6th and 7th and Bretonnia and Orcs&Goblins and Warhammer and WROhammer 13:44
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.
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.
Corsairs of Umbar and Games Workshop and Middle-Earth and The Dead of Dunharrow 21:37
Today evening we played Middle-Earth with Łukasz on 600 points per side. Łukasz played Corsairs of Umbar and I took my only painted Dead of Dunharrow. We played scenario where were six places, where artifact of old was probably hidden – to find it roll of 6 was necessary, after touching token with soldier on foot.
Summary:
– it was nice game, Łukasz won it 6 to 2 – 6 for having a relic, while I got 2 for having standard bearer.
– need to paint Three Hunters, to have some different unit in this army.
7th and Bretonnia and Games Workshop and Ogres and Warhammer 21:57
Today we played smaller game in WFB on 1250 points per side, I took my cavalry Empire and Kislev and my enemy took Ogres. It was nice, two hours game, where I discovered, that one cannon could make difference – but I don’t have any such device today.
Summary:
– this day belong to Ogre Kingdoms!
Armia Czerwona and Bolt Action and Germany and Warlord Games 23:46
🇵🇱 Dzisiaj razem z Karolem rozegraliśmy dwie gry w Bolterze — pierwsza była zasadzką, w której Armia Czerwona próbowała wydostać się z pułapki, a druga była typowym scenariuszem Tank War.
🇬🇧 Today, Karol and I played two games at Bolter – the first was an ambush, where the Red Army tried to escape from a trap, and the second was a typical Tank War scenario.
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Dwie dobre gry – pierwsza zajęła nam więcej czasu, podczas gdy druga była znacznie krótsza. Wciąż zastanawiamy się, jak ulepszyć niektóre zasady i ustawienia.
🇬🇧 Summary:
– Two good games – the first one took us longer, while the second was much shorter. We’re still thinking about how to improve some of the rules and setups.
Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Prussian and Russians and Warlord Games 22:11
🇵🇱 Dzisiaj planowaliśmy odtworzyć bitwę nad Kaczawą (niem. Katzbach), ale Rafał, który był pomysłodawcą, nie mógł się pojawić. Zamiast tego rozegraliśmy grę, w której Prusy (Jakub) i Rosja (ja) zmierzyły się z siłami napoleońskiej Francji (Jędrzej).
Graliśmy w Bolterze i korzystaliśmy z pięknych terenów dostępnych w ich magazynie. Dziękujemy Adamowi i Rafałowi za wszystko dzisiaj. Obie strony musiały kontrolować kluczowe skrzyżowania oraz cmentarz w centrum, aby wygrać bitwę.
🇬🇧 Today we planned to recreate the Battle of Katzbach (Polish: Kaczawa), but Rafał, who came up with the idea, couldn’t make it. Instead, we played a game with Prussia (Jakub) and Russia (me) against the forces of Napoleonic France (Jędrzej).
We played at Bolter and used all those beautiful terrain pieces from their storage. Thank you, Adam and Rafał, for everything today. Both sides had to control the key crossroads and the graveyard in the center to win the battle.
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Było to zwycięstwo sojuszu prusko-rosyjskiego,
– Świetna gra – dziękuję Kubie, Jędrzejowi oraz ekipie Boltera,
– To jeden z najprostszych i najtańszych systemów na start,
– Niestety, dzisiaj było nas tylko trzech.
🇬🇧 Summary:
– it was victory of Prussian-Russian alliance,
– great game – thank you Kuba and Jędrzej and Bolter staff,
– it’s one of the simplest and cheapest system to start,
– unfortunately there were only three of us today.
Corsairs of Umbar and Games Workshop and Middle-Earth and The Dead of Dunharrow 21:38
🇵🇱 Dzisiaj razem z Łukaszem rozegraliśmy trzy gry w Middle-earth. Ten system jest ogólnie jednym z najtańszych, jeśli chodzi o rozpoczęcie i granie. Niektóre armie wydają się dość łatwe do pomalowania – Mordor jest prawdopodobnie najłatwiejszy, ale Gondor też nie wygląda na zbyt skomplikowany.
🇬🇧 Today, Łukasz and I played three games of Middle-earth. This system is generally one of the cheapest to get into and play. Some armies seem quite easy to paint – Mordor is probably the easiest, but Gondor doesn’t look too complicated either.
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Fajna, mała gra.
– Muszę pomalować Trzech Łowców, żeby dodać kilka wartościowych modeli do tej bandy.
– Muszę zwolnić i się uspokoić (dzięki, H., za poranną prywatną wiadomość – naprawdę pomogła).
– Jestem naprawdę zmęczony czymś, z czym mierzyłem się przez ostatnie kilka miesięcy.
– Nie ma to związku z żadnym z moich znajomych ani współpracowników, ani w pracy (żeby było jasne – wszystkich Was cenię), ani poza nią.
– Wynika to z wzięcia na siebie zbyt wielu rzeczy i w końcu mnie to dopadło. Teraz zastanawiam się, jakie umiejętności rozwijać lub odświeżyć. Wiem, że SQL to podstawa, rozważam też powrót do Pythona z Selenium, którego nie używałem od dawna.
🇬🇧 Summary:
– Nice, small game.
– I need to paint the Three Hunters to add some valuable models to this warband.
– I need to slow down and calm down (thank you, H., for the private message this morning – it really helped).
– I’m really tired from something I’ve been dealing with over the past few months. It’s not related to any of my friends or colleagues, either at work (just to be clear – I appreciate you all) or elsewhere.
– It comes from having taken on too much, and it eventually caught up with me. Now I’m thinking about which skills to improve or relearn. I know SQL is a must-have, and I’m also considering getting back into Python with Selenium, which I haven’t used in a long time.
6th and 7th and Chaos Warriors and Demons and Games Workshop and Skavens and The Beastmen and Warhammer 15:50
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.
To be continued.
Inne 20:14
I wish everyone Happy Easter, healthy, with family or/and friends and hope that everything will be good as it’s most important Christian holiday – especially for Catholics, Orthodox – I know it’s most important, still I prefer Christmas, were God was born. Wish sanity, health, normality and peace for our neighbours in the east – for ordinary ppl who don’t want this war in the Ukraine.
Życzę wszystkim Radosnych Świąt Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego, z rodziną lub/i przyjaciółmi i mam nadzieję, że wszystko będzie dobrze, jako że jest to najważniejsze święto chrześcijan – zwłaszcza dla Katolików, Prawosławnych – wiem, że jest to najważniejsze święto, mimo wszystko o wiele bardziej lubię Boże Narodzenie, kiedy Bóg się narodził. Życzę zdrowego rozsądku, zdrowia, normalności i pokoju dla naszych sąsiadów na wschodzie – dla zwykłych ludzi, którzy nie chcieli tej wojny na Ukrainie.
Armia Czerwona and Bolt Action and Bolter.pl and Finlandia and Warlord Games 23:30
Today we played in Bolter our first one on one game with Franek. Scenario was invented at place by me – there were two farm building with supplies – holding each of them at the end was counted as three victory points, plus every destroyed enemy unit was worth one dice each. Each of us has reinforced platoon of 1500 points.
It happend somewhere in Finland, during continuation war with Soviet Union.
I was a little bit late, so Franek started with setting up terrains.
Summary:
– thank you Franek for a game!
– artillery and mortars did many casultaties on both sides.
– I charged with sniper team and then panzerschreck and was defeated in close combat,
– at the end, when we counted points Franek was winner – his 7 against my 5.
Armia Czerwona and Bolt Action and Germany and Warlord Games 23:07
Today with Marian from Maniexite we played alternative history, where Red Army took north of the city of Breslau by fast attack of mechanized troops, took districts Kleczków, Nadodrze, Ołbin – all important bridges in the centre like Bridges: Pomorski, Uniwersytecki, Mieszczańskie, Piaskowe, Pokoju were blown up by brave German defenders – jet for maintain contact with all Grunwaldzki area gorgeus Grunwaldzki Bridge (former Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge) was spared.
Originally Red Army crossed Oder River to the west of Breslau and assaulted from west and south – those areas were heavily destroyed and trace of it is still visible – as Germans were blowing up whole quarters to made they artillery clear field of fire, also Soviet artillery and air bombings did destruction – this was total war.
Summary:
– it was great game and scenery was part of Wrocław in area of Grunwaldzka (before Wrocław was Wrotizla, Wratislavia, Preslau, Breslau and Wrocław) – we should remember all of people who were living there.
– it was alternative story – as Soviets troops took Festung Breslau from west and south – area of Grunwaldzki and few others never saw street fighting.
– we cheated each other together – so it’s fair for us 🙂 .
– few more games and it will be Marian fully returned to Bolt Action!
– farewell to Planszóweczka.pl in Astra, many great games and many great people I meet there – still they will be avaible as internet shop. Thank you for everything and wish you return stationary as a Fenix!
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