Psychophage Archvillian games

I do like the strange side of my hobby the weird miniatures odd sculpts, and saw these on My Mini Factory Psychophage by Archvillan Games https://www.myminifactory.com/users/ArchvillainGames. Russel printed me them off and I was stunned by the design and concept, A joy to paint even though they have more limbs and mouths than most things, I tried to keep them dark and nasty.

I think there  great and will be in my games, be safe my friends..

 

Trench Crusade Sultanate of the Iron Wall

 

More 3d prints of the wonderful Trench Crusade miniatures, again brilliant miniatures and a pure joy to paint..

Oldhammer Battle new ideas?

 

I have been playing Warhammer since zero, so I do know the rules after huge changes over decades, I like to keep up many, many armies and forces and  a vast amount of Battles over time, I looked over the Warhammer Old world rule books, nice publications and   took my fancy. I have a large Orc/Goblin army for  mass battles Oathmark ,Midguard and Rampant etc so forces were no problem.

 I based the Orc Goblins from the Ravaging heroes book and  the Humans from my old Warhammer historical Shield wall book, the points looked about right and it was not to be serious. Laid out a GW map tile, and some old  Dark ages building random, and rolled for each sides deployment.

The game is surprisingly easy to get back into, both sides move and charge  shoot and fight, the human forces were outnumbered by the hordes they faced them off and struck hard the skill and armor giving advantages, again the dice roils made the game, and it  made a narrative in its self as the Orcs/ Goblins relentlessly  charged and  fought loosing fights and there units being wiped out. The Human war masters unit fought off 4 attacks and was suddenly struck in the flank, the war masters unit did not casualty even the man himself  striking down none, and the break test roll is shown double 6, so he was  wiped out and rolling for the remaining units who all failed the Orc/Goblins won the day. 

Fun rules and as in the  1st edition play with what you like and have as long as its fun. Be safe my friends...

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Big Ork, Trench Crusade and some Garthim

 

Russell printed me for xmas this wonderful Ork Emperor, he is just so full of character and was  really fun to paint.

Followed the Trench Crusade game since it started, the content and the game system was refreshing, pondered for a time on the  STL's and finally got 3  factions, the Heretic Legion, Pilgrims and the set of Mercenaries, wonderful miniatures brought to life, and had an atmosphere about them for the game world. To me they were joys to paint, perhaps some of the best stuff I have painted in a long time.

My take on the colors and how I perceived them and some Grimdark for a change...

BMT never stops to make things I cannot resist, the Garthim from the Dark Crystal Movie, great monsters.....

One hour Ancient & Medieval skirmish rules game

As a big fan of the One hour skirmish war games rules by John Lambshead, I was very excited at the next book, Ancient and Medieval skirmish, And ordered a copy the instant it was available.

After a read through and  study of the new ideas , I played  a test game, to my mind it did not work the card decks ran through too fast and the combat seemed wrong, not deterred i then played about 5-7 more games using my collection, the end result was  again not right, what was i doing wrong?. On the face book page i commented and saw others had the same problem, after thinking hard about the  rules to which i found to be fun and gave a result I decided to return and take a scenario out of the book and use only the forces laid out by the scenario, the adventures of Robin Hood scenario 4, the Tax collectors cart was to be fought over by Robin and the Sheriff of Nottingham, laying out my table and sorted the  miniatures, my AOS fantasy sets seemed to have all I required some  GW but most were 3D printed by Russell. and all fitted nice into the Scenario.

The game played very well with the  peasants controlling the cart till the Sheriff turned up and took over moving it back to his start line, the card deck this time I decided to play till 3 jokers were turned and it worked, also having the stat lines and weapons on one page eased all the game play. The merry men had a firefight with the crossbow men and the poor peasants were wiped out, little John fell to a crossbow bolt, and  in the end the morale of Robins men failed so victory to the Sheriff, on counting the  scenario points the  Sheriff had 20 to Robins 0 so a definite result, the game worked  and was fun so  the moral is never give up on something you know works. More games to follow, be safe my friends