Saga of the Stormwolf

His arm was strong, his eye was true,

For the glory of the Emperor he slew,

Red was the snow beneath the skies

As the ravens feasted on his enemy’s eyes.

In Helmgart’s bitterly biting cold

The Saga of the Stomwolf’s told,

How none could stand before his gaze,

How his foes measured their lives in days,

A feast was served to Morcar’s fang,

To sate it’s endless hunger pang,

He raged in war, their souls to reap

And send them to their endless sleep,

Cries of despair from their throats were torn

As they gazed upon the wrath of Bjorn.

The Saga of Bjorn Stormwolf       circa.  945.031.M41

Awaiting the Dessert

Following on from discussions with my fellow gamers and looking at my team mates list i’ve modified my list for the tounament (but not by much) also Iwasn’t too happy with how my butcher model turned out I kit bashed a replacement from the Ironblaster, Ironguts and Butcher kits.

Having now finished a unit of Leadbelchers I now only need to finish my Thundertusk to complete 1000pts, but as with all large centerpiece models I am apprehensive about painting it as it will be the one thing everyone will concentrate on.             

Nightmares

Thanks to the m5 I have got a few hours to kill so I am writing my first blog in a long long time.

Subject, malifaux. Nightmares on avenue road.

There’s nothing more unnerving than starting a bout against only a small boy holding his blanky. The surprise is that boy has a bunch of freaky friends ready to pop out and break the minds of those opposing the dreamer.

Having now collected the starter set for the dreamer and a few more additions at the colours event, my aim is to finish, yes that’s finish a whole crew!

So far pictures available for the completed dreamer, stitched together an teddy. Previews of whats to come. Still deciding on what to finish the bases with flock wise, which will probably be done once all have been painted. Suggestions welcome.

Next challenge is to complete the monster master himself, lord chompy bits, followed by the nightmare edition teddy. Still waiting in the wings are alps, daydreams, the creepy sandman and the devil duo. Target date of completion a not too ambitious end of November as also have some gw to finish for the doubles tournament at Nottingham in November, go Vamps!

Will update photos upon completion as an when. But for now, pleasant dreams!

The Master of the Feast arrives….and some unexpected guests

I’ve now organised a doubles tournament entry with a friend on the 19th November in Nottingham, it’s 1000pts so my painting speed had to increase, bearing this in mind I’ve written the army list as follows;

Butcher, lvl 2, Hellheart             185pts

2X 6 Ogre Bulls, AHW, Crusher, Standard        (206pts)    512pts

3 Yhetees, Greyback                                 142pts

Thundertusk                                                 250pts

Total       989pts

I’ve now finished the Butcher and Yhetees, leaving just the second Ogre unit and Thundertusk….

                   

The hunger grows…

So following on from my sample figure I have now managed to finish the rest of the unit, i’ve used a fairly muted colour scheme of browns and greys to reflect The Sons of the Mountain’s rustic feel.

Enjoy…

                                                                                                           

Been a While

Time really does fly, but I have been keeping myself busy since I moved into my new house. I started off by beginning to update my Blood Angels force by adding battle damage and wear and tear. I managed to redo about half of my currently painted army before I attended the Uk Games Expo and I got distracted. I once again picked up more Malifaux and was convinced by Kris to pick up new Oriental themed japanese skirmish game called Bushido.
Inspired by these purchases I have had a mini painting blitz and have got all the figs painted.
Now I’m currently working on my other purchase from the Uk Games Expo, a 2000pts Orc army from Mantic. So far Im still at the putting together stage but my aim is to get them painted by Xmas so I can spend the new year adding all the fun stuff to the army. For my newest pics see the gallery section.

So for the next update Ill try and have links to some battle reports, as I’m getting more and more guys into playing these skirmish games. I plan to have malifaux and bushido painted and a whole bunch of Orcs.
Also Total Wargamer is holding a Malifaux day in October, which I’ll be planning to take some pics. Of course I’ll be posting pics up on the blog

Something hungry this way comes…

The magpie has struck again!

After getting hammered time and time again by ‘balanced’ armies at the recent Tides of Chaos realm campaign in Reading my dwarves have gone back to their mountain halls grumbling to themselves and nursing their grudges…

Time for a new army methinks, the VC’s have always appealed to me, few can forget my previous attempt with the Strigoi ghoul army (Come and have a go if you want an easy win!!) but prices these days have put me off unless i go fully mantic, beleive me it was tempting but on the occasions i play in the shop i can’t use them

So where next? other tier 1 armies include elves, extremely devastating but just one problem, THEY’RE ELVES!!!

Skaven, well what can i say, every army book should come with a free loop on beard…

To be honest none of them appeal to me as i go for the fluff more than winning games, bit of an odd outlook i know but i just can’t bring myself to create an army without background, hence why i’ll never play storm of chaos (Daemon pacts for high elves or lizards? Really!?) So while flicking through the new Ogre Kingdoms book i came across a description of one tribe, The Sons of the Mountain, who focus more on the big gribblies than on mercing it up like every other tribe (How many Golfag’s are there going to be?)

So how do you theme the army to reflect this relatively backward outlook? by including two hunters, two stonehorns, a thundertusk, a pack of sabretusks, mourfang cavalry and yhetees. Mininmising on ledbelchers, no maneaters or firebellies.

Anyway, here is my first test model, let me know what you think…

Warhammer; Storm of Magic

Storm of Magic, the new expansion to the core Warhammer rules, is out on advance order today. If you thought the magic rules for 8^th edition were broken and overpowering, this new expansion probably isn’t going to be for you…

It will grant you access to new units, a plethora of new cataclysmic spells and some massive big gribbles.

I’ll let you read more for yourself and make your own mind up…

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/home.jsp?setLocale=en_GB&gclid=CICMsNPd0KkCFYpB4QodXEi5Ng

 

Cool mini or not

With the current excitement over the new release Bushido, I thought after seeing that one of their miniatures in the top ten of Cool Mini or Not I would share it with you fine folks.
This is from the Cult range, enjoy and comment below.

Bushido, Puppet Master on CoolMini top 10!!!

Malifaux Terrain

I saw this on Worldwordgames and though I would share. I will definitly be picking some boxes up, if it all it takes is 1-2 boxes to do this

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