Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves

[cunningmatt]

Wednesday 22nd December
 
Sorry, I've lured you in haven't I? You saw in the feed on the homepage a new post in the Tale of OG Gamers – High Elves and thought "oh good a new Advent Calendar post, what special characters is it today?" and then were disappointed to see it was a regular lengthy ramble. Anywhere you're here now, so go on get yourself a coffee, a tea... or a vodka, sit down and have a read, and if you're Ol put down whatever you're eating. Stop Ol, seriously I mean it, finish chewing, I'm filling to give you chance to fully digest that last mouthful so it doesn't end up sprayed over your computer screen. Just another moment. Gone yet Ol? Nearly. Good. Now onto business.

High Elves

What with flu, advent calendars and getting ready for Christmas, it's been a little while since I've blogged, so there's a lot to tell you. Where shall I start? Well I suppose it would be prudent to talk about the actual point of the whole blog, my growing High Elf army. Last blog entry I finished November's painting task so onto December, and after battling on the tabletop with my current 600 points I realised that the slight downfall with my current army is that it can only muster Strength 4 at best – and that's only the Ellyrian Reavers on the charge. So I think I need some punch, a Repeater Bolt Thrower will do that, some nice Strength 6 bolts whizzing into the enemy "whizz", "ker-pow", "splat" "shish-kebab" and other such evocative sound effects come to mind, though I'll try to refrain from using them during a game. At 100 points, that leaves 100 points spare, so as we're in the Rare section I'll take two Great Eagles please, they're on the wish list too so double bonus. If you don't remember I am expanding an existing High Elf army, and want to add units I don't already have – I don't have any Great Eagles. This all sounds good, doesn't it? Slight issue is, it's Day 22 and that's as far as I've got. Oh dear.

I did buy a High Elf battalion of Ol, to get my hands on the Bolt Thrower (I want the other bits too). And has anyone notice the High Elf battalion's had a sneaky remix out with the Silver Helms, and in with a Chariot, 4 more Archers and 4 more Spearmen. Although it's gone up by £5 it's actually better value for money (against purchasing the parts separately) and 20 Spearmen/Archers is a much more useful number than 16.



And as you can see I haven't got distracted by my Beastmen army at all. Cough cough.

Beastmen

Speaking of which, Beastmen that is, many months ago, in a different thread, on a different blog, on a different army, in  a distant galaxy far, far away (but not on a different forum), Andy aka Blue Moon asked to see my whole Beastmen army in one photo. I hope he wasn't holding his breath else he will have died of asphyxiation by now, but in case you're still with us Andy here you go:





Sorry not very good at photographing whole armies, but at least you get to see my desk fan and iPod earphones – I knew you'd be excited. Anyway I'm pleased because apart from the Giant and Chaos Hounds I painted all this since February! I know I surprised myself, I really do have an empty meaningless life – shit isn't it?

What's In the Box? - November Results

Talking of things from a while ago, in November we had the latest round of What's In the Box? the high energy game show element of this blog. All the entries were placed in the Shakeaway cup as always and Cheryl drew out this month's winner which was Box Number 6 (as voted on Page 7 of this blog – god haven't I rambled this month!). Well done Dave your Perfect Number picking was indeed Perfect, sadly you've won nothing. And also you've drawn a duff box, because rather than picking out some lovely old classic models, you've got a box full of staff I've painted. Sorry to disappoint, but it is a genuine game. Either way here's the contents of Box 6:





The most important thing this picture will tell you is that I really need to vacuum my carpet, sorry about that, it will get done.



Here's a Dwarf Dragon Slayer model, from way back when, but still available now – the sign of a good model if you ask me.



The slightly more up to date Dwarf Lord on Oath Stone – doesn't he look smug, must be because he's an inch taller than the other Dwarfs.



A personal favourite of mine the Dwarf Runesmith, love those funky gloves!



I managed to get my hands on some of the old Dwarf Engineers, who now regularly accompany my Bolt Throwers to battle, that extra BS point is worth 15 points. The close-eyed amongst you will have noticed I've done a little bit of detailing on the base with the spare bits from the Dwarf Cannon / Organ Gun set. The very close-eyed amongst you will notice some suspicious looking hairs on the carpet, they're almost certainly not pubic, I think. Sorry probably shouldn't have brought that to your attention. So anyway another photo... move on, move on...



Another Engineer, don't mention the curly hair on the floor next to it, just don't mention it Matt and you'll get away with it. Thank goodness I don't have that condition where you blindly write down your innermost thoughts, eh?



The Dwarf Grudge Thrower, love this model looks really good.



Classic Dwarf Cannon, without crew, they must be in another box – who knows maybe you'll get lucky and find them next time.



And another crewless Cannon, but this one from the Battle for Skull Pass box set – remember that? How quickly you forget. Funny how all the Warhammer starter sets have such gruesome names "Warhammer: Battle of Skull Pass", "Warhammer: Island of Blood", here's my suggestion for next time "Warhammer: Adventure in the Forget-me-not Fields", or how about "Warhammer: Non Violent Argument over who gets the Last After Eight Mint" – I'd buy it.



Classic Flame Cannon, again without crew, love this model – even it does show the Dwarfs uncharacteristically using wood. Regular opponents of my Dwarf army may remember I've stuck with the cannon time and again, even though it rarely shoots any bloody thing!



My first ever painted Dwarf character, with ornamental moustache, I think I want one for Christmas - an ornamental moustache that is, already got the model.



A pair of unmanned Bolt Throwers, bloody Dark Riders usually cause this in the game. The shits.



The much feared Dwarf Organ Gun, which rolls a suspiciously high number of 10s to hit when firing at Chaos Knights – mooo hahaha! (That's officially how an evil laugh is written down). Yes I know I need to fix one of the barrels, slight falling-book-off-shelf-above-displayed-army incident there.



A lovely out of focus Master Engineer there, you can tell he's a Master Engineer as he's vacuumed the carpet around him of suspicious looking hairs, unlike those Engineers.



A Dragon Slayer from Battle for Skull Pass, not as good as the metal one in my opinion, but hey worth painting.



Out of focus Thane from the same box set. When I say "out of focus" that's a description of the picture, not some special rules you haven't seen in the Dwarf book.



Lovely Battle Standard Bearer model, love his raised finger beckoning the enemy to dare charge him, little do they know he has the Rune of Slowness on – so you'll fail your charge and then he'll charge you and smack you round the face with his banner poll!



And finally the great Daemon slayer model, still available even though it came out during 4th edition – some models are that good though.

So that's it from What's In the Box? for this month, and this year sadly. Ahhhhh. I know you're sad. But don't worry it will return, I'll have run out of things to do once the Advent Calendar's done!

Panto

Before I move on, many of you have been PMing me to find out how my trip to panto went... ok none of you have, but I'm sure it's not that you don't care, you're just very busy people aren't you? Yes that's right. So anyway here's the highlights of that.

I went to panto in Basildon, to cut a tedious story short, one of the actors I work with put on the show, so I got free tickets. Anyway worth going to see, it's full of filthy innuendo so judging by an average night at the club I'm sure you'll love it. But that's not the main part of the story.

Afterwards we decided to go onto a club in Basildon, unfortunately we possibly chose the crapest club in all of Basildon (I know that's possibly not saying much, but bare with whilst I explain). Inside the club it appeared to be Minger Night, either that or we'd gate-crashed the Lidl Staff Christmas Party! I mean we were by far the most attractive people there, and I'm not being egotistical, I don't consider myself attractive at all, but by god these people were ugly. They made the average night at OG Games look like a Mr Universe competition (that may seem harsh guys but I count myself in this and you know it's true!). Additionally there were an extremely large number of people on crutches, nothing wrong with this of course, but I was worried there'd been a terrible disaster in Basildon earlier in the week that I'd missed. The DJ was rather interesting; on many occasions they had budget version of current tracks Hot n' Cold, for example, not by Katy Perry but by some random women - sort of a tin pot version you'd get on a cheap computer game. Very odd. Also he was unable to mix tracks, one track would stop, there'd be a short pause and then he'd play the next track – skilful, almost like me with a CD player. And often DJs would mute tracks in the middle of an iconic part to encourage the dance floor to sing the missing lines, our DJ would do this – except that he'd mute random lines in the fourth verse of songs, that weren't even the original mix, so generally these silences were greeted with further silence from the six people on the dance floor. That's the kind of atmosphere I want. Mind you the DJ did have a T-shirt on proudly displaying the C-word, and I'm not talking Conservative – so I suppose it wasn't false advertising. Lastly there were the toilets, I use the word very loosely, they certainly were a shithole. Four mixed sex cubicles, literally swimming in piss. It's saying something about the toilets when I thought would be less unpleasant to simply urinate in my pants rather than go to those toilets – I didn't for the record but I was tempted. Thank god I didn't need a number 2, or I'd have had to have gone home. Still it was Basildon so it was cheap, got drunk and a taxi back to the hotel, with a McDonalds at 3am for a tenner. Brilliant!

And the randomness didn't stop there, we spent the night at a Holiday Inn, which was very nice. Though I was woken up to the fire alarm at 9.30am – not good, but there was a genuine emergency as a hot water pipe had burst in the hotel and was flooding the kitchen. So stood in my pyjamas and coat, out in the car park I met my friend from the panto, who introduced me to one of his friends and fellow hotel guest – Chris Rogers the BBC News presenter. Don't know if you remember him he's presented for most news channels, but I remember him most from Newsround (when I was a kid anyway) and also as the newscaster on Channel 4's abortive breakfast show RI:SE. So there you go that was my random moment of the week meeting Chris Rogers in my pyjamas. If this happens more regularly I might introduce a feature entitled "Who's Matt met in his PJs this week?", but I suspect it may be a short-lived feature.

Painting on the Move

Finally it's onto some painting I hear you cry! Well a few months ago (or about 400 pages of blogging ago depending on how you count), you'll remember I did a whistle stop photo tour of Orpington in Kent where I went painting. And you may also remember that on a separate occasion I visited new member of the site Mr Shakey Shakey (aka Rup) to do some painting with him (he is a real person ok, I've not made him up!). Anyway I went for another painting trip to Mr Shakey Shakey's house in Wilsden Green, so here's another whistle-stop photo tour of that day:

We start of at the grim location of Clapham Common London Underground station, here pictured in a drab winter surrounding:



Though just next door is the very festive Clapham Common Christmas tree, doesn't it look nice:



If only I was protesting about tuition fees, then I could burn it to the ground in festive joy.

And so we take a short journey on the tube, no photos here, as you're not allowed flash photography on the tube, and I'm a good boy. Sadly no tube journey is complete without incident, ever been there where you see an empty carriage on an otherwise packed tube? Result!! Loads of seats I'm not packing in the other carriages like a mug, you jump on through the doors, they close just behind you – and then as soon as they do you realise why that carriage has been deserted. Someone has done a chunder to end all chunders across the entire carriage, it looks like Jabba the Hut's exploded, or worse like that Vegetable soup you had at lunchtime. Not pleasant. Now the quandary, do you get off at the next stop and change carriage, even though all the others are packed? Or do you hold your nose, avert your gaze and look apologetically at all the other passengers at the later stops who get on and look disgusted at you when they see the vomit. As if it could possibly be me who'd done it?! Surely if I'd vomited up 700 gallons of pulped vegetables, I'd be on a heap on the floor somewhere in the middle, not standing daintily at the end of carriage looking away from it with aloof but charming expression on my face? I still don't know the answer to this quandary.

Another tube-based quandary. Why, oh why, do all the doors on trains on the London Underground have a "Door Open" button on them, even though all the doors automatically open at every stop? Is it just to confuse foreign people? Or do late at night, deep in the heart of Zone 29 do tube drivers get a bit picky and not let you out unless you push the button?

Quandaries aside, I soon arrived at Wilsden Green, as this photo proves without shadow of a doubt:



It also proves I can't spell Willesden Green, but there we go.

Here's the outside of the station, doesn't it look lovely and historic, complete with Christmas decorations, how nice:



And I know what you're saying "What are the highlights of Willesden Green Matt?", well curious reader there's a branch of everyone's favourite Estate Agents:



I've never heard anyone say a bad word about them. Oh and do you like they way I said "a branch of everyone's favourite Estate Agents" because there's a branch in the photo too, how funny!! He he he he he!... Oh come on it's Christmas you'll get worse jokes in your crackers. Tough crowd!

Some lovely recycling points and free newspaper collection facilities here:



But is The Polish Observer for people from Poland or an interesting magazine about spotting cleaning products? Sadly the stand is empty so I shall never know.

High quality fast food is available from the Chicken Cottage:



For some reason when I see this rather gourdy hoarding the building that first comes to mind isn't usually a cottage. Must be my crazy countryside ways.

And some important advice for everyone:



Please do, else my mum will be round with a load of black sacks and she's going to moan about it. I could do without that over Christmas lunch.

Once settled down at Mr Shakey Shakey's I got down to the important business:



That's right watching Have I Got News For You, p.s. you'll notice the shakey camerawork I think we know who is to blame!!! Incidentally anyone else seen Miranda on BBC Two, I genuinely found it very funny, but when I said this at work everyone said I was weird – opinions please. But be nice I'm very sensitive.

Painting corner was then established with everything I need to get some good quality painting done, in a festive environment:



Even complete with what every festive setting needs, and in fact the true meaning of Christmas, yes stupid Christmas cards:



Never have I seen a happier dog.

On with the painting, and rather than painting some High Elves for this month's blog I decided it was just the perfect time to paint up some more Beastmen:



I've not quite finished them, but here's Malagor the Dark Omen:



And Ghorros Warhoof, prolific shagger of Beastladies:



Well with teeth like that, admit it you'd be hard pressed to say no.



One day I'll do a stage-by-stage guide to Beastmen, but not today. Instead as Mr Shakey Shakey's been doing so well with his Wood Elves here's a few shots of his latest additions:









Good work, looking forward to seeing them on the battlefield soon.

Well that's nearly it for my blogging efforts this week, and in fact this year. But make sure you join me on Christmas Eve as there's still more doors left on the advent calendar (sorry I work in TV this is how we write goodbyes!) And with the best will in the world I'll try and blog something between Christmas and New Year, though I'm at home with family so I have no way of uploading photos – so you'll just have to believe me when I say I've painted 854 points worth of High Elves by the end of the month!

In the meantime safe journey for those of you travelling through the snow and ice, many thanks for reading and leaving comments – I genuinely am flattered by those of you who say you enjoy my posts (even if you are lying to my face, I don't mind it's the compliment that counts!). So from me and my resident 4-year old artist Merry Christmas and I hope you never see this annoying message in the New Year!



Oh and before I go here's a Step-by-Step guide you might find particularly useful, might even keep the missus off you back too, don't say I don't do you any favours:

Stage 1: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



To start your wrapping,  - to clarify I mean Christmas wrapping not Cher Lloyd wrapping, you'll need to assemble a few key tools, no Chaos Black or mixing palettes here, but some Christmas Wrapping Paper (if you can get wrapping paper with Lego men on like me so much the better, but I appreciate not everyone is as cool as me), Sticky Tape, Scissors, Gift Tags and maybe some Accessories.

Stage 2: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



You'll also need some presents, if you haven't started yet then see my guide earlier in the month for Christmas shopping tips. Though personally I think you may have left it a tad late, and will need a large supply of illegal narcotics to get it done in time. For my example here is a DS game for my lovely Mother, from her list, so I'll know she'll like it. Fortunately this item is a cuboid (3D rectangle for those of you not so mathematically familiar) which makes the job very easy. At this point remember to remove any prices, particularly any labels which show you got it at a discount, or those sticky circles with a present simple in (we all know they mean 3 for 2 don't let anyone find out).

Stage 3: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Place the gift in the corner of the wrapping paper as shown above.

Stage 4: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Then rotate the object through 90 degrees about the edge farthest from the side edge of the paper, repeat this process until you have completed three full rotations and the object has rotated through 270 degrees.

Stage 5: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Make a small cut at the end of the object, you will notice you have now measured out a length of paper equal to the four sides of your cuboid.

Stage 6: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Replace the cuboid to it's original position, and repeat the above process, rotating along the edge of the paper. But this time rotate only once through 90 degrees before making your snip.

Stage 7: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Removing the object fold the paper about a line parallel to the end of the paper, along the second snip you've made.

Stage 8: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Cut along this fold until a point perpendicular to the first snip you made, at this point you should now be able to fold the paper between the first snip and the line you've just cut.

Stage 9: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Cutting along this line should now give you a separate section of paper, the perfect size to wrap your cuboid gift. Place your gift in the centre of the paper, being careful to ensure it is orientated in respect to the paper in the same direction that it was when you first measured the paper.

Stage 10: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Next join the two furthest ends of the paper across the top of the cuboid and sticky tape them in place.

Stage 11: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



With the overhanging paper at each end, fold a corner along the edge of the gift. Repeat this on the remaining 7 corners.

Stage 12: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Fold the two edges of the overhang together so they meet in the centre of the side panel of the cuboid gift and sticky tape down the join.

Stage 13: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Complete this on the other side to finish the basic wrapping of your gift.

Stage 14: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Next you will need to add a tag, so that people know who the gift is to, and who it is from. There are many different types of tag and I will cover all the main groups available.

Stage 15: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Write a festive message in the tag, possibly in a festive coloured pen, that critically states the recipient and deliverer of the gift. At this point it's a good idea to remember exactly what the last gift is you wrapped up. You don't want to end accidentally giving your Gran the sexy underwear set you chose for you girlfriend, particularly as Gran may like it and then you'll never get that image from your head.

Stage 16: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Some tags will have a set of simple self assembly instructions on the back.

Stage 17: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Follow these by removing the backing paper.

Stage 18: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Then stick proudly on your gift.

Stage 19: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Other types of tag include this string affair, it follows the same basic principles as above, write the message as before, then attach the two pieces of string to the wrapped gift using some more sticky tape.

Stage 20: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Invariably, despite miltary planning, you will never have enough gift tags for all your gifts, so you can always cut a festive shape from some spare wrapping paper, write your message on the back and affix a corner of the festive shape to the parcel. Alternatively you can just write directly on the paper, though you should be warned this may make you look cheap (though it's better than just leaving the entire gift in the carrier bag).

Stage 21: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Those of you at advanced level may wish to stick a festive but ultimately pointless rosette to your gift, this work in much the same way as the first set of gift tags (though don't write a message on them) extra class points are available if they match your tags.

Stage 22: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Super advanced stage, includes the use of this stuff called ribbon. Unroll a suitable sized length of ribbon.

Stage 23: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



Spend several hours contorting it about the present, then realise it's not worth the effort and throw it away.

Stage 24: Christmas Wrapping – Cuboids



And there you go a completed present. Simply place under the tree and your house should look something like this:



Irregular Shaped Gifts

Unfortunately not all gift manufacturers are kind enough to manufacture their products in neat rectangular shapes, here are some horrendous items that I've tried to wrap up his year:





Seriously, where the hell do you begin with this?



Would it have killed you to manufacture this in a square box?



Sweet as you may look Tigger, you're going to be a pain to wrap up.

My best advice is to attack this present with lots of paper and sticky tape and it may look something like this:



Sorry if you found this guide a bit patronising (that means talking down to you!!!), but hopefully you'll find it useful! And my final tip is wrapping is a lot quicker if you don't take photos at every stage.

Well you weren't expecting something sensible in my last post before Christmas were you?

Have a very Merry Christmas and an amazing 2011.

Matt 

[Garzini]

Matt, it's been great fun reading your blog over the year.

Have a great christmas

[Dave]

Wednesday 22nd December
Sorry if you found this guide a bit patronising (that means talking down to you!!!),

All these years of wondering and someone has finally explained this to me.  Good to know, thanks!

ps wrapping non cubic christmas presents is very much like particle physics.


ok that not obvious enough for you? particle physics starts with the assumption that all particles are a point sphere on a frictionless plane.  So all you need to do is assume that all presents are cubic and treat them exactly the same way as were they in a nice uniform box.  Sure it'll look like crap if anyone touches the empty part, but that's their problem not yours.

[cunningmatt]

Matt, it's been great fun reading your blog over the year.

Have a great christmas

Many thanks!

All these years of wondering and someone has finally explained this to me.  Good to know, thanks!

The old jokes are the best, in fact any jokes a bonus at times!

ps wrapping non cubic christmas presents is very much like particle physics.

ok that not obvious enough for you? particle physics starts with the assumption that all particles are a point sphere on a frictionless plane.  So all you need to do is assume that all presents are cubic and treat them exactly the same way as were they in a nice uniform box.  Sure it'll look like crap if anyone touches the empty part, but that's their problem not yours.

Was with you all the way up to "ps...", I'd suggest a gift box! 

[fatolaf]

Luckily I had finished my lunch before I read these

It's saying something about the toilets when I thought would be less unpleasant to simply urinate in my pants rather than go to those toilets

If only I was protesting about tuition fees, then I could burn it to the ground in festive joy.

Spend several hours contorting it about the present, then realise it's not worth the effort and throw it away.

And as for this

Incidentally anyone else seen Miranda on BBC Two, I genuinely found it very funny, but when I said this at work everyone said I was weird – opinions please.

I think it's a very good show, with all the old school bits, looking at the camera (lovejoy stylee), cast waving at the end etc.. Very funny at times indeed, the bit where she loses all her clothes in the taxi door, very funny and very brave IMO...

Matt, whilst I will mourn the loss of the advent calendar, I look forward to 2011 for continued episodes of 'whats in the box', your 'HE painting' and random photobiopic journyes you take round London..

Happy Xmas sir

[Draig]

Matt, it's been great fun reading your blog over the year.

Have a great christmas

^ This! Have a great one.

[cunningmatt]

Luckily I had finished my lunch before I read these

Glad you're following the safety advice!

I think it's a very good show, with all the old school bits, looking at the camera (lovejoy stylee), cast waving at the end etc.. Very funny at times indeed, the bit where she loses all her clothes in the taxi door, very funny and very brave IMO...

Good to find a fellow fan "Such fun!", I do want to copy the bit where she has a drum kit just for the end of EastEnders - does that make me weird?!

Matt, whilst I will mourn the loss of the advent calendar, I look forward to 2011 for continued episodes of 'whats in the box', your 'HE painting' and random photobiopic journeys you take round London..

I shan't miss the advent calendar, bloody thing's ruined my life!! Next year I'm writing all 24 in advance!  Glad you enjoyed though, hopefully they'll be some more bizarre new things for 2011. Have a great Christmas yourself.

^ This! Have a great one.

Many thanks!

[Undead Dan]

I used your cuboid christmas wrapping guide tonight, awesome sauce

[cunningmatt]

Thursday 23rd December - Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar

Hope you enjoyed my final full blog entry before Christmas, if you haven't seen it look up, it's above you look, look, no not directly above you as in on the ceiling, scroll up the page. Found it? Good. Oh if you have how can you be reading this now? Ahhhhh too confusing. Anyway enjoy this the penultimate door on the "Tale of OG Gamers: High Elves – Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar Deep Space Nine Holby City CSI New York" or whatever it's called.

Here's number 23:

[spoiler]
December 23rd: Krell



I think this is the most up to date model for him. Though I can't be sure.

Name: Krell, Lord of the Undead

Original Points Cost: 335 points

Background: Krell was leader of a barbarian tribes at the dawn of man and the great disaster when the polar gates collapsed unleashing Chaos across the Earth (some how even Sky News managed to over dramatise that story!). His barbarian tribe became corrupted by Khorne and he quickly carved out an empire amongst the barbarians, and they quickly formed fairgrounds and started short changing the locals. He along with Night Goblin allies stormed Karak Ungor and Karak Varn during the Dwarfen Times of Woe. He was finally slain by the Dwarf Grimbul Ironhelm during the assault on Karak Kadrin. 1,500 years Nagash (you remember the one who looks like Janet Street-Porter) raised Krell from the dead, and he led Nagash's legions against Sigmar's Dwarven allies. However Sigmar cut down Nagash and his army crumbled. Krell was one of the few survivors who escaped and went on a rampage around The Empire protesting about £9,000 student fees until he was eventually imprisoned in a magically constructed tomb at the Battle of Glacier Lake by Sigmar. Since then he was risen by Heinrich Kemmler to launch an attack on Bretonnia, seriously don't you hate it when you can't get a good night's sleep.

Original Appearance: Warhammer Armies: Undead – 4th Edition



Last Appearance: Warhammer Armies: Undead – 4th Edition, I think. I don't think he's in Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts – 5th Edition, but I don't know. In fairness I think his history got a bit mixed up when Undead split up, like I got all mixed up when Steps split up – sad times.

Special Rules: Causes Terror and is immune to all psychology. He can ride a Skeletal Steed – though you'll need another pack of Lego for that. He has the Armour of Protection (5+ Save, and he can reroll all failed saves on an unmodified 4+) and the Black Axe of Krell, well it is his, (Double-handed weapon, no saves allowed, any person suffering a wound from the Black Axe but still alive, rolls a D6 at the beginning of each magic phase on a 1-2 they suffer a further wound).





The drawing doesn't look as much like the model as you'd expect.

My Memories of the Character: I don't remember him having such easily detachable hair.

Person(s) most Reminds Me Of: Peter Stringfellow – more so now Krell is dead in fairness.

Inclusion in 8th Edition: Well the Armour of Destiny from the rule book is much like the Armour of Protection. Not sure I like the Black Axe of Krell, too annoying to remember who has and hasn't been wounded. How about does D3 wounds instead for 50 points. Also maybe as a former Chaos Champion he should be forced to issue and accept challenges, that could be fun?

[/spoiler]

P.S.

I used your cuboid christmas wrapping guide tonight, awesome sauce

Hope you avoided the ribbon Dan!

[maelzch]

I believe the Krellington appeared in the 5th ed vampire counts book, fantastic model for krell