What are you doing today hobbywise?

Nice painting on the marines!

 

Had my first two tabletop war games in over a month today.

The first was a WW1 Flames of War game that resulted in a crushing German defeat in no small part due to poor placement of my field guns.

The second was a Romans vs Britons Warhammer Ancient Battles game in which I finally got to field my chariots... only to have them run down by light cav after being charged in what can only be described as a complete route of my army. I'm going to have to read more into what I can do with light chariots, because being able to set them up in skirmish formation is absolutely crucial for maneuverability.

Still, both games were fun in their own way.

Spoiler: That's Roman, right?

 

You have a Romans too? You never told me about those...

That is crazily embarrassing given that Roman cavalry had a pretty awful track record throughout history...

Caratacus is not impressed with your failures

Those chaps look like Warlord to me as I have some myself, as opposed to your Victrix Britons. But then Celts were always substantially taller than their Roman enemies

 

Not my army per say, but a friend's army. My wargaming group as a whole is collecting Romans, Gauls, Britons, Persians, and Visigoths.

The issue came down to his cavalry trying to run down a fleeing warband and charging instead into my chariots, which were in skirmish formation at the time. He won combat by virtue of only having to fight one chariot out of 6 with 8 equites and rolled higher on the sweeping advance than I did. Probably will require a lot more reading though.

Fair point.

 

That depends on your definition of "Roman." The Byzantine Empire, better known as The Eastern Roman Empire, or Rome that kept going after Rome fell to the Goths, had some pretty kick-ass cavalry in the form of Cataphracts...

 

I’m talking about the Rome we all know and love, that is, Republican and Imperial Rome before the schism between the Eastern and Western Empires. They lost so many battles through their cavalry letting them down that they must have been bad compared to the horsemen of other nations, but then they did focus on improving the infantry Legions to perfection, so I suppose it was to be expected.

 

To be fair, Cataphracts were very much a Persian import, and even then they weren't the only ones to make use of them.

 

Hobby related, so yes. I'm contemplating turning another box of Escher gangers into Chaos Cultists while I wait for GW to ship me my SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD!!!... and for my Defiler/Brass Scorpion of Khorne conversion.

 

Once I finish building it, I will post the model pre-paint and post-paint. I HAVE to post it pre-paint so I can run a poll.

 

I...

... am still unboxing things...

... as no-one in my household plays warhammer I'm trying to drag out the experience...

 

Do what I do. Play against yourself. Not the most tactically fulfilling choice, but better than not playing at all...

 

Kudos to you, I could never do that.

Thankfully, I do get a lot of joy from unboxing miniatures and storing them correctly as well as reading rulebooks and making up army lists. So I'll do that with my allocated Warhammer time.

(Wife, dog and work complain when I don't give them enough attention )

 

Spent the afternoon playing around with an old airbrush while waiting for the newer kit to show up, applying Dryad Bark as the base layer on 20 stormvermin, 20 clanrats, 2 deathmasters, a warlock-bombardier, a clawlord, a grey seer, a verminlord deceiver, 30 tempestus scions, and my three "bullgryn" exosuit proxies.

All in all, not bad for nearly an entire pot of the airbrush-formulated paint.

 

I like to do that sometimes too, it's certainly good for learning the rules and playtesting unofficial units and armies.

 

Through a bunch of circumstances which where no doubt part of a conspiracy planed by others, I'm now the owner of my first skaven model. It aspires to become a pirate someday, but I'm not sure how it plans on getting it's Broodhorror on a ship.

 

Clan Skurvy, perhaps?

 

My Broodhorror is stuck in customs in NY state.

In the mean time, I'm waiting for that, my GW order (which is understandably running slow since they're still ramping up from being shuttered for over a month), some books I ordered, and so forth. To pass the time I am stripping paint from a bunch of old metal minis. Pair of old terradons, a scar-vet on foot (oldblood? whichever), and so on.