Warhammer: Wrath & Glory, The March of Chaos – The Crew, Part 1

 

I ran a D&D 5e campaign for the Tuesday group for a full year, Out of the Abyss. And I printed and painted terrain and mini’s for the entire campaign  It was fun, but pretty stressful at times being the GM.  And in the end didn’t really care for 5e much, especially at higher levels.  So, I took a break for the fall (other factors involved there too).  MW, the host and usual game master of the Tuesday night game ran a sci-fi campaign using 4^th Ed. Hero System and when that game was concluding mid-winter, lured me back with the smell of the Grim Dark future of Warhammer.  He had been playing Warhammer 40k - Rogue Trader and had the bug to run a grim dark 40k style campaign.  I mentioned that I had all the rules and lots of extras for the Warhammer: Wrath & Glory RPG via a Humble Bundle deal.  Normally he would say something like “that’s nice” and then build the campaign using the very flexible Hero System rule set that he has used for a very long time (Side note, we played the Star Wars RPG numerous years ago.  Great game but the very non concise rules littered very haphazardly in the voluminous rule book completely doomed that campaign and we have been a bit gun-shy on learning new RPG rules ever since).

 …but this time was a bit different.  This time we had Chat GPT.  And MW loaded the entire rule set into it’s digital brain in order for it to “teach us how to play”.  I was skeptical but was pleasantly surprised. It worked great!  Very easy to just ask the GPT for rules explanations and clarification or what a rule was without really cracking the book (well, opening the PDF).

Anyway, MW came up with a full campaign helped by the GPT and I rejoined Tuesday night gaming.  I will try to keep a chronicle of that campaign here – Warhammer: Wrath & Glory

I was thrilled to pull out and paint some of the copious piles of gray plastic I had laying around…finally a reason to paint the Gallowdark! And each player would have a mini on the table painted to their specifications.

I laid claim to the role of the Rogue Trader 😊 and the rest of the crew ended up as following - Tempestus Scion (Big D), Sister of Battle (MP), Skitarri (Bcamp) and a Sanctioned Psyker (SH). 

I tackled the Tempestus Scion and Sister first.

GRYF KOLSON – Tempestus Scion played by Big D

I had recently purchased the Kasrkin Kill Team because I liked the models.  Lore wise, they are Tempestus Scions (as I understand it) but Big D threw a monkey in the wrench by asking me to paint his character as a member of the 55^th Kappic Eagles with a Hot-Shot Las Volley Gun.  Well, that is the actual Tempestus Scion model kit if you want to be completely accurate I believe.  

I settled for painting a Kasrkin, with the required Hot-shot Las gun in my rendition of the 55th Kappic Eagles.

 

I generally paint for tabletop quality +.  I was going a bit weathered for this guy, seen a few battles.Really mucked around with the colors on this guy. One of the first miniatures I have painted using AK 3rd Gen (which I really like a lot) and the original color was a lot darker than intended and had to work it back to where I wanted. But I think it helped with the weathering and shadows.

I gave some insignia options to the player who in turn choose the black spades.

Put on the 55th markings.  Was happy with the results.

 

And here he is finished is on the table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLAUDIA AMIAH - Sister of the Order of the Bloody Rose played by MP

The Sister of Battle was pretty straight forward.  Sister with bolter and chainsword.  Painted in all red in the scheme of the Order of the Bloody Rose.  The red hair was requested, I really fussed over this.  Was a pretty straightforward paint job and the AK reds are just excellent.  Cadmiun Red may be one of my new favorites.

 All in all pretty happy with the first two members of the party.

Up next , the Rogue Trader.

In the beginning....no, let me sum up.

 

The idea of this blog is of a chronicle of both my gaming and hobby for future reference by both me and my children and friends...  A time capsule so to speak.  There are a lot of blogs like this out there (some I read and like and I may even link to) but this one is mine.

I have been playing role playing games for just about all of my life.  Literally since D&D was a zine and somehow with the same group of friends.  Usually whatever the current edition of D&D is or was or 4^th Ed. Hero System.  There have been other rule sets, such as the Star Wars RPG from a few (several?) years ago and one of my favorites Conan: The Roleplaying Game, 2^nd Edition (this campaign was the stuff of legends). And during all that time I painted miniatures for of all the various games we played.

And then there is Warhammer.  I have always known about Warhammer, the trips to the store sort of near my home were always a treat when I was much younger. And their silly pots of paints always my favorites (once upon a time).  But I never played Warhammer in any form or fashion.  And then….

I can’t remember the exact year, probably 2018 around my daughter's 11^th birthday.  We were walking out of the bookstore and there was a sign across the parking lot …. “WARHAMMER”.  Where the heck did that come from?  She of course wanted to go in.  We looked around, don’t think I bought anything, but they told us, hey come back next week for the store birthday, lots of cool stuff….and this so happened to be my daughter’s actual birthday.  So we went, and she wanted Warhammer for her birthday…….

I got her the Start Collecting Seraphon box and a lot of paints….a lot of paints...because you know, the instructions tell you all the paints you need.  And I remembered why I really didn’t shop at Warhammer much in my youth $$$.  

Now, I actually hadn't painted a mini in several years...because I was too stubborn to acknowledge I needed reading glasses and just couldn't see the detail anymore. But, on the way home from that visit I got an email from Amazon suggesting I could use a cool pair of magnifying glasses.... seriously, what the heck?

Anyway, I had no idea the models had to be built, being a bit of a metal mini snob at the time (think Reaper and Rackham Confrontation).  But we built and we painted.  But she got a bit frustrated because she couldn’t paint them as well as she wanted.  So, Warhammer got shelved for about a year.  And then in 2019 on a family trip to the UK we walked by the Warhammer shop in Glascow and again my daughter insisted we but some models….and this time it took. The hook was set.  The box of Troggoths were so much fun to paint and base.  I had to have more.   

 

Scottish Troggoths, circa 2019

I think we did the Warhammer store for my daughter's birthday again in 2019, and I learned about and purchased Blackstone Fortress and there was no going back.

And then...I had a lot of time on my hands to paint mini's (I am looking at you 2020).  Well, that and play Fallout 76 😏

So yeah, this blog is sort inspired by you Doodles (in case you are reading).

I will focus on what I am currently into and building/painting but may go back in time every so often and look at old mini’s I have painted.

Welcome to the Rogue-Gamer.