Tuesday Hobby: Size isnt everything

Big Papa didn't  have anything new to show this week, since he's been decorating his Mum's front room, but did his in progress 15mm WIP Warhammer Empire.  Its one of those projects that he keeps"nibbling" at when  he gets some spare time.

All based for Kings of war (with dice frames for keeping track of wounds), and painted in ye olde warhammer style, with units being raised from several different city-states.  Here's what he used: 

Humans are all from Essex Miniatures, with a few heads/hats from Black Hat and Museum Miniatures.

Ogres are an amalgam of Avatars of War Dwarf Slayers, GW Orc heads, Empire plastic hats, and a bit of green stuff.

The war wagon/siege tower is scratch built (mainly from spare plastic bases and card) with a few gubbins from the bits box, and horses from Black Hat.  Still a ways to go before I finish, but in my defence, cutting tiny strips of tiles, sorry - armour plates - from card and sculpting lion faces with leftover green stuff gets boring very quickly.

 

 

Games Night

This weeks games night was a two game affair with me and Elliot playing 40k, and Neil, NDM and Simon playing Warhammer Fantasy.

 

The majority of the of the photos are from the 40k game as that's what I was playing.

 

My 1500 points of Necrons. This marked their first time out since the release of the new Codex

Elliot deployed his Blood Angels first, spread thinly across the battlefield

The Death company decided not to charge, then the following turn failed their charge, and eventually jumped in!

Three Wraiths vs a Tactical squad. This combat went on for 3 turns, with the Tactical Marines eventually victorious

After wiping out the Wraiths, the Tactical Marines got ready for the Flayed Ones who went on to roll snake eyes for their charge!

After a fast start and a 9-3 victory point lead after four turns, the Blood Angels managed to turn things around and with a point for Line Breaker secured a hard fought draw.

 

Neil (aided by Next Door Matt) and Simon played Battle for the Pass.

 

Neil's Empire face off against Simon's Warriors of Chaos

The 'Welsh' Demigryphs get ready to charge the 'English' Chaos

This game also turned out to be a close one with Simon riding the disappointments of slow moving vortexes and the triumphs of the Hellfire Sword.
With Simon heading for a famous victory, his magic item of choice showed its fickle side, killing his Chaos Lord and thus ending the game in a draw.

More Wednesday Photos

Not this Wednesday, no!
The one before!
Prompted by Zeds earlier posting I took some photos of my game vs binx.

He'd decided on using an experimental skink list whilst I went crazy and tried out some empire knights instead of pistoliers, mental!

The watch tower mission was rolled and a small skink unit started in defence.
It didn't stay there long and the first few turns threatened to be a whitewash to the empire.
In the end it all got a bit close though, a good game to "see off" the garage.
The empire clung on and won the day! Hoorah!

Now the photos pretty much miss the middle of the game but you get the idea!