Heyhey, friends.
First time I post on here in about 14 years or so? Good to see the forum still going strong, because forums rock.
Right, let's get to the point of this: For many, many months I've been infatuated with the idea of Warhammer Renaissance.
I played a game of 5th edition last year, and it's exceedingly lovely and all, but the problem about GW games is that it's always bound to 'making an army list', points and all of that. And I'm not sure I love that a lot, at least not in the shape of the 4th/5th edition army lists.
In general, I'm a big fan of keeping GW away from rules and let people who care do that instead, so I'd really like to try out Warhammer Renaissance.
If anybody wants to have a look at Warhammer Renaissance, but doesn't care for Facebook's silly website, run by that super shady company (Facebook/Meta), let me know and I'll DM you a download link. It's a bit annoyig that there are no proper websites from where to download those rules, but the guy who writes them thinks that the FB group is good enough, so who am I to disagree. Either way, I can send you the rule if you want. They're worth a look, I think.
My Dark Elvesarmy are finished enough for now, to try the rules solo (as I like to do before subjecting others to new rules), I need opponents for them.
Last week I somehow got the idea of going through boxes to check just how little I actually got in terms of Empire figures and how surely it would never be enough to turn it into a playable army. Turns out it's more than I thought, especially once i broke out that box I got second hand off ebay a ton of years ago.
So I got out some reading material and try to cook up some Empire units!

The core of the army for now is a bunch of troops I actually got from a very generous gentleman who got out of the hobby and he gave me his very nicely painted figures (pretty much the 6th edition starter box Empire plus a bunch more unpainted stuff) with the only contition that I am to play with them. Which I actually did. They saw action in Dragon Rampant, Song of Blades and Heroes as well as slightly more action-filled "let's play farm" games with my niece, in which the state troopers and cannon served as hired guards.
Over time I painted a few more figures from that collection, namely 5 knights of the White Wolf, six Greatswords, etc. for skirmish games.
Now I'd like to turn the thing into an army. So I got out what else I had lying dormant in boxes.

A nice bunch of late 5th edition multi-part plastics and hybrid kits. They required stripping (which didn't go very well) a fair amount of repair and removal of all the mold lines. Usual 2nd hand plastics fare. Started by painting a unit of 12 crossbowmen in the same Ostland colour scheme as the aforementioned figures I already got.
Speaking of which, here's a list:
So here's what I got here now:
Hero on horseback (lance, 6th edition starter box) - painted, but needs reworkBoris Todbringer (sword/shield, 4th edition metal) - done
Engineer with Hochland Long Rifle (6th edition) - doneEngineer with repeating musket (6th edition) - primed
Engineer on horse with repeating pistol (6th edition) - unbuiltWarrior Priest (6th edition) - painted, might need a bit of work2-3 Wizards on Foot (Plastic) - unbuilt
Balthasar Gelt on Pegasus - unbuilt
Kurt Helborg (4th edition) - primed
Marius Leitdorf (4th edition) - primed16 Handgunners (6th Edition starter box) - need some rework16 Handgunners (5th edition plastics with metal parts) - primed12 Crossbowmen (5th edition plastics with metal parts) - done18 Spearmen, Drummer, Champ, Banner (6th edition starter box) - need some rework34 +1 (Extrachampion) Halberdiers (5th edition plastics) - not even primed, repairs on 2nd drummer required6 Knights of the White Wolf (4th edition) - done, except for the standard bearer, who is unbuilt17 Greatswords (6th edition) - primed1 Greatcannon (6th edition) - needs some rework1 Greatcannon OR Mortar (6th edition) - unbuilt
To be added:
.) 12 Knights (6th edition)
.) Ogres (either 5th edition ones and/or MOM Miniature Mercenary Ogres. Open to suggestions. I'm not wild about the faces on the Wargames Atlantic ones to be honest, otherwise they'd be very interesting)
.) Spearmen (Warlord Games)
.) War Wagon (I kinda detest myself for it, but I ordered it off Etsy. That's a first. Let's see how that turns out.)
.) Hellblaster Volley Gun (really liking the MOM Miniatures one)Of course the dream would be all 4th edition figures, no question there. But I did the "my GW dream army" thing a long time ago, and 2nd hand prices for old GW stuff are at a historical high in insanity. Also, the above is what I got lying around anyway, which kinda was the idea behind this army to begin with. Apart from the "To be added" articles of course. These are yet to be added.
Phew. I also decided to use variations of the colour scheme for different regiments. Most of the figures which are done are in the Ostland theme as seen above, but I think I'll add some variety with future units.
So what do you think? Also let me know if you wanna get rid of old Empire stuff (5th/4th edition) and don't care for money much.
