BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

New Stuff Saturday! 

Rolled out early to the Dragon's Den to pick up the new Blades of Khorne Battletome and some fancy dice and a hard copy of a novel I've been listening to as an audiobook... because... REASONS! 

Then I rolled over to the Warhammer Store to pick up the new Free Miniature-of-the-Month. They were flying out of there fast. two groups walked out with them while I was locking up my bike... 

This month's mini is a Space Wolf Blood Claw. I might just give it to Orion, as she plays Space Wolves... or I may try to convert it into an Emperor's Children Infractor... as I am ONE SHORT of a unit of ten!? I guess I could just use ANY random space marine for that purpose, though... 

I should be preparing for a role-playing game or drawing my next picture for RPGaDAY... but I have a feeling this afternoon will be spent reading the new battletome!!

RPGaDAY2025 - Day One - Patron

 

There's a whole story behind her... but it's just before midnight and I have neither the time nor energy to type that out... Needless to say, she is a patron... of sorts... in an RPG campaign I am currently running..

July Games

In July, I played some games... 

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Kicking off gaming in July, we played this penultimate adventure for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City (at least, for the main campaign that came in the core box!) 

You can read the full report of the action here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Twenty-Eight - Hunt Journey

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

This ended up being the Final Assault on Radukar's Citadel ending the Cursed City campaign! We played on a Tuesday because the "Decapitation Journeys" are a bit longer and we figured we'd start it on a Tuesday (as there was nothing in particular planned) and finish it on Wednesday (our regular Warhammer Quest night). But in the end the first part went quickly enough, we decided to just finish off the adventure right then and there!

You can read the full report of the action here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Twenty-Nine - THE FINAL ASSAULT?!

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Things got rather busy after we finished up Warhammer Quest. Mostly Amanda and Morgan getting ready for their trip to England... I got busy painting things... and plotting... 

Later in the month, after Amanda and Morgan left for England, I finally got back to PLAYING games... 

(I don't know why I always forget to take pictures during role-playing games!?)

We made characters for a new soulbound campaign I'm calling "What We Do in the Realm of Shadows.

the campaign centers around a group of vampires in the Court of Blood (ostensibly serving Neferata, Mortarch of Blood)! Originally They'd held titles and land in Neferatia. During the Age of Chaos, their lands were lost to Khornate Horde. For a time they lived as refugees in Nulhamia as guests of other vampire lords, but quickly wore out their welcome and were getting pressured more and more to go and take back their ancestral lands! 

Eventually they were given leave to flee to Ulgu, Realm of Shadow, to rebuild, conquer new land and raise an army for Neferata to take back their lands. 

The group found an abandoned keep that had been built during the age of myth, but now was infested with skaven. They cleared the skaven out, and made some minimal repairs to make it livable and somewhat defensible. It is a rather shabby looking place that most passersby would still think abandoned - or HAUNTED - as many in the region do! 

Now, after hundreds of years, Neferata has called her banners and expects them to return to Neferatia with the army they have risen in Ulgu, to help purge Angaria of the taint of chaos and evict the Khornate squatters who have overstayed their welcone! 

Nick is playing Lady Esmerelda (She/her) Vampire Lord

Orion is playing Sir Raven the Dour (They/them) Blood Knight (vampire on an undead horsie) 

Finnegan is playing Sir Renmould of Sylum Field (he/him) Grave Guard (skeleton in a suit of army, magically animated, with some will of it's own and the ability to think and reason)

I'm not sure they totally leaned into making the least competent character they could have (as one might expect when one is playing a campaign inspired by What We Do in the Shadows...) but hopefully it should work out.... 

Wednesday, 23 July 2025

The very next day found me riding out to the Warhammer store to meet Orion and play some Spearhead (with the freshly painted Sand & Bone terrain bits!). I brought my Sylvaneth Bitterbark Copse and Orion had her Soulblight Gravelords Bloodcrave Hunt. As ever, her army utterly destroyed mine... 

You can read the full game report here:

Age of Sigmar: Spearhead - Sylvaneth Battling Soulblights in Shyish! 

Thursday, 24 July 2025

Thursday I rolled back out to the Warhammer store and this time I played a game of Age of Sigmar Spearhead against John, the store manager! He played with the Store's Seraphon Starscale Warhost, and I played with the Sylvaneth again! It was another crushing defeat... 

You can read the full game report here:

Age of Sigmar: Spearhead - Lizards and Trees Clash in Shyish!

There had been a Soulbound game planned for Tuesday, 29 July... but it got cancelled... 

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Back out to the Warhammer Store to play another game with John. This time I brought both Sylvaneth and Khorne armies and loaned the Sylvaneth to John to try out (he has his own but he is currently still assembling them) 

This was the tenth game I played of Spearhead. It was the first one that I did not lose... but I didn't exactly WIN it either!?

At some point, I'll post a game report... 

And that was it for the month... Two games of Cursed City, three games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Spearhead, and we made characters for a new Soulbound campaign... and then cancelled the following week... I thought I was going to get in a few more games than THAT!? Ah, well... maybe next month. 

Age of Sigmar: Spearhead - Lizards and Trees Clash in Shyish!

The day after my game with Orion, last week, I rolled back out to the Warhammer Store to play a quick game with John! I have another game planned for tomorrow, so I thought I'd best get this game report done, before I get TOO FAR behind on these again! 

John played with the store's Seraphon Starscale Warhost. Lots of BIG LIZARDS! 

All set up and ready to go. 

The Seraphon took the first turn and Kroxigors and Saurus Oldblood General (on a CARNOCAUR!) charged the Treelord and one of the units of Tree-Revenants. 

Some damage was dealt to the Treelord. The Treelord smashed on of the Kroxigor into pasted and the Carnosaur ate the entire unit of Tree-Revenants!? Even the Branchwych took some damage from... I don't know... lightning that shot out of one of the lizards fists...? Or something...? 

I think this was save rolls for the Tree-Revenants (5+ normally, but everything in the Seraphon army has at least Rend 1...) 

At the end of the turn, the Treelord and Branchwych remembered to use lay lines to heal one, then the Treelord slipped away using Strike and Fade. 

On my turn The Tree-Revenants charged the Kroxigor and finished off a second one. They charged in mostly just to prevent them and the Carnosaur from charging the Branchwych on their next turn! 

The Treelord charged one of the units of Saurus Warriors... 

Finally some completely average rolls meant the Treelord took two damage and squashed half the units of Saurus Warriors! 

CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP!  On the Seraphon's second turn the Carnosaur and remaining Kroxigor ate the second unit of Tree-Revenants... 

A second unit of Saurus Warriors charged in to join the battle with the Treelord... I kind of expected it to go more or less the same as the previous round... take a few wounds, finish off the first unit of Saurus Warriors... 

And then I started rolling again like I usually do... 

The Treelord's attacks... 

All his attacks hit on 4+ and wound on 2+... so... one hit... and then i rolled a one to wound.. 

Not. One. Wound. dealt... 

And then the Saurus Warriors chopped down the Treelord... WTF!? 

The Treelord has a 3+ Save... The Saurus DO have Rend -1, but still, that leaves the Treelord at 4+ for a save - it should, statistically, reduce the hits in half... 

They did their attacks, I could not roll anything higher than three... 

The last Kroxigor chased down the Branchwych General

and pulped her... 

The Kurnothi Hunters managed to murder a few Saurus Warriors... 

Carnosaur and General moved up... 

So the Kurnothi fucked off in a different direction using Strike and Fade, again, bringing them to where the Treelord was returning (using handy battle tactic card!) 

The Kurnothi Hunters managed to seize an objective and shoot up and finish off a Saurus Warrior unit

Treelord also managed to survive the Carnosaurs inevitable attacks and seized an objective on my last turn...

The game ended with the Seraphon winning 18-15 (which, I think, was the same score I had in Orions game the day before!?) 

While I did manage to remember to use Ley Lines a few times, it looks like i COMPLETELY FORGOT that Tree-Revenants can be brought back as reinforcements?! DOH!? 

I've wondered why the Treelord isn' the General in the Sylvaneth army. They are Heroes in regular Age of Sigmar, so they can be the General in a Sylvaneth army. I guessed maybe they didn't want to make the General TOO deadly AND hard to kill in Spearhead...? And then I played against the Seraphon... Sweet Jiminiy that Carnosaur riding Oldblood is nasty!!

Sir Renmold of Sylum Field

Sir Renmold of Sylum Field is Finnegan's character in a new Age of Sigmar: Souldbound campaign I started last week. We're using the Champions of Death book and all the Characters are UNDEAD! 

Sir Renmold of Sylum Field

Finnegan is playing a Grave Guard/Wight that serves a Vampire Lord (Nick's Character) and her Blood Knight (Orion's Character). They all live in a run down keep in Ulgu (the Realm of Shadows) that was abandoned during the Age of Chaos. The Vampires originally came from Shyish, but had to flee there when Hordes of Khorne worshippers took over their lands (now part of Angaria). 

I'm calling the campaign What We Do in the Realm of Shadows. 

The campaign began last week with a house meeting... which was interrupted by the sudden arrival, in the room, of Lady Mereneth - Neferata, Mortarch of Blood's Master of Spies! I tried to make her out like she was being played by Kristen Schaal. Lady Mereneth was wondering how their campaigns in Ulgu were going and how much of it they'd taken over and where was the army they'd promised Neferata when they left Shyish... and then informed them that Neferata was calling her banners and demanded they return to Shyish with said army as the Mortarch of Blood was planning to invade Angaria and eject the Khornate squatters who had long overstayed their welcome!

The model is the Citadel Miniatures Wight King, but I carved off the head and gave him a helmet. The main part of the helmet is a Slaves to Darkness Chaos Knight's helmet. The top hair bit is from Hedonites of Slaanesh blissbard archers helmets. 

He wanted to be in full mail with face plate to you couldn't actually see that there's just a skeleton in there.. but obviously ancient and worn rather shabby. 

Dominion of Sigmar: Timeworn Ruins

I finished up the first batch of the Dominion of Sigmar: Timeworn Ruins that I picked up last week.

Dominion of Sigmar: Timeworn Ruins

These eight bits are all the bits that DIDN'T require any sort of assembly (less one of said pieces that I used on Radukar the Beast's base!). 

There are three or four more bits that need assembling... Hopefully I will get to assembling them along with the Skull Altar and Judgements of Khorne. 

These turned out to be a bit bigger than I'd expected them to be, which is nice!

They fit in nicely with the other Age of Sigmar terrain I painted - from the Skaventide box and really "pop" on the reddish matt I'll be using for most battles on the Ravaged Coast of Aqshy!

They're big enough they might actually provide some COVER for units that hide behind them! Should they encounter an opponent with ranged attacks... I'm kind of surprised how many armies just DON'T have ANY ranged attacks!?

Skulls for the Skull... Altar...?

I rode over to my FLGS - Dragon's Den Games - and picked up a few items they'd ordered in for me... and while I was there I found they had a Lord of Khorne on Juggernaut!? So I grabbed that as well, along with some Green Stuff! 

Skull Altar, Judgements (Definiely-not-SPELLS!) of Khorne, Lord of Khorne or Juggernaut, and some Green stuff. 

I was really excited to find they still had a Lord of Khorne on Juggernaut. I think the Mighty Lord of Khorne that I have looks kind of goofy and I'd much rather my forces be led by this:

(image is © Games Workshop and used here entirely without their permission!) 

It's a pretty rad model, right!? And yet, it's been discontinued!? WHY!? 

Well here's why it's been discontinued... 

It's Finecast Resin model?!

I get they're moving these all out of production.. But why not replace them with a plastic model!?

Especially when the World Eaters have their Lord on Juggernaut and Lord Invictus!

(Next two images below are also © Games Workshop and used here entirely without their permission!) 

World Eaters Lord on Juggernaut 

World Eaters Lord Invictus 

how hard would it be to modify this model above slightly to make it a fantasy bloodbound character...?

I'm guessing they'll replace it at SOME point... but the stats won't be in the Battletome! 

One might wonder WHY I'm buying this older model when I KNOW it won't have a warscroll in the Battletome!? Because each of the Battletomes they've released for Fourth Edition has had an Anvil of Apotheosis section - which allows you to build your own characters and there are ususally options for having them mounted either on a horse or a monster - if you want to convert a general to be flying a wyvern or whatever... you can kind of do that! I don't think they're allowed for matched play (tournaments, etc) but they are fine for Paths to Glory, and that's what I'm getting ready for!!

New Blades of Khorne Battletome is out on Saturday!