Empire Steam Tank

I have been buying and selling a lot of warhammer lately, but of course I had to keep some for my self. I got another war wagon unpainted and a old school steam tank.

It had some paint on it so I primed the front but left the base coat on the back. It was painted the traditional blue and red, but that does not match my color sceam.  Yellow is for war machines and artillery.  Now yellow is very had to work with, at least for me. Here is what I have done. The driver still needs painting.

This old school model di not have a steam gun; so I am looking for a smallish cannon or some type of rifle to put on a swivel. I am thinking of making some kind of hose come out of the back of it.

If any one know a good way to do yellow let me know.

Kurt Helborg Painted

I just finished up the highlighting on my Kurt Helborg paint job.

 If you look back at what this model looked like when I got it you may be able to tell I painted over the old job. It was already primed and had some colors on it already. The armor was painted and most of the red areas where blue the areas that are copper also left as it was.

 I went with the classic red and white of the Reiksguard, I will use the same color schem on the rest of my Reiksgaurd units. A whole unit will look really cool with this paint job me thinks.

Empire Painted Wizards

I found some more time to do some painting.

 I would like to add some copper or gold to his chest plate book and sword to spice it up. and the yellow stripes I added because it was looking plane.

 There are still have some color to add the hilt of the sword and the details on his hat and jacket. but all and all not bad.

War Priest Painted

I have not had much time to paint lately with work and a little girl, much less do a character. I have been painting a unit of halberdiers, but painting regular units can become a little tedious. So I thought I would do something a little more detailed. I got this war priest a while back and striped it from the paint job it came with. This is the first model I put eyes on. I came out pretty good. I wish the picture of the face where better. That is as close as I could get with my camera.

New Old Warhammer figures

I came across a great deal on some Out Of Print Empire figures. I have been putting together an army of units that I remember from the late 80’s and early 90’s when I started collecting.

Hero's and command

Mounted wizard that matches the one I have on foot score

 I think this is an OOP Ludwig Schwarzhelm

I think this is a OOP Kurt Helborg

Cool standard bearer I am definatly putting in my army.

A Hafling comand unit with one spearman. I dont think they have been used the in the game for a while. I am thinking about using them as comand and champions of my halbard units.

Vintange Hell Blaser and crew

This is wha made me jump all over the post. I have been looking for more OOP Halbardiers for my army. It cam with over 40 halbard figures so I have enough for a huge block or 2 smaller ones. I have been looking for spearmen also but Ill use these for now.

And I got 2 original boxes (the real box is not this out of focus). I posted the other stuff that came with this lot below, most of which I am not keeping. Not that its not cool I just want other stuff.

Empire units

I picked up some cool empire units off of craigslist for a great price. So all the stuff I am not using I put on ebay. Check it out

 Here is the Empire war wagon i remember this from when I first started palying. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261116433092?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Some Knights of the White Wolf really cool looking models. It would be cool to keep them and use them as champions in my knight units.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261116433814?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 And six Flagellant I dont really see a place in my army for them, but I know a lot off people do. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261116435111?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Empire List 1.1

Here is the new list knowing that I can run up to 2500 points opened things up a little. I am sure there are still tweeking to be done and other complet versions to try, but here is the 1.1 list.

	points	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	units	Points
Lords														Total	2493
														Lords	565	23%
Karl Franz	340	4	5	5	4	4	3	5	3	9		340		Heroes	161	6%
silver seal=4plus ward
Deathclaw		6	6	0	6	5	5	4	5	8		225		Core	1300.00	52%
blood roar (enmy rolls 3d for ld) terror														Special	312	13%
Heroes
battel wizard	100	4	3	3	3	3	2	3	1	7		100
(magic item 50) dispel=25 channelling staff=15 plus1 to chan												40
War Priest		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		65
(d3 stat boost) 4plus ward (magic item 50) dispel=25 bwh=16												41
Witch Hunter		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		50
brace of pistols=5 (magic item 50)												5
Core
Halberdiers	6.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	30	180.00
Sargent=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
Spearmen	5.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	75
sheilds=15												15
Archers	7.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	10	70
Knights	22.00	4	4	3	3	3	1	3	1	8	15	330
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
IC Knights	25.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	15	375
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
crossbow	9.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	10	90
spearmen	5.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	75
shield=15												15
Special Units
Reiksguard	27.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	6	162
captian=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
hellblaster												120

First Time Back

I finally got my list and most of my army together so I am ready to play. It has been about 5 years since I played last and this is a completely different army then I used last time, so I did not really figure on winning. There have been some rule changes so I had to used to them, not to big a deal. The biggest thing was learning how the army works in real play as to on paper.

So I go down to the closest game store last Wednesday because I learned that when people mostly play fantasy. I find a game get set up with this kid Tyler and ask “what army do you run?” He says “Oh, Warriors of Chaos.” I’m thinking oh great this is going to suck. Fist time back new rules new army and up against the most kill happy hard as nails army in the game. Also I had up to this point never played a WoC army: but by reputation alone not psyched about it.

Tyler was pretty cool in filling me in on new rules and changes as we went and was not a rule Nazi: just a friendly game.

Chaos knight and Muraders on the right

Warrior Nugling and what ever there war alter thing is and Demon Prince in the Middle and some lesser Demon somethings to the left. Also lvl 2 mage.



Left to right (how we do it in America son) Inner Circle Knight, reg. Kights



Cross bows, a block of Halberiers with a war priest with detchements of Spears and Archers. Hiding in the back I have my lvl 4 proxy of a Wizard (waiting on model in the mail thats what happens when you buy from the U.K)

the Black thing is Karl Franz on Deathclaw (I'll expalin in a min.) 2 Cannons and some ill placed Rikes Kights: with a witch hunter floting around for no reason.

Start Turn 1

He wins first turn and move froward jumping his Demon Prince Forward and make some other little move I also do the same uneventfull turn 1 stuff. Magic cast all dipelled no big deal. His Cannon fails what ever test it needs to be use full. My cannons do nothing due to bonching and rules that i look up later tell me that some thing I was told about the cannon in this game not quite right. Next time Gadget.

Turn 2



Demon Prince Slams my archer, Chaos Knight in to my spears. I Learn a Leason on how not to use detachments. Me thinks to keep the base unit ahead of detachents.   I am not sure if thats as true as he said; we will see in the future. Spears run off after loseing combat.

Turn 3

Uneventful magic he cast rot and rolled bad causeing very little damage to me. I regen some wounds with lore of life. I get ant-sy and charge with my Knight.

Lose badly with my IC Knight which run off the board eventually.

On My turn Karl Franz Kills Deamon Prince which is explanded to me after the game was a destraction because the demon prince in not that tought, but looks scary.

Knights win combat on Warriors and run them down. Made me happy =)

Halbards Charge Chaos Kights: Lose battle but stick.

Turn 4

Nurgling Charge Halbards Spears Rally. Rikes Knight move some where they can do some good, becuase there stupid general put them be hind some crossbows.

On my turn I charge my Rikes Knight in to the Nurglings and Spears into the Chaos Kights.  Karl Franz goes to kill some war machines to get me some more points.

Turn 5

Lose all Infantry in battle, Knight do Damage to Nuglings.

Karls wipes out cannon

I lose my cannons and every thing on the right side of the board.

And lose just about every other Combat there is for the rest of the game leaving me at the end with only Karl left. Sooo.....I lost, But leard some good lesons.



Now when I made my list I did not know how many points they usally play so I was under pointed by about three to four hundred. Tyler let me make some quick changes and let me use that black model for Karl because I had brought him on horse back. I think a diffrent magic would have been good and a few other things I will Tweek. Next time will be better.