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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Torben on October 03, 2013, 10:49:47 PM
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So, me and Dijit (Duncan) agreed on starting up this project of playing God of Battles (Foundry's fantasy mass-battle wargame) in Gods preferred scale - 15mm!
And I finished off the first unit of Undeads for my army tonight - giving me a head start of 5 points vs. the 36 points that we need to assemble and paint:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-JndzGdYKbIE/Uk3kQDRpnaI/AAAAAAAAAxA/UN2OCADB_Fk/w640-h480-no/016.JPG)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QOnydoCnILk/Uk3kQt0D9YI/AAAAAAAAAxI/Dw3K8KsPgD4/w318-h477-no/018.JPG)
The miniatures pictured here are all from Ral Partha's excellent 'Demonworld' line of miniatures.
Your move, Mr. Thompson ;)
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Excellent! Will be following with interest. Have the rules but havent done anything with them yet.
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Nice group of skellies you have there. Please post an AAR when you get enough for a game. :)
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Great start, nice minis I have ignored 15mm for many an age but these are rather tasty and seem ideal for getting GOB off the ground. 8)
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Cheers everyone! :D
I too had ignored 15mm fantasy for a long time, but then I stumbled upon God of Battles. I really like the rulebook itself but I think that using it for 28mm just took far too long to paint up an army for it - in 15mm I have no problem.
So, from now on, then my 15mm games are bigger affairs and 28mm are skirmish affairs.
And yes, I'll keep in mind to post an AAR once we're done with the project; will most likely be ready next year ;)
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You're certainly not sacrificing appearance by going with the smaller scale. The Little Living Impaired Lads are LOVELY...sorry for the alliteration. GREAT WORK!
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Great looking work Torben.
Got the shipping confirmation yesterday, so they should land here in the course of the next week.
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They look great - keep 'em coming!
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This looks fun - I've not seen GoB in 15mm before. Looking forward to seeing some battle shots :)
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Nice. I've just added the finishing touches to a 15mm Orc army and will post some pics shortly.
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Seems like a promissing series to follow, go go go
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Seeing as Mr. Thompson has yet to recieve his package I figured I'd better keep the ball rolling; so here's some more miniatures from Demonworld!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gnQW80gSlBs/Ul0b8yyEopI/AAAAAAAAAyI/UUBHhK-Wnhg/w640-h389-no/004.JPG)
This then brings me up to 8 points for my core choices and a whopping 14 points(!) for my support choices.
I am not entirely satisfied with my choice of colors for the Necromancer but rather than repaint him I think I'll just paint one of the other Warlocks and Necromancers that I have lying about.
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Looks good Torben! I like the Necromancer's colours.
Seeing as Mr. Thompson has yet to recieve his package I figured I'd better keep the ball rolling; so here's some more miniatures from Demonworld!
I got a shipping confirmation a week and a half ago now, so not sure why they haven't landed yet.
Duncan
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This looks fun - I've not seen GoB in 15mm before. Looking forward to seeing some battle shots :)
I do think that Duncan and I are threading fresh, new ground in this regard. The trouble we both had was that we had nowhere near enough 28mm miniatures, but both found that 15mm painted up rather quick... so, it wasn't exactly the most difficult decision to make!
With that said - seeing as the author is on the wire for this project, do you have any ideas or recommendations as for ranges and movement? For now we'll just keep it as is, but if there were other ideas we'd very much like to hear it.
Oh, and is it only the Skeleton Warriors who have had their point costs altered?
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There was a very small amount of errata and a few queries and that's all listed on my site (in the sig). There's a thread for questions if you have any more.
Regarding ranges, I've never tried playing it with 15mm so I can't say. My first thought would be to play it with the ranges, table sizes and distances all as they are and see how that works. Most games condense ranges to fit a whole battle on a table and so it might just look more real (if a bit unfamiliar). If you want to condense the size of the battle you could always either half the distances and stay in inches, or play in cm instead. Heresy, of course, but I won't tell the Inquisition if you won't.
Playing with smaller measurements would also let you play on smaller tables. Given that it works fine in 28mm on a 4x4 foot table anyway that's likely to let you play on 3x3 or perhaps even 2x2 (if you went down to cm). Next step is a 6mm travel version.
As you say, you're off in uncharted waters.
Send up a flare if you get lost ;)
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Thanks for that Jake, I think it's pretty much our thoughts too.
Duncan
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Following this with interest as I'm rather keen on both GoB and 15mm.
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Took me a little while, but here's the next unit for my Undeath Army - a unit of Skeleton Archers
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-geXTOevM4XU/UnoSBmRIItI/AAAAAAAAA30/JPClPZguzq0/w704-h501-no/SAM_0045.JPG)
And here's a quick overview shot of how far along I've come with my army!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RPPPksA6enA/UnoSBLKQwBI/AAAAAAAAA3s/x7x9yfaxfXA/w1024-h353-no/SAM_0042.JPG)
I'm almost at the point were I can kick back and start playing some Games with Duncan and then start to add units for fun whenever I feel like it rather than the "chore" painting that I'm doing right now. But putting them on parade like this does make it a bit worthwhile.
Next up - A Darksoul Champion and a unit of Skeleton Warriors!
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Keep going.... almost enough to start your unstoppable march of conquest...
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Oh yes! And so far it seems I'm unopposed! lol
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Well it is really really tempting to do a 15mm fantasy army and crush your skeleton army to see it driven before me and hear the lamentation of their women...
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Well it is really really tempting to do a 15mm fantasy army and crush your skeleton army to see it driven before me and hear the lamentation of their women...
While I applaud the sentiment of wanting to oppose this here army of mine, I doubt that there's going to be much lamentation from these dry bones... ;)
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Do skeleton warriors have women?
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Do skeleton warriors have women?
I always thought thats what the Banshees were for... Undead wives...
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Well they do wail on about everything so you might be right.
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There could be female necromancers. They would surely lament the destruction of their army..
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The would indeed. Banshees would probably drown them out though ;)
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I vaguely remember seeing a skeleton with ill-advised bony boobs. Or was that Chris Hart's epic muscle fail (http://badartcrit.tumblr.com/post/48036789319/chris-hart-is-not-a-good-artist)?
Nice skellies and things, BTW. ;) Looking forward to hear about your first games.
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So, this years Horisont came and went and on a whim I asked around for another 15mm Fantasy army on a danish forum, Sonny provided one and I could get a few 24 point "demo" games in of the game:
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It does look rather glorious I must say! We halfed all distances except for the deployment area and then had a go of it. The reason for halfing the ranges was due to the fact that I only had brought along my 3' x 3' gaming mat; but in this scale that was a rough equivelant of a 6' by 6' I reckon. Gameplay was smooth, exciting and people really liked it - especially, they said, because It looked so much more epic with the 15mm miniatures. So, let's just say I'm chuffed and we're now up to three local players!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0sayDrDS4rM/UonTo12XKGI/AAAAAAAAA6A/zVjtk9W99tY/w1342-h841-no/SAM_0072.JPG)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p9aG-zodCLE/UonTq1Irs0I/AAAAAAAAA6I/l3ET79rHAR4/w1121-h841-no/SAM_0073.JPG)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fUWPMxAVcrM/UonTs7b9W-I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/kyU9rhjCVCc/w1121-h841-no/SAM_0074.JPG)
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Thats well cool! Defo going to get into this myself! And yes, 15mm does feel way more epic!
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Awesome! That looks fun. Congrats on finding more folks to game with. Nice paints on the skellies, too.
You say that's a mat you're playing on? Did you make it? And about how heavy is that 3'x3' size you used?
Thanks!
Jevenkah
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The game looks great.It is also one of the first times I have seen one of the Four armed Demons from my range in a game.He does work well for the scale.
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Cheers everyone! :)
You say that's a mat you're playing on? Did you make it? And about how heavy is that 3'x3' size you used?
Yes, it is a mat. It doesn't weigh all that much - it's made of furniture fabric (it's called panama fabric here in DK) and I just followed this guide:
http://tobispaintpot.blogspot.de/2012/10/a-new-horizon-tutorial-for-flexible.html
It's easy as chips to make and seems to be rather durable as well :)
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Looks great Torben.
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The Game does look SPLENDID! Congratulations on the expanding number of gamers...shows are a fine way of picking up new Guys & Gals.
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Looks great, are we really up to three GoB players now locally?
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Looks great, are we really up to three GoB players now locally?
We most certainly are :D He just ordered himself a big mess of orcs and goblins. Although, he does live in Fredericia I'd still call that locally :)
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I have ordered the rules and once they have arrived and I have given them a read through ill paint up an army also. Though I am not exactly local...
But perhaps for Åcon I'll have an army ready.
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For some reason I got a sudden urge to paint up a 15 mm army as well. (Its propably because your armies look great, and the game looks even greater)
Not sure I am local, though I am a dane.
Ive been pretty interested in the God of Battles rules, since the book looks gorgeous.
Are those 20mm washers for the bases, or should I go smaller?
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We're slowly building up some guidelines for GOB15. What we do know works best is as follows:
- Models should be mounted on a 18mm washer (or 20mm roughly)
- Mounted Models should be mounted on a 30mm washer (or equivelant)
- All ranges should be halved
As for being local, then both you and Dr. Zombie are from Århus? I know - since I'm part of the local club - that we're going to have open on saturdays in the future, so we'd have the locales and could muster 4-5 people to join in and fight battles on a given Saturday; should I start setting something like this in motion?
It isn't that expensive getting to Vejle by train... and I know Dr. Zombie does have a car ;)
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Oh and I got my first 36 points game in tonight against Duncan:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F3jUvEv65hk/Uo1KWPaBmjI/AAAAAAAAA_c/3OLxtTdDLgE/w1120-h840-no/SAM_0091.JPG)
Although we had to break my house rule about putting unpainted miniatures on the board, somehow that didn't really matter:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pTr7D7ZgWXE/Uo1KT4qLReI/AAAAAAAAA_U/WUAuDlvaf-s/w686-h840-no/SAM_0087.JPG)
It was a good game and the Undead are most certainly a force to reckon with. We found that the terrain we used was a bit too much on the heavy side and we're looking into making a generic terrain table that fits our current selection. While we like the idea of the army specific terrain, both Duncan and I agreed that it would be better to build something that can be used across games and settings, seeing as neither of us like building terrain that much ;)
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The more the merrier! :)
Thanks for a good game Torben, even if I did get thrashed! GoB really is scratching that fantasy battle itch at the moment, a grand little game.
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That game looks pretty neat!
But yeah, Im from Århus. I currently play the big W down in FROB every tuesday.
Im not sure it would be economically viable for me to go to Vejle every saturday, unless I can hitch a ride of course, since I am a jobless student, but Id be very interested in trying out the game.
I've been looking around for some 15mm figure manufacturers, and will propably buy some stuff when I have money next friday. The Corvus Belli 100 years war miniatures look pretty tempting.
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Im not sure it would be economically viable for me to go to Vejle every saturday, unless I can hitch a ride of course, since I am a jobless student, but Id be very interested in trying out the game.
Oh, sorry I meant to say that there's at least one saturday that I know of where we can get free access to a big venue and play games, not every single saturday :D
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Oh, sorry I meant to say that there's at least one saturday that I know of where we can get free access to a big venue and play games, not every single saturday :D
Oh, sure. Well, you should definitely set things in motion then ;) Im busy until the 12th, though (Exams). After that, Ive got plenty of time
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Interesting out see how this is going. Halving the ranges makes it quite a compact game, which would help those with limited space for big battles. Most people could manage a 2 foot square board.
I'm tempted myself, but have way too many 28s in the lead mountain to start all over again.
Fun though. Look forward to seeing what you do next ;)
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One of the main selling points for me (and Duncan too I guess) was that we could play bigger games on half the tablespace. However, I noted that if we also halved the deployment area from 8" to 4" it would take far too long to get into contact with each other :)
Oh, and cheers! It's great to be playing fun games again - it has really renewed my hobby :)
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Very nice project Mate!
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Thanks for the link for the how-to on your gaming mat. That looks like great fun to make :D
Battle on!
Jevenkah
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So now I have read through the rules and I must say I am all in! I have already ordered a bunch of greenskins to build an army.
I really like some of the concepts in these rules. The whole movement system seems very simple and effective. I like the difference in formed and unformed units and that formed units have a threat range. I can see this could create some very interesting tactical options in a game.
Torben at Åcon at the very latest my greenskins will chrush your puny undead army!! Like my chaos warlord did with yours! - Yes I went there..
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Been looking at the old Grenadier range which Mirliton now has.Some nice pieces in the range which I had not noticed before.
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So now I have read through the rules and I must say I am all in! I have already ordered a bunch of greenskins to build an army.
I really like some of the concepts in these rules. The whole movement system seems very simple and effective. I like the difference in formed and unformed units and that formed units have a threat range. I can see this could create some very interesting tactical options in a game.
Torben at Åcon at the very latest my greenskins will chrush your puny undead army!! Like my chaos warlord did with yours! - Yes I went there..
Glad to hear that your're all in! I'm hoping that we could meet up before Åcon, I'm still attempting to figure out a GOB15-day here in Vejle, but it's a little while to go yet before I can get an exact date.
And yes, there's a lot of good concepts in these rules - the movement system was one of my favourites as well! :)
But I won't stand for you devilish taunting good sir - we'll settle this, again, on the field of battle!
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We played another game the other day I'm even more convinced. My Blood Gorged did well, next time I might have to try the 1000 tribes.
Duncan
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BXdUIRZPxB8/UqCbenW6PcI/AAAAAAAABAk/cYS2FECszPI/w1319-h840-no/SAM_0129.JPG)
Tonight, we ride!
I finally finished my mounted portion of my army and it's looking rather solid once all the individual pieces are set up next to each other. Incidently, this also marks the end of this army-project! I've just ordered some Wood Elves from RPE which will be used as the Sea Elves from GOB; Wolves as Merfolk, Bears as Ambassadors of the deep (although I am on the lookout for suitable wood-sprites or dryads), a Treeman instead of a giant crab - it's going to be grand and I can't wait for the parcel to arrive from RPE! :D
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Looking good Torben, looking forwards to seeing them in the flesh tonight.
I've actually finished a unit and my giant boar-rider/chariot AND started a second unit. So I'll have a painted unit to put down tonight too :)
Duncan
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... Wouldn't that be two units then? :D
But I'm looking forward to see what you've been up to as well! Who knows, we might soon be able to make a real battle-report! ;)
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How many point do you guys play with?
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For now we're just playing the recommended standard 36 points - but I'm guessing it won't be long before we start on 48 points as well ;)
Furthermore, we've decided that 2 x Large FOW bases, set together, constitutes the Camp area for your army, and for now we're using a 40mm circular base for our Baggage. Dunno if I'd call it a standard or anything like that, but that should give you some 15mm measurements to work from :)
Incidently I'm in need of Undead Sutlers and Camp Followers in 15mm ;)
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Great! I will aim at something similar.
I tried playing a bit with the army list and found that 36 point are quickly spent and does not leave a lot of room for the "fun extras".
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Im in to! Aiming to build an army in the spring :)
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Cool!
I'm building a goblin army. Using these http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/demonworld-goblins-c-76_100.html?page=1&sort=20a
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Great! I will aim at something similar.
I tried playing a bit with the army list and found that 36 point are quickly spent and does not leave a lot of room for the "fun extras".
Remember though it's 36 points from the mainforce list plus 36 points from the command and support list. So for example the Blood Gorged army I used yesterday was this:
1 unit of Brute Ravagers - 12pts
3 units of Brutes - @6pts each = 18pts
2 units of Younglings - @3 pts each = 6 pts
1 Board Chariot - 7pts
2 Herdlords - @12pts each = 24pts
Gurash's Claw - 3pts
Beastligs - 2 pts
Which is quite a sizeable army, 56 infantry, 1 chariot, and 2 Heroes.
The game went well, and I almost had Torben and just needed to have killed two models to have won (and then of course not lost a unit of Brutes in a rear charge charge :-[ ). We're now beginning to understand the relative merits of units and especially miracles. Also this game I dropped having a priest and we saw that you don't need one to defend against nasty Necromantic miracles/magic in the same way you need to have a magic user in a certain other well known fantasy game in order to have any sort of defence. A very close game that I think was won by Torben through his clever use of a strategem.
Duncan
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Ahhh that is a very important difference. I just did 36 point total and that hardly leaves room for anything.
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Even with 36 points for Main Force units and 36 points for Command & Support units I still feel that I really can't have it all! :D
But yes, it was a good game last night - not because I won, but because it really felt like a pitched battle. I was sure that I had lost when my Knights and Chariots were all but destroyed on my left flank, but a miraculous defence roll that left 1(!) Skeleton Warrior standing after a very heavy combat which saw the dispersal and destruction of two Blood Gorged units... Well, it hang on the balance and could really have gone either way!
A great game and I'm already looking forward to the next game!
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Great! I will aim at something similar.
I tried playing a bit with the army list and found that 36 point are quickly spent and does not leave a lot of room for the "fun extras".
Worth looking at the support and specials, often you can use the 36 points allocated for that e.g. bodyguard etc
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Yes i completely missed that small detail that you are allowed to spend 36 point on both!
I quess reading the whole rule book helps..
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I can really see the many pros of this kind of gaming.
I can only lament the fact that Mark Copplestone does not do his not-LotR range in 15 mm instead of 10 mm, as that may have swayed me into building up a force to use with some of the various rulesets useable for this heretical scale... ::)
I hope you and Duncan will bring the rules and your painted armies when I do my first Attic Attack, I am about ready to try out playing a game of this GOB. :)
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I can really see the many pros of this kind of gaming.
I can only lament the fact that Mark Copplestone does not do his not-LotR range in 15 mm instead of 10 mm, as that may have swayed me into building up a force to use with some of the various rulesets useable for this heretical scale... ::)
I hope you and Duncan will bring the rules and your painted armies when I do my first Attic Attack, I am about ready to try out playing a game of this GOB. :)
Splintered light may be an option worth looking at for 15mm :D
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I can really see the many pros of this kind of gaming.
I can only lament the fact that Mark Copplestone does not do his not-LotR range in 15 mm instead of 10 mm, as that may have swayed me into building up a force to use with some of the various rulesets useable for this heretical scale... ::)
I hope you and Duncan will bring the rules and your painted armies when I do my first Attic Attack, I am about ready to try out playing a game of this GOB. :)
Glad to see you active again Neils! I'll gladly come along with GoB. Do you have many Copplestone 10's? If not then have a look at the Demonworld minis from Ral Partha. If I'm not mistaken sculpted by Werner Klocke and as such are comparable in quality to Copplestone's minis.
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Glad to see you active again Neils! I'll gladly come along with GoB. Do you have many Copplestone 10's? If not then have a look at the Demonworld minis from Ral Partha. If I'm not mistaken sculpted by Werner Klocke and as such are comparable in quality to Copplestone's minis.
Nope, the only 10mm figs I have is an - unpainted and unbased - chaos army for Warmaster. Somewhere. But I've had my eyes on that Copplestone range for ages :D
How many figs does one need for a battle? I might be tempted to get some of Copplestone's other 15mm stuff, if I end up wanting to collect my own army (for various purposes).
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Nope, the only 10mm figs I have is an - unpainted and unbased - chaos army for Warmaster. Somewhere. But I've had my eyes on that Copplestone range for ages :D
How many figs does one need for a battle? I might be tempted to get some of Copplestone's other 15mm stuff, if I end up wanting to collect my own army (for various purposes).
Best read through is the rule writers site, gives you some great info, and ideas on armies etc. Dont discount mercenaries either would let you add on as you fancy too to other armies :D
http://quirkworthy.com/god-of-battles/
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We're slowly building up some guidelines for GOB15. What we do know works best is as follows:
- Models should be mounted on a 18mm washer (or 20mm roughly)
- Mounted Models should be mounted on a 30mm washer (or equivelant)
- All ranges should be halved
I have also switched from 20 mm to 18 mm washers as the latter are readily available from Silvan (and from 25 mm to 24 mm for the same reason) lol
I take it, you are actually at least 4 Danes painting armies now, than? Have the 'new' guys found our sub-forum (Danish Lead Adventurers' Club)?
Incidently I'm in need of Undead Sutlers and Camp Followers in 15mm ;)
You need scavenging zombies, grave robbers, and the likes ;D
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I have heard rumors of a Danish sub forum and a certain crazy Viking doctor was supposed to add me. But so far nothing has happened.
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Late to this thread. Very inspiring for the game in a scale I had not considered before. Fantastically painted minis and lots of excellent ideas. Thanks for a great post.
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Now my minis have arrived and i have started to build my army. Some more question arise.
When a unit is 8 strong that is including standard bearer and unit leader right?
Unit upgrades, hov manny can I buy? As manny as I want, or just one? Could I for instance buy 5 shield bearers to give me a unit with +5 defense?
I am not trying to meta powergame I am just trying to fit my minis into some sort of an army.
Oh an Torben I intend to use goblins as war orks initially to quickly give me a playable army. I hope you can live with that. Once I have an decent size army and I find orks that I like they will of course be demoted to goblin rabble again.
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A unit of eight is including the command models, though depending on whether the unit is loose or formed they can have varying amounts of command models.
Re. unit upgrades; each unit can have one of each type, so one of each unit enhancement - protection, spite,
vengance, and selfless.
Re. orcs; have you seen the Ral Partha Demonworld ones? I have a set of 10 and they are really nice sculpts.
Duncan
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Great thanks.
I have the deamonworld goblins. I thought the orcs looked a bit boring. But that might just be the pictures and the paintjob. But I might give them a try. I was really impressed with the gobbos.
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Some great and inspiring pictures here! I'm using 'Mayhem' for my 15mm battles so all my models are based in groups or 'units'. However, I do like the look of singly-based 15mm as shown here. With that in mind I'm thinking of getting some packs of the Robin Hood minis from Splintered Light and using them with the 'Crom' rules.
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Oh an Torben I intend to use goblins as war orks initially to quickly give me a playable army. I hope you can live with that. Once I have an decent size army and I find orks that I like they will of course be demoted to goblin rabble again.
Seeing as Mr. Thompson already took care of your questions then I'll take care of the ethical one: I'm perfectly fine with doing so, especially since I'm currently working on a Wood Elf army that is going to be a whole lot of 'count as' shenanigans. In my opinion then as long as everybody knows what each painted unit represents then it's fine by me!
...Although calling a can of Pepsi for a dragon might be a bit of a stretch :D
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Your undead look great, nice to see the Demonworld minis back in production after such a long time away.
You have convinced me to start a 15mm GoB project myself, it'll be a sculpting training project as well with every mini in my forces scratch sculpted starting with goblins and Dwarves
Mike
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Your undead look great, nice to see the Demonworld minis back in production after such a long time away.
You have convinced me to start a 15mm GoB project myself, it'll be a sculpting training project as well with every mini in my forces scratch sculpted starting with goblins and Dwarves
Mike
Sounds interesting, but that is a lot of minis to sculpt.
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Yes, a hell of a lot, by my count around 100ish, here is my first test, hope you don't mind me hijacking the thread for a moment :)
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/150x100q90/c/713/qfw7.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/jtqfw7j)
Mike
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Its a bit to difficult to see properly, but it looks pretty good.
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Clearly ripped of GWs battle for skull pass gobbos but only 10mm tall, I better start my own thread
Mike
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So, I was a bit quiet for some time with this project. The reason? I'm the worst blogger in the whole history of the internet! I like sharing what I'm up to, but I'm also really bad at doing it in a blogging manner; I think I'm much more of a polished article kinda guy... Anyway, it's christmas, so I had time to finish off some projects and noticed there was a lack of army photos of my Undeath for GOB15...
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And there they are; my Necromancer in all his glory along with his host of Undead, ready to... well, seeing as it's GOB, then he's mostly ready to defend his graveyards from the rampaging Blood Gorged tribes nearby.
So - I finished off a complete army of undead and I'm mightily pleased with myself for that fact alone. But, one army isn't really enough to show off the merits of GOB15, so what's a wargamer to do?
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Well, he paints up another army of course! And I would have finished another unit today had it not been for the fact that my trusty architect lamp just up and died on me - and as the general light ambience here in Denmark is horrid and in my flat especially, then I chose to take some snapshots as I had promised myself of my newest army; the Seawood Elves! (there's technically no Wood Elves in the GOB rulebook, but there are Sea Elves which can work out as the same thing if you tweak things a bit ;)).
And with that - have a very jolly holiday and merry christmas everyone!
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And for those with an interest in the God of Battles rulebook, here's how I've made my wood elves from the Sea Elf list in the book. I chose the models for the units in the army list based on either the units merits (high defence for the Shushain' Chosen meant that I used Heavy Infantry models) or because they just fitted perfectly!
I'm still on the lookout for better Ambassadors of the Deep as I'm not quite sold on using bears (although, bears rock!) for that entry and would have preferred something dryad-like in 15mm... but I've yet to find any, sadly.
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Looking good Torben, though I thinkI've beat you on worst blogger account! I've now got 3 units of brutes, a herdlord, a minotaur (a monster from the depths of the forest), and chariot (giant boar rider) all finished and not a photo in sight.
Great to see your new Wood Elves, and wow you got them done fast!!! I also suspect you're upping your painting game there too.
We'll have to have a game some time after the next couple of days.
Duncan
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Dryads from splintered light :D
http://www.splinteredlightminis.com/woodlandrealms.html
(http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-133546587642587_2264_89953552)
or wood trolls
(http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-133546587642587_2264_88913364)
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@Duncan - Yes, I did up my painting game a bit, but I was mostly helped along by the fact that furs and bark seems to lend itself rather well to that fastes of painting techniques - drybrushing ;)
We're really both bit of a chums when it comes to this here online presence, eh? What say you that we try and up the anté with a fully painted, fully realized battlereport soon? Incidently I've been thinking about some narrative campaign rules as well...
@Lowtardog - Oh I rather like those Wood Trolls as I already mentioned over on the GOB-group; trouble is that importing stuff from the US is really rather expensive... but they do look the part!
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@Duncan - Yes, I did up my painting game a bit, but I was mostly helped along by the fact that furs and bark seems to lend itself rather well to that fastes of painting techniques - drybrushing ;)
We're really both bit of a chums when it comes to this here online presence, eh? What say you that we try and up the anté with a fully painted, fully realized battlereport soon? Incidently I've been thinking about some narrative campaign rules as well...
Sounds good Torben. I've made sure that my social secretary hasn't booked me too much this Christmas ;) I've just one unit to paint and another to finished then I've got 36pts of Blood Gorged and am itching to start my 1000 Tribes.
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Sounds good Torben. I've made sure that my social secretary hasn't booked me too much this Christmas ;) I've just one unit to paint and another to finished then I've got 36pts of Blood Gorged and am itching to start my 1000 Tribes.
That sounds really great Duncan! Let's see when we can find the time for a little fight then - I'm also hoping that there's going to be a gift certificate for miniatures under the tree tonight as I'm looking at adding a few Quithillian Empire elves to my army (well, mainly Human Vassal levy as they can also double for Mercenaries, but seeing as I'm already using the Great Eagle from the QE...) and assorted stuff from RPE in the new year.
My mind is already churning and considering yet another army - probably Mercenaries this time around ;)
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The Armies look WONDERFUL...IMPRESSIVE work on such tiny minis. The Tree Guy is UBERCOOL. VERY WELL DONE!
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I have to confess that very unusually for me, the dwarves are gathering more and more interest. But before them I've promised myself that I'll get both my Blood Gorged and 1000 tribes painted first. That may or may not take a while.
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Guess we need to start making good on our promise to paint together more? ;)
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Lovely collection. Especially love the wood elves.
I have just ordered some wood elves from Eureka for my 15/18mm elves:-
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8134154220_524e955348.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/8134154220/)
Eureka Miniatures 18mm High Elves (http://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/8134154220/) von torq42 (http://www.flickr.com/people/torq42/) auf Flickr
I see you are from Denmark ( i live near Dortmund in Germany). Do you ever go to Tactica in Hamburg? I am unfortunatly not there this year but it would be graet to get both our collections on one table sometime.
(The rest of my Collection
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/sets/72157628765291567/
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Tose are some very nicely painted elves!
We (Torben and i) have talked about coming to Tactica this year.
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Great work, 15mm is getting harder to resist all the time with projects like these.
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Nicely accomplished! I'm going to be cynical and misanthropic here, but the sea elves (designed to shoehorn one of Foundry's less well-conceived fantasy ranges?) are one of the heavier pieces in the pile of little things that puts me off GoB. It's so brilliantly obvious to proxy them as wood elves and friends that I'm kicking myself that it never occured to me. Great job with both those welvish armies. (I wonder if it's possible with high elves...?)
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Nicely accomplished! I'm going to be cynical and misanthropic here, but the sea elves (designed to shoehorn one of Foundry's less well-conceived fantasy ranges?) are one of the heavier pieces in the pile of little things that puts me off GoB. It's so brilliantly obvious to proxy them as wood elves and friends that I'm kicking myself that it never occured to me. Great job with both those welvish armies. (I wonder if it's possible with high elves...?)
To be honest I think this is where Jake Thornton has been very clever, as the army lists are sufficiently flexible to easily fit other races and armies. Also the ability to take up to a third of the points as allies means that most armies can be made to fit.
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To be honest I think this is where Jake Thornton has been very clever, as the army lists are sufficiently flexible to easily fit other races and armies. Also the ability to take up to a third of the points as allies means that most armies can be made to fit.
Sounds like a decent topic for it's own thread. :)
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Last night Duncan and I got together for a game of GOB, which saw me use my Wood Elves for the very first time. I wrote about it in detail on my blog as can be found right here (http://scatterbrainedwargamer.blogspot.dk/2013/12/seawood-elves-clash-with-hogwild.html).
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Quick snapshot from last night
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Must buy army now!
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Thanks Torben for a great game (it was great because I won convincingly), and also for showing pictures of my painted minis, which I've not got round to taking pictures of yet.
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@Dijit: It was indeed a great game! But next time my Seawood Elves won't fall into yet another meat grinder - next time you'll have to work for your victory! Or, well, work even harder :D
And, as the year comes to a close - I'll leave it with these two miniatures to be the last that I painted in 2013:
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Happy New Years everyone!
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Last night Duncan and I got together for a game of GOB, which saw me use my Wood Elves for the very first time. I wrote about it in detail on my blog as can be found right here (http://scatterbrainedwargamer.blogspot.dk/2013/12/seawood-elves-clash-with-hogwild.html).
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Quick snapshot from last night
Having just yesterday played a game with those 2 armies (I commanded dijit's evil horde against Torben with his fancy-pant elves ;) ), I have ordered the rulebook just now.
I plan to start playing with @Duregar using our respective LotR collections (Duregar has a substantial amount of Dwarves from before they went failcast), and then parallel to that build a force in 15 mm to play with the rest of Denmark ::) (and hoping to also influence others to use existing collections, be it Warhamster, Kings of War, or whatever fantasy minis they might own).
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Having just yesterday played a game with those 2 armies (I commanded dijit's evil horde against Torben with his fancy-pant elves ;) ), I have ordered the rulebook just now.
I plan to start playing with @Duregar using our respective LotR collections (Duregar has a substantial amount of Dwarves from before they went failcast), and then parallel to that build a force in 15 mm to play with the rest of Denmark ::) (and hoping to also influence others to use existing collections, be it Warhamster, Kings of War, or whatever fantasy minis they might own).
Sounds good, it's quite something that most of us in Denmark are playing it in 15mm.
I think the rules with their simple mechanics but tactical depth offer a lot.