Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the second of #DreadTober2026 and this may not look like progress but I've actually done all the VGC Hammered Copper highlights. I'd taken a hit to the motivation by losing the heads for the Warhounds but I thought there was still value in pressing on with the copper. I had hoped to do the Retributor Armour highlights too, but I actually had an early night instead. It's really hard to balance DreadTober with my Season goal to get more sleep!
Still, I will get the Retributor armour done tonight and maybe also add the shade wash and pick out the armour colours. That might bring me back on track.
I also got all 10 weapons highlighted and primed some of the armour plates. They were a little behind but I'll bring them up to speed before the weekend.
The Porphyrions are highlighted too and the process at least made me feel much less worried about getting these done too. I hope I've not jinxed myself there.
But despite my initial concerns over how much detail is on them this came together really quickly, so I have revised hope they can progress swifter than I'd imagined.
Afternoon #Warhammer Community we've been playing MESBG and it was great for us all to be there together again.
We were continuing with the War of the Rohirrim scenarios. This one being the end where Hera [in her bridal gear] rides forth to battle Wulf.
Hera and Wulf start the battle in the top right. All the Hillmen are congregated around the siege tower ramp, with Olwyn at the top of it stopping those already on the ramp. Meanwhile Frealaf and the riders of Rohan come in from the bottom. The Hillmen score a point each by killing Frealaf, a Rohan Captain, getting 3 Hillmen off the end of the siege ramp, having more warriors in the bottom right quadrant and 2 points for killing Hera. Rohan score one point each for killing General Targ, a Hillman Captain, stopping any Hillmen from escaping the siege ramp and having more Rohirrim in the bottom right camp. There is also 2 points for killing Wulf. I was with Otty who was already doom-mongering because there were 20 Hillman Archers and Hera was only able to get an 'in the way' by hiding next to a rocky step in the hill. We're also having to cope with a lot of terror-inducing flaming brands.
But, once again my dice were on fire 🎲🔥 We managed to make a lot of charges and if we won the duel there were often 2 cavalry against one Hillman - 4 wound rolls and only needing a 4 on the dice to kill. So a lot of Hillman fell under the hooves. In return if a Hillman won they also were sometimes killing on 4's - +1 for hatred of Rohan and there were a lot of 2-handed weapons for another +1.
Having won the priority on a few turns General Targ was able to call a heroic move to blunt the cavalry and hold us back. Olwyn had done work on the ramp, killing 2 Hillmen, and about to take out 2 more. A Rohan Captain had joined Hera but was getting bogged down by numbers.
The dice continued to work in our favour. Even if it was just a lot of 4's rolled that always seemed to be just enough to win a duel or take priority. It was almost comical. We went from believing the game was a foregone conclusion before we tarted to utterly dominating.
By about 10:30 Liam and Ben were ready for going home.
Their dice were just so poor. They'd gone from swapping them at ever opportunity to even considering using our Rohan dice! 🤣 This was the Hillman chief's morale check as they were broken, and he fled the board! Ben had even shot into combat, wounded General Targ and killed an archer on the ramp! But then Olwyn fell and the ramp was clear, except for the NPC crone.
But we played on and with the Hillmen heading for the end of the ramp we used our own bows to stop all but one of them, but that was enough, they needed 3 to exit. But elsewhere there was some success and Hera, Frealaf and the Rohan Captain all fell with just Wulf and Targ the only heroes left.
My dice continued to swing wildly - a mix of success and failure.
We tried to get to Wulf and hold the village quadrant.
Targ was still a threat but his sole wound was his downfall. Having been hit by friendly fire he succumbed and we surrounded Wulf bu were beaten back.
More units abandoned the field.
and we reformed the line to take down Wulf and the last Hillman archer.
We surrounded them
Absolute scenes as Wulf rolls his 3D6 duel dice!
Taking the field completely with a final score of 6:4 to Rohan
This was the dead pile.
And those who's luck just wouldn't rise to the occasion.
A really good game but so much was dictated by dice rolls that they just couldn't reconcile in the end. If they'd got the Hillmen off the ramp that would have been 5:5, but that failed morale check by the chief and getting shot on the ramp lost them the game.
Afternoon #Warhammer Community after a week away from the shed I'm back, but it's just Otty and I. Ben was on shifts and Liam has been back in hospital again [get well soon bud], but hopefully he'll out next week. So it was just the 'elite' of the hobby shed crew 😎 We spent an hour just chatting, Otty has quite the stressful job and was somewhat apologetic about having to vent. But he created this space for us, to reset and support our mental health. I'd have spent the entire evening just chatting if he needed it. Gaming is just an excuse to gather, it's really just about spending time together.
But we did have a game in the end. One of the War of the Rohirrim scenarios where a Mumak smashes into Edoras trying to destroy the city. The Rohirrim stand in the centre and I've got 36 Hill Tribesman, Wulf, General Targ, Tribe captain and Harad chief on the Mumak. Having faced one at Warhammer World I wanted to see what it was like to play.
While I was getting it to the middle of the board I went aggressive with Wulf. I pushed deep, heroic combatted a spearman to get to Otty's Leader, who did Heroic Strike, won the duel with ease and cut Wulf's horse out from underneath him. I was careful not to get in with Hera behind as well.
I lost priority, but the Harad chief heroic moved the Mumak in the centre [not it is pointing the wrong direction because the trunk and tusks make it almost impossible to play. It just trampled through more than half of the Rohan force, squishing everything to paste. I think it ended in combat at Otty's hero managed to put two wounds on it as he has Hatred: Mumak and Mumakbane for this mission. It passed the courage test so it didn't go bereserk.
Next round and the Mumak still facing the wrong direction trampled further, killed a few of my men but failed to kill Otty's leader [Haleth or Hama I forget which]. So stuck in combat, which stops the rest of my guys being squished, who then bundle into [let's say] Haleth and Hera who was attacked by General Targ who cut her down.
With the final turn I tabled Otty. If I recall Haleth was killed not by the Mumak, but by a lowly spear support filthy tribesman! For me the forces were ridiculously unbalanced. But Otty said if the Mumak gets wounded and fails its courage the opposing player can move it and that can make all the difference.
Once again Otty had some shockingly bad dice but that initial trample did so much damage, prevented his own Heroic move and completely shifted the game balance. I'm not sure he's going to want to play that scenario again, but it was entertaining if a little saddening how one-sided it became.
Meanwhile, Shed 1.0 is properly becoming an organised workspace for his hobby projects. He used part of the Shed of the Year prize money to get an FDM printer, you can just see 2 out of 3 ruined Rohan houses at the bottom of the image. So there will be a lot of exciting new things coming to the shed.
Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the first of #DreadTober2026 and I need to crack on with my Adeptus Titanicus Warhound Titans pledge. Having recently finished my Cerastus Knights I'm somewhat burnt out hobby-wise. So 2 Warhounds may seem like a relatively small pledge, compared to 2 AT Warlord Titans for DreadTober 2025 but I'm still not sure it's doable with my current level of hobby mojo. Hopefully, the community spirit will provide the fuel to get me going.
Even so, I know my hobby pace and I'd already built and [mostly] primed the titans months ago, ready to be picked back up in October. Firstly I wanted to adjust the pose, so I started with one leg.
I cut off the top thigh and used flower arranging wire to extend the piston behind the knee.
I then drilled a hole through the hip sockets and waist. This was to allow the wire to pass between legs and waist and provide a solid structure for it all to be glued to. I will then fill the gap with some modelling material. I think I just went with tile adhesive/grout rather than kneed some green stuff or Milliput together.
I constructed a base with cork. Smoothed it was tile adhesive and added crackle paint for the titan impact.
I like doing these sorts of bases but they do delay things a bit - extra construction work. But it was months ago so doesn't really matter now . Sorry about the blurred pic.
But, as it was last Hobby Season I get a belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval.
But the bases had not been painted, so my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 got done. I had mistakenly done a lot of the AP Rough Iron, which has been caught by the drybrushing.
Hopefully that'll be covered up by further metallic highlights but we'll see.
What worries me though is I have not primed the missing armour plates or heads. I have the sprue and could just do it but I know I have some already primed, basecoated and with the metallics done.
I did them at the same time as my last Warhounds because they were spare, just in the off chance I ever did some more. Now that situation has come up and I'm not entirely sure where those bits are! Typical!
In the mean time though I get my first Great Big Amber 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval of the season.
I also have a stretch goal of 2 Adeptus Titanicus Acastus Knight Porphyrions. Again these were secret squirrel projects that I was saving for DreadTober.
And the last of my Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamps of Approval.
Built and primed in March for completion in DreadTober 🤞 I did realise that keeping the guns separate would be easier, but only after I glued one set on.
I think when I was doing the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 on my Cerastus Knights I also did these at the same time.
Obviously there are still bits to do. I want to try and do the marble effect on these similar to my Red Marble Display Board 🔴.
There is so much detail on these knights, I have certain amount of dread [pun unintended but I'm embracing it now I spotted it] in painting them.
As stretch goal go they seem easy as they're not that big. And I've been surprised how quickly epic scale knights come together. But something about these worry me.
So, despite all the planning and headstart in getting both the Warhounds and knights to a point I think is achievable...
For now I'm still giving myself my last belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval. And I'll give them a Great Big Amber one too when I do the marble bit, because I can 😝
