Small Hut Battle

 Following the success of our big game of warhammer old world,  we thought we'd try out a small game and have a go at battle march!

So the former allies, empire and cathay, fought to see who really let the side down in the big fight!

For our first battle march game neither of us really knew what to put in our armies so had a smattering from across the list.

We ended up fighting over a small tower, whoever controlled it at the end of each player turn picked up 25 VPs.

Deployment was quarters which meant we were on each other pretty quickly!

Cathay horses and general on his beast swept into the empire spears and crossbows winning the fight but the spears were stubborn thanks to the towers special rule.

The empire road wardens hit the Cathay horses rear, providing just enough extra punch to win the fight and run down the horses as they fled.

On the empire right the demigryphs got their charge in and the Cathay units in front of them provided only speed bump as they rode through. 

After a good shove back and forth at the tower the empire were leading 

When we added up the killed units VPs, it was a clear empire victory!

Battle march was good fun and look forward to some more!

Big Hut Battle 2026

Over the years we've tried to get big games in where we can, life logistics just gets in the way.

But! We managed to get together to play some warhammer Old World.

For the scenario we picked the Battle of Nan-Li from the 2nd Cathay related journal and modified it slightly for a bigger table.

This has three objectives on the centre line and the closest core unit to the objective controls it, scoring victory points at the end of each players turn.

 

For the forces we had the glorious Empire of Talabecland allied to the Cathay defenders vs a large force of chaos warriors, knights and several beasts.

The glorious EMPIRE and Cathay, ready to meet the chaos foe.

(The giant? Oh he's a cathayan sentinel, of course!)
 

From the chaos forces moved aggressively forward and captured the objectives uncontested, racking up the VPs whilst the defenders held back and pelted them with missiles and artillery (that wasn't being as effective as hoped!).

Below are start of turn pics that show the movement of each turn.

In the end we ran out of time to finish the game completely!

Despite the late surge from the defenders infantry and the chaos forces dwindling by turn 4 the early scoring had been enough for them to have a healthy lead, added to the bonus score of taking out the sentinel the glorious defenders had left it too late.

Chaos take the day ...

Until next time.....

Vets Lead the Way

I've made a start on a few models from the armageddon box, the vanguard veterans. 

A few embellishments (from dynamic prints) to add a little white scar flavour...

Post undercoat has highlighted a few bits that need a clean up but happy with the look so far.

Orks, orks, orks.... and Nids

Back to some 40k this week.

First go on the new ork codex!

Needed to get a game in before the flash gitz get nerfed 😶

Deployment 

There's some ravenors and a lictor in reserve...

Here's the flash gitz, looking flashy, in grey 

Orks surge forward, home objective? Pfff

 

The fighting begins!!

Turns out zoanthropes are pretty much the perfect tool for taking out squighog boyz! Still plenty left to put a big dent into the heroic intervening ravenors! 

The Beastboss on squig goes about his monster killing duties.....

......and performs them well! The snagga boyz clear out a warrior squad before before moving on to take out the next.

After the warboss and boyz club the screamer killer to death, with a little help from the flash gitz, there's not many nids left.

And that's where the game ends!

Good outing for the Orks, the flash gitz didn't really get going but laid down one good round of overwatch fire and held onto an objective until help arrived!

Lots more to learn still, including some of the main rules 😬

Buncha Nobz!!

Rebasing continues, this time some ancient nobz from 25mm to 40mm.

I was worried they'd be a little swamped by the 40mm size but I think they're looking alright.

Should probably touch up the paint chips before they go back in the foam 🤔 

Little Red Dune Buggy

When rumours of the new ork codex had generic warbuggies returning, I got excited!

Dusted off (literally) this venerable pair and added new bases.

Back in the day these little beauties would around the table blowing up stuff they had no right to, punching well above their weight!

Whilst it hasn't quite worked out quite as expected they will be perfect proxies for the updated wartrakk profile.

Back to zooming and blowing stuff up!

Might add some extra rokkits, one day...

All Bases Covered

 It's not just 40k getting some base conversion action, WFB/old world is getting in on it too!

I've been slowly working on some new boar boyz that are on the new base sizes but they'll need a proper leader on a proper sized, right!?

More sand needed....

Back to Base ics

Update, finished the test bases.

Cygor brown contrast over the sand, mournfang brown drybrush with averland sunset light drybrush. Static grass and more mournfang for the rim, to match my modern colour choice 

Does the job and not too time consuming...

Just the couple hundred to go...

Base ic Life Skills

 Sooo, I've started rebasing my orks to more modern sizes of base.

I'm mostly using base converters from hobby heaven, plop your old base model into the converter, sized up i

n seconds.

The tricky bit is going to be trying to match the basing material to the old version.

Here's some boyz to test out how easy this part will be!

Sand added to the wider base part.

You can see a small dip between the old and new base, nothing a bit more pva and sand or strategic static grass wouldn't fix!

I will be painting the sand to blend with the old material and adding more grass.

Fingers crossed it all works out...

Scarred for Life

 In celebration of the recently revealed marine captain on bike and upcoming change in rules for marines (toughness 5!!), here's a pic of some nearly completed outriders. 

Just a few touch ups needed....

Or call them done and move on to something new....

Wars of the Stars

Somehow the blog has returned....

In an ever expanding world of games we added star wars legion to our list.

Great game which generally comes down to the final turn/moves to find victory...or not.

The first half of 2026 was almost all legion, with some random pics below.