Uruk Hai, the return! And more……..much much more

Next is the unusual step. Buy an imperial Tonne of sticky back magnetic sheets at 1.5mm thick and 0.4mm thick. Mostly 1.5mm thick. Stick the 0.4 to the inside of the movement tray directly under the models bases. The models bases should have magnets in them.

Then stick some more to the underside of the tray, you know, the bit touching the table during play.

Any off cuts are ideally used on miniatures whose bases are solid plastic or Mdf and inconvenient to put magnets on. Just stick the sheet over the entirety of the underside of the base.

The rest of the sheets will have been stuck to the inside of the lid and the bottom and sides of your really useful box company 9 litre or 4 litre storage boxes. The best way of storing miniatures ever! Can get 9 boxes from RYMANS online shop for £30 odd. The magnetic sheets come from eBay shop ‘the magnet shop’ 10 or 20 sheets for £15-30 dependant on thickness. And the 4x2mm N35 magnets can be bought in the 500 pack! I bought the magnets from some American company for around £25. So overall I got ten storage boxes with magnetic sheets for movement trays and box storage with enough magnets for 1000 miniatures of various sizes for £125. I wouldn’t buy 2 or 3 army cases for that. And they couldn’t be as convenient as my storage boxes. I can rock up to the game and get my regiments out ready from the box. Good to go. During game play the trays are great too. Those nuisance figures that fall over like a French footballer as soon as you look at them? Magnetised down. Take that you bastard metal standard bearer! Cry all you want, you’re staying put.

The final reason I do things this way is I can make trays for other gaming systems than my core Warhammer. Like Kings of War or War of the ring but without stir sticks for War of the Ring. Just magnetise the relevant troops to the tray and away I go without having to paint extra armies. I use my lord of the rings goblins and orcs for all the above systems and the skirmish versions of them. I don’t care about round bases! It makes no difference to game play in skirmish.

But if you do happen to play against a sadist pedant, then purchase a pack of 1000 penny washers from a fixings company like ‘Orbital Fasteners’. They will cost a penny each for a 0.5mm thick 25mm diameter washer with a 5mm aperture. Now the magnets will stick to them and you have round bases, then upon seeing a difference of Feck allllllll! You will forget the penny washer option or simply bludgeon the pedant to death (I favour the wet end of a toilet brush for such work) and find someone else to play.

The model shown has 0.4mm of self adhesive magnetic sheet on its flat Mdf base. This standard is going no where.

I need more wolf riders and more ordnance. Oh and Lee needs a mate, so here is Bug’Rit. Lee’s brother giant.

All magnetised and magnetic movement Trayed. All cleaned up, green stuffed and spray primed.

My favourite pieces are the shamans on wargs and the warg chariots, the chariots are a blend of warg/lotr orcs/Victrix Celt chariot.

Watch out Empire! Your cannons are gonna have something to think about.

What a day of gaming was had! Got out my full, knock down, set of gaming tables. Providing us with a 12 foot by 6 foot gaming area. Loadsa hills and spits with valleys. Loadsa rocks trees and a village to capture!

We set up the Orcs first, but only one third of the army. Then the empire set up one third of their forces. We then alternated for the remaining two thirds, a third at a time to give some measure of surprise at the setup without letting go of a reactionary setup opportunity for both players.

The Empire decided to let the orcs go first. Of course! “Stand and shoot gentleman!” So I barrelled down the centre with my Orcs to occupy the village. I sent my trolls and Rugluds armoured orcs out on my left flank to try and take out a unit of Knights and that flipping Hellblaster volley gun.

And to the right flank I sent my wolf boys out very wide and let my artillery open up on the empire knights panther!

The Empire decided to move their knights and stand and shoot everything else…….Surprise!!?

Cannons took out my rock lobber. Bastards. But that’s not the worst of it! That demon possessed Hellblaster set the tone with which it was to engage throughout the entire battle and destroyed a whole unit of orcs in one go.

Sorry!?! You’ve just done what?!?!?! Yep, all jam on the field. I see.

My bolt throwers continued to do what I hoped they would and take out swathes of heavily armoured bastards! And ranks and ranks of state troops. Not enough to break anyone but on it went.

The empire Contemptuosly ignored my wolf boys on the flank, judging them no threat. Instead the knights surged forwards, pistoliers heading straight for my bolt throwers.

Loadsa of casualties from empire gunnery! To be expected though, keep moving forward lads!

It was turn 4 that killed me though. I should have holed up in the village and forced the empire to come and rout me out while using the buildings for cover from their guns.

Instead. I ran forwards to assault their lines. Sigh.

Good fun though. My fanatics wreaked havoc and stopped some of the empires key units from being able to manoeuvre. On goes those wolf boys behind their lines! Bye bye empire cannon, bye bye knights panther.

Wait, what’s happened to my bolt throwers? All 4 dead from pistoliers!!!! I left them undefended!

In the centre and left, the empire had destroyed my trolls. Hellblaster. Sent Rugluds orcs running. Hellblaster. Destroyed 2 units of goblins. Hellblaster.

And softened up my main unit of big uns’ so that they ran and where destroyed. Their was enough empire detachments left to counter charge (everywhere it seems!) and send my lads panicking and being run down. Last turn, a coherent empire unit moved into the village.

Magic was dominated by the orcs. Who had twice the number of magic users than the empire. The lads took out those pathetic human wizards, no problem. Then got shot. ??‍♂️.

Oh, and the giant managed to get to the enemy. Then slipped over and was stabbed to death. ???

Smashing gameplay though. Real fun had over the 7 hours we played! And such a visual and tactical treat with a large densely terrained table. Looking forward to our Easter game where we shall aim for 5000 points a side. Maybe even a siege!

What would a Isenguard shaman and Wyvern look like?

My daughter of 6 years old based these for me! Didn’t the petal do well?

Each unit of these two units has its own Shaman, and I like the choice of banners.

In this pile is the remaining units to complete my Uruk hai and goblin army!

Trolls, goblin guard, goblins, Uruk scout regiment, spider riders, giant spider shaman and black gundabad orcs!

What shall I do first!?