Scenery for a Fantasy Gaming Board

This is not the first post I was expecting to have on 2020, but it just happens to be that I managed to finish the last pieces of the terrain over xmas, therefore, here it goes!

I have a gaming board at home that I use either for 40k games or for Fantasy.
Fantasy games that I currently play are Warcry, Warhammer Fantasy or The 9th Age.

I have the starter set of Warcry so I have enough scenery for playing it.
For Warhammer Fantasy I usually need:

• 1 small house
• 2 forests
• 2 hills (one should be small)
• 2 barriers

For 9th Age, I generally use a map from the Map Pack, that relies on having terrain from the Terrain Pack, which consists of: 

• 2 buildings
• 2 fields
• 2 forests
• 3 hills
• 2 rocky area (impassable terrain)
• 2 ruins
• 3 barriers
• 2 ponds

Because the list of Warhammer Fantasy is covered by the list of 9th Age, I simply needed to collect those to have my gaming board ready.

Buildings

As I was never -ever- going to get around building my own, I decided to buy two models from 4Ground publishing, from the Fabled Realms, Mordanburg city, as they are simply some of the best I have ever seen. They are not cheap, but the quality is superb.

Fields

They are two bases of plasticard that I decorated with some bits from my bits box and some gravel. One of these fields is a graveyard that should fit nicely with some undead scenario.

Forests

For the same reason as with the buildings, I bought a few trees already pre-made, glued them to circular bases so I could shape the size of the forest and move them around to fit in the troops, and prepared two bases of plasticard with some gravel and some bits. Without the trees they can be used as fields.

Hills

I bought them at my local hobby shop.

Impassable terrain

The starter set from Warcry supplied them. There is also some Gobbo icon from The Batlle for the Skull Pass starter set.

Ruins

From Warcry.

Barriers

These are a mix of stuff lying around on my bits box as well as the ones that come with Warcry.

Ponds

The ponds I have created using plasticard, bits and gravels. Once painted these holes will make sense, trust me.

All of these needs paint! But the miniature queue is long and it goes before the terrain!
Next post will take me back to the Genestealer Cult, until then!

Expanding the Skaven Army

Having completed my year goals it is time to go for extra milestones!

In an earlier post I shared my plans to extend my Skaven Army to be able to field a 4,500 points The Ninth Age Vermin Swarm Army.

Originally, I planned on buying the following miniatures:

• 10 Clanrats
• 10 Vermin Guard
• Tyrant on Monstrous Rat
• One Dreadmill
• One Lightning Cannon
• 13 + 16 Gutter Runners (to be used also for Footpads)
• Two Plague Censer Bearers

After some eBay madness as well as some visits to my dear The Oldhammer Trading Company Facebook Group, I managed to acquire the following:

• 10 Plastic Clanrats
• 9 Classic Stormvermin
• 8 Classic Gutter Runners
• 4 Plague Censer Bearers
• 1 Classic Doomwheel
• 1 new Tyrant on Monstrous Rat from ForgeWorld
• 1 Classic Boneripper (Thanquol's Rat Ogre)
• 1 new Plastic Warp-Lightning Cannon

And a few extras that I have put on my sale page.

That is basically everything I wanted to get, even a little extra, save for the Gutter Runners for which I should get a few more. In any case, for now, I have decided to leave it as is and will start painting them right away.

At the same time I decided to add bases for all of my warmachines, that includes the already painted Doomwheel and Screaming Bell.

Here are some pics of the individual units.

I really hope to be able to paint them in the next couple of months!

Skaven Army for The Ninth Age

As first post for the year I have one that does not contain a single painted miniature, I hope that it does not set a trend!

I started to play a bit The Ninth Age at the end of 2018 where I got to put my dear skavens into action. Of course the couple of battles I played ended up in catastrophic defeats, but that is just the normal way of learning a new game system.

I have to say that I like a lot the T9A rules and I am looking forward to more games and even joining a tournament this year. I highly recommend them, go check their website out and download the rules, they are free!

But, because my Army grew more or less out of the figures I liked best and not out of a proper army list, and even in that case, it would have been suitable only for 4th ed Warhammer Fantasy, I find myself in dire need of a few extra rats to fill out the list I would like to play with T9A.

Interestingly enough, most of the tournaments I have seen play with 4000 or 4500 points so I have summarized what I need for playing a 4500 point list that I like and out of that there is a gap that I would like to fill (and paint) this year.

What I would need for my T9A Army is:

• Battle Standard Bearer
• Tyrant on Monstrous Rat
• Vermin Daemon
• Magister on Doombell
• 2x 10 Footpads
• 20 Giant Rats
• 50 Rats-at-Arms 
• 30 Slaves
• 30 Vermin Guard
• 2x 8 Gutter Blades
• 8 Plague Disciples
• 4 Vermin Hulks
• 2x Dreadmills
• 4 Jezails
• Lightning Cannon
• 2x Naphtha Launcher

That means, that I need to get the following:

• 10 Clanrats
• 10 Vermin Guard
• Tyrant on Monstrous Rat
• One Dreadmill
• One Lightning Cannon
• 13 + 16 Gutter Runners (to be used also for Footpads)
• Two Plague Censer Bearers

For these figures I will get 10 classic plastic Clanrats, 10 classic Vermin Guards, a Tyrant on Monstrous Rat that probably will be the one from Forgeworld, the current Lightning Cannon, an old Doomwheel like the one I painted already, 29 Gutter Runners that can be a mix of old and new like the ones I have and two classic plague censer bearers that were in fact the very first unit I painted.

I am excited about these new additions and looking forward to put them into play as soon as possible!

As a last note, my old Khorne Daemon Army is also looking at me asking to be played in T9A, I am already drafting some lists...