After putting together an ork mega-attack dreadnought last year, I decided he needed a bit of company. So, I have started on at least one more smaller dreadnought. As before, the aim to make these dreadnought(s) using only bits 'found' from around the house or existing gaming stuff.
Taking inspiration from the original ork dreadnought, I thought it would be fun to add a goblin 'pilot' sticking out the top.
Rob
After recovering from the shock of the unexpected underground melee, Itzcoatl had retired back to the relative safety of the camp. The goblins had not pursued the Slann past the entrance or ventured out the following night. But Itzcoatl needed the instructions on the wall of the temple in order to find the lost artifact his master had commanded he recover.
So, he had decided to muster nearly all of his company to venture forth back into the temple complex. The marsh tribe Slann had found another deserted entrance and through this would go the majority of the force, led by the reliable Bull Slann commander Potzalcol. Whilst he, Lyta and escort an attempted to return to the inscription in the pond chamber.
Lyta must reach the inscription and every turn, if not in combat may attempt to decipher it. In order to secure the temple, the four entrances must be sealed. When either of these two objectives is reached then the game is over.
Lyta may finish her translation on a roll of 5+, the entrances are sealed by a Slann reaching entrance point and not being in combat. They effectively block the entrance with debris surrounding the entrance.
The goblin reinforcements will be randomly generated at each of the entry points (D6-3)per turn.
The sortie started with Itzcoatl sending in his most expendable troops – the giant frogs and slaves into the temple.
With two goblin entry points near to the Slann starting point, Itzcoatl’s group had a battle right from the start and the slaves struggled to make any progress entering the temple. And Itzcoatl had ‘forgotten’ to use any of his spells, so it wasn’t until that Potzalcol led a party from the other side that any real progress was made. As for every one goblin taken out of the fight, another appeared.
With the goblins from the ladder room blocked, the Slann were able to enter deeper into the temple and block the farthest entrance point and then come round to attack the goblins nearest Itzcoatl from the rear.
I recently managed to get the missing last mini* to complete this set and painted him up today. Which completes the first set of high elves published by Citadel. As I mentioned several times before, these range of miniatures are all very individual unlike the later ranges of high elves. With each one richly dressed and well armed for war.
Sculpted by Aly Morrison? Certainly later sets are credited to Aly.
*It has taken about three years to pick up all these minis - mostly at reasonable prices (£3 -£10). Proving it is possible to still collect classic Citadel minis on a budget.
Itzcoatl's forces make another attempt on the temple. More to follow.
A regular favourite for a Friday Thursday night beer
Rob
After struggling to get any decent pictures the other day. I took the photo board outside yesterday and used natural light to photograph the army and it worked much better.
Rob
Managed to finish of a couple of pieces over the week ready for the next game. As Itzcoatl prepares to return to the underground temple, his scouts have found a second entrance. The 3D printed plants I picked at a show a few years ago. They are pretty basic but at 20p each I think they look good enough for the tabletop.
Rob
Got the last couple of high elves done this week, to finish off the core '1000 pts' army. I still need to add the banner to the standard bearer once I find my copy of the 3rd Citadel compendium.
I didn't like the pictures I took this evening so I have used the ones form an earlier set and will try again later. The lighting just wasn't right.
Rob
Itzcoatl,
apprentice of the mighty Tanqecl-Tlo'ectlutl pondered the Vorlon pictograms
whilst his rune-scribe worked on the translation. After what seemed to be a
long while of watching the Amazon standing silently in in front of the wall, he
finally got bored and asked?
‘Have you worked
out what it says yet??’
The Amazon
looked up at the mage and with a puzzled expression.
‘Well, it either
says – We are all Kosh? or directions to the temple, or both or possibly
neither…’
The Slann
stared at the human in that uncomfortable way, that the amphibian did with
increasing frequency when dealing with humans. When suddenly a bark of alert
echoed from one of the side passageways. The marsh hunters who had been sent to
investigate whilst the rune wall was deciphered, burst back out of the side
passageway followed by misshapen pale shades.
I am going to run the mini-campaign using MESBG (For now) using the campaign rules I used for the Shire campaign. I do need to work out some stats for the combatants but this will mainly consist of using existing profiles.
As Izcoatl is the most important member of the expedition, the campaign is lost he if he is killed.
The Slann have been surprised while inspected a small underground temple complex. Their only objective is to escape. Izcoatl is too surprised during this game to use any of his magic.
The goblins were rolling 3 dice at the beginning of a turn and on a roll of 5+ (turns 1-3) and 4+ (turns 4+) received one goblin for each successful roll.
The goblins burst forth from the side corridors but for the only time in the game, the Slann won the initiative and were able to block some of the Goblin advances. This proved crucial in containing the goblins and several melees broke out as the marsh Slann attempted to hold back the goblins.
Still have to write up the first battle report for my Slann mini-campaign. So, in the mean time I painted up one of the last two high elves and a few old photos.
And its Friday night so on to the...
Rob
With only two high elves left to paint to finish off the army, then surely that has got to the top priority?
Well, actually no, I got distracted by idea of doing a dungeon bash with the Slann. I really liked playing through the Escape from Goblin Town scenarios as a mini-campaign and thought wouldn't that be a good idea to do a Slann based mini-dungeon bash campaign.
Since I have already the Escape from Goblin Town wooden boards and dungeon tiles from the Oakbound Calendar then I would only need to make a few more...
So, Itzcoatl, apprentice of the mighty Tanqecl-Tlo'ectlutl has been sent on a mission to recover some ancient artefacts from deep in the Lustrian jungle. After completing a few new dungeon tiles.
First Game played with Itzcoatl attempting to escape from a sudden arrival of bunch of plague goblins.
Anyway time to paint some high elves....
Rob