Hello everyone! I'm new to the sub, but thought you might like my Marauder dwarf giant slayer. This fellow is one of my all-time favourite dwarf miniatures, but 10-yr-old me never got to buy him when he was released with the other Marauder slayers in 1993. I finally grabbed him on eBay a few years ago and painted him up. Hope you all like him as much as I do!
After some painting effort the other day I ended up with… four painted archers. Not much of a unit! So here they are again, but this time with some new pals to die in the mud beside them. Work in progress but with the “metal” done, and most of their bows sporting a bit of a gradient blend from each end to the middle, they’re looking presentable enough to call it a night.
Orks have always had the best pets, but now it seems like some new friends have come snuffling out of the undergrowth of the equatorial jungles. Knobbly-tailed little weirdos, these hungry critters will chew their way through a stone wall (or a suit of power armour) to get to a good feed!
Hashed out some rules for a jousting tournament tonight — and, as pictured here, spent a good bit of time working out all the “minigame” events which will happen in-between rounds. So we had some archers trying to shoot arrows into the butt (tee hee!) and a couple of foot knights engaging in a free-for-all melee.
There will be a strong audience participation element to the game, as represented in the last pic by the small pile of coin bet on the outcome of the archery contest, with riches to be won by the archer with the keenest eye and steadiest hand… unless a sneaky halfling gets to the gold first!
Lots of good progress was made in refining dice mechanics, removing the need for measuring, and finding those elements of the prototype which will give the most enjoyable outcome for the participants and spectators.
Apart from the butt diorama (…never not going to be funny…) I also got some new figures painted for the game, and now have a grand total of four archers for the Bretonnians. That’s nearly a whole rank!
Integrated a few of the new Squigs into the bases of some of my greenskins, and took the opportunity to finish off the foliage on a few others. Here’s everything I have based so far — not shown, at least the same amount of figures again fully painted but not yet based. A few vehicles are also on their way towards being ready for battle.