Warm Ale and Mud

As I mentioned HERE  I used to play WFB 3rd edition with 10mm and I had a sort of mascot that had no purpose other than to amuse us. My old 10mm games were less narrative and story driven so I never did get round to writing anything about who Stefan was or why he was found lingering on battlefields drinking whilst perched on his barrel. I have now finished my 25mm version, and I am still no wiser as to who he is. I need to remedy that, I am thinking an agent of Ranald maybe, I really am not sure. If you have any ideas or suggestions please do drop them below!! 25mm Stefan and his smaller 10mm cousin. It is not my finest work but it will do, oh and I decided to base him after much pondering as this way he is a bit more stable and can double as a unit filler should the need ever arise.

That sounds dodgy eh? I used to play WFB 3rd edition with 10mm for a good few years and with it being so affordable and quick to paint it was easy to have lots of extra little details and bits of set dressing. One such thing was Stefan. He was a wagon rider I converted to be holding a horn drinking cup and sat on a barrel. Stefan could be found on my wargames tables having a beer and watching the carnage unfold. Here are a few shots from various games of him watching the proceedings unfold.  Now that my wife and I are mostly playing 25mm WFB she wanted to know where Stefan was. Ampersand Andy over on The Wargames Website very generously sent me an old Citadel villager who is in a sitting position and holding a bottle of booze. So here he is, primed and ready to go. Whilst an identical but bigger version of the 10mm Stefan would be amazing, who am I to turn away a free model!! I will post when he is all done.

Some of you may or may not know that I used to be in the business of selling wargamery stuff. I used to have a range of both 6mm sci-fi figures and terrain, and 15mm fantasy figures and terrain. However they have both long since been sold off to other companies where they now live. My wife did buy herself a laser cutter to try and make some extra money selling various things on etsy, however that proved not to be as lucrative as hoped, so the laser cutter is mostly used for cutting bases and trays for our own games of warhammer these days. It does seem a shame not to use it for commercial reasons. So I have just updated my own site to add a few laser cut bases and trays that may be of use to you fellow oldhammer players. There are only a few items on there as these will most likely be what most oldhammerers need, but I am happy to do custom sizes and shapes. Go to my main website and visit the SHOPPE link: https://angelbarracks.co.uk/ Normal oldhammery posting type stuff will resume sh...

I mentioned a few posts ago what my plan is ( LINK ) and can I stay true to it. My website HERE has some details around what the units at the garrison will be and there are some notes and background on the units I have completed. But for the ones yet to be done there is nothing as yet. So I figured I would show you what they will be. (Better pictures on my website or previous blog posts) Here is a shot of the models that will make up the Counts Garrison at Heiligsheld once complete: THE WHOLE GARRISON ARMBRUSTSCHUTZEN FLEGLERS (I am as yet undecided if these are followers or Morr, Taal, or Gadd.) HELBLITZEN ERZATSOLDER HOLZFALLER The garrison is to be made from old Citadel models only (including some re-done by Foundry) and as it is story and narrative based, no duplicate models either. (Incase you are wondering why the static grass on the bases does not match the tabletop, this is the grass mat I use for my 10mm WFB which does match), I could not be bothered to get my 25mm WFB tableto...

WFRP 1st Edition and why I like it: WFRP was dark and grim, and a successful adventure was one where you did not catch some disease, and the reward was a dry bed to sleep in and some fresh bread. It was not about saving the world, it was not about rescuing the princess, it was about leaving your farm and saying goodbye to tedium and then wondering if you had made the right choice. It was exploration, questionable ethics, likeable villains, terrible villains, fallible heroes, it was wet and damp, it was a world of hidden foes and political machinations, it was foul and depressing, it was warm ale and mud, and it was glorious. If you got into too many fights and took proper damage from them, even if it did heal later, you could still get emotional damage. Phobias, ticks, all manner of psychosis. Honestly if done a certain way it was grim, but also doing it that way, the tiniest rays of light and hope could make your day. Starving, wet, cold, tired, feet aching from walking, b...

Hopefully, as I am one of those gamers that can be pretty focused. I started 25mm WFB about 10 months ago and that is the only thing I have been doing during that time. Prior to that I was doing 10mm WFB and I did that exclusively for about 4 years, except for a brief foray in 25mm Mordheim. So I am pretty good at not getting distracted by other games/scales/periods etc… But what is the plan? I am creating the village of Heiligsheld, this is a small village in eastern Stirland somewhere near the Sylvanian border. The village is one of three that are looked after by Count Halven, a very brief overview is here: https://angelbarracks.co.uk/thestory.html I have already purchased all the models I need for the Imperial garrison, they just need painting. The trickier bit is their enemies. I want the campaign/project to be about the village, not about army A vs army B, and as such there could and should (?) be a variety of enemies. I want to tell the story of the village a...

I have just finished the Farmhouse which took a lot of my modelling energies for a while. LINK TO THAT So for now I will retreat into the games room and plan new things and maybe paint my elementalist for my Stirland forces. A couple of years ago we sold our house in Bristol as we needed a bigger house so that my wife's mom could come and live with us as she is very ill. Long story short, we are a lot worse off financially but her mom is better and we have a bigger house, big enough for a games room!! For reasons, we are unable to go out much, no meals, cinemas or the stuff that most people do so we are trying to make the games room have a certain vibe. Here are some images of where the magic happens...  :D On the ceiling is a flag that I got the sizing wrong on, so rather than bin it it goes there!! My growing 25mm scenery/terrain collection. 10mm and 25mm models for WFB 3rd edition. Some books and filums. The table gets pulled out for games and on the ceiling is a canvas that I s...