Star Wars Legion: Inferno Squad and Imperial Special Forces

 A few more cheeky additions to my Galactic Empire Army:

Inferno Squad

Imperial Special Forces

A different way to run the army, this with Iden Versio at the helm and relying on accurate blaster fire rather than the wall of doom that is the Dark Troopers haha

He-Man Miniatures Game: The Evil Horde Wave 4!

 Been rather busy this week so its taken till now to get the last of these finished and ready for gaming:

Hordak and Shadow Weaver

Katra and Grizzlor

Evil Trees!

Horde Troopers

Horde Wraiths

Superb minis as we have come to expect from Archon's MoTU line and i cant wait to get some games in with them down the club.

Conquest: Fireforged!

Here's the last of my current stockpile of Dweghom painted, a unit of Fireforged:

A second ranged unit for the force, shorter ranged than the Ballistae but more powerful shots hehe. Dweghom can make quite a significant gunline but I'm going with one shooting unit per warband as all the gunz is not my style to be honest.

This gives me 1000pts points painted now, and I'm looking forward to a game on Wednesday with both sides fully done as my City states opponent is also fully painted and raring to go! 

Conquest: Hold Warriors

 Next up for the Dweghom are a unit of Hold Warriors:

The basic unit type for the army, starting off as just a bit tanky but able to be buffed up to something quite filthy haha... I will need another block of these down the line to camp on objectives!

Spotlight: WIP Games and Miniatures

Something a little different today as last night i got to play On Bloody Ground - The Norman Conquest, with my friend Dave Toone, Co-founder of WIP Games and Miniatures.

Dave, along with his son Dan have been working on a modern historical wargames ruleset for the last few years, and now have their first title "The Norman Conquest for preorder and delivery is expected sometime in the next week or so.

They have been posting regular updates on their facebook page with battle reports and rules breakdowns etc, and also their vast swathe of beautifully painted armies!

So here are a few pics of the game, id not seen Dave for a few months so a lot of the evening was spent chatting away haha, but we got through three turns before having to pack up:

 

For our game we had a matchup of Vikings (Commanded by Dave) arrayed against Normans (Commanded by me!) in a standard 2000pts game. Dave went through deployment and army setup before we cracked on with turn 1!

What sets this apart from other similar sized games such as Kings of War or Hail Caesar is the use of command points to interrupt the standard flow of the game to allow you to steal the initiative from your opponent and force decisive combats etc.. these are a limited resource and will go quickly, more so if your general gets caught haha.

My game was great fun and I'm looking forward to getting my own Norman or Spanish Christian army built and painted... The lads next book is covering the Reconquista era and all the colorful forces that entails! Overall On Bloody ground is heartly recommended for history buffs and casual gamers alike, you wont be disappointed  in it. 

Conquest: Hold Ballistae

Next up for the army is a unit of Hold Ballistae, light missile troops that will be amongst the first units in the army on the board and can engage the enemy from distance:

Really pleased how they turned out, and the next regiment is on the paint station ready to get started with! 

Conquest: Dweghom Dragonslayers!

 Finished off my first actual regiment for my Dweghom army with these mighty Dragonslayers:

My favourite looking and playing unit in the whole range haha, proper tanky and with massive damage output! On with the next one now.