Showing posts with label Mordheim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mordheim. Show all posts

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Mordheim simplified

Greetings!

In the middle of Finnish holiday season we got guests from north. A year ago my children's cousins, six and ten year old boys, got bitten by miniature gaming flu. They were eager to play a game with miniatures, so I pulled old HeroQuest box from the shelf and mixed some simplified Mordheim rules to make out a game. The boys were so excited that they were about to jump from their pants. My Dwarves team were against Forces from Averland and Creatures beyond graves. When the boys got back home, they started to play a miniature game of their own. Cheers !



Monday, April 30, 2012

Mordheim campaing continued

Greetings !

Yesterday we continued our everlasting campaing to conquer land. This time we had a dragon mixing up the scene. Every turn a player rolled a dice and with a roll of 4+ the dragon would show up. Second roll of dice would determine what would happen. By a roll of 1-2 the dragon freezes the enemy, a roll of 3-4 dragon attacks by breathing fire and a roll of 5-6 the dragon descents among the warband into melee action. Here are some photos with captions how the battle went (or the way I remember it).

Before the battle the Shadow Warrior make appearance. Heroes and henchmen from front to back. These figures are nearly finished. Maybe next time ;)








The Pirate crew and their rabid dog Barney.

My friends custom converted Chaos Dragon. We nerfed it's stats little bit to make it easier to wound. 

WAAAGH !! Orcs and Troll

Gaming table from couple of angles
 


The Pirates won the dice roll to start the game. Mika rolled the dragon roll and what a suprise, the Dragon wanted to fight :D

The Dragon flew of leaving battered pirates behind. Not a great start for them.

Mikko's turn started with Dragon roll and he got the breating attack. The breath touched only one orc, so it didn't do much. The orcs started to rush forward


The Elves tried to move on the third turn, but again the dragon did it's doing and froze most of the elves to their stand. Only few got away to gain ground

Mika started the second round by fighting the dragon, again. The Dragon must love the flesh of pirates. Yet again it left a trail of tears behing. Three pirates was put out of action. OUCH !

A miracle, no dragon on the second turn of orcs. They move to wyrd stone and to the elves direction

The dragon kept flying and didn't meddle with the elves, which to moved positions and climbed on buildings. Few shots were fired without results

The Pirates third turn started with nervous looks to the sky. PHEW.. No Dragon, this time. The pirates move to seek wyrd stone

  The orcs close up with the Elves. There's some animosity among orcs :)

All elves try to gain higher ground, but two fail the initiative test for climbing. Flight of arrows doesn't scare the stubborn orcs.

On the fourth round the horrible luck with dice comes to haunt the Pirates and once again the Dragon is among them. This time "only" three pirate were smitten out of action.

The Dragon is hungry ! It swoops next on top orcs, but doesn't cause a havoc, this time.

Still angry, the dragon tries to burn the elves on the spot, failing doing it. The elves see their moment and the Dragon was shot down from the sky by a henchman. Though the dragon got wounds fighting with the pirates and orc, the killing blow brought the glory for the Elves !

The fifth round started with the Pirates rout test and they failed it fleeing the battleground. The orcs got their act together and charged towards elves with brutal force. The elves were trying to hold their ground with despair melee and deadly arrows. The blood bath ended to the fail of orcs' rout test. Victory for the ELVES !







Friday, April 27, 2012

Shadow Warrior warband

It has been a while I have updated the blog. I've painted an hour or two almost every night, but there were no point of taking photos of the stages I'm with the dwarves and the elves, until now.

May I present the reformed Shadow Warriors Mordheim warband. Yesterday I gave the unwashed members a deep dive to instant shade and now I have the complete twelve of them ready for highlighting and final touches. I fear now to be able to get them finished by sunday, when our Mordheim campaing continues, but the main clothes should be doable. I'm really pleased the variation of the figures. I bought my first elves for Shadow Warriors warband about ten years a go, and lately the current SW:s. Every figure blends in nicely. Here are some photos.

New members before the dip

The whole bunch dipped

 Older hero model of Shadow Warriors and older Waywatcher

 Newer hero model

 Another newer hero model

Elven mage of Mordheim's hired swords

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Shadow Warriors welcome new blood

My Mordheim Shadow Warriors warband grew up to ten members, so I had to get more henchmen and I also bought new figures for The Shadow Master and Shadow Weaver. The old ones didn't go with the flow I had thought for the band, so I decided to remove them. Here is a photo of new members !

Monday, March 5, 2012

Mordheim Sunday sessions

Me and my two friends started new Mordheim campaing, where three warbands squabble for the domination of land area. We all started with a fresh warband and I chose the Leathal Shadow Warriors. The rival bands are dumbs and dumber (Orcs & Troll) and the Drunken Masters (Pirates). We played two scenes, where the goal was to hunt for warp stone and secondly find treasure and the top of all to send the rivaling bands to the depths of Hell (or what ever it is in Mordheim, because isn't the place already close to it ?!?) Here are some photos of the sessions, sorry about the bad quality. More detailed battle reports from stormingrats.blogspot.com !