Well, it has certainly been a while. I don't think I've ever gone 6 months without a blog post before. I am ashamed, and don't really have a good excuse.
In recent months my hobby efforts have been a bit all over the place. I've spent a fair bit of time painting battlemechs and vehicles for Alpha Strike, I've refurbished a whole ton of cheap snow-covered trees into various shades of green and red, and I've played the odd game.
Anyway, whilst all that was happening, someone decided we should run an Old World Axemaster tournament, and so of course I declared I would enter it. I think it was kind of intended as a practice event for Cancon (both of them are 2400pts), so all I had to do was decide what army to take. Ummm.... yeah.
I spent a lot of time thinking about various plans, being dissatisfied with them, and changing to different plans. I stared at Ogres a lot. Like, it was a whole lot of staring. You would have been impressed. But nothing ever came of it. My Ogres give me headaches at the moment. In the end I decided I would take Dwarfs, because I had bought a beer pony and Doomseekers, and needed some motivation to paint them.
Axemaster was just a one-day, 3 game event. I admit I might not have prepared for it in as dedicated fashion as I probably should have. But Cancon is a 3-day, 6 game event that's occurring in a few weeks... and I intend not to prepare for that as well as I should either. So like I say, Axemaster was good practice...
Given the tournament was in the lead-up to Christmas, it's taken me a long time to get around to putting together this blog post. Some of the details are pretty hazy, so bear with me.
Dwarf Royal Clan (2400 points)
- Ungrim Ironfist
- King on Shieldbearers with Rune of Fortitude, Rune of Preservation, Master Rune of Gromril, Great Weapon
- Dragon Slayer with Rune of the Dishonoured, Great Weapon
- Runesmith with Battle Standard, Rune of Spellbreaking, Great Weapon, Shield, Full Plate Armour
- 10 Quarrellers with Full Command, Shields
- 20 Royal Clan Warriors with Standard Bearer, Veteran, Shields, Drilled
- 8 Slayers with Great Weapons (2 Giant Slayers with Additional Hand Weapons, 1 with Standard)
- 8 Slayers with Great Weapons (2 Giant Slayers with Additional Hand Weapons)
- 19 Hammerers with Full Command, Drilled
- Bugman's Cart
- Doomseeker
- Doomseeker
- Bolt Thrower with Rune of Skewering
- Bolt Thrower with Rune of Skewering, Stalwart Rune
- 6 Irondrakes with Standard Bearer, Ironwarden with Trollhammer Torpedo
- 6 Irondrakes with Standard Bearer, Ironwarden with Trollhammer Torpedo
