This article was originally posted on Woehammer back on 31st January 2022.
From December 21, we’d started to cover a few top 3s, and at the end of Jan, I ran my first stats article covering those events. Little did I know how popular this would become!
This article was originally posted on Woehammer back on 29th September 2021.
We hadn’t even thought about stats or top 3 lists yet, and here I talk about the very first White Dwarf that came out back in the 70s.
This article was originally posted on Woehammer back on 20th August 2021 a month after we started.
We hadn’t even thought about stats or top 3 lists yet, and here I talk about getting started with 10mm wargaming and Warmaster.
Some of you may be aware that I’ve recently written my own fantasy ruleset for smaller scale games.
It’s aim is to put you in the shoes of what a General experiences, being unable to move all their troops with clockwork precision and not always knowing the full picture.
Part of this has meant taking some glamour shots for the Rulebook. Painting the models and making the scenery has possibly been the most fun I’ve had with wargaming for a long time. For those put off painting a smaller scale, thinking its too small or hard I would urge you to have a go.
There’s no shading, highlighting or detailing, mostly its just patches of colour which come together once you take the 3 foot rule in.
This is one of the shots I did for the rulebook. Aimed at recreating the GW battle scenes you sometimes get in their books. Here we’ve got some Human Halberdiers facing off against some Dwarf Warriors. Both sets of miniatures are sculpted by Forest Dragon Minatures. I bought these prints from Excellent Minitures.
Here I painted up a load of Orcs from Wargames Atlantic (Also, a box of their 10mm minis at £35 basically gives you enough for a small army in the Fantasy ruleset I’ve written).
In this one we’ve my Forest Dragon miniature Dwarfs on the right facing off against the Wargames Atlantic Orcs on the left.
All of these photos have been edited slightly in Canva, with the last one having a rain effect added over the top and the first two having scenic backgrounds inserted behind.
I’ll post some further updates soon, with perhaps some painting guides for the miniatures and instructions on how to make the smaller scale woods.
Peter
I recently had a hankering to play Mordheim once more, but due to limited space, I didn’t think I’d be able to start a massive terrain project to actually be able to play the game.
After all, traditionally, Mordheim was played on a 4×4 foot area! That’s not easy to populate with terrain and then store.
It was while browsing Etsy for some Warmaster bits that I stumbled across some lovely looking ruined buildings for 10mm.
Then it hit me! What if I played Mordheim at 10mm? It would be easy enough. Just change all measurements to centimetres instead of inches, and hey presto!
But what about the playing area? Instead of a massive 4 foot square area, the conversion downwards meant that it could be played on an area only 20 inches by 20 inches! To set about making and planning my playing area, I purchased a number of 5-inch square mdf boards. These would be built up with foam board and the terrain I had found on Etsy to create Mordheim in miniature.
As you can see, this is a massive reduction in the space required. I also ordered some of the ruined buildings, and these are shown below on some of the tiles.
The buildings are fantastic, and each floor can be magnetised to the one below so that they are able to have models move around inside them.
For the models, I purchased some Forest Dragon Undead miniatures in 10mm. Forest Dragon are great as you can buy them either ranked up on a single base for Warmaster or on individual bases for Minihammer.
These are the first 10 models I painted up, and they took me about an hour and a half to paint all ten. I’ve purchased some magnetic sheeting, which I plan to cut and stick to the bases, and then these can be magnetised to movement trays like the one shown for Minihammer if required.
You’re probably wondering how these compare in scale to the terrain and boards, right?
Pretty darn good, I’d say!
All in all, this project will be much, much cheaper than playing at 28mm. Each building costs roughly £6 depending on its size. I think possibly 2 or 3 buildings would fit on each MDF square. This should allow me to create a truly immersive modular board.
As for the minis, I purchased all I needed for the first Undead warband from Wargamerminis. I bought;
All for €18. Not bad! For those in the UK, shipping can be a little pricey, so it’s probably best to put in a larger order if you want to do something similar.
But all in all, I’m really pleased and excited to get started planning out the terrain boards. Yes MiniHammer is also the logical next step…
