Project update

 So, it's been a couple of weeks/months, so what have I been getting up to. Mainly, buying models. With, the recent relaxation of lock down, meant I could get a trip to Warhammer World, and pick up some models for my Vampire Counts army. I picked up Heinrich Kemmler and Manfred Von Carstein on nightmare steed, both of which are helpful for my End Times project. 

I also picked up Konrad Von Carstein, he was there, the model is nice, do I need an excuse. The immediate  next purchase I need, are Krell and Isabella von Carstein. Both of these models are now OOP and going for silly prices, so I hope to snag an eBay bargain, one day. I'd also like to get Manfred von Carstein on foot as well, but he's not important for the End Games project.

My read through of the Nagash End Times books is nearly finished, and there are an awful lot of battles, and I'm slowly chipping away purchasing units, and characters that I might need. There is a lot of expensive models to get, but we'll get there.

I've been able to pick up another unit of Empire Swordsmen, and so now, I need to pick up a unit of Halberdiers, and strip my spearmen that I got in the 6th edition box set, twenty years ago. So, the Empire army is growing. I also want to add more skeletons to my Vampire Counts. I've got a rough idea, of what I want to get for that, so I need to A) dig out my Vampire Counts from 20 years ago and strip them, and B) buy more Zombies, you can never have enough zombies.

I've also been working on my Norman project, I've now got a unit of Spearmen, to go with my unit of archers. I've also added a Warlord to lead the division, so that is slowly growing.

However, next up, I'm buying a large amount of Napoleonic Russians. I already can field the 27th Infantry division, from the forces that fought at Borodino, I'm now going to start on the 2nd Grenadier Division, and moving towards having the complete 8th Infantry Corps.

and that's before I talk about the Barons War stuff.

Is it a bad thing to read

 So, I've been reading. This is not a bad thing, in fact, it's a very good thing. A thing I would commend you for doing. However, it can lead you down an accidental wargaming rabbit hole. The other day, I was reading through the internet, and found myself reading the write up of the Battle of Hastings on the Shedwars website.

Now, the Battle of Hastings is something that every good English schoolboys learns about. How Harold marched from Stamford Bridge to take on William at Hastings, and got an arrow to the eye for his trouble. However, it's not often war-gamed. 

So, having read the write up, I ended up purchasing the Osprey book on Hastings, and now I'm spending free time looking at Norman miniatures. Conquest games has some very nice plastic Normans, and Footsore and Gripping Beasts have some lovely metal models. 

A while back, I purchased some Norman Archers from Footsore, (I need to hit free postage) and so I'm on my way to building a Hail Caesar Army now. It's going to consist of three to four divisions of foot warriors, and a couple of cavalry.

The foot units are going to consist of four units of spearmen, one of which may or may not be unarmoured. A couple of units of archers, and a crossbow unit. As powerful as crossbow are, I feel that they would be quite rare in an army. These units are going to be 16 strong. The archers are on 20mm rounds, which came with my Perry Miniature plastic WW2 desert forces. I'm going to get some bases from Warbases, so I can use them in Hail Caesar, or in smaller games like Lion Rampant.

The cavalry divisions are going to be units of 12, and will be three to four units of cavalry, which will be 12 strong. Again, I'm tempted to put them on pill bases, and so I can take them in and out again and use them in a variety of games. 

The second book, I've been reading is the first title in the Warhammer Endtimes, which is Nagash. This, is interesting, in the first forty pages, lots of things happen, characters die, the Green Knight is revealed. It was a big risk, when GW killed of the Old World, but they did it in style. 

Now, reading this, makes me want to play Warhammer again. It doesn't take a lot, so I'm going to start blogging about what models I want to get, and how I'm going to get them without paying a mortgage to get one Bretonnian Grail Knight. 

The first battle in the book, is the Warhammer favourite, La Maisontal Abbey. So this is Bretonnians vs Vampire Counts. I've got some of both of these, but I want to play these games with armies of 3000 points of troops. Time to start thinking and planning. Which reminds me, I've got some Knights Errant I'm watching on eBay.