Greetings all and welcome to our first post!
So here we are all set to play our 2nd game in 20 years of 5th edition fantasy battle at the end of this month. Christ what have I been up to!
A pillar of the Middlehammer community has put together a gaming day at Bristols premier gaming establishment BIG and boy does it look good. Several very active members of the Facebook groups will be in attendance and I couldn't say no to throwing my hat into the ring!
But what a conundrum I faced. What army would I take?
My dilemma is that I only like to use painted miniatures, and due to the attrition of the passage of time most of my painted armies have gone to new homes. I started to look at the options I had available to me with the dregs of painted units hidden away in the dark spider infested corners of my attic!
I cracked open several boxes and starting with my Orc and Goblin army I thought I would be on a winner with, I was disappointed to find I have only 800 points painted (bloody cheap massed infantry grrrrrrrr.).
Moving onto my Empire miniatures I had a few more options, but again I had a large number of Halflings and that brought the points back down...... 900 ish points.
So I dragged out my Dark Dwarves (Chaos Dwarf Alternatives) not expecting to have very much I could use that was painted.
Well stone the crows it doesn't take many miniatures to hit 1500 points! The picture above is about 80% of the painted miniatures I have now. So lets look at what I am planning to take and what still needs painting.
Painted
30 Blunderbuss armed Dwarves. Well once equipped with a shield these are 15 points each and thats 450 points of painted blasty goodness right there.
10 Warriors, again this is another 140 points.
2 Lords and a Mage. These can get really expensive tooled up but lets say 375 points (25%) of the total force.
4 Rocket Launcher teams rocking in at 300 points.
This forms the core of the force. But then I can take Goblins in the army too so this then allows me to bring in those cheap massed infantry I talked about before.
So I have enough painted miniatures to take to the event without having to put too much effort into preparing.
Im going to spend the next few days pouring over the army books to see if there is anything I want to take (I feel drawn to the earthshaker!) and if I can fit it into my crammed hectic timetable I shall.
If you have any advise for a noob then let me know. How would you run yours!
Oh and yes the bases on the Chaos Dwarves are wrong, but the chaps in the group are really forgiving and are allowing it to slide this time so long as I use the correct template size for the blunderbuss units I take. What a decent bunch.
