Conquest 100 Kingdoms by The Dace

The forces were the 2 forces from the starter set

My force

1 Mounted noble

3 Household cavalry

12 Crossbowmen

24 Men at Arms

My opponent

1 Pheromancer

3 Brute drones

1 Abomonation

24 Force grown drones

My opponents Force grown drones were first to take to the battlefield, a regiment of 24 including the Pheromancer leader.

This unit ponderously advanced towards the centre of the battlefield.

Next to take to the field were a unit of 3 Brute drones, advancing quickly down my left flank.

My crossbowmen decided to show up at this point, taking a central-ish position, looking to get a few shots on the force grown drones but being out of range.

We now enter the next phase of the battle where both my Household cavalry with general  and my opponents hulking abomination  take to the field.

The abomination advances down my left flank and the cavalry down the centre of the board hoping to line up a charge on the force grown drones (mistake)

The crossbowmen manage to manoeuvre into range and take out a few force grown drones.

The spires force advance en-masse, now mostly down my left flank.

The next phase of the game sees my unit of men at arms remember that they have a battle today and turn of on my left size, hoping to head off the abomination.

The crossbowmen get off one last volley of shots before my cavalry crashes into the front of the force grown drones.

The charge wasn’t as successful as I would have liked with many Drones remaining.

My men at arms charge the abomination in the side but due to being very near the edge of the board could not turn to get more than a few bases in contact.

I few wounds were done to the beast but many men fell in the counter attack.

The brute drones in the meantime had managed to get a charge in my crossbowmen, wiping them out completely.

Fighting was thick and furious at this point in the game and the battle could have gone either way.

My men at arms pressed on trying to pierce the thick hide of the abomination, seeming to wound the beast grievously.

Alas, to the dismay of the men at arms these substantial wounds inflicted to the abomination began to heal before their very eyes.

Evil magics from the Pheromancer healed all except one wound on the abomination, this seeming to fill the beast with vigour as it wiped out the remaining men at arms to a man.

Meanwhile in the middle of the field the household cavalry and general managed to finally finish off the force grown drones and Pheromancer but too late.

The Bute drones and Abomination wheel in unison to face the now exhausted knights.

Valiant to the last, The Household cavalry crash into the brute drones with one finally charge.

The knights broke like water on rocks, the last man to go down was the general himself, fighting to the very last.

Part of my milestone 1 was to learn the rules and actually have a battle.

I did just this!

It was against my good friend Sam using the two sides from the starter box.

I used the 100 Kingdoms with Sam fielding a force of Spires.

My friend was well deserved winner with me bogging my best unit down in his Force grown drones for a lot of the game. ( A well placed trap from Sam)

All in all I enjoyed it and am looking forward to another game, where I can exact some revenge.

Some pics to and a bit of a battle report to follow, I’m afraid currently without a mat or painted minis.

Part of my first milestone was to paint my leader.

The overall paint scheme of my army is to be black and red.

Being the leader this chap definitely needed to be the shiniest of all the troops.

I started with a bone coloured undercoat.

The shade of red I used was Vallejo game colour blood red, quite thin but vibrant so 2 coats of that.

Black was just a straight Vallejo game colour black.

The armour was a base coat of bright bronze then Polished gold, a Reiksguard flesh wash and then a bit more gold.

Various bonemeal highlights were applied and a suitable rock from my garden was put on the base to add some heft.

Above are some wip pics.

Below are a few finished product pics.

I really enjoy painting this guy.

Transfers!

Now this isn’t on my milestone 1 list hence the side quest title.

I wanted a Boar or a Boars head emblem on my shields possible due to reading about Richard iii recently.

I really couldn’t find any transfers that I liked the look of and to be honest there weren’t many Boar options.

Its was suggested by Gerry that I could print my own Transfers which had not occurred to me.

I ordered some suitable printer paper from Amazon.

A quick search online and I found a Boars head image that I liked.

This image I then copied into word resizing and duplicating as required.

I tested how well the printing had worked on the closest thing to hand.

Next to try on one of the models these transfers are intended for.

More by luck than design it was the perfect fit for the shield.

Well that’s all the 100 Kingdoms from the starter box put together.

The models were quite easy to build but I did make a few mistakes.

Here is what I did wrong so as to maybe help other people building these models.

The mounted noble, I glued the tail of the horse on before the horses skirts.

This was the wrong way of doing it and I had to physically break off the tail and green stuff it to put it right.

Next to the men at arms.

Remember to not glue the torso to the legs straight on all the minis. These models seemed to look a lot more dynamic in a twisting pose rather than all facing straight on.

Milestone 1

Si vis pacem para bellum

For my First Milestone I intend on getting all of the 100 Kingdoms units from the Starter set clipped, glued and based.

100 Kingdom contents of the starter box are as follows

1 Mounted Noble Lord

3 Household Knights

12 Crossbow men

24 Men at Arms

I will also get my mounted Noble Lord and Household knights painted up.

I intend to learn the rules (I’ve only read Lore so far), build a list and get my first game in.

Basically the inspiration was the coverage on the On Table Top Site.

The store deal on the starter set bundle was a good one so I took the plunge.

I’d seen this game before at the UKGE I though it looked great but never followed up my interest in it until now.

The minis look great as does the overall style and artwork for the game.

What was also a deciding factor is that I have a friend who also has the game from a while back. It can be hard sometimes to find an opponent for a lesser known game / system. My friend likes the look of the Spires so an accord was made where I would play the 100 Kingdoms and he the Spires.