Warbands - old school orc

[kaiser]

I noticed, but I wanted to seem polite

We want (at least I do) more games and photos !

Here it comes!

After our last battle Lucius' Flawless Host made off with a lot of gold but were robbed by a band of thieves.

'Damn that scum', Lucius thought to himself. 'If I ever get my hands on those a******, I'm going to take them to my torture chamber and..' 'MASTER!' The deep voice of M'buto was easy to recognize.. The Chaos Warrior, his most trusted soldier and lieutenant, was breathing heavily from within his closed helmet  'what is it, my dear? Why in such a hurry?' Lucius looked at the heavily muscled southerner, smiling. 'The filth has been spotted. They have a cabin in the woods, and there's a bounty on their heads. They have been robbing villagers too.' 'Gather the others,' Lucius said. 'we're going hunting'.

The scenario was this: Kill the thieves and gather their heads to collect gold. Kill the other warband if possible.

The thieves in front of their cabin.


Torkin's Kin Band has also heard of the bounty on the thieves' heads, and ever eager at the prospect of gold they have set out to find the gang in the woods.



'Find them. Kill every last one!'Lucius herds his warband forward.



One of the thieves wanders off from the rest, and the pack of beastmen jumps him.
Lucius had known as soon as he had found the creatures, that they would be magnificent in combat. As they sprinted towards the bandit he fondly remembered their excitement when he presented them with the crude scmitars which they were now swinging with huge force at the lonely bandit. They excelled at two things; killing and eating, and he loved them for it.





The bandit is killed and one of the beastmen, Horace, takes cuts off his head before gorging on the body.

The two chaos warriors, M'buto and Hezar, charges in and the Slaanesh acolytes,  Greta and Sophia, follows.



And overwhelms the bandits..


While Lucius commands from afar.. Horace just brought him the first head of a bandit..


Torkin and his Kin Band had slowly advanced(being dwarfs)on the thieves' cabin. Torkin could hear howling and screams in the distance. With his riflemen he climbed to the top of a hill, here he could see them, these were the chaos filth, that had humiliated his cousin and killed his men. 'Attack!' He shouted. The Book of Grudges would soon have one less page in it..

The dwarves led by Torkin himself charge in. Greta and M'buto try ganging up on the dwarf chieftain, but Greta (the girl with horns) is no match for the skilled dwarf. He smashes her skull with his hammer...


The rest of the chaos warriors are shocked by the gruesome way the girl with so many gifts from Slaanesh died, so they decide to leg it.. while Lucius tries to rein them in.. but to no avail. In a short melee behind the cabin, the dwarf beserker Olin sends the other Slaanesh acolyte out of action with some swift swings from his axe.



And that's all she wrote. The dwarves pick up the rest of the heads. 3 heads dwarfs 2 heads chaos.


Greta didn't survive and Sophia had severe injuries, so she would have to stay in Lucius' mansion the next time, the warband goes out.

RIP in loving memory.

[majorsmith]

Some cool looking models there

[affun]

Another nice read  I was looking out for this one, but somehow managed to miss it anyways.

I drew a depiction of a key moment of the game:



RIP indeed.

It was good to get some payback - A great game that I played a bit sneakily. A combination of slow dwarves and me holding back a bit, meant that the chaos warband spent a lot of energy fighting the bandits in the center of the table, allowing me to sweep in and clean out the remnants (and grab the bounty)

Good stuff!

[airbornegrove26]

Excellent stuff here!  Can't wait to see more.  

Lovely blog as well Affun!

[kaiser]

Another nice read  I was looking out for this one, but somehow managed to miss it anyways.

Yeah, I still have our latest battle in the works. That was a fun game too. Loving the drawing.

Some cool looking models there

Thank you

Excellent stuff here!  Can't wait to see more. 

Lovely blog as well Affun!

Thanks! More will come.

[kaiser]

'Defeated! By dwarfs??'  Lucius couldn't believe how the dwarfs had been able to catch him by surprise. His rage matched his grief of losing Greta, what a waste of magnificent gifts from Slaanesh.. all of a sudden he could hear a strange noise from the trees a head. A huge grey furred troll cam tumbling towards his band of warriors, it's jaw hanging awkwardly as if broken. Lucius drew his sword and cracked his whip. The beast had been bent by someone else, but it wasn't broken.. yet..

The troll Njall has been beaten to submission and is now a part of my warband, which looks like this for the next game:



And the dwarfs look like this


Our latest game was played in an abandoned town where nature had taken over, trees were growing where there had been streets, and weird magical creatures had made it there home.

This was a classic treasure hunt type scenario. Who ever made it off with the rare magical crystal had won, but there was also other treasure to be had to enrich the warbands. I was determined to win this one and raced my best warriors toward the crystal, because, you know, dwarfs are slow!



Lucius commands his warriors forward. The chaos hound runs around the house to cut off the advancing dwarfs.


Torkin's Kin Band forms an orderly line..


'Find the treasure! Kill anyone in your way!


M'buto rushes up the ladder to claim the crystal. The dwarfs are too slow to intervene, the rifle shots don't even scratch the warrior's chaosarmor.  




A dwarf tries to catch up, but is too slow.


The beastmen cover the retreat and none of the dwarfs dare coming down the ladder where the beasts and troll are waiting. The dwarfs manage to shoot a couple of the beastmen, but the troll and the chaos warriors prove too effective treasure hunters and win the game for Lucius.

[kaiser]

Happy new year everybody! The new year brings a lot of new projects - I'll be trying out Dragon Rampant, and Affun and I are starting a new campaign of SoBH with a couple of other guys in our gaming club. So I'll be building a small human fantasy army and a new warband for SoBH.

Christmas kickstarted the projects:



Lots of perry plastics and Red Box miniatures for Dragon Rampant and some Rackham miniatures for SoBH.
The SoBH warband will be let by an incompetent wizard's apprentice. One day he stumbles upon a scroll and reads aloud from it and weird stuff starts happening. A manticore has appeared out of no where. The scroll allows him to summon creatures like demons and stuff. Here's the apprentice and the manticore:

[Zoggin-eck]

That manticore is the best idea I have seen in a long time!

Great reports, painting and terrain.

[DeafNala]

Both the Wizard in the Works & his Manticore Chum are BEAUTIFUL conversions...using the Ogre's face for the Manticore was an inspired/inspiring idea. GREAT WORK...have FUN with all the stuff!

[jthomlin]

The apprentice is nicely done, but that manticore is something else!   

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson

[Modhail]

Great conversions on both the apprentice and the Manticore! Where did the Manticores body come from?

[kaiser]

Both the Wizard in the Works & his Manticore Chum are BEAUTIFUL conversions...using the Ogre's face for the Manticore was an inspired/inspiring idea. GREAT WORK...have FUN with all the stuff!

Thanks DeafNala! Looking forward to show the rest of the beasts he can summon.

The apprentice is nicely done, but that manticore is something else!   

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson

Thank you! I'm very satisfied with it myself.

Great conversions on both the apprentice and the Manticore! Where did the Manticores body come from?

Thank you The body is one of the "old" chaos warhounds. I beefed up the hind legs a bit, because it was very scrawny.



It's the one on the right. (picture borrowed from this blog: http://bloodofkittens.com/

That manticore is the best idea I have seen in a long time!

Great reports, painting and terrain.

Thank you very much The terrain belongs to our gaming club, but I agree, it's very nice.

[Gabbi]

Wow, great looking game. The more I follow this forum, the more I am convinced to steer my gaming habits toward "generic" rulesets (i.e. those that come without an associated model line).

[pocoloco]

Excellent conversion on chimera! 

[affun]

Chiming in and saying (once again) that the chimera looks magnificent 

I also bought the Dragon Rampant ruleset, even though I already own Lion Rampant. People kept saying that it was a good read, and besides - It looked shiny. I'll have to scrape together and work on my own human army as well, even though I just purchased a 15mm landsknecht army for Rampant games as well. So look for that over on my blog, at some point soon.