(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
These are all being painted and
organized into a warband for Dragon Rampant.
The new figures from Black Hat will not form a unit on their own – well, some
of them will – the Chieftain and a couple attendants will form a unit. The rest
of them will be distributed between all the other units of Dwarf Highlanders.
The Clan Chieftain and his
guard. I’m not sure if they should be a reduced model unit of Bellicose Foot or
count them as Elite Foot…?
The ordinary units of
Highlanders I figured would be Bellicose Foot. I’d considered giving them the
“Terrifically Shiny Armour” upgrade, just to make them a bit tougher… But now
that I have SIX units of them, it makes sense just to call them plain Bellicose
Foot @ 4 points each.
Here are all the Dwarven
Highlanders I have painted up so far organized into units for Dragon Rampant: three units of Bellicose Foot plus the
Clan Chieftain – whatever he ends up being. I have another three to finish up
(which will actually be 30+points when I’m done – more than the “standard” 24
points… but that’s how I roll…).
I suppose this could currently
be fielded as a 24 point unit if I called all four units Bellicose Foot with
the “Terrifically Shiny Armour” upgrade (the Chieftain being a reduced model
unit…).
In addition to this Highland
Dwarf Warband, I have a completely separate Mountain Dwarf Warband I’m working
on for Dragon
Rampant… and they are not always friends… The recently posted Dwarven
Rangers are part of the Mountain Dwarf Warband.
In other news…
It took some time to origanize
all the stuff and make sure whe’d gotten all of the stuff we’d ordered.
Then we needed to split it all
up so everyone more or less got what they wanted…
I got most of the Cthulhu stuff
– including the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Shub-Niggurath (the Black Goat of
the Woods herself), Dagon and some Deep Ones, and something called Frogemoth
(which seemed pretty otherworldly/Elder Godly to me…)
I had hoped with the LPL out of
the way I would buckle down and got some stuff done for other people that have
been sitting on my workbench a little too long… but I think there’s probably
going to be a fair bit of assembling, basing and priming this week… of the
Reaper stuff as well as a few other things that I’ve been wanting to finish up
assembling and priming so they can all go back into their storage boxes and not
take up so much space! (unassembled minis take up way more space than assembled
ones – and I running out of space!!!)
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Orcs (my last entry to the
LPL)?
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Love the Highland dwarves (as opposed to mountain dwarves of course! )That's a pretty big mound of plastic to wade through, good luck with that and the bikes!
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Thanks Iain! I'm in no rush to paint any of the Bones stuff (well... other than the Dark Young - as I may actually make use of that in the first Cthulhu Invictus adventure I'm planning to run... sometime this summer...?). The kids both got loads more than me - it only LOOKS Like I my pile is big because I got four HUGE models - the Frogemoth, Shubniggurath, etc.
DeleteDwarves are always good, and Highlanders are always good. The dwarf highlanders look great. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the plastic mountain!
I recently received the latest batch of dwarf musketeers from the kickstarter campaign; and still have a fair few from the previous batch to paint up. In the meantime I got sidetracked by minis from other kickstarters and online orders. :)
Cheers! I am looking forward to seeing more of those painted Iron Mask Miniatures on your blog!
DeleteI received my Bones 3 as well. It was left on the front step. Of course I had to have the Cthulhu stuff as well! One thing about Kick starter's, it's like having a Birthday almost every month this year!
ReplyDeleteI don't back THAT much stuff on Kickstarter... Okay I have backed a few things this year so far... Dwarven Gold Fever, the Jet Bike Construction Kit, Psi-Paladins for Mutants and Death Ray Guns, Sierra Madre's Bios: Genesis, and Genius Game's Cytosis... and now Astropolis II... oh, and a couple of graphic novels!? CRAP! I guess I have backed a lot of stuff this year - but I doubt I'll be backing much more and that's probably more than I've back in all the previous years that kickstarter's been around, combined!
DeleteSounds like your ahead of me on this years tally. I think I have 4 Kickstarters this year...so far the newest Zombicide being the current one. I am just getting the stuff from a year ago+ now 8D
DeleteFinancial reasons stopped me getting Bones 3. Still disappointed about it, and it looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of cool things (the big mythos things!)... but I'm pretty "meh" about the rest of it. I mostly got it to give my kids lots of cheap stuff to practice on...
DeleteThere seems to be a growing consensus on the DR Facebook group that Bellicose Foot are under powered for the cost. The fix seems to be giving them 1 more point of armour for free.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I have yet to play with these, but I'll have to keep that in mind. Thanks!
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