Tor Megiddo: The Exile - Part 1

Introduction

When the Warhammer Community team published the Necomunda solo scenario The Hunt, I had a go with it, using the gang roster for the Purebred as they were at the end of Oil & Blood, our first Tor Megiddo campaign. I took some pictures, thinking of posting a battle report, but then I realised that I had no story to tell.

What had happened after the end of our second campaign, Ferrugo Pass? How had the Purebred stumbled upon GH-0u1? Were they again fighting inside the Couldron or somewhere else?

As I was asking myself these questions and I was re-reading the Necromunda rules, ideas for a solo campaign started to flow, centred around the Purebred journey through the sands of Tor Megiddo after being banished from the Yaike Yaike Elders.

Now I've a story, but I've not yet played the games that will help me tell it. Luckly, just before we all went into lockdown, Saul had left all his terrains and warbands at my place as he was moving house. Needless to say it, everything is still at mine. So, over the next few weeks a new chapter in the Purebred saga will be added to the annals of Tor Megiddo!

You can see the rules and sketch of the story I have developed so far here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-aj9IJqXOWrAc_oNZwJsNfVoR8U3O1ljoN6AZNANTDo/edit?usp=sharing. I'll re-add the link to future posts, so you can easily follow the rules development and get the scenarios for yourself.

In the meantime, I'll let you feast your eyes on the picture of the Armies on Parade board we collectively entered at the Manchester Warhammer Store in October 2019.

Except for the Ashtown Wasters, which we could not pick up from Ade, and the Slipgibbets, which Saul decided to leave home as they had their 15 minutes of fame on White Dwarf, every one that appeared in our campaigns was crammed on the board!

Dave even made the flying machine especially for the event. I just hope we can soon use it in a full blown campaign!

And, if you were wondering, we racketed up quite a few prizes for it!

Free Companies of the Gilded Hand - 11

The Road to Armies on Parade, Part 2

Horribly late, but not because I failed to finish my board for Armies on Parade. Rather, the hype for Shadows of Commorragh made me forget to post about the trip of the Free Companies of the Guilded Hand to the Manchester Warhammer store.

As planned, I updated the colour scheme on Gudrun's Grudgebreakers (tribute to Long Drong's Slayers) and Steve 'Seagul' Boffin's Kitchen Crew to match the rest of the Free Companies.

I've also rebased a few objective markers I had done for Mordheim as they'd been perfect to represent the chest and scattered loot from the cover of the Dogs of War Army Book. Obviously, since then they've seen some action in Warcry games.

What was left to do, was to set them on the board. I decided to use my Ruins of Phos, the first set of scenery I did at the dawn of the Age of Sigmar.

I'm really proud that the board captured the spirit of the Dogs of War Army Book cover by only using models developed with gaming, rather than a painting competition, in mind. Alas that was a reference only hoary hobbist could get. So, while with a couple of guys we spent the morning reminishing about the Dogs of War army, the popular vote went to more current, and definitely better painted, Age of Sigmar boards. But who cares, I had fun!

And in case anyone was wondering, Kalyustar was on the board as well, just lurking in the back. That wizard always had a certain attraction for forboding locations.

In fact, you'll soon see him walking again through the twisted woods of the Harrowmark. Stay tuned!

Free Companies of the Gilded Hand - 10

The Road to Armies on Parade, Part 1

After finishing the Void Phoenixes inspiration has dried out a bit. This was not really helping as I wanted to try Warcry but simply can't bring myself to play with unpainted models. Hence, I went back to my Orcs & Goblins army from the 8th edition Fantasy days. 3500 points and counting of old currency, all locked away and still on their square bases.
The first models to jump at me when I opened the army case were not the Black Orcs I was looking for. Rather, it was Ruglud's Armoured Orcs. As I hefted the metal (!) models I was reminded of my Free Companies of the Gilded Hand and the project to pay tribute to the Regiments of Renown from ages past. And then, inspiration struck me. What if I was to enter the new Themed Army category for Armies on Parade by recreating with my models the cover of the Dogs of War Army Book?

Ruglud's Orcs could take the place of the goblins. All that was needed was a bit of rebasing!

Since I've used red and yellow as the unifying colours for all the human regiments, I touched up the paint work on the orcs so that they looked coherent when put next to them. The same went for Skargat's Ironforged Ogors, the very first warband I assembled for Age of Sigmar and used during the Season of War.

As I was rebasing and painting them, I also cobbled together an Ardboyz warband, lead by none other than Badruk 'eadsplitta, glorious limited edition model from Games Day 2005.

He only needed a new base, while his boyz needed some touches of colour as they had been batch painted in a rather monochromatic scheme. After all, who cares for individuality when you can't see the details of ranked up models?

What I did was adding the splatters of blood on their weapons and picking up some of the armour plates in bronze to break up the dull metal I had painted so long ago.

As 10 Ardboyz makes for a decently varied Warcry roster and as there are exactly 10 names in the Core Book random name generator, the rest of the unit only got new bases and some licks of bronze. I'm not going to use them for Warcry, but who knows, I might play the odd big army Age of Sigmar game and one more unit is always handy!
The next models that will need a new coat of paint will be Gudrun's Grudgebreakers, my duardin privateers, and the halflings of the Kitchen Crew, which you can also see in the posts from the Season of War period. Then, it'll be just a matter of composing my board for Armies on Parade...