Some more work on the Cold One Knights over the weekend. Platemail, chainmail and cloth are now sorted, I’ll probably try and get some of the leather on the armour done as the next stage.

Managed to fit in a good session of painting Friday night, getting some work done on my Cold One Knights. I’ve been meaning to get around to these fellas for ages, so it’s nice to see a bit more paint and a bit less plastic on the go!

Got my Dark Elves back out on Tuesday, and took on some Dwarves at 2000pts each.

Things started well, my Shades nipped up one flank and started charging artillery which quickly fell apart, and I managed to land a few casts of Pit of Shades onto the big Dwarf blocks holding the centre of the board. 

What was left after Pit of Shades was soon charged by my Executioners who, boosted by Tullaris and a Hag with Witchbrew, handed out so much damage the Dwarf warriors were chased off the board in a single turn, and the Longbeards were cut down a few turns later. 

End-game didn’t go so well, and a last stand on the hill by two units of Handgunners almost turned the game around when my Spearmen failed their charge and were stuck in the firing line. 

In terms of actual victory points I wiped out my opponent, and managed to keep at least one model in everything except my Dark Riders. In terms of actual balance of power at the end though things were a lot closer than I’d have liked!

Shades were great, quickly dispatching the artillery saved me a lot of worry, and the Executioners really benefited from the super-frenzy but I feel I could have got the same effect from my Spears who had a Shadow Sorceress with Mindrazor so I may have to experiment with that.

Dark Riders I kind of threw away by charging a unit of Handgunners when sitting behind them with crossbows may have caused more damage, and they could then have moved round to screen the Spears after they failed the charge. I’ll be rethinking how I used them.

After a good game with them on Tuesday I did some work painting my Executioners.

Got my first game in with the new Dark Elf army book on Tuesday. 1700pts, most of mine was spent on 14 Executioners with Tullaris, a Death Hag and a Supreme Sorceress of Life. They were total overkill.

Looking forward to getting more games in and trying different builds. Spoiled for choice at the moment!

Played Fantasy tonight down at Games Workshop, first game I’ve had of it in months! My Dark Elves allied with Tomb Kings against Chaos Warriors and Daemons with 3000pts per side. 

Ran out of time after 3 turns (all of us either hadn’t played in a while or were new to Fantasy, so wasn’t the quickest of games), at which stage we were ahead something like 750vp-550vp. Not sure when I’ll be playing Fantasy again as I’ll be distracted for a while with new Eldar, but definitely good to get my dudesmen dusted off and back on the table!

Painting progress! I seem to be back on to painting my Dark Elves, despite having not used them in months. I finished the last 5 Warriors to bring the unit up to 50. Now need to do 30 shields and all 50 bases to get the unit done.

After that I just have to do pretty much all the rest of the army!

Some Dark Elves for Miniature Monday. Finished one group of 5, then started on another 5. Once this last group is done I’ll have all 50 spearmen painted, just need shields and bases.

Making me realise how long it’s been since I played Fantasy though!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, most of my photos have just been going straight to Twitter (@RedAkhrin) without any edits.

I played Storm of Magic tonight, 2400 points (plus 600 of pacts and items) each. My Dark Elves took on High Elves who had brought Vampire Counts allies. Deployment saw me boxing up on my right flank where I had both of my Arcane Fulcrums. My opponent had his Fulcrums in opposite corners, so his deployment stretched in a line between them.

Since I’d kept my forces grouped up I was able to focus on parts of the enemy army as they got close, meaning I made short work of his left flank and was in a good position as the rest neared me. All of my success in clearing hostile Fulcrums came from shooting. My Boltthrower utterly flopped, failing to do anything all game, but the Dark Riders made up for it doing the majority of wounds against Fulcrums while my Shades and Crossbowmen helped finish them off.

Teclis was, as always, a major pain in the ass firing down countless fireballs onto my units and even obliterating one of my Sorceresses on a Fulcrum in turn one! However a solid volley of crossbow fire around turn 3 did the trick against him, the master of magic being torn apart by mundane crossbow bolts.

In the end I held 2 Arcane Fulcrums to my opponent’s 0, as well as having solid control of the battlefield resulting in a clean victory for the Druchii over the crown-stealing High Elves.

Here’s some shots from a Dark Elf vs High Elf mega-battle we fought at the club last night. Each side had 6000 points, that’s an intense 12,000 points of elves on the battlefield!

After a few turns of manoeuvring - about standard for any game of Fantasy - the two armies started to reach combat. The 90-spearman block of Dark Elves in the centre held, while the Witch Elves and Cold One Knights broke through one flank, despite heavy losses on the Wyches. When the dust settled the High Elf flank had collapsed and the Dark Elves were pushing deeply through their lines, a victory for Nagarythe!