Warm Ale and Mud

Having recently finished my Fleglers I reached the stage of only having a single unit left to paint. But… It is the largest unit of my force, daunted by the hours it will take to do (approx 120 hours, 8 hours a figure and 15 figures) I looked for a distraction. Warm Ale and Mud is my long term project and will chronicle the various events that happen to the good folk of Heiligsheld, culminating in a might battle for survival against the undead hordes of neighbouring Sylvania. However that is not all the games will be, there has already been the Orc raid led by Scrotter Brokenstaff and soon there will be Trolls at the Door, when a wandering troll comes to pay a visit. Here is the self named Felsbloch the interloping sheep stealing troll.   Being a player of WFB 3 rd edition in days before River trolls, Swamp trolls, Stone trolls and even internet trolls, trolls was just trolls. Normally brown or green in colour; and as we all know, proper trolls are green, so yes, ...

FLEGLERS Whilst not a part of the Counts garrison as such; after all who would want religious fanatics living with you day in and day out, there is a semi regular presence of flagellants in the area, being so close to the borders with unholy Sylvania there can often be found a group of Morrite Fleglers heading into that dread county to purge the area and cleanse with the lash and rod. One such group is shown below. They call themselves The Children of Morr. First we have Brother Verfechter who found Morr after his village bar him were killed by marauding greenskins, believing himself spared for a greater purpose he has become an extreme devotee of Morr bent on ridding the Empire of all goblinoids. The large and heavy metal pole he carries with chains attached was once the giant clapper from the bell in the villages chapel to Verena. He thinks it apt that he will meet out justice on the greenskins with it. Brother Holbein is the oldest devotee of the Children of Morr, he ca...

I have a favour to ask, to those that have been following my Heiligsheld project I want to get your feedback on my map please. Not the quality as this is a draft, I just want to check that where I have placed things makes sense with what is already 'official'. So the setting on my website and posts here on this blog, and the game report. Hopefully nothing is in a place that contradicts what I have written and hopefully nothing has been missed. Rough Mappe:

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...

I posted early on about my unit of Armbrustschutzen HERE . Though from my post about my master plans HERE , you will see that the goal is to have 10 not 5 of the chaps. At long last I have finished the final 5: This now means that 3 of my total of 5 units are complete and that 25 of the 47 models needed are painted. Over half way which is great!! Feels like it has taken an age. I suspect my 5 Fleglers will be easy to paint but I am still undecided if they are followers of Morr, Gadd or Taal.  I am leaning toward Morr, but as with the Holzfaller, they will not be part of the garrison. However whilst the Holzfaller are still villagers who just happen to take up arms against attackers, the Fleglers will be passing by around the time of the grand final battle.  Maybe guided by their deity as needed? Anyway, they are done and the spiel is on the website proper as normal.

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.