Warhammer Renaissance Now with a Battle report

[Dr. Zombie]

A unit of Reaver knights are now finished.


Next up will be a unit of swordmasters.

[Dr. Zombie]

I finished up a unit of Swordmasters.


And I got the whole gang out for a picture.


I have a unit of Silverhelms on my painting table right now and once they are finished. I need to do a few character models and I am ready for my first game with these guys.

[syrinx0]

Nice work on your new old army.  Definitely brings back some fun memories.

[Pattus Magnus]

They do look quite sharp.

[Dr. Zombie]

Here are the Silverhelms.


I painted up some Giant Eagles as well.


And a mounted Hero and Battlestandard bearer.


That means I am technically ready to take the field with this army. However I do want to paint up a mage and some foot characters as well.
But hopefully by this time next week they will have had their first outing on the battlefield.

[Elbows]

Nice seeing it all come together - can't wait to see a proper army shot (which I find tough to manage!)

[Elk101]

Nice job on those, especially the barding, white isn't the easiest to paint.

[Dr. Zombie]

And I finished some characters on foot also.


I tried to cram all of the army into my small'ish foto stage. So here it is in all its glory. Ready to take the field against som Dwarves soon.


It is strange to think that I printed and painted a whole Warhammer army in 3 months.
In my teens when i played warhammer 3rd-4th that was such a Herculean and monumental task. No one had a fully painted army, who would ever find the time and patience for that!? Now a days I would almost consider less than 60 models a small skirmish force.

[Pattus Magnus]

That’s a great looking army! I know what you mean about having different perspectives on gaming forces now, compared to when I was in my teens or early ‘20s. I was chatting with a friend yesterday about that. I’m not sure exactly why that difference is there, except that I have a much wider range of painting and modeling skills now and make better use of the time I spend on the hobby.

I’m looking forward to seeing future expansions to this army, or new armies!

[Dr. Zombie]

So yesterday my army took to the field to beat up some pesky and stubborn dwarves.



The dwarves took first turn and advanced towards the High elves. Their shooting was mostly ineffective.


The Elf archers return fire was deadly killing 6! of the stunty crossbowmen. while the rest of the army advanced upon the enemy.


The Ellyrian Reavers moved around the dwarven flank.


As the two armies confront each other. The elven mage tries to cast assault of stone. But the tricky dwarf Runesmith not only dispels it he destroys the spell. And he also dispels the mages doomfire ring.


The dwarf artillery returns fire once again but only manage to kill a single crewman of the bolt thrower.

But again the elves shooting proves superior as they kill two more crossbowmen and force the remaining two to flee.


With a mighty (but well diciplined) roar the high elves charge. The spearmen engange the massive slayer unit together with the Reavers, who charge the flank. While the Silverhelms take on the Ironbreakers.


After a few turns of combat the last remaining Silverhelm is forced to flee. And the Spearmen and Reavers chop away at the Slayers.


The Swordmasters move into a blocking position to stop the Iron breakers from charging the spearmen in the flank. It is a forlorn hope mission. They are doomed to be cut down by the unstoppable Ironbreakers


But their noble sacrifice alows the spearmen to finish off the slayers and move away to capture a table quarter and free the reavers to go hunt the artilley and claim another tablequarter.


The Ironbreakers have built themselves into an unstoppable frenzy by taking out the last remaining Silverhelm, the last Swordmasters and now they charge the elven archers and even manage to catch the as they try to flee!


But It was all in vain. As the High elves held more tablequarters and had killed a lot of dwarves the victory goes to the Elven army.

Ohh and somewhere along all this the dwarven organ gun blew itself up..

It was a blast to play a game of Warhammer for the first time in 25 years - at least. We are definitely going to be doing that again.

[Dr. Zombie]

I have painted up a wizard on a unicorn with a spell familiar and another bolt thrower.

[DalyDR]

Fun project!  This brings back a lot of good memories of my games using my own High Elf force against a good friend's Dwarven army using WFB 4th ed., also about 25 years ago!

[Dr. Zombie]

The fun thing is that me and my opponent seems to have played the game hugely different back in the day. The group he played with used huge units that just bashed away at each other while the group I played in use many smaller units so we could outflank each other. I Actually felt quite clumsy having a big 20 strong unit of spearmen. I would have never had that back in the day.

It just goes to show how the "meta" game varied hugely in local gaming groups before the time of the internet.