After an Easter hiatus (General B. is a devout and strict observer of religious festivals) it was back to the Ilko Gaming Hut for more MESBGLoTR (or whatever). This would be the Cirith Ungol sc...
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In games of Midgard your units have stamina points - typically four for an infantry unit. These are removed as part of fights and so having some way to record a loss of stamina is useful. You *ca...
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Chum Matt is working on a Crusades set of rules that Helion will hopefully be publishing later this year. I don't have any Crusader miniatures per se however the difference between the Christians...
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Some Khorne Daemon hounds for Warmaster, which proved tricky to get in focus for some reason. And here with the man who'll tell them to Fetch! I may have a single unit left of the...
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Big angry red lad to lead the other angry red lads in search of skulls and blood. Original GW metal model and a very nice sculpt.
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Based and shields added these are good to go in a Midgard game Mostly BTD metals (you know, the guys who are thieves and charlatans who you should never, ever buy miniatures from as th...
A game - an actual, slightly unexpected, game of Midgard in Midgard March. I'd tentatively arranged a game for after Easter with author James, but that would fall into April - and when Martin a...
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I've been fiddling with a few more Warmaster bits and pieces A group shot Some Slaanesh Daemon Cavalry Lovely original Games Workshop metal models This is an old GW m...
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Three more mounted warriors for my Khand force for Lord of the Rings MESBG. They're not as shiny as these pictures make them appear.
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More Picts - these are the metal BTD* ones that Scrivs gifted me. *Remember kids, don't buy from BTD - they are thieves and charlatans
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Martin, Matt and James all convened at the soldier shack for what turned out to be two games of NMTBH. Irritatingly I had fiddled with the settings of my camera and forgotten to reset, so mos...
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Chum Matt just loves playing against my single unit of these, so I thought I'd paint up another - I'm nice like that. They are fearsome in the game to be fair. They're also a whole h...
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Another dozen of the Gripping Beast plastic Picts - with one or two Westwind metal heads added for variety There are some metals to base up now and a few more in the painting queue.
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Some 10mm cattle for set dressing/objectives in Warmaster
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A half dozen Pictish crossbowmen. I do think the crossbows are actually a bit big for what the Picts likely had, but what the heck, they're on the sprue.
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It's not all just finishing things off - I've built some slingers. The slings are from the old and not at all lamented Wargames Factory Celts box. and the metal heads are from Westwind . ...
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Another dozen ready for the battlefield.
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Matt came over for another Warmaster game - I'm keen on getting to grips with the Daemon army and he decided this time to take Dark Elves. Just the 1500 points as that's all I have for both the...
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To General Ballroom's once more for more Lord of the Rings MESBG. We started with Treachery of Sméagol another of the abstract playing card type games. Gollim and Sam start at opposite ends of a...
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The first dozen Picts to reach the "fully finished" stage. First some shields added, then basing materials, drybrushed and finally grassed and tufted. Low quality phone pics - I'll dos...
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Another game with my chum and Young N - who is very much not all that young any more and in fact probably taller than both me and his Dad. We did a deployment based on the Triumph and Treachery...
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In an attempt to push the Pict project a bit further on and give me a bit of focus for the month I've decided to declare this month to be Midgard March - wherein I'll try and get more of my Pict ...
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After a pause to watch Wigan and Castleford play The Greatest Game and refuel on pizza we started a fourth game. I again took Ogres, this time allied with the High Elves of Spandex - despite th...
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Having collected young Spandex from the futuristic travel of the hovercraft and fortified ourselves with a fry up and line dancing (it's an IoW thing) it was time for Morehammer. We'd decdided ...
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Fortified with a tasty curry and a few pints of Cobra we settled down to another gentle game. This time a two on one game with Khorneton fielding 2,000 points of Warriors of Chaos against an alli...
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