The Empire's Renaissance - Update: Warhammer Renaissance Game#2

[Frugalmax]

Great shot of those knights charging out! They look a little bit unsupported- hopefully their charge broke through or they might get weighed down before the rest of the army gets close enough to help out!

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Frugalmax: They did pretty alright, I think.


Heyhey, here's my finished review and battle report of Warhammer Renaissance!

https://tabletopstories.net/language/en/2025/07/warhammer-renaissance-review-and-battle-report/





Hope you like the article!

[Dr. Zombie]

Great battle report. That was a close fought game.

[Seditiosus]

thanks for the recap. looks interesting and I will have a look! I recently brought some order in my (mainly) 6th edition material and I am still at awe, how much great material was produced. I am still reading through a "Warhammer The Generals compendium" book with loads of funny rules for sea battles - never knew they existed.

I feel what you write in your blog post concerning TOW: I had a look at the books and was immediately put off, so many special rules, hardly conceivable layout and the constant need to figure out, where the rules are explained. it felt like they wanted to include the delusion of complexity, while in all honesty it is nothing short of bad layout and structuring of rules... impossible for a casual player to figure out properly, simply due to the number of rules...

so, thanks again. especially since i was looking at my darkelves and wondering, where I could give them any new lease on life!

[Dr. Zombie]

My gaming group usually play only historical games, but for the past 8-12 months we have been exclusively playing Warhammer Renaissance it is just so enjoyable and it tickles the old nostalgia just right. We have even converted a few who have no experience with Warhammer from their youth. I highly recommend it.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Dr.Zombie: Thanks; great to hear your group enjoying WHR so much. On Facebook somebody let me know that I should try playing with magic as well, because it's such a huge factor in the game. So that's my next goal, because I feel like my review is extremely incomplete without the magic experience. Me and my friends have been playing mainly historical stuff as well, but since the pandemic and all the stuff happening (certainly since 2022) we've done more fantasy/sci-fi again.

@Seditious: Thanks for the comment! Yeah, the General's Compendium is a great book, and was highly sought after even right after it went OOP. 6th edition was also the time when edition stuck around for a long time, so there was more time to release stuff. Good thing about WHFB is that there never was a substantial break in its history, such as the lamentable 3rd edition of 40k was for that game. Yeah, TOW had me curious. Still does. But between it, Warhammer 5th edition, Warhammer 7th edition and Warhammer Renaissance, I'd clearly choose the other options over TOW. Mainly because I got the rule books for all the prior ones. Warhammer works OK in most versions, right?


Little update of some upcoming Empire troops I got to work on the past weekend:


Hope ye like them!

[Gibby]

Those are absolutely lovely! Your project is coming along just as amazingly as I expected from one of my favourite painters!

Warhammer Renaissance is going down well around here as well - just last weekend my pal Sam and I had a very small test game between his Empire and my Orcs & Goblins as seen here:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=149972.0

Very fun it was too. Can't wait to play more!

[Frugalmax]

Awesome work! And if the enemy tries a scorched earth campaign they will simply eat their mounts and become infantry. Unstoppable!

[BoomHammerMinis]

Great stuff in here! Absolutely attest to Warhammer Renaissance being my game of choice... before that it was an interest in One Page Rules.

I absolutely love the customisable nature of WR and it's 'loose' style - it's such a great way to encourage creative fun with some solid, simple rules behind it!

[.:Gunslinger:.]

Oh wow these halflings are so cool! Fantastic work on the paintjob! 

Very tempting to get some...

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Gibby: Yeah, I had a look at the thread following your comment. Good stuff.

@Frugalmax: ..as armies have done since the dawn of time. Might just as well bring a tasty mount!

@BoomHammerMinis: Thanks very much! Yeah, I'm just dipping my toes in, but there's a LOT of potential for all sorts of forces in there!

@.:Gunslinger:.: Cheers! Yeah, they're lovely indeed. Also, Mr.Hicks just put the new batch of Hicksy's Halflings up on the web store and those look lovely as well.

Right, all sorts of giant robots are trying to tear my attention away from this project, but I try to stay firm. Spent the past weekend at an event and with painting some Stormcast Eternals (a project of the "no stress, but it would be GREAT if you could get these done by next weekend..." sort). The latter are done now, so I spent a few hours this evening preparing some basics on those halbardiers. After agonizing for a few weeks, I decided to just go with the Ostland colour scheme most of my units got. 35 figures. Might take a while.

So why the switch to those now instead of finishing the Halflings? Well, I want to get the Empire up to 1250 points, without making them shootier (which they already are a lot. I got a bunch more handgunners done and a cannon, but that isn't much fun, is it) or knightier. I'm not happy with that knights unitwith the general in there to be honest. Not a fan of making a singular unit the main punchy thing of an army.

So yeah, I may try to get that big unit of halbardiers done next.

[white knight]

@.:Gunslinger:.: Cheers! Yeah, they're lovely indeed.

Best picture and paintjob I've seen of them. I originally commissioned these for my Marauder style tribute range. I think ultimately they got finished right around the time TAG bought the range of me and they got released under their flag. There is a multipart prototype sculpt for these as well, that I think TAG didn't release, but should have in their mould library.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Best picture and paintjob I've seen of them. I originally commissioned these for my Marauder style tribute range. I think ultimately they got finished right around the time TAG bought the range of me and they got released under their flag. There is a multipart prototype sculpt for these as well, that I think TAG didn't release, but should have in their mould library.

Extremely interesting, thanks for that info! It's interesting; most of them are one-piece casts, but a few (the ones with the lances) have separate heads. Has the whole range (bar for said multi-part prototype) been released? Did the range encompass all these lovely Fantasy figures TAG sell now (ie imperial dwarfs, imperial humans, halfling militia)?

[white knight]

I think they released everything, except for the multipart prototype rooster rider, and I think they made the prototype halfling noble one of their freebie models with orders (along with the drunken halfling bard).

The range had:
- Empire style dwarfs (now with TAG)
- Empire style halflings (now with TAG)
- Empire style human footknights, mounted knights and witchhunters (now with TAG)
- Empire style goblins (not sure who has them now as they were passed on by the person who bought them off me)
- Empire style elves (currently still in my possession looking for a new home)
- Empire style human and halfling zombies (now with TAG)

Conversion bits:
- human footknight bodies (no heads or arms) and weapons (now with TAG)
- Empire style elf conversion bits: heads, bodies, arms (still in my possession looking for a new home)
- Empire style goblin and halfling heads (with whoever has the goblins)
- tiny Empire style rubber ducks (with whoever has the goblins)

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@white knight: Cool, thanks for all the info! I made sure to pass it on, because I find that sorta stuff interesting. Do you happen to have photos of the imperial elves?


@Rowsdower: Sounds like an undertaking well worth one's time. So the WE never got finished in that version?

@Archilector_Malaga: Thanks very much!

@Zygmund: Cheers! Yeah, probably the fanciest figures in my weird little collection. Apart from a few characters (well, two) and the Knights of the White Wolf.


Praise the emperor, they're done. Well, done enough, since they're just for myself.




I bought it ages ago. Classic second-hand plastic: assembled (mostly OK; I only noticed that one of the drums was glued on upside down towards the end of the painting process), heavily primed and painted, not cleaned. I tried to strip them for a few days, but oh well. I gave up and painted over it. That is, after I reattached about 20 halberd heads. The figures look a little nicer in real life; as is often the case, the camera ate the metallic highlights. Highlights in general. That's okay, at least I have photographic proof that they're done.

The flag says "Lambe Taurus", which I hope reads "Lick the bull". I made the flag as usual: took the design, mirrored it, printed it, painted all over it, added lettering and some detail stuff. It struck me as interesting that the bull is standing with its rear towards the enemy, so I thought it was a soldier-y slogan to add to this design. The other side of the flag has the same design, but says "Osterland" in the scroll.

Hope you like them!