Three wheels on my (pump)wagon!

Another update for my AoA Orcs. Way back when, before it became a dark grim place, the Warhammer world used to produce some nice humorous pieces like these glorious little gems - The Snotling Pumpwagon! Once again these guys were painted by Martyn (although it’s possible one might of come from a bring-and-buy - I tend to forget) and again I have given them a quick coat army painter and a rebase onto 50mm bases.

I give you "the Runt Wagons"!

I intend to use these little guys this Friday when I play Ade with his Chaos stuff. They will use the following profile.

VP: 45

Move: 12"

Wounds: 4

Armour: 2 Fixed Missile +2 Slow

Magic: 1

Morale: 9 Fearless

Melee: 8/1 Week

Missile: -

Special: Ram 4/3 Str(2)

StokeRogue

The horde assembles!

The first completed units for my AoA Orcs, 2 units of 10 Orc bowmen. These guys were again painted by my good friend Martyn Smith many years ago, but sadly they have seen little to no table-top action since the 3rd and 4th editions of Warhammer. Once again I decided they would benefit from a quick coat of Army Painter Dark Tone, and a rebase in my standard style.

Whilst I was doing these guys, I couldn't resist giving an old Gorfang Rotgut model the Dark Tone/rebase treatment. I've always loved this model and I want him to represent a major hero in my AoA list.

Finally, I bought these bad boys quite a few years ago when I had the urge to collect all of GW's lovely Dogs of War range. Can't ever recalling using them in a Warhammer game, but they at long last get the chance to shine as Greater Orc Crossbowmen! 

Apologies for the unfinished movement tray.

StokeRogue

So you can teach an old troll new tricks!

Ok, so here are some shots of some old Warhammer Trolls that have received a bit of a work-up and re-basing for AoA. These guys were originally painted by Martyn many moons ago, and were done in his characteristic bright colour schemes that were popular at the time. Although I loved this look at the time, I now tend to favour a darker look. A quick wallop with some Army Painter dark tone produced some brilliant results.

I applied a coat of matt varnish all over the Stone Trolls, but left the River Trolls bodies with the glossy finish as I thought it made them look nice and slimey!

The Trolls were based on GW standard 40mm bases, but AoA requires 50mm bases for models of this size. Rather than take them off I simply glued the whole 40mm base straight onto a 2mm thick 50mm mdf base from Warbases. A bit of polyfiller round the edges and a coat of sand completely covered the 40mm base. After that a coat of dark brown paint, a drybrush with Colour Party Paints - Stone and some static grass finished them off nicely.

These guys are going to provide the "heavy hitters" for my AoA Orc army. I have decided that Orcs will be the first of my Warhammer armies to get the full AoA treatment for 2 reasons. Firstly, I rarely used the Orcs in Warhammer because they had so many frustrating special rules that they became a real pain to play. Secondly, most of the figures are already on the correct sized bases which should speed up the job no end. With that in mind, expect  the next few update to mainly include some finished Orc units.

StokeRogue

Warhammer? We don't need no stinking Warhammer!

Hello all!

In an attempt to keep my enthusiasm high, I will post up a running account of my adventures in the world of Arcana! (With the possibility of some other wargaming bits thrown in along the way). Until recently I have always been a massive Warhammer player, I started collecting and gaming with 3rd edition back in the late 80's when I was 12 and have never stopped until about 12 months ago. As such I have amassed what I believe to be a fairly extensive collection over the years.

Essentially, without trying to turn this into a whine-fest, I fell out of love with warhammer due to 3 main reasons. Firstly, the cost was becoming increasingly outlandish. Secondly, I was fed up of older figures becoming totally useless with each new army book/edition. And finally I just felt that the game was becoming so dominated by stupid rules/units/monsters/characters/magic (delete as appropriate) that it just wasn't fun to play anymore.

That said, the 1 aspect of warhammer that I did still love was "THE SPECTACLE"! I admit it, the sight of 2 loving crafted armies battling over beautiful terrain really stirs my geek’s heart.

So, what I needed was a new game that allowed me to use my vast back catalogue of figures and pit them against each other in glorious (and ideally fast, uncomplicated) battle. Step up Armies of Arcana!

Together with my long time gaming buddy Ade, another ex-warhammerite, we took the decision to drop Warhammer from our gaming itinerary and instead throw our collective might (and believe me, collectively we are mighty indeed!) into AoA. What follows will be our journey into this new and slightly scary dimension.

StokeRogue