Work-in-Progress Wednesday - 4 December 2024

I've been feeling a little bored by the Work-In-Progress Wednesdays over the last few weeks... or even months...? It's been feeling less like "Work-In-Progress Wednesdays" and more like "What's-On-the-Workbench-and-NOT-being-Worked-On Wednesdays" Where I just keep posting remarkably similar photos of the same miniatures that HAVEN'T actually had any work done on them in the last week (or MONTH!?). 

So here is a shorter series of pics of stuff I've actually been working on! (there is still LOADS of the same stuff crowding the workbench that I've been taking pictures of for the last few months!) 

I have been working on some bases for miniatures I'm planning to assemble in the next bit - mostly Chaos/Darkoath Marauders and the Corvus Cabal miniatures I picked up on the weekend. 

Speaking of miniatures picked up on the weekend... 

I assembled and started on the Provisionally Prepared Ratling Sniper team. I don't often paint things in parts and then assemble... but this one seemed like I should... there have been more and more miniatures lately that I've felt, if I had the patience, it probably would have been smarter to assemble parts and paint them before putting the the whole thing together...

I also assembled and started painting Lady Annika and Kritza the Rat Prince... even though I won't be needing them for MONTHS, likely... and did NOT work on ANY of the Warhammer Quest heroes that I probably could have used this evening!?

I also started on the Slaves to Darkness Endless spells I picked up over the weekend... which is super smart, considering I don't really have any Slaves to Darkness miniatures... other than Khagra's Ravager's and Hargax's Pit Beasts... 

This is the Darkfire Daemonrift... I was trying to make purple flames... Not sure it's really working... The base and miniature on these are not yet attached as I realized it would probably work out better for these if I painted them separately and then attached - as both parts would require a fair bit of drybrushing and if they were attached it would mean and endless loop of going back and fixing bits that I'd accidentally got the dry brushing colour of one on the other... ugh... it's workedout pretty well working on the parts separately... not sure if I'm loving the purple flames though... 

The Realmscourge Rupture is coming along... starting to feel like these might have done well to paint separately too... ah, well... 

The Eightfold Doom-Sigil... I was thinking of doing pink or blue flames on this... but considering how the purple flame on the Darkfire Daemonrift, I may just do regular red/orange/yellow flame... 

Maybe that's the problem... regular flames are red and orange and yellow... the purple flames are just purple of different values... the monotone just isn't as interesting? I'm not sure purple/blue/green flames would really work though. Maybe if it was for a Tzeentch-leaning army... but my Slaves to Darkness I always imagined allied to the Hedonites of Slaanesh - my first chaos army... 

I've also, finally done some work on one of the other Slaanesh Endless Spells: the Dreadful Visage! It is very nearly done... 

There are still the same Warhammer Underworlds Warbands on the workbench... and the last of the Sylvaneth and Nighthaunts... and more tokens and heroes and villains for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City... And a smattering of Slaves to Darkness Heroes and cavalry... hopefully I'll get to them at some point!? 

What are YOU working on this week!? 

let me know in the comments!

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session One - The First Hunt!

 Last week we finally got started on Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. 

I bought the game when it was first released in 2021! We still hadn't (and still HAVEN'T!) finished Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress... well... we had finished the quest in the core box and two or three of the other expansions (of MANY!) 

While I was keenly interested in the Age of Sigmar this year, I decided I should paint up all of the miniatures for the various Warhammer Quest games set in the Age of Sigmar we had in the family. Finnegan has Silver Tower and Shadows over Hammerhal. 

I did manage to get all the stuff done for Shadows Over Hammerhal and we've played through that. While playing through that I've been trying to finish up the miniatures for Cursed City. 

They're not ALL done yet... but I had enough done to start playing, so start playing we did!!

In Cursed City, a disparate band of heroes, based on a Kharadron Overlords skyship, land in the city of Ulfenkarn, periodically and carry out missions meant to destabilize the hold the vampires hold over the city and, ultimately to destroy them. 

 The first mission we went on was a Hunt mission, which is pretty straight forward - run around the cities streets and alleys and kill undead creatures! 

Amanda was playing Emelda Braskov and Glaurio ven Alten III - both the last of their line of mortal human nobles that once ruled the city, back when it was called Mournhold. 

Finnegan was playing Jelsen Darrock and  Brutogg Corpse-Eater, a ex-Witch-Hunter-turned-Vampire-Hunter and a Mercenary Ogor, respectively. 

I kind of played Game Master and controlled the hostile forces and generally kept the game running. 

It is MEANT to be played as a coop game and all the Hostiles actions are dictated by a simple table of actions rolled on each round... 

Our heroes in the Landing Zone... 

Brutogg Corpse-Eater was the first out of the gate, charged around the corner and smashed a pair of skeletons into many small bone shards and battered scraps of armour and weapons! 

Glaurio ven Alten III was next and strode forth and blasted a giant blood bat out of the sky with his pistol, and then charged in to cut the rest of the swarm down with his sword! 

he could not get them all, though, so Emelda Braskov rushed to his aid! 

Round Two - Amanda rolling the destiny dice was very disapointed to have to discard so many sixes (any time a destiny dice is rolled that matches any of the other dice rolled they are discarded and not used that round!)

Jelson Darrock investigated a Mysterious Object... 

and discovered a rather cool artifact! 

Emelda Braskov searched another and discovered some explosive charge... the two swapped treasures and carried on. 

Brutogg heard the scurrying of corpse rats down another alley and charged after them, smashing them with his giant mace and crushing them under foot with his massive boots! 

Glaurio ven Alten III came to help him finish up the scurrying horde! 

"It's quiet... TOO quiet"

Darrock and Braskov wait and listen for the next hostiles to show up... 

With all the initial Hostiles slain in the same round it took another round for more to show up! 

MORE Rats... The disgusted Ven Alton... 

But Brutogg found them rather tasty little snacks! 

Darrock charged after some shuffling sounds heard down a side passage and found some Deadwalker Zombies! 

He stumbled and was nearly overwhelmed by them... 

But Braskov came rushing in and cut the monsters down

The sound of combat drew the attention of more Skeletons...

Which were cut down by Braskov and Darrock... 

Then a blood curdling screech announced the arrival of something a little more terrifying: one of the Vyrkos Blood-Born - a savage and feral sort of Vampire! 

"Stand back" said Darrock, "this one is MINE!" 

He stepped forward and blasted it with his big gun... the shot missed the insanely fast vampire. 

He then charged in and slashed at it with his Ardent Blade.. 

Again, Braskov stepped in to aid and finished off the vampire! 

MORE zombies shambled up and Braskov cut them down as well! 

More Skeletons arrived and Ven Alten stepped forward to deal with them! 

For his troubles he was wounded terribly by the Watch Sergeant... 

Again, Braskov rushed in to clean up... 

Finally Watch Captain Halgrim arrived to see where all his Ulfenwatch had disappeared to! 

Darrock fought the Skeletal Champion! 

Blocks away, Ven Alten and Braskov could hear the combat, but were unable to get there in time to aid them! 

Darrock finished off the Watch Captain (but that wasn't the last they'd see of HIM!) and helped Brutogg cut down some more bats! 

Brutogg swore they tasted just like chicken! 

Ven Alten, having bound his wounds, dealt with a few more Zombies.. 

Then one of the Kosargi Nightguard arrived - one of Radukar the Wolf's Undead Ogor bodyguards. Brutogg met it and there was some savage Ogor-on-Ogor violence. 

More Skeletons of the Ulfenwatch arrived and joined the undead Ogor. Darrock joined Brutogg in battling them! 

Guess who else showed up!? 

Braslov arrived in the nick of time and cut down skeletons and finished off the Undead Ogor... 

With the arrival of the Kosargi Nightguard, there was a concern that Radukar himself might not be far behind, so the heroes made for the pick up location and signalled the airship! 

Another Kosargi Nightguard with MORE Skeletons and Zombies showed up... but the Heroes were long gone! 

The successful mission dropped the Vampired Influence by two points, but raised the FEAR! Next week (or, rather THIS WEEK, as I've taken rather too long to finish up this game report!) the adventurers will attempt a Deliverence Mission to lower the FEAR!

Great fun was had, I'm very much looking forward to playing through the rest of this campaign. It may take a while... each mission four of the (EIGHT) characters gain experience... it takes gaining experience THREE TIMES before they gain a new level. At least four of them have to get to Level One to go on the first Decapitation Mission - going after a Vargskyr - and no one can gain experience beyond first level until they have successfully carried out the first decapitation mission... I think there are two mission that can be done at second level... then the rest each require another level to be gained before they can be carried out! So a MINIMUM of seventeen mission have to be played out, assuming they ONLY used these four heroes, and every single mission was a success... IF we manage one game a week, we'll be playing until at least March! 

(I think Amanda and Finnegan may alternate between heroes to bring them all up to each level as they go... so... maybe June?! 

And then there is the expansion quest: NIGHT WARS!! 

So excited was I... I ran back out to the Dragon's Den and picked up two of the Vampires I'll need for Night Wars... (possibly half a year away!?)

Perhaps we'll get in some bonus games over the Holidaze! 

One Last Trip

to the Dragon's Den... 

For the Black Friday Sale! 

(not for the year!?)...

Two Vampires needed for Night Wars (and useful for a Soulblight Gravelords army!) 

I wish I could that that is IT for the year... but it's not. I'm going to pick up the Slaves to Darkness - Darkoath Spearhead box next weekend... and then THAT might be it for the year... maybe... 

November Games

Well, the last two months were a bit of a disappointment... 

Friday, 1 November 2024

I saw Brent at the Rosebud Burlesque Club's Halloween Show the week before and arranged to meet up this week to try out Lost Patrol! 

We ended up playing the game SIX TIMES! There is a game report of ALL SIX GAMES here:

LOST PATROL!

Afterwards we played a few other games.

First we played Linkage: A DNA Card Game, which I have not played in... SEVEN. YEARS!? We spent a lot of time looking at the rules and trying to figure things out, but I think we were mostly overthinking things and expecting there to be more to it than there really was.... 

Speaking of spending a lot of time reading rules... Next we tried out Giro D'Italia Card Game. 

I'm sure I've had the game for about 15 years... and NEVER PLAYED IT!? It has some of the worst written rules I've ever read.... between me trying to read the rules on the tiny little sheet enclose in the game, and Brent looking things up on Board Game Geek, I think we finally figured out how it was meant to be played... 

Once we figure that out it was a pretty quick and clever little game to play! As the stage ended, my Rolleur was in the lead, winning me the game!  I think it was more due to luck than any grand strategy working out! Oh, I'd HAD a strategy... but it had involved my Rolleur leading out a break-away... with my climber and Leader immediately behind, my climber was going to pull the leader up the pass and then let him rip down the hill to the stage finish... I kind of flubbed when to try and break away and it ended with my leader being swallowed up by the Peloton (at least he was dropped!) and my climber only just keeping ahead. Two of Brent's riders came in second and third!  

Up to six players can play the game, which would be nuts! The rules claimed that TEN could play, but that was clearly NOT possible as we read on!? 

In one afternoon, I played more games that I did in all of October... not a bad start!?

Saturday, 2 November 2024

The next evening, I got together with Chris and Christian on Discord and discussed the possibilities of playing Soulbound this fall/winter. It could be kind of like Session Zero (Part One). We planned to meet again the following Saturday to actually MAKE characters and stuff... 

But that didn't happen... 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

For the second week in a row, Amanda and Finnegan and I played Warhammer Quest: Shadow over Hammerhal! We played through The Grinding Gear level. 

You can read the full report and see ALL the pictures here:

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Five - The Grinding Gear

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Orion stopped by for the afternoon on Sunday. We tried out a few games of Lost Patrol. She brought her Space Wolves Scouts. The first game she came SO CLOSE to WINNING! In the second game there was only ONE TILE left in the pile - the Escape Pod - but the sole surviving marine was trapped in a dead end and just couldn't shoot their way out! There is a full report here:

Lost Patrol - Space Wolves

Afterwards we tried out Crypt Hunters which is a way less deadly reskin of Lost Patrol. We played four games and... it was really fun! It's a very clever little game. 

There is a full report of the ensuing chaos, you can read it here:

Crypt Hunters - The Game! 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Amanda, Finnegan and I played another session in our Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal campaign. We played through The Auction House... I'd hoped to get to the Sorcerer's Lair and start CURSED CITY the next week... but it turns out fighting ALL THE THINGS in ONE ROOM takes a lot of time! (We also got started a bit late...) 

You can read about the battle in the Auction Hall here: 

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Seven - The Auction Hall

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Orion stopped by with her brand new copy of Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard and we played through two games. We each took a turn playing Thircefold Discord. Orion played Ironsoul's Condemnors against the daemons, and I played Thorns of the Briar Queen against them. 

You can read all about the two games and the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds here:

Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard - First Games

Later in the evening I met up with Christian on Discord and we made a character for him to use in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (role-playing game) campaign that we'll HOPEFULLY be playing on Saturday evenings going forward...?

His character is Kharadron Overlord Aether Kemist. Originally from Chamon, he had been tasked seeking out and finding some of the lost technologies of his clan from the Age of Myth! 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Tuesday Amanda, Finnegan and I played through the last session of Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal. The Chaos Sorcerer, Lord Redomir, was tracked back to his lair and slain, after he refused to come into custody peacefully... 

You can read all about the adventure and see all the pictures here: 

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Eight - the Sorcerer's Lair

Saturday, 23 November 2024

Chris and Christian and I got together on Discord to make a Character for Chris for a Soulbound Campaign. Chris' character is a Human Freeguild Sergeant from one of the regiments based out of Hammerhal Aqsha. 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Session Zero - making characters for an IN-PERSON Soulbound campaign with Orion, Nick, Charlie, Amanda and Finnegan... It is going to be bat-shit crazy... 

Orion is playing a Fyreslayer DOOMSEEKER - crazy duardin/dwarf berserker types that always want to pick fights and seeks a glorious death in battle. 

Charlie is playing a Daughter of Khaine Witch Aelf - fanatical worshiper of the GOD OF MURDER

Nick is playing an Idoneth Deepkin Isharann Tidecaster - the Idoneth... those fun undersea Aelves that can't stand other people - even each other - and only contact with anyone outside of their enclaves are those they raid on shore to steal their souls... 

Amanda is playing a Sylvaneth Spite-Revenant - a screaming manifestation of nature’s wrath, radiating an enveloping aura of fear and rage, nightmare creatures of endless vindictiveness that most Sylvaneth prefer to distance from....

Finnegan is playing a Human Witch Hunter... 

So... I guess they all HATE CHAOS...? Hopefully more than they hate each other and everyone else they encounter!? The general feeling was that perhaps Malerion bound them together as a lark...? 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Amanda, Finnegan and I played through their first Hunt mission in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City! The full game report can be found here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session One - The First Hunt!

Anyway... played a few more games this month... So that was nice...