‘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 […]

Assault on Campogrotta

Prequel: Brass on the Iron Road On the ancient dwarf road between Karak Borgo and Campogrotta, Summer 2403 It had been half an hour since the army came to a halt, each company wheeling to the right to occupy the patch of ground beside the road. The days of marching were long, but not too […]

THE SECOND ASSAULT ON VIADAZA, THE BATTLE, PART FOUR (Final Part)

Just as Father Carradalio was about to order his regiment to charge through the broken gate, Brother Vincenzo shouted, “No, Father! They are waiting in strength.” He had seen the undead horse soldiers massed within and knew that if any who entered there would likely be cut down to a man. Father Carradalio nodded, then […]

The Second Assault on Viadaza, The Battle, Part Three

Now the Holiest of armies launched several charges. In such close proximity to the foe, the dedicant crossbow could not restrain themselves and so charged into the newly raised zombies despite the entreaties of their shepherd to restrain themselves. Despite their small size their flagellations caused the death of four of their own number, and […]

The Second Assault on Viadaza, The Battle, Part Two

Turns 1 and 2 As the huge siege tower trundled on, the cultists to its left marched more speedily, soon catching up with it. In the centre of the field the generalis praepositus wasted no time in ordering his own regiment of cultists on, towards the gate and mob of stinking undead guards. As they […]

The Second Assault on Viadaza, The Battle

Summer IC2403 Part One: Deployment and Vanguard Moves Once more Viadaza was to be the site of bloody conflict. In Autumn 2401 the dead had risen to tear their way through the streets until there were none alive in the entire city. In Summer 2402 Arch-Lector Calictus II’s grand army had broken through the walls […]