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Post by jonathan e on Jul 23, 2019 9:35:28 GMT
Six men. 20,000 points. More power dice than sense...I came across this one by accident while I was looking for Tomb Kings tactics. It's an absolute blinder of a battle report, pushing the upper limits of what WFB and human sanity can endure. The blog as a whole is pretty good if you're into eight edition Warhammer and post-Warhammer play (mostly Kings of War) but this is the bit that stands out for me. And not just because the Vampires almost had it...
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Post by nord on Jul 23, 2019 15:41:10 GMT
Each to their own I guess. Things like this leave me stone cold, sorry. It's kinda ridiculous to play a game this scale, it would be far easier using Warmaster, Hail Caesar or something similar. One photo showed a unit of skeletons five wide and about 15 to twenty ranks deep. That's not impressive, it's just dumb. WHFB just was not designed to handle games this size. Massive kudos to those who set it up and played it. I'm sure it's awesome for some. Not for me though. Sorry to be a grump, but it's an honest opinion.  |
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 23, 2019 20:48:02 GMT
Oh, it would absolutely work better with Warmaster, that's what Warmaster was designed to do: but there is something inanely spectacular about doing it in 28mm and I happen to think it's well planned and written up. "Absolute blinder" was needles hyperbole but I was in a funny mood when I read it; more impressionable than usual, perhaps.
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Post by fiendil on Jul 24, 2019 9:53:03 GMT
I liked that. It's too big a battle for the rules, or for a normal enjoyable gaming experience, but it does look good having all that painted toy soldier on a table at once, and makes for an interesting one-off.
What was good was that it was planned, it was all painted, they tried to account for and avoid game breaking stuff (ethereals and the like), didn't have too many people trying to play, and tried to encourage a cinematic mass battle.
Personally, the big battles I've done have mostly been done with Epic, so designed for the bigger games, and I hate the idea of just show-up-and-pile-(unpainted)-models-on-the-table games, so would want the thing to be planned and organised. But I barely have the stamina for even a normal game these days...
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Post by knoffles on Nov 21, 2019 8:25:10 GMT
Hoodling was well known for doing huge battles. I believe he was also partly the inspiration for the Spanish groups who did the mammoth gates of Kislev battle too. The main blog appears to have disappeared but the project log is still available on the Empire Forum. The work put into it was obscene: warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=51466.0 |
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