Full Circle...

 hi all,

As the title suggests, this blog and myself have come full circle. For a long, long time I've resisted the allure of mass battle wargames, considering myself more of a skirmish type player. The advantages are the low model count which often mean a cheaper buy in, with a lot of the games publishing the rules to the games online - for free! something GW did with the earlier AoS stuff but have since gone back to their corporate ways of charging through the a**e for everything. I mean why have one rulebook when you can have three and army books and compendiums and FAQs.

But....

My very first draw into this hobby was Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd ed. This blog was started due to me being drawn back into Warhammer (8th I think? what was Island of Blood?). Last week, I was at the Thanet Wargaming Club (TWC)  minding my own business, playing a game of Malifaux, which I was totally intending to blog about. When the table next to mine started laying out a game of The Old World! I could have resisted, until one of the players began deploying High Elves...

They were magnificent, the ranks of spearmen, the deadly archers, eagle claw bolt throwers. I was smitten, I imagined charging my own high elves into the filthy beastmen, cleansing the board of their chaos taint and preserving the sanctity of Ulthuan. HOOK. LINE. SINKER.

So it was fitting that I dust off my Silver Host, prime the remaining figures, and start painting. Thankfully there are less than 20 miniatures left and it shouldn't be long before I get the whole lot on the table. Except, the paint I used for the colour scheme have dried up... Now I've got to wait for replacements to finish them, but at least I can get the bulk of the colours completed in the mean time.

No pictures for today then, but I will link the first few blog posts below so you can see some of the minis that will make up the army. Now I need to download the rules and army books to read up on the mighty elves.

early posts

hope you enjoy

dGG