First things first...Goblins are still in progress.
With October being "Orctober," my immediate goal for October 2024 is to finish off the unit of 40 goblins, plus shaman and three "Lurking Skulkers" that, under more recent versions of Warhammer Fantasy Battles (and now Warhammer: The Old World), can hide in regular goblin regiments and leap out when melee begins to try and shank the front row of the enemy unit. I'm also aiming to have my 2002 Ruglud's Armored Orcs regiment completed by the end of the month.
Beyond that, I'm looking forward towards 2025 and giving myself a dedicated project to work on in the new year. My wife and I just watched the new FX adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun, and enjoyed it very much; between that and listening to the Yarkshire Wargamer podcast interview with Trevor Dixon of Dixon Miniatures, my thoughts have circled back towards a long-standing desire to paint samurai.
So I placed an order with North Star for a couple of skirmish rulebooks - Ronin, from Osprey Games, and Daisho, from the Ministry of Gentlemanly Warefare - two prepacked warbands for Ronin, and then another order with Badger Games here in the USA for a couple packs of Bad Squiddo Feudal Japan warrior women.
These will get me started for samurai painting and wargaming; eventually I'll pick up "Test of Honour" as well and start expanding my forces and building terrain. I've also dug a few samurai I bought in 2016 out of my bits box - a couple from Reaper Miniatures and a pair of AEG "Clan Wars" samurai archers, long out of production, that I'd bought off someone on Facebook. From there I'll start adding Perry and Dixon Miniatures samurai and retainers to the mix.
Good luck with the samurai.
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Thanks Stew!
Deletei got into Silver Bayonet and after a while, not sure how I felt about it.
ReplyDeletei can admit i'm not much of a historical gamer. i couldn't even think of doing samurai wargaming. but looking forward for some posts about it.
those orcs look good so far. are those Brian Nelson orcs??
Thanks Tim. They are Brian Nelson orcs from 2002 - advertised in the first issue of White Dwarf I ever picked up when I first came into the hobby, so I've always had a soft spot for them.
DeleteI would love to do more historicals, I think I get bored easily with painting uniforms. Plus, the historical wargaming community where I lived for the last 11 years was...not great people. So I haven't done much with historicals.