WAP Hobgoblins vs Vampires

 My first game using the revised hobgoblin book did not go well.  As you will see this was a short and brutal affair so this is a very brief battle report of lowlights and highlights.

I had my dire wolf unit led by Ghazrak fail to make a charge against the blood knights who were in turn charged and fled after two rounds of combat.

The lahmia vamp on her blood throne wagon steamrolled through my spears led by a bsb, shaman lord and an assassin!

The best performing unit was my wolves who marched up the extreme left flank and took out a few speed bumps but the loss of the centre meant I lost in two turns.

Not a great result but the game looked awesome.

Hobgoblin Lords

With a WAP games day coming up I decided it was as time to repaint a couple of legendary Hobgoblin Lord minis. The plan was to build a suitable ride for our beloved leader the Great Hobgoglah Khan and to add another hero to “help” rule the steppe.

Painting used a variety of speed and contrast paints over a white undercoat.

My favourite piece is a 3d printed wolf that I have built a howdah out of shields and insulation strips for the “fabric” on the sides of the wolf. 

As this is the personal ride of the Great khan his barded wolf has a couple of GW skeleton spear added to represent the additional save and status of its rider.

The wolf rider lord is one of my favourite minis and he will be out front leading his unit.

No idea who this old school WAP list will go tomorrow but I am sure fun will be had by all.

 

Chaos Lord of Nurgle

With less than a week before a 2000 point WAP tournament, I have finished this Lord of Nurgle to lead my Death Guard Warriors of Chaos.

The model uses parts of the Lord Felthius with a suitably Nurgle head swap. 

The weapon is a black orc axe with the orc symbols hacked off. As I will be using this bro as Valnir the Reaper, I added the chain to represent his flail.

The left arm is a mix of a Nurgle mutation and a length of spiky mutation from a tzeentch kit.

Painting used death guard green with lots of brown and skin washes. The boils are a yellow green with red base. Since I liked how the boils came out I used the same scheme for his “eye”.

I used a deep red on his cloak to differentiate him from the others in the army who tend to stick with leather and brown for their cloth.

As my death guard infantry are oversized tor their bases, I decided to put him on the column as the size of his terminator armour meant there was no way he was fitting on a 25mm base.

I am very happy with how he came out and as I have been unable to fit in any practice games I don’t know how we will go but at least he looks cool.

Pusgoyle Blightlords

Another unit for my Nurgle WAP army is finished - the mighty Pusgoyle Blightlords.

The minis all come from warhammer 40k death guard kits with additional ogre and orc bits.

For the Blightlords I did some head and weapon swaps to the bodies from the Lord Felthius and his Tainted Cohort set. The rot flies use the body of the blight hauler and the bloat drone “wings”.

I kept the exposed “flesh” the same pink and purple colours of the mutations as a contrast to the drab armour.

The Blightlords all use great weapons so one of them wields a double headed spikes club whilst the others were “great” enough to not need further conversion.

In game terms, the rot flies can fly rather slowly and I think this conversion fits in with a slow moving plague beast.

Painting involved lots of dirty washes and some oxide paint / detail. The boils are painted with yellow green from Vallejo over a red base. 

I will use them as a flanking force backing up my units of infantry as at WAP tourney on May 20.  The army will be led by Valnir the Reaper who will be joined by his little buddy Festus.

Putrid Blightkings command group update

With a 1600 point WAP tournament coming up I decided I needed to add a command group to my existing blightkings.

Two bros volunteered for the task. The standard comes from the first edition warhammer nurgle palaquin that I had some bits of floating around.

The muso drum is from the old black orc plastic kit and fits in well. I had run out bells so a drum seemed appropriate for these walking behemoths.

Here’s the full unit together - I have squeezed in a unit of five for the tournament rocking the festering shroud.

WAP tournament

 Had a great day taking the hobgoblins to my first WAP tournament. 

My list had two heavy cavalry units with another two units of Tarkans to set scenery and war machines on fire. Two bolt throwers, a giant, a war wagon and three blocks of infantry rounded out the list. The natural choice to lead the horde of as the mighty Ghazrak Khan and his untrustworthy bro Oglah Khan second in command.

With little practice it was as always gonna be tough but three great opponents, two losses and a win and finally taking home the award for sports made for a great day.

Game 1 loss vs samurai themed wood elves

So much shooting meant my cavalry struggled to get across the board. Had fun setting the forests on fire though.

Game 2 win vs dwarfs

This one was gonna be a struggle with the lord occupying the high ground and a heap of war machines. My cav managed to get across and wipe out the war machines with my opponent very unlucky with his lord’s unit panicking.

Game 3 loss vs skarsnik and his gobbos 

It was the greenskin civil war with again my cav units struggling to survive after taking out the car at machines in my right flank. Although we managed toto cross the board, heavy magic and shooting took their toll. It was the watchtower so at least I got to set it on fire.

Lessons learnt

Need to get some magic resistance and shooting protection for the cav units and be in combat from turn 2.

Enjoyed using the war wagon although it was not very effective.

Bolt throwers are fun but lower your expectations on return.

Would love WAP to include units of the rhinox battle fortress.