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Warmaster Weekends "Carthaginians" reference
If you have not guessed by what has been painted, Carthage is 1st up. Why Carthage? It is the one major player at the time that has just about every other group of state sponsored group involved. That allows those groups painted to pull double duty later on down the line.
Couple of pictures representing the large number of warriors and style fighting for Carthage at one time. There were Mercs in the ranks also. Just think about the shit storm just trying to getting all these nationalities to line up.
My references for this part of the project are;
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| Can never go wrong with a horse markings guide. I keep one sitting next to me as a paint horse. It makes painting faster. |
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| Both of these are from WAB series. Skipping the rules and unit entries, it is a quick read. Some pictures, battles, troop types |
These are great magazines.
I have a subscription to AW. Normally they sit until I get 4-5, then I read them all at once.
2018 AdeptiCon 21-26 March
Registration is LIVE.
AdeptiCon
I am signed up. The plan is to be there Wednesday afternoon and cut out Monday morning. Been trying to plant the idea of a road trip in the minds of the Epic group. It’s a tough sale. I do have points to fly on. Soooo?
If I do drive out, I could bring the terrain again. Maybe some FoF or Ancients stuff for pick games.
If I do drive out, I could bring the terrain again. Maybe some FoF or Ancients stuff for pick games.
NetEA Tourney 24 March 9am – 6pm
It will be Imperial Fist or the Tau again?
Warmaster Tourney 23 March 9am – 6pm
Don’t own a single fantasy army. I have requested a loan army from the group.
Desert terrain
Yeah I lied. More desert terrain.
More 20mm irrigation ditches / 6mm desert roads
These bugs bunny dudes are for 20mm Zombie action.
After spray the pipe bridge I dropped it.
NetEA Emperor’s Children Vs Imperial Fists
Once again we played at 6 feet under games. Huge place, cheap drinks, clean bathrooms, and the greatest wargaming tables ever. I am going to steal or get some Amish dude to make me one!
I did take pictures. A lot more than usual, but still a terrible job.
3000 points Emperor’s Children Vs Imperial Fists.
Kal’s List
My list
Garrison
EC Scouts OverWatch
IF Scouts w/ Bunkers & Trenches OverWatch
IF Tacticals & Thudds w/ Bunkers & Trenches
IF Shooty Speeders OverWatch
Teleport
EC Termies
IF Termies & SC BTS
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| Deployment |
Turn 1
Initiative won by EC
EC Hell Talons ground assaults targets the Scouts. 2KIA 3BMs
………bombs blast spills over the IF Shooty
Speeders. 1KIA 2BMs
IF Scouts marshall targets Scouts 1BM. Removes all BMs
EC Tac LF doubles.
IF Tac w/ Thudds sustains targets Scouts. 1KIA 2BMs *1
EC Scouts marshall. Advance, remove all but 1BM.
IF Shooty Speeders advance targets Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Tac C double targets Shooty Speeders. 1BM
IF Storm Talons ground assault BTS. 1BM
EC BTS marshalls. Zero BM
IF Tac advances targets Scouts. 1BM
EC Raptors march.
IF Fell Blade RF advances targets Raptors. 2KIA BROKEN *2
EC Titan doubles targets Fell Blade RF. 1BM
Retains. Fails summoning
EC Tac RF doubles targets Shooty Speeders. 2BMs disrupt
IF Whirlwinds sustains targets Tac RF. 2KIA 3BMs
EC Knights march
IF Devs advance targets Knights. 3KIA BROKEN *3
IF Fell Blade sustains Tac RF. 1KIA 2BMs
IF melt Speeders march.
*1 Both were placed on OW. Wasted, the shoot Speeders should have been on OW not Tac.
*2 They were feed to me. Sadly in terrain, they failed all saves, re-rolls.
*3 This was a crap shot. Again they failed saves & re-rolls.
EC Raptors and Knights stay broken.
IF Shooty Speeders keep 5BMs
Turn 2
Teleporting
EC Termies drop on my Blitz
IF Termies & SC (BTS) drop on Kal’s blitz & BTS
IF won initiative (Both rolled 6s)
IF Melta Speeders double targets BTS. 1KIA 3BMs
Retains on re-roll *1
IF Termies engages BTS. ELIMINATED *2
EC Termies engages Tac w/ Thudds. 7KIA BROKEN *3
Retains
OverWatch IF Scout targets Tac RF. 1BM
EC Tac RF engages Shooty Speeders. ELIMINATED
IF Fell Blade RF sustains targets Titan. No shields, 2DC BROKEN
EC Hell Talons ground assaults Tac. 2KIA 3BMs
IF Tac advances targets Scouts. 1BM *4
EC Tac C engages Tac. 7KIA ELIMINATED
IF Whirlwinds sustains targets Tac C. 1KIA 2BMs
EC Tac LF doubles targets Whirlwinds. 3KIA BROKEN
IF Fighters FAIL
EC Scouts sustains targets FB RF. 1BM
IF Devs advance targets Knight. 1BM
IF Fell Blade LF advances targets Tac LF. 2KIA 3BMs
*1 1st time ever a SC points pays off
*2 HUGE BTS & Blitz
*3 Playing Tau for the last year….One would think I would guard myself against such thing. Really how many times did Dave pound my ass over the last 2 years with this lesson?
*4 I gave this detachment up. Big Dummy!
EC Titan, Knights, Raptors, & Tac C broken
IF Tac Thudds recover 1BM
Turn 3
IF won Initiative (Both rolled 1s)
IF FB RF advances targets Tac RF. 2KIA 3BMs *1
EC summons Great Daemon
OverWatch Scouts. 1BM on Tac RF *1
EC Tac Rf engages FB RF. ELIMINATED
IF Storm Talons ground assault Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Hell Talons ground assaults Scouts. 1KIA BROKEN *1
IF Tac Thudd doubles targets Scouts. 1BM *1
EC Termies advance targets Scouts. ELIMINATED (Blitz)
IF FB LF doubles targets Tac LF. 2KIA BROKEN *2
EC Scouts engage Tac Thudd. ELIMINATED *1
IF Devs march for the objective *2
IF Melta Speeders advance (T&H) targets Titan. 1BM
IF BTS marshall. (Blitz)
*1 Huge fight over the right flank objective my side.
*2 Left Flank objective my side
Emperor’s Children 1 Imperial Fists 3
Blitz Blitz, BTS, T&H
Lessons form the Day;
Storm Talons are well worth the points!
Nothing changes and I created a situation that did not exist. I feed my tactical detachment to Kal. Which which properly gang banged off the table. I got a BM and a KIA for my troubles. Also failed to focus fire and isolate detachments.
Left two units on Overwatch and forgot to use them.
I left my Blitz wide open to Teleport. Quickly giving away a detachment and the Blitz and………my thud guns vaporized.
Kal’s scouts were the MVP. They ate fire all day, broke unit after unit, sucking up activations like they were free.
Kal’s luck went right on the window. The titan lost it shields and failed every save but one. The knights failed enough saves in turn 1 to stay broken all game.
I dumped my BTS onto Kal’s BTS, which was sitting on the Blitz. Then I won initiative and gang banged poor Kal’s BTS with termies and melt speeders. BTS & Blitz
Desert terrain is GamesCraft Minis or Battlefield Terrain Concepts.
Nov WIP
WIP for the back half of the month. Some 20mm zombies and 30K Horus Heresy.
Warmaster on the blocks
Rivers
These rubber rivers will see usage across scales. Epic 6mm, Warmaster 10mm, and RF&F 15mm as rivers. FoF 20mm, and 28mm M&T as streams.
Warmaster Weekends "painting speed" Phase One
One unit could have as many as 48 dudes (Unit = 3 stands @ 16 dudes a stand). If one had 10 units of legionaries in a 3000 point army, thats 740 dudes. The speed at which I could paint a unit becomes a big question. Even if I paint in 1000 point blocks. How fast can I get an army on the table? Get two armies on the table?
Now some of these guys are doubled ranked or in the case of a Phalanx 4 ranks. It may be faster to paint them based. The painting of dudes based and in ranks does create a difficultly in how much of the inner dudes are painted.
A test for best method is needed. Also which method produces a quality looking group of dudes. The test will be on heavy infantry and Skirmishers.
Phase one; painting on sticks and Phase two based in ranks.
The procedure will be the same. I will start with dudes fresh from the bag. They will be cleaned, mounted, primed, painted, dipped, flocked, and sealed. Any attention to the shields will be not included.
Phase One;
Cartho Libyans — Cleaning and mounting and priming, strong tone wash and spears 22 minutes.
Then the plan totally collapsed as I chose to start doing shields. In the end I had to go back to hit the spots I skip over for shields.
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| reference sheet 1 |
Hand painting shields at 10mm is a bit of a strain. My lighting sucks and there is no wet palette here. My examples are 110% larger than the actual 10mm shield.
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| Carthaginian Libyan Inf. |
45 points
The Numidian skirmishers were much quicker to paint. I just can not count. A half base short.
20 points
My device for mounting single dudes straight and balanced on the base
The real reason I was short skirmishers. I stuck a few in support of the elephants. 3 African Forest Elephants.
450 points
Forest Elephants are much smaller than India Elephants. The forest type is long gone. I did find some handles for these dudes. No riders with big long spears yet.
The next 3 bases to get painted. These are the Old Glory India elephants I got at Fall In.
Me digging thru the massive mess of 10mm dudes searching for more of this one kind of dude. At least Macs, Cartho, and Roma are separated.
Warmaster Weekends "The crack"
The look! So, maybe, just maybe, I went head first. Nope I am truly ass deep to a tall indian (feather, no dot) in 10mm ancients.
I am not totally at fault. I live in a country that is not supportive of package delivery. So returning to the states is an Amazon and soldier ordering craze. Poor dad, says a room is so full of shit, there is no where for me to sleep. I waited to after the wife returned to open and sort thru the boxes. Fall In was coming and I may need more. Only 3 sets!
Bases from Shogun and Pendraken
But like I said, it is not my fault.
Well here is the tally;
Rome
Rep Romans 680
Rep Roman Cmd 100
Rep Roman Cav 50
Italian Allies 590
Carts
Cartho Inf 560
Cartho Cav 160
Elephants 6
Hoplites/Merc 420
Spanish
Spanish Inf 120
Spanish Cav 30
Numbian
Numbian Cav 180
Numbian Lt Inf 150
Mac
Mac Phalanx 480
Mac L Inf 270
Mac Cav 160
Elephants 11
Characters
I think 1.5 years to speed paint the lot as a secondary project.
Fall In "purchases"
This year I tied to stay out of the vender hall. Years past, when not gaming or bullshitting, I would go over. Which was like a fat kid in a candy shop. I would blow the budget and never get the shit on my list.
Plus, they moved the entrance to the hall to the opposite side of the building. Then tore up the hill and stairs in-between. It was an extra 100yd hike to get in the door.
The building had been completely redone. Bathroom were fixed. Windows added, but the new tables were seriously stress tested under the weight of the venders.
20mm Colonial
This is a great box. It provides litters, porters, and locals.
I did go over to Old Glory in search of 10mm elephant riders. (Pyrrhus was the dude that put the towers on the elephant. Plus African elephants (forest elephants are long gone) are smaller by 25-30% compared to an India elephant.) So they could not support the tower and I need dudes sitting tossing spears.
I got a pack of India elephants, romans, and greek light Inf. The old glory dude gave me a free pack!
Staying true to the list I grabbed two packs of irrigation ditches (timeincasting) and some paint (army painter zombie line. I never planned on staying stateside for so long. I only carried the paint I need to touch up the Tau and some desert terrain.) The ditches pull double duty. I used as roads for 6mm also.
The books and magazines. The books were pulled from Walley’s basement.
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| Pretty excited about this one. I think it is a first ed. |
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