Pictures of the new models

So, this is what I have done the last weeks. a grey hunter squad and 2 PF wolf guards, missing some shoulderpads but thats becouse I went out of the ragnars company pads, will get some more as soon as my order arrives. 1 razorback with lascanon/hb 40 greatswords done and 20 swordsmen. repainting old stuff sux, but im pleased enough with the result of it. Good enough for my gaming top standard I say!

So what have I been doing on the geeky front the last weeks

So almost a month since my last update! Ive done some painting tho. Managed to complete the 40man big greatsword unit, aswell as 20 swordsmen and 4 greyhunters +1 Wolf Guard w PF! Not that bad to be honest. Still got a lot of painting to do before I can justify any new purchases. I’ll try and update more often as it is better for myself to record my progress if I do. Next up will be another 5 man squad of GH and then ill start on the outriders. I realy love their background and the way they behave on the battlefield. Considering they can dish out 15 shots a turn they are realy good for protecting the artillery from small units. The only downside is that they cannot move and fire, but tbh you will know before hand if your machines are gonna be hunted by skirmishers/small flyers. So a smart position in round 1 is adviced. Then after the threat has been dealt with you can move them around to support/threat other things. Now why use them instead of the more mobile pistoliers? Well it realy depends on your playstyle aswell. I prefer to have the range, and the option to be mobile. Its easier for flyers to outrange the pistoliers, with their 8” range instead of 24” u get less shots, at BS3 instead of 4. And they are way cooler then pistoliers! So that’s why Im gonna make me a unit of outriders!

So what have I been doing besides painting on the geeky front? Well ive played about 5 games of warhammer 40k. My Space Wolves vs Eldar. It went very good for the spacewolves, theres many a reason for that, my main reason being aleks needs to stop tossing an average of 2 on 30 dices, and I need to stop tossing an average of 5 on 30 dices. Not that much to do about it, but there’s something we can do. We play with loads of terrain, but none of it is blocking LOS. My army can take a lot of beating, while eldars realy cant. So next time we will keep the woods as los blockers, up the scale on some craters(shouldn’t be to hard with a little imagination and some *forgot the name on the stuff shit* that would make positioning and moving abit more important. So that its easier for him to single out me, and its harder for the OP(yes their crazy imo, I can see why people would field 3x5 of these guys, but its boring so care) LongFangs a harder time to hit things. Anyway, its our first games of 40k, we need time to learn rules and other things. Our lists the last time where 1400 pts and they looked something like this:

SW

Rune Priest SC,LL runic armor

Wolf Lord, saga of slaying manythingsthaticantrememberthenameof TA,SS thunder hammer

2x 5 GH, PW,MoW std WG PF

In razor

1x8 GH PW MoW STD WG PF

Rhino with runepriest

 5Long Fangs with TA Cyclone dude 2HB and 2ML

3 TA wolf guards with SS,TH PF PW

1 Wolf guard

1 wolf guard PF

Drop pod.

His list roughly:

Farseer, doom fortune and some other stuff that I don’t recall

10 guardians with weapon platform thingy x2

10 dire avengers with “captain” thing

10 wyches? Power weapon wielding things

5 council with various equipment

3 wave serpents

2 war walkers.

Yes, none of the lists are optimized for tournament play, but that is not the point either. Wielding 5x3 LF with missile spam of doom sounds a lot like playing a shooty dwarf army.. boring in other words…

Pictures will follow in the weekend or later this week

Until next time!

Done lots

Soo, my cellphone camera doesnt work that well in teh dark, so no pictures as of yet, but I will fill them in tomorrow. As of now ive done 40 halberds, 20 greatswords - arms and started to paint and flock the RoB, it looks quite nice, altho on the last tiles ill add in more glue as it didnt stick as good as I was hoping. Nothing that cant be easely fixed so ill prob do that tomorrow. Got some parts from maelstrom, 40k basing git, a new wood and some other bits! So after my Empire army is done ill continiue on my Space Wolf army, need to paint away those lines, it looks horrible up close but good from far away, but i like it to be abit tidy from up close rather then far away.

So here we go, the board is finished alongside som halberds and greatswords(arms/swords finished but out of glue so..)

My Empire army

So, just to show the world(if there are any readers at all besides me) what The Empire project realy is about this is it:

Basicly there's about 20 almost finished and 20 missing their halberds. The rest needs some new paint. I have about: 80 Statetroops with halberds, 40 with sword/shield 30 with spears, 30 handgunners, 20 xbows, 30 Reiksguards, 11 white wolf(no idea where the last one has gone:/) 40 greatswords, 12 teutogen guards,25 Flagellants, 10 pistoliers, 2 cannons, 2 hellstorm, 2 helblaster, 2 mortars and tons of heroes. After(if ever) all these are painted I plan to add a stank and most likely all of the special characters. Im planning on getting my hands on one of the isle of blood griffon and make a Karl Franz model out of that one. Just hoping that those pesky elven legs can be fiddled away from the griffons body without to much work.If everything goes as planned im gonna get atleast 40 done a week. This mainly depends on how much efford it is in repainting the old ones. this week im done almost done with 40 without to much efford. Gonna do a testdrive with it tomorrow against VC, not quite sure what im gonna try out first.

Bored of painting Empire

So I got abit bored about all the 200 statetroops and had a little afair with this Reiksguard statue. I got about 50 knights, dont need half of 'em, so I thought I should put one of them to better use then shelf dusting!

Still got some details left to do, flowers,shields etc. But im quite happy with it as it is right now to be honest.

Realms of battle!

Got a call from our local shop today(Outland) that my realms of battle board had arrived! wuhu! no more green-boring-matt of doom!

Ive also managed to finish 20 halberdier bodies, so ill try and finish the arms and weapons later on. This weekend we are gonna play warhammer and CoC. I'll be bringing my chaos list I think. Cant be arsed to repack the dwarfs. I think i will try out the 9 attack asf jugger/horse riding khorne lord, or 8 asf tz lord. I can see how he can take out a templeguard unit and a slann in 2 rounds with a bit lucky dispelling and a scroll. he has 1+AS and 5 (or 4) Ward save. so he should survive most things or kill the things before they can kill him. Well, off to work and my realms of battle board.

WiP RoB

won the deal! And playing CoC

I won the auction! Now i got about 150 models to paint, and 150 models++ to repaint>_< oh the pain! Im gonna convert all my old empire (black/red) to Altdorf colours. Pictures will be comming when I managed to drag myself to my mate and borrow his camera.

Sunday we played Call of Chthulhu, was a great time! We had 2 "guest" players who realy worked themself into character. Odd played an old sailor from norway that now are a doctor wich looks hideous with a broken eye, and he had a harpoon accident wich was the reason why he had to do something else but be a sailorboy.  Rikard playing a freelance journalist of somesort that reported everything we did back to some weirdo taking pictures instead of shooting down the badguys. Im not gonna retell the entire story but it kinda sums up like this: we find odd in the silver twilight lodge, we go after a missing person, we find him wich leads to another missing person, we find the leader of the silver twilight lodge chanting when we get back calling us fools, Roger then moves in to attack him, Odd missfires and shoots roger in the back, I kill the bad guy and suddenly we find loads of shit and have bought us some tickets to Scottland.