Warm Ale and Mud

I am not sure what I have divulged on this blog about my setting of Heiligsheld vs what I have said on my website HERE . However what I have been pondering and decided upon is this. Taal is the main worshipped god of the area, there is a ruined church to Gadd not that far off in the forest, but Gadd has mostly been forgotten except by a few.  There is a cemetery but not a graveyard, a graveyard being distinguished as it is attached to a place of worship, a cemetery however is a standalone thing. The villagers are buried in the cemetery, or Garden of Morr as it is known, but with there being no shrine to Morr in the village, just Taal, when people need to have the last rites spoken, the villagers send to Leicheberg for a priest of Morr who makes the journey to administer said rites. So this means a few things in terms of what I am doing. My Morrite Fleglers are not part of the village proper and will be used likely just once, they will be a group of cultists on a pilgrimage to ...

Back on this day in 2024 I decided to pause my 10mm WFB 3rd edition and have a go at 25mm like I played back in the 80's and 90's. Switching from 10mm to 25mm meant starting entirely from scratch. I had big plans at the start, I had intended to have both my small armies painted within a year. That would be about 2 models per week. With even the best will in the world that would have been tricky, some times you just don't feel in the mood, sometimes you want to but are too tired to paint well enough, sometimes you get ill. Looking back it was ambitious, and then I had not factored terrain. I have had to make/buy/collect all the terrain and so on. Trees, hedges, walls, fences, fields, scatter, buildings etc. These all take loads of time, especially as I make much of it myself from scratch. So where am I so far? The whole lot, still much left to paint: The Stirland Garrison: The Undead, now this is a bit odd as some are mine and some are Samantha's and some we share, the n...