Some bit of buildings and stuff

Greetings nerds.

I've been making some scenery this week. This is actually a slight detour from the 8 gamers thing as it involves our Mordheim project. With an effort to replace the rather *ahem* tatty buildings we have currently (one is an old grey plastic monstrosity with the words "all hail!" and a crude smiley face drawn on the top) I've finally finished or at least, in the finishing stages of one piece and working on another.

With Mordheim primarily focused on ruins, behold....some weird crypt thing and a mashed up building:

They both still need some work, maybe a broken gargoyle on the ruin on the left and some highlights on the crypt and some touch-ups to the areas that are flaking. It's not brilliant, but it will do. 

Painting wise, the boars are all done and so is most of one of the riders. I've actually got another project I'm working on, which will either go really well or be a waste of £20 and a lot of time. 

Remember the goblin heroes I bought ages ago? Well, I've started on them. By started I mean "I've glued the cloak on the shaman, cut him off his metal base and in the slow process of making him a cool-looking action-packed base of awesome." The goblin warboss on the other hand...I think I bodged his arm, so he's now holding the spare spear from the goblin boss on giant squig model, which is held on with a lot of superglue, 2 types of green stuff (normal and liquid) and hope, lots of hope. 

The magic in this game is dumb anyway.

Previously on Warhammer, a game of Fantasy Battles:

"Irresistible force, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?" ZZAPP

"Hey guys, anyone seen a shaman - level 2, green skin, purple cloak, funny expression? No? Hmmm...."

"Oh the squigs are going the wrong way, fantastic."

"Why is he swinging that ball near us? No, the other way THE OTHER WAY...OH SHI-"

"Get on the blower someone - more savage orcs needed. Plus, better warpaint."

"Rat ogre steaks? GET IN!"

Not my finest hour. But certainly not my worst game ever (that avenue of enjoyment happened many years ago, and somehow I've blocked most of it from my mind - so many failed animosity tests.)

Things started off badly and got worse with my shaman casting irresistible force, then being sucked into the realms of chaos (he survived a strength 10 hit then decided to fail a toughness test). Bye. The squigs then ran off.

Other 'highlights' include:

• the spearchucka crew dying to the rat ogres after firing once and missing. The other crew also fleeing the board.
• the fanatics cutting back through the unit they were released from - several times.
• the savage orcs getting dicked by the ogres in a brutal overkill combat.
• the night goblins holding their own against the rat ogres and with the newly routed squigs, breaking them and destroying them!

Seriously, I've actually played a lot worse than that.

Musings:

• Avoid being charged by Ogres. The impact hits are brutal enough.
• Skaven magic can jog on.
• My own magic can jog on.
• In a 1,000 points, I need more hard-hitting, high-wound units. The spearchuckas are a waste of time.

All in all, I very much enjoyed myself. I can never feel down when playing orcs and goblins. They're just too comedy. I expect to kill half my own troops - frankly, finishing a game without Cheneying my own troops would be weird. The new rules don't seem all that different either; still need a bit of study mind. Oly and Rion seemed to enjoy kicking the crap out of each other, which is always good!

He's a FUNGI to be with!

Good news everyone! Games Workshop was on the BBC site today. See here for a badly titled, but fairly competent article on the hobby. Also, there's quite a few stellar examples (thanks Oly) of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Anyway to business. Here's a mushroom!

 

That will rank up with my gobbos now, hurrah! Nearly finished painting the shaman conversion to go on the top.

Oh yeah, sample Goblin only army list - 1,000 points

Night goblin warboss - light armour, shield, sword of might, talisman of endurance - 108pts

Night goblin shaman - level 2, dispel scroll, talisman of protection - 125pts

Night goblin big boss - battle standard, shield, light armour, bad moon banner - 109pts

36 Night goblins - with boss, musician, spears, shields, netters, 3 fanatics - 248pts

30 Night goblins - with boss, musician, standard, short bows, 3 fanatics - 195pts

2 Spear chuckas - 70pts

15 Cave squigs and 8 herders - 138pts

Basically, will be relying on the cave squigs. Everything else is fodder. Standard for goblins really. Whole army is fodder. Probably overdone it with heroes in a 1000 points to be honest. I used to have a level 4 great shaman as my warboss and stand him at the back, hording all the power dice and laughing like a maniac.

Also, never underestimate the night goblins armed with shortbows. That unit has taken down a stegadon. Granted, not with shooting (seriously, you're at long range already and they suck the big one) but in combat they went insane and had stegadon steaks that night!

Subject to change, but the 'core' is there if you like. I'm actually in the process of repainting the spear chuckas which were WOEFUL to say the least. The big boss on the cave squig needs basing and my quest ot make him an EPIC base is falling a bit short at the moment. I want it bouncing over some stuff/remains of something he's just eaten/sicked up but I'm not sure what. Any suggestions? Note, 'your mum' has already been suggested but she's bizzzaayyy -  HHHEEEYYYYYYYY OOOOOOOHHH.

Also, anyone thinking "that army looks a walkover..." I've got 4 stone trolls* and a giant who likes to jump up and down/stuff heroes down his trousers.

*love/hate relationship with my stone trolls. Love it when they do stuff (rarely), absolutely despise them when they constantly fail leadership tests and stand there. One very memorable battle involved them not doing anything for the entrie game, despite my warboss being in range for them to use his leadership.

A detour to Mordheim

Hello!

I haven't posted much, due to being busy with other blogs and drinking heavily and as such, haven't had much chance to write anything since getting back from holiday (save for talking about how good squigs are).

Anyway, painting progress is slow. My second box of savage orcs are like a rather large lump of wyrdstone around my neck. I can see them out of the corner of my eye; laying in a heap on the cutting mat, half-painted green, with all the weapon hands finally glued on, but not effort to actually paint said weapons. Only one is marginally complete (the musician). I will work on getting these finished, as I was proud of the first lot (who need war-painting up!)

I've also been working on my cockatrice, which now sports a rather fetching pink mohawk and blue fur. It looks hideous. Also completed is another mushroom (this time on a base that's the right size). Tried taking some pictures of it and they look rubbish, so no pictures, sorry. Other projects include painting another screamer-killer Carnifex (sorry, 40K talk).

HOWEVER...I have got pics of a new addition to my Mordheim warband. Yes, a tangent - apologies, but I'm rather proud of this dude. Few games back, one of my Orc Big 'Uns (Morko) got a weapons expert skill (and because he can have shooting skillz, he now has a blunderbuss that "e found in da handz of sum humie wiv no legz." Yes...quite. Anyway, Morko now totes a blunderbuss. Now, converting one was out of my slightly inferior hands. However, using a technique know as 'copying'; I managed to cobble together something I saw on another blog, but in my own primitive style. It isn't the best conversion work, but it does the job and it's typically 'orc and goblins' in that respect.

yes, that's a spare spider from the Arachnarok kit, in the hand of a
40K ork, that had been cut and re-glued ages ago.

Shoddy, yes - but that's Orc craftsmanship for you. The little guy is Gorko, his mate!