Free Company

Time for some free company. Did i say I´m now painting for a new tournament and for this i need some detachments for my main halibard unit. This is one of them. A unit of 10 free company. This is all going to be as speedy as i can produce color on the models, I hope I will have time to put some more love (high light) on the army later in my life. But this will have to work for now.

Interior of steam tank

With not much time left until the new Fancy Fanatic tournament i still do some over the top work for my army, i thought since you can open the top (steamgun) you can see into the interior of the tank at any time. Then that place should also be painted. What do you think?

Knights of Stirland

The Empire Knights in my Stirland army. I decided since the war against the undead i thought it would be fitting to paint them with black armor. I used the heads from the Outriders box since the old knights are in my opinion so old and ugly. I still can´t believe that GW did not upgrade the empire horse and knights when the new book was released.

Empire for Army Builder is out

Just wanted to inform that you now can download and use the new Empire book for Army Builder.

Demigryph Knights

The Empire now have monstrous cavalry in the form of demigryphons. And only knights of the inner circle my ride this fearsome creature. its said that as a final challenge they have to go and tame one demigryph before they are allowed into the inner circle and that's why they are so few around in the old world, many never survive the taming of this beast.

State Troops

State Troops of the Empire

There are some new changes to how the state troops work, but in overall i think the change of the swordsmen have made the halberdiers the best choice for a regimental units and i will explain try to explain why. Before the new book my choice was the swordsmen, they had 4 in WS and I they also had 5+ save with parry for the same price as a halberdier or spearmens, and they hold their ground a lot longer then the other units.

In the new book they cost 7p/model and are back to three in initiative, they still have four in weapon skill. But with the hatred boost and prayers from the warrior priest they just don't do the damage you are looking for. On the other hand the halberdiers cost 6p/model and will do some more damage with the re-rolls from the priests. In my opinion they are the new Flagallants for this army (with the proper boost ofc). I see a big unit of halberdiers as a standing unit in every Empire list, maybe 40 with a detachment of 20 free company.

New rules and units

The Knightly Orders

Thought i give my toughs about the units in the new Empire rule book. My first post I'm going to talk about the knights of the empire. 

First the Core Knight, 22p per model for 1+ save with the free option to swap the lances and shields for a great weapon. You may also upgrade one unit to knights of the inner circle this cost another 3 points and give them 4 in basic strength. I see at least one units of inner circle knights in every army since they go on core points. I also have a use for a small unit with great weapons, maybe even the inner circle knights with gw. Inner circle knights may also be given a magic standard.

The Empire 8.0

And here it is, the new Empire rule book. The big changes are, new rules for detachments, the demigryphon knight (mosterus cavalry), some changes to the artillery, the steam tanks is now a bit more easy to play with, and we have to new magical chariots to play with.

I have just played one battle so far, with another one coming up this weekend. I will keep giving my opinion about the new rules as i get some more playtime with the new rules.

Vampire Counts

As i mention before i also have a Vampire Counts army witch i have been working on since 97 with a mix of old and new models. I thought i give my thought on the new army book for the vampires.

Im back

Sorry for the huge afk, I have just got my hobby area back up after a change of apartment. Soon ill get more work done i will get it up on the blog. Still going to expand my Empire army. Here is an older pic i never got published since i never use it in 8th edition. Here is the volly gun.

The Tournament

I'm sorry for some uneventful times, I've not been able to post anything for a couple of weeks. But here is the report from the Tournament we attended some weeks ago. It was a 3 team tournament and we played:

• Empire (me)
• Bretonnia
• Dark Elves
  

I'm just going to write about how i did here though. First i meet a Dark Elves player, i was a close fight but i manage to get the victory due to i held the objective for two turns. So the final score for this:
Empire vs Dark Elves [12-10]

Army Battle Standard

Well is you seen on an previous post, I made a custom army battle standard bearer from pieces of left over plastics kits. I could not stand the one from the box, the banner was great, but the rest looked too stiff and over sized. Hope u like him, there is some detail left to do on him but I'm sort of time at the moment.

Warrior Priest

For this tournament I'm attending I'm using a Arch Lector for my general, so he is one of the two characters i needed to finish painting for the turny. So here he is. I have a priest painted but its the one with hand weapon and shield, but in my list he is wielding a great weapon so i made this one for it to look right. 

  

Theodor Bruckner and Reaper

Forge World have now released a new Empire model, this looks really cool i must say. And it could be yours for only 36 pounds thats is about 372 sek for us in Sweden. I like that Forge World is into fantasy more now.

Speed painting

Me and my friends is going to join a warhammer tournament the 5th of march, so a little more then a week away.  For this i had to paint 24 Greatswords, 24 flagellants, 30 swordmen, 2 charachters and a great cannon. As you can see on a earlyer post i em almost done with the greatswords at the moment. And now it was time for the glass cannon crew, (flagellants) to make it in time this was just made with base cote colors and wash, and here they are.

A new hero is born

Was making the characters from the general box from games-workshop but i was not happy how the battle standard bearer turned out, so i put him under the knife and rebuild a new model from all the bits left over from making my army and this is what came to be.

He is made of legs from canon crew, chest and head from greatswords and handgun from pistoleers. This model is soon going to get some paint so stay tuned for his update in a near future.

Riders of doom

Here is the Pistolers, the young and eager noblemen from the empire. I dont know how other empire play the champion option with the repeating pistol, they change the range of all pistol in the new 8th ed rules to reach 12" but the repeating is still 8".

Im kinda annoyed about this my self, the only problem with the pistoleers that they have 3 in BS but the champion have 4 so he is the one that can do something with a repeater pistol, but they use different range in the same unit.

Shooting Detachments

I made some smaller trays for fighting detachments for 7th ed rules, but found em working ok for handgunners and crossbowmen for 8th. Keep em small enough not to crowd up the setup but still shoot some.

The Mortar

So here is the first of my war machines, the mortar one of the corner stones in the empire army. Do not leave home with out it. I think this piece was one of the first things i ever painted for this army, and i was trying out the color scheme back then, but i was ok and  happy with the colors back then so they stuck through out.

The Greatswords

Here is a picture of my most recent paintjob for my army. The greatswords, my theme is really rual almost farmer style on the army, hence the rooster on the banner. Also thought to make the armor black and all the models a bit dirty to further make them appear poor and rustic.