Nick's Hobby Bloggy

Welcome back to the bloggy for a new battle report! This time, I had the pleasure of playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles 6th Edition , a classic, and my favorite, edition of the game which survives in our hearts and memories. I can still remember distinctly the first time I picked up the 6th edition "big rule book." I had just returned from staying with my grandmother in Florida during the summer of 2000. The new (and sealed) book was waiting for me back home, but I begged my parents to bring it with them when they picked me up from the airport so I didn't need to wait another excruciating 30-45 minutes without it. All summer I had pored over my glorious Warhammer Armies: Skaven supplement, imagining the incredible horde of chittering ratmen I would loose upon the denizens of the Old World. However, little of the supplement made much practical sense, as I had never read the actual rules  of the game. Frustratingly, my entire understanding revolved around what my thirteen y...

 Hey folks, welcome back! Excuse my absence, it's been a minute. This blog focuses on the first unit of Warhammer Fantasy Battles I've painted in oh, about 12 years or so. It's a pleasure returning to the old world and I couldn't be more excited to spruce up and round of my classic Empire force! Rather than start with something reasonable, like a lone hero or something, I decided to crank out a full fifteen man unit of Knights of the White Wolf, the templars in service to Al-Ulric, the leader of the Cult of Ulric and High Priest of Middenheim.  I still had many of these guys in my now ancient collection when I began the project, but I did round them out with a few nifty eBay purchases as well. My knights were in all different states of assembly, painting, and general completeness; some were missing parts or had cobbled together alternatives crafted by my boyish hands over a decade ago. I also had never been happy with the original plastic head sculpts, so while we were ...