The Second Assault on Campogrotta: The Battle, Part 2

Turns 2 – 3 The dwarven Longbeards, commanded by the Runesmith Rakric Bronzeborn, had already begun to move towards the city wall … … when the ogre relief force from Sermide arrived upon the field, consisting of a company of bulls and a mob of gnoblars. (Game Note: Both relief forces rolled separately, 5+ to […]

The Second Assault on Campogrotta: The Battle, Part 1

Game Note: The following game continues almost from the point the previous battle ended, but now the ogres have two 400 pts relief forces, one entering from the north side, the other from the south, as well as a few newly-bought maneaters bribed (using saved ‘Supply Points’ in the city’s coffers) to help on the […]

Tilean Campaign, Second Assault on Campogrotta, Part 1

Prequel Out Riding North East of Campogrotta, Very Early Autumn 2403 Having circumnavigated Campogrotta three times, which at over two leagues out from the city meant travelling a considerable distance, the Brabanzon riders were within sight of the rock-strewn area between the villages of Buldio and the Astigo River. They were one of three such […]

More Militia Pikemen

With an ever growing number of NPC city states actively involved in the theatres of war, joining with other NPCs and players in large alliance armies, I needed more militia. So I got myself some new pike figures … These were Artizan, but I threw in some Perry’s too for variety, and added some new […]

Tilean Campaign Part 20

Antonio Mugello’s letter to Lord Lucca Vescussi of Verezzo at the end of Summer 2403 My purpose, my lord, as ever, is to inform you of everything of import I have learned concerning the great affairs of Tilea. Removed as I am from your person, I know you surely have a much better grasp than […]

‘Granite Breaker’

Granite Breaker is a dwarf-forged, castle-shattering cannon. Initial work … I wanted to make the bronze oxidised like the images of the ‘Tsar Cannon’ I googled (you can too!) and I mean heavily oxidised, like a very ancient cannon. I tested a technique (enamels) on a second-hand horse’s arse … It came out odd, but […]

Skeleton Riders (in enamel!)

Here are my new unit of ‘official’ GW model skellie riders. On the bones I tried a technique I rarely use – washing. This is not easy with enamels as you have to thin with thinners, which can upset the layer of paint you are attempting to wash over. I have managed it with some […]

Assault on Campogrotta – The Battle, Part 3

(Turns 5 – 7) While the Ironguts moved down the street in pursuit of the Bretonnian knights and Wurgrut’s lieutenant moved to occupy one of the city’s inner towers … … Wurgrut himself went to join the bulls defending the breach nearest to the gate. Neither slaughtermaster could conjure anything from the winds of magic […]

ASSAULT ON CAMPOGROTTA – THE BATTLE, PART TWO

(Turns 2 to 4) Watching from his high vantage point, Lord Wurgrut saw the dwarfen thunderers were preparing to fire a salvo at the walls, and so summoned an ice shard blizzard to assail them. His second-in-command, following Wurgrut’s lead, also attempted to inflict them with a curse called braingobbler, but he failed to contort […]

Assault on Campogrotta – The Battle, Part One

(Turn One) The brute defenders upon the city walls had watched for the two hours it took to drag the mighty cannon Granite Breaker into position. They themselves had guns, cannon-barrels no less, which they wielded the way a man might a handgun, but they knew that the enemy was too far away for their […]