Just a quick intermezzo! Yesterday I have finished the last two HäT Napoleonic Artillery testshots.
Above the 1806 Prussian Artillery set.
And it's French counterpart. These guns are really pretty large and I am wondering whether these are a bit too large or other guns too small or that other producers' guns represent smaller field-pieces.
Whatever the answer I like these two versatile sets a lot!
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Steel this Album!" System of a Down.
The Dwarf host moved little to nothing since it was in a decent position from the start. In the shooting phase all weapons were let loose but the only mentionable effect was that, right in turn one, a unit of Skaven Jezzails was hit hard and fled the field.
Skaven:
The Skaven Doomwheel moved a whopping 14” toward its enemies and the rest of the army slithered forward in an all out push towards the Burrial Hill. Skaven shooting claimed one Iron Breaker and two thunderers killed by the Gas Mortars. In the magic phase the Skaven wizard managed to miscast and wound himself.
Vampire Counts:
The Necromancers succeeded in summoning 20 more skeletons from their graves.
Brettonians:
Moved in a better position.
Turn 2
Dwarfs:
Pretty much all of the Dwarven units remained in their positions excepting the two units of warriors in the woods who went for a pick nick of 0,75” to their left.
The Dwarf Shooting was even more in-effective then in turn one.
Skaven:
The Skaven proceeded with their general advance and did pretty much nothing more noteworthy this turn.
Vampire Counts:
Summoned more skeletons and moved towards the Dwarf left flank.
Brettonians:
The Brettonians declared 3 charges against the Dwarf positions directly in front of them:
-the Questing Knights charged a unit of thunderers and overran into a bolt thrower behind them.
-The knights Errant overran the Dwarf cannon into the flank of the Iron Breakers
-The knights of the Realm overran the bolt thrower and ended their pursuit move in the middle of a Clanrat unit. The Coalition had effectively ended.
Turn 3
Dwarfs:
With most of it’s missile units dead and the others doing pretty much nothing a unit of Dwarf Warriors with great weapons charged the Doomwheel, defeated it in combat and overran it in the following pursuit. The charge in the flank of the Iron Breakers with the Knights Errant causes 7 dead Dwarfs and the unit needs to roll a double one on their break test, which they surprisingly do! The battle goes on.
Skaven:
The Unit containing the Skaven General cause a fear test on the Questing knights and they choose not to stand before these terrible enemies. The Knights of the Realm with the BSB finish their battle with the Clanrats in a draw.
Vampire Counts:
Relentlessly the Vampire Counts army draws closer to both the Dwarfs and the Skaven. Who will they attack? In their magic phase the Necromancers create yet more skeletons. Swelling their ranks even more.
Brettonians:
Nice shooting from the Trebuchet kills 10 of the Dwarven Kings elite bodyguard hammerers. Due to the kings’ leadership they make their test.
The Knights Errant leave the Iron Breakers in a scatter of little mangled heaps of gromrill and overrun into the Skaven Globardiers.
The Pegasus riders try to charge the Skeletons, but sadly fail their fear test and so the charge dissolves.
Turn 4
Dwarfs:
The only action worth mentioning is the charge of the warrior unit with great weapons into some Skaven slaves which end in a locked combat due to the high amount of Skaven ranks.
Skaven:
The General and his unit, broken in combat by the Questing Knights fail to rally and keeps fleeing. The combat between the slaves and ends in the Dwarfs defeating the latter but this causes the slaves to explode! In the ensuing ravage one dwarf and a Skaven Gas Mortar are blown sky high.
Vampire Counts:
One of the Necromancers tries to cast a magic missile on the Pegasus Knights and miscasts. The Miscast causes him to sucked into the Warp. In the following combat the Knights manage to kill 3 skeletons but the battle ends in a draw.
Brettonians:
The trebuchet proves its worth once again by destroying the Warpfire thrower.
Turn 5
Dwarfs:
The King and his retinue charge into the flank of the Skeleton unit in what seems some sort of agreement between the Brettonians and the Stunties. Together with the Brettonians the Dwarfs kill 18 skeletons.
Skaven:
The Skaven General manages to rally his troops just short of the table edge.
Vampire Counts:
The Necromancer tries some spells on the Pegasus knights but either fails or is dispelled. The Knights cause some more dead skellies, the combat remains locked however.
Brettonians:
In their close combat phase the Brettonian General kills the Skaven Wizzard and overruns into the gas Mortar behind him. The Pegasus Knight Champion issues a challenge to the Necromancer who cowardly refuses and flees to the back of the unit.
Turn 6
Dwarfs:
The last remaining large unit of Dwarf Warriors ascents the Hill in support of the Organ gun to claim the prize of the battle. In the Close combat phase the King challenges the Necromancer who has nowhere left to run and accepts the challenges. The king kills him of swiftly and together with the Brettonians finishes off the remaining skeletons.
Skaven:
The warlock engineer skitter leaps onto the mountain to gain some prestige. In order to reduce the Dwarf’s chance to winning he tries to throw a brass orb on the unit of Dwarf Warriors but … blows himself to the giant thread wheel in the sky.
Vampire Counts: …
Brettonians:
The Questing Knights finish off the fight with the Gas Mortar crew and keep from pursuing off table.
The Dwarfs remain triumphant on the Hill of their forebears.
Listening to: "Chronicles of Dysphoria" by Chalice
The Year's close to it's last hour and I'd like to thank everyone for checking up this blog from time to time and for your constructive criticism! Also I'd like to wish you all a good New Year's Eve fest and all the best for 2010.
To show some festive pictures I've chosen some taken from our house when the snow was lying 30 cms thick.
The back of our house:
Along the house we have a terras which also has a bird feeding stand and you can see from the amount of snow on it's roof just how thick the layer actually was.
The last week I have had some more Hobby time to paint and stuff. Since I am planning to play a large Warhammer Fantasy game with a couple of friends next week I started to work on the last 3 units of Dwarfs I still had lying around the place. Below are pictures of the unit of thunderers which I finished Sunday.
I still have a unit of 20 dwarf warriors and 15 Hammerers in cue whether I finish them in time? I hope so!
As I promised, here are some pictures of new figures. For starters I have painted up some HäT Napoleonic Bavarians in 28mm scale. I was inspired by mister Mac Phee's work here's how this turned out.
The green coats are from the 2nd Light Infantry Regiment. The others a more general Line Regiment.
Below are two pictures of the start of my British Colonial Army for use with the new Black Powder rules. At the moment I have two regular British Infantry regiments and two Indian Army Regiments. A Gatling gun and Gardner gun complement the lot. In the works are a large Highlander unit (the Gordons) Royal Navy troops, mounted Infantry, Camelry and more artillery pieces.
Last Saturday I received a shipment of sets from the latest HäT releases. These batches of releases are called Eddie and then their release number in this case 15. See www.hat.com From this particular lot, I got the Australian Light Horse a much awaited set around the world and nicely done. Some WW1 Heavy weapons sets, some Austrian Napoleonic Artillery and several El Cid sets the latter I am specially looking forward to painting because they will be something different altogether.
No pictures at the moment but watch this space because I will post some soon!
Today's update shows you my version of the Warlord Games http://www.warlordgames.co.uk/ free Big Wullie figure you get when ordering Black Powder direct from them. I painted him as a Grenadier of the Gordon Highlanders.
Hope you like him!
Cheers Sander
Listening to "lord of the Rings" BBC 13 CD Audiobook.
