Now that might not seem surprising to any of you reading this - I am a self-proclaimed gamer (or ex-gamer) at the least, and this is, or at least was back in 2013 a blog about two of us attempting to begin playing Warhammer again - however, I shall explain why I, at least, am surprised about this turn of events.
As I mentioned above, it was the dim and distant past of 2013 when either of us last posted, we had (as you can still see below, although currently without some of the pictures...) just declared that Luke was going to collect an Ogre Kingdoms force and I would summon the Lizardmen to battle.
"All well and good" you might say, "but why have there been no further updates? Where are the posts about painting, and, yes indeed, gaming?"
Unfortunately, life and my own degree of apathy about painting got in the way.
We explained the premise of the exercise, a limited budget to produce an army on a monthly basis. This was fine and we were both enthusiastic. Until an online store let us down, badly.
I'm not going to name them here, as I'm not even sure they are still trading, but we submitted an order for the starter boxes for each of our races and they were simply unable to deliver. Even more annoyingly it took me a good couple of months to get a refund. This somewhat sapped my enthusiasm for the whole enterprise and whilst Luke managed to get some Ogres sorted my Lizardmen battalions simply didn't take off.
Then Games Workshop broke Warhammer...
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| Warhammer The End Times |
To put it simply, a series of five extremely well-written (for the most part) supplements were released detailing the end of the Warhammer World. All of the prophecies resolved, some Big Bads returned and eventually the planet itself (the moon had gone earlier) was destroyed.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle was replaced by...
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| Warhammer Age of Sigmar |
Now I have to say that Age of Sigmar is not a game that inspires me. I may go into this further in a later post, but for now let me show you a brief comparison.
As exhibit A we have the Warhammer Eighth Edition Rulebook:
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| Warhammer 8th Edition Rulebook |
A substantial hardback tome, with pages of background material, lots of pictures of models and the game rules.
As exhibit B I give you:
Yes, that is link, follow it and you will find a free (alright, I have to give them that, not that I would be willing to pay...) four-page PDF of the new Core Rules.
Yes, four pages.
No, I don't understand how you can possibly think you can write a coherent balanced set of rules for battling with radically different collections of miniatures in just four pages either.
But, and I realise I am rambling slightly, I hear you ask, "I thought you said you'd played Warhammer? Today?"
Yes, with a slightly bit of authorial licence I indeed have, rather I played Warhammer 40,000, but not the conventional Warhammer 40,000 you may be aware of.
Rather I, and Luke, played a battle set in the Age of Darkness, the first battle we may have ever played on a proper gaming table with good scenery and two fully painted armies.
With miniatures and rules designed by the wonderful people at Forge World, the Heresy began... and hopefully that's my cue for further posts by either Luke or myself.
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| Battle in progress |
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| The Horus Heresy |
