Stormy Teacups

We’ve been keeping up steady progress on the 8 new WFB armies that were introduced in the previous update. Dawn and I have made the most progress by far but things have been coming along nicely with the others too. Grazyna has begun work on her Empire Knightly Orders in earnest while Mario has been assembling a horde of skeleton warriors. There was a bit of a pause due to the Easter holidays but despite that a lot has been completed. Dawn has painted most of her initial 500 point force and I have completely painted mine (ok, it was only 27 figures but still…). Dawn’s initial unit of 20 Night Goblins has been done as have all of her Squigs and the mounts for her cavalry. She only needs to finish off the Goblin and Savage Orc riders to hit her first target.

Meanwhile on a different painting table not so far away, Adam and Caz have been working through their piles of plastic. I gave Adam a painted Warhawk rider for his birthday to use as a hero and he’s added a large unit of Dryads to form the core of his force while Caz has been up to her elbows in Ghouls.

On the gaming front, things haven’t been so good. We had a couple of battles to get people familiar with the rules and the different army dynamics. Mario faced off against my Warriors of Chaos first and then against Dawn’s Greenskins and found that 500 points of Tomb Kings is not a very solid force at all. We’re going to push for 1000 point armies which will help him out a bit but he’s definitely going to find things are an uphill struggle in smaller games.

My initial 500 points is entirely done now. It consists of the Sorceror on a Disc, 10 Marauder Horsemen and 15 Marauders with flails. I also painted a familiar for my Sorceror which is magnetised, a second magnet has been greenstuffed under the disc so that he can ride shotgun as required. Next up for me are five Chaos Knights and a converted battlestandard bearer.

I’m going to stick these up here as a quick way to pad the content a little. These are a couple of figures I painted up for my old employers GOA as part of a series of hobby crossover articles. GOA run the Warhammer Online game in Europe and we thought it would be a good idea to showcase the rest of the Warhammer hobby to video games fans.

The first in the series was Grumlok and Gazbag, the Orc Warboss with Goblin Shaman limited edition miniature that was included in the WAR collector’s edition set. That was well recieved so I did a second article showing how to take an ingame character and recreate it in 3d on the tabletop. The figure I used was the plastic High Elf Archmage kit and I based it loosely on some of the original concept art for the MMO as well as some actual ingame themes like the Tome of Knowledge.

The articles are copyright of GOA so I shan’t reproduce them here but you can read about Grumlok and Gazbag and my Archmage on the WAR-Europe site.

As well as the pictures on the WAR-Europe site I have a few extras in these galleries:

Grumlok – Archmage