Arch-Revenant

Recently I got the Sylvaneth half of the Looncurse box, and the first mini I have painted was the Arch-Revenant. I really like the look of the miniature (actually, I wanted a Revenant hero) and the rules are also great. I used Arch-Revenant in few recent games and her ability to make Kurnoth Hunters more precise, together with the command ability allowed me to really increase the damage output of the Kurnoth hunters. In my last game against Flesh-Eater Courts, 3 Kurnoth Hunters with schytes managed to almost completely destroy a unit of 6 Crypt Flayers (they killed 5 out of 6) - rerolling 1s and having an extra attack is pretty huge!

So, here's how the finished model looks like:

New models and Nightvault

Last weekend I got some new miniatures.  I finally got my second Slaughterpriest and I also got Karanak (a few players from our local store split one "Realm of Chaos" set and nobody wanted Karanak, so I took it). This probably means that at some point in the future I will have to buy Flesh Hounds as well, but that can wait. I also got Nightvault and I am really looking forward to playing that game - I was looking for somerthing small and quick that I can play in the following months.

I will be getting some more stuff in the following weeks (new Sylvaneth endless spells and Awakened Wyldwood) and then I'm going to stop buying new models for a while and focus on painting stuff that I already have. Right now, almost all of my Sylvaneth models are fully painted (there's one more unit of Spite-Revenants and Sorceress from the Ylthari's Guardians warband), so in the next months I will probably focus on painting either my Stormcast Eternals or my Adeptus Custodes. If I can, I'll squeeze in painting some Bloodletters, too.

Old GW brochures and a bit of history

Recently, I found some old GW brochures from the 90s - they were placed in one of the binders together with some of my old illustrations. I was happy to find out that they were still in decent condition, because these brochures introduced me to the Warhammer and miniature games in general. At that time (second half of 90s) it was very hard to find GW stuff in Serbia (Yugoslavia back then). The country was recovering from war (conflict in Bosnia has just ended), economic sanctions and catastrophic inflation. There was only a handful of people who knew anything about Warhammer. I stumbled upon some of them by pure chance - they were also attending classes in the comic book workshop in Belgrade. However, it was not until I got these brochures that I realized how huge Warhammer hobby can really be. 

The first one I got from a friend that visited his relatives in Norway, the second one from a friend who spent summer with his relatives in Canada. I have no idea how I got the third one, so it's probably going to remain a mystery. It's also badly damaged - it misses the first page.

I spent countless hours just looking at these brochures. Unfortunately,  that was all I could do, because in post-crisis economy, miniatures were  considered a luxury. My parents gave me a bit of money to buy a handful  of minis - it wasn't enough for starting an army and each mini was from  a different faction, but it was enough to start a new hobby (and spark my love for Warhammer and Warhammer 40K lore in general). One thing I clearly remember regarding these brochures is  that I especially liked the picture where two guys were playing a game  on a gaming table - because I imagined doing the same with my friends. Eventually, I was able to do the same - just many years later, after I finished the college and found the job that allowed me to build my miniatures collection.

Below you can see some photos of these brochures:

 

 

 

 

New blog is up!

After some time, I have decided to set up the blog again and try upload content on a more regular basis.