Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Matt and I had agreed to play Old World. Good old fashioned dice throwing bloodbath. Despite going to the club for five years, this is the first time we actually got to have a game against each other, as our interests don't often overlap. Matt is a lovely bloke and I knew this would be a cracking game. My High Elves (dating back to the 80s, almost older than Matt), vs his  beautifully painted Chaos horde at 1500 points. Mort sat in to help guide us through the increasingly labyrinthine rules. We deployed in a pitched battle. Seven units each by pure fluke. My plan was to pin down the right flank with shadow warriors and reaver cavalry (both shooty types), shot the units approaching to pieces, and then left the elite Swordmasters, and the General Elric, do the slicy-dicey thing they do so well. The main thrust was to be my Silver Helm cavalry who were to ride down teh chaos knights the out-numbered 2:1 and let them loose in the backfield. Great plan huh! Matt had two chariots, two...

Last Wednesday, Cliff and I reconvened at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club to have another bash at Warhammer: Old World. This time, I was using my High Elves/Melnibonians. This is my old army of choice, which hasn't seen daylight since 1999/2000, and is made up of units that date back to the 80s (apart from The Shadow Warriors, which are 1990s vintage) and are the type of High Elves that give Dark Eles a bad name. I had lots of option sto choose from (especially as I found I had waaaaaay more foot and cavalry than I remembered, so I went with 15 x archers, 9 x Shadow Warriors, 20 x Swordmasters of Hoeth, 9 x Silver Helms, 10 x reavers, an eagle, an eagle claw bolt thrower, Prince (Elric) Army standard bearer on horseback (with Silver Helms) and Riotla Snow (with Shadow Warriors) and a lvl 2 mage, all with lots of magical equipment. It was a lot of shooty power, just to try it out I guess. I was up against Cliff's dwarfs, unchanged apart from he dropped the miners, and took a war...

  1985 High Elf cavalry - Regiment of Renown - Elwing's Elven cavalry RR10 I bought four off my friend Luke in the 90s, and my painting was never as good as his, even now. Heavy horse, big plumes, not pointy heads. The whole unit (until I get the extra figures of the musician and champion to finish it all off) Found 6 extras, including Elwing himself for not ebay prices. Back view Riotla Snow - based on the painted one by Phil Lewis Yet, I cannot get her into focus at all.

 Back to the 80s! Warhammer was my first rules set, all the way back in 1st edition. Always had a slight soft spot, as long as too many rules weren't too broken or suffered rules creep.  Last time I played anything like Warhammer Fantasy was the late 90s  and early to mid 00s when I used to play Warhammer Ancients .  But I had bought a batch of Goblins from a friend's son to play Dragon Rampant during Lockdown, and seeing several club mates playing 'Old World',  I was intrigued. I offered Cliff a fight. The choices were my Melnibonians (High Elf, but meaner) or the force of Gobbos languishing in the lead mountain. So far, the forces haven't had too much creep, so all good. So, with a couple of free days around Xmas, the Gobbos horde was painted. (To be fair, four units were ready, some of Kieran's, some of mine, some other units just needed expansion and others rebasing, others like the Squigs and archers were from scratch, but it was a fun project).  And w...