Mordhiem campaign Leicester Phat Cats

So what's been going on in the world of Anton?

Well the Phat Cats Mordhiem campaign is well underway with turn two being played amongst the masses, as I'm running the campaign I thought it would be rude not to have a painted warband, and rather than buying stuff that I'd only use for a couple of months I went digging though the mass of stuff I've got and dusted off the lizardmen and splashed some paint on them
 

The complete warband, 

Skink henchmen with javelins 

and another 3 man unit 

the priest and great crest

The totem warrior with his boys

I'm only allowed 4 saurus warriors, and as soon as I get some more gold I'm getting some more of these chaps!

So I managed to snap some action shots during the first two sessions that have been ran so far, 

 

The whole idea of this campaign was down to the necromunda campaign that Keith ran earlier in the year, and following on from this Gorkamorka is planned for towards the end of the year.

For the next round towards the end of this month I'm planning on showcasing the warbands that are being used within the campaign,

July Pledge,

And yet another month fly by!

so what have I managed to crank out this month?

Well the KOM KOW army is coming along nicely and I've sorted out the pikemen unit that I converted a while back,

I managed to plough though these in hardly any time at all and compared to the cav that I've been painting recently these have been completed very quickly!

After some discussion on the mantic facebook page the question of enemy units being able to charge the pike unit cropped up so I put the unit on a reverse slope and arranged the pikemen so that they didn't cause to much of an issue, 

so with a bit of luck it appears that I've managed to pull it off, time will tell when I play some full on games,

Gaming wise Ben over at Dice Devils ran a cracking Batman game the other day, 

Initial impressions were very good and I'd like to get some more games under my belt before actually giving my views on this system.

I've also managed to get games of Judge Dredd over at Naga, and painted some robots that I picked up, 

however the spray varnish wiped out the work

so it was back in the detol and start again! 

I was lent an ape gang as we went dinosaur hunting 

I got my ass handed to me, however it was a cracking game and again want to get some games in before giving a first look,

So onto the Pledge,

I survived the Scar's and completed the mantic madness challenge once again,

Bought 20
Painted 46
Difference +26

so another stonking month and I'm managing to "control" my habit to some extent, so for the next month I'll be working on some scouts and normal cav for the KOW KOM army, then depending how burnt out I get on that stuff I've another unit of pikemen to sort out and finally move onto the cool stuff for the finish line, It's gonna be a tight one me thinks!

To break up the Arab bits I'm painting up lizardmen for age of sigmar and dragon rampart and might splash some paint on some T-55's that I picked up from battlefront a while back.

Evil Bear Wargames, Bear Tactical Hardsuit

A chap that I've know for far too long has done that one thing that we all dream of and released his own system along with a unique range,

/www.evilbearwargames.com

so OSC is coming soon, and if the first lot of miniatures is anything to go by this will be one to watch, I've lifted the description of the game from Matt's website,

Oscar Sierra Charlie

Where Modern Warfare Meets Worlds Beyond

Oscar Sierra Charlie puts you straight in the front line in gripping battles. This is combat at the cutting edge; individual and squad-level action, desperate missions to capture key objectives, with victory going to best tactical mind.

OSC’s mechanics are deliberately streamlined for fast-paced tactical play. Straightforward stat lines are augmented by a plethora of skills, options and tactics. At its heart a player-driven rules system, no two games of OSC will be the same. Your troops will stand and fight at your command – their fate and that of the mission is in wholly in your hands!

The game world of Oscar Sierra Charlie is one of gritty modern warfare at its core. But it is also far more. Revolutionary scientific experimentation has opened a Pandora’s Box of trans-dimensional travel; the so-called ‘Endless Earths’.

Across hundreds of alternate Earths, in hundreds of alternate timelines, elite strike teams and expeditions explore, observe and, where necessary intervene. But they are far from alone. Humanity has discovered many facsimiles of itself, scattered across dimensions. But even more explosively, it has encountered other sentient beings; lifeforms of unknowable abilities and motives. As the eyes of humanity open to the limitless possibilities afforded by the Endless Earths, the fate of our entire reality may hang in the balance…

Late last week the first models went up for order and I'd be rude not to support a fellow hobbyist so I threw some paypal at the screen and these bad boys rocked up...

very funky packages, dead useful as well for various tokens for all sorts of systems!

a badly taken picture of the raw product 

nice and easy to stick together, crisp castings and with a little work you can easily convert these guys. 

I splashed some paint on one of them and everything looks brilliant in Russian green! 

size of the hardsuit next to a popular spaceman...

Overall very pleased with my purchase and a multitude of uses for various systems that I dabble in, so if this wets your whistle then wander to Matt's website www.evilbearwargames.com splash some cash and get some cool toys!

Kings of war, Kingdom of men update

So with the battlemasters torney over at the dice devils rapidly approaching I've started to make some great progress with the Kingdom of Men Army.

In the last couple of weeks I've added another unit to the army,

With the glorious weather that the UK has had over the last 3ish weeks my painting has really dropped off as I've been out and about doing various things with the GC, however finishing off these guys has given me a new lease of life and I've already started on the second Cav unit as well as the pike men.

Mantic have also sent out the PDF to the 2nd ed to the backers so I've now got an actual list that I can work from for the army, It's going to involve an allies detachment from the basilean list  as the black guard I had originally marked them as a penitents unit with the Iman being a priest to whip them into a frenzy!

So this is what I've got either painted or planned...

Penitent Mob (20) - 100
Priest - 75

Spear Phalanx horde - 200
Pike Block regiment - 135
Pike Block regiment - 135
Arquebusiers regiment - 135
Knight regiment - 195
Knight regiment - 195
Mount Sergeant regiment - 160
Mount Sergeant regiment - 160
Mounted scout troop - 100
Mounted scout troop - 100
Cannon - 85
Cannon - 85
General on winged beast -  190
The Captain - 150

so that lovely lot is 2200 point without shiney items. Assuming that this is something along the lines of the final list I've a mere 6 units to sort out so shouldn't be a problem, I just need to stop getting distracted by other stuff painting wise!

however as the army increases in size this is what the whole lot looks like so far, 

The lunchtime chit chat with some of the guys from last years battlemasters is actually becoming reality!

However question to the masses is that would you change anything on the above army list, and if so why?

Barrage 2015

So today I wandered over to the Barrage Wargaming Show over at Stafford,

I was contacted by one of the guys who organises the show asking if the club wants to be involved and asked for the Predator temple board, so who was I to say no!

I hooked up with Prodos Rob and went for it.

So I managed to snap a few pictures on a quick walk around before the demo's started kicked off!

Phil going all lardy da with the modern board and all that jazz!

A cracking looking Dust game, Lovely looking models. No idea how it plays though!! 

Nick working hard on the Macrocsom, I was have a good mooch at the new releases that are coming up and they look superb! Check out more of his stuff... www.macrocosm.co.uk its well work a look!

 

The guys over at clockwork goblin showing off there wares, can't wait for these guys to release there bolt action cross over rules next year

 

A great looking empire of the dead table, 

 

yep its that dropzone table again, and it looks wicked still! 

 

 

A huge 40K game with about 5K's work of models! 

 

WW1 chain of command table, loved the barbed wire!

  

Bolt action torney action! 

X wing torney action, spot the prizes... quite Ironic... 

And Kris actually working for once!

So this was the first time that I'd done this particular show and it was alright, I was busy all day running the demo's so didn't get a chance to have a good look around and see the traders up close and only part way through the day did I find out that there was a second trade type hall.

Overall it was ok, nice weather, men's tennis final properly didn't help so the punter count felt quite low to the point that some traders had up and gone by 3:00.

So loot wise my pledge of buy nothing gaming related went out the window and I picked up these guys...

as well as a Judge Dredd rule book. So that means that dredd is back on the radar!