As far as the flagallents, I got the plastic ones. You have 100?!?!?! Holy crap. Yeah I will never have more than 10 lol.
Also, I prefer plastic over metal when I get the option. They look like they are going to be fun. The models look great on the box at least. I did pick up an extra as bits to make a Marauder Shaman I haven't started yet.
I was wondering about who to give the flagallents to. I have literally gone a little overboard with the Empire, and own 2 of the newer Battalion boxes, as well as the Detachment box I got some time ago I posted about. I gave some serious thought about screwing my plan of making minimum unit sizes, and just go with how all of my Battalion sets come, but one of the things that turned me off from doing that was the cavalry. Like the Empire comes with 8 Knights, Brettonions 8, Wood Elves 8. My Silverhelms come with 8. But some armies I only have 5 like the Chaos Knights, Marauders, Dark Elf Cold Ones, Lizardmen Cold Ones, etc, and I want to keep things somewhat balanced and while I thought it would be cool having this big blocks, as the game intended, I really do not want to buy anymore models, especially to fill on those other cavalry units. Plus, between 2 boxes of 8 Empire Knights, I can build 1 unit of those Reiksguard (?) looking Knights, 5 Knights of the White Wolf, and then 5 Knights Panther, who I really don't even like, but decided it would make things interesting for me. This also means I am going to use the leftover Knights that came in the Brettonian Battalion, add in few extras, and make a Knights Errant unit to go with my Knights of the Realm and Squires. Much more fun than doing them all the same unit.
So anyway, what I have ended up with are basically 2 full 1000 point Empire armies if I go with basic unit sizes, as well as another based around that detachment set. And all this excludes those initial Empire models I have been posting. More on that in a minute.
So I have the following as a base for 3 Empire armies:
General
Wizard
Battle Standard
10 Swordsmen
10 Halberds
10 Handgunners
Great Cannon
5 Knights (either being the Reiksguard, White Wolf, or Panther)
In addition I have the Hellbaster, Mortar, 10 Greatswords, 10 Spearmen, and 10 Flagallents.
So what I thought at first is give:
General
Wizard
Battle Standard
10 Swordsmen
10 Halberds
10 Handgunners
Great Cannon
5 Knights (Reiksguard) I Know I am not spelling this right! At least I don't think I am.
10 Greatswords
Hellbaster
to Talahbeim.
Then:
General
Wizard
Battle Standard
10 Swordsmen
10 Halberds
10 Handgunners
Great Cannon
5 Knights (White Wolf?)
10 Flagallents
Mortar
to who???
and the last being somewhat incomplete for now:
General
Battle Standard
10 Swordsmen
10 Halberds
10 Handgunners
Great Cannon
5 Knights (Knights Panther)
10 Spearmen
to who???
But I don't know which province to give the last two too. I guess if I am going with the White Wolfs, do Middleheim? But I am not sure where Flagallents would mostly be. I mean, is there a particular province they would be found in? But the White Wolves and Flagallents all look a little rough, so though it would be a rough looking Empire army lol.
The last army is pretty generic looking and I am not sure what I will add to it, but it will be a looooooooonng time before I do.
So that is where I am at on the Empire.
Some other news:
I have done a ton of assembling, and happy to report that I finished assembling some of my Mordheim gangs, AND I LOVE THEM.
Reikland
Marineburg
Orcs
… and will prob be done with Middleheim soon.
I think I knocked it out of the park at least on parts for my gangs, using a mix of older parts and new, but I am not going to post pics until they are painted, which should be done during Spring. I have enough leftover bits to make 2 more Mercenary gangs, no where near as nice looking as my primary gangs, but might be interesting filler.
I also have the Skaven to assemble (and I am lucky that when I bought the game, the seller threw in an assassin, black skaven, and warlock guy. So will be including those guys. I also have the Undead, Witchhunters, and Possessed box sets, but haven't done anything with them yet. I am really stoked about the Mordheim stuff as I have developed backstories on all the models and will share those details when I show the final products.
So, after I bought all of the WFB Battalion sets - and let me say this, I spent a ton of money this year on hobby shit. Wont be doing that in 2020. But what I did buy should hold me over for years at the rate I go. But anyway, those Battalion sets are going to serve as the base of my armies going forward, which means I have those previously assembled armies that I posted pics for earlier on in this thread. I have to be honest, much of them were done when I was really new to the hobby, and didn't know what I know now, and I am not crazy about all of the choices I made. Plus some were based on crappy second-hand models trying to go cheap, and I did the best I could. But I learned a lot. So what I decided to do is kind of leave them as my 'starter armies' and just build up 700+- armies to tinker with and learn the rules with, and when I get a friend to play, and I have one that is willing to try it out, I will use these at first. Looking forward to doing a little battle report!
You've seen most of these models before:
Empire:
General
Wizard
Hero
10 Swordsmen (I swapped the arms! Hahaha so those guys went from all old school, to newer bodies + older arms, to new bodies + new swords)
10 Handgunners
5 Knights
Great Cannon
for Orcs:
Big Boss General
Shaman
Big Boss
10 Boys with 2 hand weapons
10 Arrer Boys
5 Boar Boys
Chariot (not finished yet. I LOST THE BOARS AND HAD TO BUY NEW ONES
)
Troll
BTW - since I got the newer Boar Boys in the Battalion set, I decided to give the older models to this army. I had initially decided to use the older Boars in my Orc army, but I will be hones the newer models are much better, and it was either sell these older ones or use them in this old-schoolish army. I went with this army.
And glad I did. The old models suck in that they can't line up! The elbows/feet prevent the bases from touching. I would have lost it if I sat down 2 years from now to work on my Orcs and discovered this and it was even harder to get the newer Orc boars. So when I make a movement tray for them its going to have to be a specific custom one for those stupid models. But I think the little Orc army looks fun. The Troll is from the Skull Pass set as I have the River Trolls set for my Battalion set. I actually might just do a combined Orc/Goblin army to be honest, since that is how the Battalion set comes.
So rounding out the little armies, the Skaven Battalion pretty much comes with everything the 8th edition set comes with, minus the weapon teams. I moved those to the Battalion set, along with my Doomwheel and Stormvermin, and are left with:
Chieftain
Warlock
Plague Priest (Custom)
2 Rat Ogres with Beastmaster
Rat Swarm with Packmaster (Custom)
10 Plague Monks
10 Skaven with hand weapons
10 Skaven with spears
and with the 10 other spear guys, I decided to make the Halberd-looking ones as Stormvermin. I decided to set aside the real Stormvermin for my Battalion for another day. I never liked the 8th Starter Rat Ogres either, so I am glad I got the others.
So this is where I am at. Not going to mess with the Battalion sets anymore. Going to focus on finishing the above, painting, and playing a few small games to learn the rules. I imagine that will help for later on when I start building the Battalions and who knows, if I change my mind on the detachment sizes. As you can tell I have been all over the place, but 2019 was a year of buying, and 2020 is going to be a year of painting.
I only have 2 models to buy actually. Hero models, and then I am done.
I do have those extra Dwarves and Night Goblins, but not sure what I will do with those yet. Def keeping the Miners for the Battalion set.
