The Empire Responds to the invasion of the Uruk Hai
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About the Project
I have spent a few years building a large terrain board, some small armies and one large army of Uruk hai. I now want to build up another army to match the size and force of the orcs (Uruk hai) and goblins (Moria). The only two forces I have of any scale is undead and Empire, my mates have some empire too so I shall do my empire principally. And we can use the allies from other human provinces during games to top us up in points as high as possible while the forces slowly come together. Though I may get distracted from the slog again from time to time. This is now part of the process! So expect: undead, Men of Numenor , Eregion Elves, Morian Dwarves and maybe even some dungeon saga. Possibly a small bit of sci fi too as I’ve wanted to get on to my Aliens from the film for ages! But mostly, FOR THE EMPIRE!!!! And dogs of war…..
Related Game: Warhammer Fantasy Battles
Related Genre: Fantasy
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15mm. Don’t fecking distract me you bugger!!!
Some buggars have led me down a garden path. 15mm to be exact. Fantasy pike and shotte and fantasy hail Caesar here we come. And all in a scale that can be played quickly on a dining table in a short evening. The small steam tank does look a little large with the soldier compared to the 28mm to an Elsa. But it looks more like tanks do next to people in the tank museum. So it seems fine to me.
What do we think? Is warlord games chaps 15mm or not? The chap on the left is from some unrelated company that has sold 15mm for decades. It looks the same to me. But loadsa people claim it’s 13.5mm not 15mm. Has most 15mm been ‘heroic’ scale for all this time? The warlord chap is certainly slimmer. 
Warlord on left to another 15mm chap from yonder year.
I think the variation in 15mm may be quite large. Perhaps warlord are the first to do true scale using modern computers for design and get a more ‘accurate’ proportioning? Don’t know that I care really.2 out of 3 on the way
I like Blue it seems. ‘I’m blue and a de boo doo die a adabo de da o’ or some such. I never was good with remembering song lyrics Old school terrain.
Firsts time I’ve made one of these in 20-25 years. Inspired by the old GW red book of terrain dreams I re-did my last efforts. All cardboard and stirring sticks. One evening to make then one evening to paint. Really enjoyed it.Mini bat rep
Ambush the Imperial wagon train. First turn and the hidden surprise has not been revealed. The orcs surge forwards and the imperials turn to face the threat. Minor orc and goblin damage from imperial fire power. The light cannon unlimbers and turns to face.
The surprise reveals itself, a halfling howitzer! It unleashes an abominable amount of firepower on the Uruk general and his unit, half the Uruks dead. Then, the empire get nasty and open up a grape shot on the remainder, only the general survives on two wounds! 
Turn 3 and the howitzer explodes and leaves the wagon a burning wreck! The bolt throwers turn the empire cavalry into mush and the empire general is totally destroyed by two Uruk hai units converging on his flanks. 
Then in an unbelievable feat of battle fury, the Uruk hai general passes his moral check, charges the empire Arquebusiers and causes them to panic and flee. He catches and destroys them! Fprcing neighbouring empire units to flee en masse. The head of the empire column collapses and one wagon exits the table. 
At the rear of the column the empire start to flee from loosing their general. The game ends on turn 5 with a minor victory to the Uruk hai. The empire managed to get one wagon off the board but the orcs failed to capture any wagons by the end of the game. But it was agreed that with the empire fleeing bar the crossbowmen that it was pretty much fish in a barrel at that point. The rules for surprise halfling howitzer wagons proved great fun. As was the objective of capturing wagons. I did not manage a full mega game this holiday (too much illness and re arranged family commitments decimated my player base) but I shall definitely try this scenario again this half term but aim to do it with 3x the forces on a 12x6. Can’t wait!Part 2, more future dungeon
The overall time it has taken is 35-45 hours. The cost in the end is principally paint, glue and a couple items like the stargate, and a couple bits of second hand GW gribblies like a crane, some scatter terrain and some second hand Mantic sci fi doors. The rest is entirely rubbish. Bits that fell off my van, broken dishwasher spares. Some stuff from a toilet cistern, a boiler manifold and good old Dyson hoovers with fridge packaging. Overall the cost is around £85-95.
Dungeon. Complete…..admittedly it’s sci-fi. Close enough though.
This project has been a pleasure to bring together. It has been cheap, dirty and quick. But it looks just fine. Its crudity and speed of assembly has been masked by the process of layering details and spray finishes. It becomes a backdrop to the real focus of the board, the miniatures. Much of the supremely detailed and high end finishes on some boards leaves me flat when I experience it in anything like real world situations, it’s too detailed. But for photographs and dioramas the high end finishes are breath taking and leave me droooling. But to game and experience as a gamer? Too much going on for a game, I get lost and lose miniatures in it. So for gaming, this system is perfect, it shows a scene while emphasising the playing pieces. The miniatures.
The wagon train, so far….
Yes Mate!! We are doing this this Xmas. Might not be all of it but we are doing a raid on the supply train.
Kislev complete.
Pleased with my converted ice wizard.
And my converted Boyar, legs from Khandish charioteer, torso from winged hussar leader.
