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Warhammer Chaos, the Progress.

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 I have been about my business.  That business has mostly been life but when I can I sit at a small table in my bedroom/workshop and paint little plastic toy soldiers...or sometimes scale models. It varies.  I have been playing an on going series of games with a friend of Warhammer Renaissance and it has been most enjoyable indeed! Initially I assembled a High Elf army with a considerable pool of bows, Seaguard and Archers, and taught him to fight in the shade. Unfortunately he did that *very* well and mostly I lost although not without a lot of casualties within his force.  We moved on to new armies as a friend gave me a big pile of chaos models from the early 2000's and event some from the 80's. So I began raising the forces of chaos and he began assembling a force of Dark Elves. Let me introduce you to who is in the warband so far... Please say hello to Rexor, a champion of Khorne who charges into battle astride his might Juggernaut he has lovingly dubbed Blood Bi...
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A soldier, a flag, and picture...

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 I've started painting the warband.  My intent is that this portion of the larger army be Khorne oriented. In WHR you cannot give marks to soldiers, only characters, but they will have the right color so to speak. Please observe this test soldier: A single soldier filled with fury. You can tell by his pose.  Red armor, black leathers, gray cloak. Nothing special beyond what I feel is a solid table top paint job. I will have 12 of these non-gentlemen in the vanguard force and they will be the center of the army. Chaos warriors in WHR are based on the 4th/5th edition and are quite strong with two attacks and good stats across the line. They are expensive though and these are 22 points each.  I also had bits and pieces of a box of chaos marauders on foot. I kit bashed the one soldier left on the sprue with a variety of pieces and did some cuts and glues and all that model stuff. When the chirurgery was done I had my very own army standard bearer. Again, please take a lo...
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Marching to battle with Chaos...

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 I have been playing 3 or 4 games of Warhammer Renaissance a month which is a LOT of opportunity to play for me. Life is busy and often I struggle with my depression and cannot bring myself to "people" and therefore play.  The Old World rules set is getting a lot of attention for a format called Battle March, which is the Spearhead/Combat Patrol of that game. This is a good format I think. Don't get me wrong I love good large battles but sometimes you don't have time for that, and lets be real some players aren't very good at large battles.  They Can Be Slow Which can really take the fun out of the game.  Anyway, my regular opponent and I are doing small forces for WHR. Raiding forces you might say or patrol forces. 750 points with some reasonable limits that WHR rules recommend for games of 1,000 points or less. This is my planned force only just constructed, not painted. I'll try to post a work in progress photo. 
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What are we doing...

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 I started a new blog because I want to talk to the world. Then I didn't really do any posts. Life takes priority over hobby. Not really a revelation huh? I have not been hobby dead though and I've done many things. I've painted a lot of models and I've explored Warhammer Renaissance with a friend. I have *not* done a thing with building a Beastman Army...well wait let me check...okay well I did finish the army standard bearer with a paper hand painted banner. I will take a picture if I can get my shit together.  I'm going to throw a bunch of photos on this post, mostly Warhammer Ren. I'm really enjoying the move back to rank and file battle along with the less complex but more effective (imho) rules. It is a free rules set you can get from the Facebook group. I came to Warhammer Fantasy in its fifth edition and got beat up by knights for a year before I obtained a Slann Mage-Priest and turned the game around. For Warhammer Ren I've built an army of High Elv...
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First Goal Complete

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 I meant it to be a week between the first post and this second but I did not do that, which is okay, this is a fun thing and setting a goal and failing at a fun thing is fine.  I got the four Minotaurs onto 40mm round bases and my battle standard bearer painted up as shown below.  Again not the best photography but I think you can get the point. I am going to make a paper banner for my standard and I've been kicking around a variety of idea from skulls to magic runes. I also had the idea of two smaller ones hanging from each side but I have not settled yet.  Next is six Bestigors to body guard my general and follow him into battle! Also maybe I'll get that standard done too!
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A humble start...

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 ...to a "new" army.  I started a beastman army for age of sigmar but the game never really took off in my game community, sadly. I love fantasy gaming and it seemed like a rich game setting but I think people were put off by the kind of rocky rules as was I. But with a small emerging interest in Warhammer: The Old World I think I have a chance to finish a small band of chaos monstrosities and use them a few times. This blog is planned to be the diary of that progress. I intend to do an entry at least weekly showing progress and talking about the army.  So lets start out with what I have mostly done, what I want to add, and what that looks like work wise.  Forgive the photo quality, I'm no photographer and I have no good light space for this stuff so you get crappy photos but they *should* convey what is there. This is what is painted or started and you can see most of it is done. I've got a nice mob of four 1985 GW Minotaurs on the back left there and my leadership ...
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