Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Mark and I met up for a 1600 point game of Warhammer:Old World. I had two choices to face his Khemri (undead Egyptians), High Eles/Melniboneans from the 80s, or Gobbos. Knowing the Combined Forces of Goblotpia would be utterly hopeless, I took my Hugh Elves (like High Elves, but posher). A unit of archers, repeater bolt thrower, Swordmasters, Silver Helm heavy cavalry, Elyrian Reaver medium cavalry and a unit of Shadow Warrior foot scouts. Elric (tooled up fighter, but he would be), Elwing (mounted hero with army standard and banner of battles) and a mage make up my characters. Mark had hordes of the Egyptian dead! A prince, two priests, the Arc, two units of chariots, a scorpion, a giant, archers, Tomb Guard, flying carrion and heavy undead cavalry. Utterly scary! The terrain was two hills and a patch of rough ground, all of which was basically on the centre lin, and  we rolled a pitched battle. My Swordmasters and Silver Helms advance. The medium cavalry deployed deep as they ca...

Matt and I had agreed to play Old World. Good old fashioned dice throwing bloodbath. Despite going to the club for five years, this is the first time we actually got to have a game against each other, as our interests don't often overlap. Matt is a lovely bloke and I knew this would be a cracking game. My High Elves (dating back to the 80s, almost older than Matt), vs his  beautifully painted Chaos horde at 1500 points. Mort sat in to help guide us through the increasingly labyrinthine rules. We deployed in a pitched battle. Seven units each by pure fluke. My plan was to pin down the right flank with shadow warriors and reaver cavalry (both shooty types), shot the units approaching to pieces, and then left the elite Swordmasters, and the General Elric, do the slicy-dicey thing they do so well. The main thrust was to be my Silver Helm cavalry who were to ride down teh chaos knights the out-numbered 2:1 and let them loose in the backfield. Great plan huh! Matt had two chariots, two...