WHFB First Blood

Kevin and I had a go at WHFB today, 1250 points of my Empire versus his Lizards. The synopsis:

- Stegadon stomps Flagellants then gets a cannonball between the eyes
- Saurus runs into the pointy end of a large halbard block after getting shot up badly
- Skinks run circles around Swordsmen and are the only surviving reptiles at the end
- Slann casts a couple of humdinger spells then self-immolates on a miscast. Phew!

What a blast, from my perspective, gunpowder is good, but I need to learn how to counter some of that powerful magic. The Arch Lector was very useful, until he died. It was a close run thing.

I finished some more handgunners and swordsman over the weekend. It is interesting to compare the different eras of GW figures. Here we have 3 generations of swordsmen, from left to right, oldest to newest:


They clearly trend towards larger swords, more dynamic poses, and lots more bits of esoteric details like scrolls and skulls. The animation is mostly good, but I don't care for the extra bits of fluff.

Similarly, for gunners:



Again, more dynamic poses, but they are trending towards the Village People with some of the fluffy bits, big silly guns and over-animation. I think on balance I like the previous edition (middle figures) the best.

Back from the road

I just returned from a week long trip to Oslo and Paris for work. I brought some models and a dozen bottles of paint for something to do in the down time, and managed to do this small unit of old school halbardiers for my Empire army. The biggest problem with painting in a hotel room is finding good light, but these were very forgiving to paint.


I quite like them, I think they are from the BattleMasters set courtesy of Bob (which would be like 4th edition?) but after adding a shield design from the newer box set I think they look pretty spiff.

Sucked in by 8th edition

So I picked up a copy of WHFB 8th edition, then shortly after negotiated the purchase of a collection of Empire models (having sold my Empire army a couple of years ago on ebay, doh!). There are probably 3k points of models in the collection, but I managed to get 1k together for test fight at the club tomorrow night painted mostly in Altdorf livery- here they are:

At the core are 20 old halbardiers with detachments of crossbow and swordsmen

6 Outriders:

Captain (general with 2H weapon) in front of the halbardiers, in the foreground is a small unit of archers (Stirland colours)


sword detachment:


Artillery and flagellants:
Warrior priest:
and princess:

Now, back to playtime: