Friday 25 August 2017

Anomaly Protocol. Mutant Mechanicus - part 6


Old Boilerplate and The Dragon stride (well, hobble) into the Sump War below Mancunius Dome with Datasmith Hagel. Ancient, rusty and broken Kastelan Robots, with many parts repaired and replaced. Hagel's charges have developed a kind of personality over the years. Even though the have no true faces they express their opinions of the orders they are given very clearly through looks and shrugs and other body language: They are insolent and moody but never quite disobedient. The Dragon is far too fond of using his incendine combustor.

The Dragon





Old Boilerplate





Anomaly Protocol. The Mutant Mechanicus warband so far:


Monday 21 August 2017

Anomaly Protocol. Mutant Mechanicus - part 5


I have completed the next batch of Mutants - this time 5 Mutie Vanguard and an Enginseer.











Enginseer Tranter is the third Hero of the warband after Magos Dominus Tyloc Greften Haug and Datasmith Hagel. He might act as the leader in smaller games.




The completed models for the warband so far. Two Kastelan Robots are getting paint now. When they are done I have a Dunecrawler and five more Muties to build, then the warband will be "complete".


Friday 11 August 2017

Anomaly Protocol. Mutant Mechanicus - part 4

The Dragon



Old Boilerplate



They both got a zenithal pre-shade (Halfords) grey, over black undercoat with some semi-random areas of Mournfang Brown (hopefully the brown will add to their general worn-out, rusty and dirty appearance). dry-brushing and washes (Shades) next.




The next 5 Mutants (Vanguard) and a Mutant Enginseer are almost painted too - hopefully I'll get a chance to finish them in the next day or two.

Monday 7 August 2017

Anomaly Protocol. Mutant Mechanicus - part 3


The Dragon

The first of two ancient Kastellan Robots that have both been damaged and repaired more times than anyone can remember.


Mutie Vanguard for scale. These 'Bots are really BIG!





Old Boilerplate

The second robot still needs something, but I'm not sure what yet...






Update: I think the "other" bit of cloth from the Gargant kit was what was missing!



Friday 4 August 2017

The Harrowmark Run - part 4

Seize the Relic (An AoS Skirmish Battleplan)
Break into the Walled Garden of Morr and steal the secret hidden there while a raging magical storm closes in and surrounds the graveyard and gets closer every minute!

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The Ogresuns
Kaptain Salty Ogbad - Orruk Warboss, Warding Glyph and Gem of Seeing
Dredger Zug - Orruk Boss
Dubloon Dreg - Orruk
Fetch - Orruk
Blackspot - Orruk
Nastyface - Orruk
Bad Hook - Orruk
Walker Plank - Grot
Stormy Trug - Grot

Free Companies of the Gilded Hand
Kalyustar of the Gilded Hand - Battlemage on Horse
Fernando's Fancy Fencers - 5 Freeguild Swordsmen
Lucius Scopos and the Venithyan Marksmen - 4 Freeguild Crossbowmen
Karol the Cuirassier - Freeguild Pistolier Outrider


(I realised I keep forgetting my artifacts and rewards, so I made some cards to remind me!)

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Looking at the sun, Ogbad estimated it was midday. The sun shone but he couldn't feel it's warmth. The forest had a strange feel about it… even stranger than normal, there was a weird crackling energy in the air. Static arced from the orruk pirate's fingers when he touched the dark greyish-brown bark of the nearby trees. The dead and fallen leaves swirled in an icy breeze and for a moment seemed to form into the shape of giant leering skulls, suspended in the air, before they whirled away again.

He glanced above him at the sliver of sky visible overhead. A huge wall of purple-grey roiling cloud was gathering to the south and west. Green lightning could be seen within it and the cloudbank was moving toward them fast.


The Ogresuns quickly got within the boundary of the Walled Garden, safe from the encroaching storm within the crude, but effective, home-made protective wards and totems.



The lead elements of the Gilded Hand got into the bounds of the Garden but the slower members of the group struggled to keep up. Kalyustar blasted Dredger Zug with an Arcane Bolt - the big Orruk Boss fell flat on his face in the mud.


The Ogresuns were stunned for a moment and the Gilded Hand took advantage - they ran into the graveyard. Their mounted leaders took up a commanding position behind the relic.



The Ogresuns were rallied by Kaptain Ogbad's roared orders and they swarmed forward...


Salty Ogbad and his Kabin Grots threw themselves at Kalyustar and Karol while the rest of the crew moved to bottle up the Gilded Hand troopers in the alleyway.


As the magical storm drew closer Kalyustar wounded Ogbad but the huge Orruk Kaptain paid him back with interest!


Blackspot led the charge into the teeth of the swordsmen and fell to a volley of crossbow bolts! Badhook killed a crossbowmen's musician and Fetch killed the Fancy Fencer's musician. But the Fencers killed Nastyface in reply.


With Kalyustar out of the picture Ogbad and the Grots turned on the Outrider.


While the crew battled with the Gilded Hand troopers, casualties were heavy on both sides.



The Grots were not much help beyond holding Karol up, but Ogbad took him down as the storm closed in on the walls of the Garden.


The Fancy Fencers finally broke through the Orruks' line as Badhook and Fetch fell. One of the crossbowmen fled as the slaughter got too much for him.



With the storm raging at the very gates of the Garden, only the crude wards and hexes kept it out, Kaptain Ogbad was unperturbed though, as the Freeguilders charged him he knocked them down one by one. Finally the last two crossbowmen saw sense, turned-tail and fled out into the storm.


The Ogresuns win! Salty Ogbad and Walker Plank gloat over their loot.


While the storm rages on beyond the wall...

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After game:

Win! (+6 Renown)
Triumph: Heroic Saga (+1 Renown)
Saved up (3 Renown)

Added an Ogor to the warband (Mr Whalebelly) for 8 Renown.
1 Renown saved for later.