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 will 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 […]