Portable Fenn's Table

So I've started to build a portable Trollblood's Fenns Table. Ideally this will be suited to Warmahordes, small games fo Warhammer, Malifaux, Wrath of Kings and any other Fantasy styled skirmish game. I've used 5mm ply and 19mmx65mm pine for support and surrounding framework. A couple of hinges, handles and catches and voila. Now I've made the structure I've just got to do the scenic base and stain the framework and backside.

Display table with cork and my special 50/50 crushed pumic beach sand mix and 1 bottle of PVA later.

Path of Hirst Arts molded pavestones ends in the middle, there will be a small stream probably running through the middle.

And the other side. Corkboard jutting up against the path.

This is going to be a marshy area. I will likely add some more sand and paint before adding some water effects clear resin.

Hinge support and nice strong hinges.

Most likely have nice grassy expanses in these areas. The cork will be grey slate.

Another top down view of the road.

And the other side

The whole table contained and locked. Looks good if I don't say so myself.

And a picture of the whole thing, can be put away for use and carried in the car boot.

The underside. Contemplating adding some material to cap the end to make it look pretty.

He's Back and Metal as ever!

I'm so excited. Out of the wilderness of 40k shite and pointy ears finally something real to sink my teeth into.

No not him

HIM!!! Cue Bill & Ted impromptu guitar solo. Image from twitter!

8th ed. High Elf list, 1st try.

Ok, I've been challenged to run a gamey B*****d high elf list with BOTWD. Swapping armies with Hamish. I don't actually have any models. This is what I came up with. It's a high mobile shooty list with lots of White Lions to wreck people's hobbies.
 

Loremaster of Hoeth
    Blade of Leaping gold
    Golden Crown of Atrazar
    Shield of the Merwyrm
I might swap out for Talisman of preservation and Book of Hoeth, still umming and ahhing, but this thing is gold.


Lothern Sea Helm
    BSB, longbow, Banner of Eternal Flame
Free reform when charged, yes please. Flaming attacks, yes please.

Mage
   High Magic (Soul quench)
   Khaine's ring of fury
   Dispel Scroll
 Pew...Pew...Dispel!


2x 15 Archers
   Musician
Pew...Pew... die.


3 x 5 Ellyrian Reavers
   Musican
   Bows
Pew...Pew... runaway!


30 White lions
   Full command
   Banner of Swiftness
In your face 6" movement... BAM! Hammertime!


28 White lions
   Full command
   Banner of the World Dragon
I am the indestructeable Anvil!

3 x Bolt Throwers
Pew...Pew...Pew... TAKE IT OFF!


2 x 1 Eagles
March block...redirect...flee...support flanking...still the best chaff in the game.  

What do you think?

Epic Side Boob

From Warhammer Forge open Day

Oh Baby!

So pretty.

Big games day down at the club tomorrow 1200 points

Having a bit of a Daemonic incursion tomorrow down at the local. goods versus evil, lots of 1200 pts fantasy battles going on. 1000pt 40k games going on. Free for members, $5 for non-members. Food available at canteen.

http://kapitiwargamesclub.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/unspeakable-things-are-coming-warpstorm.html

Pictures of Natcon

Nick Staring down Fern's Goblin horde. Photo by Mike King,

Mike King has posted up Pics so I have added some of them them to my game descriptions.


Posts are here:


Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Daemonic Instability, my Lovely Wife and Nurgle.

One Skaven/Chaos Warrior/High elf Player I know and I have been having a "debate" about daemonic Instability. Is it the difference between your dice roll and your leadership - the combat modifiers in combat or is it the combat modifiers modified to your leadership and then you roll.  Well it appears it is the second. Just to add a little more oomph to the discussion my wife, bless her, decided to email one of the playtesters Ben Curry about clarifying the changes to ease her poor soul;

Hi Ben,

I'm hoping you can give a poor wife her sanity back, and help my husband and his mates settle something...  They've all started talking about how the new daemonic instability works, and whether combat results modify the leadership prior to rolling the 2D6 or not.  Personally, I quite like the idea of my husband losing vast quantities of wounds, and don't like the idea of his maximum wounds loss being limited to 11 or so, but I figured for marital harmony, I might as well ask.  It doesn't seem particularly clear, so I was wondering if either you've already discussed this and we've all managed to miss it, or whether there's a chance it could be slipped in to a future podcast?
Here's hoping I can go back to focusing on my night goblins and learning the more indepth rules of the game instead of listening to endless debates!

Thanks so very much in advance! 

Fern Campbell

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Sam & Fern Campbell
Our Miniature Wargaming BlogI get a text from my friend saying that my wife's question was on the podcast bad dice daily. Not to mention Pete Dunn mentioned it in his blog fields of blood a few weeks back.

Fast forward to last night against Sam's Chaos Dwarfs. So it appears to work a little like this. Sam's Infernal guard and K'dai Destroyer charge my Beasts of Nurgle. They end up doing 8 wounds + 2 ranks + charge + standard. My Great Unclean one was within 18"  so I need to roll a 0 basically but at the moment I'm losing by 11. I roll a double 1 and get all my models back, I then proceed to lose 2 wounds due to me rolling 2 above my altered leadership. next combat was the same, I rolled double 1s again. on the thrid combat he ended up getting me down again to 0 Leadership although I was losing by 10, I roll a 4 and only lose 4 wounds even though I was losing by 9 -11, which was -2 leadership, since any leadership characteristic can not be lower than 0 or higher than 10, my losses capped out whereas in last edition I would have lost more wounds. This is a major change for Daemons and makes them infinitely more surviveable against a significant number of attacks like witch elves, savage orcs, etc.

Combine with the toughness denial Epidimius brings to Nurgle daemons not getting wounded and not only are you losing less models to daemonic instability overall. Expect to see more great weapons.

Easter Chaos in Progress

Keeper of Secrets.

 

Hamish's Dragon Price number 1

Hamish's Dragon Prince number 2

Throgg and his Cloak, gap took a tonne of greenstuff.

Natcon Wrapup: End of Day 3

Bowling into the last day I was tied for 1st with Mal. Forgot to take pictures as was really bloody tired.

Round 7
Mal Patel (Lizardmen) 7-13- This basically ended up in us taking 1 objective each and Mal Shooting the crap out of one of my bloodletter units. and cleaning out my chaff. Things did not start well when he final transmutated my general in the first turn. gg 6 dice. Ah well. Managed to hold on to a 5 point objective with a beast of Nurgle, taking my points of objectives to 25/30 for the weekend.

Not much left of my Bloodletter horde. Photo by Mike King

I was kind of hoping my Bloodcrusher and fiend would deal some damage to Mal's Scar Vet. Photo by Mike King

Round 8
Aaron Hodson (Ogres) 13-7 - I love it when Mournfangs and Iron blasters bounce. Right off a bloodletter horde. BOING! 2nd best moment was when my Beast of Nurgle ate his Stonehorn mano e mano. We only got to turn 4 and I purple sun misfire and dimensional cascaded my death mage...again. And on the flank as well. Sigh. I still wasn't able to get to 1st or second place after this game but was able to with my painting points take out 3rd place.

Ogres deployed as far back as possible. Photo by Mike King

Morunfang charge furies and over run into Bloodletter unit which eats 3 Mournfangs. Yummy. Photo by Mike King

20 points for the last day wasn't too bad. I was quite surprised to hear I had gotten 3rd place with my painting tipping it in my favour as I'd only scored average on the last day. When you spend ages and ages painting your daemons it makes it all the more worth it. Very chuffed as it was my 2nd nz tournament and 2nd tournament in 10 years.

Overall

1^st: Sam Whitt (Dark Elves)

2^nd: Mal Patel (Lizardmen)

3^rd: Samuel Campbell (Daemons of Chaos)

Best Sport: Brendon Johnston (Beastmen)

I didn't get to even speak to Brendon the whole tournament and wasn't matched up against him, but I hear he was a really good player to go up against.

Best Army: Charlie Lloyd (Tomb Kings)

Loved Charlie's army it was the only army that you could pick out from the other side of the room and had excellent colour selection.

Butcher:

1^st: Simon Switzer (Dwarf’s)

2^nd: Mark Skilton (Vampire Counts)

Last: Fern Campbell (Orcs and Goblins)

Simon has the goods to take a lot of damage from all his oppenents. I had to use all of my daemony goodness to destroy his army. It was brutal.

The missus had tonnes of fun and I might get her to do some summaries of her battles. She's the top ranked female in the country though. She has mentioned she got more awards than I did on multiple occassions (bringing a knife to a gunfight and doing the most damage to her own army). As Jeff said "He didn't have the balls to take a night goblin only army to a tourney", she replied "neither did I".

The final totals were

Player Name	Army	Battle Point Total	Sports Total	Painting Total	Overall Total
Sam Whitt	Dark Elves	116	20	16.5	76.25
Mal Patel	Lizardmen	112	20	14	73
Samuel Campbell	Daemons of Chaos	101	20	15.5	68.25
Jeff Kent	Lizardmen	101	20	12	66.5
Mark Skilton	Vampire Counts	94	20	18	66
Hamish Gordon	Skaven	91	20	11	61
Bo Paterson	Lizardmen	85	20	15.5	60.25
Simon Switzer	Dwarfs	89	20	11	60
Stuart Robinson	Warriors of Chaos	79	20	12.5	55.75
Darren Smucar	Ogre Kingdoms	79	20	12	55.5
James Millington	Warriors of Chaos	77	20	13	55
Neil Williamson	Dwarfs	79	20	10.5	54.75
Aaron Hodson	Ogre Kingdoms	75	20	12	53.5
Brendon Johnston	Beastmen	72	20	12	52
Nicholas Jebson	Orcs and Goblins	64	20	12	48
Charlie Lloyd	Tomb Kings	43	20	15.5	39.25
Joel McNelly	Warriors of Chaos	42	20	16	39
Fern Campbell	Orcs and Goblins	16	20	14	25

Player Name	Army	Victory Point Total
Simon Switzer	Dwarfs	14313
Mal Patel	Lizardmen	13660
Mark Skilton	Vampire Counts	12084
Sam Whitt	Dark Elves	12018
Bo Paterson	Lizardmen	11599
Darren Smucar	Ogre Kingdoms	11392
Samuel Campbell	Daemons of Chaos	10501
Neil Williamson	Dwarfs	9690
Nicholas Jebson	Orcs and Goblins	9422
Hamish Gordon	Skaven	9400
Jeff Kent	Lizardmen	9177
James Millington	Warriors of Chaos	8796
Brendon Johnston	Beastmen	8762
Aaron Hodson	Ogre Kingdoms	7599
Joel McNelly	Warriors of Chaos	7501
Stuart Robinson	Warriors of Chaos	5580
Charlie Lloyd	Tomb Kings	5154
Fern Campbell	Orcs and Goblins	4487

Natcon: End of day 2

Day 2 and I had almost no sleep. Insane insomnia. Coffee and toast and ready to go.

Round 4
Mark Stilton (VC) 10-10 Meeting Engagement. Mark was a very polite and confident player. For the whole game I threw chaff under his Giant Nightmare Collossus and ended up purple sunning his BSB and black knights, churning through his Ghouls with my 'letters.

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Round 5

The Amicable Simon. Photo by Me.

Photo By Me

Simon Schwitzer (Dwarfs) 16-4 Blood Glory. All fun and games and lots of laughter for first 3 turns and then we got down and dirty and it got intense for 3 turns. It ended in a Massive combat in the centre of the field with lots of flanking and chargers. Dwarf hordes with great weapons hit very bloody hard. You got to kill a lot of them before they can hit back. Simon hates my dice but it was one of my most fun games of the weekend. Highlight of the game was purple sunning my own mage after getting a flank shot on Simon's neatly lined up army.

The Dorf Gunline before my charge. Note the casualties in my second unit of Bloodletters Photo by Mike King

Charge! Photo by Mike King

Getting down and dirty. Lots and lots of flank Charges. Photo by Mike King

...and not so many Dwarfs now. Photo by Mike King

Round 6
Jeff Kent (Lizardmen) 16-4 Battle for the Pass. Oh Shit, lizard on a long table edge. It turned out to a massive bonus for me. My Bloodcrusher brought home the bacon andcapitlisaed on Jeff confusing himself on flee reactions and me actually making some of the chargers. His 2nd Slann dimensional cascaded himself on first turn and his other Slaan tried to purple sun me a couple of times. I got tied up a bit with one unit With all of his shooting and fleeing and movement so we only got 4 turns in and I probably would have gone close to tabling if we got to the end of 6th.

Photo by Me.

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher on 1 wound dealing to some skinks. Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher 1 and 2 charging in. Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher Single handedly taking on all of Jeff's Skinks. Photo by Mike King

Round 7
Table
1	Sam Whitt	Hamish Gordon
2	Neil Williamson	Bo Paterson
3	Simon Switzer	Aaron Hodson
4	James Millington	Mark Skilton
5	Darren Smucar	Fern Campbell
6	Charlie Lloyd	Joel McNelly
7	Mal Patel	Samuel Campbell
8	Nicholas Jebson	Brendon Johnston
9	Jeff Kent	Stuart Robinson

Below are the current standings

Player Name	Total
Mal Patel	81
Samuel Campbell	81
Sam Whitt	80
Jeff Kent	74
Hamish Gordon	73
Stuart Robinson	73
Simon Switzer	72
Mark Skilton	68
Aaron Hodson	63
James Millington	59
Nicholas Jebson	57
Neil Williamson	55
Bo Paterson	51
Brendon Johnston	50
Charlie Lloyd	42
Darren Smucar	41
Joel McNelly	28
Fern Campbell	12

Natcon: End of day one

Dawn Day 1 - Guess what - Dawn Attack!

End of day one and it's been a hoot. Played versus Jeff McNelly's Chaos Warriors, Hamish's Skaven (again) and Sam' Dark Elves. Mike King has sent  out the games for next round along with standings. I've come out pretty good against the 2 hardest lists (39/60).

Night Gobbos and Daemons ready for the Tournament.

Round 1

20-0 vs Jeff (dawn attack), Joel had a themed chaos warrior army based on greek mythology, made a change from all the GW miniatures you see. I managed to outmanouvre him and get off some great charges and he had terrible luck with eye of gods, rolling triple 1's on eye of the gods and turning his general into a Spawn. I don't think Joel would ever have a worse game and I possibly would ever have a better game.

 3 out of 6 of Joel's Chaos Chariots of Greek Mythology. Photo by Mike King

Daemons are ready to have Greek for breakfast.Photo by Mike King

Very nice looking army. Photo by Mike King

Round 2
13-7 versus Hamish(watchtower). Somebody help me. Freekin' Skaven. At least I was going up against Hamish in my favourite scenario against him. I ended up bunkering in the watchtower and minimising losses where Hamish could never beat me in the tower.
 

Ready to take on the Skaven. Photo by Me.

Round 3
6-14 versus Sam(battleline). Cold one Death Star is annoying, it went from a draw to a loss in the last turn when he finally charged his cold ones into my beaten down bloodletter unit. other than that it was dancing around the board for the rest.

Sam's Night Elves. Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

The missus is having tonnes of fun rounding up the bottom half. She's had some terrible luck. She is now officially the top female warhammer player in New Zealand.

Round 4
Table
1	Mal Patel	Bo Paterson
2	Sam Whitt	Jeff Kent
3	Brendon Johnston	Fern Campbell
4	Samuel Campbell	Mark Skilton
5	James Millington	Aaron Hodson
6	Darren Smucar	Nicholas Jebson
7	Simon Switzer	Joel McNelly
8	Stuart Robinson	Hamish Gordon
9	Neil Williamson	Charlie Lloyd

Player Name	Total
Sam Whitt	48
Jeff Kent	46
James Millington	42
Aaron Hodson	39
Samuel Campbell	39
Mark Skilton	38
Stuart Robinson	34
Hamish Gordon	33
Mal Patel	33
Bo Paterson	31
Simon Switzer	28
Joel McNelly	25
Neil Williamson	24
Charlie Lloyd	22
Darren Smucar	20
Nicholas Jebson	18
Brendon Johnston	16
Fern Campbell	4