Tuesday 24 June 2014

Long absence, a green Knight fiasco and new horizons…


A long time has passed since I last posted on this rather small blog which was intended to be a regular update on my Bretonnian army progression. This reason for this was a rather painful back injury that required morphine and some exams I had to sit taking up the vast majority of my time, thus relegating my brave Knights and rather dirty peasants to their respective boxes until such a time came that I could do them the justice they require!

Now that time has come and for the last month or so I have been active on the forums that I lurk and with my brush flailing away with red and blue and now I have got the time to update my blog I thought that the time was ripe!

Firstly my Super-Lance/Pain Train is completed: 14 Knights of the Realm a Sorceress and a Paladin make for a rather hard hitting force that in theory can break almost any unit they come across provided they charge! Sporting the blue and red of Carcassonne, they are a rather cool sight as they charge across the battlefield meeting out death on those foolish enough to challenge our might!

However this is where my Green Knight Paladin has encountered a few issues. The idea was for him to sport blue, white and red on his barding and a red and white on his torso while the crests on his head and his horse were going to be painted a bright red, orange and yellow to give the impression of flowing flame.

Unfortunately I figured out that orange isn’t as easy to dry brush with as the darker or more solid colours I normally use and so rather than have a bright red highlighted with orange I instead have a murkey-reddish-brown-orange colour (which in itself isn’t nasty just not very bright) with some very dubious yellow highlights!

I am hoping that once I get the rest of the model painted it will look ok but if not I’m afraid this poor chap is going to have a swim in the paint stripper for the 3rd time in his life (got to love metal models!).

That brings me nicely onto the prospect of a new Bretonnian book! Rumours are abound of when we will receive it but there does seem to be good odds for this summer! Even more debate rages on what we will get in this new book!

The biggest split between the community so far seems to be if we need foot Knights or not: many feel we need them to make certain games (Watchtower) possible while others think that our Grail Pilgrims should just get a boost to make them a little bit more competitive and retain the heavy cavalry list that we currently have.

I am on the fence! I certainly don’t want to see our list become The Empire in different clothes nor turn away from our list being a Cavalry one but I can see the logic in popping some Foot Knights in there both for gaming purposes and purely to sell new models.

Other arguments involve war machines and the possible inclusion of some Crossbowmen? Who knows, Games Workshop in their infinite wisdom…..yeah, in their wisdom will undoubtedly get it perfect or utterly wrong, there seems little ground for in-between these days!

And while I haven’t got around to much painting, I have managed to paint my Empathy Paladin who is looking heroic and ready to club some vile Orcs or Vampires to a pulp and also convert a model to represent him on a horse, who may be my General! Not sure yet, I need someone suitably heroic and that seems a rather illusive thing to achieve!

Will continue to update as and when things happen but for now, Ta-ta!

Kind Regards

Viscount “Wolf” Blackwood