Dreadfleet Auxiliaries of The Grand Aliance

Three Grand Alliance Gogs, Dragon, and Dwarf Dirigible. The zeppelin and dragon are a nice addition to their parent warships.

Dreadfleet Auxiliares of the Dreadfleet

Four Dreadfleet Cogs included in Game. Those little ships won't damage any warship much, but they can move swiftly between islands to grab trasure tokens. In the game they can be loaded with explosives to set enemy warships into fire.

Dreadfleet Sea Monsters

Three sea monsters: Leech Wyrm, Sea Giant, Bone Hydra. Well the bet part of this game is that you can use those monsters in game to attack The Grand Alliance warships.

Dreadfleet Castle Island

This island is awesome piece of terrain. The castle can be used as a fighting auxiliary, obviously a stationary one, but with nice stats.

Dreadfleet Vulcano Island

Vulcano Island with ghost castle.

Dreadfleet Corpseface Cliff Island

Skull face with glowing eyes is awesome!

Dreadfleet Skull Island and Rocky Isles

I particulary like the skull island with glowing eyes. Looks awesome on seascape!

Dreadfleet Leviathan Island

This turtle-shaped island has an awesome small castle on it's top.

Dreadfleet Shipwrecks

Painted shipwrecks.

Dreadfleet Tokens

Tokemn set for Dreadfleet. The wind token has a little map of the world in the center.

Dreadfleet Battle Reports

Finally I've played my first Dreadfleet battle. The game is awesome! It look really incredible fully pro painted on a beautiful seascape mat. Check out my two battle reports!

First Battle: Scenario 1

The Grand Aliance (played by Pszemek)

Heldenhammer



The Dreatfleet (played by Rafal)

Bloody Reaver



The Battle

This was First scenario played with Pszemek. Pszemek has chosen The Grand Alliance and I was commanding The Dreadfleet. First battle was long. We were swimming around the islands trying to catch each other, but this was impossible to catch the other ship. Some Fate card made my ship turn into rocks but than I've repaired my ship. Than I've stopped and I've ordered a command Shoot as she Bears! with success. The Heldenhammer find my ship as an easy target to crush in and drop the ship's figure. I've shot scoring two hits and non of those were saved! Than the Heldenhammer'f figure has been dropped but Pszemek rolled 1 and no damage was inflicted. We fought a boarding action and I've wounded a captain of Heldenhammer and also I've scored 1 damage on the enemy ship. On the next round I've won the initiative but I've decided to start as second. Heldenhammer has dropped it's figure once again and again Pszemek has rolled 1 so no damage was inflicted! Call it a bad luck but I believe that gods were on my side. Pszemek's captain was healed by some sea siren. We fought some battle but Heldenhammer hasn't inflict any damage on Bloody Reaver! Instead Bloody Reaver destroyed Heldenhammer by inflicting enough Hull damage to sunk it! Victory was mine!

Second Battle: Scenario 2

The Grand Aliance (played by Pszemek)

Heldenhammer

Swordfysh



The Dreatfleet (played by Rafal)

Bloody Reaver

Curse of Zandri



The Battle

There were some special rules in this scenario. I'd like only to mention that this was incredibly fast game. We followed strictly scenarios terrain and rules. So there was a citadel in the center of seascape. Pszemek had to breach the walls of citadel in order to get control of Swordfysh that was in base to base contact with citadel (until that moment I couldn't fight that ship). The goal was to run away with Swordfysh out of seascape. My ships came in to play at the end of 2nd and 3rd turn! I thought I had no chance to win, but...



The Heldenhammer has breach the walls of citadels in first turn by shooting broadside at citadel. In the second turn I've won the initiative. The cannons at citadel shoot at heldenhammer scoring some damage. I've also scored some damage at Swordfysh in boarding action. After that Swordfysh had escaped jeopardy. Then the Bloody Reaver came in to play. I've won next initiative to and I've sail as close as possible to get best shooting at swordfysh and I did scored some damage again! Swordfysh was trying to escape. The citadel has scored fire on deck on heldenhammer! Curse of Zandri has arrived in this turn. In the next turn I've catch Swordfysh with Bloody Reaver. Obviously the damaged ship had no chances with the best fighting crew of captain Count Noctilus. The swordfysh has sunk in the ships graveyard! Victory was mine again!







My Thoughts

I have to say that like this game very much! There's a bit of luck and a bit of thinking to make your fleet work well. Await more reports with colorful pictures as I will take camera next time. Yarrr!

Dreadfleet Painted!

Finally I've painted Dreadfleet. Check it out here. Soon I'll post more views of painted ships and islands.

Painted Dreadfleet comming very soon!

First set would be sold on eBay. But I'll keep myself a copy of that game. Stay tuned for pictures.



I need to paint 3 more ships which are: Hendenhammer, Seadrake and Bloody Reaver. All are mostly done. Await pictures tomorrow! Yarrr!

Warlord Kargir Warband

This is my first army project for Warlord. The army will consist of about 30 minis including Black Orcs, Night Goblins, Squigs (yes, Squigs) and Troll. I'm going to use mostly OOP GW models from 5th edition of Warhammer. I think they suit this warband the best, even better than original reaper models. Also I think that Warhammer 5ed line was best mini line ever!

Design

I want to make this warband a nasty, evil look. There would be no place for humor. Thats why I have to chose my goblin carefully as most of Night Goblins are just funny. Also I'll change squigs into something more nasty.

Troop 1: Black Orcs

This is my strongest unit. It would consist of the heaviest orc warriors in this warband. The leader of whole group would be Gologh the Vicious.

Troop 2: Tundra Stalkers

Masters of blade, tundra stalkers are masters at fighting 2 weapons. Torg is their leader. He has 2 tundra stalkerz that will follow his orders. This warband will be also accompanied by Warbringer, an elite warrior. This unit can give a great deal of blows. This will be good versus large quantities of low armored troopers.

Troop 3: Goblin Pack

Leadered by Orc called Hrodash the Painmaster goblin pack is a very important unit of this warband. While not so powerfull in fighting as other troops, this guys can literally swarm enemy units. Hrodash is a true goblin slaver. He wears Armor of Courage (which protects him from goblin bites) and allows to preform free inspire action that encourages goblins to fight with greater furry. Goblins are just goblins but occasionally Knax Madmaw, the goblin crazy shaman, joins this unit. Normally he spends most of his days eating mushrooms and experimenting his spells on other goblins, but when tribe is in need, he strikes at foe.

Troop 4: Mountain Troll

This army wouldn't be complete if there would be no troll in it. Mountain troll is awesome monster. I'll probably get second troll for bigger battles, but let's talk about first one. Mountain Trolls are very tough. My troll will be fighting with axe and shield. Warlord trolls are bit different than Warhammer trolls and no so stupid. Some of troll races have even a shaman which actually can cast incredible spells!

Troop 5: Squig Hyenas

I need some of those units to outmaneuver the enemy. Small units of squig hyenas will add extra initiative card and give mobility to this warband. They are just perfect to rush at enemy to give support to my orcs or to fight with swift attack tactics, slowing down the enemy.

Dreadfleet Flaming Scimitar Painted

Flaming Scimitar is now ready to fight! This ship is one of the most interesting in the game. While it is very fast it's still has some fighting potential. It's maybe not very durable, but with help of water nymphs it can last longer on a battlefield. I just can't wait my first battle!



Flaming Scimitar





Island

Gorthor on Beastmen Tuskgor Chariot of Slaanesh

Part of a bigger Slaaneshi Beastmen Army. Commission work.

Beastmen Tuskgor Chariot of Slaanesh

Part of a bigger Slaaneshi Beastmen Army. Commission work.

Dreadfleet Grimmir's Thunder Painted

I've just painted Grimmir's Thunder a steam powered dwarf ironclad. This ship is very nice piece of work. It's very dwarfish with it's design and heraldry. The unique thing about this model is that this is not only a mighty warship but also it is a zeppelin carrier. The game rules allows you to fly those zeppelins in order to get treasures before enemy can reach them.



Grimmir's Thunder





Island

It came from beneath the sands…

Another article about minis painted by Rafal Maj on GW website. I'm more than happy that Dan from GW has posted my Tomb Kings on GW blog. What's more to say, check it out!



Check out the whole article HERE.

Release the Kraken!

Here's a Chaos Dwarf Kraken Painted. The miniature is stunning. Cant wait to paint all those models. Right now, I'm about to paint the Flaming Scimitar and Dwarf Warship. Than I'll be ready to set sails and play the game.



Hope you like the mini. I tried to paint it as close as possible to the original scheme. Hope to finish it soon. Also, the first painted set will be posted on eBay auction.

Dreadfleet Incoming!

I've just bough the Dreadfleet! It's awesome stuff. I'll be happy to play all scenarios and post them on the blog of course with painted minis. While I'll be painting those awesome ships, I'll be also mastering the rules. Hope to get some photos soon.



Well I almost finished Chaos Dwarf Kraken and one island. I'm trying to keep original color scheme as stick as possible. Stay tuned!

Warlord Darkreach Warband

I'm about to buy and finish Darkreach Warlord Warbands. My first choice would be Darkreach Warband (as I already have some reaper minis from this fraction) but I would like to get also Black Orcs of Kargir Warband and icy Dwarf of Kragmarr Warband. I don't really get idea of ice themed Dwarfs but I would like to challenge this project.

Doctrines

Shadow Tactic is nice doctrine versus bigger enemies but since I play mostly against dwarf and gnomes I use Dark Reaches Doctrine. The best advantage is that you can swap minis to make incredible combos. This allows you to keep your best warriors always close to enemies, or to run away with weaker ones.

Miniatures

I like Darkreach theme very much. The best sculpts are: Leila, Avrix and Shiver Spike. Of course there are some worse sculpts too (for example the Shadow Demon or Darkrime Drake). Here's a set of minis I'm going to buy.



Leaders

► Majestrix Latissula, High Priestess

► Zeshin Nightcreaper

► Evshyvandra Duskwidow

► Tierdeleira, Priestess



Elites

► Avrix Dirthe, Champion

► Liela Mordollwen, Sorceress

► Erdolliel Saerwen

► Zalash, Assassin



Soldiers

► 3 Shadowstep Warriors

► 3 Nightshade Warriors

► 3 Shiver Spikes

► 2 Darkshade Raiders



Monsters

► 2 Phase Cats



I'm going to prox some minis (Phase Cats and Zeshin). It's quite likely that I'll buy those horrible Darkrime Drakes, just to boost up gaming, but they will be probably heavy converted. Hope to start this army project soon.