Mordheim Scenario: Don't wake the Giant

couple of weeks ago my Mordheim campaign group had a go at a quiet funny variant of the well known monster hunt scenario. The scenario was recently mentioned on the Mordheim Facebook group so I had a google search and unfortunately couldn't find it. So what better excuse of a blog update to upload it :).

The scenario in question is Don't Wake the Giant, a funny variant of the Monster Hunt scenario making use of a Giant bad guy, a model central and loved in many RPG players model collections :) 

In this scenario the players are encouraged to try stealth to steal treasure from a sleeping giant, but with the chaotic nature of Mordheim things might not go as planned. In our session the Skaven player was doing quiet well, being quick on the spot, and good at stealth, but the other players decided to sabotage the success of the Skaven player by gambling it all and wake the giant. From this point on the game evolved into pure chaos and survival :)

I've upload the scenario by David Gitchel here as a PDF.

The Possessed team ready to start

The Sisters of Sigmar Team ready to start

And the Skaven team player blank refused that I could take a lineup photo as the paint job isn't finished ;)

Table overview

Game in progress, the Skaven player quick on the spot, that is a standing up sleeping giant yeah ;)

Sisters decide to wake the Giant much to the annoyance of the Skaven player

With Skaven cassualties and the rest of the Skavens hiding the Giant turns on the Possessed and Sisters....

Painting Session... Kill Teams: Space Hulk

he gaming group has been experimenting a bit with adopting the Kill Team rules for some Space Hulk play. A classic game the group veterans love. This is inspired by Games Workshop's original article dealing with this challenge.

Today isn't going to be about this though, as we will have to do some playtesting first. But eventually I plan to put up our ruleset here. Instead I've focused on getting some teams going for the playtest, so once again I have been having a bit of a painting session.

Although tests will be for Terminator Squads at first, the plan is also to have this work for other Kill Team squads, as long as we can keep the model count under 8 for a squad, and hopefully do some 3 player sessions with one Genestealer player, and two players with one squad each cooperating.

So first off we have the Team of Rogue Traders:

Next up a team of Grey Knight Terminators:

Then we have a Ultramarines Terminator Squad:

I didn't really paint genestealers in this sessions, as I kinda of already have them painted up.. not to my usual standard though, as they where painted long time ago. But we do plan to try and introduce the Genestealer Hybrids from Space Hulk: Genestealer. And luckily Games Workshop recently released some very cool Hybrid miniatures.

Pantheon of Chaos Kickstarter is up

he Pantheon of Chaos project kickstarter is up - meaning you can go there and support the project and get miniatures in return. The goal is almost reached shortly after the kickstarter came up. So this one should go through with no problems in the 30 days the kickstarter will run.

As mentioned earlier on this blog, the miniatures in this project is focused on the old Warhammer Realm of Chaos look. Beastmen will not be your average goat look-alike but rather cool mutants, which for an old WFRP player also is much more in line with the old Warhammer description.

As a bonus this project will feature the Daemonic pantheon of 'Malice' aka Malal. Collecting all will be rather pricey, but there is a lot of miniatures in this project, with more unlocked as more kickstarter goals are reached. There are however also plenty of options for just opting in for small miniature packs of your choice of miniatures in the range.

Head on over to the Kickstarter project:
Pantheon of Chaos Kickstarter

Mordheim Gothic Terrain from Escenorama

ordheim and Frostgrave players are always on the lookout for cool city scenery. At least I know I am. Some time ago I stumbled upon a Spanish company called Escenorama that does resin sculpts of modular fantasy ruins terrain. The pieces I have are usually in use somewhere on our table, so should be on this blog in the Mordheim battle reports. The cool thing about them is that they can be stabled to create multiple storey buildings, or spread out in rubble like terrain to cover a larger area.
Anyway the post isn't really about my old Escenorama terrain, but rather the new product line they have up. The line is called "Gothic City" and has a Gothic Fantasy theme to it. It looks awesome, and have some improvements over the last set. The set is still a multi build set, which is a big plus, but on top of it there's a lot of accessories available to it to create an even more detailed and unique feel. A thing the old set did miss.

Escenorama Facebook news post:
https://www.facebook.com/Escenorama/posts/985030478212455

Escenorama web shop:
http://escenorama.com/shopping/category.php?id_category=53&id_lang=1

Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower - Warhammer Quest rebooted?!

odays news is that Warhammer Quest is on it's way back. Although in what form remains to be seen. For those of you who don't remember Warhammer Quest, it was a boxed Games Workshop Game, which moved along the line of Heroquest and Advanced Heroquest. In short making a grey zone between boardgaming, tabletop roleplaying, and miniature collecting. Your players selected a hero type to play, and you where the gamemaster in a campaign of dungeoneering with dungeons build up of interlocking dungeon pieces.

I've had tremendeous fun with all the three games, and lately me and my gaming group have begun playing Warhammer Quest again.

So Warhammer Quest was published in 1995, and have been dead for decades. It is important though to remember how much Games Workshop as a company has moved since then. Because of that there really is no saying how much this new Warhammer Quest project will compare to what we knew and loved. So lets look at what is on the rumour mill...

The game will be called Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, and will feature an attack on a fortress of Tzeentch called the Silver Tower. It is set in the Age of Sigmar, and hopefully it will include other hero options than Stormcast.

Release should be immanent, set in may, and future expansions might be possible depending upon the game's succes.

Links to Warseer forum:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?417295-Warhammer-Quest-Silver-Tower

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?416013-AoS-Upcoming-releases&p=7611504&viewfull=1#post7611504