FOW Soviet Heavy Mortars

To add some close in heavy support we have a company of heavy mortars, these four tubes will provide a nasty shock for the German invader when they dare to take more soil from the motherland!!

Command Team and FOOs

Heavy Mortar Section

Not sure if I put the models the correct way on the base??? Too late now!

Dystopian Wars Prussian Luftwaffer!

The pride of the Prussian Luftwaffer an Imperial Airship carrier.

It is an awesome model and a pleasure to paint.

It has seen the field of battle one and although the Prussians came second the carrier made it through ok.

The airship.

The flight deck.

Absence

Sorry I have not been on for a while it is due to real life, work and family getting in the way.

I am back painting and I intend to update soon......cheers

Hail Caesar Fantasy Dwarves

Ok Guys, bare with me as this will be the first time I have worked out stats and special abilities for fantasy units in Hail Caesar.

As promised I will post the pictures of the units and their 'provisional' stats on the blog. If you have any comments or think I have messed up in some way please do let me know. I have used special rules by 'Steve' and a points system from 'Keith', both of whom you will find regularly posting on the Hail Caesar Yahoo Group. Thanks guys.

This is one of the reasons I think Hail Caesar will be great for fantasy and just what I am looking for in a mass battle set of rules, can't wait for the 12'+ table full of 15mm fantasy!!!

Warriors with double handed weapons

Warriors DH Wpns
Move	Clash	Sust'	Short	Long	Saves	Stamina	Specials	Points
5	8	7	2/0	0	4+	6	Double Handed Drilled Stubbon	41

Crossbow

Crossbow
Move	Clash	Sust'	Short	Long	Saves	Stamina	Specials	Points
5	3	3	2	2	6+	4	Crossbow Skirmishers	18

Small Unit

The Hellbore

It is treated as Light Artillery in all respects except that it has the ability to fire in any direction. Makes sense really!

Hellbore
Move	Clash	Sust'	Short	Long	Saves	Stamina	Specials	Points
5	1	1	2	2	6+	3	Light Artillery Fire in any direction	15

Blunderbuss

Now the Blunderbuss unit represents the pinnacle of Dwarf firearms. They are a foot unit, with weapons that have the range of Light Artillery and marksman behind the trigger!! They could be lethal!

				Blunderbus Move Clash Sust' Short Long Saves Stamina Specials Points 5 2 2 3 3 6+ 3 Small Unit Marksman Light Artillery Ranges 22

15mm Fantasy

Sorry for the delay the real world and work have interrupted my postings. Here are just some 'action' scenes from the Black Powder fantasy game we had many weeks ago.

Since then I have had my first game of Hail Caesar and really enjoyed it, I feel it will transfer well to the fantasy mass battle field, I should not be surprised by this due to it's origins and author!

In future posts I will put up pictures of my latest fantasy project, 15mm Dwarves and also add the HC stats I have come up with. As always comments are welcome and any thought on the stats would be appreciated.

The Goblins go in, a strong line of giant spiders supported by the goblins best infantry. Unfortunately they never actually made it in to contact with the enemy so they have yet to test their metal or should that be fur!!

This was the scene on the Orc and Goblins' right flank, the mosquitos came out of the woods, they were surprisingly effective! But they should be as the models are lovely! lol

The village was one of the objectives in this game, fliers could not 'occupy' the village but it gave the Uruk Hai food for thought!

As above but from my glorious Uruk Hai side!!

Last pic shows the Warg Riders (Eureka minis from Fighting 15s, lovely!!) charge home against the skeleton line. This was a successful action giving the Wargs plenty of fresh bones to chew on in celebration.

That's all folks! Next fantasy battle report will be using Hail Caesar rules!!

Clash Of Evil, The Skeletons!

Here we have the skeleton hordes that Al used against me. They used to belong to me but I sold them on when my other 15mm Fantasy armies began to take over.

They are a mix of Essex and Ral Patha, I am not sure who makes the bohemoths but they are nice.

The cavalry backed by two bohemoths, a powerful right flank. The figures are from both manufacturers.

The infantry centre supported by fliers, the fliers are old GW I think? The infantry are Essex and may be Tin Soldier?

A better view of the bohemoths.

The right side of the field.

Clash of Evil!!

Remember when I refer to rules, etc, we were using a modified version of Warlord's Black Powder. In future we will use a version of Warlords Hail Caesar. As I finish future units and show them here I will be putting up there HC stats and special rules.

Ok the great horde of Orcs and Goblins gather to smash the Undead into dust!!

This is the first time that my Orcs and Goblins had taken the field and they look pretty good even if I do say so myself.

Above we have two units of Demonworld Spider riders with a skirmish screen of Kallistra Orc bow, now the Kallistra are 10mm but work great for 15mm Goblins!

A special rule was give to spiders in that they did not become disrupted when going through woods, I just thought it made sense.

Demonworld Mosquetos! A great model and something a little different. I did not really give these flying rules I just made them immune to terrain effects. So these were nice fast 'mounted' skirmishers.

Now this wee beastie is impressive!! GIANT SPIDERS!!! Enough to give any hero arachnophobia.......

These are made by Demonworld, and are lovely. The GOOD NEWS, Ral Patha Europe have bought the molds and are going to re release the ranges!! More spiders may be?

Or may be not?? Is 3 enough? Now due to the size of the model they are actually based on 120mm frontages. When I do the stats for HC I think I will have to take that into account as potentially they will be fighting more than one foe at a time.

Finally for this part, the 'White Hand' contingent, made by Eureka and sold in the UK by Fighting 15s. Again these are great models and almost identical to the LotR film portrayal of Urhi Khai. Here we have a phalanx of 3 units! A lovely sight, enough to warm any despots heart!!

The phalanx was ably assisted by a unit of Xbow and a giant, we all know it is a GW LotR Cave Troll but in this scale they make impressive giants.

More to follow...........