„Somewhere in the north Bretonnia Khorne warriors party landed from the sea and were looking for long forgotten tomb of ancient Khorne warrior, which name was cursed in past and only in they sagas is sung as ‚Bloody whip for Bretonnians’ – damsel of the lady Eleonora had dream about horrors buried in ancient grave, she warned duc Tancred de Beauville to ride forth, as they were on the road in area of tomb – so Bretonnians ordered by they duc had to investigate a tomb, when they appeard – another party emerged from the forest.”
Today we played with Basiorek in Bolter on one thousand points in classical 6th edition of WFB with 7th edition rulebook. Basiorek was playing Khorne army from Norsca or even more to the north, while I was playing my classical Bretonnians from barony of Beauville. As I have to mention some armies from Old World and areas far beyond can be still done with use of current Games Workshop offer – look HERE.
Photos done from Khorne side were done by Basiorek, from my side were done by me.
Both sides deployed, Bretonnians praying to The Lady of the Lake.Knight of the Realm with full command group.Archers in skirmish with full command group.Men at arms with full command group and Joanna – army standard bearer.Both armies from my side.First turn belonged to worshipers of Khorne, then Bretonnians send they infantry forward, while knights were waiting.First charges belonged to Bretonnian side.On Bretonnian left flank mounted squires fought well and pursued Chaos Hounds.If knights do not broke they enemy, they will be fastly overruned…… which happend.On left flank of Bretonnians Grail Knights broke Chaos Knights and mounted squires deal well with Chaos Hounds.Turn four, when Chaos started winning on Bretonnian right flank. Battles standard tried to stop them, finally fled joining Knights of the Realm.Charge!Archers tried to shoot Chosen Chaos Warriors…… but finally decided to flee and live another day.Final 6th turn.
Summary: – at the end we counted scores and Basiorek owned 732 to my 712 – so with such love difference it was draw. – great game on smaller points, hope to repeat it in the close future. – it’s funny, I know Basiorek because of our common friend Klocek for many years and we played a lot of Warhammer: Invasion card game, but it was first time we played tabletop game and it was WFB 🙂 .
„When the dust of battle settled, the crypt was found empty, and the Chosen of Khorne withdrew into the forest with the coffin. Duc Tancred ordered his squires to scout next day, as night fell, a few of the best have convinced the duke to move now.”
On last Saturday 11.03 we played another event in WFB 7th edition in Wrocław, Bolter. Last edition had more players, but we look for the future, as we know next one will be even better! Our friends from Prague arrived on time and event started on time and we finished in time accepted by Bolter. Then we went for some dinner and beers.
We played on modified rules of Grumpy made by Alex avaible here.
Prizes where there from several sponsors as Paint Forge, Tereny do Gier.pl and me as well. Tomek and Daniel – first game!Ludeks greenskins.Me and Marian Empire against Kubas Bretonnians.Alessandro greenskins vs Martin Skavens.Generał VC vs Palen DE.Palen and Alessandro.Table nr 1 – Daniel and Wojciech – I wasnt able to stop them when everything was at the end – it was spirit of the game 🙂 !
Some photos I did after my first and only game.
Go, go, go!Models we love to see and play – Dark Elves Dragon!Old giant move forwards!Savage Orcs prepare to Waagh! 3rd battle, how I survived Prague last year beign there for event on Saturday and Sunday – I guess people and only people! Everyone doing the best here in Wrocław!Most of 3rd battle I was everywhere, but usually with Dominik and Marian.Battle beetwen Jakub Bretonnia and Martins Skaven army.
Summary: – great time with many great ppl, many thanks to Piotr from Bolter for all time support! – there were different armies as there were: Bretonnia, Dark Elves, Dwarfs, The Empire, Greenskins, Ogre Kingdoms, Vampire Counts and evil Chaos minions called Skavens. – first place belonged to Daniel with Ogre Kingdoms (44), second place belonged to Alessandro (43) with Greenskins and third place belonged to Wojciech with evil Skavens (42 if I’m correct). – everyone took prizes, three for everyone plus there were vouchers for 1st, 2nd, 3rd plus Ranald luck and Shalya mercy. – thank you Alessandro for being judge and to Marian for photos, sorry for losing first match 12:8, I’m usually play weaker cavalry Empire plus Kislev 😉 .
Last Saturday it was pleasure to participate in event done by Martin and Alex in Prague. It was great that after WROHammer vol.3 I was able to rejoin them in Prague. Event was great and we have plans for repeating it in Prague (Czech Republic) and in Wrocław (Poland). We want to do events abroad those two cities too. Praha (PRAAGHammer) and Wrocław (WROHammer) communities have bond we want to continue to grow up!
Friendship and friends are important for everyone, as I had abroad most friends from Russia I have meet many great ppl from Czech Republic, want to meet more!
Golden Deamons, nice!Great thing – for everyone!
Summary: – it’s great to play with friends abroad, we want to repeat it in July, then probably Wrocław, then Praha. Then repeat. – thank you Ludek, Tomas and Vladimir for three great games. – I love our talk about everything. – Alessandro mate, thank you for believing in me!
Last few days I’ve been in Czech capital – Praha (EN Prague, PL Praga). Everything we have now started on 7th edition group in the fourth quater of 2021. Months of posts with invitation of new members give resulted in contact with Archibald and then Ludek, Martin and Petr. I realised that maybe we can do another WROHammer event vol. 3. From talk we started working on event which we organized on February 2022. Archibald, Ludek and Martin arrived from Praha, CZ and Janek from Gdynia, PL, we had some good meeting on Friday, then great games on Saturday and some beers after. Freshly after Wrocław WROHammer event in Praha had been announced, there were some ppl wanting to came there from Wrocław, finally I left my zone of control and travelled to beautiful capital of Czech Republic, then I was re-joined by Alessandro on day of the event.
Praha event took place in great hobby store Ogří doupě on 14.05.2022.
More about Praha later, as I have too many photos and some thinks in my mind.
Ogří doupěFour Golden deamons, great job!Many great models here.I played Bretonnia and Martin played Skaven on 1526 points.Box from Safe Sound saved my miniatures during travel.
Summary: – it was great experience to come there and meet Martin and to know more friends here in Praha, thank you Petr and Vladimir for great time! – day before I was taken from the hotel and saw two oldest pubs and Hradczany, it was really nice to meet you or first time personally meet. – we talked about everything, from Praha history, WFB and other games including RPG’s, PC games up to situation on the east. – it was great to see first time in life metro. – with Martin I played my first game abroad, it was great experience to finally visit city of friends we know from FB group. – all the time I know that I can improve my English, but up to this date I know that is on enough level to talk with friends about anything, play tabletop games (last time I was translating Polish rulebook into English for Czech friend), to talk in business in case of support or regarding requirements with architects. Reading with understanding fantasy, history, news and technical documentation.
Last Sunday we continued our Polish-Italian struggle beetwen my Bretonnians and Alessandro greenskins. It was first time I tried my list on 1526 points and after game I decided to update it.
Bretonnian archers in skirmish, Knights of the Realm, 2x unit of mounted squires, Pegasus Knights and famous Grail Knights.Night goblin horde from 6th edition.Love those sculpts.Brave charge by night goblin fanatics.Archers took two wounds from giant, but fled after failing terror test.Wywern routed from combat.Giant fall down and losed last wound.
Summary: – most of Bretonnians unit fled the field, only mounted squires were on field at the end. – it was great game and I revised my army list a little bit. Reduced number of knights and added one more lance of young Knights Errants. Instead of one her – another damsel lvl 2 was added.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle is so called „dead” system – but still there are people who play it. It’s square based system, where units move in formations (although some of them move as skirmishers and few of them circle wheel bases – like Night Goblin fanatics). „Dead” system – system which is not supported by it publisher. Games Workshop (GW) closed line of development for Warhammer Fantasy Battle (called in short WFB) when I started my current job (around 2016). To this day in they offer are many models for Age of Sigmar, which can be used to play in WFB (some of them are models released during 7/8th editions of WFB). So what we had in past? Games Workshop released following armies:
Bad guys were: – Chaos (after 5th edition it was separated on Chaos Warriors, Beastmen and Deamons) – here are all of them, – Chaos Dwarfs, – Dark Elves, – Orcs and Goblins, – Skaven army, – Vampire Counts.
Good guys released: – Bretonnia, – Dwarfs, – Kislev, – High Elves, – The Empire, – Wood Elves (up to 5th edition). So called neutral: – Dogs of War, – Kingdoms of Ogres, – Lizardmen, – Tomb Kings. – Wood Elves (from 6th edition).
Those mentioned are armies that were in WFB, still around half of them can be fielded with the current line of GW models.
When I looked on the shelf in the shop, I realized that probably the easiest armies to be collected now are demons of Chaos.
Nowadays from Games Workshop offer will be impossible to assemble: Bretonnians, Dogs of War, Kislev, Tomb Kings. Not easy but still possible will be creating something for Dwarfs, High Elves, The Empire, Wood Elves. Still many units are not in the offer – but it’s will be mentioned in next article.
What is still avaible in the Games Workshop offer? We will start from bad guys – Grand Alliance Chaos which covers in some way armies from past: Beastmen, Chaos Warriors, Deamons of Chaos and Skavens.
1. Chaos Warriors, old mortal Chaos – now called Slaves to Darkness: – models for characters – wide range, – Chaos Warriors on foot and on horse, – Chaos Marauders on foot and on horse, – Chariots, – Spawns, – character on Manticore.
2. Chaos Beastmen, called now Beasts of Chaos, even better choice than they Northern co-believers: – Gors – typical core infantry, – Ungors – typical cannon fodder, – Ungor Raiders – skirmishers with bows, – Chaos Warhounds, – Bestigors – elite infantry, – Centigors (they are usualy drunk, still avaible), – Dragon Ogres, – Ghorgon, – Cygor, – Cockatrice, – Tuskgor Chariot, – some characters as well.
3. Chaos Deamons with current name in offer as four different demoinc powers, so: a) Blades of Khorne – deamons of Khorne: – there are greater deamon of Khorne – Bloodthirster as well as many other units which were used in WFB in past. Most popular core units from 6th are: – Bloodletters – minor deamons of Khorne, – Flesh Hounds. I don’t remember special or rare units but Mighty Skullcrushers probably appeard in 7th or 8th editions.
b) Disciples of Tzeentch – deamons of Tzeentch: – of course we start with Kairos Fateweaver and Lord of Change as lords, – Horrors of Tzentch, – Screamers of Tzeentch, – Flamers of Tzeentch, – Horrors of Tzeentch, – Burning Charoit of Tzeentch, – some characters as well.
As we can see summoning horde of Tzeentch is even easier than those of Blood God.
c) Hedonites of Slaanesh – deamons of Slaanesh: – at start – Keeper of Secrets and Shalaxi Helbane – both can be used as Greater Deamon of Slaanesh, – Deamonettes of Slaanesh, – Seekers of Slaanesh which looks like Mounted Deamonettes of old, – Seeker Chariot of Slaanesh, – some models which looks like good addition to Chaos Warriors. – some characters as well.
For me not many, but deamonettes could fit well in Cult of Slaanesh from 6th edition Storm of Chaos.
d) Maggotkin of Nurgle – deamons of Nurgle: – at start – Great Unclean One, – Nurglings – small and happy deamons of disease, – Plagueabearers of Nurgle, – Beast of Nurgle, – some characters as well.
It seems all, maybe I missed something for those Chaos power.
e) Skaven army seems to be well covered in Age of Sigmar: – at start named and by many favourite character Thanquol and his rat ogre Boneripper, – Doomwheel – one of those funny stuff you don’t like to come near your cavalry units, – Hell Pit Abomination – effect of Skaven most advanced technology, – Warp Lighting Cannon – another rare unit avaible to Skavens in the GW offer, – Screaming Bell, – Stormvermin – some better infantry unit avaible to the Skaven horde, – Gutter Runners, – Weapon teams – including Ratling Gun, Warpfire Thrower or Warp-Grinder, – Night Runners – another skirmishing infantry, – Plague Censer Bearers, – Rat Ogors, Giant Rats and Packmaster – Rat Ogors – old Rat Ogres, – Clanrats – core unit of many Skaven armies. – Plague Monks, – Warplock Jezzails of clan Skryre, – Verminlord avaible as four different models, – some characters as well.
As I realized that I started writing it some months ago and due lack of time I wasn’t able to publish it I publish it now as part I.
Everyone should remember – that Age of Sigmar uses round bases and WFB uses square bases. In case of getting army books – eBay, Allegro or other internet shop, maybe someone sell it. Of course everything is also in .pdf – I prefer paper books.
On 7.08.2021 I participated in Dragon – event organized by friends from Gdynia in nearby town Rumia – norther Poland, are of Trójmiasto (Gdynia, Sopot, Gdańsk). We played on 1250 points, with all rules avaible for 6th edition (like Kislev Allied Contingent under 2,000 army lists from White Dwarfs etc.). It was worth to go out from safe zone of Wrocław and spend five and half hour in train to Gdynia – unhapilly there are no personal teleports – I wish one to Moscow and another one for such events 😉 .
First game with Janek Wood Elves.
Fast cavalry were great target for Wood Elves archers.
Tried to shoot down Wild Riders, without big succes.
Knights Panter held down center.
Hans, hurry up – shoot them with nails.
Crew took a charge, but were were wiped out in hand to hand combat.
Knighs Panthers announced charge, but Wood Elves reaction was to hid in the forest.
As Ungols reaction was to flee, Wild Riders in madness charged flank of Middenheim Knights.
Heavily armored knights managed to broke Wild Riders.
Not great hide out, as threemen saw them. It was end of first game: 12:8 for Jan.
Some view on the other tables.
Dogs of War army, I see there mercenaries from Araby, Dwarfs, Kislev and Ogres.
Classical Empire.
On the first plan Bretonnia against Tomb Kings.
Family photo of my Middeneim, Hochland and Kislev Wrotizla force.
Second game against Krzysiek Dwarfs.
I strongly believed that Panthers will break Dwarfs in combat and then took they artillery.
During charge they had to test morale and they failed.
Then it was play on time, as catapult managed to hit my cannon eliminating crew.
Another nice game – Krzysiek won over me 15:5.
I mostly hate civil wars. A game against Krystian Empire was my third and last one.
Plan was to outflank Krysian force with heavy cavalry, broke at least two of his knights units and then took artillery.
Panic spread after Ungol Horse archers burned from fireball. All plan collapsed in a moment.
Knights Panthers tried to continue plan on the left flank.
Winged lancers managed to rally and came back.
They came back to close and were charged by two units of Empire Knights.
Final. Thank you Jan, Paweł,Tomek and any other for organizing great event and for a great atmosphere.
On after party in really interesting place I discovered my favourite beer from Kormoran brewery. It was interesting to talk about our hobby but not only.
Summary: – it was interesting to participate in such large event in so called „death system” – that system in reality never died and Dragon is a proof of it.
– there were many players from Trójmiasto and area, many Warsowians. Not sure about other cities. – I was the only one from Wrocław – hope that next year more of us will come here. – it was interesting to talk with many other players, wish to remember all your names next time. – at the end Paweł organized after party in really interesting place hidden behind modern buildings – it was somekind of inn which survived in the middle of concrete. We talked there with some part of Warsowians mainly about WFB but also about other systems or history. -many thanks for all drivers who really helped me in getting to Rumia and back and go to my hotel after party.
Yesterday night around 20 o’clock I realized that I need to finish some started soldiers for my Empire and Kislev army. I’m really good in starting new projects and leaving them to start another one, which is not good, as I have many almost finished models on my deck.
This time from thinking about it, I started painting pistoliers and they horses. Most of work I did up to the midnight, with some details today morning before starting work.
Four more Hochland pistoliers join single one I painted in past. Now I have valuable unit of Empire noble sons, ready to fight for they elector Adelbrand Ludenhof, for Emperor Karl Franz from Holswig-Shliestein family, in the name of Sigmar!
Today we played with Marian bigger game on 2250 points per side. Marian played Reikland and I played Bretonnians from border area of Parravon and Quenneles. We are still learning again new things, as we still do mistakes.
Initial position of both armies.
Empire in first turn did shooting, then Bretonnians started moving.
Empire drtachments were everywhere.
Look on left flank.
Bretonnian turn two. All Grail Knights were wiped out by Empire artillery. Only Duc and damsel survived.
I had some luck that I killed Empire battle standard bearer with Banner of Griffon.
Then pursued swordsmen.
Archers runned away from massive charge of Empire cavalry.
Last moments of damsel.
Archers left the field, joined by mounted squires.
Knights Errants reduced to champion.
Bretonnian duc after eliminating wizard lord was held by brave cannon crew. Then pursued by swordsmen.
Need to magnetise all Bretonnia, as packing them that way is horrible.
Summary: – It’s hard to counter magic, when your enemy have three wizards (lvl 4, lvl 2 and lvl 1) and you have one (lvl 2). – first time from a long time I meet so many shooting, three cannons, two hellblaster volley guns. – my best unit of Grail Knights was eliminated by enemy fire, even banner increasing ward save didn’t help them. – Men at arms did nothing, at least the survived along bowmen. – My army standard bearer – worked well as always, my Duc did not succed well. – army list, maybe I will add it later here. – at least we played good game – which finish was a Draw – Marian got 1472 points and I got 1542 points.
Many years passed since I first time played 6th edition (started in 5th around 1997). I played less and less and stopped somewhere around 2005. My only army stand on shelf above my desk for a long time, and I played her rarely – once a year or not, up to the 2015. In 2015 when I started new job, I meet friend (thank you Krzysztof Sz.) who played Orcs and Goblins in 9th Age, I got it. I heard that GW has some plans for WFB, so I bought Green Knight, two trebuchets, three boxes of Men at Arms. It was good choice, as GW discontinued my beloved system. Then everything started – I got Bolt Action and due that meet great ppl I never know before – it was 2016, I started new work, greatest one. Then I realized, that among ppl I meet are many ppl collecting or playing WFB, happilly I refreshed contacts with ppl I losed 15 years ago (thank you Marian P, Marcin S, Piotr K, Rafał W. and many more). We started playing smaller games, like for 1000, 1200, 1500 points per side, but now is historical moment – 2250 points, my army looks almost the same as on last tournament I played in Sfan (shop in Wrocław) with exception – now I have Men at Arms I hadn’t had in past, plus I have some more archers. Some magic items and virtues on characters are different, still I don’t remember all stuff my Duc Tancred de Beauville had in past. Many things changed, like most of time I’m playing 7th edition, but I like to return to 5th and 6th.
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Tancred’s Tabletop Tales 