Think you've got a great display board? Check this out!

How is this for a display board ?

I came across this incredible creation on the web:

Click on link for more images

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/521085.page

High Elves Incoming ?

High Elves Incoming ? 

OK so it's clear the next release GW will be HE. 

Timeous leak of the White Dwarf pictures a week or two out from publication...

Makes you wonder if it's really leaks or just clever marketing, getting the fans to blog about it, and so on...

Anyhow I'm relieved that I don't play HE, as my wallet is still groaning from WoC and DoC releases.

Most of my Armies have now been updated to 8th Ed, starting with Greenskins, Empire, Vampire Counts, WoC and DoC. Languishing at the bottom of my cupboard are the Dwarfs and their well overdue Armybook. Still lovin' the Dark Elves, but they can certainly do with an overhaul and some new models.

My son, Luc, is halfway there with a new Ogres Book, and the Lizardmen are also crying out for some lovin'.

So most of the speculation is now over:

Pointy Ear Warriors get:

Some nice new characters with flamboyant headgear. 

Girly models to please the fairer sex and those who like to model sexy figures and flowing hair. 

Avian raptors that have the right beak configuration (My favourite gripe at the moment - GW's parrot fervor.) For goodness sake guys, get it tight ! 

They do seem to have got it right this time - the mandibles of the birds are shaped correctly,

Core :

Spearmen -  new models prob soon to follow, as rumour has it old ones have been pulled off the shelves.

Archers -  Poss new models here too? 

Lothern Sea Guard

Silver Helms

Tiranoc Chariot

Shadow Warriors

Special :

Ellyrian Reavers

Chrace Chariot - Lion Charions Gone? New Model?

White Lions

Dragon Princes (Horse)

Great Eagles

Swordmasters

Bolt Thrower

Rare :

Dragon Princes (monstruous cavalry)

Phoenix Guard

Phoenix

Saphery Chariot

Not clear if Maiden Guard are to be Rare or Special, and what stats to expect

My guess: Longbows, Spears, WS 5, BS 5, 5+ ward save (LA and some sort of fighting style to get a 5+ save), Stubborn, LD 9. If they're back, so is the Everqueen, who may buff them up more, or make them a core choice. .

Battle of Kursk: Interesting perspective

How close did the Battle of  Kursk come to a German Victory ?

 One for all you FoWers out there: Interesting perspective on my WW2 blog
click on the link

http://wargamesobsession.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/kursk-could-it-have-been-german-victory.html

Goodbye 40K: Selling all my Space Marines and CSM

 I finally decided 40K is not for me. 

So goodbye to the lovely models I never used...

I have too many WHFB armies and 20mm WW2/FoW too. So I'm getting rid of what is left of my 40K stuff. Some sold at the Kapiti Wargames Club Swop Meet and on TradeMe (NZ equivalent of EBay)
Put the balance up last night: Over 35 listings (Along with my daughter;s ballet shoes that are now to small (LOL)

Here is the link if anyone is keen :
Herman's 40K stuff to go by next Sunday

Fly my pretties...Nurgle Plague drones take to the sky

My Nurgle Plague drones take to the sky for the first time

Fly, my pretty rot-flies!

I finally got my plague drones painted up and ready for the table (well, sort-of) the basing was not yet completed, but I couldn't resist tabling them in the KWCs big daemonic incursion on Saturday (see a separate post on this later) Limited points, so we each only got 1200. Didn't have much to spare, and didn't expect to have to go up against ogres. Would have given them deaths heads (shooting attacks) and poisoned attacks/venom stings.  

Split them into 2 units of 6.One ran into lead belchers before slugging it out with Mournfang and Bulls before being annihilated. The other carved their way through 2 Mournfang cavalry, and survived.

Anyhow, her they are, bursting forth in their corpulence:

Happy with the paint scheme, looks better now they have been based with yellow-ochre gravel, same as the rest of my daemon armies.Ranking up is an issue with all those legs and wings, and the legs and wings are quite fragile, and transport may be in issue in future. Had to give 2 of them longer stems to raise them above the others as to rank up a little better.

Nurgle Soulgrinder conversion

While everyone was away at Natcon, and doing very well, thank you very much...

I see Sam Campbell took out 3rd place (not bad after a decade or more's hiatus, and just NZTC under his belt) and Hamish also up there in the top 10; and just outside the top 5. Congrats Kapiti Wargames Club Members !
Great going Nick and Fern too, taking Orcs and Goblins up against the big cannons! Well done to Sam Whitt for winning. Druchii rule supreme!

Wish I could have been there! But some of us had to work...
Anyhow, got a few hours' work of converting and painting in.

Decided to finish a conversion of a 40K Chaos Defiler into a fantasy Soulgrinder I had started when the rule addendums and new models came out last year. I was planning to make it a Khorne Soulgrinder.
(Could go with the food theme again here, and call it a Khorne Grinder, but I will restrain.)

I have decided to finally get rid of all my 40K models, as 40K has never really grown on me.
Bang, bang, bang, and little strategy...just who has the biggest and most guns.

It's just like playing against Dwarfs all the time.  Anyhow, my Blood Angels have mostly gone, some SM Landraiders, CSM Nurgle Army etc still looking for a home.

With Nurgle showing to be ascendent in the game, I  decided to rather turn the model to the green side.

It had orginaly been painted as Chaos United SM (sounds like a football team, doesn't it?)
It had a definite  leaning to Khorne, in black, red and gold. But as you can see, no more!

Should actually have got a picture before I got stuck in, but its too late now:

One or two scoops of plague for you?

Prepare to receive the blessings of Father Nurgle!

So I ripped the right arm and cannons off, replaced it with a Plague Flail fashioned from a river troll hand and a scratch-built nurgle arm. I based this around the hind leg of a giant skeletal horse I once bought for $5, thinking it would eventually come in handy. So yesterday was the day it did. Really got stuck into my bitz box...

Banishing thoughts of Natcon from my mind; I got stuck in with Knead-it (as it would just have taken too much greenstuff - read $$) and created an insect-like abdomen.

Inspiration was from the shapes of the plague-drones I was painting in parallel.
Only problem with Knead-it is that you have to work bloody fast and accurately, as it sets very quickly (and rock-hard). Ork-hide shade basecoat (Yes, my paint station is still brimming with old GW paints) and away we go...

Those that are about to be rocked, we salute you! Splat! Here comes more! Splat!

Unspeakable things coming next week:The Warpstorm

Unspeakable things are coming next week: 

The Warpstorm of 6 April 2013

The Kapiti Wargames club will be having a gaming day on the 6th.

We are trying an interesting innovation, WHFB and WH40K being played simultaneously on one long, big table: A daemonic incursion!

Check the club's website for more info. Visitors welcome (More so if you bring daemons!)

Link:
http://kapitiwargamesclub.blogspot.co.nz/

Chaos Daemon on Daemon action...finally

Chaos Daemon on Daemon action...finally

Finally got the elusive Daemon on Daemon action going at the Kapiti Wargames Club against Sam last week. My Nurgle army is still decidedly lacking in Numbers, so I decided to make up numbers with Slanneshi Daemonettes, and Fries. I mean Furies, here we go again with my food preoccupation....

Allowed my personal pride to overcome my need to field the Rot-flies, as they are still a WIP, as is my Cannon of Khorne (Can o' Khorne). I generally avoid to field unfinished models or proxies (just a personal foible)

Skulls for the Khornflake God!

Furies and Daemonettes. The Children of Nurgle were not to be seduced

The new rules certainly throw a few spanners in the works, as did Sam, fielding Great Unclean One, two Cans of Khorne, (or their proxies, as he's still working on 'em) and two Units of Plaguebearers, one being a bunker for Epidemius (sigh) with a champion, command and a Herald; 2 x Free-range Nurgle Beasts, and a unit of 4 Nurgle beasts, and a unit of 3 bloodcrushers. Though I'd indulge him, as we were still findin' out way with the new rules. He's only had 2 games with them, and this was my first...

I ran 30-40 each Khorne Bloodletters, Slaaneshi daemonettes, each with a Herald and Locus, a Tzeench Herald on disc, and a Bloodthirster, Furies as chaff/ diverters. Oh yes, and Karanak with 15 of his Daemondog buddies that ambushed so well that they never turned up for the whole of the game!

Used my Furie fries to block advancement of his plaguebearers and bloodcrushers for one entire round, the first, lol, before being flattened (Bit rusty on the daemon lore, forgot that daemons can't flee as a charge reaction), then he rolled on gifts that summoned a handful of plaguebearers, which he promptly used to block my Daemonettes, sucked them into a useless combat for the rest of the game, flank charged by Gr Unclean One, and they just sat there.

What the?  Hey? Where did they come from?

Cans of Khorne luckily did not do much damage, but I had to charge my Bloodletter into a unit to stop the two infernal machines from shooting at him.

Come on Epidididdaddy! Right here, right now! Don't just sit there counting...

What do you mean you've let the dogs out?  

Not really having much choice I attacked his bunker with my Bloodthirster, hoping to hack my way through to Epidemius. Challenged first by Champion,made mincemeat of him...then Herald, and while all of this was happening his brutishness was side-flanked by a  damn daemon dog, who then also issued a challenge. 

(Don't you just hate that new rule?)

Sucked in, sucked down and overwhelmed by Papa Nurgle..

into a tar-pit of attrition by ranks, from which there was no escape

 My Bloodletter had a snowball's chance.

Lessons: 

1. Don't agree to proxies if you feel strong about WYSIWYG when it comes to compiling your own army.    

    What's good for the goose...is only good for the gander by negotiation.

     (Different though if you're helping a mate prepare/play test an army for tournament.)

2. If you buy hatred for your bloodletters, (via herald) remember to use it.

3. Furies can't feign flight or flee as a charge reaction. No daemons can.

4. Nurgle seems the way to go if you have Epidemius on your shelf (as I do) and enough plaguebearers

5. -1 AP on Daemonettes is useless against Nurgle Daemons (Even with the 2 attacks) Against softer targets I think it may be worth taking them still - Empire/Elves of all description etc - man-strength/toughness creatures in other words.

40K Players: Tau releases coming: Pics and Rumours

40K Players (Not my thing) 

Tau first sneak pics: Razorsharks and Sunsharks, Battlesuits and  Knarloc Kroot Giants:

My son Luc avidly collects Tau (And Ogres in WHFB) It is his birthday tomorrow. 

It is quite fitting that the April White Dwarf features the pre-view for the Tau releases everyone speculated about.Luc will be happy...

Trouble in the Border Provinces is not my vehicle for 40K, but here is link to 

Wargames Obsession

my first blog and now my WW2 page where I have posted more pics 

40K is not my thing, but I'm excited for Luc.

Alas, alack, no Daemon on Daemon action

Alas, alack, no Daemon on Daemon action

After my enthusiastic post about "Pandemonium"  coming last night I got a text from Sam asking if I could give Fern and her Night Goblins a game, as she was preparing for Natcon, and needed more games to practice. 

(Having played against his Daemons a lot, she needed another army to face off against) 

Last night also saw the start of a Mordheim campaign at the Kapiti Wargames Club.

I stood firm, as I have too many things on the boil at the moment, and had resolved not get sucked into Mordheim, much as I love the game. (WHFB Daemons and 20mm Flames of War Armies being built)

From the looks of it everyone was having a grand ol' time. Almost got tempted to join in.

So my Dark Elves stepped up to the mark, and my Daemons continued to languish on the shelf, and the DoC Army Book glowed red-hot in anticipation.All for the common good...

I played my DE list from NZTC with the exception of swapping the Death Hag's Manbane for the Sacrificial Dagger, and both mages running Lore of Shadows this time round. NatCon rules, so limitations of numbers of dice, shooter numbers and number of Hydras.

Took a while for Fern to prise herself from Mordheim, as one of her sons was just having so much fun in the last scenario being played. 

Waiting for her allowed me to continue with my assembly of Rot-flies, so I'm not really complaining.  We finally got underway, and the vagarities of playing greenskins once again added much entertainment. Pretty gutsy on her part,  I think, taking a goblin only army to Natcon. Fielded 4 trolls, 2 doom divers and 2 rock lobbers, 2 mangler squigs, 2 units of bowmen, 2 squig herds, 2 huge phalanxes of spearmen bunkering lvl 4 mage, and characters. I had 2 units of 16 and 15 ea Xbowmen, 30+ bunker of corsiars w my 2 mages, 2 repeater bolt throwers, Dreadlord on Black Dragon w Pendant, Magic Weapon (halberd) and Hydra. 2 units of 6 shades each.

Dang, I do hate mangler squigs and fanatics!. Thank goodness for multiple shot crossbows and DE bolt-throwers.Could have made a real mess of my closely packed units! Only lost a unit of Shades.Nice conversion in the making there!

No significant misfires the whole game. Got dangerously close to taking out my Hydra. Lack of leadership proved a problem, with several failed panic tests and her Goblin General Falling to the Daggers of Death Hag and her retinue. Winds of magic not exceptionally potent throughout the game, and no really spectacular spells getting off. 

Maybe a small exception in casting pit of shades with small template on her large spearman unit.

Gobbos held the Dark Elves pretty well, and may have done more damage if their hordes had got in to swamp the crossbowmen and corsairs earlier. Sea serpent standard and hatred, with an extra attack granted from the Cauldron equates to an absolute hail of attacks. Low Ld on the Gobbos proved to be an achilles heel once the General was gone, and they were out of range of the BSB. 

Failed panic test ? Wonder why. 

(Didn't play any cold ones this game, but this looks suspiciously like Malus Darkblade on Spite)

We finally had to abandon the game at the end of turn 3, (just before 12 midnight)  as time had run out (and brain fatigue was also setting in) Think I won by a narrow margin having killed her General. Very enjoyable game.