June update

June update

This month I started back to painting up

 my 1500 point cityfight Imperial guard army

Platoon command squad

I now have only 31 miniatures left to paint, so with that in mind i feel that i will have them completed shortly. although with the 6th edition of Warhammer 40'000 just around the corner i think i may have to change the army list. to best fit with the new rules set.

Over the past few weeks i have been having a few practice games with my three possible army lists for the Blood in the badlands campaign due to begin in the next few weeks. The games have been fun and it amused me that my generals army can produce eight out of a possible fourteen spells. I've mentioned before that i haven't played much of this current edition and some of the finer rules elude me, but as far as army selection is concerned i have tried out a few horde units (namely plague monks and skavenslaves).
The armies i came up against were High elves at 2400 points and Warriors of chaos at 2000 points. Both of those armies worked in very different ways and it good to see how the skaven held up against them.

I have been quite busy with Urban war. On the 4th June i ran a Urban war headhunter tournament held at Highlander games Dundee.

Also this month i finished my Koralon force at 300 points that a few of my fellow gamers are both scared and eager to get their claws into combat against them. .
As far as painting another faction i am eagerly awaiting for the Neo Iskandrians to become available.
Urban mammoth have released some sweet artwork by Wayne England for them.

Companion with Xyston

Cover sketch by Wayne England

Work on Malifaux has been slower than the other projects.

I added an extra 2ss points bringing my Neverborn to 21ss points out of 35ss to make it up to scrap level.

Cherub for liliths neverborn

I've completed a Convict gunslinger to put my outcasts to 29ss points

any suggestions on what i should get next with the remaining 6 points would be great.

Convict Gunslinger

Projects completed:

Warhammer fantasy battle:

Skaven 2000pts

Warhammer 40'000 :

Orks 1000pts

Featured in the battle report here

Urban War:

Koralon 300 points

Warmaster ancients :

Norman force 1000pts

Warmachine:

Menoth-  25pts

Projects still to finish:

Warhammer 40'000 :

1500 point cityfight Imperial guard army

Malifaux:

Make each of these forces to 35SS (Scrap level)

Liliths Neverborn (21/35)

Viktorias Outcasts (29/35)

Rasputinas Arcanists (9/35)

This month i have been playing lots of the Space hulk card game Death Angel

Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game from fantasy flight games is a cooperative card game set in the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000. Players must work together as an alien menace threatens to devour their hopes of survival. If all Space Marines perish, the players collectively lose. Likewise, if at least one of the surviving Space Marines completes the objective, the players all win!

The add-on packs to game give it a new dimension, the add on pack so far are:

Mission Packs and Space Marine Packs; along with larger packs: Tyranid Enemy Pack  and the Deathwing Space Marine Pack

Warmaster Ancients- Normans

Warmaster Ancients- Normans

 In the space of two centuries the duchy of Normandy stood as a prime mover in European affairs, not only completing the conquest of England but also stretching its arms out to southern Italy and Sicily. Even after the duchy lost its autonomy and was absorbed into the Kingdom of France-proper it still exerted great power and influence within that realm.
This is my second Warmaster ancients army, my first being Imperial Romans
For my next force i really wanted a cavalry heavy force and with the Normans i got it..
I really liked the 6mm Baccus range for giving an epic feel to the game.

So now on to my painted miniatures

General Kenzie de Montfort

Norman Infantry

foot soldiers would be protected by the use of the shield as used by the cavalry

Norman Leader, Godfrey de Ibelin leading a unit of Retainers

Norman Knights

 were an integral part of Norman and general French strategy.

More Knights

Archers

wore no armour. Their function was to soften up the enemy before engagement by killing as many opponents as possible beforehand.

General leading the knights

Knights and Infantry

Retainers and mounted skirmishers

Norman mounted skirmishers.

Norman force in full - 1000pts

The Great Distraction

The Great Distraction

In keeping with my gaming hopes for 2012. I wanted to finish of my Menoth 25 point force for Warmachine.  i already had most of it completed, I was left with only one unit to paint.

5 Exemplar Cinerators.

They built together really easily without too much preparation needed.

next step I based them with sand and basecoated them.

Now they are ready to be painted, but wait .......

That's right the Distraction that came in the form of Warmaster ancients

with the 1000pt Norman army that I bought from Baccus6mm in September 2011.

Needless to say this army was also in the gaming hopes for 2012, but it was a much larger task than the five Cinerators, but before I long I'd forgotten about the drying Cinerators and had began building up the Norman spearmen, archers  and the two characters.

 Here is my progress so far

Norman Spearmen

Painted force at the moment 

I've wanted to paint this force up for a long time, and plan to keep steaming ahead with the army, but I'll put away a few days to complete the Cinerators. I do kind of feel bad as I got back into playing Warmachine just before the new year. so I really wanted to have a completed force and seeing that it was only five miniatures shouldn't be that difficult. but alas I painted up 121 6mm soldiers instead.