Beginnings of an Undead army

Last year I picked up a few undead bits of ebay very cheaply and they've been languishing in the lead mountain for a while and I decided to pull them out and slap some paint on.

 The figures were released in the 1990s with the circle of blood campaign pack (which I have ideas about trying to play in Age of Sigmar). I really like them - this chap has a real Judge Death feel about him which I'm sure is deliberate.

I'm hoping they will see service in games of AoS as black knights well as skeleton knights in games of God of Battles.

I've still got the command group to paint and I'm scouting on eBay for the mounted wraith that got released at the same time.

More Cutlass! game photos

A few more photo's taken from Thursdays' game on Rob's camera.

Cutlass

This week at the ELMS club I decided to break out Cutlass! from Black Scorpion Miniatures. It was a chance to give the rules a whirl as they've been sat on my shelf for a long time without use (Strange Grogge being my preferred piratical ruleset).

We ended up having an extra player due to a last minute drop out elsewhere, so I volunteered to umpire and let Niel and Rob play.













We played a basic skirmish out of the rulebook with start-up gangs and it went pretty well. The dreaded 8 vs 1 AU roll that I'd read about happened, but it didn't effect the game too much, but it did leave one player with very little to do for 15mins or so, which is a shame. Not sure if it'd need balancing or not - time will tell.








both players enjoyed the game, as did I, so I expect we might see it again soon.

Ogre Hunter

I've been steadily painting up this miniature for a month or so, which is a long time for me, just doing bits and pieces as I feel like it.

I'm really pleased with how he's turned out, particularly the warpstone, so much so I'm tempted to break out the last few ogres I have lying around from the ogre battalion I bought about 5 years ago. I still have a ninja maneater as well somewhere!

What do you think?

Arachnarok Spider

I got this monster as a present last Christmas (2015!) and it sat for quite a long time because I was a bit intimidated by the thought of painting in.

 I finally got around to it at the end of 2015, and I really enjoyed painting it. I tackled it in several bits: the spider, the base, the howdah and the goblins - I probably rushed the last two parts a bit but I'm happy its all finished.

Not sure when I'll get around to use him "in game" - my regular warhammer/AoS opponents have gone AWOL of late and no one down the club plays. I'm sure I'll work him into a game of God of Battles or Kings of War if I pester someone enough!

More Frostgrave

I played another game of Frostgrave at the ELMS club this week. It was a bit of a refresher for some of the players at the club and an introduction for the others.


It ended up being a very bloody 3 all draw, with my poor tracker being taken out carrying a treasure with one move to the edge of the table!

We played using John's "Jenga-grave" terrain, which he created using some knock-off jenga blocks, wooden building blocks and some textured spray - simple and effective!

I've also started using instagram. You can follow me at KevMoon5566 for blurry phone pictures of what I'm up to!

Frostgrave in 2016

Tonight was the first game of the year down at the ELMS club in Leeds.

We went for a 3-way game of Frostgrave to remind ourselves of the rules before we have a taster session for others at the club who want to try it and before we begin playing through the liche lord book.

 I took along a brand new warband with a Necromancer, apprentice, ranger, tracker, thief, two thugs and a warhound. I also managed to summon a boar that I'd just finished painting.

We played the worm hunt scenario, the worm remained particularly shy until popping up with one treasure unclaimed before promtly being clubbed to death by my opponents warbands!

Highlights included casting beauty on my heart holding necromancer, numerous elemental walls and some terrible dice rolling.

I managed to get away with four treasures out of the 9 so I'm claiming a win! It was a fun game, as all our frostgrave games tend to be.