Meet Venomous Vernon

Why Vern? I hear you cry. Do you really need me to tell you? Any way here he is being ridden by his master Hagedis Leatherwing, Wyvern master and Stuntie crumper, trusted Lieutenant of Ashcan the Great. Before joining the horde most reports placed him in the northern mountains feasting with his mount on Dwarven sheep and Dwarven flesh.

We see him here making several attempts to land Vern in the rocky landscape of the northern passes. No doubt on some scouting mission during the hordes descent to the low lands, known as Ashcans great passage. Hagedis was always the leading thrust in Ashcans great passage.                

 

 

                      

Why the iPad is the perfect war-gamers tool.

Why the iPad is the perfect war-gamers tool toy.

OK I know its possible to do these things with say a digital camera and a lap top but with the iPad it is just easier. And it would be quite expensive to buy one just for gaming, but lets say you’ve bought one here are the top 5 things that makes the iPad a great toy for an analogue war-gamer:

1)       1) PDF rules. If you have your favorite rules set in pdf format it is simplicity itself to flick to the pages you need. Even easier if you float it. Nine times out of ten you would get to the rule quicker on float than flicking through the paper rule set.

2)       2) iPad formatted editions. Many makers of rules such as Too Fat Lardies and Ganesha Games are producing rule sets with links in specifically for the iPad.

3)       3) Note taking. Want to write out your spell lists and army lists, forget countless sheets of paper cluttering the place up put it on your iPad notes.

4)      4) Instant Sound effects. Fire!  Charge!  Charge 2!

5)       5) Instant battle reports using photobucket App.

Kay Taydee Reporting from the front line.

Our intrepid war corespondent Kay Taydee reports from her imbedded position on the dwarf front line. Casualties are low and the Dwarven forces are in high spirits as the vile ramen approach but boy are they fast. A quick post mid game from iPad meaning I can only use HTML so sorry for wired size pictures.

A game!

Well I have business in my old home town today and tomorrow and so shall be staying the night at my Brothers. Perfect excuse for a game of Oldhammer 3rd.  My brother has collected almost as many miniatures as me over the years but unlike me way over half of them are Skaven, the man is rat obsessed.

Now with games against your brother competition is the order of he day so we tend not to let on what armies we are taking. I'm fairly certain I'll be facing Skaven though, chaos and high elves are an outside chance.

Me I'm taking Dwarves and here is the list.  Not very narrative at the moment but we'll flesh it out before game commences. It's also light on warriors but isn't that how we roll round here? Thanks for the army builder files Dreamfish.

I'll let you all know how the game goes.

Oldhammer T-shirt + idiot = ????

So I got my old hammer T-shirt the other day.  The wife is a sleep on the sofa so couldn't get here to take a photo of me the idiot I got to pose in it so here is a quick ipad self portrait snap of said idiot.

If you haven't got one yet why not? You could look as cool as me this idiot! I thought black was supossed to be slimming, Zhu! I want my money back.......

Oldhammer Fanzine Plans.

I'd like to move the fanzine discussion onto the Oldhammer blog now. I've started a post with some rough plans for issue 1. Please do head over and take a look at what is going on.

I'll continue to post pointers on what is going on on  Oldhammer blog here until they appear to be necessary.

Oh and if you are an illustrator we need you..

Wombles innnn spaaaaace

Command

OK to follow on from my RT Orks post here are a few space wombles. These are really old paints on even older minis, a few lead but almost all the classic beaky marines from what really was a ground breaking early plastic set.

I've only taken photos of one squad, you've seen one grey marine you've seen them all, but there are several tactical squads and a couple of all lazcannon devastator squads in the army. I never really named these guys, every chapter name i came up with just didn't seam to work, Emperor's Swords, Emperor's knights, Grey Swords.. they all just didn't cut it. A massive 10 worthless points for anyone coming up with a name I really like, salient points, they are grey and have a sword emblem on the shoulder pad.

Kill!

Whirlwind conversion.

This is how dreadnoughts actually look.

Not sure where the second multi melta has gone.

The vehicles are particularly ropey paints but I love em not quite to pieces. Not sure why Space marines always write, "Kill!", on their tanks, probably because it is cool. I have some bikes knocking about somewhere and five of the riding lizards that I've yet to do anything with.