Warm Ale and Mud

  The villagers worship The Mother (Rhya) and The Father (Taal). Apart from the sacred stone circle which is used for religious festivals they also use small shrines which are dotted about the village and fields. These are kept to help ensure a good harvest and ward off blight. Common offerings are food from the land and small dolls stuffed with oats, herbs and seed. Plants and the Sun are common symbology but we can also glimpse a crude painting of The Mother, seen naked with yellow flowing hair and a crown of leaves. The larger shrine will have offerings placed inside relevant to the particular festival which will be being celebrated at the time. I quite enjoyed both making and painting these, I will be making some inserts over the next few weeks for the bigger one.

I am not sure if this is the sort of thing people want to see, do let me know in the comments. (Also I did not intend for this to be a blog post, so the images are few and crude in presentation, so please factor that in) I played a game with my normal WFB opponent a few weeks back, but he used my undead rather than his normal Orcs. I did not take a single casualty in that game, but I lost as every unit routed from the battle. So I made some tweaks that would hopefully stop that happening again. Today I played a short game with Samantha. (my wife) Some random images:     What Happened?   My idea to make my Helblitzen 25 rather than 15 strong worked. Always getting the maximum rank bonuses meant they never lost a round of combat. Losing a round vs undead in 3rd means an automatic rout with free hacks and everything. Very painful. Having a separate army banner also worked. Area radius LD bonus. Samantha's zombies lost every round of HTH but when rolling for instability...

I   want to take about something related to my Warm Ale and Mud project; Inspiration. As gamers and modellers we almost all surely find inspiration for aspects of the hobby from here and there. What sort of stuff inspires me? Films, TV shows, Books and History mostly. Other than Oldhammer my other great love are Hammer Horror films. These are a source of inspiration for me in terms of names and personalities of the villagers, in terms of plots and storylines, but especially in terms of appearance. The costumes and sets of some of the Hammer Horror films are outstanding, so much so than the multimillion dollar CGI slop we are served today. Now, before I go on a ramble about Hammer Horror films I will list some of the films that I find inspire me. Of course there are no Warhammer TM films, but many films can be viewed as such. In some cases, just change the names of places in your head to those in the Old World and they work. Other films require you to swap relig...

I decided to increase my Helblitzen from 15 to 25 models. But with my own project rule of no duplicate figures and all the soldiers and villagers having to be oldhammer GW models, finding another 10 different old models was not especially easy or cheap. Having said that I did manage to pick up 4 more for £10.00 which was a bargain. After having a ponder and reflecting a bit, well, a lot, I decided a unit filler may be fun and cheaper. Now, with the unit filler not being a soldier or a villager, it did not have to be an oldhammer model. This is handy as I had a modern model pig lying around which I was going to use in Mordheim. So. I set about converting the pig into a unit filler, a War Hog. I wanted to have something a bit daft and also something that sort of reflected my love of Hammer Horror films. (I have the Karnsteins in my undead and also have a banner with Ingrid Pitt on it.) I have been tempted to buy a goblin fanatic and lend it to my main WFB 3 rd edition opp...