As a lot of (1) posts this one starts with a story.
Way back in the day, when I first dipped my toes into this hobby, I started with GW. After a trip to the mall resulted in a demo of 40k (Battle for Macragge specifically) and a stern "no that's way too expensive" from the parents I had the itch. A friend and I experimented with DND and a rudimentary skirmish game using legos that we made up but years later I dove head first into the hobby proper. I ended up going way off the deep end and purchasing the starter boxes for LOTR, Battle for Macragge and the WHF Battle for Skull Pass. A year or two after that I ended up getting the batallion box, as well as few odds and ends to add to those Dwarves.
Now here's the thing. Very shortly after buying all this stuff we ended up discovering Malifaux which resulted in my effectively not touching GW for years. The dwarves and the other projects were boxed up and moved into the back part of the closet as my journey took me from Malifaux to Infinity, to historical wargaming and then many years later, into Age of Sigmar.
During the awkward transisiton of editions, I ended up digging out the dwarves. Some of them had basic serviceably paintjobs for someone who at the time didnt know what he was doing. Ultimately though, I had moved on from them. I sold them for a penny to a friend of ours who wanted to get into Age of Sigmar with us. At the time I had left it at, "if you ever want to move them on again hit me up first and ill buy them back."
A few more years go by and now were past AOS again and I have a strange desire to paint some dwarves. I had heard that they were sold again and this time to another member of the AOS group. By chance he had stopped into the hobby shop I worked at and a deal was made. In Kyle's hands they had formed rank and gotten reinforcements. Back into the cardboard storage boxes they went.
Another year or so and I broke out a couple dozen of them to try Warlords of Erewhon with Scott. At this point I did finish the scheme and update some of the models to match the new improved but still basic scheme. We tried the game a couple times and then back into storage they went.
These are some of the oldest models I own. Purchased at the dawn of my hobby career with my own money. This was one of my earliest steps into a world I had no idea would become so all consuming. There are grand plans this time around and my hope is that the journey will be part of the magic.
So what is this plan?
My plan is to take these dwarves, build an army out of them and then try the full suite of games. The first part of this plan is relatively simple. I'm going to start by "recreating" the newest starter box for the Warhammer Old World Dwarven army. This is 2 units of melee dwarves, 2 of shooty dwarves and 2 gyrocopters. There is one caveat which is that I only have 1 copter and don't really intend to buy a second.
That said, we're going to finish these dwarves and then Scott and I are going to play a series of games trying out a pretty long list of rulesets. I've split the list into two general categories; big battle and skirmish. See below
Big Battle:
Warhammer Old World
Battlecry
Warlords of Erewhon
Hobgoblin
Kings of War
OPR Fantasy, and OPR Regiments
Fantastic Battles
Skirmish:
OPR Skirmish
Thud and Blunder
Sword Weirdos
Saga Age of Magic
Warhost
Song of Blades and Heroes
Now this list is by no means comprehensive but it's a start. If you have a fantasy game that you love please let me know what it is and I'll give it a shot.
Now in all the years of fantasy gaming I've done I've also collected other armies for various projects. My hope is that in finishing these dwarves I'll be able to spark something and be able to use that momentum to finish a few other projects as well. In addition to that, I've always wanted a wood elf army and now that I have the ball rolling, if I'm able to finish this project I think I'll treat myself to that.
For now though, I leave you with a side by side shot of the earliest figures I've painted alongside the updated version on the left.
As of the time of writing this, I have the king and the warriors above fully painted with just their bases left to do. I also have the Thunderers rebased and about halfway painted. Will probably have more done between writing this but will wait to show it off as a completed force in the next post.
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