A Tilean Campaign

[Ockius]

I hadn't actually read any of the fiction until you asked just now, but have been to your site and begun reading the very first entry. It's good! Well-written, and works well as a narrative. I really like the shots of models to illustrate it; it's like a multimedia artwork! Will read on and work my way through some more of the story.

[Padrissimus]

These are the pics for an upcoming little story ...

[WuZhuiQiu]

Uh! Oh!

I am looking forward ro reading the story, especially since the Skaven are involved!

By the way, have you considered including tags among the various episodes in your blog? It could be nice, for example, to be able to follow one faction or another through the episodes that pertain to it.

Finally, in your campaign, how have you been ensuring that the need for a battle to be resolved somewhere does not hold up the entire campaign for too long? Is the campaign such that a given faction would tend to fight only a small number of battles per turn? In a discussion about Mighty Empires campaigns, the potential need to fight several battles per campaign month has represented a challenge.

[Padrissimus]

I love the tags idea. I wouldn't have thought of it myself. I will look into how it could be done. I'm sure it won't be too difficult, although I bet the application could take some time. I could maybe start with Biagino, so that the reader could follow his progress from refugee to warrior priest to vampire high priest!

As for the need for battles holding up the campaign - they really do. I warned the players years ago when we started that this was to be a very drawn out affair. They said ok, and bless them they are still active in the campaign. Some of them have had gaps in activity of man, many months. Some have skipped more than a year without an actual game! Meanwhilem I sometimes agonise for days and days just trying to get a story right!

Basically because of all the work I put in to the stories, and the need to live real life, it couldn't go any quicker. Or ... it could, obviously, but it would be nothing like it is!

When I put up the most recent pictures you'll inderstand that sometimes it takes hours just to set up a scene - and that's after weeks of painting and modelling!

[HappyChappy439]

Love the lighting on those most recent pictures! (also the classic Night Runners are a nice bit of nostalgia!)

[scatterbrains]

When I put up the most recent pictures you'll inderstand that sometimes it takes hours just to set up a scene - and that's after weeks of painting and modelling!

And it really shows!  Beautiful work, can't wait to see what the Skaven are planning to achieve with this assasination... starting the Old World War 10 maybe?

[WuZhuiQiu]

As for the need for battles holding up the campaign - they really do. I warned the players years ago when we started that this was to be a very drawn out affair. They said ok, and bless them they are still active in the campaign. Some of them have had gaps in activity of man, many months. Some have skipped more than a year without an actual game! Meanwhilem I sometimes agonise for days and days just trying to get a story right!

It's great that they're still active! If a player can't fight a battle within a reasonable delay, do you arrange for a proxy to fight it on his (or her) behalf, as I think that I saw had been done for at least one battle? Do you sometimes resolve battles and sieges by rolling on some table? Thanks again!

[Padrissimus]

Love the lighting on those most recent pictures!

Hi tech too! I put a red cotton cloth over my phone torch, moved it around until the shadows seemed ok, and snapped the pic with my camera in the other hand! No expense spared!!!

If a player can't fight a battle within a reasonable delay, do you arrange for a proxy to fight it on his (or her) behalf, as I think that I saw had been done for at least one battle? Do you sometimes resolve battles and sieges by rolling on some table? Thanks again!

The proxies are for players who can't get to mine. Such geographically removed players have a political, strategic role as leader, but stand-ins usually command their forces (my figures) on the tabletop. Some players are happy to play as much as possible, and volunteer to stand in just to get more games in. One is painting figures for h.several of his enemies to use right now!

NPC forces are sometimes commanded by me, but only in small games, because I am so busy photographing and scribbling notes to inform the report I will write that I am a rubbish general! On occasion I have given stand-in players character backgrounds for their general, and secret notes regarding what the general is really trying to achieve. Being role-players as well as wargamers my players are great this. I've seen players lure their tabletop ally into doing most of the fighting because their general's motive was to win, but with as much of their own army intact as possible. I have watched them role-play so well that even when doing so might even hurt their own PCs' campaign plans, they still play the role they have adopted for the game

...can't wait to see what the Skaven are planning to achieve with this assasination...

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They have all sorts of plans! I love writing for them.

[Padrissimus]

Here are some pics from the next story I am working on, probably in the top ten of the largest scenes I have put together! The Vampire High Priest Biagino rides atop his corpse wagon while the zombie cultists of his Disciplinati di Nagash swarm around him. (196 figures to be exact!)


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If you're interested I can put up some close ups as well.

[swiftnick]

Wow! Looking forward to this story!!

[Ockius]

Here are some pics from the next story I am working on, probably in the top ten of the largest scenes I have put together! The Vampire High Priest Biagino rides atop his corpse wagon while the zombie cultists of his Disciplinati di Nagash swarm around him. (196 figures to be exact!)


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If you're interested I can put up some close ups as well.

This is amazing!
Great shots.
I really like the cultist type guys with the hoods and polearms too, and the way they are escorting the carriage.

[Bloggard]

beautiful (in an undead kind of a way) vignettes / dioramas ! 

Magazine / book worthy.

[Steam Flunky]

Great campaign!!

[Gibby]

Stunning pictures! What a dark parade that is! Look at what Biagino has become!

[Padrissimus]

Thanks everyone! Here's a link to the report which includes the last pictures -

http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=102576#p102576

That link takes you to the first part, the second part follows immediately after.

If you don't like links, however, here are some more of the pictures ....