Legendary Vikings!

 So,

Sorry, been busy doing some painting on a few Viking models that I had around the old game room. Now most of these will be used for Warlords of Erehwon and I think I painted up about 136 models or so. Most of the models are Gripping Beast plastics, but there is also Wargames Factory models, Footsore models, Old Glory, North Star, Gorgon Studios and some Foundry in there as well. I really wanted to get this done so I can start using them for WoE and for my upcoming Viking rules that I am writing. So here are the pictures:

Gorgon Studio Viking in the Center with Gripping Beast Plastics.

Northstar Frost grave models

Footsore 

Gripping Beast Plastics

More Gripping Beast plastics

And even more GB Plastics!

All in all I really like how these models came out, this is not all of them, but just a few. Now I have to get back to writing and trying to decide what else to paint.

TK

Big Foot and little feet!

So,

Hobby wise things have slowed down for me, been getting in a few games, but the ongoing issues in the world are starting to bother me and killing the joy for my hobby. I have left Twitter, its nothing but a cesspool of hate and negativity and Facebook is quickly moving up that same list. What this means is I may only be posting things here, but I have to get to not paying attention to the world. 

Anyways two things happened this past week, one, I finally got these Yeti/Sasquatch's painted up that I had for over three years now, these are Reaper models amd I honestly don't know why I had them. But I decided to paint them up like Big Foots (or is that Big Feets?) and used them for Warlords of Erehwon. I used them as trolls with my orcs for now. 

Reaper Big Foot/Yeti models

The other thing that happened this week was this little fella, may I introduce Coal!

 

Coal!

Last week my wife rescued him from work, he is a tiny make 5 week old kitten that must have wondered off from his litter. My wife took him to the AZ humane society on Thursday and they had him for the weekend. We got the call to Foster/adopt him on Sunday and Monday we brought the little guy home. So all week I have been taking care of him and getting him acclimated to our three other cats. Good thing is two out of the three cats have taken him in and are being very motherly with him. He is currently sitting in my lap sleeping as I write this.

So there you go, a few little things I have done this week.

TK 

Warlords of Erehwon

 So,

It looks like the last quarter of the year I will be taking another plunge into a new game, this time Warlords of Erehwon by Warlord Games. This is a warband style game for generic fantasy that is based on some of Warlords other games and written by Rick Priestley. Its been out for a while but really never paid much attention to it even though my buddy Mike has been talking about it for a while.

So what caused the shift and purchase of another set of rules? Well this past weekend Robert and I were talking about wanting to play a fantasy game, we both have Age of Sigmar and Lord of the Rings as well as Frostgrave. Each of these games has its own issues, I am not a fan of AoS and the Combo game, LotR is a dead game and even though I love it, not many are playing and Frostgrave seems to be missing something. We both said we just want an old school fantasy wargame. Robert actually mentioned it that we might take a look at these rules as we both love Bolt Action. SO I got a hold of Mike and chatted about it to him about the rules. he loves them and thought that Robert and I would also like it for the simple fact is you use whatever models you want.

New Game on the table!

Now many in our game group are getting burned out with GW and the chase of paper and card, it seems that GW has turned the hobby into collecting the latest rule book or unit cards for most of their games. We are spending tons of money on "stuff" for the games and not even playing them. This is one thing that drew me to WoE is that I could use some of my old collections of models with the game, not a new concept, but something that would break the cycle of chasing the latest book or card!

So after speaking to Mike, I ordered the book from Amazon and waited for it to arrive and let my gaming group know I ordered the book. Well the book arrived and have to say, very pleased with the quality of the book. Its a nice hard back book with 248 page count. its all color and very simple and easy to read with a nice layout to it. 

So how do the rules look, well to be honest, I have not played, but it looks to be a very fun game. Very old school vibe with a very familiar feel to them. Its a nice change to see something that I feel familiar with in a game. Most rules out today require tons of books and are not laid out very well (looking at you Necromunda!) and it seems very simple to find what your looking for in the book. This book and game really do fill a niche that seems to be missing. Too many companies only want you to play their rules and their figure lines, but this seems like a breath of fresh air.

Look like a Gnoll Army for me!

So with that being said, I can now use my LotR armies for this game, but like all new games, I am looking at doing a new force for it. Thanks to Northstar, they have put out a box of Plastic Gnolls that I have been eyeing since Frostgrave came out. It helps that their is an army list for Gnolls and in fact it was inspired by these same models. I have always love the Gnolls ever since I had a few of them from back when I started playing D&D using Grenadier Models. Now I had an excuse to build a war band up of these models, so this weekend I will be taking a trip around the valley to hunt down a few boxes to get started on my new project.

I have to say, I have not been this excited  about a game in a while and am looking forward to start collecting, building and painting this new army/war band, stay tuned for more WoE!

TK