Arcworlde 2nd Edition Halflings

Thats it!  They are done!

So…. project complete I guess, all bar the shouting.  I’m looking forward to using them in anger against my friends.  I’ve played a couple of games against my 11 year old son, and also one with my 9 year old joining in in a 3 way crazy battle where my halflings faced off against the 11 year old’s Albionnican (nee Imperial now it’s second edition, but I’m old school!) to catch a baby dragon.  The 9 year old was using the baby dragon, as well as Wotanwðdues who was hiding in a bit of terrain, outside the deployment zones, which  he wrote down at the start of the game in secret so we wouldn’t know if we got near him.  I can put pictures on here of that game if people want action shots?  But thats a different post.  This one is group shots, hugs and cheers all round… and a nice cup of tea to celebrate a job which I am really pleased with.  I hope you’ve all enjoyed following along.  Anyhoo, time for the money shots!

All thats left, unless people ask for AAR pictures of the games I’ve played, or people want to see the Albionnicans, is to say how much fun these characterful models were to paint, and how nice a game Arcworlde 2nd edition is.  It’s definitely one for the narrative gamer over the competitive gamer… don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome to win games, however it’s much better when everyone at the table is having a blast running through a story (My own opinion, others see things differently) and this game gives that in spades.  The feats function is a great mechanic.  If there isn’t a rule for doing something, basically you decide, with your opponent, just how hard it is to do that and what the effect will be, which gives you easy, medium, hard feats.  You then need to roll that many successes on dice, one per ap spent, to see if you succeed.  4 or 5 is a success, 6 is a crit and counts as 2 successes.  In our game last week, my son wanted his crossbow armed Albionnican to leap off a cliff onto the dragon, firing his crossbow as he went.  Incredibly heroic, and stupid… but mostly heroic.   He rolled 2 dice as we said it would be a hhard feat, it was really unlikely to happen successfuly and sure enough he failed, missed the shot, bounced off the dragons hide and landed prone in gfront of an angry forest dragon.  Could have been amazing, but was instead hilarious, all of had a good giggle at his ineptitude, especially as it was just in front of the Albionnican Captain and the dragon was going to be the next model to activate.

Sorry, rambling.  To summarise, its been a blast.  I highly recommend the game and the minis.  I suggest you all get over to the Warploque page and buy some (please note, I am in no way affiliated with Warploque!)

The second edition kickstarter wasn’t my first dabble with Arcworlde, I’d gone halfs on the original 1st edition starter set ‘The battle for Troll Bridge’ with a freind. He took the Bayourks and the Troll. I took the Albionnicans and the halflings. So, here is my original lot of halflings, the rangers of New Hewenden and also the mounted cavalry support

New Hewenden is a settlement on the border of Greater Hobbleshire and Scotstaine.  The town sends many parties into the Mildaark forest to claim Arcanite.  However the region isn’t always safe so the town has a large militia as well as a few employed town guards.

These are some of them…..

Somehow these two slipped through the net, so here they are now

My YouTube Fu is weak but here goes nothing ?

Above is the first juvenile dragon, below is the second

And finally Wotanwðdues the Forest dragon. NB:  The name is a play on words.  When the kickstarter was launched the dragon was anounced on a Wednesday under the banner: Wednesdragon!  As such, I used a combination of words for Wednesday.  Wotan which is the god Wednesday is named after apparantly and Wodues which is old english for Wednesday

The last thing to paint on the dragon was the lost halfling, obviously if you’ve been following this project then you will have seen him earlier but here ho is on the dragon model in full.  First shot is of the model with the halfling just brown, but I painted him up in the livery of New Hewenden.  Then I filled the base with Tamiya soil effect

Then the dragon was based and was ready for the glamour shots.  I had to fudge a blue white background with multiple sheets of paper,  Next time!

After I got the biggest bits done it was time to work on the bony spikes and antlers.  Simple bone colours.  Started with a brown, worked through khaki to bone and a tiny highlight of white

And that was it.  Big guy painted!  Just basing and a little bit of detailing at the base of the tree to do.  At this point I wanted to take a couple of glamour shots, however it was too big for my thrown together photo area

Next time it will be the end of the dragon pictures.  I’m very happy with the work to date

A little bit of an explanation before I get on to the pictures of the next stage.  The Forest Dragon in Arcworlde is an ambush predator.  It lies hidden on the floor of the forest and then pounces on unsuspecting prey.  Well, as Arcanite is very much sought after on Arcworlde, what better bait could there be?All of the big plates on the back got a lick of pint using the same recipe as i did for the arcanite on the Explorer and Journal :  A mix of Creed Camo and Altasaar blue contrasts, followed by a highlight along the edges of vallejo white and then gloss varnish

This just left, bone, antlers and claws on the dragon.   Before that the dead tree needed a sort.  Lots of drybrushing!  Vallejo flat Earth, then GW Castellan(?) grey, then a brown inkwash followed by a white drybrush in the empty areas