Uprising 2023 - Part 1

On the weekend I drove to Ballarat for Uprising 2023, which was a one day, 3 game tournament for 6th edition Warhammer Fantasy. In the end there were 36 players. I still don't fully understand where all these people are coming from in order to play a long-dead version of an abandoned game. Every person I ask seems to have a different story. Some have returned after a long hiatus, some are new to Warhammer, some have clearly been sucked into a time vortex and have no idea what year it is... Anyway, it felt like a lot of people for an event of this kind.

I talked previously about my Cult of Slaanesh army list, but here it is again with a family photo so you can see what I was running:

• Druchii Anointed (Level 2 Dark Magic) with Great Weapon, Shield, Blood Armour, Quickening Blood, Pendant of Slaanesh. Tome of Furion
• Sorceress (Level 2 Slaanesh Magic) with Mark of Slaanesh, Dispel Scroll
• Noble on Cold One with Chaos Armour, Shield, Great Weapon, Seal of Ghrond
• Sorceress (Level 2 Dark Magic) with Darkstar Cloak
• 9 Cold One Knights with Full Command, Banner of Murder
• 14 Devoted of Slaanesh with Full Command
• 10 Warriors with Mark of Slaanesh, Repeating Crossbow, Light Armour
• 10 Warriors with Mark of Slaanesh, Repeating Crossbow, Light Armour
• 5 Mounted Daemonettes
• 2 Reaper Bolt Throwers
• 10 Daemonettes 
• 5 Chaos Furies

As usual, I managed to take a good number of photos, which should hopefully help me remember what happened and talk you through my games.

Painting progress

In the months leading up to Christmas, I had lost all of my painting momentum and motivation. I had burned myself out trying to get organised for a large battle report, and it was all I could do to sit back, relax a bit, and spend more time playing computer games than fiddling with miniatures.

Things have improved slightly from a hobby perspective in the time since then, thankfully. In the lead-up to Cancon I was working on a Chaos Blood Bowl team that a friend was borrowing. I didn't get it finished, but I did at least get it to a usable state. That may be as far as it gets for a while - we shall see.

No, they are not completely painted yet. Well, the Chaos Warriors probably are done. And maybe the Minotaur and one of the of the Beastmen are close. Actually, they're all close.

Planning and re-planning

Cancon is fast approaching (it's a little over a week away), and I am not really prepared. I sort of know what is happening, but I have not done much in the way of ensuring that I am ready for it. I posted a while back that I was going to be playing Warhammer 8.5 this time, but that plan kind of fell through when low numbers combined with a crush from other events for extra space, and the event was cancelled.

So now I am playing Kings of War. Along with 61 other players, apparently. What army am I using? I have no idea yet, beyond the fact that it will have to use models I already have painted. I don't have time to paint anything else, because my available time will be spent working on these guys.

One Chaos Blood Bowl team in the making