Saga an Introduction

 

So where has Doc been??

 

 

The answer something different??

 

 

Over the last two or three months i havent blogged but i also havent been idle.  Myself and Andy have discovered a new gaming club not too far from home at:

 

http://wargamers.worcester-county.org/

 

So we thought we would go along and have a look.  So to cut a long story short we really enjoyed the atmosphere, people and facilities.  For those in the Midlands UK i highly recommend it and have a look at the website above.

 

A lot of the guys at Wyvern play a game called SAGA an historical wargame.  We decided to give this a go and see what it would be like to play a new system.  What also made the game attractive was the skirmish scale and the realitively cheap access to the game. 

 

Having only played GW systems it was quite an eye opener using a completely new system.  The system uses an order phase to activate your units for a turn.  The most basic game also starts off with just 4 units ranging from 4 models to 12 models depending on the ability level of the unit.  If you would like to know more check out:

 

http://www.grippingbeast.com/

 

http://studio-tomahawk.com/index.php?page=accueil&langue=en

 

Having played one game we were hooked no exageration it was a breath of fresh air and such a nice change!  So i went for a starter scots warband which you can see pictured below.  To really pull us in to this new experience the club decided to run a SAGA day on the 15th September.  This gave me a target to paint to aswell something that always motivates me! 

 

So with a target in mind i set about my 4pt warband with the main aim of trying something different to my general darker affair i paint for 40K.  For the first time in some years i painted off a white undercoat and built up the base colours and let the washes do the shading followed by a highlight.  I also had fun with hand painted shield designs and some war paint!  Anyway please take a look below:

 

 

 

So im hoping ive wet your appetite to something new??  If you would like to see some more painted SAGA check out Stuart's blog at:

 

http://dusttears.blogspot.co.uk/

 

If you would like to read about the SAGA day Wyvern Wargamers held please click link above.  There is an intention to hold another in the new year!

 

So what does my SAGA future hold???  Well an expansion of course to 6pts....  I will be adding a Heathguard Cavalry Unit and 12 Levie Archers.  I will post these up when they are done.

 

 

To sign off try it you might just like something new!!

 

DOC

Paladins Finished...at last

Well at last i have finished my 20 Paladins. They were due to be ready for the 1st week in July, so only 4 months late!

here are the last 5

here are some close ups

so the next question is what am I up to next? the answer is.....

BIKES

so these were purchased from Hyspaspist before he moved to Canada. i have always like the Ravenwing and i have been on the end of a beating or 2 from them in the past. i think that if i paint the white wings yellow then they should fit neatly into my army colour scheme.

and here is an example

i got 4 ravenwing boxes and 2 land speeder typhoons and a master of the ravenwing in a speeder. i also have 8 unbuilt bikes from my previous attempt to start a bike list, and also 6 unbuilt dark vengeance bikes and an unbuilt speeder. i have got another 8-10 bike and an attack bike in a bit of poor condition off eBay.

Tornadoes

to go with my Heavy Flamer and Multimelta squad

these bad boys have more than made their points back

2 typhoons

you can also see some of my eBay bike.

in total i think i have enough for a full mobile company

captain

command squad

5 full 8 man bike squads and attack bike (which can break down to raven wing attack squads if need be)

3 * 3 speeder squads

I think I also have a spare bike for either a librarian or chaplain.

hopefully my next post won't be so long away.

Toonboy

40K Apocalypse game; Imperium vs Nurgle

So a few weeks ago we had one of our occasional Apocalypse games, this time it was to be an alliance of Space Marines and Imperial Guard vs the minions of Nurgle in the form of Traitor Marines and Daemons. We played 5k per side (less than usual for us) and by setting a 45 min time limit per player turn we got a full 5 turn game in and fought to a decisive conclusion in a single day! (This is a major achievement for us as usually we spend so much time gassing, boasting, arguing over rules and generally catching up, some of us live quite a way aways,that we often need 2 days and still don't finish a large game.
The game was great fun, we used 6 objectives which scored points equal to the turn number in every player turn that they were controlled, only walkers and infantry could score. We also used the random objective rules from 6th ed which are a nice twist but ultimately had little or no effect in this game. Ultimately the imperial forces took a proper shoeing in points by the end of the game (with less than 1/2 the nurgle score) mainly because we started with lots of tanks on the board and didn't control objectives quickly enough, allowing the forces of evil to gain a massive buffer of points.
By the end of the game though the imperial forces had almost full control of 2/3 of the board, the nurgle plaguereaper had gone apocalyptic and we still had a the majority of our troops alive.
We looked at the aftermath and agreed if the fight was to continue the imperials had a good chance of clearing the chaos filth away.....
Alas it wasn't to be, time was up and we had to teleport out to the braying of our victorious foes...

Here's some pics of the day.....

 

 

 

My Painted Collection

Hey again

Since our blog administrator has cracked the whip and asked us all to post a bit more frequently and as the only current project with suitable piccies at the mo are my new gobbos which are in the previous post I thought I'd post some piccies of my painted collection of 40k stuff.
This includes my Space Marine Chapter, The Thunderbolts, my Necrons which will be hopefully going to new loving homes soon and of course my Space Orks...........

 

 

 

 

Gobbos and Squigs WIP

Hey all.

So i've finally caved in to my inner ork and done what i said i wasn't going to do.........
.....started collecting orcs and goblins for fantasy (I have a vast space ork army of about 14k in various states of readiness). More accurately I've started collecting Gobbos, just gobbos.
When complete, this project will comprise 3000pts of goblins themed around spiders and squigs.
It's all here now in boxes and bags just waiting to be built and painted. I'll be doing bits here and there mixed in amongst all my other painting projects. So hopefully every couple of months or so I'll be posting piccies of new gobbos.
I'm trying something new here for my Gobbos; the night goblins in the army will be painted in very pail greens as I want to create the impression that they've lived underground and in the dark for generations and begun to lose the pigmentation in there skin, thus becoming a goblinoid version of albinos. (I have absolutely no idea if a greenskinned fungus based lifeform could evolve like this but hey It should hopefully look cool!). They will be mounted on and herding lovely bright red squigs to give that portion of the army a really strong contrast in its colour scheme.
So here's some piccies of the first gobbos and squigs wip for your perusal. Coments as ever are more than welcome...................