In Altdorf, the Grand Prince of Reikland screams in drunken rage. Ludwig is a man broken down by vice and misfortune. Barely literate and only occasionally sober he still seeks to claim the imperial high seat. Behind this wretch stands a far more dangerous man, unseen but all seeing. He is the Master of Masks,… Continue reading Mordheim 2019 – Reikland
As Stu over at Liber Malefic said, the only way to start a campaign is with some hard research. For the Mordheim 2019 project I have been looking through the old rulebook from Mordheim and I couldn't help but notice some curious and funny details. Mordheim came out in 1999, a time when Games Workshop still… Continue reading Mordheim 2019 – Curious details
Mordheim in the year 2019 It is the year 2019 IC and it is a time of anarchy and despair. For close to 500 years the great provinces of the disintegrating Empire have burnt with civil war. The fracturing that began with the death of Emperor Mandred in 1152 IC is almost complete. This is… Continue reading Mordheim 2019
I'm not a very quick builder, I tend to have ideas that I feel are worth exploring a bit, but then I lose interest in them if there is no clear reason for me to continue with them, for example a big game coming up. So my Age of Sigmar warbands have languished in development… Continue reading AoS28 – Cardinal Church Continued
Games Workshop have been publishing books since the 1980's and as with all publishers the quality has varied a lot. It seems that they are publishing a few new novels every month now and to be honest I don't read the current crop. The books just aren't aimed at me, I have no great interest… Continue reading Black Library – My Favourites
Every now and then a discussion about movies and Warhammer pops up on different forums and social media. It is usually quite interesting to follow such discussions since they tend to reveal a lot about the various ways people approach Warhammer and its various settings. Many prefer to have a clear plot with a little… Continue reading Warhammer-esque movies
The Paras rode the ashen wind across the fields of Vigrid towards the sunken cities and the holy mountain that had swallowed them. A decade had passed as the colossus had traversed the sand sea and the pilgrims aboard where all but gone now. In her wake the swam through the air, dead and yet… Continue reading Colossi of Rhossum Secundus -IV- Requiem
The sun would rise twice that dawn one sunrise for life one sunrise for death. It did not matter much to those that died but to those that lived it would be a constant haunting remainder that they remained when others had fallen. Sniffing and moaning the trollefather tried in vain to control his throne… Continue reading Colossi of Rhossum Secundus -III- Offertory
The sun rose and the sand began to heat for during the long cold night even the sand froze upon this dying earth. It was a new dawn and it began with bloodshed and horror and the dying. The first of the colossi spied the Polytechnical Tower crossing the bridge and the sleek hunter saw… Continue reading Colossi of Rhossum Secundus -II- Absolution
To play a game you need some miniatures of course. Outgard gave us a chance to explore depressing full on medievalism, with hints of strange dysfunctional technology. The bedrock of 40k in many ways, just taken to the extreme. This is the stuff we all delight in. Helge Dahl created the court of King Raavenkæld.… Continue reading Outgard – Memoriam defunctorum
