Upcoming Dragon Rampant game

I took some pictures of our upcoming Dragon Rampant game. I am not a big fan of "construct your own warband for 24 points" games, so I usually set up a scenario, and plop down a number of units that hopefully will provide an interesting scenario.

For this specific game, I decided to field an Elven army against a Chaos army. Most figures are rather old, going back the early nineties.

The Elves are as follows:

Elven Army

• Elven Prince: Elite Foot + Invisibility (Advanced Heroquest figure)
• 3 Archer units: Light Missiles + Sharpshooters (Warhammer 4th edition figures)
• 3 Spearmen units: Heavy Foot (Warhammer 4th edition figures)
• Wizard: Light Foot + Spellcaster (Advanced Heroquest figures and an old Citadel familiar)
• Giant: Elite Foot (Marauder Miniatures giant)
• Dragon: Greater Warbeast + Flame Attack, Flying, Ranger (Ral Partha)
• Eagle: Greater Warbeast + Flying, Ranger, Wild Charge (Citadel Eagle)

The forces of Chaos:

Chaos Army

• Champion: Elite Foot + Ranger, Invisibility, Enchanted Weapon (Old 3rd edition Slaanesh Champion)
• Wizard: Light Foot + Spellcaster (Citadel Wizard and a Chaos familiar)
• 4 Beastmen units: Heavy Foot + offensive (Old Citadel Beastmen, 3rd edition)
• 2 Minotaur units: Elite Foot + Ranger (Citadel Minotaurs, 3rd edition)
• 2 Tree Spirits: Greater Warbeast + Ranger 9Reaper Bones figure and a Horrorclix figure)
• Spider: Greater Warbeast + Ranger , Wild Charge, Venom (Ral Partha)

We use an hexified version of the rules (see earlier blogpost), and draw 3 random spells for wizards to use throughout the game. That adds some more fun and unexpected tactics.

The scenario focuses on 5 sacred statues situated along the river. The side who controls the most statues at the end of the wargaming day wins the game. The Elven army is closest to the status initially, and they have archers, but the Chaos forces have some more melee power, so it should be an interesting scenario.

Overview of the table. Chaos starts in upperleft corner, Elves in lowerright corner.

Statues along the river. Note also the "enchented forest". Forests are always enchanted ;-)

WFB4 Elves

Earlier, I reported that there were some Elves on my painting table. Finally, they are finished.

These are plastics from the Warhammer 4th edition boxed set, and hence are painted a bit simplistic: simple block painting, limited highlights. They will be mostly used for quick fantasy games.

Next up on the painting table: Elves

My plan of moving through my pile of unpainted lead and plastic is nicely moving along. I try to group my painting into batches of thematically linked figures, e.g. all medievals, all scifi, etc. This doesn't always work for the odd figure here and there, it mostly provides a nice coherent feel to most painted units. Especially since I paint to a (some might say crude) gaming standard, it is important that the troops look visually as if the could belong together.

Next up are the Elves. Over the years, I never really collected a lot of Elves, apart from some figures for roleplaying, but below are the main units I plan to paint in the immediate future.

The plastic Elves from the WFB 4th edition boxed set. These were released in 1992.  I bought the box, but was already moving out of Warhammer at the time. Hence, these figures never got painted, apart from 8 spearman that I once needed for the Siege of Lowenheim game. The original pastic sprues also are listed in the 1992 catalogue.

An old set, but a recent acquisition, is the Ral Partha Elven Chariot, designed by Tom Meier. The first reference I could find is in the 1982 Ral Partha Catalogue. I bought this set a couple of months ago from Wim VDB, a fellow Belgian wargamer, who also has been in the hobby for quite a few decades. I really look forward to putting this one together and painting it.