Realm of Warcry; Chapter 1, part 6

Greetings Terrans, how goes it? Well, it has been another very long gap between posts – life continues to be crazy busy & I’m finding it very difficult to get the time to fit everything in! Sorry to be so intermittent – I realised that I have been delaying a Realm-of-Warcry post because of the lack of the stories I just haven’t had time to write… I have been painting away in the background though, and in acknowledging that I’m not likely to get time for writing, I thought might as well get some photos up and at least return to some semblance of a well managed hobby blog!

So last RoW post I shared some Chaos Dwarfs that I had rolled up, but I did have a few more games way back in Spring, and had more follower rolls to model up. First roll was a trio of Skaven – I didn’t want to go buy a box specifically for this project, but luckily I had an old war-engine kit kicking around… a freebie from when the bases changed from square to round!! I took the crew from the kit & did some converting to give me a Warlock and two mooks:

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I figured that I might as well build the war engine too, so opted for the Warp Lightning Cannon build, albeit with a slight change to how it went together:

I like my version – kinda looks like a giant rat skull to my eye!

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Anyway, while I was building ‘big stuff’ and using up old kits that I had lying around, I also knocked up a War Alter:

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I couldn’t resist adding the severed head of the Elf Mage from the story:

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And I used the crew to make some non-combatant followers:

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And I think that will do for one post! Again, sorry it has been so sporadic of late – removing the self-imposed shackles of needing to write stories should get things back to normal so I’ll be sure to get another update out soon.

BOYL ’22 – Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek

Greetings Terrans, it has been a while since I posted (again), been away on hols for a bit, plus work & study are both kicking the crap out of me at the moment… Finding the time to do anything else is just so damn difficult! That said, I did make my annual pilgrimage to Newark this past weekend – BOYL is one event I will always do my very best to attend. I has a blast this year, it was great to see so many familiar faces, plus I got to meet some awesome new people too. This year I put my Space Orks and my Praetorian Guard to good use, and I GM’d the ‘Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek’ scenario from WD222 on repeat. I managed to run the scenario three times, with a total of 11 individual games of Rogue Trader played (each run through has a variable number of assaults with each assault being a game). I didn’t get to see much else & I was bloody knackered by the end of the weekend, but it was so worth it. The results were as follows:

1st run through – James H (Orks) vs. Jesper (Praetorians), 5 games total. This was a bit of a practice run, refining rules & adjusting things for balance. Result was a narrow Orky win.

2nd -Paul D (Orks) vs. ‘other Paul’ (Praetorians), 3 games in total. Crushing Ork win – as an inexperienced Guard player, ‘other Paul’ was overwhelmed in the last round & couldn’t hold the farm.

3rd – Chris W (Orks) vs. ‘other Chris’ and Dan (Praetorians), 3 games in total. Narrow Praetorian win – mainly de to some masterful play from ‘other Chris’ in the final assault, (plus a little bit of luck with an out-of-control Ork Dreadnought torching a mob of Boyz!).

There were far too many twists and turns to list here, but suffice it to say that everyone got into the spirit, and this was a great narrative gaming experience. One highlight was having none other than Jervis Johnson (the gaming legend who wrote the scenario back in the day) stop by & chat a bit about the scenario! I was a bit star struck & didn’t dare ask for a photo, but he was a genuinely lovely guy who was so generous with his very limited time there. He probably doesn’t realise it but he made my bloody day 😊  

Here are some pics to hopefully give you a flavour of the game:

The defending force – elements of the Dauntless 215th plus auxiliaries

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Ready for the 1st assault of the weekend

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Savage Orks closing quickly!

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Rogue Trader Arturo Lamina proves his skill in combat

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As does Captain Caine

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I think this is the start of the final assault of game 3 – look at all those Orks! Faasends of ’em!

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This mob of Orks were unimpressed with the imperial mortar fire!

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Rogue Trader Lamina at it again

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And Capt. Caine doing the same, despite sustaining grievous wounds to overwatch

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A heroic (and suicidal) dash over the barricade to deliver a devastating blast of flamer fire

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The Orks finally break, with just 5 humans left to defend Glazer’s Creek… Close!

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Huge thanks to Jesper & James, Paul & Paul, and Chris, Dan & Chris for being such excellent players – you all made it a great experience with tons of laughs, tension, excitement, and occasional flashes of tactical genius! I hope you lads all enjoyed it as much as I did.

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 1, Part 5

Greetings Terrans, just a quicky from me today – been horribly busy of late, so not much done in the way of hobby. However, my pal Mark from Heresyofus has sent me a thing that I’m absolutely thrilled with. You might recall that Mark is a real-life Hephaestus with the old 3D printing, and he has produced some cracking stuff to support and enrich several of my projects, (including Kulo’s Castle and Talos!). Well now he is turning his hand to computer generated 2D art as well.

Inspired by my Realm of Warcry project and using a program called Midjourney AI, along with Photoshop, he gone done this for me:

Now I don’t know about you, but this has brought the whole Chaos aspect of the project bang into focus in a way that just isn’t possible with minis… This is what is in my head when am painting, and I absolutely love that Mark has been able to capture that on ‘paper’.

Thanks Mark, you are a star.