Conquest 100 Kingdoms by The Dace

Milestone 4 is finally finished.

I thought this would be a good time for a few group shots.

So, I push on to Milestone 5.

This will be a small one this time.

I simply aim to paint up my 12 Crossbow men.

Maybe, lockdown permiting, I will get a game soon.

Tonight while listening to the most excellent unofficial hobby hangout I managed to finish painting my 100 Kingdoms veteran.

A really nice model to work on, nice foot on stump pose.

I also tried to create sort of a Damascus steel effect on the sword and am quite happy with the results.

I used an acrylic paint outliner pen to create the way I wanted the blade the swirl and followed with a medium brown paint for certain parts.

I’m very close to completing this milestone now.

I look forward to updating again soon.

I finally completed my unit of Steel legion tonight!

I kept the red and black theme that is running through the rest of the army.

I still have the unit stands to complete but thats a 10 minute job.

I primed in Leadbelcher, painted on my block colours of red and black. A bit of bronze and leather here and there and silver for the sword blades.

I then drybrushed a bit of white and covered them in strong tone.

40 mins in the oven, gas mark 7 and voilà

I have also made a good start on my veteran. I should have him finished by the end of the week.

So, into a new year and hopefully a better one for all.

I’m pleased to say that I have completed my milestone 3 and more!

Firstly the Men at Arms are finished.

The extra crossbow men have been added and will be painted along with my original 12 in the future.

My Imperial officer has not only been started but completed.

I am really happy with how he came out.

The Steel legion have been tidied up a little and I’ve even made a start on painting them.

Milestone 4 will be as follows

1. Finish painting my Steel legion unit
2. Put together and paint up a veteran model that I received for Christmas
3. Add some texture and grass to my unit base stands.

I’m giving myself a month to complete the above, wish me luck.

So,

I managed to get my Milestone 2 completed.

My battle report and completed Cavalry unit can be seen in my previous updates.

I managed to find and purchase a battle mat that I like.

It is the Pwork Woodland valley Arcade Edition.

This edition is a little vibrant and has more contrast than the standard edition, right up my street.

I purchased an Imperial officer from OTT and put him together along with the Steel Legion that he will be commanding.

I made a start painting my Men at Arms and would say that I’m well over halfway there with them.

I’ve primed in a bone colour, used blood red on the shields as per the army scheme. The armour is a gunmetal color and the leather was a Scale 75 instant colour brown.

Milestone 3

• A change is as good as a break- I’m not great at painting lots of the same thing and have found painting these 24 men at arms hard work. I’m going to paint up a few of my Zealot minis Heroquest models up in-between Conquest stuff.
• I will finish painting my men at arms.
• I need to tidy up my Steel legion minis before priming. I’ve recently bought a small multi tool for this purpose.
• Add another 12 Crossbowmen to my force
• Start painting my Imperial officer.

I have finally finished my Household knights which was my last part of milestone 1 going into milestone 2.

I’m really happy with how these turned out.

I didn’t want them to stand out as much as my noble lord so I painted the armour in leadbealcher with a strong tone wash.

I kept the red and black colour scheme although with a little more black this time.

Below are some wip pictures as well as the finished job.

So, I managed to get another battle in before “dreaded lockdown”

We decided to go 500pts per side instead of just using the contents of the starter box.

This time we would be adding in Heirlooms and abilities.

My 100 Kingdoms force was as follows –

1x Mounted Noble Lord with the Shroud of Lazarus (+1 resolve and fearsome) and Jouster ability (Brutal impact 2)

3x Household Cavalry

12x Mercenary Crossbowmen

12x Men at Arms

My opponents force was as follows –

1x Pheromancer (with healing abilities that I cant remember the name of)

24x Force Grown Drones

3x Brute Drones

We had decided after our initial battle a few weeks back to use a bit less scenery, so only 4 pieces were placed, one in each quarter of the battlefield.

The battle seemed to have been delayed with absolutely nothing showing up in turn one for either side.

Turn 2 however, my whole army showed up which I kind of didn’t want.

I placed my Crossbowmen on my right flank, Men at Arms on my left flank and my knights and general in the center.

I advanced my whole force en mass which was a mistake.

Soon my opponents Force grown drones and Pheromancer took to the field, closely followed by a unit of Brute drones.

The Force grown drones advanced and made short work of my crossbowmen with the few casualties I managed to inflict quickly being healed up.

The Brute drones played a more canny game, using scenery to their advantage in blocking a charge angle from my Knights and Noble lord.

I tried to use my Men at arms to lure out the Brutes but in doing so these were wiped out to a man in the first round of combat with them.

I eventually managed to get my knights in at the Brutes but this was too little too late and the days was my opponents.

Very well played to my opponent Sam, thanks for a great game.

Some pictures below.

So, everything completed in milestone 1 apart from painting up my cavalry.

I have however, made a good start on this and my first challenge of milestone 2 will be finishing them up.

My milestone 2

1. Finish painting my cavalry from milestone 1
2. Purchase an imperial officer to use with my steel legion
3. Have a look for a suitable Battle mat
4. Put together the above Steel legion and officer
5. Have another game, this time adding in heirlooms, special abilities, spells etc…
6. Make a start on painting my men at arms