Second Elf Unit Finished - Kindred Archers

It has taken time, patience, and an ever-growing loathing for painting white, but I have my second elven unit(s) finished - two troops (or one regiment) of Kindred Archers:

These are the old GW elf archers. They are nice models I think, and it's great to be able to position them so they are all firing together in the same direction, which was pretty hard to do when they were all on 20mm bases.

Part of the plan is to follow the way list construction works in KoW to determine the order I paint; so since I now have a regiment of Tallspears and two troops of Kindred Archers I can paint up a hero, as I have both unlocked it in the list building sense as well as earned it, I feel, in the painting sense. So should have another update soon, and after that maybe a small batrep with my steadily expanding host.

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Beers of War - February 2017

Just returned from the Beers of War, a 1500pt doubles tourney held in Wakefield run by the Fellows brothers of Lukes Aps fame. It was a three game event held in a pub, and was a blast!

My brother and I formed 'The Screeching Masses' team with Ratkin and Goblins. In light of what we know about the upcoming changes/recommendations in the CoK book, we chose to build lists that crammed as much of the 'soon to be nerfed' options as possible, i.e. breath attacks, lightning, bane chant, and the Death Engine with vile sorcery. From some of what we saw in some other lists, we weren't the only ones!

The event was well run with a tonne of prize support. We had fun in all three games, which was very good as we did not score well at all! Two losses and a draw were not our finest showing, however twas all in good fun. In our first game the wonder team of Spud Tate and Mr Nick Williams himself gave us a master class in, well, wrecking face really. So definitely feel like we learned a few things, be they from the superior play of our opponents or the silly mistakes we made.

The next Beers of War is on the 8th of July, and we would've loved to attend but sadly can't. We'll be keeping an eye out for more in the future though, and I have no doubt it'll become a must-attend event for many in the Kings of War scene.

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New Kings of War Project - Elves of Therennia Adar

I've finally finished the first unit for my new KoW army, a regiment of Tallspears for a Sea Kindred elven host.

Multi-basing is so satisfying, it adds a whole new (very fun) element to the hobby. Here are some more shots of the battle-ready elves facing off against some of my brother's goblin rabble:

So these are of course the discontinued High Elf Spearmen from GW rather than Mantic elves. This is because, while building my Skaven army, I had always planned to follow up with High Elves, and had gone ahead and bought everything for the army. When the great betrayal came they were all still untouched in their boxes, so I figured I'd embrace the elf sub-faction that most resembled GW's Ulthuan elves in the Mantica setting, the Sea Kindred.

I have the paint plan for this army all mapped out; I'm going to start with the goofy 6th Ed Fantasy sculpts (are they supposed to be wearing clown shoes?) and then get to the sweet, sweet Isle of Blood minis. From 500pts onward through 250pt increments my brother and I will play a narrative escalation campaign, hopefully with batreps.

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Gun Drones Deployed

So as a (very) small side project I have a little Tau force I'm putting together, which only gets any attention as a break between higher priority work. Here is the first finished unit, Gun Drones:

For me nothing beats the classic Tau colours, so that's how I'm doing them.

Now, onward to my next KoW army...

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Final Engineer/Wizard Complete, and so is my Ratkin Army!

It gives me great pleasure to present the last model in my army, a Ratkin Wizard (or Skaven Engineer):

And so with him finished, time for some army shots!

I started this army nearly five years ago, and I'll admit at times it looked like an insurmountable task. But it's done! What a feeling, just great.

I've learnt a lot from this project (no more horde armies! Ever!) and feel ready to up my game on the next one. While I'm overall very happy with how this turned out, I regret not doing more with the basing, so that'll definitely be an area I'll improve upon in my next army.

As to what that'll be, watch this space...

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Shock Troops Multi-based

As promised, here's my first multi-based unit. Behold as my Stormvermin transform into mighty Ratkin Shock Troops!

Nothing too fancy here with the multibasing, but I'm happy with the effect. Nothing else in my Ratkin will be rebased this way, but all future projects absolutely will be.

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Death and Pestilence

It's been a long time since I've been able to hobby, but I'm back! And to prove it here's my most recent bit of work: a horde of Ratkin Blight.

So, Ratkin eh? Not Skaven? Well yeah, as I've mentioned before, I'm done with GW now, but Mantic's Kings of War is really doing it for me. So a few changes are being made to my army to enable the switchover, although very little is necessary. These were initially going to be Skaven Slaves, but given the abstracted nature of KoW there was no reason not to grossify the rats up and into members of the Blight.

Coming soon, my first attempt at multibasing!

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