Lissanne's Bloodbowl- The Queen's Marauders + Goldigger Star Players (month 2)

Defeated in the first half of their debut game, despite scoring a goal, the Goldiggers decided they needed a new strategy- Cheat!  A couple of nasty bits of equipment snuck onto the pitch, and they would surely do better!  And also recruit some higher level players (aka Star players) who have the smarts to avoid injury and can cause trouble for the opponents!  At least this should get them to the second half!

 So, I took the spare old Dwarf linemen, and modified them into all the star players I could find so that they match the team.  And I modified another Slayer who matched Ironjaw pretty well.

 

So here are:
Grim Ironjaw

 

Barik Farblast

Boomer Ezaisson 

Flint Churnblade

nd Tom Conduit, the last of the linemen, he didn't get finished last month.

And the obligatory butt shot

The Queen's Marauders

The Gnoll Queen also has had a team of gnolls in their traditional horned helmets.  and is now adding some heavy hitting fellows who no one is sure who or what they are unarmored! 

 The Queen has left the area, but the Marauders still play under her name.  This team is done in the colors of Malal, because of their kill everything attitude!

Charon & Revenant- a matched pair, relationship unknown

the Iron Duke and the Claw, a mutated refugee from Black Scourge

and the Beastman Cheerleader!

And that butt shot!

And the Battle Report...

  Alas, no game this month.  I have been sitting about with a bad cold for a week now which hasn't slowed down my painting much, but rules out having my friends over!  So I'm posting now, and I hope to post a game next month.  This sucks, but it could be worse.  The best laid plans....  At least I can give you a shot of the completed Queen's Marauders, old and new.  Another team done!

Next month I am planning a LOT of figures- it's my Leader/Monster month and the Ogre team!  We will see how far I get, but I have a lot of buffer time built up and a good start already! And there are a lot of extras too! 

The rest of the months should be full 16 player teams +, I hope!  At least that's the plan.

Lissanne's Bloodbowl- the Eldorado Goldiggers (month 1)

 

  

Skye Pilot, a cleric to Duri, had a vision from his god, 'If you build it, they will come!'  And come they did,   In our D&D world, in the humble town of Breadwinner, there is a Bloodbowl stadium, built by the cleric Skye Pilot to his god.  He formed the first team Duri's Hooligans (orcs) , and lo and behold, more teams came.  Several seasons of BB have passed since its inception in our game world, but here is the newest team to join the ranks, the Eldorado Goldiggers!  Also called The Blues by the other teams because of the color of their uniforms. They were organized and sent to compete by the fighter lord Herculina Goldenbeard from the nearby town of Eldorado to fight for her glory, and all are seeking to gain her notice!  Most of them are hopeful suitors, even though she is happily married!

Here are the recruits:

   Herculina's brother, Ajax Goldenbeard, and her husband Gladstone Goldenbeard.

Sven and Sven, the Troll Slayers.  They run a bar in their off time.

Doughty fighters Sir Lionel the Tall  & Darn Ironbeard

  Liability & Mortgage, recruits who are bankers, recently injured.  Not doughty fighters

And last but not least, Wolfram the Mighty a blitzer, and Sherman Tank. I am using white lines to denote the blitzers on the team.  Uniform numbers don't work, nor numbers on the bases.  It is an ongoing problem!

And the obligatory back shot!

And what would the blog be without the virgin match for the Goldiggers? 
Here is the Eldorado Goldiggers (dwarves) vs Duri's Hooligans (orcs).    Please note a lot of these models are not OWAC entries, but it's hard to hold a game with 10 figures!

Ref of the day- Willie Grabbit tossing the opening coin

 

Here are the Orc Cheerleaders

And the beautiful Dwarven Cheerleader

It was a beautiful day, the stands in the temple full of screaming fans busy getting drunk. The Goldiggers elected to receive, but the Hooligans kick was so bad, it went offside. I don't think they take the dwarves seriously.  A lucky break! 

The Goldiggers got to place the ball, and surrounded the carrier in a circle formation.  They successfully knocked down a couple of Black orcs, until an overeager Sir Lionel was knocked down.  Turn went to the Orcs!

The fallen orcs stood up and did nothing else but tie up the dwarf formation.  Then the notorious Hooligan blitzer, Killa Watts, ran right into one of the Svens, but only succeeded in pushing him back.  However, this left an opening, into which the wily orc thrower went.  Why the thrower? 

Because Bomber the blitzer and a helpful lineman were busy kicking the fallen Sir Lionel instead of running after the ball carrier.  Poor Lionel! He had to be taken off the field and was out for the day. Cleric!  One turn and it is not going well for the Goldiggers.

 If you readers enjoy this BB game report, and I'm not boring you to tears, I will finish it next blog and continue to do them for the teams in action as I paint them!  They are a LOT more time consuming than I thought they would be tho....

 If I didn't mention before, my friends and I only play blue book/3rd edition teams, so I am sticking to the old standards.  There are a lot of them!

Next month:  Goldigger star players and the rest of the Queen's Marauders (chaos)   And those dwarves I couldn't find last month that I am turning into star players as we speak!

Adrian's dwarves - Wrap Up of the unnoficial sequel of Snow White's tale

Army wrap-up post.

The army finally return home with the seven dwarf engineers and Snow White.

"Doc": Hey, it was not that difficult to escape with at least part of the treasure.

Ulther: Ahem.

"Doc": Well, it took some help.

King Kazador: Hey, you were seven at the start of this mess, didn't you? where is your other friend?

"Doc": That's right, what will be Dopey doing again? where is he?

"Sneezy": I *achooo* I have seen him walking up the northern path fighting the orcs.

"Doc": At this point I think he must have reached the chaos wastes.

Another month, another OWAC finished!

Some of the last six months were a bit intense, the typical treacherous miscalculation of the available time here and there. Several working trips. But in the end, planning ahead saved the day again. That and the lack of painting fatigue as my motivation was pretty high.

Again like my eldars, this is my main fantasy army after all. Many of the models were sitting in my desk for ages waiting to be finished. I wanted to give 'em a coat of paint finally.

The OWAC has turned in a mix of opportunity to work on lots of unfinished projects...but the temptation to start new ones or add new units.

The objective was clear, adding several oldhammer units to my multi-edition dwarf army. However, the main army colour is mainly greens and that was slightly wrong if I wanted to add Kazador, so I changed my mind with the main army no #1 rule about colour variation. That was the reason to alter the blueish to teal of the armours, shields and banners that sits perfectly with my main host as it represents single units.

I would lie if I said that it was just as planned... I simply started painting and it was like the perfect colour.

With each unit as it own "clan" inside my dwarf hold, I think I can mix them well and will probably guide toward that direction with some of my other unfinished units of the pile of shame. 

Don't worry, you'll probably see the next batch, there are like several hundreds of unpainted dwarves where these lads come from. Unfortunately nothing so awesome like the Dragon Company. For now?

One of the rarest units in my collection. I started way back in the last days of 5th edition and early days of 6th. Too young to see these on the shelves of a citadel store. I was a curious dwarf collector, so I had a glimpse into the oldhammer catalogues...

I first asked Mariano about some bugman rangers that I missed in my collection... he came with an opportunity to add the Dragon Company to my ranks... and here I am, even I have now a bunch of preslotta dwarves here and there and finishing in my third edition of the Challenge. It needed to be treated some additional care.

Lovely unit to paint. As I said in June, I'll come back to the banner and some small unfinished details but I think that so much effort expent in that unit is pretty rewarding, because not only it pops-out, it is also a satisfying unit to paint despite the small amount of different sculpts.

So, lets summarize

The Host of King Kazador

King Kazador of Karak Azul - 494 points

Runesmith - 78 points

14x Dwarf warriors with full command - 244 points

10x Hammerers with standard bearer - 202 points

10x Troll Slayers with musician - 141 points 

Prince Ulther (Hero) + 14x Dragon Company Iron Breakers and full command -  430 points

Organ Gun - 65 points

Flame Cannon - 119 points

Baggage train - 100 points

Snow White

A mine

Total: 57 dwarfs, 1 human, 1 pony, 1 unanimated pile of rocks, 1873 points

Now, time to prepare the next OWAC. I have an idea in my mind, as I wanted to jump into the Horus Heresy and it seems that beakies are the new black.

Until then, Adrian’s out!

Adrian's dwarves - May rank & file month got slayed (141 points]

Rank & File Month

 

Instead of troubleshooting, we called the troublemaking department.

It is not a proper dwarf brawl until the orange angry naked guys appear.

 

Oli: Do you think that this is the right direction?

Plissken: I cn assure you that I already smell those orcs, we're near them.

Oli: We shouldn't have gotten into that fight with the giants, maybe the main orc army has reached the mine! Or they're fighting and overnumbering our lord Kazador retinue!

Plissken: tsssh, then we're now on an infiltration mission to save the presid.. I mean, the King.

...

Look. Orcs.

Oli:We must kill them silently before they make any nois..

 

AAAAIIiiieeeh! ORCS! ORCS!

ONE IS MINE!

*extremely loud drum noises* I'LL SMASH YOUR 'EAD!

BRING IT ON!

OOOOOORRRCsssssaaAAAAAARGH!!!

Plissken: Fine, probably all the valley knows we're here!

Snorri: Don't worry, they're just ahead! We've caught them by their backs! TROLLS! Plenty for FOR EVERYONE, GUYS! KILL 'EM ALL!

I imagine that most of the time the slayers are something like the Gutbuster brigade from Forgotten Realms. Tragical and suicidal warriors ruled by their death-oath, yet silly and unruly, as you can't really take too seriously a bunch of orange haired kamikazes.

This month updated comes with

Snorri and his troll slayers (x10 Slayers) - 141 points

I do not claim the points of the leader as Giant Slayer because I didn't paint it in the month leader, so basically he's just a cool dude.

 

As I said in the intro iirc, this special slayer came without the dragon head, but Drew's unused troll heads from my orc and goblin army came to the rescue and are a pretty good substitute.

To my surprise it fits the 20mm base with the troll head. So I am quite happy with the result.

The unit overall was pretty fun to paint, with lots of options for tatoos, body painting, details in the clothes, etc.

 

 

Berserk tatoo!

 

 

 Svend D. "Snake" Plissken, of the special slayer forces of Karak Azul

I liked the idea of different races or skins for my dwarfs but too often there's nothing but small tonal changes like in WoW, and few to none real cultural changes. This slayer came from the very south karaks of the Old World, even farther than Karak Azul.

Not only I played with skin variation but also changes in the tattoos. The southerner has a slightly more central african "dwarf-ish" tattoo than the others (sadly I didn't check my photographs because the half angry face in his belly is hardly seen in the lot).

Whereas the most pale skinned dwarf has a traditionally viking-looking tattoo and freckles.

Again, didn't check that I had no good picture of him, the guy with the spiked ball, with the macro lens as I had to make the photos on the go. I can blame my assistant for not pointing out the quality of some pictures during the session.

Always blame the assistant.

Now, for the last batch of miniatures and the recap!

Until next month

Adrian’s out.