September Warhammer session

Greetings ! It has been little bit quiet with the blog and painting. I have been trying to finish all of the war machines and the crew members. They are getting painted slowly but surely, but until they are completed, there will not be new photos of them. 

Today's blog update is a battle report from our monthly Warhammer session. This time we played two matches: Dark Elves vs. Orcs and Goblins and Dwarfs vs. Orcs and Goblins, each army 2000 points. The plan was to play against each other, but there was no time for the Dwarfs vs. Dark Elves. The Dwarfs have to whipe their arse with the elves another time ;)

Few photos from the DElves against Greenskins match. The Hydra was replaced by Broodhorror. The Elves pulled the longer straw in the end. More photos from stormingrats.blogspot.fi.

O&G vs. Dwarfs

The Deployment of Dwarfs. Don't know what I was thinking :D

Rune Lord with Anvil of Doom and 12 Quarrellers with GWs

Grudge thrower, Thane with 39 Dwaf warriors with GWs and Cannon

30 Hammerers and Organ gun

The Greenskin deployment.

Ten Goblin wolf riders

Five Boar boys and 26 Orc boys with Orc Shaman

Three River trolls and Ten Black Orcs with Orc warboss

29 Goblins with Goblin shaman

Thirty Goblin archers

Two Spear Chukkas and Doom diver

A giant

Round 1

Orcs take the first turn. Wolf riders swing across the battle field with the vanguard and normal movement. They shoot at the Quarrellers. Two dwarves die.

Boar boys fail the animosity test and stay put in front of frustrated Orc boys. The Orc Shaman gets frustrated and marches forward cursing. He casted the foot of Gork on the Warriors, but it missed. Black Orcs march to the trees.

Trolls go hiding in the woods. Goblin spearmen march forward.

Goblin archers fail the animosity test and move forward. Spear chukka nails the Hammerer unit and five dwarves die. Great shot, but bad for the me ! The giant went hiding behind the houses.

I just noticed that I forgot to take photos of the first dwarf turn. This is what happened. The Rune Lord stroke the Rune of Wrath and Ruin killing two Wolf riders. The Quarrellers shot quite a few and the Wolf riders were forced to flee. Cannon took out few Gobbos. Organ gun  killed few Gobbos.

Round 2

Orcs turn. The Giant marched closer to Hammerers. Doom diver dropped five Hammerers. Trolls marched near the Anvil. Orcs and goblins move closer. No photos in this round either :(

In the Dwarfs turn the Hammerers march closer to the Giant. The Rune Lord stroke the Rune of Oath & Honor and Charged the Hammerers against the Giant. The Giant managed to slay one Hammerer before it fell to it's backside.

The Quarrellers charge the Trolls to cover the Rune Lord. After that move, I realized that I should have moved them only in front of the Anvil :P ...You can see from the photos what happened to them :D. The grudge thrower landed a strike and Black Orcs were down to three. Organ gun exploded. Few goblin died.

 

Round 3
Troll crush the rest of the Quarrellers.

The Gobbos tried to shoot the Hammerers and done whole lot of nothing. O&G magic didn't do much. Some animositys failed and slowed the gang down.

Again, no photos of the Dwarf turn. The hammerers hide behind the house. Nothing much happened. 

Round 4

The Trolls charge the Anvil, but the Lord and guards stay unharmed.

Black Orc command group go hiding in the structure.

Spear Goblins move closer.

In the magic phase the Orc shaman casted the Foot of Gork with irresistible force and burned three of his own levels, leaving only with the spell of 'Ere er go (or such). The Boar boys fail the animosity and stay put. Orc boys get ready for attack. The Goblin archers regroup to strike to the rear of Dwarf Warriors.

The Dwarf Rune Lord and Guards were persistent agains Trolls and only one Guard died.

The Dwarf warriors charge to Goblin spearmen driving them fleeing. Two dwarves died.

The warriors prepare to face the Orc mob. Cannon blasted off few Orc boys. Grudge Thrower smashed one of the Spear Chukkas. The hammerers go chase after Goblin archers.

Round 5

Boar boys march forward. The Orc boys move to charge distance of the Dwarf warriors.

The Goblin archers move closer to Dwarf warriors.

Trolls keep on hammering the Rune Lord and Guard. The Guard dies.

The Doom diver lands on the Dwarf warriors killing three. The Spear Goblins succeed rallying them back to the battle.

On Dwarf turn the Rune Lord finally got slayed by the Trolls. The Trolls turn to face the Cannon. I finally remember the dice throw to implement the Miners to the battlefield. They are placed behind Boar boys.

Round 6

In the Orcs turn TheTrolls fail the stupidity test and move few inches forward. The Orcs fail the charge roll. The boar boys fail the animosity roll :D The Black orc command group moves forward. The Goblins get ready to charge the Dwarves.

In the Dwarfs turn the Cannon fires a burning grape shot at the Trolls killing two.

I'm little bit confuced how it happened, but the Miners charged the Boar boys sending them fleeing and after that they charged to the rear of the Orc Boys ?!? This might have happened earlier :D The Dwarf warriors charged the Orc boys. The orcs were annihilated !

The Hammerers close the Goblin archers, while the Goblins leave stomping their feet when the Dwarf warriors evaded their trap by charging the Orc Boys :)

The Orcs decided to give up at this point when they only had couple of fighters left. The Goblins are not counted. It was thrilling match. My horrible deployment was compensated by Orcs bad dice luck with the animosity and stupidity rolls. Much of the battle was left out of the report because of my bad photo documenting. Few additional photos from stormingrats.blogspot.fi

Time to paint the warmachines (Updated)

My first models of the Dwarf army were warmachines and I started the painting from the crew of Grudge Thrower and Bolt Thrower early this year. Now it's time to continue and complete painting all of the machines and crew. Cannon and Organ gun were the first in line, so naturally I painted them at the same time, because they are quite similar. Here they are after dip. Now they look almost like any other in the photos I found on the Internet. The highlighting and details have to change that ;)

So, I finished the painting of the Cannon and the Organ gun. I was hoping for little bit better results with the glowing runes, but these are what I succeedeed painting. Oh well, you can't always win :)

Anvil Of Doom, fourth and final stage

Behold, The Anvil of Doom ! Made from the ancient trees of Athel Loren and powered with Dwarven runemight. It surely pissed off some pointy eared tree huggers ! Although it is not the most fine detailed piece of modelling, it is quite unique and draws the eye on the battlefield.

 

Warhammer sunday session: Dwarfs & High Elves vs. Skaven

It has been a while since the last Warhammer battle. The Alliance between Dwarfs and High Elves wanted to take another go against the hordes of Skaven. 2000 points of Dwarfs and about 1000 points of Elves against 3000 points of Skaven. Here's a battle report as I remember it !

The Skaven deployment:

Warp cannon, mortar, horde of stormvermin with screaming bell

Clanrats with bsb, fire thrower and two hordes of skaven slaves

Horde of Plague monks with furnace, Jezzails and horde of slaves

Doomwheel

The Alliance deployment

Runelord with Anvil Of Doom

Quarrellers, Organ gun and Hammerers

Cannon, Warriors with bsb Thane and Grudge thrower

Sea guards, Sword masters with mage and Noble with eagle

Turn 1: Alliance

The Elves move forward and take some shots with bows

Three skaven dead

Anvil of Doom kills two Jezzails

Grudge thrower tries to hit the BSB, but lands on Bell and Stormvermin. Also Quarrellers take shots. 14 Stormvermin are dead.

Turn 1: Skaven

 All of the Skaven move forward

 

Doomwheel makes it to the shooting distance and kills the Elf noble.

 Skaven magic kills six hammerers and warp cannon kills one of Quarrellers.

Jezzails take two Swordmasters out.

Turn 2: Alliance

In the Skaven turn, the bell was ringed and it moved 10 inches forward. Quarrellers and Organ gun decreased the unit size about by 14 Stormvermin.

 Grudge thrower kills about 10 clan rats.

The Miners appeared on the flank of Doomwheel and charged it with the help of Anvil. The dice was on Doomwheels side and Miners fail to take it out.

 Turn 2: Skaven

Jezzails got two Swordmasters

Skaven magic got a Sea guard

Warp cannon killed 2 warriors

Doomwheel sliced the rest of the Miners.

Turn 3: Alliance

 Elf mage killed four slaves.

 The Swordmasters and Sea Guards charged the Plague monks and Furnace. The melee went bad for the Elves and they were forced to flee. The monks run down the Swordmasters.

Dwarf warriors charge the Clanrats and make them flee.

Quarrellers and Hammereres charge the Stormvermin. Great losses for the Skaven but they are unbreakable because of the Bell.

 Turn 3: Skaven

The Gutter runners appear behind the cannon and shoot it out. 

 Slaves and Doomwheel move forward

The skaven wizard got a spell through (a second time) that opens a crack to the earth and the Anvil sunk in it. I managed to throw a 5+ save the first time, but the luck isn't going to last forewer. Quarrellers and Hammerers vs. Stormvermin and bell. One casualty to Quarrellers and about 5 to skaven.

 Doomwheel zapped the fleeing elfs

Slaves charge the warriors and flees in panic.

The warriors face to meet the other horde of slaves.

Turn 4: Alliance

Warriors charge the slaves and kill the to the last rat. Six dwarves dead.

 The organ gun dropped one gutter runner.

The evening was turning to night, so I was forced to quit, if I were going to catch the last train home. We declared victory for the Skaven because they had almost all units on the table and certainly more points. I fairly satisfied with the performance of the dwarves but the elves didn't do much. Somehow the powerful spell casting, the elves should have, just wasn't there. Furnace's and Bell's ward save of 4+ made me choose different targets for my warmachines, so I think I should have bombarded them anyways.

Oh well, in any case it was fun to play after a long pause.

Anvil Guards

On following sunday evening the Dwarfs and High Elves are going to battle against Chaos worshipping bastards. I set a goal to finish the painting of Anvil of Doom and guards by then. Only details of the Anvil and it's pedestal remains to be done. The guards were quite fast to paint and Runelord got his basing done. Some photos !

Anvil of Doom, Third stage

My Anvil of Doom made of ice cream sticks got it's colour on. I was trying to make it look some what ancient and patinated. I also tried to do some runes to the side planks, but the engraving machine wasn't steady enough in my hand, so they became little bit askew.