The Magmahold

 It's time to look back at how I did against last month's hobby goals, and what I'm planning for the next month. I've had quite a productive month, and have finished or am close to finishing a few projects. Last month's goals 1.   Finish the Bloodbowl starter set: done. I've painted everything except Griff Oberwald, who is getting a new career as a freeguild general and thus I've decided doesn't count towards this goal. I'm happy with the Bloodbowl set, I painted it up pretty quickly but I think both teams came out well. 2. Paint Khagra's Ravagers, the new Underworlds warband that came out in February: done. I'm really pleased with these, the models are superb and I think my colour scheme worked well. I've also got quite a few games of Underworlds in with them, with mixed success so far but they're a fun warband to play with. 3. Build all of and ideally paint some of the Ossiarch Bonereaper stuff in my shame pile: done. I got everythi...

I thought I’d do a quick blog on how I’m finding Season 4 of Warhammer Underworlds so far. I’ve been playing at least once a week via webcam since it came out in December, mainly using the Dread Pageant warband. I’ve not played in any tournaments, so these reflections are going to be based on experience from fairly casual play. What do I like about it? The models are great. I really enjoyed painting the two starter set warbands, and the Ravagers are on my painting table at the moment. The warbands they’ve previewed all look good too, especially the vampire models. This isn’t a surprise, the quality of the models has always been a strength of the game, but I’m particularly enjoying the painting this season. The warband specific mechanics/playstyles are interesting. Each of the warbands released so far has felt quite technical, with either distinct mechanics (aetherquartz, desecration) or an inspire condition with interesting trade-offs (the Dread Pageant need to have 6 wound counters ...

Yesterday I played in the Hammertime 7 Age of Sigmar (AoS) event using Tabletop Simulator (TTS), so I thought I’d do a blog on how I got, and what it was like playing in a virtual tournament. The Hammertime TTS tournaments have been running for a while now during the UK lockdowns, and as the name suggests, this was the 7 th one. I watched some of the coverage of the previous one and it looked pretty fun, and since Christmas I’ve been playing a fair bit of AoS on TTS, so I thought I’d give it a go. It works much the same as a real life tournament would, except that all the players are in their own homes, so it’s organised over Discord and the games are played on TTS. My list I ran Kharadron Overlords, using a list based on my real life Kharadron force. I didn’t have a huge amount of experience with it – I’ve played one real life game and three or four TTS games prior to the tournament – so I didn’t expect to do very well. My list was as follows: Allegiance: Kharadron Overlord...