This is a selection which were painted for a 1986 nationwide Battlecars competition. I painted several sets of these, and they were shipped out with terrain to each of the shops at the time. This was GW Sheffield's set. The winners of the regional heats then battled it out at Games day in the Royal Horticultural halls in Westminster, London.
And forsooth, there was Blog. And Greblord looked at it and saw that it was empty. And Greblord began...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Frostgrave Campaign #2 - Teleportation trauma
The three forces met once again, and this time the mission was to be The Keep.
I retrieved two treasures from the first game, which netted me a create Grimoire scroll, a staff of power(2) and 70gc. The created grimoire was sold for 250gc, so I bought more troops for the cause.
One level gained meant an extra point of health.
Wizard (1): Fapdalf
Apprentice: Sheena
Tracker: Glopnir
Thug: Dave
Thug: Dean
Thief: Gobby
Infantryman: Bugolas
Ranger: Gongfarabil Joogleflaps
Treasure Hunter: Alan
The Thcribes came away with four treasures and two levels. A ring of power, A Grimoire of raise zombie, a +2dmg Crossbow and a +1dmg 2H sword plus 180gp means his team are the best equipped.
Wizard (2): Thithyfuth
Apprentice: Theptethemia
Tracker: Thoothan
Tracker: Thimon
Marksman: Thtirling
Knight: Ther Thirrill
Treasure Hunter: Thiriuth
Thief: Thethill
Thug: Thparrow
Charlie had another victory and took away three treasures. Oli got two, with his added secret treasure, and the two centre treasures were taken by me, with judicious use of fleet feet, fast act and jump.
More fun soon.
The warbands were restructured as follows.
Greblord: Fapdalf's foragers
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One level gained meant an extra point of health.
Wizard (1): Fapdalf
Apprentice: Sheena
Tracker: Glopnir
Thug: Dave
Thug: Dean
Thief: Gobby
Infantryman: Bugolas
Ranger: Gongfarabil Joogleflaps
Treasure Hunter: Alan
Charlie: Theven thedithious thcribes from Thaetharea
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| 1st and 5th miniatures painted by Charlie, 3&4 from another collection. |
The Thcribes came away with four treasures and two levels. A ring of power, A Grimoire of raise zombie, a +2dmg Crossbow and a +1dmg 2H sword plus 180gp means his team are the best equipped.
Wizard (2): Thithyfuth
Apprentice: Theptethemia
Tracker: Thoothan
Tracker: Thimon
Marksman: Thtirling
Knight: Ther Thirrill
Treasure Hunter: Thiriuth
Thief: Thethill
Thug: Thparrow
Oli: The Reliqueeries
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Oli was fortunate enough to get three treasures from the first game and rolled 150gp and a grimoire for his treasure.
He went up a level (170xp) and took a point of health.
His restructured warband looked like this after the death of Infantryman Doss and the retirement of the badly injured Thief Tu. Crossbowman Trie was badly injured and out for the game.
Wizard: Gloate
Apprentice: Teeleef
Crossbowman: Wahn
Crossbowman: Tooh
Infantryman: Uno
Thief: Wonn
Apothecary: Milka
Treasure hunter: Grabbit
Knight: Sir Charge.
On to the second game then. We rolled 'the Keep', which features four teleportation discs - a barrel of laughs. On each disc there is a treasure, and there are two additional treasures in the centre of the board.
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| Starting the game |
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| Fapdalf's first Wizard phase |
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| Stranded ranger about to be mobbed |
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| Archery vs crossbows |
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| staying in cover |
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| keeping a close eye on the disc as the fast troops advance |
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| escaping with treasure as mind control wreaks havoc in the reliqueeries' lines. |
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| Mob the knight! |
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| Waiting for incoming |
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| line of sight? |
More fun soon.
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Space Marine powered hang glider scratchbuild
This was designed, created and painted by my good friend Hugh Fottrell for Golden demon in 1988. You can see it in the Fantasy Miniatures book for that year (Page 19). Based around an RTB01 plastic space marine, Hugh used parts from zoids and his considerable modelmaking skills to create this.
