjQvJtJW0TQGSvAxZaii6iLV5jwVA/w640-h480/1%20starting.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming in from the west was a Socialist alliance.</span></p></span><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Chopwell Communists</b> committed a small force of new
recruits, supported by cavalry and a T26 tank acquired from Liverpool. They took
the right flank position along the A1.</span></span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0KvUycXAfYWhsV4EbQ6bu-zVIz6vwqkj3gvqZoZLM8JSZzXlmYXjWHEK5PM1d3aqSfYAuGSGIeaNFruDjt7gv6lmIGwz8X2NFbymtVFHWK_NUYreMNxKOoVpY44Yvsrnqsh8BlT4RlqqdQE-ldWtmI_WdOWKz0zJ4E0L0htFBs2_i2LQZCGOWTXO_w/s631/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="631" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0KvUycXAfYWhsV4EbQ6bu-zVIz6vwqkj3gvqZoZLM8JSZzXlmYXjWHEK5PM1d3aqSfYAuGSGIeaNFruDjt7gv6lmIGwz8X2NFbymtVFHWK_NUYreMNxKOoVpY44Yvsrnqsh8BlT4RlqqdQE-ldWtmI_WdOWKz0zJ4E0L0htFBs2_i2LQZCGOWTXO_w/w640-h372/2.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The centre was held by a </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Socialist Local Defence Volunteer</b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
force identified most likely as an anti-Anglican League group from The Sands
area of Durham. Made up mostly of elderly ex-servicemen and Great War veterans,
they had a couple of vehicles and a lot of bravery on their side.</span></span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYIDcGjOqRQWAhkselhOEh_4c7ci0o7V7tfdR4s7m81MYC_rA54WrNmkXc9kvTbJg7wkTQ-59d-YUq8YgCiNax7qw0NgsX70WhbXOpyDDH-TrcI6HVG9hSblYM43uvnLQ7pwp3SZpHNEIp54QLtb38irUYBbYtoPdAoT812wvaumO-H9OMu5RIo6YmxQ/s640/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="640" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYIDcGjOqRQWAhkselhOEh_4c7ci0o7V7tfdR4s7m81MYC_rA54WrNmkXc9kvTbJg7wkTQ-59d-YUq8YgCiNax7qw0NgsX70WhbXOpyDDH-TrcI6HVG9hSblYM43uvnLQ7pwp3SZpHNEIp54QLtb38irUYBbYtoPdAoT812wvaumO-H9OMu5RIo6YmxQ/w640-h382/3.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The left flank position was occupied by a force of Socialist
regulars who had deserted from the <b>Catterick Barracks</b> and camped out in the
Dales near Wolsingham over winter. These fellows threw their lot in with Chopwell
and brought one of the very rare Matilda II tanks with them.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">This behemoth of a modern tank is one of a
very few that made it off the production lines before the outbreak of war.</span></span></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advancing from the east was an anti-Socialist force made up
of three longstanding allies.</span></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facing the Chopwell positions was a skilled and well-trained
force of <b>Lord Lambton’s “Hounds”</b>. Over winter they’d made good use of their time
developing quality infantry tactics.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They’d
also acquired a good supply on Lewis guns and bought in a stable of Austin
armoured cars. Lord Lambton was sick of his pride and joy Rolls Royce fleet
getting damaged, so he spent some cash on front line replacements.</span></span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58eBEFSEzXHjN5IocTVjw2U_V6DY1tWkOOyr_wSAWmWw_B3ZQtZQk6XoZg5w2tXJQSOOBccChQSQm3INlja4pyjh4x94GmfEU9FVKAtl3d-hnUYRxWq2TPHfZDj-bmMPynWc00FbryMu0vOrWnqBD5rlqrBXmIFDFBfuB8GbRz72Kbn7i17JZqVN1NQ/s527/8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="388" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58eBEFSEzXHjN5IocTVjw2U_V6DY1tWkOOyr_wSAWmWw_B3ZQtZQk6XoZg5w2tXJQSOOBccChQSQm3INlja4pyjh4x94GmfEU9FVKAtl3d-hnUYRxWq2TPHfZDj-bmMPynWc00FbryMu0vOrWnqBD5rlqrBXmIFDFBfuB8GbRz72Kbn7i17JZqVN1NQ/w472-h640/8.jpeg" width="472" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the centre was <b>Lord Percy’s Tenantry</b>.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well supplied with a rag-tag collection of
armoured vehicles, Lord Percy had increasingly moved his garrisons down south
to ring Durham and support the ongoing hostilities there.</span></span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOkvLWIjOwPWS6cCmNwamp_lVIR3UWMtMmSOQIFVs7ExDRQYM_lYudyO5iQi5h6VgTAYz-0cBEs0Fs-eQEeymbN4qX9YJJwS6zJ1eQaRAB2ZR1Yqcgu-HXGrPVe0wUxttDAGu8-7WGkO6vD9IaGqnmVXLKxxk8tuBqnzVnvY0c9DFyp-RBRwxawZBeaA/s636/5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="636" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOkvLWIjOwPWS6cCmNwamp_lVIR3UWMtMmSOQIFVs7ExDRQYM_lYudyO5iQi5h6VgTAYz-0cBEs0Fs-eQEeymbN4qX9YJJwS6zJ1eQaRAB2ZR1Yqcgu-HXGrPVe0wUxttDAGu8-7WGkO6vD9IaGqnmVXLKxxk8tuBqnzVnvY0c9DFyp-RBRwxawZBeaA/w640-h308/5.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And on the left, facing the Catterick deserters were the
<b>Gateshead German League</b>.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rumours of
their terrible behaviour towards the locals in their area have been flatly
denied by the GGL leadership, but what is certain is that the winter saw them
heavily resupplied by imported German arms and materiel.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAyX4945rLYv-wVHM4zHLmVK0Xt1bfUWDM9PQ3VWH295Eat6xAjhpS-tXg6Cwq4cRyyCzWwgA4BC77SZB-Fv78HRoqYeqw8xN5H9WzDICgFvLKZiMJv9kyPEXMqinDj6_7PQJNUIt8XvIwqCqBk7mHh0uq4LsJEpaQoyWLvAFoXwzE2qgJBjtTdOk5A/s579/6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAyX4945rLYv-wVHM4zHLmVK0Xt1bfUWDM9PQ3VWH295Eat6xAjhpS-tXg6Cwq4cRyyCzWwgA4BC77SZB-Fv78HRoqYeqw8xN5H9WzDICgFvLKZiMJv9kyPEXMqinDj6_7PQJNUIt8XvIwqCqBk7mHh0uq4LsJEpaQoyWLvAFoXwzE2qgJBjtTdOk5A/s320/6.jpeg" width="212" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlcKpciiBy_KblRB2NwayO7r1kG7Hk_UU9Kdh1Vn_i2SdJvuShRhMUM452WCOx_2ZjtBFaYYmZBuZMjrGWO3upQWtCqAfm5wXwqLsDxdRjTeLZr00B3-6FheSWglnykOWnOtzYTJE5tlRVXWmk4sS9ScA0x7-Pn8RzDgUI4zeijuiI5BXNqGnYg2RzCA/s593/7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="433" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlcKpciiBy_KblRB2NwayO7r1kG7Hk_UU9Kdh1Vn_i2SdJvuShRhMUM452WCOx_2ZjtBFaYYmZBuZMjrGWO3upQWtCqAfm5wXwqLsDxdRjTeLZr00B3-6FheSWglnykOWnOtzYTJE5tlRVXWmk4sS9ScA0x7-Pn8RzDgUI4zeijuiI5BXNqGnYg2RzCA/s320/7.jpeg" width="234" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Each side fielded three forces, each of 1500pts (so 4500pts a side).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We set up the game using the OPR rules, and decided that on
each side’s go, each player would activate a single unit, so each side would
see three units activate each "bound".</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
objectives were clear – capture and hold the three crossroads along the A1. We
had 4 Turns to do this, so aggressive play would be needed!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Boths sides set up simultaneously (to save time), and we set
to it with the Socialists taking the first turn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Turn 1</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the right flank the Chopwell forces found it hard
going.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They advanced into a wall of disciplined
Lambton rifle fire.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Lambton units
were well commanded with leaders instilling fire discipline and this told on
the Communist forces stopping their advance well back from the A1.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lambton’s Hounds pushed up aggressively, taking a solid position
at the road and setting up for a coming surprise…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the centre, the Sands LDV and Lord Percy’s forces
advanced through a built-up area near St John’s Church at Neville’s Cross.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was a significant exchange of fire
along the road, and rifle fire crackled around the nearby buildings.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The left flank was similarly pyrotechnic with the Catterick
deserters and GGL pouring heavy fire into each other.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Antitank guns spat at armour and skilled
riflemen picked each other off at range.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Catterick boys made better progress towards their objective on the A1
though, forcing the GGL onto the back foot.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Turn 2</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lambton’s Hounds sprang a trap! Their mercenary elites had
snuck across the road in the early morning and hid in a nearby hollow. With the
star of hostilities, these fanatics appeared on the flank of the Chopwell
position. This startling and unexpected arrival threw the Communists into
disarray and their rear support units struggled to counter the withering fire
from these killers.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the same time the
Lambton’s Austin armoured car got in on the action, tearing a Red cavalry unit
to pieces. Reeling, the Remaining Red cavalry charged the Austin and managed to
knock it out!</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Austin crew panicked
and surrendered, while the cavalry sabotaged the vehicle to prevent its use.
Despite this minor victory, Lord Lambton’s forces took a commanding position on
the road and the Communists were fighting a losing battle from that point.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytId6QzmXsKz3jOhQ9GJxPbjZq2gWTRjNhmM0FleMxPWfJ8GOcnDG0sEYC0sw3g2Q9GKed4uewI_VD0lqR5avsFzwu_gIm02EUMjKk6O3uz4w-ncNwFEyHXoiY51_c8ZwZBl2ORdUdCtOY8WFIOGman0wQdphJiPL4Y3QFi2UI9ozHe1rNaKtUBahZQ/s547/turn2%204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytId6QzmXsKz3jOhQ9GJxPbjZq2gWTRjNhmM0FleMxPWfJ8GOcnDG0sEYC0sw3g2Q9GKed4uewI_VD0lqR5avsFzwu_gIm02EUMjKk6O3uz4w-ncNwFEyHXoiY51_c8ZwZBl2ORdUdCtOY8WFIOGman0wQdphJiPL4Y3QFi2UI9ozHe1rNaKtUBahZQ/w562-h640/turn2%204.jpeg" width="562" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dUMM6Vemc37WOcvNRjbgX1FLTBSqxPqRmR9QNpTaSfhmNqHglEJt_Ukg-dR5LZ4mHIK_6dQ-MklOWr4rPUzreSf0zlNQYi2yHWXusUGygH6UWXYZ7JgcSMYezjdxMd2wq5An4tMmBO6FeK998pI2ZobtIoq8s8scGW3FDcaqh5hmuXnL6q_AWh2ODA/s455/turn2%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="435" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dUMM6Vemc37WOcvNRjbgX1FLTBSqxPqRmR9QNpTaSfhmNqHglEJt_Ukg-dR5LZ4mHIK_6dQ-MklOWr4rPUzreSf0zlNQYi2yHWXusUGygH6UWXYZ7JgcSMYezjdxMd2wq5An4tMmBO6FeK998pI2ZobtIoq8s8scGW3FDcaqh5hmuXnL6q_AWh2ODA/w612-h640/turn2%203.jpeg" width="612" /></a></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6g4Rug6yZYdVI29wK_5GvV1TtHiLtXvFoxlm7ywWjXJ9iUfEpJavqk2X_fScHa1eSgfmAsjnJv03dA15N75WG76GzOfAfeaXNLAKNDvhLIsRZecPwnuMtv6EyMIwMqEAz5jRkdbG6vM8rBZO9brQTiZvZyAVmhaAkk-1Hr0vEka8h78dbinQ74joFA/s588/turn2%207.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="472" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6g4Rug6yZYdVI29wK_5GvV1TtHiLtXvFoxlm7ywWjXJ9iUfEpJavqk2X_fScHa1eSgfmAsjnJv03dA15N75WG76GzOfAfeaXNLAKNDvhLIsRZecPwnuMtv6EyMIwMqEAz5jRkdbG6vM8rBZO9brQTiZvZyAVmhaAkk-1Hr0vEka8h78dbinQ74joFA/w514-h640/turn2%207.jpeg" width="514" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The glorious but doomed Red Cavalry charge takes out the Austin armoured car!</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the centre the fighting between the Sands LDV and Lord
Percy’s Tenantry became close ranged and bitter. Both sides advanced on the
crossroads and rifle fire was almost point blank. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Terrified residents harangued both sides from
their upper windows as rifle bullets fizzed down alleyways.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of course, both sides respected the sanctity
of residential gardens and stayed out of the church grounds, but still…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAPaI47KlUM1LN_PHGCddMQO3gabNp73uZOElYZJKF137mLERli7yak1xwTZ5nUcmXDEuMd1xNizsLLWpJ9k12MXWlynLFUWdtjaxxKLwvDNeLsHvBwJJi_NfUn2fDNfsN1LHSwcA2t1ZKGiXN_PBp8w9ka_buqeQVvXBl_HJJXiEMyMvuoj_lWCrUg/s640/turn2%205.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAPaI47KlUM1LN_PHGCddMQO3gabNp73uZOElYZJKF137mLERli7yak1xwTZ5nUcmXDEuMd1xNizsLLWpJ9k12MXWlynLFUWdtjaxxKLwvDNeLsHvBwJJi_NfUn2fDNfsN1LHSwcA2t1ZKGiXN_PBp8w9ka_buqeQVvXBl_HJJXiEMyMvuoj_lWCrUg/w640-h480/turn2%205.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVAQK62shKwCILvnOXfZYWGNvP2Jv91JCsj4S9_n-4MgUwMeXQrS_sW4LQ8wTX6CvnLTu2qKVs7-BQGAa13_vDsl565ItdQBfnQdvygd5bwI2lqW4Qp4GlrLewLosXVZnjnf0hRxtFD2n9v5kOAdBWNEhre61x8WK7Oa4RbbiioepuHxTnf-N9SIMUQ/s640/turn2%206.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVAQK62shKwCILvnOXfZYWGNvP2Jv91JCsj4S9_n-4MgUwMeXQrS_sW4LQ8wTX6CvnLTu2qKVs7-BQGAa13_vDsl565ItdQBfnQdvygd5bwI2lqW4Qp4GlrLewLosXVZnjnf0hRxtFD2n9v5kOAdBWNEhre61x8WK7Oa4RbbiioepuHxTnf-N9SIMUQ/w480-h640/turn2%206.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lord Percy's armour advances.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p class="MsoNormal">The left flank continued to batter away at each other, and
the GGL brought up their lancer cavalry to try and reverse the position and
drive out the Catterick boys. A brutal
tank duel emerged as the Catterick forces pushed onto the A1.</p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Turn 3</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not content with their earlier trap, Lambton’s Hounds had sent
two mercenary fanatic teams out, and the second one now arrived.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">These fellows had worked their way into the
Communist’s rear area and driven off their supports.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They now arrived on the battlefield directly
into Chopwell’s rear position. Meanwhile Lambton’s Houses came across the A1 in
force. The Chopwell position was hopeless, and the few survivors began a
fighting retreat as best they could. Even the help of some Sands LDV troops
coming across to try and take out the Lambton ambush couldn’t save the flank.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqxI1DP7kVhLVwN9QDb14TfP-76Y0b5LT8t4NVDllgnCFu4qSLFjqdOT9siEvcVWVMj3oUwAwZzRyzdVDhUYAw2-5PJLY_w7uYE07YylY19nRUT2N9vDE5kY8OHVyOXvGoQpt_NdWQUMXKfmE9NMH0snuMJ8CEnM6UN0QcuRrcEbjgpqT-frFW1MQfw/s514/turn3%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="479" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqxI1DP7kVhLVwN9QDb14TfP-76Y0b5LT8t4NVDllgnCFu4qSLFjqdOT9siEvcVWVMj3oUwAwZzRyzdVDhUYAw2-5PJLY_w7uYE07YylY19nRUT2N9vDE5kY8OHVyOXvGoQpt_NdWQUMXKfmE9NMH0snuMJ8CEnM6UN0QcuRrcEbjgpqT-frFW1MQfw/w596-h640/turn3%202.jpeg" width="596" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRW2JxQzraTTAN6n4DcsrzmwoPnL0uyqB56XibXLK_HFUZPBl9KT279zXbjBgRNq872fWwYLKA4OgMPuk9HWR_bO0VZ6qighgqWdsyWnmbefszG8wPUxbfGvhyDO-xx-M_WSZ4GJbzpbELlzT7MebAHNBErLteIK0NQEbxdBl2Ry_6W5Z5jW2GA3Fzuw/s640/turn3%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRW2JxQzraTTAN6n4DcsrzmwoPnL0uyqB56XibXLK_HFUZPBl9KT279zXbjBgRNq872fWwYLKA4OgMPuk9HWR_bO0VZ6qighgqWdsyWnmbefszG8wPUxbfGvhyDO-xx-M_WSZ4GJbzpbELlzT7MebAHNBErLteIK0NQEbxdBl2Ry_6W5Z5jW2GA3Fzuw/w480-h640/turn3%203.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The unstoppable Lambton advance!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvGGsX7oi-Z25QHEwQFC-MfnN2dMKxcwvVJ9ViR3_Gjyma53ue5jdtywPJlpSmMO-Fj2pN6QOiUIH_ZbdqPmN3_tR_3vqXvgQZIherYD70e6hxot5hVKetGzzrvGs66Q1EwrHbJW8s1kSvIE3FJ24S9-2oyKCPUxydJaImyumo5EQ2rcSDZFUzfOUGg/s494/turn3%204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvGGsX7oi-Z25QHEwQFC-MfnN2dMKxcwvVJ9ViR3_Gjyma53ue5jdtywPJlpSmMO-Fj2pN6QOiUIH_ZbdqPmN3_tR_3vqXvgQZIherYD70e6hxot5hVKetGzzrvGs66Q1EwrHbJW8s1kSvIE3FJ24S9-2oyKCPUxydJaImyumo5EQ2rcSDZFUzfOUGg/w622-h640/turn3%204.jpeg" width="622" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p class="MsoNormal">In the centre, the Sands LDV pushed up their transport truck,
Austin Kegresse armoured car, and infantry to take the crossroads. Lord Percy’s
troops matched this move putting their rag-tag armour up there too. Fierce fire
created a carpark of wrecked vehicles! The crossroads remained contested.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPoJVGxTpUxPNfGx2V2QCU3jr-Z_qf1hMLVtKeOne6IYAy9a9CWgVg15z5wT2I0HJ5ptAKxWnSFc1Zi_94N6LdJ4oG4ttoK-S0isbq7sCx0HlhcYd1eYok6_GjpMqVRjYZxzsOKyxx2G6vQg2qYTxQOMrw2iQQYr9BXTqfglDNbZOSNNq8Cn-sycPBnA/s640/turn3%205.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPoJVGxTpUxPNfGx2V2QCU3jr-Z_qf1hMLVtKeOne6IYAy9a9CWgVg15z5wT2I0HJ5ptAKxWnSFc1Zi_94N6LdJ4oG4ttoK-S0isbq7sCx0HlhcYd1eYok6_GjpMqVRjYZxzsOKyxx2G6vQg2qYTxQOMrw2iQQYr9BXTqfglDNbZOSNNq8Cn-sycPBnA/w640-h480/turn3%205.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx6noUqhPNKAmRRgra6OWXIN_46lcH7jQ443fzKXv8NHZf7eDS6auIX6pb07OuQ_BKvxE5jHPvLwBASHD0C_wUsfGIlfH2ayJOzHT1jFuBwzpJVFYkq63K60LCJn6AMrwO6KNp6ebH1JcLrBRQRgBIlym4MoEydLQK7JrsrtHM3foENJ83w7eCglfGA/s640/turn3%206.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx6noUqhPNKAmRRgra6OWXIN_46lcH7jQ443fzKXv8NHZf7eDS6auIX6pb07OuQ_BKvxE5jHPvLwBASHD0C_wUsfGIlfH2ayJOzHT1jFuBwzpJVFYkq63K60LCJn6AMrwO6KNp6ebH1JcLrBRQRgBIlym4MoEydLQK7JrsrtHM3foENJ83w7eCglfGA/w480-h640/turn3%206.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pile up at the crossroads...</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">Over on the left flank, the Catterick boys captured the
crossroads, ably supported by the fearsome Matilda II. The Gateshead German
League attack was blunted, its cavalry gone, and its Panzers wrecked or running
low on fuel.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PgsI9yZaeGuQV7muxy3SygdoojPnpX0QEOS3vohwEapfhlGl8zOzAsVJLOXB7wRM_jWyAbkInU4jCM2jaUCI7u8O_niR4pbf_J5NTxyN4NZmWNQt6Htsp1a5qjsZtVEZCNW5UrSRfqfRDggzXs_H-AWt9XjGWUVRFTo5HkKMVLx8lSvkUfPGRp4LJQ/s640/turn4%204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PgsI9yZaeGuQV7muxy3SygdoojPnpX0QEOS3vohwEapfhlGl8zOzAsVJLOXB7wRM_jWyAbkInU4jCM2jaUCI7u8O_niR4pbf_J5NTxyN4NZmWNQt6Htsp1a5qjsZtVEZCNW5UrSRfqfRDggzXs_H-AWt9XjGWUVRFTo5HkKMVLx8lSvkUfPGRp4LJQ/w640-h480/turn4%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Turn 4</b></p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With the two flanks decided, attention turned to the bitter
fighting in the centre.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Both sides had
lost much of their strength, and neither could dislodge the other.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">As ammunition supplies dwindled, scare fuel reserves ran
dry, and the local pubs rand the lunchtime bells, the fighting died down and
both sides withdrew for a hard-fought draw.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpffz-L4kH1bSMp7Hxfh-j46qxkenT_MGCd9042UMVfu3a0yYSkeSEAyzxOfr80_M08sf-CeGgwXI9hIIN7NS0x6qhm9DpyQ7zdvwAxzzDmftPkdm0MaKT6Y93Fi64CX7hllfqYf24C2DkVn6-0_kWNstcGNEeP6mnaz6YjoEXBB8BCm3hAglilK6dA/s640/turn4%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="640" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpffz-L4kH1bSMp7Hxfh-j46qxkenT_MGCd9042UMVfu3a0yYSkeSEAyzxOfr80_M08sf-CeGgwXI9hIIN7NS0x6qhm9DpyQ7zdvwAxzzDmftPkdm0MaKT6Y93Fi64CX7hllfqYf24C2DkVn6-0_kWNstcGNEeP6mnaz6YjoEXBB8BCm3hAglilK6dA/w640-h324/turn4%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKPOsYZdOJF0MIV-NY6VYBrMkkN-0nSqs7ULXyvWh7KD6KSR7tQgl5tP1RnOmxvOiebfdP4xoHuO8VawHhfeua4arJPxuPpIxSkhpYcIVCrTCcDiwGD2aTTNka6JXEHxKYTMoi675AksMukHQNC9_EZC6t24Fudu7Nq-qCopxlc2E_JKwffaR1EN97g/s640/turn4%203.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKPOsYZdOJF0MIV-NY6VYBrMkkN-0nSqs7ULXyvWh7KD6KSR7tQgl5tP1RnOmxvOiebfdP4xoHuO8VawHhfeua4arJPxuPpIxSkhpYcIVCrTCcDiwGD2aTTNka6JXEHxKYTMoi675AksMukHQNC9_EZC6t24Fudu7Nq-qCopxlc2E_JKwffaR1EN97g/w640-h480/turn4%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desperate and horrific close quarters fighting.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">After Action</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It was an excellent game, and the One Page Rules lists and
rules we’d worked up did the job it needed to. There were a few little idiosyncrasies
as there are with all rulesets of course. The game was a lot of fun with some excellent
swings of fate across the whole table. The drawn result felt like the right
outcome too. We’ll be revisiting this conflict in the north again. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Pictures courtesy of Lord Percy's photography unit (thanks John!)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-86907532701725768602023-05-18T17:30:00.003+01:002023-06-21T13:31:29.717+01:00Necron Destroyer Arc<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Following on from my <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/11/necrons.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Necron army</a>, I've acquired and painted up a Necron Destroyer Arc. This was a second hand purchase which was on the sprue. I didn't have an instruction booklet which made constructing this beast a bit of a challenge! I got through it with only one mistake though, so that was good. Obviously it too far longer to build than normal though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I went for a standard silver paint scheme, with my added bronze and gold highlights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here's the finished article. I'll look forwards to seeing how it performs on the table using One Page Rules.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTr3OOChYv0epmUcVPxqvzhgmWzyDun20iA0WONhSieX7NMjK13JYdgYOLCTyS5bJDqMV5WXM1gq_h7FMK9VA7GrgjFCi2A-PuTq5DOzib6itocIlD9cAotyUtvRTcEjFo9DWhWuynaFWKDp6i-H0yFTt0e2gqQoQZ8hyWKRDrdgLkMHY5BLHYjjlFDQ/s4000/IMG_6310.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTr3OOChYv0epmUcVPxqvzhgmWzyDun20iA0WONhSieX7NMjK13JYdgYOLCTyS5bJDqMV5WXM1gq_h7FMK9VA7GrgjFCi2A-PuTq5DOzib6itocIlD9cAotyUtvRTcEjFo9DWhWuynaFWKDp6i-H0yFTt0e2gqQoQZ8hyWKRDrdgLkMHY5BLHYjjlFDQ/w640-h426/IMG_6310.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSVL3ndtFsAK1FVMlQaNfjZXuQQyNsLkjDc847JgH__vkLcFt9osjgEaBtOwV9P_i270DwHF4U-LhC8s3uEbf_-YAUgrGVgmjZPIIfmBGIeXQ0XoXFKfpHRBJ5Rrjbx_1o16nfC0_SDTyK-4JwGpk9aZ-gRSDYJe6dpGaRXTBPX1ToVwa2pMm-JawGw/s4000/IMG_6311.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_Y0xEqIkfjRS-RG0lTR0qRtY0VjY3uog86oIfQ9i4GDln66oyU8Q6iZoPwBL_fR7BbPem8Zu2ujpp3630FEf8yg5JW9F2hWnxbZu1GZO7ZcF_U-O61P57XS6qAD1r2rCxYVHtGjXQ7AzyUZ5D1UWUwh-Ll0lPO_tZTckx2mZUheuk6guBaiAERJpaA/s4000/IMG_6315.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_Y0xEqIkfjRS-RG0lTR0qRtY0VjY3uog86oIfQ9i4GDln66oyU8Q6iZoPwBL_fR7BbPem8Zu2ujpp3630FEf8yg5JW9F2hWnxbZu1GZO7ZcF_U-O61P57XS6qAD1r2rCxYVHtGjXQ7AzyUZ5D1UWUwh-Ll0lPO_tZTckx2mZUheuk6guBaiAERJpaA/w640-h426/IMG_6315.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I still struggle with the glowing effect, but I think this one worked out OK.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4-7wnPZr8EhA5vIBr_B7QYprlBftTe9aJC5b3vikoqlBc96CHtD-hWYSZv8HAn8qP3R70Ss9HQq89CC8esTRqd1XrKUHecxF5NH3hwIJoLFQur2MQI7LtxAxFmnSM6o6YNG4XnLGHiVeZRQqn384ZWK3bkU_sjAc4e609T-iBkKhvAy1J91Vgi2kCkg/s4000/IMG_6316.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">Alongside the recent painting up of a couple of <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/imperial-knight-armigers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight Armigers</a>, I recently acquired a pre-painted <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/knight-errant-2022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight Errant</a>. I note that it was missing a fair few bits, mostly the adornments and accoutrements to the model, but I'm not too fussed. I could have bought the missing bits from a 3rd party "bits" company, but the model is complete enough for me to get it to the table quickly so its fine. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As it happens the paint scheme on this model was very close to what I'd chosen for my Armigers (green and gold), so there wasn't much painting I needed to do to get it up to scratch for the table. I think this paint scheme is an "official" Games Workshop one, for House Cadmus? I find this is one of the advantages of always trying to stick closely to Games Workshop's box art. It makes finding prepainted second options easier! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The gold trim needed redoing, and I added the ivory accent panels to give the model some visual variety. I also completed the fine details like the eyes, Mechanicum symbols etc. and scumbled on some lighter green to make the panels seem less flat. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'm not too keen on the red casings for the main weapons, but decided against repainting them mostly on the basis of "they're fine as they are", and so why create work? <a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/House_Cadmus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">House Cadmus'</a> heraldry includes red so I figured that'd do, although generally Games Workshop presents the Cadmus livery as green, black, and yellow. I gave them a few washes of caroberg crimson wash to give them some visual relief. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I also added some transfers for the iconography (I use <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/MicroScale-Industries-Decals-Setting-Solution/dp/B06XS3KWHK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">micro sol and micro set</a> for transfers), sorted out the base and called it a day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Overall, a good result I think, and together with the Armigers I now have the core of a mech-lance detatchment for any loyalist army.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They're also the solid core of a Titan Lord force for One Page Rules.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEG0DNnv-N7wDhMptCScr2Bl3Ns9eexnskq7Z-ciiTb-UFXplIL6PhB8AIbqrsV-F8teHuCnh2ksl4OX_Ibt0JxYiQX_7t28qzkgtK54Vi5QftAkbH3-gxthq4nYQRbzEaGHdeG5C-AB0BP2sk61IRwGFiYMC5GxKrOJZ_jRpX9omyOOrM8IMnZImLMQ/s4000/IMG_6293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDu70v5kaWs_HIRlVMyyUD_pzGLYPNGJzPQ7Vy45-cpYNOB0dn1Xoi5bkBopcnSnx61ucaxbVL7Z-Bz2NZzT4fgXhmEWOuCi0msiED1cdsu2jU9Em3Zi7lIlHsD6xv9gbJi7S_y6iyBn1rZ5nAg7fjt-BrYV8aw5tR4dnFN0TPfS625K8-VEw71ZPKRQ/w426-h640/IMG_6302.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I painted the cabling grey to give a bit of difference<br />without distracting from the overall tone of the model.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yqa60WEWzIpMnoixLDXgW4H3tvzS3785zQG_1b7c9kzfQQVVBEXaT9TfHbBI5J51BGc9wraWVZ2iw_h7Tlyik6asPW_5xKuXpSNLh2bvg3_ENPyg6i465beNnK02IxQ-51vKMb29ZtB3GKqGHlHnwrnMRTGXIPyTu7k6iXVmMX7TXcIdOlJWSa7oTg/s4000/IMG_6303.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yqa60WEWzIpMnoixLDXgW4H3tvzS3785zQG_1b7c9kzfQQVVBEXaT9TfHbBI5J51BGc9wraWVZ2iw_h7Tlyik6asPW_5xKuXpSNLh2bvg3_ENPyg6i465beNnK02IxQ-51vKMb29ZtB3GKqGHlHnwrnMRTGXIPyTu7k6iXVmMX7TXcIdOlJWSa7oTg/w640-h426/IMG_6303.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Tq3hQSoiyPtJiWb1SibqV_CI1UQI3wIEMbhWdQU_Fve1m95qJ28bqBes6r3aIIun4PlEQksL4H3HTfl9VdFeozmBVB_rwUhFnJ6exSgIzlVhXERMuNPjrtXuN3n0C-CTkUvcaQ7J5UzKOa4lLX-8noZHXpHSe9gtmN729c4yIuXqSWVBIaPzNEWNZw/s4000/IMG_6305.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Tq3hQSoiyPtJiWb1SibqV_CI1UQI3wIEMbhWdQU_Fve1m95qJ28bqBes6r3aIIun4PlEQksL4H3HTfl9VdFeozmBVB_rwUhFnJ6exSgIzlVhXERMuNPjrtXuN3n0C-CTkUvcaQ7J5UzKOa4lLX-8noZHXpHSe9gtmN729c4yIuXqSWVBIaPzNEWNZw/w426-h640/IMG_6305.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still not convinced by the red weapon casings.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-33978498090110233832023-05-02T16:03:00.003+01:002023-06-21T13:31:54.731+01:00Space Marine, Crimson Fists: Army Showcase - Addendum 2<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The grand "get everything painted" project continues at pace, and I'm almost done with all my <a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Firstborn#:~:text=A%20Firstborn%20Space%20Marine%20of,in%20the%20late%2030th%20Millennium." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">proper</a> space marine models for my <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/space-marine-crimson-fists-army.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crimson Fists</a>. I had a couple of old <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Drop-Pod-2020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">drop pods</a> in their boxes so I broke these out, slapped them together and threw some paint at them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The drop pod models actually have moving parts, with the "doors" being able to swing open to reveal the interior. I however, made the decision to simply glue them shut, saving me the time and effort of assembling and painting the interior components. I generally don't favour moving parts on wargames miniatures, as anything that moves is more easy to break. Also these drop pods are quite big in their closed configuration and even bigger when opened up, so I went for "permanently closed".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, they were super quick and easy to build and paint, taking about an hour (not counting drying time) from sprue to finish.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKUULR5GdmPklcHcn1YUL1rjUT3FgFx7DQICed2iFfn_inlrk5xoqAKzaOFb1ymkU078oxUFCf8M08ds8E1T23tHcy1tk1lqbUJj6cSn4k2JpHZ3foJQ_IehMM17tvpeGXp22HY-FAlB3KK4ErYWvVnbylFa9h87jgj0keNWcBIKf0EMwpmqD_KSsIA/s4000/IMG_6261.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKUULR5GdmPklcHcn1YUL1rjUT3FgFx7DQICed2iFfn_inlrk5xoqAKzaOFb1ymkU078oxUFCf8M08ds8E1T23tHcy1tk1lqbUJj6cSn4k2JpHZ3foJQ_IehMM17tvpeGXp22HY-FAlB3KK4ErYWvVnbylFa9h87jgj0keNWcBIKf0EMwpmqD_KSsIA/w640-h426/IMG_6261.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOTa7GaD5UGs-f4TDsVOrDexEMJCZjylvICoqvlz5Vrq55o8y154BFLTBmGEKQrtn4qYEKC9WAgRi0nKqr1Ri-m-z1BoXz0tauUMoqjJ8KAZVOCv_PVZXw9oQdiGQ5GuJCYFhEskzv4A9qCSUGCR18s-0zGZiUU5TkWqf3rxgs0ylY2jR44xMiAxugQ/s4000/IMG_6262.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOTa7GaD5UGs-f4TDsVOrDexEMJCZjylvICoqvlz5Vrq55o8y154BFLTBmGEKQrtn4qYEKC9WAgRi0nKqr1Ri-m-z1BoXz0tauUMoqjJ8KAZVOCv_PVZXw9oQdiGQ5GuJCYFhEskzv4A9qCSUGCR18s-0zGZiUU5TkWqf3rxgs0ylY2jR44xMiAxugQ/w640-h426/IMG_6262.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOFGJABrx9PUAMbKf0WZYlIW4QqMEQZPqb5DdlDBte29ZkfyoNcRPxbAa_v-G2fVvmwhaYCR8H4TlyD81gcO6DNr_eBorwVvwCRHLoJaTxUMPyASkA4dtJ22XBWvsJHMcbk0OdMcmfHgi-x_VuZcsZLVLnEHbs4fJ8G9iyGmzUvWEL-Sf5LLTnDAAuQ/s4000/IMG_6263.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOFGJABrx9PUAMbKf0WZYlIW4QqMEQZPqb5DdlDBte29ZkfyoNcRPxbAa_v-G2fVvmwhaYCR8H4TlyD81gcO6DNr_eBorwVvwCRHLoJaTxUMPyASkA4dtJ22XBWvsJHMcbk0OdMcmfHgi-x_VuZcsZLVLnEHbs4fJ8G9iyGmzUvWEL-Sf5LLTnDAAuQ/w426-h640/IMG_6263.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7ANbDSW52rzTErP1tdm04gUXVhcmZHDHo1lFD5s-ZvmX8tCwXYZpoeOoP3K_v9m6fW1us1RQ3fC0XEAOTBGI-4YPT7f9CisKBs74xI26Dl_w4dx6ilq7lBnKPphU0sahxHyHnJ-DpFd7s2fgEpNb_zF0l5_Y69lObopcV1k4QIcZHEfl1dIWUwASbg/s4000/IMG_6264.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7ANbDSW52rzTErP1tdm04gUXVhcmZHDHo1lFD5s-ZvmX8tCwXYZpoeOoP3K_v9m6fW1us1RQ3fC0XEAOTBGI-4YPT7f9CisKBs74xI26Dl_w4dx6ilq7lBnKPphU0sahxHyHnJ-DpFd7s2fgEpNb_zF0l5_Y69lObopcV1k4QIcZHEfl1dIWUwASbg/w426-h640/IMG_6264.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That paint scheme was very simple. A black undercoat, Macragge Blue spray top coat, sprayed with zenithal effect to retain the black in recesses and undersides, and then a simple detail highlight on the black "wings", metal parts and badge details. A black pin wash in the recesesses, and a heavy balck overbrush from below (to suggest burning from entering an atmosphere) and the pods are done.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I think its just the <a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Primaris_Space_Marines" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Primaris marines</a> I have left to finish now, and I can call my Crimson Fist marines done (for now I guess...). I'm left the primaris until last as they are just so bland and uninspiring. Ho hum. They'll get a basic paintjob to get through them quickly I think. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-55618323493190681782023-05-02T15:45:00.117+01:002023-06-21T13:32:06.006+01:00Death Guard Army Showcase Addendum 3<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Almost there with finishing everything I have for the <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/death-guard-army-showcase-addendum-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Death Guard</a>!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next up is a <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Great-Unclean-One-2018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Great Unclean One</a>. These manifestations of the plague god Nurgle are marvellous little models. It was surprisingly easy to build, consisting of only a few pieces. That being said is could have been done as fewer pieces even so. I often find with Games Workshop kits that I think, "well those 4 bits could all have been one bit". I'm sure they break their kits into pieces for no reason other than to sell plastic glue.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Great Unclean One kit actually comes with a variety of heads and hand/weapon options and I think that many people magnetise these parts to give the kit some customisability. I considered this, watched a few YouTube videos on how to magnetise models, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrsWH8KREMg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">and the Great Unclean One in particular</a>, and...decided not to. It looked like a lot of effort, and although I have magnets to do this, I thought it'd be a bit too much bother. I'm happy that as long as I explain to an opponent what this model represents I'll be fine. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, after assembly there were a few gaps where the kit didn't sit right, and noticable joints. So I broke out the Green Stuff modelling putty to fill those in.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7UINRyRF0y6YTIkwXs3iHCOXy-UZUwGbIW9wFJ_NWhdT-dWBmqAad_gHdFQr0t2siUTWAmq59Xpra-WU93KYI6uyIiUVWoeRnAUwC6ftNSpVIzBJnjtCJx1PnN37F_toyglz6gExLwHE7vgDGYdu8z4Tek34e22QceTae1PdaGG7ZjHxRP3srhoYbQ/s4000/IMG_6265.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7UINRyRF0y6YTIkwXs3iHCOXy-UZUwGbIW9wFJ_NWhdT-dWBmqAad_gHdFQr0t2siUTWAmq59Xpra-WU93KYI6uyIiUVWoeRnAUwC6ftNSpVIzBJnjtCJx1PnN37F_toyglz6gExLwHE7vgDGYdu8z4Tek34e22QceTae1PdaGG7ZjHxRP3srhoYbQ/w426-h640/IMG_6265.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGlbSG44REBSUV7fDG9TNq_n-Kl02OTjAzT6dSKTtMlI7yLjX34ONfRVrFUuCoKDMvOPsdcNK2iDi7CCo24IOzA_TL7DKHK275uoCmBYsG2UKftaXxMv2Fb0Myv8zAQ25_jXjdTpGeWOoolzzDT8_PV-dMn5k5dGBdwHTzWjfYWz29X86LvSVqGoXpQ/s4000/IMG_6266.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGlbSG44REBSUV7fDG9TNq_n-Kl02OTjAzT6dSKTtMlI7yLjX34ONfRVrFUuCoKDMvOPsdcNK2iDi7CCo24IOzA_TL7DKHK275uoCmBYsG2UKftaXxMv2Fb0Myv8zAQ25_jXjdTpGeWOoolzzDT8_PV-dMn5k5dGBdwHTzWjfYWz29X86LvSVqGoXpQ/w640-h426/IMG_6266.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhVCZoX2kdTCY2WigY8HNvWs3IFcXggzM2AMX2jK3PDgFMaAPvgwpEpfhtik0qYloVFIi3FWO9eYFZOHy99EZX8hn1QYuQSapRbVY1xg1pFfDp3kaeD1Tghf1umB6lIiVI7Txq7l7xlw5PKt9ISEo6S5K1IzIyvYMnLDKjZuLMprmSi8RCMx8dgzWVw/s4000/IMG_6267.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhVCZoX2kdTCY2WigY8HNvWs3IFcXggzM2AMX2jK3PDgFMaAPvgwpEpfhtik0qYloVFIi3FWO9eYFZOHy99EZX8hn1QYuQSapRbVY1xg1pFfDp3kaeD1Tghf1umB6lIiVI7Txq7l7xlw5PKt9ISEo6S5K1IzIyvYMnLDKjZuLMprmSi8RCMx8dgzWVw/w426-h640/IMG_6267.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next up, painting the beastie!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Continued...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So the painting is done, and I'm rather pleased with the result. For painting a model like this there are two basic stages after the undercoat - base coat and washes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In this case, I used a light ivory undercoat as I was intending to wash the model down from light to dark. The colour palette for the Great Unclean One will match the Nurgle deamons and Nurglings I've already painted. "Out of the box", or rather in line with the "official" Games Workshop box art or colours, these daemons should be painted green. While I usually like to paint fantasy models in line with their offical colours, a hangover of long years of painting historical models to acurate uniform colours I guess, in this case I've decided to paint my daemons in fleshy colours.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Base Coats</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I put down the flat base coat colours. In this case a thinned wash of Tau Ochre paints served for the primary skin colour. The exposed fat I rendered in Dunklegelb (German tank yellow), which I felt was a good approximation of the colour of live human fat. The iron parts were treated with my "sort of rust looking" effect, and the exposed muscle and organs were base coated in a thinned dark red. the teeth and horns were given an ivory coat using GWs Ushabti Bone paint. Finally I used a dark bronze for the bell and other bits and bobs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oh, and to make painting a bit easier, I left the chain net thing off during the process.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRCyhvVHQ775AQQqQtoQKCJ04FQkJ6dNmVbnDZ08_ORrc5YcYDeLv3aGEp53hF7KoVInPBNKV7T-ZbzuVx0kw7opM3XSCS4wAcQ7nzXx5X59y9REsLFdexGdNAk7CPfIm7sDN3dZIfhjslOsbET7ob1fVTL1oAWhDsHDw7_3IBFI_qkEnW3Q2XKSK8Q/s4000/IMG_6268.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRCyhvVHQ775AQQqQtoQKCJ04FQkJ6dNmVbnDZ08_ORrc5YcYDeLv3aGEp53hF7KoVInPBNKV7T-ZbzuVx0kw7opM3XSCS4wAcQ7nzXx5X59y9REsLFdexGdNAk7CPfIm7sDN3dZIfhjslOsbET7ob1fVTL1oAWhDsHDw7_3IBFI_qkEnW3Q2XKSK8Q/w640-h426/IMG_6268.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpkGhpNlUT9nX0C_WtfRL7I4Qub7ni5zCEwySu8roh3sb4Yr6xKR-fwovKh8Xy7X_drzK_j2zo5pwXWxLjitsiD8P4e3YFU5ompwTOK0q8XztsdF9gYiLWv0jB0KwDDMCurwSO9YXJy9fllTzmobycCuyoSXibWQkTGM5iqAT9iDAeyxLemFRkTcIRw/s4000/IMG_6269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpkGhpNlUT9nX0C_WtfRL7I4Qub7ni5zCEwySu8roh3sb4Yr6xKR-fwovKh8Xy7X_drzK_j2zo5pwXWxLjitsiD8P4e3YFU5ompwTOK0q8XztsdF9gYiLWv0jB0KwDDMCurwSO9YXJy9fllTzmobycCuyoSXibWQkTGM5iqAT9iDAeyxLemFRkTcIRw/w640-h426/IMG_6269.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijngQklBossW15WDcgeVahWutmobHNc7nXg7Fqc2pErbYHzz2UjEmXro82eqrfrEutoiYGn6dl5iwf2VqwcRO-iFnzcouuhKcTnYitBdRwB81ljr4sKS0Pzpj3oj7lJmuFw_ra6-7vXPwApTl_T0A_hQmZ5wdJ46YDxE6tvs3FZERb9uLqkI9uXZXM-g/s4000/IMG_6270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijngQklBossW15WDcgeVahWutmobHNc7nXg7Fqc2pErbYHzz2UjEmXro82eqrfrEutoiYGn6dl5iwf2VqwcRO-iFnzcouuhKcTnYitBdRwB81ljr4sKS0Pzpj3oj7lJmuFw_ra6-7vXPwApTl_T0A_hQmZ5wdJ46YDxE6tvs3FZERb9uLqkI9uXZXM-g/w640-h426/IMG_6270.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlbGfWpMdFUdxo3csjUrcbtQn8BY4JbpfHiRhyqnuUEKosudEaH2_WEtsTigcaXF136EkyLEdxBjh09L6JUvM_MAD1F960ixZpCyVU-jJ2F2_IWtwKPblwqUVCeCxKuWeVE3tYQKjxoXoN1W7boeZn6ELezs47FhQw1kE-YU_JCDB5jVeYv2lZ_LTmw/s4000/IMG_6272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlbGfWpMdFUdxo3csjUrcbtQn8BY4JbpfHiRhyqnuUEKosudEaH2_WEtsTigcaXF136EkyLEdxBjh09L6JUvM_MAD1F960ixZpCyVU-jJ2F2_IWtwKPblwqUVCeCxKuWeVE3tYQKjxoXoN1W7boeZn6ELezs47FhQw1kE-YU_JCDB5jVeYv2lZ_LTmw/w640-h426/IMG_6272.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzM0WkJGjy0-BdxrSt4ShIrHFcQeAR2E6uDEqmyHqzJksoa04VH6pWAyeFJNUyRNY7dY0Fbenf-8UzXxX5xck3wFGUoHzY8JbMTNna2B6brivIXtdFW5Tmlq9qtJJn5u25jTSdn7zhOoX8Tbp0lsNW8l1XRmIAu4YYAHotb3haDPK6AnFZHVu_XhIS3Q/s4000/IMG_6274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzM0WkJGjy0-BdxrSt4ShIrHFcQeAR2E6uDEqmyHqzJksoa04VH6pWAyeFJNUyRNY7dY0Fbenf-8UzXxX5xck3wFGUoHzY8JbMTNna2B6brivIXtdFW5Tmlq9qtJJn5u25jTSdn7zhOoX8Tbp0lsNW8l1XRmIAu4YYAHotb3haDPK6AnFZHVu_XhIS3Q/w640-h426/IMG_6274.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">From here on in, its just a matter of layering washes onto each other to try to create the look of rotting, diseased, and fly-blown flesh. The wash colours I use include mainly Games Workshop "shades":</span><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Carroburg Crimson (dark red)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Reikland Fleshshade (sort of red)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Druchii Violet (purple)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Athonian Camoshade (dark brownish green)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Agrax Earthshade (dark brown)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Seraphim Sepia (light brown)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nuln Oil (black)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I also used a couple of contrast paints:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Plaguebearer Flesh (olive green)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Guilliman Flesh (fleshtone)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Blood Angels Red (red)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Black Templar (black)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And a few others (glazes and technical paints):</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Blood for the Blood God (red blood effect)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nihilkh Oxide (a verdigris effect - must be used very sparingly)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lamenter's Yellow (yellow glaze)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I use these in layers and wet mixes in a fairly random manner, to try to create an interesting, mottled skin effect that approximates the rotted and festering effect I'm after. I'm happy with the result, although the washes do tend to create a bit of shine on the model.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">On that point, I never varnish my models and haven't done since the late 1980's when I had a small army og West End Games metal Star Wars stormtroopers ruined by a varnish that yellowed. I've almost never varnished models since (with no ill effect on the wargames table). Matt varnish would take the shine down here, but I just don't trust it. If anyone has a way of taking the shine off without matt varnish commint below - it'd be a great help to me!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here's the final result.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHh6C0eLDTZWiuyLr-egiwnGLh-QmihRdrq0Qc5dwMa_VgDyPMSE672ZBy7z2z4f50Rhu4syVM9fdKooR7_NA46ig4FxxhPejIRrvOu_jn8kywqbi8EqqY-MYM8_MaTRmYQ-QzaTEosHdqcoA3a_HrQvWjFOpU7-xpMiWenBKYifBaJBzxwewv9aNYPA/s4000/IMG_6275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHh6C0eLDTZWiuyLr-egiwnGLh-QmihRdrq0Qc5dwMa_VgDyPMSE672ZBy7z2z4f50Rhu4syVM9fdKooR7_NA46ig4FxxhPejIRrvOu_jn8kywqbi8EqqY-MYM8_MaTRmYQ-QzaTEosHdqcoA3a_HrQvWjFOpU7-xpMiWenBKYifBaJBzxwewv9aNYPA/w426-h640/IMG_6275.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-38416319875956559502023-04-23T21:58:00.005+01:002023-06-21T13:32:25.284+01:00Death Guard Army Showcase Addendum 2<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My project to get the Warhammer 40,000 armies finished, so that I have no bare plastic left for those forces continues at pace with <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/death-guard-army-showcase-addendum.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Death Guard</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Today on the table are three Forge World <a href="https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Nurgle-Blight-Drone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greater Blight Drones</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now then...these resin figures were an absolute pain to clean and build. There was a mountain of flash to clean off the and sizable casting gates that needed some serious effort to remove. The construction, while relatively straightforward was made very frustrating and difficult by a combination of small contact points for the various parts, and a seeming resistance to superglue actually bonding the bits together. Resin is a pig to work with.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Afer struggling with the first one, I decided to pin the various parts for the second and third, but even then I'm sure these flimsy little blighters are destined for significant repair jobs in future when the bits fall off.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They also came with Games Workshop's clear plastic flying stands which were entirely inadequate for the job, so I replaced them with copper rods for a more sturdy fit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, with the three models built I gave them a spray undercoat/basecoat. I always try to get the basecoat down in the main colour for the model, in this case green. I also oversprayed the fleshy bits at the back with a lighter ivory spray to make the painting process easier. I actually wanted to do the main colour in brown, but I'd run out of brown spray rattlecans so green it was.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oCS1n8kxFmzmaF8V34qJgPKakGwkdU4r6hmCasygJpN8w9ovZGclGT6nY1fMA12FcGHbs3c8OBf5IgpOHQl8_zdALhRV3O6fID7djxLN-vvnlhkWqV8FSkbaRpu7l87TIzzGwSKr4GOzIliYEhc1KJDfIoEsWnymc0EOJ7blJvcdZMTU4WDBo-naYg/s4000/IMG_6234.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oCS1n8kxFmzmaF8V34qJgPKakGwkdU4r6hmCasygJpN8w9ovZGclGT6nY1fMA12FcGHbs3c8OBf5IgpOHQl8_zdALhRV3O6fID7djxLN-vvnlhkWqV8FSkbaRpu7l87TIzzGwSKr4GOzIliYEhc1KJDfIoEsWnymc0EOJ7blJvcdZMTU4WDBo-naYg/w640-h426/IMG_6234.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvV5FIQp8Hs-N5_hdw-sdnD5jBReW1DhDE_gWilrKkgIDp5wmqUr5m59H2Pd6Msn0qTkhSm_n8iWSrcW5ZaWXvZINSc9oPcZAq0kbTkTHM6PfiiRNksh5WDLff794U2VolrhvJntSXxW2a6js2zUJNDazh7RhLv5OSm3EWAmo1DsjhT6Oz-oBs7QG2g/s4000/IMG_6235.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvV5FIQp8Hs-N5_hdw-sdnD5jBReW1DhDE_gWilrKkgIDp5wmqUr5m59H2Pd6Msn0qTkhSm_n8iWSrcW5ZaWXvZINSc9oPcZAq0kbTkTHM6PfiiRNksh5WDLff794U2VolrhvJntSXxW2a6js2zUJNDazh7RhLv5OSm3EWAmo1DsjhT6Oz-oBs7QG2g/w640-h426/IMG_6235.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p>The first paint layers were nice and simple. I put a thinned wash of ocher over the flesh parts to lay down a basic skin. Over the green, I painted and stippled a mid tone brown where I wanted the bare and rusted metal. With these base coats down, the project is actually almost finished!</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So far, 2.5 hours of building the damn things, and 20 minutes of painting (not including drying time).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqHjICx_vbWfLyE_MubvMoCeslnsakiVcnb_3wgC5MmMuwcNfuJ6bImZhI8LANrMro3jmaJBd_j-qYSlWHW-g2krmB0Fr5Pei4VC9D_hngqrC6yu9aVT-kbIUd9TaICppoRHBv8jb10GSIQgLTWL8eubwD4bOjIIsf43PPXpZu9WhY-CxeWcCll18nA/s4000/IMG_6236.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqHjICx_vbWfLyE_MubvMoCeslnsakiVcnb_3wgC5MmMuwcNfuJ6bImZhI8LANrMro3jmaJBd_j-qYSlWHW-g2krmB0Fr5Pei4VC9D_hngqrC6yu9aVT-kbIUd9TaICppoRHBv8jb10GSIQgLTWL8eubwD4bOjIIsf43PPXpZu9WhY-CxeWcCll18nA/w640-h426/IMG_6236.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipU18isg_pmesxIj1sXziMcE7-sTJ-ldsr-PwfYMJPfxrLBuA_i6CFKRde_hD6xQP5W6l6SHH_VgOI5ZVL7D9TgDam7IjtCqW2WcfcdabFsRd01GavZ01cUpkZcYjCAtxyiZLTsuDrX6YbqgqY26L8uW6LkmPdQItvkinSiCjsaiuoAeTeSy6ui2medQ/w640-h426/IMG_6241.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p>Next I painted in the neater metal parts and put a pink wash into the wounds.</p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAI0NEcahB8Yqg8MX4sOA6Wq7UEoxsMeaDKeteFDxwV8H8om0GbKZNrvr9_yxUKBfXM9JBi1gbdiJVm-FKCINoOBQIUJh6putstt4Em41-YMAwwk-86NxB3dRbbK-cZ6jlJT-M9F7c385MMn-PMiqqvx7mrwGFt7m7JDNHg__gl-udv5g0HBpUaCYgYA/s4000/IMG_6242.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAI0NEcahB8Yqg8MX4sOA6Wq7UEoxsMeaDKeteFDxwV8H8om0GbKZNrvr9_yxUKBfXM9JBi1gbdiJVm-FKCINoOBQIUJh6putstt4Em41-YMAwwk-86NxB3dRbbK-cZ6jlJT-M9F7c385MMn-PMiqqvx7mrwGFt7m7JDNHg__gl-udv5g0HBpUaCYgYA/w640-h426/IMG_6242.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p><span style="font-size: large;">The next stage is to develop the rust effect. I do have <a href="https://dirtydown.co.uk/product/water-soluble-paint-rust-25ml-pot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dirty Down Rust</a>, which is excellent, but I began this army using my old rust rechnique so that's how I'll finish it! Over the brown, I stipple a bright orange in random patches. </span></p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7OBq_3o9iljU1myKFeJN4SfQGRLTQOM-b55G5xqRo-IwRVn36gVzuubWRRfcvMlywgJy4Q12Kx9oglrBJu3th-8c6OW1TEeoedDl3ya9m-Tco2S8YZVsCbTQDC_aEWQ8rfVxnRXy0HstH2KRv_vi8cI9twxfAwJfk-R3egr3IiNL44wG0UY6EDsBCw/s4000/IMG_6243.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7OBq_3o9iljU1myKFeJN4SfQGRLTQOM-b55G5xqRo-IwRVn36gVzuubWRRfcvMlywgJy4Q12Kx9oglrBJu3th-8c6OW1TEeoedDl3ya9m-Tco2S8YZVsCbTQDC_aEWQ8rfVxnRXy0HstH2KRv_vi8cI9twxfAwJfk-R3egr3IiNL44wG0UY6EDsBCw/w640-h426/IMG_6243.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_KrWpt4MC0FTNj2A0kdBxjT5Ab9DyT1k_8XNgv4qZ8QH_0Woy2WNSVcIbgSQKp4Nj1jImnAz1y_y8EhR1Xv_AdayYDD9WnZCOz-aROA0FZrLYRKQwUOGURnWMLdp_f1lPt0KHU1l2M_7eVMEsbDcbiBEc5LqPRZZ-zEMu7NwR7ITO17lGAJ3DeU-xQ/s4000/IMG_6244.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_KrWpt4MC0FTNj2A0kdBxjT5Ab9DyT1k_8XNgv4qZ8QH_0Woy2WNSVcIbgSQKp4Nj1jImnAz1y_y8EhR1Xv_AdayYDD9WnZCOz-aROA0FZrLYRKQwUOGURnWMLdp_f1lPt0KHU1l2M_7eVMEsbDcbiBEc5LqPRZZ-zEMu7NwR7ITO17lGAJ3DeU-xQ/w640-h426/IMG_6244.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDBTJT9aEGF8x7hAfafbxdgt5Ux4VZUfm5c4RgDyhO3xsxp09W_QOB7z6UNKWgVijqWszZw3wFgCnJJBjqzuA43suk7RwnOJswCKUBdA5afY_8AHtoJNL_tobDzdQiYKcxnrp4ce5tk0045HNLNYr8ZwXtD3bmzfCGW_t1I5OzYVWuyVZqC575oXHFg/s4000/IMG_6245.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDBTJT9aEGF8x7hAfafbxdgt5Ux4VZUfm5c4RgDyhO3xsxp09W_QOB7z6UNKWgVijqWszZw3wFgCnJJBjqzuA43suk7RwnOJswCKUBdA5afY_8AHtoJNL_tobDzdQiYKcxnrp4ce5tk0045HNLNYr8ZwXtD3bmzfCGW_t1I5OzYVWuyVZqC575oXHFg/w640-h426/IMG_6245.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2sFzDTINApmWIu__VPxyn5xj1mg3KlR6BGKKcDjLTmn4Ms7ENrkvJmuwflUNpGa0nrXe24abTdNSRt0QMR6V2kGpmCsauJgieW9Z3ESnfmvJcoJwwmKmscbe-Ro37Bi0azkZnOdlLW-zA4zu1xyClmeXydOeL_WpCIjfRtW6CTGW5l6QV9W5cR57hhw/s4000/IMG_6246.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2sFzDTINApmWIu__VPxyn5xj1mg3KlR6BGKKcDjLTmn4Ms7ENrkvJmuwflUNpGa0nrXe24abTdNSRt0QMR6V2kGpmCsauJgieW9Z3ESnfmvJcoJwwmKmscbe-Ro37Bi0azkZnOdlLW-zA4zu1xyClmeXydOeL_WpCIjfRtW6CTGW5l6QV9W5cR57hhw/w640-h426/IMG_6246.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p>The the final stage is a simple drybrush of gunmetal over the orange/brown to bring it all together. Its not the best rust effect but I like it and it does the job of suggesting aged, rusted, and corroded metal.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Things are almost finished now. Not bad for about an hour of painting. the final stage (before basing) is to throw on some washes. These will mostly be going onto the fleshy areas, but the Agrax Earthshade will be to darken down some of the more corroded metal ares, and do some darkening of the recesses.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKetJpOOxSjcCv3SXz5LkJ85_hsW-eDSaVAl6sCL4SYmba4ns6W2rKgyUWKIyyayHhJxv2dWIfYDvb6gYE9BUnzAwnQfanBE4wUTWaurA7ZzIIhIO5M7lVKplZskRhVcT9AOy9ugmoMjGIMAM_8Yt3avjhqVCqjAEpkQuB89yo2YwyYX90R5DQGbxww/s4000/IMG_6247.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKetJpOOxSjcCv3SXz5LkJ85_hsW-eDSaVAl6sCL4SYmba4ns6W2rKgyUWKIyyayHhJxv2dWIfYDvb6gYE9BUnzAwnQfanBE4wUTWaurA7ZzIIhIO5M7lVKplZskRhVcT9AOy9ugmoMjGIMAM_8Yt3avjhqVCqjAEpkQuB89yo2YwyYX90R5DQGbxww/w640-h426/IMG_6247.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p>I apply the washes roughly, overlapping and blending them together to try to get a bruised and diseased look to it.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; 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But painting them was a joy. I like painting the Death Guard models, and there's just something I find fun about making something look rusty and plague blown!</p><p>Just the basing to finish off, which I'll do tomorrow to let the paint job thoroughly dry. </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-9419138753803133872023-04-21T18:32:00.000+01:002023-06-21T13:32:35.533+01:00Death Guard - Army Showcase Addendum<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My project to get the Warhammer 40,000 armies finished, so that I have no bare plastic left for those forces continues at pace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This time I dug out some outstanding Death Guard miniatures for my <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/02/chaos-space-marine-death-guard-army.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Plague Army</a>.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZNPY58jTl6hzzOARoujFt7_H85hhiOTF43eYfbrLY9DQ86ddLFWy0Wd2CFvyITfIDWYgfQEsAu7bd-_TffwE1CVA-Ie2dnMMUTaKpN0PLlkWoXmkYU6Vu1gZSW8btYLlbmzuXbUnv_UFAnhDz_qvBPtDYEWJlUTLBViphP14wqdn-FV1nJLZ7A230g/s4000/IMG_6221.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZNPY58jTl6hzzOARoujFt7_H85hhiOTF43eYfbrLY9DQ86ddLFWy0Wd2CFvyITfIDWYgfQEsAu7bd-_TffwE1CVA-Ie2dnMMUTaKpN0PLlkWoXmkYU6Vu1gZSW8btYLlbmzuXbUnv_UFAnhDz_qvBPtDYEWJlUTLBViphP14wqdn-FV1nJLZ7A230g/w640-h426/IMG_6221.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First up I had a box of scythe-wielding <i>Deathshroud Terminators</i>. These were the starts of the Terminator show in 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000 but I never got round to painting mine.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikF0g_JL5To79EmfstyMu71tOMDBNJasPa8v1h3_ZOVnEVN-FEf6EsATdSeMibRvmXdNEbm76CO52Nge_BvP_IyIM6QnQ0gqXXYmU3XU4ArMNmgMa94PjjJGa64kolXRhj7Cor487_KMSdmQ_zg2hJEMyJto7b0mnQvOiS5QUVuzTLkmSB9hjwobj0Eg/s3105/IMG_6226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="3105" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikF0g_JL5To79EmfstyMu71tOMDBNJasPa8v1h3_ZOVnEVN-FEf6EsATdSeMibRvmXdNEbm76CO52Nge_BvP_IyIM6QnQ0gqXXYmU3XU4ArMNmgMa94PjjJGa64kolXRhj7Cor487_KMSdmQ_zg2hJEMyJto7b0mnQvOiS5QUVuzTLkmSB9hjwobj0Eg/w640-h392/IMG_6226.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7Gj0C-RdZI1j2zeMj2dR7yTPLfB7AJdNOSowaA0VZGZMEtU1s-q56TqWYVnCfRXxfjASuw3ufwxA-Ci-q5am5kfErW5BORidbJRSjvwFJrJcUXvVpQgVFU3e11sKXHPkDsoehlB_k4wuCLtE6cg9pJSxGE3xXsm9UQHwWiZZgpt1kkWNbB0MOZSzTg/s2389/IMG_6227.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2442" data-original-width="1730" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2HCqswXYNgLYz3ZRlePNt7pzrFZXvSbp8Ly795PymLMLwuqTQgFVCst4H4aHfd9M_U9ziYefwMFVm3RaGmyvqH3QhZy_ruVqd4kRxixMBDP7fgd4Z-Eo7i2cd9_WLznPo4y5buIlCsgOxbGSuBbDUPUOBJsSKarIL553dkPuX4yIFOiIT7CbGIeL3A/w454-h640/IMG_6223.JPG" width="454" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><p>And finally I had a generic <i>Chaos Scorcerer</i>. So after a bit of simple kitbashing (a replacement arm, head, and the top of the magic staff replaced to make an iconic Nurgly scythe) I had this little fellow suitably infected with Nurgle's plagues!</p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Iu5GmdTgi8lxeL46iKuLKVR_yavmqRsLUirjMCVUpbZQgXuBnIPE7k4uK-2cI2dA6J4x-8KYIAHDdr2UquNdAzDA7akspbh7U8FbUe8iuG_1wsn0UewMi0wVPCY8_1QcIena8Lhg3sTQF52MEGN62EDReQYHFRGqKQgw9FD6hg4bfmEoJ9nWIsx8tA/s2390/IMG_6224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2390" data-original-width="1598" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Iu5GmdTgi8lxeL46iKuLKVR_yavmqRsLUirjMCVUpbZQgXuBnIPE7k4uK-2cI2dA6J4x-8KYIAHDdr2UquNdAzDA7akspbh7U8FbUe8iuG_1wsn0UewMi0wVPCY8_1QcIena8Lhg3sTQF52MEGN62EDReQYHFRGqKQgw9FD6hg4bfmEoJ9nWIsx8tA/w428-h640/IMG_6224.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sNYVhRqvPRI3aR5cdoWrCWGzroCgqiciDnv86RVYsZfJ0Nwbf2etpnI6BOlOl7Yeea56zjx2YlnyRnkgqK_etABBR3VW_4qWdMqXDWd-SxMGEsZGJo_vf2kbn1EuHRhMunLOoHeLUN7_5BkiXoMq-Bik_E_pBNTwmiGl0w7jTOhfucmyAj0gD3QrnA/s2113/IMG_6225.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2113" data-original-width="1574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sNYVhRqvPRI3aR5cdoWrCWGzroCgqiciDnv86RVYsZfJ0Nwbf2etpnI6BOlOl7Yeea56zjx2YlnyRnkgqK_etABBR3VW_4qWdMqXDWd-SxMGEsZGJo_vf2kbn1EuHRhMunLOoHeLUN7_5BkiXoMq-Bik_E_pBNTwmiGl0w7jTOhfucmyAj0gD3QrnA/w476-h640/IMG_6225.JPG" width="476" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><p>I also found a box of Nurglings, and as I did with my other box, I split the figures out to turn three bases into six. Very handy as this now gives me twelve bases of Nurglings to plague the battlefield.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMTxqzslTJMOHFrERn5K49vPNGH8tT9yLIPmzK-v4ZulWyWvquGDM0IJ8rjHbKXEiq18mBhnvbt5E45MmRb7taVe3XzT2Xddn73e1fa400is6xHjK3TwTg_BNUThYXx_JcOe9G19nIutMHOZrs_BKDzvghZYNW-viRcsliQFYeBhKU3doJJKW8Dpgzw/s3157/IMG_6231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="3157" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMTxqzslTJMOHFrERn5K49vPNGH8tT9yLIPmzK-v4ZulWyWvquGDM0IJ8rjHbKXEiq18mBhnvbt5E45MmRb7taVe3XzT2Xddn73e1fa400is6xHjK3TwTg_BNUThYXx_JcOe9G19nIutMHOZrs_BKDzvghZYNW-viRcsliQFYeBhKU3doJJKW8Dpgzw/w640-h408/IMG_6231.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqK3XZHoxEF27kmkmXaWmJymdQ54asf6AhuybT7BohfykgwEaDt0b5ltGqSSM0q_bN7X6Kw8riQCYWg3s-To_2s9idr73lpqJRXxQRumu7pb7wOlDaOHRY8XMirhBZ85TxwnhGT4oFGK5WDsSSl-A1kVLKdhyl2dAnJ_HNRW7s3PxVAWbl4Q2PEM4-iw/s4000/IMG_6232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqK3XZHoxEF27kmkmXaWmJymdQ54asf6AhuybT7BohfykgwEaDt0b5ltGqSSM0q_bN7X6Kw8riQCYWg3s-To_2s9idr73lpqJRXxQRumu7pb7wOlDaOHRY8XMirhBZ85TxwnhGT4oFGK5WDsSSl-A1kVLKdhyl2dAnJ_HNRW7s3PxVAWbl4Q2PEM4-iw/w640-h426/IMG_6232.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomCAB0kuKCfJYx06PfwgEjzkr0C8PyvpM_ql99mFZS8VDt_kVC0b8vOASXBzah63Not8-QpJOvFIE9Wbp8J63sN2rpPqCQfjvgGS6bAd9f5omOqQUCwimqyeTEBean0DGXBM2e_MC7F1jQ73E6yxzFlo7cIirXSEKuWe9cXukzwWkKYiiRsBUHEuKZw/s2065/IMG_6233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2065" data-original-width="1788" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomCAB0kuKCfJYx06PfwgEjzkr0C8PyvpM_ql99mFZS8VDt_kVC0b8vOASXBzah63Not8-QpJOvFIE9Wbp8J63sN2rpPqCQfjvgGS6bAd9f5omOqQUCwimqyeTEBean0DGXBM2e_MC7F1jQ73E6yxzFlo7cIirXSEKuWe9cXukzwWkKYiiRsBUHEuKZw/s320/IMG_6233.JPG" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previous Nurglings for reference</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I think all I have left to do for the Death Guard now are:</p></span><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Mortarion (the boss)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A Great Unclean One</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A Chaos Flyer (which I think is a Chaos Heldrake)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Three Greater Blight Drones (resin models from Forge World)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nearly there!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-20593449976134978682023-04-17T18:55:00.030+01:002023-10-23T10:22:45.222+01:00The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 2023<p> <b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 2023</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjZGZgcvTch-OC9ApUTHxJbT8GNP86IpDWwULjMNtAB0MlslHRu1t6LzxsBt980FYHFtvCwQuoiCWqceq2Lv-gWetT305iZGEvzt4lpewPl6bLF9Gxqxk94U1s5C_TOTNVdUtWHXESfQcQjPKsPk0sA3CkUg2bdmEHjkiLW48XpxZ3DW_3iSwXgrZH_6N/s1024/painting-miniatures.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1024" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjZGZgcvTch-OC9ApUTHxJbT8GNP86IpDWwULjMNtAB0MlslHRu1t6LzxsBt980FYHFtvCwQuoiCWqceq2Lv-gWetT305iZGEvzt4lpewPl6bLF9Gxqxk94U1s5C_TOTNVdUtWHXESfQcQjPKsPk0sA3CkUg2bdmEHjkiLW48XpxZ3DW_3iSwXgrZH_6N/w640-h282/painting-miniatures.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge</a> </i><span style="font-family: georgia;">was a very successful motivator to get me painting in 2022, so I've been continuing in 2023.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So far, its been a faltering start due to <reasons> but I have made a start recently.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As with <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-analogue-hobbies-painting-challenge.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">last year</a>, I'll track my progress here.</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Total Challenge Points: 3120/1000</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/12/orks-ere-we-go-waaaaagh-etc.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orc Marauders (Definitely not "Orks")</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Finishing off the space orc army.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">38 Infantry (40k Ork models, mostly "leader types")</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1 Big Leader - Ghazghkul Thraka</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3 Killa Kan vehicles</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/space-marine-crimson-fists-army.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crimson Fist Space Marines</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Making progresss on painting up the rest of my space marines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">20 Bike riders</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1 Attack bike</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">10 Assault marines</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">5 Scout marines</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">7 Leaders</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/05/space-marine-crimson-fists-army.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2 Drop pods</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/imperial-knight-armigers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Imperial Knights</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2 Knight Armigers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/05/imperial-knight.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1 Knight Paladin</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: Star Wars Bantha</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A nice little side project, painting up one of these for my wife. (She loves Star Wars as much as I do, and really wanted one of these!)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYX_mit_cb8r6HbkkVUjNshjbXdBD7FZwDEMuEU81RJiVBmnoaZMQJza1x8WdgOC2nep0m2ZCoQkDcTre3sX_OCbUMrQqwA7Kencl5iv6kK-jYe0EBVA5Hv2Wq7viOoKE-vhj7fF-IEaUPbUo-DbikZS9zczRfIptIZVZLHDEW44Wp0MV6VzqcsDTAqA/s500/51RRxgyRQWL._AC_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="500" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYX_mit_cb8r6HbkkVUjNshjbXdBD7FZwDEMuEU81RJiVBmnoaZMQJza1x8WdgOC2nep0m2ZCoQkDcTre3sX_OCbUMrQqwA7Kencl5iv6kK-jYe0EBVA5Hv2Wq7viOoKE-vhj7fF-IEaUPbUo-DbikZS9zczRfIptIZVZLHDEW44Wp0MV6VzqcsDTAqA/w320-h228/51RRxgyRQWL._AC_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p>28mm miniatures</p></span><p></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1 Bantha and Tuskan Raider rider</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/death-guard-army-showcase-addendum.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Death Guard Plague Marines</a></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Making progresss on painting up the rest of my Death Guard marines.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><ul><li>3 Deathshroud Terminators</li><li>3 Death Guard Characters</li><li>3 Nurgling bases</li><li><a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/04/death-guard-army-showcase-addendum-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 Greater Blight Drones</a></li><li><a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/05/death-guard-army-showcase-addendum-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1 Great Unclean One</a></li></ul></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/05/necron-destroyer-arc.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Necron Destroyer Arc</a></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm one very big vehicle for the Necrons!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul><li>1 Vehicle</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/06/anglo-normans.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anglo-Normans for Triumph</a></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Anglo-Norman army for the Triumph ruleset.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><ul><li>41 Infantry</li><li>12 Cavalry</li></ul></span></div><div><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/star-wars-legion.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Star Wars Legion</a></b></div></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Star Wars Legion - completion of my two base sets plus additions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>74 Infantry</li><li>7 Vehicles</li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/stormcast-eternals.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stormcast Eternals</a></b></div></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Stormcast Eternals, small force for One Page Rules Skirmish</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>6 Infantry</li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/goblins.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goblins</a></b></div></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Stormcast Eternals, small force for One Page Rules Skirmish</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>15 Infantry</li><li>1 Troll</li></ul></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/09/ogres-galore.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ogres</a></b></div></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Ogres, small force for One Page Rules / Skirmish. Expanded on 3 ogres already created for Warcry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>11 Infantry (large)</li><li>1 Dragon ogre</li></ul></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/10/necrons-get-reinforcements.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Necron Reinforcements</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Necron reinforcements</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>109 Infantry</li><li>8 Vehicle</li></ul></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Project: <a href="https://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/10/putrid-blightkings.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Putrid Blightkings</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm Skirmish warband for AoFS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">28mm miniatures</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><li>5 Infantry</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-90576677911559053892023-04-15T14:05:00.002+01:002023-04-15T14:52:51.576+01:00Imperial Knight Armigers<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A short post this one. In my continuing quest to get my pile of unpainted minitatures sorted, I can across a box containing two Games Workshop Imperial Knight Armigers. I bought these way back in 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000, when those were still rules worth playing. I'd intended to use these as Chaos Knights, corrupted up as part of my Death Guard plague army.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Looking at them now though, and with One Page Rules making my Imperial Space Marine army fun to play, I figured I'd just paint them up as shiny new Imperial combat machines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I chose a "British racing green" sort of colour, and set about getting it done. As most of it is actually bare metal, its was quick to get finished, and with a couple of transfers on I'm calling them done.</span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(Sorry for the poor photos, I was using a different (inferior) camera).</span></i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyeR1EOzf7BvCXn7e_X4uWrOlvzwJc3CNPZ0-ikWMgiogsvsu5yoEFw0cwYTsuTXjbaYO-U235yeSC1LBQ5A7hbuOxk09zljaJTAQOxmm4-MfcwniKOhZehpKzTh5ZUGF1FaQR_VFXn6ygFKeQt9zjyE2b2-X7GERRc9bL30Ch242LLW9vu5tmM1klg/s1600/IMG_20230415_125952_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyeR1EOzf7BvCXn7e_X4uWrOlvzwJc3CNPZ0-ikWMgiogsvsu5yoEFw0cwYTsuTXjbaYO-U235yeSC1LBQ5A7hbuOxk09zljaJTAQOxmm4-MfcwniKOhZehpKzTh5ZUGF1FaQR_VFXn6ygFKeQt9zjyE2b2-X7GERRc9bL30Ch242LLW9vu5tmM1klg/w640-h480/IMG_20230415_125952_7.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhS-hq1YigMAB1VnQpzuaWI9rxY3ebryDidB6vtiSlEh41phMQDhMtcrp_jMRvaucUI24Qqk0rrwCaD9h4r3DOUKQLs-ZcMgKOWVHUpVb-iLFgHomRPdXcI7ypvTDwyoQZIVasP-CUTKor-NWi1YSoDmPhO4pcx__OjETCykszX2GDUJisAE_5ZmleQ/s1156/IMG_20230415_130016_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1074" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhS-hq1YigMAB1VnQpzuaWI9rxY3ebryDidB6vtiSlEh41phMQDhMtcrp_jMRvaucUI24Qqk0rrwCaD9h4r3DOUKQLs-ZcMgKOWVHUpVb-iLFgHomRPdXcI7ypvTDwyoQZIVasP-CUTKor-NWi1YSoDmPhO4pcx__OjETCykszX2GDUJisAE_5ZmleQ/w594-h640/IMG_20230415_130016_5.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiy0fjtsgR1Pvx2W8fMNubwGlzp1WpcdmhS9D6MQstVCdidTAB4Skh8JSXLqqtssMOys6DnT_OQTMW3tp_2DseHHDYpPtK74lQfQk25j9G-y9OSu44e0i41IcZjFn9Ot--SkObo1M3NPoa7sMaJeYtFCdngDckfpCz8YzzLN1mQ3DXfh6nKDzPciqEw/s1127/IMG_20230415_130120_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1127" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiy0fjtsgR1Pvx2W8fMNubwGlzp1WpcdmhS9D6MQstVCdidTAB4Skh8JSXLqqtssMOys6DnT_OQTMW3tp_2DseHHDYpPtK74lQfQk25j9G-y9OSu44e0i41IcZjFn9Ot--SkObo1M3NPoa7sMaJeYtFCdngDckfpCz8YzzLN1mQ3DXfh6nKDzPciqEw/w640-h548/IMG_20230415_130120_7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_G9axKbYaDqUOomhDm7YwqgG9GqgtuzqdDayIhcrOkG5sNdrTfcZBeKtvfvhoGU_5wV_3-RnrMIjsaMJm7l57ZprSlINlhBWmI-m7sIbxneZg7PnhMmRsWQzgIeAPllrxo0-Ci8uzIlg5N4_EkD4MOqTsUDuQrgJWfDpctNRL9G29J66_-EWZ-Vu1g/s1040/IMG_20230415_130138_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1040" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_G9axKbYaDqUOomhDm7YwqgG9GqgtuzqdDayIhcrOkG5sNdrTfcZBeKtvfvhoGU_5wV_3-RnrMIjsaMJm7l57ZprSlINlhBWmI-m7sIbxneZg7PnhMmRsWQzgIeAPllrxo0-Ci8uzIlg5N4_EkD4MOqTsUDuQrgJWfDpctNRL9G29J66_-EWZ-Vu1g/w640-h492/IMG_20230415_130138_4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-86952864458664653882023-04-03T22:22:00.004+01:002023-06-21T13:33:01.508+01:00Space Marine, Crimson Fists: Army Showcase - Addendum<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I think the major project I'll undertake in 2023 is likely to be a 28mm Medieval army. My club is planning a Warhammer Ancient Battles tournament which I may well become involved in. The tournament details are yet to be decided, so while I await that I've decided not to take on a new project, but rather tidyup and finish off some other armies. Notably, I want to finally get all my Space Marines finished. I still have a bunch of second hand stuff in boxes, and also I have much of my more modern Primaris figures to do. I just don't like these new figures as much as the old ones, but I still want them finished.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, I dug around in the bitz boxes and discovered a whole bunch of additional bikers. These, together with some unpainted assault marines got done fairly quickly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I then found a bunch more bikers! I guess at some point I was keen on making a fast moving combat bike force.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here's the finished figures.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0a6ZRRCdXC9AZqAbsN1dqhYG82l1L0_A7sS1MGv51v1t2qIaw3i82MNKDe2NEoFoLK96QW9CZb4Bky-d2zRqnro0Lhz1X-FajVVLnyzQ5rUI-p1BFLWe3hY0waF7HWybZm3xmoctpAI9orTRrRc64ybV82f55Dxw-YT9VlOBZpGe8BtrmFOGuj2yoIQ/s3382/IMG_6171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2293" data-original-width="3382" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0a6ZRRCdXC9AZqAbsN1dqhYG82l1L0_A7sS1MGv51v1t2qIaw3i82MNKDe2NEoFoLK96QW9CZb4Bky-d2zRqnro0Lhz1X-FajVVLnyzQ5rUI-p1BFLWe3hY0waF7HWybZm3xmoctpAI9orTRrRc64ybV82f55Dxw-YT9VlOBZpGe8BtrmFOGuj2yoIQ/w640-h434/IMG_6171.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More unit leaders/commanders. One flag is freehand. the others have transfers from Skumb4g Kustoms. I need to get some Microsol/Microset solution to get these transfers looking a bit better.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihaH8Jqc2IOfC9NYcgq9ofvYPG6v4UfeCOHWj2MJoLEoM90pTwdXnsl9W0w4y24vDFkicZeKaQs3RF8Ztgt94Kt6fzlvfG9XK8TFs69YC3KjqMaugrrRKE0mr5TJ3ExhuAjosVtR0f24vAQZnVPwlCwtUY60kMA160rdfYVSI4O8V-_3zqN3D1oveF2w/s4000/IMG_6172.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihaH8Jqc2IOfC9NYcgq9ofvYPG6v4UfeCOHWj2MJoLEoM90pTwdXnsl9W0w4y24vDFkicZeKaQs3RF8Ztgt94Kt6fzlvfG9XK8TFs69YC3KjqMaugrrRKE0mr5TJ3ExhuAjosVtR0f24vAQZnVPwlCwtUY60kMA160rdfYVSI4O8V-_3zqN3D1oveF2w/w640-h426/IMG_6172.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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I had a few already done but I've completed the rest and rebased them. That attack bike (sidecar) heavy bolter's barrel needs drilling out I think.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3VZmWgANdHOXDNTY99nffSEYwRsf-JzjFisnf1iZOoRGrTCFViDjZq4jnOpvFtDH5e3NpCIQraZt-5eIzWERIi9tV3ZOuELEJ33hjRf06JlbnO1XO-OPc2CG929TPfwkAEAVVz6z4ccKhLdEEknYFpUxj-OOQNyfrzK9YeYOX-1COwvgWK_1_L7PQQ/s3272/IMG_6181.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2416" data-original-width="3272" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3VZmWgANdHOXDNTY99nffSEYwRsf-JzjFisnf1iZOoRGrTCFViDjZq4jnOpvFtDH5e3NpCIQraZt-5eIzWERIi9tV3ZOuELEJ33hjRf06JlbnO1XO-OPc2CG929TPfwkAEAVVz6z4ccKhLdEEknYFpUxj-OOQNyfrzK9YeYOX-1COwvgWK_1_L7PQQ/w640-h472/IMG_6181.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used some old 10mm scale Franco-Prussian War banners for the pennants.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqxz5tP9tIYqxQ25HXC7b2fFaIL631q4tXDv5NvlCYSRf1PsFQvfr_NfZqdYtfuuuCLI8MN_SPn0-sE1UmAh0lCJDPBlwtnsExfse-n5fSVgcLBTgyFeQ1rauhAadEU7MouA4wy8elfkY8u2zKzbYyNuOWYTQOnByOXjUOWZX9rd5SgMkIHmHAPvIbQ/s3978/IMG_6182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2451" data-original-width="3978" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqxz5tP9tIYqxQ25HXC7b2fFaIL631q4tXDv5NvlCYSRf1PsFQvfr_NfZqdYtfuuuCLI8MN_SPn0-sE1UmAh0lCJDPBlwtnsExfse-n5fSVgcLBTgyFeQ1rauhAadEU7MouA4wy8elfkY8u2zKzbYyNuOWYTQOnByOXjUOWZX9rd5SgMkIHmHAPvIbQ/w640-h394/IMG_6182.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVf_Ka87ysZJZc5-GFsbcsPnW1lh0XDsup9uwC-hxWdDlE68QSsv5s6klaDyc_r0oI9uzYk-08m8y3EU4dziZOaUsVSA3VIHBcJEIUme0Lea-6tQMB85tQc5PuMw9bwk3leIj0U3D51Pk4E2sKtfiFug-qUpSZOc7YzjaDdGENJo_8BQpGFFmIB9GJw/s3981/IMG_6183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2251" data-original-width="3981" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVf_Ka87ysZJZc5-GFsbcsPnW1lh0XDsup9uwC-hxWdDlE68QSsv5s6klaDyc_r0oI9uzYk-08m8y3EU4dziZOaUsVSA3VIHBcJEIUme0Lea-6tQMB85tQc5PuMw9bwk3leIj0U3D51Pk4E2sKtfiFug-qUpSZOc7YzjaDdGENJo_8BQpGFFmIB9GJw/w640-h362/IMG_6183.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7FbQuGsvt-gCiADFce2tjEgl7GGtH8TCHI5bnXS2Gv_82wuGZ34cFsbkegfBEo9dUI6JMjYIhRdXlYwPgCDU2vT7Y_f52Xt4NWeLgYf0IHwqqszfqH2ITi5zVLHlsULWI2rEyWzruJ3xK_3_alk9cDVnUGMJ6GtkGAN5MUWAS2_MGpibcgU6_1NflQ/s3670/IMG_6184.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="3670" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7FbQuGsvt-gCiADFce2tjEgl7GGtH8TCHI5bnXS2Gv_82wuGZ34cFsbkegfBEo9dUI6JMjYIhRdXlYwPgCDU2vT7Y_f52Xt4NWeLgYf0IHwqqszfqH2ITi5zVLHlsULWI2rEyWzruJ3xK_3_alk9cDVnUGMJ6GtkGAN5MUWAS2_MGpibcgU6_1NflQ/w640-h434/IMG_6184.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And here are the figures currently a "work in progress".</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZTeLfIPqHHcoXVJPp5s0fcZvnt28GVm1EX2IAQbQiGRwMMG1QuSFD3oG9511sHECcjbGf1v31IJM10LMFgWVMLsxAuUrLXHaPDuEl5QH5o5WobXZz-r8o3spsiziFKPnDDZRtiqWnaRxiUq_Xm5mWtw_alL3_nLZjHuET9T0xmpxZSNfRj6iVFITcw/s4000/IMG_6165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZTeLfIPqHHcoXVJPp5s0fcZvnt28GVm1EX2IAQbQiGRwMMG1QuSFD3oG9511sHECcjbGf1v31IJM10LMFgWVMLsxAuUrLXHaPDuEl5QH5o5WobXZz-r8o3spsiziFKPnDDZRtiqWnaRxiUq_Xm5mWtw_alL3_nLZjHuET9T0xmpxZSNfRj6iVFITcw/w640-h426/IMG_6165.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some more bikers. I hve one more but my bitz box ran dry and I didn't have any more seated legs. I've ordered som from Bitzbox. Its a bit costly but fair enough. When completed I'll have 19 bikers and 1 attack bike.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRsBRlh4PardaLTjnXJJcKOAJ0yA-PtNubU-DPlBB2cSAn5iueGhnaal5iMEKF_AQsFwLMQEsMdCL-t9D3N_XzqezFoptUyLmNgmFus2ZnBBtPrYwgHfJYfpJMc0OUCiEKEJLT1aR_Js5bnLbbphPi7-RlTSqI1Kz2OJm1yMp9iE0G0_xI_d1ycKrGg/s4000/IMG_6166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRsBRlh4PardaLTjnXJJcKOAJ0yA-PtNubU-DPlBB2cSAn5iueGhnaal5iMEKF_AQsFwLMQEsMdCL-t9D3N_XzqezFoptUyLmNgmFus2ZnBBtPrYwgHfJYfpJMc0OUCiEKEJLT1aR_Js5bnLbbphPi7-RlTSqI1Kz2OJm1yMp9iE0G0_xI_d1ycKrGg/w640-h426/IMG_6166.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a fair few space marine scouts, but they're all armed with boltpistol & close combat weapon, or sniper rifle. I had 5 pairs of scout legs, so kitbashed some upper bodies and armes etc., to get a unit of five with bolt guns.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTrUoD6Xi0lOeXbf3QgFOtaW7IrrGjoxO_UtRZcnDqAbu85ROAGE0TmyyjOGZMYpSe70mx24ciPVi5moJUNjfVCc33kiD_7IxIdo4pUQVt5OKVOocGa5ZCoJfcMBmKeYk8MMXDEbZhn-axDmH0OzMFq82FzYQBgo6vjCAOqsqWLan3GtAWPFoFt7oSug/s4000/IMG_6167.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTrUoD6Xi0lOeXbf3QgFOtaW7IrrGjoxO_UtRZcnDqAbu85ROAGE0TmyyjOGZMYpSe70mx24ciPVi5moJUNjfVCc33kiD_7IxIdo4pUQVt5OKVOocGa5ZCoJfcMBmKeYk8MMXDEbZhn-axDmH0OzMFq82FzYQBgo6vjCAOqsqWLan3GtAWPFoFt7oSug/w640-h426/IMG_6167.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is an old sculpt of the Ravenguard space marines leader "Kayvaan Shrike". I think at one point I was planning a Ravenguard army but never got around to it. He'll do for an assault leader.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In addition to this, I'm also rebasing those miniatures that have different basing. At one point I was doing the bases as "grey rock", but I never liked it as its colour shade blended in to the dark blue of the marines. I also have a fair few models with banner poles but no banners, so they'll all get a nice flag I think.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/02/space-marine-crimson-fists-army-showcase.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See the rest of the army here.</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-48247760292377128632023-03-22T21:08:00.003+00:002023-06-21T13:33:12.199+01:00Orks, "'Ere we go!", "Waaaaagh!!" Etc. - Part 2, the showcase<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/12/orks-ere-we-go-waaaaagh-etc.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Part 1</a> I set out the groundwork of my Orc Raiders army for One Page Rules. As I now have it to a finish point, I think a gallery of the green tide is in order.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, here it is. The rare thing of a "finished" army, as if an army is ever really finished!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm looking forwards to getting this on the table for a game of OPR, but it'll be a couple of weeks I think as "real life" will keep me off the table for a bit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So these figures are obviously Games Workshop Orks, and I painted them to be basically "box art" Goff Clan Orks. Its kind of iconic for the figures line I suppose.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjij924D36AFRPn3MXGzyK0fxWIkcmlD6p9dZM7AflBbbDX1LCAC-DOsb2LveCgUsLXAenXbKh2hsyOaL9hYjvNho73xT1EHY1-4b_B1O4lu7msGjlJZuk4FVBzylsePWcxa6WYCXDsmXqZMdznRmb5aEhhDdvTRQShi7N9wF12Wc7snCISEyOnilXkRQ/s4000/IMG_6135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1844" data-original-width="4000" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjij924D36AFRPn3MXGzyK0fxWIkcmlD6p9dZM7AflBbbDX1LCAC-DOsb2LveCgUsLXAenXbKh2hsyOaL9hYjvNho73xT1EHY1-4b_B1O4lu7msGjlJZuk4FVBzylsePWcxa6WYCXDsmXqZMdznRmb5aEhhDdvTRQShi7N9wF12Wc7snCISEyOnilXkRQ/w640-h296/IMG_6135.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The full force in all its glory. The roster is as follows:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ghazghkull Thraka - the big boss, and his litte grot helper Makari.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">30 "Meganobz" - big orks that can also serve as leaders and characters.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">20 Grots (with a handler)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">70 Orks with hand weapon and pistol</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">20 Orks with shootas</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 Orks with jetpacks (a unit of 10 with a character/leader)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">5 Orks with flamethrowers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3 Killakan mechanical walkers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3 Deffcoptas</span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsqmqz8syXbktG1QHUXpEHijJuEyVkmc53yOYDfJsUbSfAVMo-OZ4VFu1mPHFt1dJ2r7Gf6TQ2jKOkrnptdWglLyM-UpEg2HWVno_EiKfqFOIM1J_GFCZyRY_o1tosrK4fuE_ZuC8ZZ1INJldNR1K4w9UyKldqVlBx9lPa_k-F73VPlRaNlzVPl7MGDg/s4000/IMG_6136.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsqmqz8syXbktG1QHUXpEHijJuEyVkmc53yOYDfJsUbSfAVMo-OZ4VFu1mPHFt1dJ2r7Gf6TQ2jKOkrnptdWglLyM-UpEg2HWVno_EiKfqFOIM1J_GFCZyRY_o1tosrK4fuE_ZuC8ZZ1INJldNR1K4w9UyKldqVlBx9lPa_k-F73VPlRaNlzVPl7MGDg/w640-h426/IMG_6136.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ghazghkull himself! The big boss. It'd be a brave ork that stood up to him.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HL4sx88Ve-1Xsr3nqkv7hkLUsV-l5a3qtLUR4_N-2IVvSoPNnQfUmLhudgJS-n4xIcO0LJ97k6yH3gvhVbExmnWfgvK_j5ha1ifeSZNVmVHXe1aQi9YTnezqYXm2Z_7AerdoE7PPBJZzPkBLh52vL7Tw4Dv7R-IrclExgp8a4CC69Ov-2zqrgcgTLg/s4000/IMG_6137.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HL4sx88Ve-1Xsr3nqkv7hkLUsV-l5a3qtLUR4_N-2IVvSoPNnQfUmLhudgJS-n4xIcO0LJ97k6yH3gvhVbExmnWfgvK_j5ha1ifeSZNVmVHXe1aQi9YTnezqYXm2Z_7AerdoE7PPBJZzPkBLh52vL7Tw4Dv7R-IrclExgp8a4CC69Ov-2zqrgcgTLg/w640-h426/IMG_6137.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6PYBacs9qPSuYm7F2ZXKm-0eQd2ofy0lWyuFsD1_mcBs_C7lyIzydefDdzULt8DB09bs6CmW4l3Y5hb2w8V5AM0qH_TDvxqaR8bfaeV-8_1_YO4JAwx1Yz-vh1NfaKjUOeF1Cddi0513MceEZMpZKD7dfKsvhv0EKJ6Bb5dS7bmBIow84V7bZExYIA/s4000/IMG_6138.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6PYBacs9qPSuYm7F2ZXKm-0eQd2ofy0lWyuFsD1_mcBs_C7lyIzydefDdzULt8DB09bs6CmW4l3Y5hb2w8V5AM0qH_TDvxqaR8bfaeV-8_1_YO4JAwx1Yz-vh1NfaKjUOeF1Cddi0513MceEZMpZKD7dfKsvhv0EKJ6Bb5dS7bmBIow84V7bZExYIA/w640-h426/IMG_6138.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This grot is Ghazghkull's little helper Makari. As with Ghazghkull, I tried to paint him as close to the box art as possible.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahDhErrA4KA_DZ-zGwGu6fVoPm6JpBZdMH7hIFa5R9xZGBhfgEiZqfyDbETVoKeeSTWgYhs-9kFHqm8DixWmTdAcl_T8nInQvvRYkCNlE9CSjr9pcXi_sS8LNUiaw494aDWk2LefJCc7VoGpx1dBs2NyEliUMeTT6xQf-3T8UzESf0QzPnHgxFAqUew/s4000/IMG_6139.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahDhErrA4KA_DZ-zGwGu6fVoPm6JpBZdMH7hIFa5R9xZGBhfgEiZqfyDbETVoKeeSTWgYhs-9kFHqm8DixWmTdAcl_T8nInQvvRYkCNlE9CSjr9pcXi_sS8LNUiaw494aDWk2LefJCc7VoGpx1dBs2NyEliUMeTT6xQf-3T8UzESf0QzPnHgxFAqUew/w640-h426/IMG_6139.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The grots. I love these little figures! They're some of the simplest and yet most characterful miniatures that Games Workshop have ever made.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQU1ohJzHGb9mFY3ZZccpT2VLh4TcNPYt1uA2TUqC7OFvow8HhldVfJyiHRT_IbHosgxFYPsZrCbWbLeRFBZnIC3p2dPVxIj7TZogzwAp-8M7Y5mBK9aTaSmojSMw0VvsfArUb7QXA6g_A4dWT8ucwk5Z90Pc7AP1oOC9NF7fopTtikVwVdXUxffK1g/s4000/IMG_6140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2247" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQU1ohJzHGb9mFY3ZZccpT2VLh4TcNPYt1uA2TUqC7OFvow8HhldVfJyiHRT_IbHosgxFYPsZrCbWbLeRFBZnIC3p2dPVxIj7TZogzwAp-8M7Y5mBK9aTaSmojSMw0VvsfArUb7QXA6g_A4dWT8ucwk5Z90Pc7AP1oOC9NF7fopTtikVwVdXUxffK1g/w640-h360/IMG_6140.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The "meganobs". The biggest and baddest of the orks, they're festooned with armour and wierd weapons, as well as being generally bigger than normal orks. Among them, I also have some vintage gems - old models from the mists of Games Workshop history.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpF81ZSYufsmsN_eevv_S2qJrsHfeJiBxovvbXKlLGkiqgtfdUaaHhKLvAFEsXEP6sOhppVi4hn61JE-4uQQxniPAnpyE2co7maVoCpNoWz3RbIvzEsf9xicoDKe4Y7Cp6tiRg0DAAHjgoGw93nN7XVogUJQu0HmM9AFAJytnC67C3VXXP5VRivWiMA/s3972/IMG_6141.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2346" data-original-width="3972" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpF81ZSYufsmsN_eevv_S2qJrsHfeJiBxovvbXKlLGkiqgtfdUaaHhKLvAFEsXEP6sOhppVi4hn61JE-4uQQxniPAnpyE2co7maVoCpNoWz3RbIvzEsf9xicoDKe4Y7Cp6tiRg0DAAHjgoGw93nN7XVogUJQu0HmM9AFAJytnC67C3VXXP5VRivWiMA/w640-h378/IMG_6141.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9DpkRS8DtpVrL9vltf5vLGSH_zuJ-m9lLbVPl0K_z0nHcrX6LG3LseYj21xTLtg2NKS1uvpRhpPC_ghBJWVOlvqTdj1ZkCpnISfTS2EwgfIrhOgYQfwlyENCru5hYme9-VSTYbVnpZZDuSXU6MZhJJPqxqHEZnzWNVlGVuR-E8Pc1ITX5vZ00hOWGQ/s4000/IMG_6142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9DpkRS8DtpVrL9vltf5vLGSH_zuJ-m9lLbVPl0K_z0nHcrX6LG3LseYj21xTLtg2NKS1uvpRhpPC_ghBJWVOlvqTdj1ZkCpnISfTS2EwgfIrhOgYQfwlyENCru5hYme9-VSTYbVnpZZDuSXU6MZhJJPqxqHEZnzWNVlGVuR-E8Pc1ITX5vZ00hOWGQ/w640-h426/IMG_6142.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chap with the horns is a much earlier version of Ghazghkul Thrakka!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">These are the orks with shootas. In One Page Rules, orc marauders are generally bad shots so arming them with long ranged weapons is a little optimistic! I think I'll mostly be using the pistol & close combat weapon units.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihBIG5wZ-1lC1YBkSrqjHAIhKISJCdU-DtBpzhzXo8AqV293-3ZNV6RaXqo1_gwGnGcoYtrsRZzJQa62KgxPPIPDcA286QO-N_2obSVmS5ccFa9-R8nCFQQlB-tpLVdP1vLZBLiteMI-xe4C_V7t9_HKpGoL-EmZRqHPryNwlmibj2ER4vhA2jslyo7g/s4000/IMG_6143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihBIG5wZ-1lC1YBkSrqjHAIhKISJCdU-DtBpzhzXo8AqV293-3ZNV6RaXqo1_gwGnGcoYtrsRZzJQa62KgxPPIPDcA286QO-N_2obSVmS5ccFa9-R8nCFQQlB-tpLVdP1vLZBLiteMI-xe4C_V7t9_HKpGoL-EmZRqHPryNwlmibj2ER4vhA2jslyo7g/w640-h426/IMG_6143.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This is the bulk of the force, a mass of orks with pistols ond close combat weapons. Basically they're designed to rush into melee with the enemy and start hitting.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVJtbiJZ4zoaIugPcEal6dka-OiWm3k6pTYw1IwWCMhEs-GgYLOe4q7AyEL5-8AYkdMc2KvmIams42648r3Y3X15ZiHU-KA2D-EYgD86UtNQK9wZYzlmy0wFDGGr-UflN_QHp3wYmvjeZxytqucypkp3pIfshXH_u_urelvFhd8qp87-bgaFxVjl5Lg/s4000/IMG_6144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVJtbiJZ4zoaIugPcEal6dka-OiWm3k6pTYw1IwWCMhEs-GgYLOe4q7AyEL5-8AYkdMc2KvmIams42648r3Y3X15ZiHU-KA2D-EYgD86UtNQK9wZYzlmy0wFDGGr-UflN_QHp3wYmvjeZxytqucypkp3pIfshXH_u_urelvFhd8qp87-bgaFxVjl5Lg/w640-h426/IMG_6144.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02g1Uo-cHORRrtPxRLny1alaKomqRbMFrXISQUcnROeoeTOtgLffA4u2n9HQq0GgsYZKGddhjgySJIDK9M-kPLipsAUalDDqVAFP1ZMrKXZV_lv-9YAdAj-bEYeC7fI1U3a4v4zTMhm1JXtKXYw_aZWI1iQir5QoEAVA3gXp06Zp03gDfx6ex_Aqjpw/s4000/IMG_6145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02g1Uo-cHORRrtPxRLny1alaKomqRbMFrXISQUcnROeoeTOtgLffA4u2n9HQq0GgsYZKGddhjgySJIDK9M-kPLipsAUalDDqVAFP1ZMrKXZV_lv-9YAdAj-bEYeC7fI1U3a4v4zTMhm1JXtKXYw_aZWI1iQir5QoEAVA3gXp06Zp03gDfx6ex_Aqjpw/w640-h426/IMG_6145.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here are the chaps with flamethrowers. I think i'll add these into the infantry units as supports in the game.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpOOIHnTtwV2Qb26qkpPJM-s433ojBgFubWoUccIIkQKBHNt09u0uW3RMex3sISIKNCjAO0vzpy024i2Y21W_ONxwjPrUpthtT6NOAMERBpxbd7G4MzWWDv_KWOCvjjDtXaVxf0pKiMk60qAyhG55pOLmhFaGlpJW4CtSTdQml9VgYC67lcRwxf0x4w/s3284/IMG_6146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2255" data-original-width="3284" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpOOIHnTtwV2Qb26qkpPJM-s433ojBgFubWoUccIIkQKBHNt09u0uW3RMex3sISIKNCjAO0vzpy024i2Y21W_ONxwjPrUpthtT6NOAMERBpxbd7G4MzWWDv_KWOCvjjDtXaVxf0pKiMk60qAyhG55pOLmhFaGlpJW4CtSTdQml9VgYC67lcRwxf0x4w/w640-h440/IMG_6146.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The killakans. They're nice enough but I think I like the <a href="https://bitsofwar.com/vehicles-vehicle-bits/624-31-killa-gnaws-squad-5908291070779.html#/35-killa_gnaw_ccw_1-drill/38-killa_gnaw_ccw_2-drill/41-killa_gnaw_ccw_3-drill/44-killa_gnaw_ranged_1-scrap_cannon/48-killa_gnaw_ranged_2-scrap_cannon/52-killa_gnaw_ranged_3-scrap_cannon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kromlech proxies</a> for them better. My friend, Grant, has these in his army and they look splendid!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFMLiYLoAXo58ZeiLDOMQBnw71qPf7HAKft43OR-540JWzerhvQkAgxtJRlOmvq3Qap3B1sUfCTSBGAZjEuNuwIbR61L_zbzOelQ5lZ1MtApDjkEEq9Oqcm-yth4mPidRgWintK0eEUO5KdqTblsY4m7eRy0bEpzP1Obb7N8tcARrt76AA9jvqBUS6_A/s3647/IMG_6147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2499" data-original-width="3647" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFMLiYLoAXo58ZeiLDOMQBnw71qPf7HAKft43OR-540JWzerhvQkAgxtJRlOmvq3Qap3B1sUfCTSBGAZjEuNuwIbR61L_zbzOelQ5lZ1MtApDjkEEq9Oqcm-yth4mPidRgWintK0eEUO5KdqTblsY4m7eRy0bEpzP1Obb7N8tcARrt76AA9jvqBUS6_A/w640-h438/IMG_6147.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2quoSepj6yHQ8gY5HFBvGlSx8gJU6hDiL9UlxasiU2ccXKvkePxI4PZxdCDH6NA4mWsvGah8JPPaVVrugc_pLdTONtbAaAyzQQsfR2Z46SMXcvYnBaXPf9ec6GfLEMBYFATiDnh6ZmOD9cQG4i3IuAXgUvknNMh7G6H5uOlOKd8-NHAMSSq1gujYwiQ/s3393/IMG_6148.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2336" data-original-width="3393" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2quoSepj6yHQ8gY5HFBvGlSx8gJU6hDiL9UlxasiU2ccXKvkePxI4PZxdCDH6NA4mWsvGah8JPPaVVrugc_pLdTONtbAaAyzQQsfR2Z46SMXcvYnBaXPf9ec6GfLEMBYFATiDnh6ZmOD9cQG4i3IuAXgUvknNMh7G6H5uOlOKd8-NHAMSSq1gujYwiQ/w640-h440/IMG_6148.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Deffcopters are nice models but the flight stands are ridiculously fragile. I'm certain they will break in the rough and tumble of gameplay.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJVCX19IZu9GRe492EAsPbknLUFw3Hf3NwvaiSmlBb_JFyzimYayWtOrfS9KL8TuSRJJQ9R45_EVwN8KBo7poHdP8ZdzfHiYr54Bn6BlQSw4ExHZNGVOAlYeTWk1otM_ZU7VkQcpVpTBhq3I9qeCuifI5StI1mrjid74C5riRcezqiGGfEv20jGAKVQ/s3646/IMG_6149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2126" data-original-width="3646" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJVCX19IZu9GRe492EAsPbknLUFw3Hf3NwvaiSmlBb_JFyzimYayWtOrfS9KL8TuSRJJQ9R45_EVwN8KBo7poHdP8ZdzfHiYr54Bn6BlQSw4ExHZNGVOAlYeTWk1otM_ZU7VkQcpVpTBhq3I9qeCuifI5StI1mrjid74C5riRcezqiGGfEv20jGAKVQ/w640-h374/IMG_6149.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-kyx-Q-N2df8oE0v72I1VceG0sQQ8MnbssWKxKmXbFFmXFwYMmuoshwwKUCtIpYXUB18iFd0Lz--FRAJp38t1Qm2RvUSmubpzzWDE2gRQbtVY31Z33JXGg7LN4jOIdHi0bv8OXJyBOTrJ42MEVRQSUmQh8_vyz5BgezJCTDTHKL0fGDa8oWTd9YOag/s4000/IMG_6150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-kyx-Q-N2df8oE0v72I1VceG0sQQ8MnbssWKxKmXbFFmXFwYMmuoshwwKUCtIpYXUB18iFd0Lz--FRAJp38t1Qm2RvUSmubpzzWDE2gRQbtVY31Z33JXGg7LN4jOIdHi0bv8OXJyBOTrJ42MEVRQSUmQh8_vyz5BgezJCTDTHKL0fGDa8oWTd9YOag/w640-h426/IMG_6150.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">More shots of the meganobz.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvAxx-SI2dwdNi_Ouk9FUXcs5YTIhssGzVZk_FXpenBO9BDn27Nej2WFFb0wpJJqlNC5i89PVA81c_Zhy_VQXRCdOG7cox4eJS1yYoXxssIqok2dyN5gdNSAhQEgDemaOWGDdKPYN81lvlaUcb-WriQK1dRy7ruu2M1LAG903i-5RhhXAr63807oIbQ/s4000/IMG_6151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvAxx-SI2dwdNi_Ouk9FUXcs5YTIhssGzVZk_FXpenBO9BDn27Nej2WFFb0wpJJqlNC5i89PVA81c_Zhy_VQXRCdOG7cox4eJS1yYoXxssIqok2dyN5gdNSAhQEgDemaOWGDdKPYN81lvlaUcb-WriQK1dRy7ruu2M1LAG903i-5RhhXAr63807oIbQ/w640-h426/IMG_6151.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And some more images of the big boss himself.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmZ35V7hESZ-XN5OEnCp6gPkcd_Pvnztw9-V8bgGzot9bjIAcZiP38KIhxrpZvwKICIYeyZeT_Zk62h8fQYX5hkUSUnafVohLb2AmZ7-HD0GJlhwT2vxmLXVHJMo5EOOYZAmqktGibdcEFqdY6r7UnvES-G72tL95nVpwyYtx30Jtlm-_kv2QoKxyLw/s3185/IMG_6152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2629" data-original-width="3185" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmZ35V7hESZ-XN5OEnCp6gPkcd_Pvnztw9-V8bgGzot9bjIAcZiP38KIhxrpZvwKICIYeyZeT_Zk62h8fQYX5hkUSUnafVohLb2AmZ7-HD0GJlhwT2vxmLXVHJMo5EOOYZAmqktGibdcEFqdY6r7UnvES-G72tL95nVpwyYtx30Jtlm-_kv2QoKxyLw/w640-h528/IMG_6152.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitCHWrJkmXQcuq6RTYDy2tSWXrRfkaY0SigQ2ee8Nmy8B8cMepIfVIKH0CMrO0n3g9oOUsEYeznEsxMD8AIZ-rOZUohdnpRpwZbMvqSV5VAGfOZ4MPTuc_pKy2BNxTbeDeV-Yqppt8pPHCc6jmex2eSDJEiKn7w3m1FBOvg6HuUo-14i4mVWokpPcHfA/s2664/IMG_6153.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">For the orks who just can't be bothered with the pesky business of running into battle and really want to get there quicker, there's the boyz with jetpacks.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgav6ngHtn7YdFrwYR4YI-WBvEntVXK-D9tazc_fawGAylHPJGvvSqZAk2p5LfNJ2oJhhAt2csvGeQiMI3SyHXQksJ0LHqeJkiNPsrW0C2-qwEGguStbZEjtK9n9sld7W6kRsipifrePlKTpQo2yn_q9-m4-kh2XRTene-E9AFN1lRmAwvgz7m222Dcow/s3980/IMG_6155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1876" data-original-width="3980" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgav6ngHtn7YdFrwYR4YI-WBvEntVXK-D9tazc_fawGAylHPJGvvSqZAk2p5LfNJ2oJhhAt2csvGeQiMI3SyHXQksJ0LHqeJkiNPsrW0C2-qwEGguStbZEjtK9n9sld7W6kRsipifrePlKTpQo2yn_q9-m4-kh2XRTene-E9AFN1lRmAwvgz7m222Dcow/w640-h302/IMG_6155.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">And a rare treat I made a video of the mob...</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://clipchamp.com/watch/yUu1oplzww1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-61238520472606838222022-12-09T16:38:00.006+00:002022-12-10T11:30:59.307+00:00One Page Rules: Robot Legions vs Dark Elf Raiders<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another day another One Page Rules battle!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For this one I took my newly painted <a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2022/11/necrons.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robot Legion</a> into battle
against the Dark Elf Raiders and we played 2000pts a side.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We used the card objective system again, but instead of our “house
rule” of keeping the cards hidden we played as intended with them openly displayed.
We found this to be better than hiding them as you could act to try to prevent
the opponent gaining their objectives, as well as working to achieve your own.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNQm2Ogq4H5Vnf0JCDpOPMMagMLzfTHU83PqasgHYpNN4sFyoCY2vxssDdeAmF2-_h8HI0MqqLI5AKhfnp4_C2nJxU9fng8XKlE9mrUNUgr8-MJwevVcGp4VXBCyQbP2dkA371HpJAL74-HS6KjWINAhLA6PVJtdPI3jvyhMTRgKVsqyQjvFShyWRGg/s4000/IMG_5814.JPG" style="font-family: georgia; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNQm2Ogq4H5Vnf0JCDpOPMMagMLzfTHU83PqasgHYpNN4sFyoCY2vxssDdeAmF2-_h8HI0MqqLI5AKhfnp4_C2nJxU9fng8XKlE9mrUNUgr8-MJwevVcGp4VXBCyQbP2dkA371HpJAL74-HS6KjWINAhLA6PVJtdPI3jvyhMTRgKVsqyQjvFShyWRGg/w640-h426/IMG_5814.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's an example of the scoring cards.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was a table already set up, so we just used that as it
was.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The terrain is 15-20mm scale so we
just assumed with was a space-halfling village we were fighting over!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We deployed, and I spread the Robot Legion out to seize the
three closest objectives on Turn 1. I had no scoring cards that would count,
but it was a set up ready for turn 2 scoring. I only had one unit in ambush, my
flying psychic. I kept him floating about ready to drop into a key location on
turn 2.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrPvvg8WG2QGvEbpAvE7secsrpZ6B4NBWBdpCX0hjHFCw9-bBxHU0YF8PT6NxAHvNU8Cuq8wUQxBc9usQfx4HAlKqFyq3J5pOd8r-IrfMM9YY2OG0gn683Z90V1hlbOQktFNpC6K70B3oXjoEtu5EM1Z12wuP_zV6LAKUs6BSMfeBR8MtwgUDJrDYSCw/s4000/IMG_5800.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrPvvg8WG2QGvEbpAvE7secsrpZ6B4NBWBdpCX0hjHFCw9-bBxHU0YF8PT6NxAHvNU8Cuq8wUQxBc9usQfx4HAlKqFyq3J5pOd8r-IrfMM9YY2OG0gn683Z90V1hlbOQktFNpC6K70B3oXjoEtu5EM1Z12wuP_zV6LAKUs6BSMfeBR8MtwgUDJrDYSCw/w640-h426/IMG_5800.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Robot Commanders deployed and ready to push their troops forwards.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Dark Elf Raiders did similar, but kept three units in ambush, so they had less on the board to contest and capture objective on Turn 1.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The opening moves were cagy from both of us, with cautious moves forwards to secure the objective markers available to us. The Robot Legions opened hostilities, with a few shots that knocked off a dark elf jetbike.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">End of turn 1, the dark elves took the early lead with 2 Victory Points (VPs) scored.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWoBH0oBKh2Eay3TqpUuGvVTsf6O9vJU7JGvNkj7E4Jh7sqkvK4YCQaQxPiTXwLuMQsLfUA26FBRNGGuV6g2nYoCD7RUfgc3dQi60JGYriDWlTNdOSvwgWVUuPV3iF4Zjsw0L3qEYm4nDKUuqab_oneJuvb1jh_aL7kM6E1pDzVNhjAeqf-G9kS-NSQ/s4000/IMG_5801.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWoBH0oBKh2Eay3TqpUuGvVTsf6O9vJU7JGvNkj7E4Jh7sqkvK4YCQaQxPiTXwLuMQsLfUA26FBRNGGuV6g2nYoCD7RUfgc3dQi60JGYriDWlTNdOSvwgWVUuPV3iF4Zjsw0L3qEYm4nDKUuqab_oneJuvb1jh_aL7kM6E1pDzVNhjAeqf-G9kS-NSQ/w640-h426/IMG_5801.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The battle lines at the end of turn 1.<br />I put a string force in the centre, claiming three objective markers.<br />The dark elves keep their strength over on my right flank.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turn 2 opened with the ambushes arriving. I dropped my Robot Legion psychic into a world of pain over by objectives 5 and 6. I had scoring cards that applied to both; however, my reasoning was not for the psychic unit to survive and take an objective. I was convinced he’d be wiped out immediately! But I put him there so that my opponent HAD to deal with him, which would take the attention of ne of his units (at least) away from what I was doing elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Dark Elf ambush was rather more comprehensive! He dropped a flying transport on my left flank, carrying his psychic leader, and on the other flank he dropped his strike unit.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Normally, ambushers must deploy more than 9” away from all enemy, but these chaps are able to deploy closer (more than 1” away). He dropped then down ready to take out my tripod. Nasty!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFzAvxRfPUIqo5nxBZUPFx77Bq7YG4l3ZUeCmrhMo4dpZKBLBGOlU9EoYrp8gsUl6XYGi1ap5ziXwT0xVGc1UxGHCi7kuilgx8aVFwxgNc_aX68DhHlm7iebyGE4DKoiQpfETijKrYMrhoS5Qn5rJbZDHwnNZe_MpJ66j7zCEovxQfv7dWKmWqIfPvLw/s4000/IMG_5802.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFzAvxRfPUIqo5nxBZUPFx77Bq7YG4l3ZUeCmrhMo4dpZKBLBGOlU9EoYrp8gsUl6XYGi1ap5ziXwT0xVGc1UxGHCi7kuilgx8aVFwxgNc_aX68DhHlm7iebyGE4DKoiQpfETijKrYMrhoS5Qn5rJbZDHwnNZe_MpJ66j7zCEovxQfv7dWKmWqIfPvLw/w640-h426/IMG_5802.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All those poisonous shard guns pointing at him I really didn't hold out <br />much hope for my psychic. As it turned out he's a tough little blighter!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGIHUDu4A2aPmHNjyxx4m3nENGgVa08PNLg64jYRMyDOuvBwDf8E0Orh7js8IaiQgoIgPm3qi1SYVDGBXVGPjwlsDrnjeZ7YJb6SezxlmC4E6UuqF-nXiXNke-JzEmhg_Wipzrt42L8qVqC6Hw2vvOeljMSFR0pPigwUBSAvJmuPSWSu6jdYe3wOjRQ/s4000/IMG_5803.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGIHUDu4A2aPmHNjyxx4m3nENGgVa08PNLg64jYRMyDOuvBwDf8E0Orh7js8IaiQgoIgPm3qi1SYVDGBXVGPjwlsDrnjeZ7YJb6SezxlmC4E6UuqF-nXiXNke-JzEmhg_Wipzrt42L8qVqC6Hw2vvOeljMSFR0pPigwUBSAvJmuPSWSu6jdYe3wOjRQ/w640-h426/IMG_5803.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark Elf Raiders pounce from beneath the sands and set ready to take <br />down the giant Robot of Doom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonRoXQgrh9YahTjgjNgC31zxdsFu18C6xXbOvfNj5EzaY4FEPH0ecW8yitRpfo4Vn8QXnPffFs0C9QToOgb4UJtorvNLY_Ao01mQAEgYnuqwsvg66d6DLyg7z_GKgw3DJSgnPRV7vKYaA2wjKaxhkZ41SeMcMdfCfIwLomYTk_E_j337TSB0-qXaAWQ/s4000/IMG_5804.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonRoXQgrh9YahTjgjNgC31zxdsFu18C6xXbOvfNj5EzaY4FEPH0ecW8yitRpfo4Vn8QXnPffFs0C9QToOgb4UJtorvNLY_Ao01mQAEgYnuqwsvg66d6DLyg7z_GKgw3DJSgnPRV7vKYaA2wjKaxhkZ41SeMcMdfCfIwLomYTk_E_j337TSB0-qXaAWQ/w640-h426/IMG_5804.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Dark Elf flying tank swoops in to threat the Robot Legion's left flank.<br />Aboard is their psychic commander.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPpIrlS3_wpm3gSO8GugSdGkieiLnBFZ8llx1w-Wsn3u1RAN8Zkfnb08vYnAahv6dPDtS0LG6NrELXNFfsnyymBzdotXDYXymiyZhVjMT020H_z82qKnozug3bX2byUcL2i8n7YFxPFNiuWDNk5Nc0_DmJEJMiQTJRd_0qCw2vhGx4gQnBFkDJb8fF6w/s4000/IMG_5807.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPpIrlS3_wpm3gSO8GugSdGkieiLnBFZ8llx1w-Wsn3u1RAN8Zkfnb08vYnAahv6dPDtS0LG6NrELXNFfsnyymBzdotXDYXymiyZhVjMT020H_z82qKnozug3bX2byUcL2i8n7YFxPFNiuWDNk5Nc0_DmJEJMiQTJRd_0qCw2vhGx4gQnBFkDJb8fF6w/w640-h426/IMG_5807.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can flank me all you like but when I need 3's and I'm rolling like this, there's not<br />much you can do!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turn 2 then proceeded and my opponent opened his action trying to deal with my ambushing psychic. I was surprised as I thought he’d got for killing my tripod. However, that suited me, and amazingly my psychic shrugged off the enemy attacks and survived! He would go on to absorb a lot of attention and firepower, and still survive on the board. A nice little distraction unit that worked to me satisfaction. Definitely my “most valuable player” for the game, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So I responded by wiping out the dark elf ambush.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EEo26H4LVxZKWAEpiIS558uV82odWhUkqmccjP5-ey7xIfAgNTzPdjgAGWnXzsYQTbY6sxJ2_SVE4rvThYvk3NthOP7JTwp4yi9XWXfnuyVadxp0WrR70bkcIMnEn9-NpAX-oYJ-FiwmVYXBkLT1kSKDoGC79saPPSe0UzCP-XpWG6issDxp_iSrEg/s4000/IMG_5808.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EEo26H4LVxZKWAEpiIS558uV82odWhUkqmccjP5-ey7xIfAgNTzPdjgAGWnXzsYQTbY6sxJ2_SVE4rvThYvk3NthOP7JTwp4yi9XWXfnuyVadxp0WrR70bkcIMnEn9-NpAX-oYJ-FiwmVYXBkLT1kSKDoGC79saPPSe0UzCP-XpWG6issDxp_iSrEg/w640-h426/IMG_5808.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tripod backed off and used is death ray to thin out the ambusher's ranks.<br />The a unit of Robots moved back, killed off the dark elf survivors in melee, and <br />stepped back up to the line. This scored me a "destroy enemy unit in melee" card!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The dark elf flying tank swooped in on my flank, but again the toughness and regeneration capabilities of the Robot Legions held out against it, blunting the action here and holding our ground (and objectives).</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDb5eB8HkWrhnA5Gc8rLU_zrXnbgDApr2FS9EbVIxtxgS-ewg-uD1bAlcKH8U4lMn33h5r_iJwsHZCNUOnBUKBGTsRZRvlEt38yv_Adj9Fr2vED7aEE4FKs0J0WtsjoHrExoguZlxxND4AC2am_fp--me88uHAuYBtf8QkcJd-14W8Ehfw6sSxDW2xQ/s4000/IMG_5809.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDb5eB8HkWrhnA5Gc8rLU_zrXnbgDApr2FS9EbVIxtxgS-ewg-uD1bAlcKH8U4lMn33h5r_iJwsHZCNUOnBUKBGTsRZRvlEt38yv_Adj9Fr2vED7aEE4FKs0J0WtsjoHrExoguZlxxND4AC2am_fp--me88uHAuYBtf8QkcJd-14W8Ehfw6sSxDW2xQ/w640-h426/IMG_5809.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When it charges, the tank scores automatic "impact" hits, but the Robots were able to <br />shrug off most of the damage, although they were pinned.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I pushed the Robots into the field, taking the centre and denying the dark elves one of their scoring cards (make sure there are no enemy units within 6” of the centre of the battlefield).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The dark elf forces mostly sat back, not pressing forwards into the Robot positions.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">End of turn 2, the scores evened up with both sides on 4VPs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzidZMYP7_knwLhWYpHcelzb62kPrBKLup5sHHfLgOxgNt7gi792Vrk4D7QJd8KqYSWe0mkpSPuFgwyqVFmkoNqopMBHY0q5e_CrKE2DMdepoHlGjl8eGy_7Mq6SqKqV6SNHfcOU7hBn4ALbtf424NyT6MmLkypzlr48wDlBaCj4-AMdrvAYW9mG28w/s4000/IMG_5810.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzidZMYP7_knwLhWYpHcelzb62kPrBKLup5sHHfLgOxgNt7gi792Vrk4D7QJd8KqYSWe0mkpSPuFgwyqVFmkoNqopMBHY0q5e_CrKE2DMdepoHlGjl8eGy_7Mq6SqKqV6SNHfcOU7hBn4ALbtf424NyT6MmLkypzlr48wDlBaCj4-AMdrvAYW9mG28w/w640-h426/IMG_5810.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Robots are well positioned holding the centre ground of the battle.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGlA8MyDDPRVJiiCcqsEaay8d6ee2Wju6K7G3yVDjfAXqiqI9JgKmrVxh6WDqZMadJC1P-5lnFYVI0tt-Hkb-9D7M7WnkEAiNJyASKRr3sLaqZOwibeeD5IDT_5MVa7qbE8gixcCV39S4QJlSA_pngiD6OgtrOo6-jbQFIebYthTgj02msuQQFSLAlA/s4000/IMG_5811.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGlA8MyDDPRVJiiCcqsEaay8d6ee2Wju6K7G3yVDjfAXqiqI9JgKmrVxh6WDqZMadJC1P-5lnFYVI0tt-Hkb-9D7M7WnkEAiNJyASKRr3sLaqZOwibeeD5IDT_5MVa7qbE8gixcCV39S4QJlSA_pngiD6OgtrOo6-jbQFIebYthTgj02msuQQFSLAlA/w640-h426/IMG_5811.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dark elf leader is lurking close by though, ready to take out some metal dudes.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turn 3 began with the dark elves, now much denuded force. Robot Legion attacks had stripped off a lot of the dark elf units and battered those remaining. Two main fighting zones developed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The dark elf raider transport, supported by flying troops, pushed on trying to seize the objective marker and collapse the Robot flank. My Robot tripod commander moved in to deal out some damage and shore up the position, wiping out the dark elf tank, and securing the flank there.</span></p></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1gOeBcdQKSi2mL-D9RL3UushEsfHh_8sz8IhsbKmn3gk9MiOyYcnAkPfZp5kHhqP284XJodPIG4Xkz28h1JnqcDi1uz9Q_oGCLMWzYCCXJaWhh7R2Us98laS3LiGJyPSxCcmXAYZKEhNhfR-wtG3Y6-tpRPa1Qu8Xo_jbn2t2p_Hscpa3OW7q0FvZA/s4000/IMG_5816.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1gOeBcdQKSi2mL-D9RL3UushEsfHh_8sz8IhsbKmn3gk9MiOyYcnAkPfZp5kHhqP284XJodPIG4Xkz28h1JnqcDi1uz9Q_oGCLMWzYCCXJaWhh7R2Us98laS3LiGJyPSxCcmXAYZKEhNhfR-wtG3Y6-tpRPa1Qu8Xo_jbn2t2p_Hscpa3OW7q0FvZA/w640-h426/IMG_5816.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Robot Commander counter-attacks with his tank-killing weapons.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAqyiyow5kKwwJjqeywrPFt3jekniwE0YC2RTdeSUAkG2bLndKwduEPsw3Feyjr-TQ_ZwhtC2al1n3eMCErETlXsMIS4GrW20-7vgV7Z7dKL-wo5_qXQDfBVPoZDblCshbH9ioB-HIV0wksunJTQctlSUCLWX4xhAWL8S-YQF_r6-VB5Dyoo8VYlb6Q/s4000/IMG_5817.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAqyiyow5kKwwJjqeywrPFt3jekniwE0YC2RTdeSUAkG2bLndKwduEPsw3Feyjr-TQ_ZwhtC2al1n3eMCErETlXsMIS4GrW20-7vgV7Z7dKL-wo5_qXQDfBVPoZDblCshbH9ioB-HIV0wksunJTQctlSUCLWX4xhAWL8S-YQF_r6-VB5Dyoo8VYlb6Q/w640-h426/IMG_5817.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The dark elf psychic wisely disembarks and uses his metal powers to inflict some damage.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRzY5ZGvgp_4taSayrn6YLaDfjADBVR3FIJuKXiecXYVP844AnO-VavPZ-cFJ-CdLGmJs3DrpLIW116js1q0DM6fVENaT3m6Wkh3cuoPTzLnOwcWCs-6Bq04yCQJkLDR4A8TRBV0ij217lzQugTkWtm1KjngI18ehI9Kav53GpdNsJ3YICHHqCWlnxQ/s4000/IMG_5818.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRzY5ZGvgp_4taSayrn6YLaDfjADBVR3FIJuKXiecXYVP844AnO-VavPZ-cFJ-CdLGmJs3DrpLIW116js1q0DM6fVENaT3m6Wkh3cuoPTzLnOwcWCs-6Bq04yCQJkLDR4A8TRBV0ij217lzQugTkWtm1KjngI18ehI9Kav53GpdNsJ3YICHHqCWlnxQ/w640-h426/IMG_5818.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The raiding tank is torn to pieces by concerted Robot attacks.<br />They go on to kill the dark elf psychic and shatter the incoming flying dark elves.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">On the other side of the table. My heavy melee unit pushed in to support my badly wounded psychic who was still causing the dark elves trouble. The dark elf commander and his unit were wiped out and the Robots took control here too.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mjtnSn6W_kV1ogCMXZ25dIc6_OeVgvYp_B2fl-H4VHpIJZ8A4Mld4M7ZWPyWV4h0A4nAlQ3jh0i2z4nTEunE42qTuqyd9iS6pFn1dr8Ch68ooMJIUD0Xe83fdt34-u-FkFXNSj5OZzjhHAQOF6EprAylgIzZisVRek9dFQvKNoZocO4yZw_w3kkAaw/s4000/IMG_5815.JPG" style="font-family: georgia; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mjtnSn6W_kV1ogCMXZ25dIc6_OeVgvYp_B2fl-H4VHpIJZ8A4Mld4M7ZWPyWV4h0A4nAlQ3jh0i2z4nTEunE42qTuqyd9iS6pFn1dr8Ch68ooMJIUD0Xe83fdt34-u-FkFXNSj5OZzjhHAQOF6EprAylgIzZisVRek9dFQvKNoZocO4yZw_w3kkAaw/w640-h426/IMG_5815.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After bitter fighting the three-legged Robots destroy the dark elf leader and push on to link up <br />with their psychic (surprised to see him still alive)!<br />The dark elf unit remaining stands little chance against the lethal Robot blades.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">End of turn 3, both sides scored to get the points up to 6VP each. A very close game!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbRYS9b1QD-RZ1qCXJYWBIAyc8GFJs-RhStcFeELQp6tPbceKT00xHHfm8ZQ2_wrezpBpQkkMqR3UeoLctgQ6jRCioAUGJ4guFc4rVZ8BBfFxIiTka_I_sKcAFPAu_USQ_2xdp5OHP_EMiMyStB86NU5aJsWM1lFn2sM4NKnlsNrr1jeqaUJiPD7EaQ/s4000/IMG_5820.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbRYS9b1QD-RZ1qCXJYWBIAyc8GFJs-RhStcFeELQp6tPbceKT00xHHfm8ZQ2_wrezpBpQkkMqR3UeoLctgQ6jRCioAUGJ4guFc4rVZ8BBfFxIiTka_I_sKcAFPAu_USQ_2xdp5OHP_EMiMyStB86NU5aJsWM1lFn2sM4NKnlsNrr1jeqaUJiPD7EaQ/w640-h426/IMG_5820.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBk23YruXBSKoUG8HTs99wfMIThSu0FAHOdEPzqzy7I9Sda7ZUFwgodHwhGOaqJmJbSqYDK_8an1WFRxjGp6o4AxDAhvPGw2u49YB5syRXmgSNjeGBOcOz3pLX_T4l6riyR7RsHbJrGn8AudMJWnxUSH6jqiFrhns7iVt3uAbdKp5y8LKapGW2QKWrZQ/s4000/IMG_5821.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBk23YruXBSKoUG8HTs99wfMIThSu0FAHOdEPzqzy7I9Sda7ZUFwgodHwhGOaqJmJbSqYDK_8an1WFRxjGp6o4AxDAhvPGw2u49YB5syRXmgSNjeGBOcOz3pLX_T4l6riyR7RsHbJrGn8AudMJWnxUSH6jqiFrhns7iVt3uAbdKp5y8LKapGW2QKWrZQ/w426-h640/IMG_5821.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Turn 4 started with very little dark elf power left in
play.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Robots survived mostly intact.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We looked at the scoring card we each had,
and it looked bleak for the dark elves.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They didn’t really have the capability left to score their objective
cards, whereas it looked likely that the Robots did.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We played out the final turn with desperate last-minute
moves made. The dark elf remnants were swept away and the Robots took the
field.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">End of turn 4, the Robots took the battle with 8VP to the dark elves
6VP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A damned close-run thing!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another excellent battle and a lot of fun to play. The game
was in the balance until turn 4 really. Turn 3 was devastating for the dark elves,
and they lost too many units to be able to really contest turn 4 though, but if
the scoring cards had been kind the dark elves still have enough battlefield
control to score so all was not lost until the end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Robot Legion vs Prime Brothers </i></b></span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the other table, another Robot Legion took on a
force of Prime Brothers. It was another close battle but the Robot Legions prevailed
in the late game too!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pictures of the action.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzV1B1nHSS4I4yeoqi2Clk6oXnTu6poFS3QAyGIi0PoK_y4vFWvYDt1i875Q1rU0sipOsJxkZjwMBVbqAU4cprsZYTp63S5r9Jk9TDs88-N4BGRHXYU5wkOTx2DWxpItbTsoR_bO_o41TdFt_hZmgiR8nxXUN_kAExTVeXqLqtV4IbztuK2SWKbp5WQ/s640/a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzV1B1nHSS4I4yeoqi2Clk6oXnTu6poFS3QAyGIi0PoK_y4vFWvYDt1i875Q1rU0sipOsJxkZjwMBVbqAU4cprsZYTp63S5r9Jk9TDs88-N4BGRHXYU5wkOTx2DWxpItbTsoR_bO_o41TdFt_hZmgiR8nxXUN_kAExTVeXqLqtV4IbztuK2SWKbp5WQ/s320/a.jpeg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEl7TWMgQLsVxzvfJY1f7rHes3NqCa-932ck2JvYo9SwyVDIuLTwHcrxB2I6OrXYzhvVMqZc7-cBVnkOcNMQQsuDnfG78aNJR99SKyi3GHKdVxEbndv2gDsDdDoJtXrbC5dFbV30_vwdCO99gWPbAg5WK1D7EiMKWGl6evjfEOAGqMzFS5UA0QF4eq2A/s640/c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-64998019697705592892022-12-09T15:14:00.002+00:002023-06-21T13:33:45.813+01:00Orks, "'Ere we go!", "Waaaaagh!!" Etc.<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My journey with <a href="https://onepagerules.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Page Rules</a> continues at a pace. We’ve
played a few games now and very much enjoying it. Its wonderful to hear jaded old <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grognard#:~:text=grognard%20(plural%20grognards),final%20French%20charge%20at%20Waterloo." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grognards</a>
like us howling with joy and laughter at a game. We play all sorts and while we
love our hobby, games can be quiet, even muted as we earnestly push our Panzer
IV’s or Alexandrian Companions about the tabletop battlefield. One of my
friends said, <i>“I never thought at 61 I’d be playing with Games Workshop toys”</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, these rules have lit a fire under my paint table and
I’m really pushing on with painting armies I never thought would make it out of
the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This time it’s a collection of second-hand
sci fi <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/searchResults?N=710747498+854227620" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orks</a> that I’ve gathered over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They needed a bit of rapair and some larger bases, which I added. The ones with jetpacks are still a bit unstable, especially were they have some metal parts added, so I may have to figure out some additional method of shifting them to be "bottom heavy". </span>Some of them have at least two or three coats of paint on them, I think.
Can I be bothered stripping them? Of course not! So, an undercoat of black,
white <a href="https://www.thearmypainter.com/advanced-techniques/spray/zenithal-priming/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zenithal highlight</a>, and away I go.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As usual, things lick along at a pace, but I realise after
the skin-wash and metal stages, that the zenithal may not have been the best
choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m now faced with getting the
black back in as I’m painting these little fellows as “<a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Goffs#:~:text=The%20Goffs%20are%20an%20Ork,thrill%20and%20thunder%20of%20battle." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goff</a>” Orks, which are
mainly black. <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Pareto-principle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pareto’s Principle</a> kicks in and with this batch I reckon the last 20%
of the work is going to take 80% of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll also be painting the chequerboard patterns – that’s
going to take time as well.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I used to
have a lot of transfer sheets, with these sorts of patterns on them, but I
think it threw them all away during the last house move.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ah well.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I think the next batch will be left black without the
zenithal highlight, and I’ll under-paint in the skin with white.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’ll still take time, but hopefully less
time that the current processes.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, here's the kick off with the first batch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TDTW2KiNotMPY7B19287BRPPkFd08P9NLJGhVaNV94IzEe453djLp85Zwtj7-NrH3ZOKdyoPK3QBYD1PY4CGEDYEouQAJ7UdXDHGr-2O0543aPIDbsl7k3GNE44DXVZGiLNzYvMVDGY85n4EcoYRYUoFTNgkhbucDzJws4yZIyfRrBUji5Npj0mp3w/s4000/IMG_5788.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TDTW2KiNotMPY7B19287BRPPkFd08P9NLJGhVaNV94IzEe453djLp85Zwtj7-NrH3ZOKdyoPK3QBYD1PY4CGEDYEouQAJ7UdXDHGr-2O0543aPIDbsl7k3GNE44DXVZGiLNzYvMVDGY85n4EcoYRYUoFTNgkhbucDzJws4yZIyfRrBUji5Npj0mp3w/w640-h426/IMG_5788.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The first batch of about 50 little green dudes.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgdt4RBy6JME4roipuaw7RWY2ALdq-K1VlygPbedmICqCwJBjUDsOZGnWo91birbiYjGNBXI1UAuAVWVyxyr1DZ8WjeLgEfPiRN19mx1_PYSWIRZBn15QGZKg921jH20YsyR9MEykSZlgsy0yX3CTRB3hGAsJ2kTrF6Wnf-SDfWSOHN1Q6oCjQJnY1Q/s4000/IMG_5790.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgdt4RBy6JME4roipuaw7RWY2ALdq-K1VlygPbedmICqCwJBjUDsOZGnWo91birbiYjGNBXI1UAuAVWVyxyr1DZ8WjeLgEfPiRN19mx1_PYSWIRZBn15QGZKg921jH20YsyR9MEykSZlgsy0yX3CTRB3hGAsJ2kTrF6Wnf-SDfWSOHN1Q6oCjQJnY1Q/w640-h426/IMG_5790.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">One of the Bosses, or "Nobs" as the Orks call them. <br />He's certainly had a good few coats of paint and the detail is starting to be lost.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ0ZE0BQKFo_xLXi4OK-LpJu0_Ev0nWo597QWk-BGjSdpJpkSwMQCGqn23s4-Ap0_ACHooa36A2Qbgjp40AGiliGNYuaNKB3BcHin9nzx5hZ1UaG1WEuuHDSo6A-_Ut5Uaa8cm5d_03RiiaZ4y3kqUYwvSMKYxHbY5bIW0hFzQ7AXt1xVfw-HQfP--A/s4000/IMG_5789.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ0ZE0BQKFo_xLXi4OK-LpJu0_Ev0nWo597QWk-BGjSdpJpkSwMQCGqn23s4-Ap0_ACHooa36A2Qbgjp40AGiliGNYuaNKB3BcHin9nzx5hZ1UaG1WEuuHDSo6A-_Ut5Uaa8cm5d_03RiiaZ4y3kqUYwvSMKYxHbY5bIW0hFzQ7AXt1xVfw-HQfP--A/w640-h426/IMG_5789.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"Da Boyz". These have hand weapons and pistols - a suitably Goff load-out.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrKXSQTxzFmjTf_XNwN1fH9MsZwGo_1Z5NZIOYwPJr50uc7vNVeI6xK5Sf_p94gupwnPx8rqTnp5zs_2FwevwGmFwAd5AIiXBSYwqJkE48vIOkJNVRJZXxx3M7k1_B3um3cvRAldYpHyD3HOAVbl_yjlfoobHZNWlePIAs2DkKU4fAbislQpP6IgMcg/s4000/IMG_5791.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrKXSQTxzFmjTf_XNwN1fH9MsZwGo_1Z5NZIOYwPJr50uc7vNVeI6xK5Sf_p94gupwnPx8rqTnp5zs_2FwevwGmFwAd5AIiXBSYwqJkE48vIOkJNVRJZXxx3M7k1_B3um3cvRAldYpHyD3HOAVbl_yjlfoobHZNWlePIAs2DkKU4fAbislQpP6IgMcg/w640-h426/IMG_5791.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's the paints I'm using for the ork skin. It worked out well I think.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8ax9x2AV1aX1uckVj887_UQctNBA94OplQ0u-tXrRC5lxQgMfUZY_jXSXNN1k-NJxucX9pG5MwxSLHewlDwtG7RiGGh437khJHM1X0Z8N9WHu_idKgpby4fBl85iQgw1T2x_z6OCg5qqQL-16UQq00grVf799ynkIdTlHLpGbU8lDmgAIcBgf4e9EQ/s4000/IMG_5793.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8ax9x2AV1aX1uckVj887_UQctNBA94OplQ0u-tXrRC5lxQgMfUZY_jXSXNN1k-NJxucX9pG5MwxSLHewlDwtG7RiGGh437khJHM1X0Z8N9WHu_idKgpby4fBl85iQgw1T2x_z6OCg5qqQL-16UQq00grVf799ynkIdTlHLpGbU8lDmgAIcBgf4e9EQ/w640-h426/IMG_5793.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's the box of other Orks awaiting attention, and a few bags of bits for repairs!<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-9hMlAF01V6DhncyMeVOIyZ5avXeEyH3nFc0xkSmKcs1DWeNJGES_7gXa_lTWFmgSHbjmldITcoyk_TA3yZe2B2BL6wVE4BbHbs3MErBcrLRjoHfJSAQGctH2o_4moSGY8YKIgPegvSKYTaUcDEVviYOmccHlwbVE0ZK_ZF2Q5yufUmmeiYcONJoTw/s4000/IMG_5792.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-9hMlAF01V6DhncyMeVOIyZ5avXeEyH3nFc0xkSmKcs1DWeNJGES_7gXa_lTWFmgSHbjmldITcoyk_TA3yZe2B2BL6wVE4BbHbs3MErBcrLRjoHfJSAQGctH2o_4moSGY8YKIgPegvSKYTaUcDEVviYOmccHlwbVE0ZK_ZF2Q5yufUmmeiYcONJoTw/w426-h640/IMG_5792.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's about 100 models in here I think. Mostly Boyz (basic Orks)<br />Some I think are from the old GorkaMorka game, and their design<br />hasn't stood the test of time.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzcQJxXNv-nEVQqBBUQcBA-7o3CBIoc3JzT3CSTZe67KQ4VLXf4rqmTX4GdnJfP841mphj2cjO8WKpgars0O_5X5c_wRd5spiUc-Z80PsGrrXpvE9ywDnDJDgsY0_VoqmSvVEjElTM85StLuHApToodaViW_222v1fZ1Ohejl5xlWfZbGj43jYxZhfA/s4000/IMG_5794.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzcQJxXNv-nEVQqBBUQcBA-7o3CBIoc3JzT3CSTZe67KQ4VLXf4rqmTX4GdnJfP841mphj2cjO8WKpgars0O_5X5c_wRd5spiUc-Z80PsGrrXpvE9ywDnDJDgsY0_VoqmSvVEjElTM85StLuHApToodaViW_222v1fZ1Ohejl5xlWfZbGj43jYxZhfA/w640-h426/IMG_5794.JPG" width="640" /></span></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzcQJxXNv-nEVQqBBUQcBA-7o3CBIoc3JzT3CSTZe67KQ4VLXf4rqmTX4GdnJfP841mphj2cjO8WKpgars0O_5X5c_wRd5spiUc-Z80PsGrrXpvE9ywDnDJDgsY0_VoqmSvVEjElTM85StLuHApToodaViW_222v1fZ1Ohejl5xlWfZbGj43jYxZhfA/s4000/IMG_5794.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71PRFwyLu_PezR9FGnYNuQ1F9wASQAP6O_-W1FmfYkkCW7yP__Hx210zuvT-bqOlZiHMe5MGHU2-4u2atMnWQnQPwkiUIc6xSSfp9rLpo_P_024im-qdN83xbbkvUMmkghfaRRGJ0EX4G4kZveFlQmcxINY5HHkDj1sP4Q4bqs7e2L4RHllm6PCsk5w/s4000/IMG_5796.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71PRFwyLu_PezR9FGnYNuQ1F9wASQAP6O_-W1FmfYkkCW7yP__Hx210zuvT-bqOlZiHMe5MGHU2-4u2atMnWQnQPwkiUIc6xSSfp9rLpo_P_024im-qdN83xbbkvUMmkghfaRRGJ0EX4G4kZveFlQmcxINY5HHkDj1sP4Q4bqs7e2L4RHllm6PCsk5w/w640-h426/IMG_5796.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And the metal is on.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>These should look good when they’re done though.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TBC...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">...continued</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OK, its been a week or so and I've made a bit of progress on these little chaps. Not going to lie, but these orks have been a pain to paint. I've not been able to segregate parts for swift painting, or use my usual time-saving techniques, because the models themselves mix some different colours at their core. And of course, being Goffs, I wanted to lay down some checkerboard patterns, which took a bit of time to get done.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">However, about 90 of the little chaps are done so not bad progress considering...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1618" data-original-width="3109" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qwQ-WQaYYONNTDikg0edss-mNgwnfHDhYKhkhAMGmKYkC5OTaj-2vY72phL4-0OVJV5qpopqHr2tJX-qdKqLm_QXorNYvT5vDu-OeTmvxXre54owkBgf-_rUr0XOtr4DkAHm-FUOsmsqx-7N4AGXy5EYSi5uJ3yS0mgGkovPKUfRlzBPw0DU6tjM-A/w640-h334/IMG_5847.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obligatory Mob shot. Goffs like infantry wave attacks...</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qwQ-WQaYYONNTDikg0edss-mNgwnfHDhYKhkhAMGmKYkC5OTaj-2vY72phL4-0OVJV5qpopqHr2tJX-qdKqLm_QXorNYvT5vDu-OeTmvxXre54owkBgf-_rUr0XOtr4DkAHm-FUOsmsqx-7N4AGXy5EYSi5uJ3yS0mgGkovPKUfRlzBPw0DU6tjM-A/s3109/IMG_5847.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXuDknuQ4jNCE_Cj0TtRPj31bv6VSx_eUgj_uQaV8FJIIOM-PewURP93uHsOtmhFnNLseO1XEN1TO-ObLGSDvbro1fxiCXwavgGthrKMeNyXXaU8V-DJQY4lNHVQik76FuCodKjnbIedxuXS_tAjydDog7E8jkrierykEYNjWUl33et0qu9aH-YgzdA/w640-h426/IMG_5849.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahem...WAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXuDknuQ4jNCE_Cj0TtRPj31bv6VSx_eUgj_uQaV8FJIIOM-PewURP93uHsOtmhFnNLseO1XEN1TO-ObLGSDvbro1fxiCXwavgGthrKMeNyXXaU8V-DJQY4lNHVQik76FuCodKjnbIedxuXS_tAjydDog7E8jkrierykEYNjWUl33et0qu9aH-YgzdA/s4000/IMG_5849.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2050" data-original-width="4000" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi658YPCx6a5tPS28slb6ikz4AUASQJZVqUV58dKTDIXZ6JNto46SVzpwq3QFQVk4SPrsWIodJa0I4h-qcIfg1HvwyaAmsmHzag4LFesi4dliHZYlEEQbSy85akKsjJpvKn46sMhdyTTgIwG31n8EPX6yRKJUXN6oiC6orpl3P1GiGuNWGZaEzmoUD1JA/w640-h328/IMG_5850.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These dudes have some serious firepower. Shame they're such a "bad shot".</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi658YPCx6a5tPS28slb6ikz4AUASQJZVqUV58dKTDIXZ6JNto46SVzpwq3QFQVk4SPrsWIodJa0I4h-qcIfg1HvwyaAmsmHzag4LFesi4dliHZYlEEQbSy85akKsjJpvKn46sMhdyTTgIwG31n8EPX6yRKJUXN6oiC6orpl3P1GiGuNWGZaEzmoUD1JA/s4000/IMG_5850.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2240" data-original-width="1574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF6YsbuLEENXYQ6sSqmrz2J-1fS49u6m6gEUTf3_tATsZKiWmma7ZUqncO6C-86Tm-w_IiFARpcxQRVPEZvFUaABc2O5JGcwC21S_XwHpzVX5XyiRKAn-Xb_C-K6GYu5Pv0gdxvzOEIBQMMGkSkjjusXNpETATofwny_nMPVnmwTde9-w5L_qhTYa4w/w450-h640/IMG_5851.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="450" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well...he looks like he's down to sort stuff out.<br />This is a good example of just going with these rescued models<br />as they come. If I'd have built it the squig back-banner would<br />have been vertical.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF6YsbuLEENXYQ6sSqmrz2J-1fS49u6m6gEUTf3_tATsZKiWmma7ZUqncO6C-86Tm-w_IiFARpcxQRVPEZvFUaABc2O5JGcwC21S_XwHpzVX5XyiRKAn-Xb_C-K6GYu5Pv0gdxvzOEIBQMMGkSkjjusXNpETATofwny_nMPVnmwTde9-w5L_qhTYa4w/s2240/IMG_5851.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDHzCMalLQZseXnThuDEISAk1-PW1euCsUWgiUOyvhbtWm_keWgDtCix99uWLLPPW2O1MHRrIeLyagWWa4VVks3LNo0ZJKNv5v48Ax7UU0-99EyK44n7lUAM7P4dNBmpvNlvGL7yhzAuvPC2axfmIhBxG4KBVOXw4W9SPBfzKcyCo2SwoOQ6fgSo_-Wg/w640-h426/IMG_5855.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These helicopter things were relatively easy to paint, but feel VERY fragile.<br />I reckon they'll break easily in the rough and tumble of a game.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDHzCMalLQZseXnThuDEISAk1-PW1euCsUWgiUOyvhbtWm_keWgDtCix99uWLLPPW2O1MHRrIeLyagWWa4VVks3LNo0ZJKNv5v48Ax7UU0-99EyK44n7lUAM7P4dNBmpvNlvGL7yhzAuvPC2axfmIhBxG4KBVOXw4W9SPBfzKcyCo2SwoOQ6fgSo_-Wg/s4000/IMG_5855.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2366" data-original-width="1376" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipR8nk_AE9FpnsKZVKcZqCh_wFZaDFZa3Sl1DFWj3NaQC-NGFdezG4vnGSP5Rrz37eoF4yvZwlxM1ZUkj7cihTrTHZUteBF4mtqF7woIA9P6KInRleL6jqP3yNCzfdQK-SSmJURrmcaE27bRE-gSqJl7GExQddONMbBAkjv9Tc-CNIjRLKah6W61qLtA/w372-h640/IMG_5856.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="372" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got 10 of these jet-pack orks. Some of the parts are<br />metal, which makes them top-heavy.<br />These Weebles will wabble and very definitely<br />will fall down.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipR8nk_AE9FpnsKZVKcZqCh_wFZaDFZa3Sl1DFWj3NaQC-NGFdezG4vnGSP5Rrz37eoF4yvZwlxM1ZUkj7cihTrTHZUteBF4mtqF7woIA9P6KInRleL6jqP3yNCzfdQK-SSmJURrmcaE27bRE-gSqJl7GExQddONMbBAkjv9Tc-CNIjRLKah6W61qLtA/s2366/IMG_5856.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgm5PzvOk7iNevZ7oacqeTELgZ7o9_Btic6I1uUBKuvhNneBNYN70dHliFNJ8jHbmMSUXwTQSsYC41EEdU2-oWkgpsr50UsHuceWh3MwOvfT-nXdzDMmfPUlkyzCZ_xtM1Laratamwxu1iajKH0Slk9IHRNVZNZO7zJ2d2rZSgB5h-RBw5w11kWNj8vA/s2650/IMG_5857.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2650" data-original-width="2297" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgm5PzvOk7iNevZ7oacqeTELgZ7o9_Btic6I1uUBKuvhNneBNYN70dHliFNJ8jHbmMSUXwTQSsYC41EEdU2-oWkgpsr50UsHuceWh3MwOvfT-nXdzDMmfPUlkyzCZ_xtM1Laratamwxu1iajKH0Slk9IHRNVZNZO7zJ2d2rZSgB5h-RBw5w11kWNj8vA/w554-h640/IMG_5857.JPG" width="554" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiayrVJ7QH55EnyNAqyBtDZwOZEopYNUTyKoIaTLb1lYsJr6b6E2xS0vFQSaIrh8DrIPoI3EXNi3byY3aOngh3Et_QEWs3QimtmzUdGq5I-vYJ44gbJlTYBr0K5ySkALpojk4s0aezDbSTXUKZZLbM-2VfdrRoQUOI7BX1Np6ppG_Q1Ryg7SlPjhKL2-Q/s2664/IMG_5859.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="2553" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiayrVJ7QH55EnyNAqyBtDZwOZEopYNUTyKoIaTLb1lYsJr6b6E2xS0vFQSaIrh8DrIPoI3EXNi3byY3aOngh3Et_QEWs3QimtmzUdGq5I-vYJ44gbJlTYBr0K5ySkALpojk4s0aezDbSTXUKZZLbM-2VfdrRoQUOI7BX1Np6ppG_Q1Ryg7SlPjhKL2-Q/w614-h640/IMG_5859.JPG" width="614" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgIHGkytzrAAkofPYV-FGqHufWr1h3gr10u3PkfYol98XSOBtNgVkcbik9X0oIIFjSbINziMoZLeUTh545HYOYbE3FcqlobHpCTxxFQijSMrvev06RbT2Ivih-E-IIz1KHsK_iTxkRlXMGZa_NSwPojjLH1n1peqdOLI-P6HEnzO0zDtSmF-N73LHDw/s2711/IMG_5860.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2574" data-original-width="2711" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgIHGkytzrAAkofPYV-FGqHufWr1h3gr10u3PkfYol98XSOBtNgVkcbik9X0oIIFjSbINziMoZLeUTh545HYOYbE3FcqlobHpCTxxFQijSMrvev06RbT2Ivih-E-IIz1KHsK_iTxkRlXMGZa_NSwPojjLH1n1peqdOLI-P6HEnzO0zDtSmF-N73LHDw/w640-h608/IMG_5860.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1815" data-original-width="2453" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar-ERSVbAS8AZojZd_EUlCQb8VpAkXL3x7bD4hLoK7q3sP-X8MfwalJUtWllS4J5S_gjH82CB1t5P_-5YXubopEZ-lkePBeRS4ACveP1_66uo7KQNtpIXhBuImnJLKs8mj03S_PZLJ_DdsDgGZP5SEn8BpNFAYhECffbCwVuzOIwpZiV_XEbrMmu7bA/w640-h474/IMG_5861.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a metal model and its lovely and heavy! I like it too. The pet squig is fun!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar-ERSVbAS8AZojZd_EUlCQb8VpAkXL3x7bD4hLoK7q3sP-X8MfwalJUtWllS4J5S_gjH82CB1t5P_-5YXubopEZ-lkePBeRS4ACveP1_66uo7KQNtpIXhBuImnJLKs8mj03S_PZLJ_DdsDgGZP5SEn8BpNFAYhECffbCwVuzOIwpZiV_XEbrMmu7bA/s2453/IMG_5861.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="2452" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzo9zMOeSYeC2CILM9ccp9lt9u6R5QqTsdLTM9pVaqQXHpXpyVvBcWlnu0qJ5c_Zzedhvvjc6v2eC4ulhYjdaYMwDiI4VHNnhXEYMX21XB71q0HMQBRH--LHhvYjPUCkv1B0-Y51Tv2C1avPLHRo6qplYCc4dIC0R0XrhNNYHoxXzr0kpbm7BynILUng/w590-h640/IMG_5862.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="590" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another nice leader, but some of the details are obscured. I rockon I painted over maybe<br />three or four other layers of paint applied by the previous owner! (Or "one thick coat")</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzo9zMOeSYeC2CILM9ccp9lt9u6R5QqTsdLTM9pVaqQXHpXpyVvBcWlnu0qJ5c_Zzedhvvjc6v2eC4ulhYjdaYMwDiI4VHNnhXEYMX21XB71q0HMQBRH--LHhvYjPUCkv1B0-Y51Tv2C1avPLHRo6qplYCc4dIC0R0XrhNNYHoxXzr0kpbm7BynILUng/s2664/IMG_5862.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1880" data-original-width="1242" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAo97Icmva71UA7ISkiGOUAHieDvbb-eeiwrgioNcQNcny2IMfgM5afjXfv9Jx6fgkCoNlLimq6n1ZiWf7CwM8gIwXJGNPoB1HA9nPJCjreK_nGSTMU1rJAXU_S1fLIt7ko-7VTa9BHiXwf5bkzJE5etrpHyKor6au-1PUD29p1hLYUTOHDbB11n6wA/w422-h640/IMG_5863.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="422" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is mad for grenades and I love it!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAo97Icmva71UA7ISkiGOUAHieDvbb-eeiwrgioNcQNcny2IMfgM5afjXfv9Jx6fgkCoNlLimq6n1ZiWf7CwM8gIwXJGNPoB1HA9nPJCjreK_nGSTMU1rJAXU_S1fLIt7ko-7VTa9BHiXwf5bkzJE5etrpHyKor6au-1PUD29p1hLYUTOHDbB11n6wA/s1880/IMG_5863.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">More to do of course. I have 20 orks with machineguns, and a good stock of "characters", as well as a small gathering of goblins (grots). These are reclaimed second hand models so I'll be doing the same with these as with the others.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77fH8axb-quBq_y0JR9PUG3zG0IiMExlSZBVVfwnzjhRcnX0nxeXtkegYajUu7iq7Z2B4w4EWtL90mTpyVgOAFIdaaVp-WqcQuE3Ojcd4Kf9BXYlYmibf7OvUDsFynDN08zRkmQzOMsz7AMHE7ZNUP108GHEzywyScw5VaTeRJMiUPpe7boYSUh1svA/s4000/IMG_5866.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77fH8axb-quBq_y0JR9PUG3zG0IiMExlSZBVVfwnzjhRcnX0nxeXtkegYajUu7iq7Z2B4w4EWtL90mTpyVgOAFIdaaVp-WqcQuE3Ojcd4Kf9BXYlYmibf7OvUDsFynDN08zRkmQzOMsz7AMHE7ZNUP108GHEzywyScw5VaTeRJMiUPpe7boYSUh1svA/w640-h426/IMG_5866.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnckdCtvHSQ53xsTaSsQOJNNaAZbPTCBUoumW7rOJqQ__CF3Rz-jC9ufQuPeEmZyD2hZ8Q0P9EzMXXPXQGCJVbR7EhqMKAg6InSPIDWrGY5_6gQrHiQQOX4TqWxAVqJqa2LL5FDcjPJqPVcKJCmiEfCQF72n-RyCVkvNUhuNX_E2yTxyibghl0Xls0Sw/s4000/IMG_5867.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnckdCtvHSQ53xsTaSsQOJNNaAZbPTCBUoumW7rOJqQ__CF3Rz-jC9ufQuPeEmZyD2hZ8Q0P9EzMXXPXQGCJVbR7EhqMKAg6InSPIDWrGY5_6gQrHiQQOX4TqWxAVqJqa2LL5FDcjPJqPVcKJCmiEfCQF72n-RyCVkvNUhuNX_E2yTxyibghl0Xls0Sw/w640-h426/IMG_5867.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I also have a couple of boxes of extras. Some "killa kan" walkers, and the big boss himself Ghazghkull Thraka. Not looking forwards to building these but they look simple enough, and Thraka might be fun to paint. </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQL0CM1zLPLGYVLePZKUEL751DbnLIwtESkDt6h7qPOVHFu-6d0eiqAnPMEQ-_fzvPx73edUCZCmHTezqZfvgmgxQIayGFYC-FTTpf3nF83Iop4RhwTNTxEPu2gQxnPTQgVAzU-_grSlWdfnsYuQFpgKQPCWOtwMXTx3-5cYh91xBgM1_Z1_bKC3Ljg/s3244/IMG_5868.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2097" data-original-width="3244" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQL0CM1zLPLGYVLePZKUEL751DbnLIwtESkDt6h7qPOVHFu-6d0eiqAnPMEQ-_fzvPx73edUCZCmHTezqZfvgmgxQIayGFYC-FTTpf3nF83Iop4RhwTNTxEPu2gQxnPTQgVAzU-_grSlWdfnsYuQFpgKQPCWOtwMXTx3-5cYh91xBgM1_Z1_bKC3Ljg/w640-h414/IMG_5868.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With those finished, I sould have a solid One Page Rules army at 2000pts.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/03/orks-ere-we-go-waaaaagh-etc-part-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Part 2 - The showcase</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100939507876424928.post-28620116764919718672022-11-30T00:29:00.006+00:002022-11-30T10:13:42.389+00:00One Page Rules: Prime Brothers vs Plague Havoc Brothers<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This evening we enjoyed another game of the excellent One
Page Rules. Up until now we’ve been learning the game with multiplayer games so
we can learn together, discuss issues, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This evening we broke out into one-on-one games. I took
2000pts of Plague Havoc Brothers against 2000pts of Prime Brothers. We use the Objective
cards system to determine victory, but we keep the cards secret and don’t play
the possible 5<sup>th</sup> turn.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Plague Brothers</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Champion (1) (psychic (1)) - with plague brothers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Champion (1) (psychic (1)) - with plague brothers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Champion (1) (jetpack & war chant) - with plague mutated brothers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Brothers (5)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Brothers (5)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Mutated Brothers (5) (wings)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Drone (1) (Twin plague sprayers)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Drone (1) (Twin plague sprayers)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Drone (1) (Twin plague sprayers)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague Infernal Brute (1) (Twin lascannon, Brute flail)</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Prime Brothers</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Elite Raider (1) (Energy sword) - with Infiltration Squad</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Elite Raider (1) (Energy sword, Psychic (1)) - with Prime Brothers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prime Master (1) (Energy fist, Fist pistol, Energy sword, Battle rites) - with Prime Brothers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Infiltration Squad (5)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prime Brothers (5)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prime Brothers (5)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Blaster Squad (5) (Heavy plasma rifles)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jetpack Squad (3)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anti-grav Tank (1) (Twin gatling gun, Twin heavy fusion rifle)</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We placed the six objectives, dealt out the initial three
objective cards each and deployed our forces. Both of us deployed
conservatively, with our units in cover or well placed to make ground towards
our objectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both of us deployed our heroes within units. In my case, my
psychic heroes were leading my plague brother units. The war chant hero
deployed in my plague mutated brothers, and I kept them in ambush, ready to
deploy on turn two.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prime brothers also kept a Jetpack Squad in ambush, but
these wouldn’t hit the battlefield until turn four!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheoHmrAixzgQfwCt2yMmce4J9feYQ0FMQYs5nfrgHm6Rqt5ksGOcdq1rOmfN-O75mCp6vClADnr1LomNc6-qGvxwpto6k3_5hopaKjLLozJEaqkfLGWAWiLllDZtWDXt_DcYygBvrOPN0SA-FeQ9ouNDLVzTKcoV6YH6aK0cFzzpbJAqqdCQepT8rc3w/s4000/IMG_5751.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheoHmrAixzgQfwCt2yMmce4J9feYQ0FMQYs5nfrgHm6Rqt5ksGOcdq1rOmfN-O75mCp6vClADnr1LomNc6-qGvxwpto6k3_5hopaKjLLozJEaqkfLGWAWiLllDZtWDXt_DcYygBvrOPN0SA-FeQ9ouNDLVzTKcoV6YH6aK0cFzzpbJAqqdCQepT8rc3w/w426-h640/IMG_5751.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prime brothers take up positions in a firing line</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxr1kljzvHs6qE-qiEKGZJWqKhr7NQTt_T2-btKhy9LJ1pSYMrCD6W6YcvYuti6Ms1Qo9cmZArqjpKsUZKbtrF_UxPl1WPVMs5iEA88RDksUTjECCBhXQElr5K796wIuHSEfbIr_p1muVK4M1LQSb0HK0glelV4IMM2-VjpKcYYwR3dhxMiWF2OiccEg/s4000/IMG_5752.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxr1kljzvHs6qE-qiEKGZJWqKhr7NQTt_T2-btKhy9LJ1pSYMrCD6W6YcvYuti6Ms1Qo9cmZArqjpKsUZKbtrF_UxPl1WPVMs5iEA88RDksUTjECCBhXQElr5K796wIuHSEfbIr_p1muVK4M1LQSb0HK0glelV4IMM2-VjpKcYYwR3dhxMiWF2OiccEg/w426-h640/IMG_5752.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prime brothers infiltrator squad sneaks forwards into a strong central position during deployment<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_uECnn91_xmZStS_XyAa-dLoZkS9o5yu7Mjb7WE2f1MchH2yv6c5N4kMTcR8rWDef1BQQJLlOxMVxv-nxMCmlc1LR0egAFAy6Wd8ofPcyOGBMaoYb1-8R-jczp9AKTx721Swb5wOR4yYbIRa5riyi7eGkzs9ZheXJ7fq4zLxrxE1pWS-Jznm6SHLkg/s4000/IMG_5753.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_uECnn91_xmZStS_XyAa-dLoZkS9o5yu7Mjb7WE2f1MchH2yv6c5N4kMTcR8rWDef1BQQJLlOxMVxv-nxMCmlc1LR0egAFAy6Wd8ofPcyOGBMaoYb1-8R-jczp9AKTx721Swb5wOR4yYbIRa5riyi7eGkzs9ZheXJ7fq4zLxrxE1pWS-Jznm6SHLkg/w426-h640/IMG_5753.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague brothers advance on the flank supporting a plague drone</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ImFwjGgTGfOwnxGwEbO66n9YQC6dT8S6bhLmyzYTxcpG2xREYOFz-anYKmolq75-i7jTCWl_CeyjdJnjNnik4obeCJBtr_zTyyLxNFcCQVyxt-ar3eugMepA7qDYPDmOx8fn6-80FYO1H8wspXt1ee57G3ExcZVxknzE-95ZEuY4_Q5XYbJ7UICmIg/s4000/IMG_5754.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ImFwjGgTGfOwnxGwEbO66n9YQC6dT8S6bhLmyzYTxcpG2xREYOFz-anYKmolq75-i7jTCWl_CeyjdJnjNnik4obeCJBtr_zTyyLxNFcCQVyxt-ar3eugMepA7qDYPDmOx8fn6-80FYO1H8wspXt1ee57G3ExcZVxknzE-95ZEuY4_Q5XYbJ7UICmIg/w426-h640/IMG_5754.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That tank's going to be a problem...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turn 1</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was really worried about the Blaster Squad, and the
Anti-grav Tank but one of the things I’ve noticed about OPR is that to win you
simply need to expend your resources to score the objective points, so I set
about advancing to capture as many objectives as possible and score my cards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the initial exchanges, I came out better. My opponent’s
dice rolling was woeful, and he just couldn’t kick out damage or stop me
hitting him hard. My plague brother’s regeneration also proved its worth in keeping
the plague brethren alive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Most notably, the prime infiltrated were wiped out in the centre.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnsJxUmppMT2ibJ3JENc8vyYQ3blM3P9-IJOtYV9hb4FOwLkg2wiiqgfWPbcHONBJhLa-KWEq5hvSizByOBT9h0ApqfMnVdHgPPPZHYHZOoWCJDv_lfvcU5Fsa2D_j39-z5gGQTDKjmqLCFkaJZK0xBoqsANuJrwPvKrawGr4OTqYrVbhoiXbXOEM1w/s4000/IMG_5757.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnsJxUmppMT2ibJ3JENc8vyYQ3blM3P9-IJOtYV9hb4FOwLkg2wiiqgfWPbcHONBJhLa-KWEq5hvSizByOBT9h0ApqfMnVdHgPPPZHYHZOoWCJDv_lfvcU5Fsa2D_j39-z5gGQTDKjmqLCFkaJZK0xBoqsANuJrwPvKrawGr4OTqYrVbhoiXbXOEM1w/w640-h426/IMG_5757.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The plague drone's spewers sprayed filth, wiping out the prime infiltrators on the roof</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>End of turn score: Prime brothers 0 – 2 Plague brothers</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Turn 2</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I dropped my ambushing mutated plague brethren into the rear
of the prime brothers line, ready to take out his psychic commander.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it happens, I’d drawn an objective card to
kill one of his psychic units so that was my priority for the turn. My opponent
chose not to bring his ambush on.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2k-AUqI0DJhXVxK2063Q5Y_hqIgAsKnO2QHK6TW9TngRNiYTMuvFeTghR131GkFaZ4YJVZH4RM1zzUgtSt1LBPow-L2fdBRemgV9itoQ4q9Wg2Igw-65HInY3F25CMeAPjIXJCOoryVRbP-hY2Elcvh9iqUQVRKeNd1pknePumF-dJNM5EsGhtJgQw/s4000/IMG_5760.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2k-AUqI0DJhXVxK2063Q5Y_hqIgAsKnO2QHK6TW9TngRNiYTMuvFeTghR131GkFaZ4YJVZH4RM1zzUgtSt1LBPow-L2fdBRemgV9itoQ4q9Wg2Igw-65HInY3F25CMeAPjIXJCOoryVRbP-hY2Elcvh9iqUQVRKeNd1pknePumF-dJNM5EsGhtJgQw/w640-h426/IMG_5760.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The plague mutated brothers wipe out the prime psychic's units</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I pushed in on both flanks with my plague drones, capturing
more objective markers. My Plague Infernal Brute continued as it did throughout
the battle, standing off in the backfield and plinking away at the prime
brother’s tank. He did hit a single shot in the whole game! D’oh!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVdXcAaJBPU7wfIvkL19VMXWQPVhuurUZPjiYazx94NpzmEX6K_pU1J0oRccR7WaXR_vmNC8emRg4mxgXONy1OL5Vo1Sd7oYUa_j41jX6xQZ7iJiaxesIvAuwlJjT30d3KIX9xLEhbpF8z4JZ12TzED38vxug-Rey6vOP3Wh8lbKPh7MdEUX9HKAzUg/s4000/IMG_5761.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVdXcAaJBPU7wfIvkL19VMXWQPVhuurUZPjiYazx94NpzmEX6K_pU1J0oRccR7WaXR_vmNC8emRg4mxgXONy1OL5Vo1Sd7oYUa_j41jX6xQZ7iJiaxesIvAuwlJjT30d3KIX9xLEhbpF8z4JZ12TzED38vxug-Rey6vOP3Wh8lbKPh7MdEUX9HKAzUg/w426-h640/IMG_5761.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkZUiwCRl0RwjJfRx42jK93wwr-_Ut0AIWQpjGxh5gLOwgxMhDgQUfpAtocMthDbmmqSskjEeYm4wzeLShEqfwtfi-Pl7ECL3CS7BpcsXuAaUkB2LgOLmcHmJc7utE8FcBXj58d32QGH3Na8bgCJcJSPYv2V1vjA7QdPTxizmKkGu_cfVAN7e0_N1IQ/s4000/IMG_5762.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkZUiwCRl0RwjJfRx42jK93wwr-_Ut0AIWQpjGxh5gLOwgxMhDgQUfpAtocMthDbmmqSskjEeYm4wzeLShEqfwtfi-Pl7ECL3CS7BpcsXuAaUkB2LgOLmcHmJc7utE8FcBXj58d32QGH3Na8bgCJcJSPYv2V1vjA7QdPTxizmKkGu_cfVAN7e0_N1IQ/w426-h640/IMG_5762.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prime brothers
pushed out in the centre but didn’t close in on any objective markers. My plague mutated brothers jumped on the prime
psychic and butchered his supporting unit, before my plague drone sprayed toxic
filth to finish off the psychic, scoring my more points.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>End of turn score: Prime brothers 0 – 4 Plague brothers</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Turn 3</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By now, the prime brothers’ lines were severely thinned out
and they were struggling to make headway anywhere. Their ambush still didn’t
deploy, but they set about advancing into melee with the plague brethren
wherever they could.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgquxdYFTaWk_bcRX4MkjtR37dn7hu86yjOxSRv2lQT9VdRf3zpDJDJYcqVIK3oQ8R9fiaNwUGPfYGAoBklYB1O7bjosrxDUnCOvqi3n6nzfrdKOu1aiZSTu0sTkvf3vUlRtX3xOMf1Al5JZmOir3UeRi5PSjYUeocYPGR8El9EfBS3xwDeYert7vnN1A/s4000/IMG_5763.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgquxdYFTaWk_bcRX4MkjtR37dn7hu86yjOxSRv2lQT9VdRf3zpDJDJYcqVIK3oQ8R9fiaNwUGPfYGAoBklYB1O7bjosrxDUnCOvqi3n6nzfrdKOu1aiZSTu0sTkvf3vUlRtX3xOMf1Al5JZmOir3UeRi5PSjYUeocYPGR8El9EfBS3xwDeYert7vnN1A/w640-h426/IMG_5763.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfk09W9Z5cjS4zFTaA7uJN4Aed-Q2IQms9iQ79IBPgfqOqICGyuF7PiMbmARWP29IrbQ9SJrVQYTuv5fwcrebC7wBGQ4u0zChxfRgb1_vGQQ_XaQP5GKPsO5aZIhATKxV-MLWqoTkaJ4QqtEgpei4WHkhqgrwZiTEmPwPVD3b0jPY6vdTD4X439-O2Q/s4000/IMG_5764.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfk09W9Z5cjS4zFTaA7uJN4Aed-Q2IQms9iQ79IBPgfqOqICGyuF7PiMbmARWP29IrbQ9SJrVQYTuv5fwcrebC7wBGQ4u0zChxfRgb1_vGQQ_XaQP5GKPsO5aZIhATKxV-MLWqoTkaJ4QqtEgpei4WHkhqgrwZiTEmPwPVD3b0jPY6vdTD4X439-O2Q/w640-h426/IMG_5764.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMtdSTSHAwEo-uA3-o8zui1-LApd7ObbVZ8CXm4Rz7RKF54ldE1Fkll2FbgAvyd5o34EGUYCVKDKbcMnIJVmmopSfHn_yamRsUdHNJPFyD3MfZoNMLUoK1whWvV4owRH0FVs--7EVT0ZTS4Rgxydp5Z06Y4vInR20Uvay204XmvxBL8s0L1Bqiwg21Pw/s4000/IMG_5766.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMtdSTSHAwEo-uA3-o8zui1-LApd7ObbVZ8CXm4Rz7RKF54ldE1Fkll2FbgAvyd5o34EGUYCVKDKbcMnIJVmmopSfHn_yamRsUdHNJPFyD3MfZoNMLUoK1whWvV4owRH0FVs--7EVT0ZTS4Rgxydp5Z06Y4vInR20Uvay204XmvxBL8s0L1Bqiwg21Pw/w426-h640/IMG_5766.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plague mutated brothers trying to eat a tank. They certainly took some chunks out of it.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8IlKq1NO-WzZkJQLMhlEG05WQgGL8qiNAFcXYtCa1zEJ9EzZhCMrWHeuGXveaqxGqWFS1I3b-ul-TOEuY00keeXwRfqABklt0kCr6xR4aqcI9ZORCn4ZMQ_nIQ6tQL0VF35vc3gSGYrWnGhwiTkynEm1gzLxU6Rmr1J963jKWx7HaAQmfCAFAoynYHg/s4000/IMG_5768.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8IlKq1NO-WzZkJQLMhlEG05WQgGL8qiNAFcXYtCa1zEJ9EzZhCMrWHeuGXveaqxGqWFS1I3b-ul-TOEuY00keeXwRfqABklt0kCr6xR4aqcI9ZORCn4ZMQ_nIQ6tQL0VF35vc3gSGYrWnGhwiTkynEm1gzLxU6Rmr1J963jKWx7HaAQmfCAFAoynYHg/w640-h426/IMG_5768.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not much of the prime army left to try to turn the tide</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I now had control of five of the six objective markers on
the board, which meant the replenished objective cards game me a good chance of
scoring each turn.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prime brother’s melee assaults weren’t as effective as
my opponent hoped, but the prime tank did manage to bring down a plague drone!
My plague mutated brothers, pounced from behind onto the prime tank, tearing
chunks out of it, and together with fire from elsewhere, taking 7 of the 15
wounds the tank had.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prime brothers terrible dice rolling, and my exceptional
luck continued, but also, I was still controlling the objectives and setting up
for good scores.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>End of turn score: Prime brothers 0 – 5 Plague brothers</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Turn 4</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Finally, the prime brothers decided to bring on their ambush
and the jetpack unit dropped right into the centre of the field, far from any
objectives, and hemmed into a small area by circling plague brothers. It seemed
unlikely that the prime brothers would be able to recover the battle. The
jetpack troops opened the turn by advancing and pouring fire into a plague
brother unit, which was protected by the psychic power of its leader. A couple
of plague kin were killed but passed their morale to carry on the fight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My plague mutated brothers turned their attentions from the
grav-tank and flew from the back field to take on the prime jetpack unit in
melee. I won the fight be three more wounds than the prime brothers for another
objective score.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With only a few prime brothers left the turn petered out to
a decisive win for the plague brethren.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>End of turn score: Prime brothers 2 – 7 Plague brothers</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Overall, another excellent and fun game. My opponent certainly
suffered from some pretty poor dice rolls but ultimately the game was lost by the
plague brothers being able to score the objectives more consistently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a primary feature of OPR that is a
real plus for the game play. You really have to concentrate on achieving your
current goals and objectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sacrificing units to do this is fine and I’ve found that seizing control
of objective markers can really set you up for late game scoring as
you never now what objective cards you’ll draw. Apparently this swung the game from a loss to a draw in the Dark Elf vs Robots game on the other table with a big last turn score directly from controlling objectives!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My thoughts on why I won this game:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>1. Dice</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obviously dice and what they roll are always a factor, and while I was rolling probably above average, my opponent was rolling below average. However, OPR with objective cards isn't won or lost on units destroyed, so I think this is less of a factor than it would otherwise be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>2. Seizing Objectives</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are six objective markers in play on the table and I set out from the start of turn one to try to seize control of as many as possible. By the end of turn 2 I had control of Objectives 2-6, with Objective 1 remaining uncontrolled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was interested to note that even when my opponent had the opportunity to move to contest or take control of objectives I had controlled but left undefended, he didn't do so.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This in my view was the decisive action for the win. At the end of each turn, I was able to score points off of the cards I was holding as most of them relate to taking or holding the on-table objectives. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My opponent only managed to score any points on the final turn as a result.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3. Goal Focus</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related to point 2, each turn I focussed on achieving the objectives I had on the scoring cards I was holding. Where I had a card that was "destroy X unit", I focussed fire on a relevant target, and I was secure in the objective capture scoring too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The scoring card system we use is a fan-made add on, and we've been debating the randomness of how they work. It may be that we modify them as we get more experienced. I rather like the idea of fixed scoring objectives, together with a random card draw, but that's "to be considered".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Dark Elf Raiders vs Robot Legion </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The other game this evening was a battle between Dark Elf
Raiders and Robot Legion. The Dark Elves had the lead throughout the game, but
the Robots pulled back a 5-5 draw on the final turn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently an excellent and tense game that
saw most the units on both sides wiped out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A great evening's gaming and OPR is fast becoming “the only game I want to play”!</span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0