10mm Fantasy

Had a first game last night having hurriedly white/blue tacked minis to washers (would you believe the holes make that quite annoying!)

Had a lot of fun, I did have concerns that the gobbos would be underpowered but the Dwarves under my control were wiped almost to a beard – am sure it was caused by the hunger from a delayed pizza delivery rather than my lack of ability…

Anyhoo, takeaways from the game, Troll are evil and need to die early on. I had far too much fun with the “Firey Balls” spell (genuine name – I expect @warzan will rock that every game), and I should have beefed up the gobbos command unit like I did with their other units – 1 combat, all dead to I believe no reply…

Unfortunately no pics – just plane forgot, besides all were unpainted. Planning on using my day off today to buy some superglue and get closer to priming.

TTFN

As I promised Torros, here are a couple of comparisons between MM and Pendraken’s Dwarf models.

In the long line up we have 2 characters based for KoW from MM, next are 3 Pendraken axe wielding chaps. Next are two Pendraken Box/ranger models, 2 Pendraken spear dwarves, and finally 2 MM dwarves with guns.

I have also done a close up of 2 hammer wielding dwarves, the one on the left is Pendraken, and the other is MM’s.

I feel that Pendraken’s are stockier, and a couple are a bit more cartoon-y (such as the spear chaps). MM’s are smaller and perhaps not as “flavour-full”. The main difference is in the bases – Pend’s have a larger lump of metal which makes them take up more space and stand taller straight from the box. I know this can (and will) be dremelled for use but its an annoying additional step I dont have to make with MM’s

So i have started basing the infantry on small washers courtesy of The range – however what to do about creatures and cav…

Luckily for me I work opposite a nut and bolt unit – I guess supplying to “trade” so I took a walk at lunchtime and the the princely sum of 50p… I have 20 larger washers in two sizes.

Why 2 sizes I can’t hear you cry? Because I couldn’t make up my mind and rather than continue to baffle the two old boys running this rather serious looking emporium I figured I would retire to my lair/desk to see what I felt like.

Pics bellow of the options, the smaller bases are obviously a slightly better fit for the footprint but will offer no protection go manes etc. They also have a larger hole.

but are the bigg’uns too big? Thoughts anyone? I might try dremmeling the larger ones into more of an oval but my diy skills are poor and I would prefer the pick up and use option…

So in today’s live chat, (13/02/19) Torros and I exchanged a couple of comments regarding 10mm fantasy figs by Magister Millitum . I happened to have some of their Dwarves and Gobbos that I originally bought for 10mm Kings of War but have never gotten round to painting (like most of my collection). This is them, and this seemed to be the easiest method of showing the models o’natural.

Maybe I might even get to a point where paint is applied…

So, most of the models are from MM, the trolls are I believe Pendraken’s, as is the larger dwarf with the hammer. The two ranges are not overly compatible, but meh. I find Pendrakens to be chunkier and have bigger bases, but you lose the legs on them so while MM’s have less “presence” they were the chaps for me in the main.