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.

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.

Warlord Battle Report

Quite long time has passed since I've played Warlord for the last time. Biore returned from holidays so we were ready to play again! We decided to play 500 point scenario with some objectives over battlefield. The goal was to get objectives and run away to own deployment zone. I've chosen to play Darkreach army (I already have some Reaper Darkreach minis). Biore decided to go with Bloodstone Gmones.





Darkreach Warband (Lead by Rafal Maj)



Troop 1

1 Zeshin Nightcreeper

2 Shiver Spike

1 Avrix Dirthe, Champion

1 Shadowstep Warrior



Troop 2

1 Evshyvandra Duskwidow

2 Nightshade Warrior

1 Shadowstep Warrior

1 Liela Mordollwen, Sorceress



Troop 3

1 Phase Cat





Bloodstone Gnome Warband (Lead by Biore)



Troop 1

1 Bata, Lancer Captain

1 Glaktu, Lancer Champion

2 Pinner

1 Guard



Troop 2

1 Naklak

1 Scragger

1 Tunnel Knight

1 Szerda, Priestess of the Stone

1 Stone Zealot



Troop 3

1 Greater Bloodstone Golem





Battlefield

The battle took place in a ruined City. There was a graveyard on the right. In the middle there was a leveled road. There were 3 objective items on the battlefield. First was on the left of the battlefield, in the ruined guard tower. Second lied on a skull tower in the middle. Third was on spiral stairs near the graveyard.

The goal was to grab those item and bring them to deployment zone.



Deployment

Darkreach Monster, Elites and Leaders were in the middle, Shiver Spikes and Warriors were on flanks.

Bloodstone Golem was in the middle, caster with zealot were on the one flank, foot fighter from Naklak troop were on the other flan. First troop was in reserves.



Turn 1

Darkreach has first initiative card. Leila goes forward and casts a teleportation on cat (he is now 4" from enemy caster). Gmone priestess fails to cast spectral minions. Is attacked by zealot, but no attack dice is rolled. The cat attacks zealot in it's turn and charge sorcere, but again no attack is made. Then Zeshin swap places with Phase Cat and kills evil sorcerer. Golem now charges Zeshin and kills him outright. Gnome Troop 1 sets up on battlefield in Darkreach zone.



Turn 2

Gomes gets initiative. The unit that has bin deployed after turn 1 charges Phase Cat and kills it (Cat has been shocked). I thought that I would probably loose without Zeshin and Phase Cat (my main hardhitters). Leila failed casting burst on avrix. Shiver Spike scored a wound on Guard. Avrix charged and killed Lancer Captain.



Turn 3

Avrix almost killed lancer champion, but gnome rider passed it's Tough test and wounded Avrix. Gnome shooters has missed their attacks at Duskwidow. Nightshade warriors charges and killed both Scragger and Tunel Knight. I swapped Shiver spike with Shadowstep Warrior, and than both shiver spikes killed Naklak. Leila has killed Guard with bolt spell.



Turn 4

Golem has killed one Silver Spike. Than Leila and another Shiver Spike killed both Pinners. Avrix has killed lancer. The gnomes had only Golem left on battlefield. Elves had: 2 Nightshade Warriors (both wounded), Shiver Spike, Duskwidow, Avrix (one wound), 2 Shadowstep Warriors, Leila (1 Mana Point left).



Further Turns

Avrix with other Dark Elves moved in Golem direction. One Shadowstep Warrior run with objective point into my deployment zone. Leila get one obective item at the end turn. Golem killed several elves before he finally died.



Score

Darkreach: 2 Objective Points & 500 Army Points

Bloodstone Gnomes: 0 Objective Points & 361 Army Points



After Battle

The battle was bloody. The last minis on battlefield were: Liela Mordollwen (with objective item), Shiver Spike, Shadowstep Warrior (with objective item), Evshyvandra Duskwidow. If the golem would pass the lifesuck test (6+) when he killed Avrix, I woudn't have any chance to win (no more hardhitters of mine left on battlefield).



Now, I also think I could put Leila and Zeshin in one troop to get more powerful teleport-swap combo. I'll try it another time.

Warlord Necropolis Army

I'm going to make a small Necropolis army for a skirmish game Warlord. I don't like Reaper Necropolis range (well maybe beside Scarecrow). I'd love to make it with old Rackham metals but those are highly unavailable, thats why I'm going to make this army using GW plastics.

So here's what I'm going to make:



▼ Vampire Troop

1 Crimson Knight Champion

3 Crimson Knights

1 Crimson Knight Elite



▼ Ghoul Troop

1 Ghast Lord

2 Ghasts

4 Ghouls

1 Malek, the Hated



▼ Zombie Troop

8 Burrowing Zombies

2 Fresh Zombie Counters

1 Grave Horror



I'll make some monsters and warlords after finishing those minis.

[Battle Report] Warlord: Necropolis vs Dwarves

This was my second Warlord battle. I've decided to make minor changes in my necropolis army. So here's squad I was playing this time.







NECROPOLIS



Troop 1:

► Elsabeth Briarkiss

► 3x Crimson Knight



Troop 2:

► Graverot, Ghast

► 2x Ghast

► 2x Ghoul

► Malek, the Hated (that thing that let him keep his mana when spell is not successful)



TOTAL: 500pts







DWARVES

► Albatros Amulet



Troop 1:

► Ursula, Bear Rider (Book of Tactic, Magic Weapon)

► Ivar Silverfist

► Halberdier

► Mancatcher

► Swiftaxe



Troop 2:

► Hagard the Maimed

► Gilam, Rune Spelunker

► Halberdier

► Mancatcher

► Swiftaxe



Troop 3:

► Snorri Oathbreaker



TOTAL: 498pts







BATTLE

Battle was quite fast. Dwarfs were prepared to fight Elves (I still have to asemble my Darkreach army). Check out who had won.







Dwarfs are still in their deployment zone. I had to move first with all my units. Also, my enemy had 4 cards and I had only 2, that was pain.





I've moved ghouls nad ghasts into wood, so they would be safe for a while. Malek tried to cast a spell but he didn't succeed. Enemy moved closer with all units.





Snorri moved closer to Malek. Then I've decided to charge with ghouls on Snorri and with ghasts on rest of dwarves. Ghouls have killed Snorri. Last wound was made by poison (but the dwarf has killed my ghouls too). Ghasts have killed Halberdier and Ghast leader has killed Mancatcher.





Gilam cast a successful spell that made my Ghast leader burning and stunned. He died. Swiftaxe and Hagard have attacked ghasts and made one wound on each. In return ghasts made 2 wound on Hagard, but then he was healed by Ivar. Bear Rider and other Mancatcher and Halberdier have attacked my Vampiress. They made only one wound on her, but she has killed Mancatcher.





Gilam cast again the same spell on Crimson Knight, making him burning and stunned and with one wound from defensive strikes the vampire was dying. Ursula and Elsabeth have killed each other! Ghasts finaly killed swiftaxe and Hagard.





One Crimson knight has charged Halberdier, the other one has charged Gilam and both killed their targets. Ghasts ate Ivar.







MY THOUGHTS

Fist Battle without Warlords (those units are just too powerful, especially when you play 500pts). Malek is not good enought against Dwarves. Never so far did he cast a spell properly. I have to either change sorcerer or change tactic. He can be good with healing my own units. Crimson Knights are really tough killers! This unit is like elite in other factions.



I'm gonna make special army for next Warlord battle, hope I'm going to finish it before next battle.

[Battle Report] Warlord

This was my first Reaper Warlord battle ever. I'm sure we did a lot of mistakes. We only had 1st version of Warlord Rulebook, but we played 2nd edition. We made up those rules that wasn't described in 1st edition rulebook, but fortunately those rules hasn't much to do in this battle.



I was playing Necropolis force as I'm painting this army of Mordheim so I had some models painted, and those were accurate for proxing. My friend had his Reaper Dwarf army so no proxing here. We chose to start with 500pts and 1 Warlord Choice. So here's what we have chosen:



NECROPOLIS



Troop 1:

Judas Bloodspire, Antoined of Hars

Gauntfield, Scarecrow (Magic Waepon)

Zombie x3

Luck Stone



Troop 2:

Graverot, Ghast

Ghast x2

Ghoul x2

Malek, the Hated



TOTAL: 500pts







DWARVES



Troop 1:

King Thorgram Grimsteel

Bear Rider

Forgemaiden

Warrior



Troop 2:

Abjorn Hofkeg, Miner

Kara Foehunter

Pathfinder

Piercer



Troop 3:

Annasha Tomebreaker

Albatros Amulet



TOTAL: 499pts







BATTLE:

Battle was very fast and very bloody.





We moved our units straight ahead. In firs turn the bear cavalry charged Judas. Dwarf missed with all his attacks, Vampire hit twice the poor bear. Annasha moved throward to seek enemy, but my ghoul unit moved slow in shade.





This is just another view of situation above. Malek tried to hit Annasha with Ice Shard spell but casting wasn't succesfull.





In another turn I charged Annasha with my ghasts and ghouls killing her, but she killed one ghoul and wound one more in fight back. My ghast sergeant charged pathfinder killing him. Than the burrowed Miner attacked my ghast sergeant and piercer and foehunter killed some of my ghouls.

King, Warrior and Forgemaiden joined the fight agains zombies and vampire. It was a nice fight, but in the end I've killed bear rider and king (healing my vampire to full), but I've lost scarecrow and a zombie.





The battle was on. Ghast charged piercer and killed him. Ghast sergeant killed miner (but lost one wound)





Kara Foehunter has killed my ghasts (thanks to pierce SA). Vampiress has killed forgemaiden, but the maiden was able to kill at her last breath.





Kara killed my sergeant, than she killed Malek. Her piercing shots are really deadly.





The Vampires go straight on dwarf. But in last turn the dwarf has initiative so Kara has wounded Vampiress Warlord. Than Vampiress has killed poor dwarf with great vengeance and fury!







MY THOUGHTS

I like Warlord very much. The first thing I would change in next battles is to rid of warlords as they are to powerful. Second thing is to get some experience-advance rules so it would be like Mordheim. I know some folks made Mordheim rules work with Warlord. I'll check if they work good. But I'll make something different more suitable with Warlord universe. In Warlord game you can have more variety on warbands than in Mordheim (I'm getting bored with all undead warbands lead by vampire with necromancer and 3 dregs, Its pity you cannot have different heroes). But in Warlord you can make them more interesting. Great variety of models in army. There is no must-have-minimum-one etc.



I still need to learn Warlord rules. I don't know how Cursed or Poisoned or Stunned works. But I wont play Undead in Warlord anymore. I'm going to get some Darkreach army. Just because of incredibly well done sculpts of those Elves.

Reaper 14551: Vale Ranger Sergeant

Commission Work. An Elf Character for D&D RPG. There was much fun with golden parts.

Reaper 14040: Malek, Necropolis Mage

Great mini! I've painted it few years ago and re-find it when I rearrange furnitures in my room :). Hope You love it too!

Grundor Hoardtaker, Mercenaries Sergeant (Reaper 14002)

Next mini from Werner Klocke. Also great model I had to paint. I chose neutral colors for whole mini and put fire-red head to make it outstands from the rest. Hope you like it as much as I do.



From Reaper's site: Grundor Hoardtaker came to Taltos a scant three years ago to seek his fortune as a Soldier. "Civilized" living quickly proved itself too restrictive and dull for the spirited Northman, however. After sixteen months of wandering aimlessly from one place to the next, he finally found a kindred spirit in the Ghanoth Warlord Orba Sinhan. Grundor's short temper, blunt frankness, and fearlessness made him an excellent candidate for a position of authority. In battle, he devastates his opponents with a weapon in each hand, wading through the charnel fields contentedly.

Nivar, Necropolis Hero (Reaper 14033)

This mini was sculpted by one of my favorites sculptors - Werner Klocke. I could not resist to paint it. I love ow it turned out. Mini would be on eBay soon.



From Reaper's site: Wraiths are some of the finest assassins and scouts in Thule. The lords of the Necropolis have called Nivar, and others like him, from The Beyond to serve them and the wraiths answered.

Tolzar, Cleric

Tolzar, Cleric (02681). Look at the shield. This dragon is lovely!

Shad, Mercenaries Rogue

Shad, Mercenaries Rogue (14021). This was my first minisold on eBay. I get this crazy idea to paint his blades covered in poison so here how it come up. Alo I love blending on leather sword holster.

Janna the Wanderer

Janna the Wanderer (14051). This was fun to paint. I like the smooth skin shades I did on her. Also armor and hair looks great on this mini.

Orba Sinhan, Mercenaries Warlord

Orba Sinhan, Mercenaries Warlord (14062) is one of my favourites Reaper mini. Big sword was incredible fun to paint! Also I made great progress in paintyng NMM when workin on this hero.

Vlad, Evil Cleric

Another mini from Reaper Miniatures. Vlad Evil Cleric (02569).

Tolan, Male Druid

Tolan, Male Druid (02692)

Danra Female Druid

Danra Female Druid (02693)