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Author Topic: Red Book of the Elf King project  (Read 5547 times)

Offline Chris Abbey

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Red Book of the Elf King project
« on: July 10, 2018, 09:16:35 AM »


Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy painting up some of the excellent Red Book of the Elf King miniatures.
So far I have painted up one of each of the six packs of Elf Companions and three heroes. Sally 4th are the official show stockists for Lucid Eye, so we have been making a demo board and painting demo armies so that we can have them on show on our stand at shows. The next couple we are going to are Claymore on 4th August and The Other Partizan on 19th August so if you're at either show do come over and have a look and a chat.

If you have not seen Red Book of the Elf King, it is the new set of rules written by Rick Priestly, you can check it out @ http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/The-Red-Book-of-The-Elf-King
Chris Abbey
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Offline beefcake

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2018, 10:08:32 AM »
Those boards are absolutely amazing. Any closeups?


Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2018, 11:39:38 AM »
We only finished the board last night, so I just took a snap on my phone on the way to work this morning!
I'll take some proper photos over next couple of days and update the thread.

Offline Ethelred the Almost Ready

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2018, 07:37:39 PM »
Those are amazing boards.  I am rather envious.

Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2018, 05:47:57 PM »







I have started taking some proper photos of the Red Book of the Elf King miniatures & terrain and putting them in our custom terrain gallery @ http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Custom-Terrain-Gallery

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2018, 11:54:25 AM »
yes, fabulous board. Your terra-forming system is excellent.

Offline PhilB

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2018, 01:57:35 PM »
Really brilliant terrain!

Do those trees have their own bases, but fit into pre-placed divots in the terrain board? Looks like a brilliant system, and a way to better store the boards when not in service. And re-use the trees on future boards. Without the trees' bases looking like they are hovering over the underlying terrain.

Great stuff!

Offline James Morris

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2018, 08:46:20 PM »
Some lovely work there - thanks for sharing.

Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2018, 04:26:46 PM »
Yes, the trees are mounted on 40mm round bases. We then set a ring with a 40mm diameter internal hole into the terrain, plaster up over the ring which leaves a recess to drop trees into so that they are flush with terrain, but can be removed for storage. We can also swap out the pine trees for a deciduous forest or even jungle trees, increasing versatility of the boards.

Offline gibby64

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2018, 03:18:03 PM »
Those boards are FANTASTIC!!... close ups of the painted minis please... !
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Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2018, 04:59:27 PM »
OK, will take camera home and see what I can do.

Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2018, 04:39:22 PM »
OK, took some more photos last night, and Thursday night I have a game scheduled in the evening with Doug so I've decided to add a page to my Hobby Blog to collect together photos of terrain, miniatures and games.

Here's a link : http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King



Here's an image of Alloysian of the Marshes surveying the battlefield.

Offline mweaver

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2018, 12:58:17 PM »
I will join the chorus of praise for those terrain boards!

-Michael

Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2018, 04:43:31 PM »



Last night we got to try the terrain boards out!
First trial game of Red Book of the Elf King.



I'm glad to be able to report that the game played very smoothly. I was a little concerned that there would not be enough in the game (other than the back story off course) to make it unique, but I need not have worried.



We really liked the activation system, interplay of magic and combat and the way that casualties interacted with activation to show units hesitating and being harder to activate once exhausted.

If added a stack of new photos together with a description of some of the key mechanisms we used last night to my hobby blog @ http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King

Offline Chris Abbey

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Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2018, 10:34:43 AM »
On Wednesday evening, Doug and I played our first game of Red Book of the Elf King with complete seven unit armies, i.e Thane plus six groups of three companions.



We played the second scenario in the Red Book of the Elf King rulebook. Both sides deployed on to the table with the intent of destroying the opposing Thane. If neither side achieved this victory went to the side that had caused the most casualties.



Dougs force was based around Meksant Farseer so was very magical, my force was based on Vachel Goldenhand so was based on close combat ability.



We had an exciting game, victory was in the balance right up to the last activation of the last turn.

I've added a right up of the game with lots of photos and descriptions of rule mechanics to my hobby blog @ http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King