Adventures in the underworld

This post is all focused around painting Drizgit including my inspiration and the various new techniques I tried out along the way. I knew I wanted Drizgit to have rusty armour, hot coals on his back and for his prodder to look like hot metal. I did a bit of searching and found some real life inspiration and the painting masterpiece below… Clearly an amazing piece of work and way beyond my capabilities but you have to aim high so I planned to try a similar look to the sword on Drizgit’s prodder. I basecoated the weapon in runefang steel and then got to work heating it up. For this I watered down some wazdakka red and painted it all over the area I want to look hot. I repeated this with squig orange and flash gitz yellow keeping the lighter colours towards the centre as this area would retain the heat. I then mixed some white into the yellow for the hottest part, representing where the metal had been in the flame. Finally, I used some watered down bl...

Another outing for the Cursebreakers, this time against Nick’s Ironskull's boys. Time to try and keep my fighters alive long enough to earn some glory! With this in mind when I lost the roll I set the boards up offset with some blocking hexes to try and make it difficult for the orruks to charge. I still don’t know if this was the way to go or not as it ended up hemming me in too. I drew what I thought was a great hand of sorcerous scouring, magical supremacy and devastating blow. So glory for casting a spell, killing with a spell and killing two fighters. Nice! Against grots, skaven, nighthaunt or skellies I’d have been loving it but against the high wound count orruks it ended up not being as good as I first thought. Nick spent his whole first turn moving forward as aggressively as possible and pretty much stopping me from getting out of my territory. He also managed to get a free upgrade onto Gurzag – great strength… So he could now one shot anyone i...

My first game with the Cursebreakers! I really wanted to try these guys out as I was imagining them to be pretty much the opposite to my grots. I was going from the largest warband in the game to the smallest and from very little killing ability in a single activation to every model being more than capable of taking out my opponent’s fighters. I was up against Josh and the Thorns again but he had spent some time revising his deck rather than using the one straight from the box so I knew I was in for a tough fight. I had drawn extreme flank, conquest and sorcerous scouring so I deployed deep in my territory close to edge hexes to prevent my fighters getting bogged down early and try to force him into a couple of push activations with Varclav. His first activation was a push and I tried to empower Rastus for inspiration and failed. He went on guard with the everhanged and I tried for the empower inspiration and failed again! The everhanged charged in (scoring change of ta...