300 - Warmaster ancients

''This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!''- King Leonidas, 300

I had decided that my next Warmaster ancients project would be a quick one.
so straight away i decided i was going to get a Spartan force, well maybe not a full force but enough to recreate the battle of battle of thermopylae.

 I wanted to make it more in theme of the film 300 than real historical.

Looking at the army list for the Greek,The force consists of:

General - King Leonidas
1 unit of Spartan bodyguards
1 unit of hoplites (these will act as a supporting unit)

coming to a total points value of 285 (just short of 300 points)

All in all this small force has 17 attacks even if it doesn't charge( 20 if it does) and +3 to combat resolution

King Leonidas

''Give them nothing! But take from them everything!''

Front rank

Supporting rank

The 300

The 300 defend the Hot gates.

 The Miniatures are 6mm and i picked them up from the Baccus stand at the 2012 claymore gaming event.

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.

Gaming hopes for 2012

Gaming hopes for 2012

Projects to finish:

Warhammer fantasy battle:

 Skaven 2000pts (two units to finish)

Warhammer 40'000 :

 Orks 1000pts (10 miniatures to paint)

Dreadfleet (painting)

Urban War:

Koralon: Make up to 300pts

Malifaux:

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

Liliths Neverborn (19/35)

Viktorias Outcasts (24/35

Rasputinas Arcanists (9/35)

Warmaster ancients :

Norman force 1000pts (build and paint)

Warmachine:

Menoth- Make up to 25pts

feel free to comment and add your own lists

Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients -Part III

Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients -Part III


This month sees the completion of my early imperial roman warmaster ancients force. a total of 1250pts, you can see the progress here and here.
I even managed to play my first game with them too, but more about that later.
First the army itself.

The Army

General Marcus Titus Aquillus with his veteran legion

Closer shot of General

Heavy cavalry

Aux Archers

Aux Infantry

Legions

Legions and Scorpion bolt throwers

More Legion

Now on to their Debut Battle

My opponent was using a sassanid Persian force (which is mostly cavalry)
My setup was fairly basic with the legion in the centre with aux infantry and cavalry protecting my flanks. the Persians deployed their dreaded Elephants on my right flank and cavalry on the other. After dicing for game length (only a six turn game) first turn went to the Persians.

Highlights for me were:

• The Persian Cavalry got first into combat, but were unlucky and got repelled by a unit of archers in combat
• One unit of legion with a Legate backed up by unit of aux infantry took down a unit of elephants, mostly due to poor Persian dice rolling.
• One unit of archers caused enemy infantry to be confused twice.
• My block of legion holding strong in the centre after numerous charges and counter charges and at one point flanked.

Now the low points

• Persian cataphracts shattering my cavalry to bits
• Poor command rolls, i even managed to fail with a portents re-roll
• Two units of Skirmishers and my scorpion bolt thrower didn't move or make any contribution to the battle

In the end i managed to pull off a victory, and if i am honest i didn't really expect to win at all. but the end victory points were :

Persians - 350

Romans - 700

 

Lessons i have learnt

• Legions are nails and can more than handle themselves in combat against most things
• Even with a general and two Legates  i still can't guarantee to move move my entire force
• Shock cavalry are scary

so inspired by cavalry my next purchase will be a Norman army