Dire Wolves:
Viggo:
Konrad:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Pics
Here are a few of my finished works well the wolves are finished the other two are over 90% finished.
Dire Wolves:
Viggo:
Konrad:
Dire Wolves:
Viggo:
Konrad:
A very short break.
We had no gaming this week and won't again next week.
Tim (Vespers) and Stephen (sbod) have been added as authors too this blog and Oscar has been invited so hopefully there will be some posts, not by me in the not too distant future.
I'm hoping to go see Stephen during this week and next to do some painting. We might even start paintied some units for warhammer.
Matt
Tim (Vespers) and Stephen (sbod) have been added as authors too this blog and Oscar has been invited so hopefully there will be some posts, not by me in the not too distant future.
I'm hoping to go see Stephen during this week and next to do some painting. We might even start paintied some units for warhammer.
Matt
Monday, March 16, 2009
Pics mostly
Saturday painting never went ahead due to Stephen having his wisdom teeth removed and me getting a cold. So I didn't get any painting or photos done. But I did manage to get a camera and take photos this morning so I have a couple of pics of my undead warband too share.
Bit first the gaming. We played D&D this week. After 3 weeks of not we got back into Stephen's campaign. We started with Tim catching up too Me and Oscar. There was a mysterious forest a missing city and Jocen and cowardly NPC. My character Thokan Son of Agath, a feral Gargun, had so far kicked the ass of everything he had encountered. He is a high damage dealer but pretty fragile. This time round He got critically hit at the beginning of every combat and reduced to negative hit points. We had two combat encounters, one with a crazy bone monster and a second with a horde of zombies and a sword handed monster. Thokan was critcalled in one hit by the bone thing and reduced to 3hp buy a zombie. Then he bled to death while the sword handed beastie tore Tim's warforged a new one. Oscar and his dog animal companion died before Thokan did by 3 rounds. And thus ended the campaign. Oscar plans on running the next one or Tim will run a fourth edition game for us.
Ok time for those pics. My skill with the camera are lacking so I took a lot but not many were usable.
First Konrad
Next Viggo
Ghoul
Thats all for now since it is taking forever for the photos to upload but I will post more later.
Bit first the gaming. We played D&D this week. After 3 weeks of not we got back into Stephen's campaign. We started with Tim catching up too Me and Oscar. There was a mysterious forest a missing city and Jocen and cowardly NPC. My character Thokan Son of Agath, a feral Gargun, had so far kicked the ass of everything he had encountered. He is a high damage dealer but pretty fragile. This time round He got critically hit at the beginning of every combat and reduced to negative hit points. We had two combat encounters, one with a crazy bone monster and a second with a horde of zombies and a sword handed monster. Thokan was critcalled in one hit by the bone thing and reduced to 3hp buy a zombie. Then he bled to death while the sword handed beastie tore Tim's warforged a new one. Oscar and his dog animal companion died before Thokan did by 3 rounds. And thus ended the campaign. Oscar plans on running the next one or Tim will run a fourth edition game for us.
Ok time for those pics. My skill with the camera are lacking so I took a lot but not many were usable.
First Konrad
Next Viggo
Ghoul
Thats all for now since it is taking forever for the photos to upload but I will post more later.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
New campaign and a new order
We played the first game of our new Mordheim campaign this week as well as Las Vegas. We only played two games because we were pretty unorganized. It took us half an hour to find the print out of the campaign so we could get the stats for our priests and so we could roll for a scenario. Everyone else rolled up warbands and Helped search the massive piles of minis for what people wanted. I decided to name my Cursed Hillman Russel Savage after my werewolf character in a live Requiem game I play in. Stephen traded me a chaos marauder that I took apart and combined with some mercenary parts to make a savage looking woodsman. I used a Chaos hound as his wolf form.
With the campaign found and everyone with their warbands we rolled for who would get first pick of the priests. Tim got first pick and chose Reinhardt Mortarian, the same priest who accompanied my witch Hunters last time we played. I'm not sure who the other two picked because I was busy setting up the table at the time. I chose Vogan Corpsehand, his sinister style and link to a Necromancer made him a good fit for my warband.
A severe and reclusive Priest, Vorgan Corpsehand is treated with reverence and caution by the rest of the order. Vorgan has a wasted appearance, gaunt, more akin to the corpses he interns than his fellow Priests. It is rumored that once Vorgan performed a rite of binding and encountered difficulties. The soul of the interned, a malicious Necromancer, struggled to be bound and Vorgan was very nearly consumed by his lingering power. Though Vorgan triumphed and bound the angry spirit, he was left… changed. Rumors abound that some of the Necromancer’s power still remains within the Priest, though numerous investigations and exorcism rites have discovered no evidence of it.
The campaign currently looks like this -
Me - Undead
Stephen - Hochland Bandits
Tim - Witch Hunters
Oscar - Carnival of Chaos
We diced for who would go first and it was me and Stephen. We rolled for a scenario and got street fight. Street fight is a straight run down a road at each other. The street is lined with buildings you can enter but you can’t leave the road at all or go back the way you came.
The battle was close fought and fun. I mostly ran everything I had at the Bandits while they shot at us with crossbows. The fist shot critcaled Konrad and caused two wounds. Luckily Konrad was only knocked down. The missile fire whittled down my ghouls though and I lost three of them. Russel wandered slowly forward firing his longbow. His first shot took out an enemy hero. After that he hit twice but didn’t wound. The hunchbacked trio of Igor, Fritz and Dwergi did little with their bows. Dwergi knocked someone down and Igor was shot from a 3 storey aqueduct only to be stunned. Konrad killed 2 enemies including the Bandit leader. I was taking route test for the last three rounds of the game and luckily passed them all. With the loss of his leader Stephen failed his first test and gave me the win.
Stephen fared horribly in the post battle sequence, his leader was sold to the Pits and Killed by the Pit fighter. He also lost another hero outright. So has made a new warband learning from the mistakes of his last one. full credit to Stephen trying out a new warband and one none of us have played before so he's having to learn as he goes. I lost two of my ghouls and rolled triple 1 for exploration giving me 15gc extra. So with my gold I paid Russel's upkeep, bought a sword for Konrad and hired another ghoul.
So with a win too my name I am cautiously confident. I also painted up one of my Ghouls and will attempt to finish two more for our next game. I also starting painting Russel and did a little work on Viggo. I really need to get stuck into the Dregs as they are currently letting the side down.
We also came to a desion in terms of balancing our gaming. We have this one night a week too play and limited time due to people schedules. So we decided to alternate what we play so we will play DnD next week and continue Mordheim the week after. So my next gaming post will be about the adventures of Thokan son of Agath, a feral Gargun warrior.
My next post however will be about painting since I plan to go to Stephen on the weekend and get some painting done. I will also try to get some photos and post them here.
Matt
With the campaign found and everyone with their warbands we rolled for who would get first pick of the priests. Tim got first pick and chose Reinhardt Mortarian, the same priest who accompanied my witch Hunters last time we played. I'm not sure who the other two picked because I was busy setting up the table at the time. I chose Vogan Corpsehand, his sinister style and link to a Necromancer made him a good fit for my warband.
A severe and reclusive Priest, Vorgan Corpsehand is treated with reverence and caution by the rest of the order. Vorgan has a wasted appearance, gaunt, more akin to the corpses he interns than his fellow Priests. It is rumored that once Vorgan performed a rite of binding and encountered difficulties. The soul of the interned, a malicious Necromancer, struggled to be bound and Vorgan was very nearly consumed by his lingering power. Though Vorgan triumphed and bound the angry spirit, he was left… changed. Rumors abound that some of the Necromancer’s power still remains within the Priest, though numerous investigations and exorcism rites have discovered no evidence of it.
The campaign currently looks like this -
Me - Undead
Stephen - Hochland Bandits
Tim - Witch Hunters
Oscar - Carnival of Chaos
We diced for who would go first and it was me and Stephen. We rolled for a scenario and got street fight. Street fight is a straight run down a road at each other. The street is lined with buildings you can enter but you can’t leave the road at all or go back the way you came.
The battle was close fought and fun. I mostly ran everything I had at the Bandits while they shot at us with crossbows. The fist shot critcaled Konrad and caused two wounds. Luckily Konrad was only knocked down. The missile fire whittled down my ghouls though and I lost three of them. Russel wandered slowly forward firing his longbow. His first shot took out an enemy hero. After that he hit twice but didn’t wound. The hunchbacked trio of Igor, Fritz and Dwergi did little with their bows. Dwergi knocked someone down and Igor was shot from a 3 storey aqueduct only to be stunned. Konrad killed 2 enemies including the Bandit leader. I was taking route test for the last three rounds of the game and luckily passed them all. With the loss of his leader Stephen failed his first test and gave me the win.
Stephen fared horribly in the post battle sequence, his leader was sold to the Pits and Killed by the Pit fighter. He also lost another hero outright. So has made a new warband learning from the mistakes of his last one. full credit to Stephen trying out a new warband and one none of us have played before so he's having to learn as he goes. I lost two of my ghouls and rolled triple 1 for exploration giving me 15gc extra. So with my gold I paid Russel's upkeep, bought a sword for Konrad and hired another ghoul.
So with a win too my name I am cautiously confident. I also painted up one of my Ghouls and will attempt to finish two more for our next game. I also starting painting Russel and did a little work on Viggo. I really need to get stuck into the Dregs as they are currently letting the side down.
We also came to a desion in terms of balancing our gaming. We have this one night a week too play and limited time due to people schedules. So we decided to alternate what we play so we will play DnD next week and continue Mordheim the week after. So my next gaming post will be about the adventures of Thokan son of Agath, a feral Gargun warrior.
My next post however will be about painting since I plan to go to Stephen on the weekend and get some painting done. I will also try to get some photos and post them here.
Matt
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thy Soul too Keep again
So having ended our all multiplayer campaign we are going to try a mostly one on one campaign. We are going to run a pre made campaign I found on the Specialist games website before it shut down, called Thy Soul too Keep. The basic story is about Priests of the imperial god of Death Morr and a machine that steals souls and makes its creator more powerful. There are 3 scenarios specifically designed for the campaign all about undead type stuff and each warband begins the campaign with a Priest of Morr, who works like a Dramatis Personae.
I have decided to play undead and finally get round to using the models I have converted and painted. Well I have painted the vampire and two dire wolves and I won’t have the dire wolves in my starting warband. And I have to find/make 2 models for the hired-sword I plan on starting with. But I have applied paint to half my ghouls, all 3 of my dregs and my necromancer is close to finished. All I need to do is repaint some zombies and I'll have my bases covered.
The hired sword I mentioned earlier is the Cursed Hillman. He is essentially a werewolf so requires two models, one for the man and one for the beast he turns into. Some of the rules around him need to be clarified but I'll do that with the rest of the guy’s next meeting. Mostly it's to do with the relationship between the two forms stat lines and how exactly the wolf works in terms of skills and movement. I'm confident we have suitable models in Steven’s huge collection and my smaller collection. However I want to trade some of mine for the two I need for the Hillman so I can convert and paint them without stuffing up Steven’s collection.
Steven and I also want to make this campaign more narrative or 'fluffy' as it is sometimes known. Basically that means stories and backgrounds for the warbands not just stats on the sheet and models on a table. I have been thinking about my warband story for a while and this is what I have so far.
My vampire is Konrad Von Strineberg, a cousin of the Von Carstein vampires. He is a vampire of Strigoi tendencies so surrounds himself with Ghouls over undead creatures and has a love of hunting. He was sent to Mordheim when the elder vampires heard about the priest of Morr their and his crazy soul machine. They seek to destroy it, because any mortal who gets control of death could take control of the undead.
Konrad's contact in Mordheim is Viggo the Necromancer. The Model I created for Viggo wears a bronze skull mask and is covered in skulls, scrolls and books. I Imagine him being a highly intellectual character and serves as Konrads chief advisor. Viggo's background, like his face is a mystery. But some say he was a college trained wizard of the empire, others that he tried to join a magic college and was turned down so learnt the dark arts to get his revenge and a third story says he seeks to use the art of necromancy to revive a lost love one.
Accompanying Viggo are his two assistants, Igor and Fritz. These two dregs and modeled with backpacks full of bones and help Viggo collect the parts he needs for his spells. They are armed with axes, daggers and short bows.
The third Dreg of the warband in Dwergi, he travels with Konrad and helps his master when he is on the hunt. Dwergi is modeled with several daggers on his person including 4 that look like they are used to skin and carve kills. He is armed like Igor and Fritz although I'm thinking of upgrading him to the bow.
Then there are four ghouls in two groups of two. They also came with Konrad. They are in two groups to double my chance of them becoming heroes and so the chances of the group being wiped out once they have some experience under their belt is reduced.
Lastly we have the Cursed Hillman. As yet he has no name, but I imagine him seeking a cure for his affliction from Viggo but is serving Konrad in the mean time. Again he adds to the whole Konrad is a hunting nut imagery. I imagine the vampire, werewolf and mad magician as the brains behind the warbands actions.
Well that’s my warband at the moment their working title is the Night Terrors. But I'm not 100% happy with that so I'll try and think up something I am happy with before the game.
Matt
I have decided to play undead and finally get round to using the models I have converted and painted. Well I have painted the vampire and two dire wolves and I won’t have the dire wolves in my starting warband. And I have to find/make 2 models for the hired-sword I plan on starting with. But I have applied paint to half my ghouls, all 3 of my dregs and my necromancer is close to finished. All I need to do is repaint some zombies and I'll have my bases covered.
The hired sword I mentioned earlier is the Cursed Hillman. He is essentially a werewolf so requires two models, one for the man and one for the beast he turns into. Some of the rules around him need to be clarified but I'll do that with the rest of the guy’s next meeting. Mostly it's to do with the relationship between the two forms stat lines and how exactly the wolf works in terms of skills and movement. I'm confident we have suitable models in Steven’s huge collection and my smaller collection. However I want to trade some of mine for the two I need for the Hillman so I can convert and paint them without stuffing up Steven’s collection.
Steven and I also want to make this campaign more narrative or 'fluffy' as it is sometimes known. Basically that means stories and backgrounds for the warbands not just stats on the sheet and models on a table. I have been thinking about my warband story for a while and this is what I have so far.
My vampire is Konrad Von Strineberg, a cousin of the Von Carstein vampires. He is a vampire of Strigoi tendencies so surrounds himself with Ghouls over undead creatures and has a love of hunting. He was sent to Mordheim when the elder vampires heard about the priest of Morr their and his crazy soul machine. They seek to destroy it, because any mortal who gets control of death could take control of the undead.
Konrad's contact in Mordheim is Viggo the Necromancer. The Model I created for Viggo wears a bronze skull mask and is covered in skulls, scrolls and books. I Imagine him being a highly intellectual character and serves as Konrads chief advisor. Viggo's background, like his face is a mystery. But some say he was a college trained wizard of the empire, others that he tried to join a magic college and was turned down so learnt the dark arts to get his revenge and a third story says he seeks to use the art of necromancy to revive a lost love one.
Accompanying Viggo are his two assistants, Igor and Fritz. These two dregs and modeled with backpacks full of bones and help Viggo collect the parts he needs for his spells. They are armed with axes, daggers and short bows.
The third Dreg of the warband in Dwergi, he travels with Konrad and helps his master when he is on the hunt. Dwergi is modeled with several daggers on his person including 4 that look like they are used to skin and carve kills. He is armed like Igor and Fritz although I'm thinking of upgrading him to the bow.
Then there are four ghouls in two groups of two. They also came with Konrad. They are in two groups to double my chance of them becoming heroes and so the chances of the group being wiped out once they have some experience under their belt is reduced.
Lastly we have the Cursed Hillman. As yet he has no name, but I imagine him seeking a cure for his affliction from Viggo but is serving Konrad in the mean time. Again he adds to the whole Konrad is a hunting nut imagery. I imagine the vampire, werewolf and mad magician as the brains behind the warbands actions.
Well that’s my warband at the moment their working title is the Night Terrors. But I'm not 100% happy with that so I'll try and think up something I am happy with before the game.
Matt
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
About our lack of name.
I'll explain why I named this Blog the nameless gamers. But first a quick run down of another Monday of gaming.
We played another 4 way Mordheim game and some
We played the lost prince scenario. Where a rich merchant’s son is lost and our warbands are fighting to grab him and take him off the board edge. The vampire reached the prince first and then the 3 Ogre Youngblood’s counter charged. Too cut a long story short. I allied my Skaven with the undead and the Orcs and Ogres allied. The Youngblood’s were all killed by the Vampire while the Ogre captain shot at us with his hand mortar. My skaven failed their fear tests and I ended up feeding my warband too the Ogre captain one at a time and helping him rack up a whopping 8 kills. The undead valiantly held up the green tide while I sat around ineffectively. Eventually I voluntarily routed and the Ogres and undead did so involuntarily. Another win for the Orcs.
We decided to end the campaign there since the Orcs were so far ahead. But not before the 3 leaders of the other warbands had a battle royale. It ended abruptly with the vampire killing the other two easily. I painted my vampire, necromancer and some ghouls in anticipation of our next campaign. More on that in my next post.
Ok why did I name this blog the nameless gamers? Mostly because our only other name was "The Christ Punchers" a Simpson’s reference and a pot shot at people who say role-playing etc is the work of the devil. Although entertaining I think we need a better name but have failed to think of one. Currently I'm warming to the name "Nameless Gamers". Which although sounding cool isn't really a great name. Hopefully we will think of something good to call our gaming group.
Matt
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