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Thanks both.
With the trays when I was trying to decide if to go goblin green, black, or flock and blend them into the table I had the notion of colour co-ordinating them with the uniforms.
I have colour co-ordinated dice for each unit so maybe the movement trays can match the uniforms too.
I tried it and decided to stick with it.😀
There is no benefit game wise to it, my unit cards help me know what the stats are for each unit:
It is purely for the visual look of it all.
Cheers, I really can’t get on with the MiniRat sculpts…
Anywho, finally finished the Kanone Battery.
Proper photo to come.
Changed the shield, happier now. Still not happy happy mind, but happier… I guess it is my first try so they can only get better…
I did.
TY.Crew can be targeted and killed whilst the cannon may survive.
Also the cannon could misfire and explode but the crew may live.This allows situations in which you may have guns with missing crew and crew with an exploded gun, as such the spare crew can be re-deployed.
So…. I painted some Undead, played a game and they were much less crappy than the previous warband, potentially good enough I may be able to win some games!!
BUT…They did not speak to me, so after much faffing about I have a plan.
I will use the Reikland warband rules but paint the troops as Stir River Patrol.
This means I can use Stirland colours and motifs without the huge problems the Stirland warband comes with.I have all the models I need and have started painting them:
I have added more pictures of units and more background about them to The Empire Forces page.
Go explore!!
https://angelbarracks.co.uk/index.html
Thanks peeps.
I decided to make new unit cards. They are bigger but they have more information on them and this will mean less looking up rules on the cheat sheets.
Draft print of the new one.
I have ditched the blog, it was a PITA to get it how I wanted and it was costing money to host.
So I killed it.I have been re-doing my Angel Barracks site and that will now be where my 10mm WFB lives!!
Cheers, not so keen on terrain that can’t move being used as a unit filler, seems wrong that walls and fences follow the unit around the battlefield. I know many do this, but it does not work for me… Sorry.
Regimental Bear:
Cannons In Stirland?
Bit posh innit?So yeah, this is possibly a very valid point.
Can Stirland afford lots of cannons and the like, it is known for being the poorest province in the Empire.
Initially I painted my artillery as Talabheim because of that reason, but..Yes, the people of Stirland are poor AF.
But the nobles less so, and I did read that some of the boats of the Stir River Patrol have cannons on their decks.So I figured if the SRP boats have them, and given Wurtbad is the wine capital of the Empire and believe it or not has a semi decent tourist trade, I figured the capital will be able to afford a few.
It has the same ‘wealth value’ as Wissenberg, Talabheim, Wolfenburg and other Imperial capitals.I am also toying with the idea that within Stirland the various landed nobles of significant wealth are each responsible for having and maintaining a certain number of cannon each.
This will I suspect turn into a sort of competition in which the nobles trying to garner favour from Alberich Haupt-Anderssen.
As such they invest what they have into making sure they have at least one very nice pretty artillery piece, this concentration of monies means of course the peasants and regular troops get less funding.This seems apt for the Empire and Stirland.
So yeah, let Stirland have some big guns, I will get painting them soon…
Last week my 3d printer started failing prints and no matter what I have done to try and fix it, they keep failing.
So I ordered some Kallistra and they have just arrived.
I will be replacing the Talabheim artillery with new Stirland ones.
Adding some crossbowmen as I don’t have any!!
Replacing some early Stirjaeger with new ones and bulking up my Aversgard.
Not sure what that is?
It is not the end of the world.
The undead will be quicker and easier to paint, and I still have WFB for my Stirland fix!We played a test game today. The Stirland Cleric is pretty bad. The woodsmen with the 2 handed axes are poor. Very poor. My captain with a 2 handed weapon is poor.
Turns out double handed weapons are not good, and my ‘wizard’ is not good.
I love Stirland and want this to work, but I have been reading, double checking and asking around in Mordheim FB groups and alas I have had to retire my warband before we start.I love the theme but after the play testing and feedback, it seems clear that I will struggle to win anything, which will make playing less fun.
So I am ‘resurrecting’ the warband Samantha was going to use.
I will be playing The Restless Dead…
Cheers, not so keen on terrain that can’t move being used as a unit filler, seems wrong that walls and fences follow the unit around the battlefield.
I know many do this, but it does not work for me…Sorry.
Yeah should look a lot more like a battle with proper big units.
Shame I never did it in 6mm….Any plans for more ‘filler’ bases
Plans no?
Has it happened by accident?
Yes!
4 models failed on the print bed and I could not be bothered to re-do them, so another Stirland filler.Ideas?
😀
So…. After doing that big unit of 35 compared to my normal units of 20, I have decided to make all my units 35 strong.
1: I think it looks better.
2: It will be easier to move units about as there will be fewer of them.
3: It actually increases their HTH effectiveness.
4: (And this is the main reason). It has allowed me to combine some of my Talabheim units into each other, and this reduces the amount of non Stirland units of the table without losing whole units.
I have merged my 2 units of 20 Talabheim pike into one unit, thus halving the amount of Talabhiem pike in the army.
This will soon result in there being a very clear majority of Stirland troops.I have just printed another unit of 35 Helblitzen.
Pics in a day or two.
I have braved it.
Started painting my first 25mm in about 30 years.
Not great but a promising start…If I leave my main man until last he should turn out ok by the time I have practiced on the rest.
Thanks, I have updated a few of the pages but not put any new ‘posts’ up, so not sure if the RSS finds that?
Cheers, I will be adding them to my 10mm website with some fluff soon.
I may make a base for my 2 Talabheim pike units and combine them into 1 bigger unit.
I like big bases and I cannot lie.Thanks for the replies.
I used to min/max but maybe that was an age thing?For now I am defo more interested in the experience than the winning.
I know, fortunately the people I am now playing with are less about the min-maxing and more about the cool stuff.
I do like that with Mordheim for example the rules try to capture the flavours of the different parts of The Empire for each provincial warband.
Just a shame that WFB does not do that.Except for Sally yes.
Martyn is a favourite old model, from when GW had the Eternal Champion license.
That is Count Smiorgan Baldhead.Markus is a bit of a conversion.
Started with a lime mortar base coat, drybrushed the grey stone, block coloured everything then gave it all my customary brown inkwash.
Then picked out wood grain, & tiles, & so on…
Next to add a broken sail/mast/pole/axle/arm.
Then to make a terrain base thing for it..
Cheers all, a change of pace now.
Started work on a ruined windmill. Paint the lime mortar first, ready to drybrush over it in grey stone.
Thanks, yeah the weapons are bonkers.
My issue with the legs is they are too long.
The model, the legs are 2.00 the size of its body:
It irks me… 😀
